Weather report. How cold?

[dmccarty]

Only four below this morning but the forcast calls for much colder tonight. The wind was blowing yesterday and the snow conditions were just right for snow roses to form. It looks like the wind faries were having a snow ball fight in my daughters fields and some of them are a foot tall. The weatherman said it was the first time in thirty years with those conditions. I can't say he is wrong as I don't remember the last time I saw them.

Wow. I have never heard or seen snow roses.....

Can you spray them with red food coloring, insert a stick, and give it to the wifey? :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

Dmccarty;I was in Ky the winter of '77-'78. Kids got out of school for Christmas break, 21 or 22 of December and didn't go back to school till Feb. It's in the low teens now, wind 10-15. I have a neighbor that calls it the "Wind Chill Factory".......he don't get out much.

I think it was 77 that the teachers went out on strike too. I remember two years of really cold weather, heavy snow, frozen rivers and creeks with lots of missed school. The year of the teacher strike we had to go to school well into the summer and we had an extra hour in class each day. Really stunk. An extra hour a day does not sound like much but it really wore us down and it worked out to an extra 10 minutes per class which was pretty useless.

We used to live near a creek and I remember it freezing up a few times. We used to go walk that creek on the ice. We would fall through sometimes, the creek was not deep but we could be wet from the thigh down. It really was cold when the water went over the tops of our boots. :shocked: :laughing::laughing::laughing: By the time we got cold enough to go home, the jeans would be frozen and your legs would be red. We would take off the cold wet clothes, warm up and go back outside. Crazy kids. Tis a wonder we did not get frost bite.

Later,
Dan

 

[DKCDKC]

It was 13 when I got up this morning. Always hate the local TV weather with their thermometers in the cities. They were complaining about the 20 degrees in town, just a few miles away. It's not too bad, my little Irish woodstove is hot and the geo heat pump does the rest. No backup heat unless it goes below 0.

Cold is so related to one's expectations. I've been in the Dakotas in winter, and people understand, prepare and live with subzero routinely. Here, below the Mason Dixon Line, it's not expected. But we deal pretty good with the summer heat.

All in all, I'm just glad I got to live in an era where we have central heat/cooling, insulation, and machines that run just fine in extreme conditions.

 

[cqaigy2]

Wow. I have never heard or seen snow roses.....

Can you spray them with red food coloring, insert a stick, and give it to the wifey? :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

You can see these in windy conditions as well as rolling down a decline. They're pretty neat.

 

[deezler]

-4 F here this morning, with little to no wind (for now). My stupid diesel fuel gelled (had ~20% bio mix) just one mile shy of getting to work. Have to go out now and try to get her cleared out and re-started.

Just crossing zero. Great.

 

[texasjohn]

High of 67 today, 73 tomorrow...wore shorts last 2 days.

 

[Cub 7274]

8*f here in Niagara the ice grapes are being harvested and supposed to be a vintage harvest

 

[vtsnowedin]

Most of those snow roses were being blown up hill on fields with a slope to the southwest. Now think how hard it is to roll a snowman snow ball once it gets some size to it then imagine the good stiff breeze it takes to blow a chicken sized snow rose along up grade. One thing the air here isn't the least bit stale.

 

[3930dave]

-4 F here this morning, with little to no wind (for now). My stupid diesel fuel gelled (had ~20% bio mix) just one mile shy of getting to work. Have to go out now and try to get her cleared out and re-started.

Just crossing zero. Great.

Wishing you a speedy recovery on the gelling..... never fun to work on when it's this cold.

Around 0F (Central Ontario, Canada), getting a bit colder this week..... Not really Canuck cold, but we've been getting soft around here, as Dec. was mild.

Waiting for the ""Conventional motor oil is just fine !" guys to say something......

For the southern folks that normally don't see cold - take extra care, frostbite ain't fun.

Condolences to Big Dooley, sorry to hear about your Aunt.

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

High of 67 today, 73 tomorrow...wore shorts last 2 days.

Somebody down your way got a new 'Bota. Reading about having to run the AC in January is painful, where I'm sitting !

Need to filter you SW guys out of this thread, at least till the monkey thaws out !



Rgds, D.