It's 2 degrees above zero. The urge has taken over. I'm a big AVO fan and it's time to smoke my first ever AVO Signature. I put on my brightly colored thermal Packer jacket and knit hat that reads "SUPER PARTY Las Vegas" which I received last summer from the Miller Lite girls giving taste tests when I visited Sin City. My often troublesome Colibri lighter decides to light tonight and I'm on my way. If it wasn't for the Ron Bacardi Rum, I'd probably still be inside, warm, watching reruns of Seinfeld. Half way through this cigar, I'm realizing I made the right decision. A night in the life of an outdoor Wisconsin winter cigar smoker.
Good times, bro. This Alabama boy spent two weeks @ your western neighbor across the river last year at the end of January/start of Feb. and I've gotta say.....I thought you folks were CRAZY for living in such conditions! The day we flew back, the temperature was literally minus-7 with a wind chill of minus-27. I took my coat off when we got off the plane in Memphis and were greeted with moderate 38 degree weather! haha Glad ya had a good time tonight and wanted ya to know we're pullin for the Pack this Sunday and hopefully the next!!
Damn! You guys in colder climes got some real *****!:tu I am sitting in my living room with the door part way open, its 40degrees and I am freezing. :dr
Hats off to you, may it should be hats on and gloves on and scarf and coat and boots etc...
I know if I couldlnt hang smoking in those temps, anything lower than about 55 and I have to head inside to smoke.
I see folks in Green Bay during the games in that crazy cold and just shake my head in wonder. I know you probably acclimate to your climate, but sub-zero just aint right.
Hope you northern boys find warmer temps soon. KEEP on SMOKIN'.
It's 3 here with a -16 F windchill. I think it's possible to acclimate to the cold, but with the winters we've been having in IL you never know if it's going to be 50 one day and 2 the next. Good for you in being able to get out there in the cold!
I hate the windchill so I smoke in my garage with the door open if there is any kind of breeze. I'm still pissed that i don't allow myself to smoke in the house! :r
This Sunday's games are going to be great: the weather for the Pats game is going to be with temps in the teens, snow showers and below zero wind chill (this will be the "warm" game); the Packers game is going to be in colder conditions: Bring on the Frozen Tundra! I'll be in my warm living room watching it on the big screen and may allow myself to smoke inside :tu.
Well it's -12 with a -32 windchill here, but unlike my brave neighbor to the east, there's no way I'm heading outside to smoke. I have, however, lined up a 1 hour drive for later today during which I will give into my cravings :ss
Maybe some of you freeezing place guys could get a propane dish type radiating heater. My weather problem is rain. I'm thinking a gazebo would be nice. You could make a winterizable gazebo and enjoy it all year long.:ss
I used to fly to the fly-in in OSH every summer. There were several summers where it was miserable hot and humid. I saw two fly-in attendees pass out from the heat one year. Then, there's the winters. I've watched the weather for years and your part of the country always has the coldest weather.
WyoBob (in the garage with coffee and a Partagas Black and darned glad I am not smoking outside)
For me, 40 degrees is my cutoff here in RI. Ok maybe upper 30s if there's no wind. this cold we have this weekend will not allow me to smoke at all. i used to smoke indoors with an exhaust fan running, but my wife is pregnant so ive stopped that...
All I am going to say is right now it is -36F with a windchill of -69F skin freezes in 3 min!!
So ya you can get used to any climate, I only smoke outdoors. I have room on the front of my house that does nothing but block the wind, I smoke there. But I will not smoke in anything colder than -22F (-30C)
I find it funny when you guys talk cold... of course I would die in the warm weather!! There is no way I could smoke in the Florida summer heat!
All I am going to say is right now it is -36F with a windchill of -69F skin freezes in 3 min!!
So ya you can get used to any climate, I only smoke outdoors. I have room on the front of my house that does nothing but block the wind, I smoke there. But I will not smoke in anything colder than -22F (-30C)
I find it funny when you guys talk cold... of course I would die in the warm weather!! There is no way I could smoke in the Florida summer heat!
I have yet to find any cigar that would make me stand in 2 degree weather to smoke. But then I smoke indoors whenever I want so maybe that attitude would change if I had to smoke outdoors.
I will be looking for the headline in the news this winter:
It's funny I live in WAY sub-zero temp all the time... so for me I get used to the shrinkage... it's when I go back down south it's the expansion that kills me!!
my wife loves the summer time!
:ss
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