26 Below Zero

[bp fick]

It's Sunday morning, January 23, and my gage is reading -26. Clicked the weather dashboard button on my computer to check it against the weather station a few miles away. Ugh. It reads -27

Best go check on my hens in the barn. Well, I think I'll wait a few hours until first light.

 

[irvingj]

Accordong to the weather prognosticators, that air should arrive here in NH today.... TV station in Burlington, VT is saying some areas --that are normally colder-- may reach -40 tonight.

Haven't seen temps like that for quite a few years.

 

[Argosy]

Glad I'm not where you're at. We've got a heat wave going, it's -15.

 

[scesnick]

YIKES ! -26 !!! It is a balmy 10 degrees here in the mountains of Wv.

 

[blueriver]

Plus 42 degree's here in SE Oklahoma this fine a.m. !!

 

[Gizmo2]

Accordong to the weather prognosticators, that air should arrive here in NH today.... TV station in Burlington, VT is saying some areas --that are normally colder-- may reach -40 tonight.

Haven't seen temps like that for quite a few years.

Just a precaution, Most installed anti-freeze is rated at -34 degrees. Just sayin.

 

[dave1949]

Over night low of -2* here. 2* now. -20* forecast for tomorrow AM.

The coldest temp. I have recorded since moving here in 2006 is -25*. The record lows here for this time of January are all in the -30* to -36* range. The average low for January is 3*.

The long time residents say it used to be colder, lakes froze up earlier, etc., I am inclined to believe them. I think they may exaggerate the snow fall amounts remembered as children though Such as, their mother's had to warn them not touch the lines on the telephone poles.

Dave.

 

[bp fick]

This may be the "worst of it" for this winter. Let us hope so. This arctic flow has gone missing for a few years. This front promises to plunge as far south as Alabama and Georgia, and perhaps northern Florida. I think Texas gets skipped on this round.

Much more snow forecast for mid-week as yet another southern snow storm becomes yet another East Coast tracker. What a year.

 

[bp fick]

Just a precaution, Most installed anti-freeze is rated at -34 degrees. Just sayin.

That's a warning worth heeding. We've been taking lowest level anti-freeze protection for granted in recent years. The "ah, it's close enough" attitudes work when it is +5, but don't work in these extremes.

 

[DavidVT]

Prediction near Montpelier VT seems to cooling all day today with the low about -31 around 7am Monday morning with it below zero until noon Tuesday.

I guess the old Cummins gets plugged in tonight so the departure for work goes smoothly...

I plowed the drives yesterday to prevent the ridges of snow from becoming rock hard...

Oh for another business trip to Dubai....

 

[Egon]

I think they may exaggerate the snow fall amounts remembered as children though Such as, their mother's had to warn them not touch the lines on the telephone poles.

Think snow drifts along side the road. :thumbsup:

 

[dave1949]

Think snow drifts along side the road. :thumbsup:

As I recall, the person telling me that grew up in the potato fields of Aroostook County. Said they would plow the roads and when they got too drifted up to do anything with, they would just plow across an open field and use that the rest of the winter. I suppose it could happen.
Dave.

 

[Sulla]

I grew up in Bow NH and sure enough one year the drifts were so high up on top of Wood Hill where my cousin lives that you could just see the tops of the poles. I was warned more than once to stay a way or I could get fried.

I do think winter came sooner, lasted longer, and dropped more snow. Must be that global warming stuff...-10 here ( North Conway NH) this morning and headed lower. But hey at least it's a dry cold!

 

[Jstpssng]

Just a precaution, Most installed anti-freeze is rated at -34 degrees. Just sayin.

Good point. I neglected to check it this year so my tractor's been plugged in since yesterday.

 

[Western]

We lived in Battle Creek Michigan for a spell when I was a youngster in the early 60's

We lived on the 2nd floor of some apartments while my parents went to the University there. That winter I remember the snow drifts got so bad they called for all volunteers to help with snow removal.

I remember seeing hundreds of men out shoveling snow and I can still see my dad coming to our 2nd story window so my mom could give him and his best friend a cup of hot chocolate!

I guess for a spell we lived on the coveted 1st floor!!

 

[Nasty135]

It's Sunday morning, January 23, and my gage is reading -26. Clicked the weather dashboard button on my computer to check it against the weather station a few miles away. Ugh. It reads -27

Best go check on my hens in the barn. Well, I think I'll wait a few hours until first light.

Howdy, It was 17 above here this AM in southern Md. and the chickens are doing fine here. :thumbsup:

 

[k0ua]

It's Sunday morning, January 23, and my gage is reading -26. Clicked the weather dashboard button on my computer to check it against the weather station a few miles away. Ugh. It reads -27

Best go check on my hens in the barn. Well, I think I'll wait a few hours until first light.

Dang, that cold, the lowest I have seen here is -17 and that was a number of years ago.. I think it is near 40 here now at noon.

James K0UA

 

[Egon]

Just a precaution, Most installed anti-freeze is rated at -34 degrees. Just sayin.

Don't worry about the -34 rating. It will not turn solid.:thumbsup:

 

[jinman]

Accordong to the weather prognosticators, that air should arrive here in NH today.... TV station in Burlington, VT is saying some areas --that are normally colder-- may reach -40 tonight.

Haven't seen temps like that for quite a few years.

Is that -40 Farenheit or Celcius?:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[Egon]

Is that -40 Farenheit or Celcius?

233 K +/-:thumbsup: