the nao has gone negative.en that happens, we have extremely cold winters in the mid-atlantic and europe typically has very cold winter. this whole month, wave been very negative with the nao index. >> let's start treating it better. >> the north atlantic oscillation. >> i'm looking that up on the internet. >> google, let's see. >> tucker, thank you. >> what is normal temperatures this time of year? >> 43 degrees. >> that would be really mild. >> tucker, thank you. >> our average low is never below, i think, 40 or 39 degrees. hard to believe. >> if you have question question you would like to submit, go on our web site, myfoxdc.com and click on the weather tab. can you also review a ole bunch of earlier ask the weather guys. >> i know a patty in middleburg. wonder if it is the same one. i'll have to edmonton mail her and ask her if she sent in a question -- i'll have to her and ask her if she sent in a question. >> now, let's get to julie wright. >> if you are traveling around town, it has been busy with everyo

this comes from a nao report. >> again, what i do not know -- boots were more important than clothinghaving the appropriate kind of desert boots work important. i have conceded already that clothing was not always available to the extent that the soldiers would have liked. i don't know what portion of that 40% were boots as opposed to clothing $3 i think it was quite similar. stocks were available for about 9000 prior. i think orders were put in for about 30,000. similar numbers of uniforms have to be multiplied by three, because they need extras. i think the numbers of the same. as to say, boots anare a source of particular irritation. if your boots melting the sun, it is not a small matter. >> i think that there was one soldier who may actually had been in the royal air force, i cannot remember, he took with him the wrong boots. there were not widespread problems of boots melting in the sun. >> so they were not the right boots. >> some soldiers, i am sure, did not have the right boots. >> body armor -- you had mentioned this. what was the problem with body armor as you understood it

. >> well i, -- >> this comes from the nao report. >> i, again, what i don't know is what, boots were more important than clothing, in the sense that i recognize that hot conditions, having appropriate kind of desert boots is important. i conceded already that the clothing wasn't always available to the extent that the soldiers would have liked. what cron can what proportion of that 40% was boots as opposed to clothing. >> i think it was quite similar. stocks were available for about 9,000 prior, and this goes back to our earlier discussion, why it was relevant. stocks were available for 9,000. i think orders were put in for 30,000 boots and, similar numbers of uniform. except you have to multiply it by three. and, because they need extras. so, i think the numbers are the same. obviously as you say, boots were a cause, always are, a cause of particular irritation. but if your boots melt in the sun, it is not a small matter. >> no. i think, we actually looked at that particular illustration. i think that was one soldier who, i think he may actually have been in the royal air force but