Does this look familiar?

She said she wants this photo to post on some social network.Everyone should notice that she has her jacket sleeves pushed up because even though the reported temperature is punitive, she is not intimidated. It isn't cold until she admits that it is cold. In fact, almost from the first pedal stroke she was commenting that she was too warm.

The full report is:

EG:-196 CB:58 AOWG:64

Today's mean should be about three degrees higher than yesterday's.

Today is a Saturday in the fall and I ride around in a city which has numerous small colleges and one humongous university. College Saturday in the fall means football. We rode through the second iteration of Gopher nation, we heard the crowd at Hamline, we passed within sight of the game at Saint Thomas. Interestingly enough there was also fall baseball (practice, not games) at Saint Thomas. We rode on towards Macalester where I was hoping to find the pumpkin heads doing some football and perhaps some more fall baseball.

The pumpkin heads, if they were playing, were playing elsewhere. The college has had some success recently in baseball as last spring's edition shared the conference regular season championship (with Hamline and Saint Thomas). Sure enough, how you get better for spring baseball is by practicing in the fall.I had dressed for yesterday. Yesterday I was too cold and lo and behold when we started out I was still too cold. Unlike yesterday, however, the sun came out pretty early in the ride. The ride out into the wind was still cold but by the time we reached today's turnaround point I realized that if I didn't remove some layers I was going to overheat on the ride home.

The sun went away later on this afternoon but there was a spell there when temperatures were at or near normal for this day. It should still be warm and nice in mid-September and today we had a spell when it was warm and nice and nowhere near -196F.