Updated at 8:22 a.m., Sunday, February 4, 2007
There's cold, and then there's really cold
Advertiser Staff
So, you think it was downright cold in your neighborhood this morning.
Well, fancy this:
At 4 a.m. atop Mauna Kea, at six out of seven telescopes that list temperatures on a Web page, it was below freezing.
The North Pole award goes to NASA's InfraRed Telescope Facility, which posted a temperature of 27.5 degrees.
Things were a bit warmer over at the the University of Hawai'i's 88-inch telescope, which listed a temperature of 31.5 degrees.
But the UH telescope also listed wind speeds of 54 mph.
When the wind-chill factor is cranked in, that comes out to a "feels like" temperature of about 11 degrees.
Hot toddies all around, please.
