North Texas "cold snap"

[Uncle Doug]

Well it's 16 degrees right now at 3am, wind chills expected from -1 to -8. I work nights so I am up on "pipe freeze" duty. I have a job in Baytown Tx. Sunday night...hope it warms up since I work outside...

.Ever get the feeling you're "gett'n to old for this $%#@"..aah the joys of being employed I guess..

Not far from you today as I work in Mont Belvieu.

It was 26F when I left the house this morning. Spent the evening checking to make sure everthing is still protected. Put an extra sheet over the wife's limon tree. Shut the water off in the barn and drained all the pipes. Brought the potted plants into the shed and put a heat lamp on them. We will fair ok as long as it does not drop much lower. Temps into the teens will hit everyone down here hard because most do not prepare well enough. We only see these temps about every 10 years or so.

 

[Bird]

I guess it's gotten so cold here that the NWS can't measure it; website just shows "NULL" for the temperature. But they show it was 15 a couple of hours ago.

 

[ronjhall]

The sensor's up there must not be set to read below freezing for extended periods.
Maybe they need to get a retired tech back to repair equipment.
We should be OK down here. Temp is a balmy 38 degrees.

 

[EddieWalker]

Ron, where are you at? I wanna be there!!

19 degrees this morning, but it's very dry. No ice on the windshields, or frost on the ground. High today is expected to get to 28. I can either stay in the house and hybernate, or do a sheetrock repair for a client. There's no way that I'm going to go work outside today, that's just not an option. LOL

Eddie

 

[Egon]

What is this "Cold Period".

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[ronjhall]

Ron, where are you at? I wanna be there!!

19 degrees this morning, but it's very dry. No ice on the windshields, or frost on the ground. High today is expected to get to 28. I can either stay in the house and hybernate, or do a sheetrock repair for a client. There's no way that I'm going to go work outside today, that's just not an option. LOL

Eddie

McAllen, TX. Just a short 500 miles south of you.

 

[jinman]

11.5 degrees right now by my thermometer. I thought it might be in single digits, but maybe that will be tomorrow morning. I was out getting a bundle of firewood at 6 am and it didn't seem too bad, but my deck sure popped and creaked like it was frozen. As Eddie noted, this seems to be a dry cold and not too bad if the wind isn't blowing. Even so, I don't think I'll be drinkin' a cool Shiner's while sittin' out on my new deck today.

 

[dmccarty]

I think we are in the second week of way below normal cold weather for this time of year.

Last weekend and this weekend looks like a repeat, it only got up to 33 degrees at our house. The thermometer sits on the porch and it usually a few degree warmer than the temps once you get away from the house.

Last Saturday I wanted to fuel up the tractor, drop in some additive in the JD and Ford, take off the mower and FEL bucket and put on the box blade and pallet forks. Then pick up some logs from a tree I finally cut down. I started late in the day and did not realize how cold it was out there. The wind was the killer.

I had to take off my heavy, warm gloves to wear vinyl gloves to fuel up the tractor and put in the additive. This took maybe 15-20 minutes. In that time my hands went from warm and toasty in the heavy gloves to numb to pain. I had to go back in the house and warm up for a while. By the time the hands warmed up there was not enough daylight left to make it worth powering up the tractor. Sunday I went out and put up some posted signs and enjoyed the woods. I had on the right clothes but it sure was cold.

This weekend is not going to be any better. I might be able to get out this afternoon and switch the implements out and move the logs so I can saw up the logs on Saturday. Either way it is another COLD weekend.

Thankfully the tree I cut down has been dead for a few years and at least the top third is dry and ready to burn. I think I am just going to saw the smaller limbs to length and start putting them in the wood stove. We SHOULD have enough firewood for the season but boy howdy Momma Nature is making up for the slow start to winter we had this season.

Later,
Dan

 

[EddieWalker]

It's 11:30 am and the temp is up to 18 degrees right now. I have my spickets covered with blankets, and let my faucet in my workshop run last night. This is what that faucet looks like right now.

Eddie

 

[Western]

LOL Eddie, that's what you'd feel like if you worked outside today..what is that a global warming thermometer??

I was reading on the Fox news page that this cold front will help with the "chilling " hours required by some crops like apples and peaches in the deeper South...if they are protected that is..

I hope this cold will at least thin down some of the pesky bug population going into this Spring..