Get your woolleys warming.

[Jstpssng]

Meh, the cold really isn't so bad. Here's the thing about extreme cold (here anyway) : it can really only get below zero when the air isn't moving. So if it's frigid cold, there's almost no extra wind chill. I was outside playing with me kids all weekend when it was between 10 and 16 degrees during the day - bundled up, no problem at all, for hours.

And my house and woodstove don't seem to know the difference, still stays above 70f all night long from a final load of logs at 11pm bedtime. Fresh, beautiful layer of snow this morning - I love winter!

It's very similar here. We may have a few frigid days but most years they are few and far between. I can usually plan so that I don't get far from the truck on those days, or am doing something which keeps me warm. Snowshoes will do that automatically.

 

[Diggin It]

Now I'm seeing that the PAC NW could get packed with 20" or more?

 

[DrRobM]

Finally got some snow here at the end of last week, but it’s been too cold for the kids to get outside to play. Looks like the cold is going to stick around until the middle of next week.

 

[cqaigy2]

I might actually have to fire the tractor up this week and do a little snow moving.

 

[Diggin It]

Not getting any better. Need to drag more wood up from the pile, but the hill is iced over and I'm not at all sure the tractor will come up it. I'm not even sure I can get down to the pile without sliding past it.

 

[k0ua]

Schwann's man came today. He walked about 400 yards down my lane. He said he almost busted his rear end a couple of times to get our order to our door. He walked on the grass as much as possible as even our very rough gravel road was very slippery he said. Our asphalt driveway up by the house is a skating rink. We haven't been out for days now, and it looks like another week for us. No one has tried to come up the driveway since the freezing rain set in over the sleet. It is supposed to be -5 on Monday night with "heavy snow" whatever that means. This is the harshest Feb. for many years here. I thought the Schwann's man was pretty darn dedicated.

 

[cqaigy2]

26F 7" snow so far. The Ranger and Subaru don't have any problem with it.

 

[Diggin It]

Thursday morning, the road was ice covered. The county had been by a couple of times the day before, but hadn't done much good. Tracking showed I had a package coming by mail. No other vehicles had come by at all, so I figured the mail would not run. Then I looked out and saw the mail car coming. I have no idea why since the roads were not safe. The state roads may have been OK for them to deliver those routes, but not these narrow, winding hilly back roads.

My driveway was the same, solid ice. I did the foot-to-foot shuffle to make it across to the grassy area to get the mail. Expected it to melt off by yesterday, but with no Sun at all, that didn't happen. Tossed out what little salt I had left from last year and that took care of it before nightfall.

Yard is still iced over and I'm not sure if it'll be safe to go get firewood as I mentioned above. If we get snow on top of this, all bets are off as to when the ground will clear. Not expected to get above 32° until at least Friday.

 

[Citydude]

-31 degrees this morning according to my Accuweather app on my phone but my outdoor gauge is only -22 degrees. Looking forward to a high of -5 today.

 

[k0ua]

It is 8 this morning.. Colder weather expected in a couple of days. 8 for us is cold. The 3 day forecast calls for a high Monday of 4 and a low of -8. With heavy snow. I haven't seen weather like this here in at LEAST a decade. When they say "unseasonably cold". They were not kidding.