how cold is it where you are?

[fnfredux]

here in NW MO it is now 6 degrees, and it's the warmest part of the day...
Tonight? Windchills to -20, BRRR I just can't get warm...
How about you guys?

[Quietgentleman]

We been in the single digits today and will dip below 0 tonight. We also got 6 inches of snow lastnight and with that I was busy most of the mornin blowing and shoveling snow. Last night the local news said we have 10 inches more snow now that we did last year at this time and we beat the 6th snowiest yr on record last year. Thank god for global warming I hate to see what it be like without it ::) ::) ::).

QGM

[MNMOM]

Here in SE Minnesota our high today is -6, tonight it is to get down to -24, with a windchill in the -30's to -40.

Too bad old Al Gore isn't here to freeze his tush off!

The low up in International Falls way up in the northern tip of MN it was -44, now that is cold.

No matter how much you bundle up when you go out, whenever you breathe, it hurts your lungs.

[sbemt456]

I wont complain about the cold no mo! It has been about 25 here all day and supposed to be about 10 tonight.
Bless you all who can stand it when the thermometer goes in the hole. Guess I am a wimpy Ky gal.

Stay warm and safe!

stella

[T774]

It's 56 now, but the weather servce is predicting 29 Saturday morning. I know that may not seem like much to most of yall, but it's pretty chilly for central Florida. In fact if it does reach 29 here it will be a record low. The record is 30 set in 1965. It's supposed to stay below normal until next weekend.

[WileyCoyote]

It's 2 degrees right now. With the wind chill it is supposed to go down to -19 tonight, and for tomorrow the high is 20. However by Sunday they're predicting temps in the 50's for three days. It's snowing lightly but it is a very dry snow, no good for snowballs or sculptures. It isn't even piling up in drifts. I think Kansas is getting my snow!!! ;D

[OzarkMtnDaredevil]

Here on the AR-MO line it hit 51 today, 36 now at 7pm, and predicted 4 degrees early morning and High of 23 tomorrow.
Kick Tilling Weather, baby! 8)

(tick killing weather is what I meant)

[Cil]

Please don't hate me, but 78 F and to get warmer towards the weekend.

[Archangel]

Hate me, I was in short sleeves today. :)

[OzarkMtnDaredevil]

Please don't hate me, but 78 F and to get warmer towards the weekend.
I hope you have someone check you for ticks. ;)

[Bill_in_FL]

57 degrees right now 9:15PM , was in the 70's today . Was on the beach fishing Sunday ;D

[susiejean60]

This morning here in North Central Minnesota (Longville/Remer area) it was at -40 at 5AM with a wind chill of -55. Yesterday it was -10 at 5AM with no wind.

We're expecting more of the same tonight, right now it's -17.

Susie in MN :o

[gregabob]

Like Cil-around 80---but here's the kicker-heat brought by the most vile of winds--Santa Anas--whole Inland Empire a dust bowl, skin so dry I feel like a lizard, tipped over trucks on the freeways.....oh yeah, SoCal weather is great..... >:(

[amy]

Gregabob: ain't the Santa Anas great? I think they are finally coming to a stop.
80 here, more of the same tomorrrow

[anna]

The window is too frosted over to see the gauge but forecast for tonight is -25º. Our house is well insulated but I can still feel the cold sucking the heat out of my body & I'm sitting 3' from the wall. Tomorrow's highs will be below zero.

[gregabob]

Gregabob: ain't the Santa Anas great? *I think they are finally coming to a stop.
80 here, more of the same tomorrrow
They're like a river of hot air funnelling thru passes---as they taper off the 'river' gets narrower. Some areas like Fontana get it no matter how narrow the stream. Why don't they mention these winds in the slick Cali travel brochures? ::) Those who have never lived here seem to think it's girls in bikinis year 'round----WRONGO---in the summer the hills burn, in the winter they slide, then the winds come...... >:(

[fnfredux]

Please don't hate me, but 78 F and to get warmer towards the weekend.

the cold will pass, and it will be 50's 60's 70' 80's here too, BUT taxes will still be LOW, COL will still be low and there will still be no traffic, still be no violent crime, still be no building ordinances, still be 40A to do as I please on. Please don't hate me.

ooops, almost forgot -10 this AM 7:15, wind chill -23, this is RECORD cold, I am sure. Hope my goats don't kid early.

[leera]

-8 degrees this morning.......if we're lucky it might reach a double digit high today,but it's not really in the forecast.........BBBRRRRRrrrrr............

[rice paddy daddy]

28 this morning when I left for work. We're going to have 6 straight mornings below freezing, Sat AM is supposed to be the worst, with 25 forecast for Jacksonville (Fla), that will make it in the teens where I live.
Yes, it does get cold in Florida. Amended to add "The Real Florida", south florida is a whole 'nother world.

[Terri]

-2 or -3.

I don't much care, because it is going to warm up for the weekend and the family will all be working outside. WE WILL GET A LOT DONE!

YES!!!!!!!!!

In the mean time, since the hen house is uninsulated and falling apart, I have given the chickens the space heater.

[Emerald]

I'm in Southern Illinois and it's 8:30 am. The temp now is 5 degrees with wind chills well below 0 and it's supposed to be colder tomorrow.

[susiejean60]

-35 here in the woods this morning. News (local) said we have a wind chill of about -50. Too cold for man or beast!

Susie in MN

[MissouriFree]

3 at lake of the Ozarks in the middle of Missouri. down to 3 tonight.

got wood - got beer ;D ;D

[MNMOM]

-35 here in the woods this morning. *News (local) said we have *a wind chill of about -50. *Too cold for man or beast!

Susie in MN

Hi Susie, down here in SE MN near Rochester we have -24 with a -50 windchill, schools are closed and they say it's going to get up to -8 today.

All night the house was making popping and cracking noises, some of them so loud they scare you half to death.

Next week they are predicting in the +30's, we will be getting our January thaw, I can't wait!

[MissouriMrs]

Hi Folks, new on the Boards and also in Missouri Nw Mo to be exact! It was -6 when I drove into town this morning. I even let our outside cat in for the day. She a little too old for this type of temperature and she is an excellent mouser, so I want to keep her around some more!

[susiejean60]

Hi Susie, down here in SE MN near Rochester we have -24 with a -50 windchill, schools are closed and they say it's going to get up to -8 today.

All night the *house was making popping and cracking noises, some of them so loud they scare you half to death.

Next week they are predicting in the +30's, we will be getting our January thaw, I can't wait!


Can you believe that by next Thursday, we'll be up around +38? We're in for a real melt down! I can barely wait! My goodness! Ufda! :D

Susie in MN

[Quietgentleman]

Well we beat the all time record low today at a -29 that beat the old record by 9 degrees. Right now at noon we have warmed up to -17. You know its cold out when you jump into your pickup and the seat cushion does move its like you sat on a cold block of wood.

QGM

[FZRaven]

-14 right now, this morning at 4 it was -24, it's supposed to get to -30 or more tonight.

[CanNerd]

I just checked the official temperature reading and and its 86°F .

[Wyobuckaroo]

Central Minnesota here.

The temperature warmed up 25 degrees today between when I went to work and got home.

When I got home it was -7 degrees. You do the math.

Wyo

[sbemt456]

CanNerd I am pretty sure any one north of the mason dixon dont like you about now. ;D Just kidding, we will survive, we are the ones that are prepared.

On a serious note, I take comfort in the fact that no one from this board will be gone due to not being prepared for the bad weather.
And thats a pretty cool thought.

Stay safe and warm.

stella

[swampyankee]

15 here in Ct, unusually cold but nothing we can't handle ;)

[homemade_mamma]

I'm in SW Iowa with record lows like the rest of you midwesterners. I'm not sure of the temp right now, it's dark and can't see the thermometer. But it was -19 at 5:30 this morning. Haven't seen it this low for a long time. They even cancelled school. I was surprised they did but glad. Kids home, safe and warm :)

[CarolAnn]

-6 now, supposed to drop to -19 tonight; after zero, what's the diff?! Too dang cold! It might get all the way up to 7 tomorrow, though! Yay! a heat wave!

MNMom - you have a house that pops? That is so cool! I grew up in one. I don't know if it's true, but Mom used to tell us it was the nails in the roof popping up through the tar from the contraction of the roofing materials in the cold. It was like a rifle shot every so often - at random, and all winter long. (Wonder how many nails were left in the DOWN position after a long, cold winter!!) Then dad installed "baseboard heat" and the copper pipes would go BANG bang bang bang bang . . .(quieter and quieter as the hotwater circulated & expanded the copper farther away!) I had forgotten how noisy winter used to be!

[fnfredux]

15 here in Ct, unusually cold but nothing we can't handle ;)
Cold eh?
Why when I was *a young'un back there in CT, Waterbury to be exact, one christmas moring we got up and it was 12 degrees below zero. I was worried my mom and dad would try to weasle out of coming for Christmas. I talked them into it bysaying SURELY it would get warmer (it was sunny) as the day went on. That afternoon (still light) it was 22 BELOW. I guess it was around Christmas 78-80,in there somewhere.
Weather in Ct was a lot different when I was a kid. It was COLD, fridgid even by halloween, and I saw it snow on May 12th when I was in high school, eons ago. And I saw snow on the ground which was a big surprise, on September 15th one
15 degrees in CT maybe considereded cold now, but when was a young'un back in West Haven, the sound would freeze just about every year so you could walk out to that rock about 200 yards offshore.
We had blizzards in November and even in April, Easter surpise one year.

JUST REMEMBERED...Bradley Rock...

[farmmilkmama]

I woke up this morning to -22, they said the windchill was -45. Most the schools here were closed. Even a good solid zero would tickle me at this point. 8)

[bookwormom]

stella, you must be protected by the hills, NPR
weather said it will be down to zero tonight. cold enough for Ky if you ask me. No snow, hope it kills every tick and chigger.

[sbemt456]

Here in east Ky down by the river it is 9 degrees at 11PM. The fire in the fireplace is just not as warm as it was earlier today. To dang cold for a fire to burn!

Stay warm.

stella

[swampyankee]

sorry fnfredux, 78-80? I was around then, but I'm afraid my memory bank deletes anything over 6 months old, with temps like that I'm glad it did, I assume I hauled alot of wood that winter. :P

[susiejean60]

-25 here in North Central MN @ 5AM. Burrrrr!

Susie in MN

[leera]

-9.9 here in MI this morning.........

I almost didn't even want to walk out to throw corn down for the wild turkeys,but I think in this weather they have become somewhat dependent on the local bird feeders.......


We're supposed to make it up into the teens today,won't get back up into the 30's until late next week.

[pinetreefarm]

Just a tad chilly here in Minnesota. -33 actual and -55 wind chill.

Pine

[TNDadx4]

In TN, 6 degrees with a wind chill of -6

[sbemt456]

It was a toasty 2 degrees this morning at 7AM. We use our electric heat at night instead of leaving the fire burning in the fireplace and be darned if the electricity didnt go off sometime during the night. Was off for about 3 hours. Still warm in the house, only problem was hubby was late for work as his alarm is electric. Needless to say he was a little off center this morning.


Stay warm.

stella

[DM]

It's the coldest i've seen it here on my homestead in a long long time...

http://www.fototime.com/072C980C6E5E2F5/orig.jpg

DM

[bookwormom]

it is times like this that I really appreciate our woodstove. I did not stoke it anymore after cooking supper last night, we ate at six, and this morning it was still 60. I better go and fill up the reservoir, we need the hot water for the critters. water buckets are one block of ice. After this I am going to go and scoot around on the pond. Now don't laugh if it sets me on my behind.

[bookwormom]

PS
you all remember the winter of 77?
with the windchill we had temp. of below 70 below. I remember it started on my birthday, we had been collecting flagstones down be the creek for a hearth and the weather report said blizzard. it started at around 5 PM. On March eleven( day my grandma died) it finally got above freezing, hubby went out in a t shirt it seemed so warm. Luckily there was a lot of snow, we shoveled it around our little fruittrees and in spring we noticed everything that was sticking out of the snow was frost killed.

[maineyankee]

Here in mid-coast Maine the temp was -19 at 5am this morning. Stoked the fire, and went back to bed.

Our little house sits on a slab. The "bangs" in the night are loud enough to wake the dead.

[DV8]

got down to 4 last pm. had ice on the INSIDE of my tent, & I forgot to put the water in the pot for coffee this am, instead it was frozen in the jug, not to come out... so no coffee... but then who's complaining ? I myself was nice & toasty..... until I got outta the sleeping bag that is :)

[woodzman]

It's been a little to cool here for my taste, but It's been worse. We have been running in the single didgets to low teens durring the day and well below zero at night with a nice breeze. Would one of you folks that live where It's in the 60-70 degree range please send directions. *;)

[gregabob]

It's in the 70's here (SoCal)-but with that you have unending NOISE, CROWDS, TRAFFIC, HIGH C.O.L., HIGH TAXES, *INTRUSIVE GOV'T., NO SEASONS.Enjoy the winter.......Spring will be there soon. :)























































































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[catrules]

Has been hovering at 0 and below for past 4 days. Been a while since we have had cold like this. Trying to keep the pipes from freezing. We also have about 2 feet of snow on the grow, a foot of which has fallen in the past 24 hours. Have not left the house at all. Feeling badly for my birdies though. About the time I throw something out on the sidewalk, the snow covers it up.

[Watonga_Jim]

Central OK only got a glancing blow of the latest cold wave that socked the MW and NE states. *With temps in the 60's today, I was outside removing old barbwire fence and almost got a sunburn. *Of course, a week from now it will back to the 20's and 30's but I'll take the warm days when I can get them in Jan.

[T774]

At 4:30 this morning it was 27 degrees in central Florida.

[snake]

33 here in NW Florida @ 10A (e). going all the way up to 50! ;)

[clawmute]

It was a toasty 17deg f at 6am this morning here on Marnajol mountain. Cool in the house but a roaring wood fire soon put it at bay.

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r130/clawmute/Trees-wood%20splitting/burning20fireplace.gif

[DM]

I have a new low temp to post,

http://www.fototime.com/F943DBCEEDDA06F/orig.jpg

The same night it was -29 at my brothers place that's 40 miles NW of mine. He also gets a LOT more snow than we do too, as my farm is in a bit of a micro climate here... He had two nights that it snowed over 18" each time plus a lot of nights it snowed 6" each...

DM

[jen_in_southtexas]

This morning it was about 53 degrees. That is cold for us over here ;D. Then after lunch time it got to about a breezy 76 degrees or so. Supposed to drop down to the lower 50's tonight again.

You all that live in those cold climates my hats off to you, especially when the temps get into the negatives. I dont know how you do it. I cant even imagine how I would feel if our temps got into the 20's. 30's are freezing for me :o.

-j

[kybarrels]

Right now it is a balmy 55% on the 23 day of January. And SUNNY!
Ya gotta love Kentucky.

[Junie]

Just wait, kybarrels, it's supposed to be a high of 30 tomorrow.

Glad we got some firewood in today.

[Maranna]

Yesterday morning it was 14 degrees with a wind chill of 8 degrees, then it got up to 56 by 4p. Today it was 25 at 8:30a with a wind chill of 16 and we got up to 63. I live in the southern panhandle of Texas, in Buddy Holly's home town.

[Native87]

18 in sw Va. this mrn. snowed a little more last night.

[crafty2002]

We been in the single digits today and will dip below 0 tonight. We also got 6 inches of snow lastnight and with that I was busy most of the mornin blowing and shoveling snow. Last night the local news said we have 10 inches more snow now that we did last year at this time and we beat the 6th snowiest yr on record last year. Thank god for global warming I hate to see what it be like without it *::) ::) ::).

QGM

ROFL QGM. I just started a tread about the Gobal Warming. It looks to me like they had it wrong. We're haveng Gobal Freezing now, LOL.

[Native87]

You all are 2 durn funny. LoL @ Dennis. r u gonna retract your statements? It aint exactly a sauna where we are. LOL

[sbemt456]

We had 8 degrees overnight, its 10 now with wind chill of 1 degree and about 3 inches of snow overnight.
Warming? Bah humbug!

stay warm and have a great day!

stella

[shadowood]

Currently it's 34*F.
They say it will be 22* by morning.

That is cold for here. ;D
SW FL


Shadowood

[Native87]

7 deg. in sw Va. dont know how to figure in wind chill.

[MrGreenJeans]

Southeast ky. 9 here this morning. Winchill don,t matter just dang cold. I reckon. Thinking of planting some peas just don,t want ta have ta blast holes in the ground ta get them in. ;D

[sbemt456]

MrGreen jeans ya can shoot em in with a shot gun if the hill is steep enough.

It is cold here in Eastern Ky, we had 10 degrees on the back deck this am. And we supposed to have 60 on Sunday. I'll take it.

Have a great day!

stella

[Catalpa]

It was 25 below here the other night. Today felt downright spring-like at 29 above.

It's actually quite beautiful out when it gets that cold. The air is so clear it seems to ring like a bell, and the stars come within reach. Sunrise is a gentle dance of pink, robin's egg blue, and purple rising higher in the sky until the bright orange sun breaks the horizon. I love watching it all while I drive to work.

Jen, it's not really that big a deal, though it's hard on the animals and the propane bill. My twenty year old car even started right up. Though I did have a bit of a hassle trying to fix the snowblower and putting the parts back on without taking my gloves off.

I admit it's awfully tempting to just stay in my warm bed on these frosty mornings!

[jen_in_southtexas]

Hello Catalpa,

There is no doubt in my mind that it is beautiful when it is frigidly cold. I have yet to see those conditions.

Today we reached a breezy 80 degrees. Wore my shorts n' t-shirt and steel toes of course. Right now it is 66 degrees. We had wind warnings. The winds were awful today gusting in the 40's.

-jen

[sillymom]

North Central Illinois 60 degrees today

[Phoenix2]

Went showshoeing yesterday (2/07) up above Breckenridge (one of the ski resorts here in CO) ; it was sunny and in the high 30s and that's above 10,000 ft. Wish there was more snow here in the Denver area; been a mild winter. P