Rising Hegemon
Minus a dozen this morning. The kind of morning that makes me remember when I was 7 and we moved to a Minnesota town and our first day in the new house was delayed because the movers needing to leave the garage door open ended up freezing the pipes. It was merely January and it was merely -31 Fahrenheit...not windchill...straight air temperature.
It's a day so cold that we flip the script on our retired parents in Arizona and say, "Guess what it was less than 10 below today, but we're alive and all your friends are dying...WHOSE LIVIN' NOW?!"
The secret to really cold weather in the Midwest is that it is usually (not always) accompanied by little to no wind. So while it is cold, it is survivable in small batches.
But when there is so much as a mild breeze IT IS HORRID.
BTW, the NFL got lucky, Green Bay was a cold 4 or 5 degrees above yesterday, presently it is 16 BELOW...straight temp.
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SW Ohio, represent. It rained here Sunday instead of snowing, so when the temperatures fell like a stone overnight, we got a lovely glaze on everything. And the temps are going to fall all day to record-breaking lows. It was -1 when I got up a few hours ago, now it's -4.
We're supposed to reach -20 actual temperatures with -40 windchill. That's fucking cold for us.
I'm supposed to fly down to visit my sis in Florida. They are expecting a cold snap, too, of temps in the mid forties. I want my money back.
Jeeesus H. on the cold temps -- over here am below the snow line, but not the frost line today...and tomorrow's going to be worse.
By worse, ok, 15 above, but houses down here (Loosiana) aren't designed for hard freezes. Yesterday I wrapped some exposed pipes and am dripping the faucets. A few years ago during a similar freeze, I had a major scare when the water line did the same. Fortunately it was a flexible pipe and didn't burst, though next door the metal pipe by the water heater did and spewed a torrent until I found a way to contact the business owner, who came by and shut off the main. What a hassle.
Good luck up there. How I made it through ten winters in Madison...I no longer know, though I suspect the steady availibility of intoxicants helped.
Like donnah above, except we were on the ice boundry and had a solid day of slush followed by a sudden drop to -13. I did my best to keep the driveway cleared so it wouldn't turn into a three inch thick block of ice, but still ended up with quite a bit of ice. The town is essentially shut down for the day.
My brother-in-law lives in western Minnesota, about 70 miles east and a little south of Fargo. Wind chills of minus 50 predicted today -- he said the whole state was shut down.
So I guess I should be grateful it's a sunny 11 degrees Fahrenheit (wind chill of -1) down here in Tennessee.
All we got was a some rain and then a little dusting of snow. Dammit. If it's going to get this cold, it ought to be accompanied by a more respectable accumulation of the pretty white stuff.
San Diego here . 75 and sunny. I'm off to lay-out at the pool, and swim a bit... suckers!
Harry,
Shhh, they'll all want to move here...
It is supposed to be in the single digits in Maryland with the wind chill in the negative teens tomorrow. I've lived here for almost 30 years and only remember one other event of this kind of weather. I brought my work laptop home so I don't have to run out to my car at 7am to start warming it up.
I have water dripping in my downstairs bathrooms to avoid pipe freeze.
I'm learning new weather terms - first was derecho - the fast moving (600 miles in 10 hours) line of thunderstorms that clobbered the midwest to the mid atlantic with near hurrican force strength winds in 2012 and now polar vortez
Yikes that should be vortex
butbutbut weather is a hoax according to rush!
pretty windy now. at least no shoveling required.
We got into the single digits yesterday with a wind chill of around -13. In Maryland. I had to leave the taps running in one bathroom to avoid freezing (even with pipe tape)
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