Is gonna be cold

Guess what?  It's winter!!  Oh, yeah, and in northeastern WI - that means it's going to be cold.  Really cold.  "Once in a decade" cold.  "You haven't seen this cold before if you are younger than 40."  "Frigid." 

And this gives us all something to talk about.... namely that it's winter and it's cold.  It's OK - I prefer talk of cold to talk of the Packer's playoff game - though admittedly discussion of Packers and discussion of cold have a fair amount of overlap because the Packers will be out playing in the cold.

But it was cold enough that they almost didn't sell out a game.  THAT would have been something to talk about.

I also learned that the school district has a "When to Close the Schools Because It's so Fricking Cold" policy.  (though I don't think that's the official title - WCSBIFC is not a good acronym.  "Appleton Schools Should Close On Listed Days" would be better.)

Anyway - the policy is that school is closed when windchills are below -35 degrees F in the hour before school starts.  That's really, really cold.  Every weather-person out there is predicting windchills well below that for Monday morning and maybe also Tuesday.  I'm sure AASD will make the decision around 5am on Monday.  Because - you never know - every weatherperson in the country could be wrong.