The deep freeze is ON!

[Linnin]

11 degrees Fahrenheit here at the moment. A high of 22 is predicted today.

 

[Bass Viking]

Right now it's -15 fahrenheit in Ottawa. There's an extreme cold warning in effect. With the wind chill it's -36 fahrenheit!

 

[bluesblaster]

A character building -36 F in good 'ol Frostbite Falls, Mn. yesterday morning

 

[Bass Viking]

A character building -36 F in good 'ol Frostbite Falls, Mn. yesterday morning

Yikes! Is that with or without wind chill?

 

[neo 7]

This is what we're dealing with here. Things are moving a bit slower than normal, but we're taking it all in stride.

 

[buldog5151bass]

My dogs (bulldog and beagle) usually start making a ruckus as soon as my car pulls into the driveway - they think we are either going for a walk or to the dog park. The first day of the freeze, I couldn't even get my bulldog out of his chair (actually, my recliner - but at times he considers it his) to leave the house.

 

[Fishheadjoe]

A buddy of mine works at a diamond mine on James Bay. It's -58f where he is and a balmy -30 at his home. -30 feels pretty dang warm compared to -58f.
Fishheadjoe

 

[bluesblaster]

Yikes! Is that with or without wind chill?

Actual air temp.

 

[T_Bone_TL]

A character building -36 F in good 'ol Frostbite Falls, Mn. yesterday morning

Yikes! Is that with or without wind chill?

Depends where Rocket J. Squirrel is.

 

[Passinwind]

Yipe. After kinda sorta fussing around above/below freezing for a while, winter took the gloves off. Which means I'd better put mine on. 30F as recently as Christmas day, now 13F headed for 0F tonight, prediction of -10F in a couple of days for a low, highs in the single digits. It's here.

Does get colder (usually late Jan/Feb) some years. Still, a bit brisk, and all of a sudden-like.

I used to work on the mountain in Stowe VT back in the 70s. The chairlift ride to the top at 7 AM was especially festive, since it was an ancient, very slow single seater. Festive...yeah, that's the ticket. When I ran the parking lot crew we'd do ten minute shifts on the really bad days.

Freezing rain in The Gorge today. No bueno.

 

[SoonerBill]

Oklahoma City is supposed to be in the single digits this weekend. Not unheard of for here but fairly rare. At least it’s supposed to be dry. Snow or ice shut everything down.

 

[Indiana Mike]

Was 10 here this morning, 25 this afternoon. Gonna be 35 tomorrow woohoo!

Then 4 on Saturday and sunday...

 

[bluesblaster]

4 above ? lucky you

 

[Johnny Crab]

The geese flying southwest over our place(about 90 miles south-southwest of Houston) happened last week. THAT is my indication every year for the last 27+ years that winter's cold is not far behind. We already had a "freak" snow event(3rd ever since we've been here) earlier.

We also know that winter is officially over and spring is about to be sprung when the geese fly over headed back to where they came from.

I believe these are the birds(white ones mostly) we see and hear(at night) as they fly over. They land in and around a "designated wetland area"(mosquito factory in the summer) and spill over onto farmlands around it.
Snow goose - Wikipedia

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Week after NYE hear is supposed to be a hard freeze with freeze at night for a week, 26 miles from the Gulf of Mexico.