Good going.

I wish I could do it at that temp. I have 14 degrees next week to ride in, and I'm not liking it one bit.

Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap.

(I was never good at following directions.)

Nicely done. For temps like these, I'm a fan of Hot Chilis long johns and top. Those things are warm. I think the coldest I've ridden in this winter is around 0-10 degrees and my legs have still been too warm with long johns and rain pants.

While global warming indisputably is occuring, the strange weather this winter is not caused by it, but rather el-nino. While significant over the long term, global warming is not to blame here.

just got back from a ride into town and back...-22C (-7F) 30 km round trip. I damned near rolled into a ditch on the way home and froze to death. I left with a tail wind so the going ws pretty good. The way home was the WORST 1.5 hours I've spent in my life. Headwind of 30km standing still so add my speed and it was closer to 40ish. Cheeks frost bit thru my balaclava, hands, feet and knees beyond feeling. I couldn't open the door when I got home.
If there had of been any traffic on the road I'd have done anything to flag a ride down. As it was, I didn't see a car. Snow blowing so thick, I couldn't see the driveways of the farm houses I knew were out there either.
Life or death situation???? Nope. Rented a movie to watch.
Darwin award time.

my understanding is that "el nino" is the result of a cyclical interplay of warm air and water currents, which effects our weather in ways that could be described from moderate to extraordinary. While the "El Nino" phenomenon has been with us for thousands of years and on a regularly recurring cycle the severity is without doubt effected by the increasing surface temperature of the earth occuring as a result of "global warming". Weather is a vast, complicated and chaotic system delicately effected by subtle or drastic changes in one area that can have strong impacts in other areas.

While it may feel comforting to imagine that the current "strange weather" is the result of regularly occuring natural phenomenon I believe the reality is that there is much too much interaction of forces to accurately compartmentalize in this way.

Granted I'm saying all this from very much a layman's perspective- I am neither a scientist nor more specifically a climatologist/meteorologist so I could be dead wrong.

So as not to hijack this thread too much let me just go back to the OP and say I'm going to be looking to this post for inspiration as our New England temperatures drop to 0F and below next week as I'm riding into work. I'm off to buy some ski goggles for the ride in on Monday morning.