Cold?

[btroj]

We aren't as cold here as some of you have but.....

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That is cold.

[montana_charlie]

You don't see much of that butt-hanging-out style of dress in this part of Montana.
As for temperature, it's (lemme check) 24 below, right now - with sunny skies and no wind.

[starmac]

The weather is crazy, we have had t-shirt weather the last couple of days, even a little rain, while down south, you guys are getting blasted.

[472x1B/A]

That's for sure. Here, right now it's 14*, with a little wind out of the northwest.

[brtelec]

It is not really cold here at 50 degrees, but some of the people here in Phoenix that have lived here all their lives, are bundled up like they are in Minot ND!

[Charlie Two Tracks]

11 with a windchill of 2 as I type.

[jonas302]

lol I like the teenager joke -25F in the deer stand at sunup

[Love Life]

3 inches of snow on deck this morning. I just got done shoveling it off the walkway and from around the vehicles. The women are officially safe from getting their feet in the snow walking from the house to the cars. The whole time I was thankful it wasn't lake effect snow!!

It's warm though and that is a bit disappointing.

[Gar]

It is not really cold here at 50 degrees, but some of the people here in Phoenix that have lived here all their lives, are bundled up like they are in Minot ND!

That's how we can tell the foreigners around here, they are the ones walking around in T-shirt :kidding:

[dagger dog]

24 degrees with 2" ice under 5 inches snow 15 miles northwest of the beautiful Ohio river in south central Hoosierland.

[Larry Gibson]

Had to turn the heat on in the house 4 days ago.....down to the mid 30s last couple nights.....actually had to put socks and pants on.......woke up to a Pearl Harbor morning.....a nip or two in the air.......

Larry Gibson

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

well, it's -14º and a light breeze.
My wood stove can't really keep up. With the wood I've burnt this morning, The whole house should be 90+º. The livingroom has finally climbed up to 70º (it was 58º this morning), where the wood stove is. The rest of the house is around 55º...my old windows have a thin layer of ice.

[TES]

-14 in Manhattan....a balmy 47 in the 20 x 20 shop with my new wood stove firing up!

[w5pv]

37d here in the sunny south not T-shirt weather or lo riders.

[gandydancer]

I read this post here in virginia at 2:pm EST it is now 2:35 PM and I have stopped laughing long enough to post this note. the Quote is for the simple minded and it has worked on me really well.The wife does not get it. & I'm not going to tell her.Thank you Mr Gibson. the rest of the day is mine.


Had to turn the heat on in the house 4 days ago.....down to the mid 30s last couple nights.....actually had to put socks and pants on.......woke up to a Pearl Harbor morning.....a nip or two in the air.......

Larry Gibson

[Sweetpea]

I guess its snowing pretty good at my house, a couple of inches already... Very odd for my area.

Thank God I don't live in Michigan or Minnesota anymore!

Brandon

[Superfly]

Yeap winter is here Going to go get more fuel filters for the semi.

[Jim Flinchbaugh]

-14 at my house this morning, wind chill in the -20's.
It got up to zero this afternoon, yay a heat wave!

Good thing is- it is now ice fishing season ! ! !

[elk hunter]

We're having a heat wave, it's +8 right now. Was -6 last night, wind chill made it -11 at 0600. Supposed to get up to +10 today and then drop to -10 tonight. Just finished shoveling 6" of snow off the driveway and walk.

[edler7]

It's so cold here, I saw a liberal with their hands in their own pockets.

[Artful]

The weather is crazy, we have had t-shirt weather the last couple of days, even a little rain, while down south, you guys are getting blasted.

Blame Al Gore and global warming

[Finster101]

Low 60s here this morning. Had to put a long sleeve shirt on to ride the Harley!

[Artful]

Had to turn the heat on in the house 4 days ago.....down to the mid 30s last couple nights.....actually had to put socks and pants on.......woke up to a Pearl Harbor morning.....a nip or two in the air.......

Larry Gibson

Same over in Phoenix Metro - I had to put on long pants starting last week

[starnbar]

Well I drove up to my moms house near Dunnellon this morning had the ac on in the truck up there and back maybe it will get cold by new years.

[North_of_60]

Blame Al Gore and global warming

Fairbanks Alaska; +29 degrees on my deck. Thank you Al Gore for global warming

Al

[Bzcraig]

Last few nights mid to upper 20's and upper 40's to low 50's during the day. Citrus farmers aren't sleeping much especially those with Mandarin Oranges.

[firefly1957]

It is so cold my pump shotgun was a single shot today while pat hunting the oil i used not only slowed the smooth action but would not release the shells form the magazine! ( I will correct this soon)
High here today was 17 degrees.

[waksupi]

If I'm going out with a gun when it's this cold, I remove every bit of oil and grease.

[garym1a2]

Hit mid 80's this afternoon. 62 this morning.

[Down South]

It's so cold here, the college students are wearing two sweaters tied around their waist.

[boltons75]

I guess its snowing pretty good at my house, a couple of inches already... Very odd for my area.

Thank God I don't live in Michigan or Minnesota anymore!

Brandon

It's cold in Michigan, no snow to be seen here though.

[blaser.306]

Weather advisory issued by Environment Canada @ 3:22 this afternoon for wind chill! Currently -47 degrees Celcius with the wind factored in!!! To those that are unsure -40 is where both the real (F) and our (C) are the same. The added 7 degrees colder is just a bonus? They also claim this weather is supposed to last for another 10 days or so. Seems like a good time to cozy up to a refreshing pot of molten alloy to stay warm!

[geargnasher]

It topped out at 27 this afternoon, haven't had a day that didn't get above freezing in a long time. It was in the mid-80s most of the week.

Gear

[jonp]

70 here yesterday. This morning raining and in the 40's. When I get up at 0400 to go to work its supposed to be 32 with freezing rain. I love working outside in this weather

[btroj]

27 would be balmy this week. We got up to 10 today, started a few below zero.

Come on up and get some cold weather testing in! Just don't lick the barrel......

[olereb]

84 and sunny here today as we put up our xmas lights,soaked through 3 shirts climbing up and down the ladder,lol.

[jonp]

Yeap winter is here Going to go get more fuel filters for the semi.
Learned my lesson one night when my truck stopped at 0100 in Trinidad and I had to change them

[waksupi]

I've been pouring HEET in my gas tank for decades in this cold weather. Is it needed with the gasahol? I wouldn't think so, and hate spending an extra nickle anywhere.

[btroj]

I am hardly a vehicle expert but I haven't used HEET in over a decade and I use pretty much exclusively an alcohol blend. In NE the alcohol blend is enough cheaper to make it the most cost effective blend. Must be the huge number of ethanol plants and the corn grown in the state!

[Wolfer]

I had 8 deg when I got up this morning. It's at 20 now. Only about 2" of snow here but just south of me they got quite a bit more.

[TES]

It's so cold here, I saw a liberal with their hands in their own pockets.

liberals don't have pockets.....that's why they need yours!

[montana_charlie]

Had to turn the heat on in the house 4 days ago.....down to the mid 30s last couple nights.....actually had to put socks and pants on.......woke up to a Pearl Harbor morning.....a nip or two in the air.......

Larry Gibson
If you were to look at your thermometer and see a Zero on this particular morning, you should probably expect to detect a nip.

[btroj]

Detect? At some point you can't ignore them!

[Riverpigusmc]

83 here today in North Florida :)

I spent three months in a GP tent in Norway at 60 below....after that, I STAY in Dixie

[Sweetpea]

I stopped at Sportsman's Warehouse on my way home today...

Had to get some new thermals.

About 6" of that white junk at my house, and highs below freezing for the next 5 days...

I am still in the desert, right?

Brandon

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

I've been pouring HEET in my gas tank for decades in this cold weather. Is it needed with the gasahol? I wouldn't think so, and hate spending an extra nickle anywhere.

In MN, there is 7% to 10% in all 'regular' gasoline...Yep, I haven't needed Heet since that started here...maybe 15 years ago???

BUT, the problem comes in when it gets super cold...like -40º...alcohol raises the igniting temperature of gasoline...making the engine more difficult to fire. So when I know a cold spell is coming, I will fill my tank with 'alcohol-free' premuim gasoline...with no worries at all of moisture build up in the fuel, since all the regular fuel, that I run 48 weeks of the year has so much ethanol in it.

[kodiak1]

We have had 30 to 36" of snow in November and this AM she was a cooooolllll -40 here in Central Alberta with about a 10 MPH breeze. Making me think something of brass, Monkey, Balls, YOU Know where that goes!!!!

Ken.

[randyrat]

Had to turn the heat on in the house 4 days ago.....down to the mid 30s last couple nights.....actually had to put socks and pants on.......woke up to a Pearl Harbor morning.....a nip or two in the air.......

Larry Gibson I get it and I'm not telling the wife that one either.

Close to -20 last night and today never reached above zero.
It's so cold; A hooker offered to give me a blow dryer.

[chambers]

About 2 degrees here, no snow- sawed brush/trees most of day to enlarge food plots so keep damage on tractor to a minimum, as it was sort of nice if you kept moving!

[bhn22]

I get it and I'm not telling the wife that one either.

Close to -20 last night and today never reached above zero.
It's so cold; A hooker offered to give me a blow dryer.

Randy!

[btroj]

A randy hooker?

[MaryB]

-15 this morning in SW MN, high was -1. Windchill was pushing -40 this morning too. Back down to -10 but I think it is starting to warm for the snow coming in tomorrow. Going to be a balmy 14 maybe :-P

[MT Gianni]

High for the last 3 days was -6. Considered going fishing yesterday but it is too much work to keep the holes open. We sure are making ice though.

[Down South]

Houston, we have a problem! I had a few beautiful fall tomato plants just starting to bear. This weather system took care of them. It was 37F here last night and 34F the night before with the wind blowing like crazy. What the cool temperatures didn't destroy, the winds did.
It's been a while since I've had fried green tomatoes. A few are far enough along that I can finish ripening them on a window sill.

[waksupi]

I am kind of anxious for the weather to warm a bit, and get out ice fishing As John said, the holes will ice over too fast when it is this cold.

89938

[btroj]

We need to let natural selection work far more often.

[David2011]

I've been pouring HEET in my gas tank for decades in this cold weather. Is it needed with the gasahol? I wouldn't think so, and hate spending an extra nickle anywhere.

Save the HEET for your lanolin!

In normally mild SE New Mexico it's been below freezing for 4-5 days now. The houses are built for cold weather but it's unusual to not gt above freezing for that many consecutive days and down between 10-15 degrees at night. I know you, guys farther north would treat it as a heat wave.

David

[montana_charlie]

Considered going fishing yesterday but it is too much work to keep the holes open.
Wears me out cutting a hole big enough for my boat. I'm thinking of a smaller boat with two bow-mounted chainsaws ... so I can troll.

CM

[btroj]

When ice fishing is there a limit on ice?

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

When ice fishing is there a limit on ice?

NO LIMITS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wi0GzgymbU

[btroj]

Those are some nice ice. Good eating

[waksupi]

Sure gets awful cold ice fishing some days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKvYBbzqQJw

[btroj]

Here in a few days he will be nothing but Shampoo

[jonp]

NO LIMITS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wi0GzgymbU
My grandfather used to tell us about cutting ice when he was a kid on the lake. He told us they used hand saws like for trees and several times it was so cold they sent everyone home.
The place on the South Bay of Lake Memphremagog where I grew up and we put our fish shacks out is still called the icehouse although it is not used for that anymore

[starmac]

I hauled ice to Santa Clause house a couple of years on flatbed trailers. They cut it with chainsaws, with 6 foot bars. They had to cut it twice a year, so as to get it before it got over 6 foot deep. I see ice blocks that are as much as 8 feet thick used in the world finals, so they must have some bars over 8 feet long or use a different method of cutting it.

The funny thing is the Santa Clause Ice I hauled was always for the next year. They would stack the blocks 3 or 4 high and cover it with about a foot of sawdust, and there would only be a little loss off the top layer over the summer.

[Three-Fifty-Seven]

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[blackthorn]

When I was a kid we used to cut ice out of the river to melt for washing cloths etc. We used a 6 foot loggers falling saw with one handle removed. My Dad would cut two parrell lines about 18 to 20 inches apart and about six feet long. He then cut across the ends, set a heavey set of ice tongs on one end of the cut piece and pulled the big block out of the hole using the horses. The blocks were then loaded on a flat platform with runners (we called a "stone boat") and hauled the mile and a half to the farm yard. We put three of those big blocks on the Stone Boat at a time. We also had an "ice house" that we filled with ice for cooling stuff in the summer. The ice house was a very well insulated building about 15x15 feet square built over an 8 foot deep, 4'x6' rectangular hole in the ground where the ice went. The layers of ice were insulated with layers of straw and the ice lasted all summer.

[btroj]

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Yesterday morning

Ummmm, that isn't cold. Least not for most of us.

[Hawkeye45]

Coldest night since 1972... 7 degrees
Salem, Or

Mr. Ed

[jonp]

When I was a kid we used to cut ice out of the river to melt for washing cloths etc. We used a 6 foot loggers falling saw with one handle removed. My Dad would cut two parrell lines about 18 to 20 inches apart and about six feet long. He then cut across the ends, set a heavey set of ice tongs on one end of the cut piece and pulled the big block out of the hole using the horses. The blocks were then loaded on a flat platform with runners (we called a "stone boat") and hauled the mile and a half to the farm yard. We put three of those big blocks on the Stone Boat at a time. We also had an "ice house" that we filled with ice for cooling stuff in the summer. The ice house was a very well insulated building about 15x15 feet square built over an 8 foot deep, 4'x6' rectangular hole in the ground where the ice went. The layers of ice were insulated with layers of straw and the ice lasted all summer.

I walked behind more than a few stone boats after plowing a field in the spring. Hard work

[MT Gianni]

When ice fishing is there a limit on ice?

There is the joke about the [fill in the blank] who went ice fishing and came home with 200 lbs. his wife cooked it and they all drowned.

[MaryB]

My grandparents had an icehouse on the farm when I was little. Also stacked it around the milkhouse(he was a dairy farmer). That ice cold milk in summer that came from the cow that morning was good stuff. We would get blocks to take into town for the ice box, my parents didn't get a refrigerator until I was 4. Grandparents until I was in my teens, the ice was free for the taking with a little work.

[Col4570]

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Sunday 8th December.17.00 Hours.The start of a cold night but a great sky as the light fades.

[Love Life]

-21 degrees this morning at 7,500 ft. It freezes your nose hairs!

[ShooterAZ]

It was -4 last night, 14 now... high of 22 today. Down to 4 again tonight.

[Jjed]

The wife and I left Pa last Thursday it was 61, flew to san Antonio Texas to see our son graduate from air force basic training, Friday morning at lackland afb we where setting at the top of the aluminum bleachers the wind was howling the temp was 20. I have hunted in below 0 weather many times, when I got cold I walked to warm up. could not move on the bleachers. I have never been so cold. in the video I took the picture is shaking from me shivering. I thought Texas was warm in the winter. and Yes I am very proud of my airman.

[starmac]

For all you wusses that thinks it is cold. lol This gives cold a new meaning.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cold-dis-comfort-antarctica-set-record-1358

[OeldeWolf]

It was 21F here this morning. I am thinking of getting out the Heavy coat.
I know that is not near what some of you have. But we are losing a lot of older plantings here in the San Joaquin county.
have seen a couple of businesses with broken pipes, this morning.