-26F or -31C here tonight, how cold is it by you?

[moose eater]

-23 f. on the front porch at the moment. S'posed to go down to -29 f tonight and back up to about -15 f. tomorrow. Tried top pull start the smaller snowmobile this evening, and not having started it in the Fall, it is going to take come extra effort tomorrow.

Expecting winds of about 15 mph, gusting up to 25 mph tonight and 15 mph winds over the next 2 days, with wind chill warnings down -50 f to -60 f. Maybe too windy for the bon fire on Sunday, but we'll see.

 

[Loc Dog]

-23 f. on the front porch at the moment. S'posed to go down to -29 f tonight and back up to about -15 f. tomorrow. Tried top pull start the smaller snowmobile this evening, and not having started it in the Fall, it is going to take come extra effort tomorrow.

Expecting winds of about 15 mph, gusting up to 25 mph tonight and 15 mph winds over the next 2 days, with wind chill warnings down -50 f to -60 f. Maybe too windy for the bon fire on Sunday, but we'll see.

What is the worst you have seen??? My next move will be Mexico. Cold adds to my depression.

 

[moose eater]

What is the worst you have seen??? My next move will be Mexico. Cold adds to my depression.

-66 f. My old cabin on the Tanana River reached -74 unoffcially, winter of 1989-1990, but I wasn't there. I was in SE Alaska in the Village of Klawock.

 

[Loc Dog]

-66 f. My old cabin on the Tanana River reached -74 unoffcially, winter of 1989-1990, but I wasn't there. I was in SE Alaska in the Village of Klawock.

We had one night last year -15F in NJ.aka hell.

 

[flylowgethigh]

The power went our a little while ago. Looking at the utilities website there are lots of people without power. My gas bottle burner backup is fired up.

The whole county is under the “rolling blackouts” order from the 3rd world utilities.

 

[igrowone]

a relatively balmy 5f this am
not uber cold for my area, just on the edge of this cold pocket
take heart folks in the lower 48, a blast of warm is set to come in on new years day

 

[flylowgethigh]

Almost the entire country is experiencing global warming today.

 

[Three Berries]

Almost the entire country is experiencing global warming today.

This is how the winters were when I was in grade school. We use to play on the froze river all the time. Now it's hit or miss if the river freezes over. One year it froze solid and quit flowing IIRC.

 

[Ringodoggie]

Low last night was a frosty 51F with the high today of 80F and sunny. Same for tomorrow, Christmas Day.

I have never been an overly religious person but, Thank you, God, for putting me in the California Desert.

 

[igrowone]

This is how the winters were when I was in grade school. We use to play on the froze river all the time. Now it's hit or miss if the river freezes over. One year it froze solid and quit flowing IIRC.

there you go, 2 observers with different outlooks on climate
but agree on what they've seen, extremely varying winters
what does it mean? if we live long enough it will be clearer

 

[tobedetermined]

Try the website “windy.com”

Windy is my goto now. I use the wind direction to plot my neighbourhood dog walks. Currently -24 C wind chill here.

I had to replace our appliance SUV's battery Monday after it failed in a supermarket parking lot Sunday - before the really cold weather started. I put the new one on a trickle charge just in case.

 

[Lunchmoney]

Headed downstairs to replace thermostat on truck parked on street. 5 degrees in sw Detroit. Big smoke beforehand.

 

[Three Berries]

I've got two outside cats. One a female usually takes refuge in the garage but an older huge wild male is around too. He has been sitting outside all frosted up in the blowing snow. Finally got him collared and drug him in yesterday afternoon. Took a awhile for him to realize what was going on but he's happy now.

Wind is dying down this afternoon. The crawlspace is at 37F now. Trying to ride out the next few hours without tuning on the big furnace again.

 

[Three Berries]

I have a 4" AC Infinity with the controller 67 as a exhaust fan for the house. I put the probe into the crawlspace under the bathroom to monitor summer time humidity and winter time temps. Need to rig up a heater type option for the temp alarm somehow. I think I can get a audible alarm out of the controller.

Actually I can set up a low temp alarm for the app. So as long as I'm home it can ring the phone.

 

[Lunchmoney]

That’s a great idea

 

[flylowgethigh]

Windy is my goto now. I use the wind direction to plot my neighbourhood dog walks. Currently -24 C wind chill here.

I had to replace our appliance SUV's battery Monday after it failed in a supermarket parking lot Sunday - before the really cold weather started. I put the new one on a trickle charge just in case.

I made a point of charging the batteries on things that don’t get used a lot. A low battery in the cold will die.

 

[pipeline]

8 F with 33 mph wind. -12 wind chill. Sunny! Fingers got cold until my blood got pumping earlier. Not too much snow to push, just a little to have fun!

 

[moose eater]

Windy is my goto now. I use the wind direction to plot my neighbourhood dog walks. Currently -24 C wind chill here.

I had to replace our appliance SUV's battery Monday after it failed in a supermarket parking lot Sunday - before the really cold weather started. I put the new one on a trickle charge just in case.

Sometimes a compromised or failing battery will/can still accept a charge. There's a testing device that's not too expensive you place on your terminals, that will tell you the health of the battery, even if it takes a charge, trickle or otherwise. Relatively inexpensive, and worth the $.

 

[moose eater]

Pretty steady at -20 f. this AM, since well before sun-up. Still hovering there.

But we haven't gotten the winds NOAA/NWS had forecast. Not yet. Just a breeze so far; barely moving the taller White Spruce tree tops here.. Though other areas of the Borough are reporting power outages from wind and trees down, so maybe it's still on the way. Time will tell. Or flickering lights. Which ever.

Out shortly to put a spark checker tool on the plugs for the older, smaller 136" tracked snowmobile. (I hate moving older wiring at these temps; an invitation to crises that didn't exist before), It wouldn't crack any sign of combustion last night late at -20 f. Maybe as simple as a stuck needle jet or float in the carb(s). We'll see.

Maybe have to put in the track on the lower property with the much larger freighter machine, which might lead to some frustrations with this fine granular powder snow.. Little packing to it, without letting it set up over night.

 

[tobedetermined]

Gusting around 50 mph here on occasion. I did an around the block with the dog and some snowblowing. Gee, that was fun but it is a shitload better than shoveling.