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Jimmy Kimmel Segment Featuring L.A. News Stations Freaking Out Over ‘Freezing Cold’ 50-Degree Weather Is Worth Your Time

Jan. 15, 2013 8:35am Jonathon M. Seidl

Having grown up in Wisconsin, I’d like to think I know cold. Cold is having to wear three layers when the wind chill drops to -5 degrees. Cold is having to start the car 30 minutes before you leave in order to have a little heat by the time you pull out of the driveway. Cold is turning the heat up to 65.

What cold isn’t is temperatures in the 50s. Don’t believe me? “Jimmy Kimmel Live” host Jimmy Kimmel agrees. In fact, on Friday he mocked local Los Angeles TV stations who were “freaking out” over the “cold” temperatures set to hit Southern California this week.

“We really have no idea how silly we would look if people in places like Milwaukee saw how we react when the temperature drops below 55,” Kimmel teased.

Well, as someone from just north of Milwaukee, trust me when I say very silly. The local news outlets covered the sub-60 temps with words such as “freezing cold,” the “coldest nights you’ve ever experienced,” “arctic blast,” and “beyond cold.”

If you’re from the Midwest you’ll really appreciate this. If you’re not, you still will chuckle (the video has gone viral with over 1 million views since Friday):

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Angel_light
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 1:06pm
They don’t know what cold is. I remember getting up for school at 5:15am and standing outside for the bus in 13 degree weather. and that’s really not that bad as long as you bundle up.

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- DesdemonasCrew
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:25pm
  Sorry, but 50 degrees is FREEZING! I have heard your weather people moan when it gets to 90! Try 120 in eastern Arizona. Works both ways. And, oh yeah, I had to walk to school and it was 3 miles uphill both ways!
  
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- Gorp
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:41pm
  Try -40 for a few days then complain about 50.
  
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- burnteye86
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:53pm
  Only 3 miles? Lucky you.
  
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- irunamuk
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:12pm
  Yup I remember doing the same thing going to a Christian school in Pa and staring out in that in a dress because pants were forbidden. THATS COLD.
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 12:55am
  I pray that your water pipes freeze and burst. I hope you cars don’t start in the morning. Here in NJ its warmer than in San Diego and LA. You hated people in California deserve it and I hope you get colder.
  
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- ToddH
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 5:00am
  Here in Southern California, the only reason we are so cold is that we spent so many years preparing for the global warming crisis. For years we were told cold weather was not the danger we had to ever worry about, only hot weather, and hotter and hotter and hotter Summers (this past Summer almost proved it).
  So we threw out all of our coats and jackets and sweaters, stopped paying bills for heat, and allowed our water heaters to break down. And now this happens.
  It’s not our fault; we prepared for a different kind of Armageddon. It’s just suddenly then the weather went all screwy. Some here might start to question their faith in global warming after all this, but not those of us who are truly faithful.
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 7:49am
  Hmm. The school I went to taught that 32 degrees Fahrenheit is freezing. Or zero Celsius.
  
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- formidable_foe
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:21pm
  Somewhere, the world’s tiniest violin is playing the world’s saddest song for the people of Los Angeles. Oh, the humanity…..
  
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term limits for congress
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 1:04pm
Bless ‘em. If only the wealthy would pay their fair share, we could fix the climate that was wrecked by Bush. And, just think of the damage to the climate caused by guns. Each bullet fired releases millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere… I’m sure it does.

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- Gorp
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 6:06pm
  Not to mention SUVs
  
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- Bikkiboo
  Posted on January 17, 2013 at 4:46pm
  Trees. We must plant millions…billions…trillions of trees. They’ll suck up all that CO2.
  
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AmericanStrega
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 1:03pm
It was -6 degrees F in Barrow, Alaska and snowing this morning. Now that’s cold.

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- jethrObama
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 1:12pm
  It was -7F in Salt Lake City yesterday morning… had to switch from flip-flops to tennis shoes.
  
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- urrybr
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 5:04pm
  @Jethrobama: You were wearing tennis shoes? I just put on some light cotton socks under my Teva’s.
  
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1776_2012
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 12:56pm
********. The easiest job on the planet is weather person. Be wrong most of the time and still get paid. Sounds like politicians.

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rsanchez1
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 12:47pm
There’s a word for these people. It starts with a “P”.

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red1
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 12:34pm
I have lived in southern California all my life. I have no acclimation to cold. It is 42 degrees right now and I am shivering :)

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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:46pm
  Don’t feel sorry for you – You Choose to live in that Commie State !
  
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- garyg1
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 5:10pm
  What happens when the Big One comes and they all wind up in the cold Pacific?
  
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Rowgue
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 12:23pm
Of course it seems somewhat silly to those of us that live in places where it gets far colder. But I’m sure people living in Texas get a nice chuckle out of northerners freaking out when the thermometer hits 90º too. Everything is relative.
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- SuttonShimai
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 1:32pm
  I live in the Midwest. It´s not unusual for it to get over 100º with nearly matching humidity in the summer and below 0º in the winter. I grew up in California and all I want right now is OUT OF THE HUMIDITY!!!!!!
  
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- Rowgue
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 8:05pm
  It’s not unusual, but it isn’t normal for it to be like that all the time and people complain when it happens just like these people are doing because they think it’s cold.
  
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tajloc
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:55am
This doesn’t deserve comment…BUT I’ll be throwing bales in 1/2 hour and it is just getting above 0.
That’s Fahrenheit.
How to keep warm in the cold….work harder!

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elrond3737
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:51am
I live in Northern Minnesota and I have personally experienced 54 below zero. It was 5 above this morning and I had to do some work outside and what did I wear? Cotton gloves and a pull over sweatshirt. When it gets into the 20′s I ski with just a hat and long sleeve T-shirt. If it hit 80 this afternoon I would be dieing. It is about what you are used to. Your body can acclimate to most climates.

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- irunamuk
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:13pm
  Lol you’re tougher than me :)
  
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Serenabit
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:37am
Just another example of how the elitist left in Hollywood and Southern California are narcissistic and out of touch with reality.

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DebateMe
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:32am
If you’re watching local network news anywhere in the nation, you are wasting your life. In CA, it’s waste-of-life x 2.

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- Maleka
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:00pm
  Now, that’s the truth. Local news is a complete joke!
  
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Liberalismsamentaldisorder
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:30am
I have a solution to Mexico’s claims to some of the USA’s Southwest territory.
Here’s the deal Mexico;
We’re keeping Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.
In return, you get California. The whole stinking, corrupt, insane lot of it.

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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:37am
  Cut it off just north of Sacramento….We in the far north of Cali don’t lay any claim to the rest and don’t fall under the Liberal banner…
  
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- mdb749
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 1:53pm
  INDYGUY – are you kidding? San Fran not liberal???? The land of fruits, nuts, piglosi and boxer? Get a grip. Actually, only Orange County is conservative. The rest of the state is far left liberal.
  
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- Deeli
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:14pm
  Hey MDB749, your opinion gave me huge chuckles but you are entitled to your opinion of believing only Orange County is Conservative. However, you do need to have a huge geography lesson because Sacramento is indeed north of San Francisco ;-)
  
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coyote1hell
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:12am
Al-oh-my-god-it’s-HOT-Gore..said..I turned on my 100 million dollar AC to cool this place down…yepppp..

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dont-care-anymore
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:11am
we broke down on the AlCan hwy in the Yukon territories and it was minus 55 …. now thats a 3 dog night

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- pagraywolf
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 1:16pm
  insert guitar rift here…
  
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In a Bunker
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:10am
I grew up in central calif., then moved to nor cal (near the ocean). If we had one forecast a year under 32 degrees, it was considered normal. I can remember looking at my car temp and thinking how cold it was when the daytime temp hovered around 49. Recently, we moved to the foothills of the Sierras and now I can appreciate 49! It’s all in perspective. I can really appreciate what people go through in other states. All I can think about is warm clothing and worrying about icy road conditions.

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SquidVetOhio
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:58am
I was running outside last weekend in shorts and t-shirt and it was 39 degrees. I didn’t feel cold at all. What are these guys whining about?

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SGT Rock
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 10:42am
That’s global warming for you.

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- PPMStudios
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:05am
  How true!
  
  I would imagine the Global Warming alarmists will have a very good explanation though….
  
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- PK_SEA
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 1:48pm
  It’s called ‘Climate Change’ now. Global warming was so 2009.
  
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- mdb749
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 1:55pm
  Hey, it’s not “global warming” anymore – it’s “climate change”! Get with the PC lingo!
  
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1FreeVoice
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:51am
I lived in Alaska for 4 years. I remember how surprised I was the first time I saw someone in summer shorts before the last snow had melted. 50 degrees is bring on the mini-skirts and sundresses !!

How will such fair weather folks fare when the earth shifts into it’s next ice age? Climate has been shifting back and forth since before the age of the dinosasurs. Our planet is known to experience ice ages on a semi-regular basis.

No one has argued that warming or cooling trends in the evolutionary past were due to human industry. The climate, and the oxygen/co2 makeup of the atmosphere has changed —- again I refer to the DISTANT past before humans evolved. Why is this amost NEVER part of the discussion? I remember hearing about a politician/scientist who proposed building up the 3rd world/Africa, not out of whit guilt for something we never did, but because we should build relationships and improve the area our n/x great-grandkids will be trying to move into someday, to escape the approaching glaciers. That is not part of the discussion on wealth transfers to the developing world. Why?

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Canadaboy
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:48am
That’s cold? Try ice fishing in -40C weather with a -20C windchill, now, that was cold. Or leaving a nice comforatble bed in the morning to climbing into a -25C car? Can’t say I like it though, I think I was born in the wrong country.

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huey6367
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:24am
I’m from Florida. I understand. In warmer climates like Florida and southern California, people don’t have winter clothing. A wind breaker is not winter clothing.

On the other hand, I sure do like wearing shorts and no shirt in January

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Landon410
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:16am
I was deer hunting Sunday morning in Northern Missouri….. -5 windchills
I was sitting outside for 4 hours in that
grow a pair nancy boys

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ryanalicia
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:07am
global cooling anyone, oh thats right global warming makes it cold also. silly me

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raabhimself
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 8:56am
They will blame it on global warming…

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- Cavallo
  Posted on January 15, 2013 at 9:16am
  Yup. Everything is Global Warming. Its the atheistic lefts version of the holy ghost.
  
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Eastinfection
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 8:50am
earmuff’s?.. lol!

In California, reality is an illusion caused by lack of Xanax.

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 15, 2013 at 8:49am
If this isn’t funny enough, the last few times that I was out there from where I was stationed in Alabama. Everytime I turned on the TV or radio the local news shows started off with “Today in the Southland!” Yeah, I am in the South, but I can still walk dog in gym shorts, and a T shirt in a light rain when its in the forties here. Geez! Okay, if any of you up north want to tell me your comparisons I used to live in Upstate, NY about thirty miles south of Canada. I feel for you because I don’t have to shovel snow.

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