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General Category => National/Breaking News => Weather => Topic started by: catfish1957 on January 09, 2024, 05:39:01 pm
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Recent Model Runs are showing that the middle of country is going to be in the deep freeze very late this week, going int early next week. Even down to the Gulf Coast. On the GFS at the 120 hour point they are progosticating a 1052Mb High right at the Canadian/Montana border. That is atm pressure of 31.06 Mercury. A Big one.
Followed by a second similar one at the 210 hour point. About 8 days from now. Front Range and Upper plains? I am hearing maybe in the -20 to -30 a poossibility. With zero down to about a line from the TX/OK panhanle- MO/AR borders. Gulf coast might be in the teens. Agian this is just a modeled forecast, but right now I have a pretty good idea things are about to really get chill. Bundle up and prepare accordingly.
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I have been watching this. They had expected lows in the minus for the weekend (-10) but have raised it to around +10 now. The ten day is midteen low average and mid twenties highs.
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Weather for next week.
I just received this from my friend who works for the National Weather Service in Houston. Plan accordingly.
You've probably heard the TV forecasters talking about an Arctic outbreak that will be heading our way and some additional details are becoming available in the various forecast models.
Currently, most of the models have the cold front reaching southeast Texas by late Sunday/early Monday and open the door for an Arctic airmass to spill southward. The 0000Z European ECMWF model has our temperature locally falling to the 29-30 degree range by Sunday afternoon and is forecasting lows of 21-23 Monday, 11-12 Tuesday, and 24-25 Wednesday before southerly winds and a rapid warmup begin. The ECMWF also wants to bring some freezing precipitation through late on Monday.
The 0000Z Canadian GEM is a little slower with frontal arrival but also somewhat colder. It is forecasting a Sunday afternoon low in the 50s but has temperatures bottoming out in the 18-21 range Monday and to a bone chilling 8-9 Tuesday before rising to a balmy 10 or so Wednesday. The GEM's warmup doesn't really kick in until Thursday. The GEM is also forecasting some freezing precip getting close but has it further to our east.
The 12Z American GFS is still running but its 0000Z output, while still showing very cold temperatures and a hard freeze n the Monday-Wednesday period, was marginally warmer than the ECMWF and GEM. The 0000Z GFS wasn't forecasting any frozen precip for our area and realistically it is still too early to take a definitive position.
At this point in time, the safest forecast is to say we are looking at a hard freeze next week and preparations need to be made before the cold air gets here.
This morning's graphic from the HGX forecast office is included below.
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Oh yeah, it's gonna be that kind of cold
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You hate to go thru it, but the brutal cold not only keeps critters some of you all have down there, it also heaves the ground to make an excellent soil bed for growing in the spring.
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We have a cold snap in progress here in the Mojave Desert. Got below +40 several night now, avoiding a hard freeze.
For us this is cold. Any time below 40 is too damned cold. I moved to the Mojave to get out of this crap. Give me my 120F Summer days back!
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We are under a tornado watch until 9pm tonight. Coastal flooding is possible of 1-2 ft. Wind gusts right now of 50mph. Cold front to then move in. DeSantis has called a state of emergency in quite a few counties. We've never experienced weather likes this, this time of year and we've been down here 30 years.
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Supposed to have a high of 14 degrees here next week.
I bet my kids will be happy that I got them wool socks and gloves for Christmas.
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Supposed to have a high of 14 degrees here next week.
I bet my kids will be happy that I got them wool socks and gloves for Christmas.
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That's cold, they'll be thanking you. happy77
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they say we'll be 26 below by Thursday... That's 3 dogs for sure...
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We are getting heavy snow with a 20 mph wind right now. The snow is supposed to stop soon, but it is a mess out there now.
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We are getting heavy snow with a 20 mph wind right now. The snow is supposed to stop soon, but it is a mess out there now.
Yeah, drifting like all get-out! I may have lived in AZ for better than 40 years, but I lived in Michigan before getting smarts and getting the heck outta there!
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Supposed to be our first real cold next Monday/Tuesday. Although I almost feel ashamed about griping, after reading previous posts....man, do I dread it! I despise cold weather.
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To everyone affected, stay safe and stay warm. Remember Canoodling is an exceptional way to generate, er, heat :whistle:
Of course there is always beverages.
https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/meals-menus/g45123054/hot-drink-recipes/
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Weatherman ,,,,,,Hank Williams JR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSDZsNJKeDg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSDZsNJKeDg)
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We have had a very mild winter up until this point, but we’re supposed to go through a weeklong cold snap starting after this weekend
The issue is the lack of snow. Last year we ended the winter with record snowfall. There’s only about 6 inches of snow on the ground right now.
But it looks like it warms up again after that
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Looking at the GFS, the Arctic blast seems to be coming on cue, at abut 1050ish Mb clip. What I am seeing freaky now is this expected 972 Mb low forming and deepening in Mo, creeping up the Ohio River Valley into the Great Lakes. I am guessing we are going to see some pretty impressive snow totals in those areas. Midwest blizzards ? Good chance I am guessing
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Looking at the GFS, the Arctic blast seems to be coming on cue, at abut 1050ish Mb clip. What I am seeing freaky now is this expected 972 Mb low forming and deepening in Mo, creeping up the Ohio River Valley into the Great Lakes. I am guessing we are going to see some pretty impressive snow totals in those areas. Midwest blizzards ? Good chance I am guessing
They are talking about 10" here in the Florida of Iowa, and some butt spankin' cold for several days after that.
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They are talking about 10" here in the Florida of Iowa, and some butt spankin' cold for several days after that.
eh... hard saying how much snow... It's sandy and blowing hard. There's only 3" on the truck, but in wind, that don't mean much... zero right now, and windy. 16 below by tonight, nearly 30 below the next night... Seems like below zero till about Tuesday... so not so long... But with little snow on the ground, this is going to drive frost like a sledge hammer, and it feels pretty bitter - usually there would be 3
' of snow between me and all that cold. Not true this year.
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eh... hard saying how much snow... It's sandy and blowing hard. There's only 3" on the truck, but in wind, that don't mean much... zero right now, and windy. 16 below by tonight, nearly 30 below the next night... Seems like below zero till about Tuesday... so not so long... But with little snow on the ground, this is going to drive frost like a sledge hammer, and it feels pretty bitter - usually there would be 3
' of snow between me and all that cold. Not true this year.
We got 6 a couple of days ago, so now's the pile on. In some ways I wish we would have gotten the cold before the snow because of all it's ground heaving and bug killing properties. Keep those nasty critters down south where they belong. :0001:
The comedy part is the youngins who haven't dealt with this much. They're like 'WTH is this crap?' and the older ones are like 'WINTER! Which we had nearly every %&*#^~! year growing up!'
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We got 6 a couple of days ago, so now's the pile on. In some ways I wish we would have gotten the cold before the snow because of all it's ground heaving and bug killing properties. Keep those nasty critters down south where they belong. :0001:
The comedy part is the youngins who haven't dealt with this much. They're like 'WTH is this crap?' and the older ones are like 'WINTER! Which we had nearly every %&*#^~! year growing up!'
I'm trying to figure the last time we went hard below zero... It's been a while, but not that long... A couple years ago I was in a hot tent up above Dickey Lake, and it was under 10 below then. But it's been a while. Hard on folks living up in the woods right now
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Well... here it is... A wailing devil wind outside. they shut off the airport, and schools letting out early. No school tomorrow... It's a howler.
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Looking at the GFS, the Arctic blast seems to be coming on cue, at abut 1050ish Mb clip. What I am seeing freaky now is this expected 972 Mb low forming and deepening in Mo, creeping up the Ohio River Valley into the Great Lakes. I am guessing we are going to see some pretty impressive snow totals in those areas. Midwest blizzards ? Good chance I am guessing
Not really understanding all the technical talk, but seems like my hope of an inaccurate forecast here in NE TX is dashed. I think I'll move some more wood inside. My propane tank is on 60 per cent. I guess I'll see how efficient it really is.
As always, my heart goes out to all in the far northern areas. Stay safe.
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6 below already... I might have to put on some flannel and find my wool socks...
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6 below already... I might have to put on some flannel and find my wool socks...
Now things have shifted and they're talking alot more ice. Dang I hate ice.
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Now things have shifted and they're talking alot more ice. Dang I hate ice.
We're too dang cold for ice to be a problem... twelve below now... That cold, the top of the ice ain't that slick.
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we are due for sleet all weekend - starting tonight .
I don't like this. You can really fall and do damage once you hit a certain age
I would rather have snow. We haven't had snow since 2020
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we are due for sleet all weekend - starting tonight .
I don't like this. You can really fall and do damage once you hit a certain age
I would rather have snow. We haven't had snow since 2020
Buy you a good pair of mukluks, snow packs, or snow boots. You wear them big, for extra socks... and they come big to accommodate the thick insulation. but that adds another feature - the tread is also much wider, which provides a great deal more sure-footedness.
Now, nothing 'ladies', stylish, or thin... This is a working boot that any rural northern gal will own.
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As long as we don't lose power like we did in February 2021, we should be okay.
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6 below already... I might have to put on some flannel and find my wool socks...
Might have to break out the winter coat?
It’s a balmy -9 right now. Gonna be cold for a while.
First calf was born on the farm yesterday. Wasn’t expected this early, but it’s doing well so far.
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Might have to break out the winter coat?
It’s a balmy -9 right now. Gonna be cold for a while.
-17 right now... With the wind chill last night, Big Mountain (ski resort) recorded -66
First calf was born on the farm yesterday. Wasn’t expected this early, but it’s doing well so far.
Of course... in a blizzard, in a stream, in the early morning. That's how cows roll. :laugh:
Congratulations... I guess. I am so over pulling calves.
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Dang, I feel bad for all of you freezing your butts while I sit here in balmy SoCal with nights in the low 40's and days in the low 60's **nononono* I know that for a lot of you that's like like summer, I think of it as comfortable even though there are a lot of people here that think they are in real cold like all of you. Stay safe and keep warm (https://i.imgur.com/qXd5P9J.gif)
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As long as we don't lose power like we did in February 2021, we should be okay.
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Dang, I feel bad for all of you freezing your butts while I sit here in balmy SoCal with nights in the low 40's and days in the low 60's **nononono* I know that for a lot of you that's like like summer, I think of it as comfortable even though there are a lot of people here that think they are in real cold like all of you. Stay safe and keep warm (https://i.imgur.com/qXd5P9J.gif)
Yes, I am interested in the temperatures being so low, everywhere but where you and I live. We have low temperatures here, too, but here in my part of the Mojave Desert it hasn't gotten down to freezing. And no precipitation so far this year.
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I usually like to rub it in with our nice moderate winters here near the TX Gulf Coast, but those rascals at the NWS are saying its going to get near 20 here Wednesday. Brrrrrrr!!!!!!
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Dang, I feel bad for all of you freezing your butts while I sit here in balmy SoCal with nights in the low 40's and days in the low 60's **nononono* I know that for a lot of you that's like like summer, I think of it as comfortable even though there are a lot of people here that think they are in real cold like all of you. Stay safe and keep warm (https://i.imgur.com/qXd5P9J.gif)
We lived one winter season in SoCal ---- and it was kinda fun --- it had a real vacay feel to it. Yet, I just couldn't fight the urge to throw a few pairs of thick socks and a couple of scarfs into the earthquake preparedness kit. 888blackhat
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We lived one winter season in SoCal ---- and it was kinda fun --- it had a real vacay feel to it. Yet, I just couldn't fight the urge to throw a few pairs of thick socks and a couple of scarfs into the earthquake preparedness kit. 888blackhat
Mrs. Liberty had an Earthquake Kit in SoCal. She had lived through a couple of them, like Northridge. Also a smaller version in her car.
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We lived one winter season in SoCal ---- and it was kinda fun --- it had a real vacay feel to it. Yet, I just couldn't fight the urge to throw a few pairs of thick socks and a couple of scarfs into the earthquake preparedness kit. 888blackhat
You can never go wrong with warm socks and a scarf, there are times when a stiff wind(for us) of 20 or 25 mph makes them welcome :beer:
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Mrs. Liberty had an Earthquake Kit in SoCal. She had lived through a couple of them, like Northridge. Also a smaller version in her car.
I have been through a few bad quakes, fortunately not at an epicenter like Northridge and the only places that absolutely scare me of being at during a bad one is in my car under an overpass or in a concrete parking structure and outside of a high rise with lots of glass windows **nononono*
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I have been through a few bad quakes, fortunately not at an epicenter like Northridge and the only places that absolutely scare me of being at during a bad one is in my car under an overpass or in a concrete parking structure and outside of a high rise with lots of glass windows **nononono*
I noticed that in SoCal, people tend not to go under overpasses right away. They wait for a clear spot on the other side. When my wife pointed it out, I thought it would be a good practice. Bets are off when a bunch of NooBs decide that's a great time to cut you off.
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I noticed that in SoCal, people tend not to go under overpasses right away. They wait for a clear spot on the other side. When my wife pointed it out, I thought it would be a good practice. Bets are off when a bunch of NooBs decide that's a great time to cut you off.
Yup, whether you are in earthquake country, or just in hostile areas, it makes good sense to watch your six and make sure you have a safe exit happy77
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Yup, whether you are in earthquake country, or just in hostile areas, it makes good sense to watch your six and make sure you have a safe exit happy77
Always, and especially so for driving in traffic. Always have an "out," and let other drivers have theirs.
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As long as we don't lose power like we did in February 2021, we should be okay.
Amen!! I have severe PTSD caused by that whole mess.
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Nothing worse than ice and burst water pipes. If you lose heat, you may want to shut off the water and open the spigots to keep frozen water from bursting your pipes.
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Nothing worse than ice and burst water pipes. If you lose heat, you may want to shut off the water and open the spigots to keep frozen water from bursting your pipes.
Good advice...
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Dang, I feel bad for all of you freezing your butts while I sit here in balmy SoCal with nights in the low 40's and days in the low 60's **nononono* I know that for a lot of you that's like like summer, I think of it as comfortable even though there are a lot of people here that think they are in real cold like all of you. Stay safe and keep warm
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You don't get it... Like a Husky, I BELONG here. I LOVE 30 below... I'm just itchin to get out in it... That's the difference this year.
Maybe it was all those years wading in frozen waters while trapping... maybe I got that ice water in my veins... but I would never live where winter don't.
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You don't get it... Like a Husky, I BELONG here. I LOVE 30 below... I'm just itchin to get out in it... That's the difference this year.
Maybe it was all those years wading in frozen waters while trapping... maybe I got that ice water in my veins... but I would never live where winter don't.
I am more like a Camel or a Gila Monster. Give me those 115 degree days.
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I am more like a Camel or a Gila Monster. Give me those 115 degree days.
Triple digits, my ass is in a lake somewhere, all day long.
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Nothing worse than ice and burst water pipes. If you lose heat, you may want to shut off the water and open the spigots to keep frozen water from bursting your pipes.
This IS good advice --- and worth repeating.
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This IS good advice --- and worth repeating.
Far better to have redundant sources of heat, and be capable of at least short term power generation, as the whole rural north knows well
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Snow is cyclical. 78 and 79 was a mother for the midwest. Best skiing and sledding we ever had. Bring on the snow.
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Snow is cyclical. 78 and 79 was a mother for the midwest. Best skiing and sledding we ever had. Bring on the snow.
Had a good friend whose sister and her children were dragged by her husband to Ohio just in time for the worst winter in a very long time, as a matter of fact I think they called the blizzard of 1978 the storm of the century. Anyway it also blew up their marriage, you just don't take a SoCal girl into a situation like that and expect her to adapt.
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Had a good friend whose sister and her children were dragged by her husband to Ohio just in time for the worst winter in a very long time, as a matter of fact I think they called the blizzard of 1978 the storm of the century. Anyway it also blew up their marriage, you just don't take a SoCal girl into a situation like that and expect her to adapt.
That’s a brutal thing to do to someone who has only lived in the perfect climate (SoCal).
It’s -19 this morning. I’m officially starting my hibernation.
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That’s a brutal thing to do to someone who has only lived in the perfect climate (SoCal).
It’s -19 this morning. I’m officially starting my hibernation.
Darn shame that that perfect climate is in the hands of a sociopath like Newsom.
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Snow is cyclical. 78 and 79 was a mother for the midwest.
Lived in St. Louis at the time. It was brutal!
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Lived in St. Louis at the time. It was brutal!
It was 5 days to flatten the curve. er plow everyone out!
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It was 5 days to flatten the curve. er plow everyone out!
We have my wife's childhood home up near there. This SE Texan endured his first and last blizzard up there in '13-'14. Not going to happen again.
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Darn shame that that perfect climate is in the hands of a sociopath like Noisome.
He's just the head sociopath, we have a whole slew of like minded sociopaths running our once fair state. I often dream of all the democrats including Noisome and Lt. Gov in session in Sacramento and Capitol sized SMOD punctuating them out of existence.............Does that make me a bad persson?
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Lived in St. Louis at the time. It was brutal!
I was a college student in Michigan for that. My college closed for the better part of a week, and they had never closed before that, ever. I worked at a college radio station, and I skied to work.
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I was a college student in Michigan for that. My college closed for the better part of a week, and they had never closed before that, ever. I worked at a college radio station, and I skied to work.
Skied or skitched?
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Skied or skitched?
No cars on the road to skitch behind. :shrug:
I had Cross Country skis. They were ideal in the city of Kalamazoo.
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No cars on the road to skitch behind. :shrug:
Ah... hookey-bobbin, translated into Western.
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Ah... hookey-bobbin, translated into Western.
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Ah... hookey-bobbin, translated into Western.
Same country. Different languages. :cool:
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-31 last night, -66 with the wind chill. Not just here either... Points east of the hump too.
In case y'all don't get how cold that is, my kid, who is more prepared than any of us, lost power at 1 am, in the height of it.
Jenny wouldn't start.
Propane dried up because at that cold, it contracts enough in the can that it's minimal pressure is defeated.
Truck wouldn't start.
Just all done. All his preps for nothing.
Luckily the power came back on in 3 hrs, And all he had to deal with was a frozen wellhouse.
Lessons.
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Same country. Different languages. :cool:
Yeah. Didn't know the word. @Cyber Liberty supplied the gist.
Hookey-bobbin. :laugh:
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One time we were Hookey-bobbin/Skitchin behind a city sand/salt spreader (which seemed like a good idea at the time) when the driver flipped on the spreader. I was spittin that crap out for hours!
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-31 last night, -66 with the wind chill. Not just here either... Points east of the hump too.
In case y'all don't get how cold that is, my kid, who is more prepared than any of us, lost power at 1 am, in the height of it.
Jenny wouldn't start.
Propane dried up because at that cold, it contracts enough in the can that it's minimal pressure is defeated.
Truck wouldn't start.
Just all done. All his preps for nothing.
Luckily the power came back on in 3 hrs, And all he had to deal with was a frozen wellhouse.
Lessons.
@roamer_1 Below -43 deg. F propane will remain liquid forever. No vaporization at all.
Back in the old days all of us rural southern folk had Butane tanks buried in the ground because butane does the same thing propane does but at +33Deg F. Now they have learned how to turn Butane into gasoline, and everyone had to switch to propane. (Every once in a while I run across an old, above ground, Butane tank that has, or once had, a vaporizer built in. They used an open flame to vaporize the butane. YIKES!)
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One time we were Hookey-bobbin/Skitchin behind a city sand/salt spreader (which seemed like a good idea at the time) when the driver flipped on the spreader. I was spittin that crap out for hours!
:silly:
Not to mention, instant traction. :silly: :beer:
You and me are evidence of armies of angels protecting believers and fools. :laugh:
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Send some of that snow south of Tennessee, y'all
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Send some of that snow south of Tennessee, y'all
I think you would be better off having an orange creamsickle and calling it good.
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@roamer_1 Below -43 deg. F propane will remain liquid forever. No vaporization at all.
Back in the old days all of us rural southern folk had Butane tanks buried in the ground because butane does the same thing propane does but at +33Deg F. Now they have learned how to turn Butane into gasoline, and everyone had to switch to propane. (Every once in a while I run across an old, above ground, Butane tank that has, or once had, a vaporizer built in. They used an open flame to vaporize the butane. YIKES!)
I went away from butane long ago - It's worse than propane in the cold, so I stepped off from butane for camp heat and stoves and lanterns. But yeah, in extreme cold, propane will stop working. Either keep a bottle inside with you, or make sure it's buried deep. So I have life-long eschewed propane too in camp, untill recently with the advent of Buddy Heaters.
Old lessons come back to bite... because the boy's buddy heaters wouldn't pop on, no matter what
The ONLY thing that starts in 30 below is a match... Wood works, no matter what.
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@roamer_1 Below -43 deg. F propane will remain liquid forever. No vaporization at all.
Back in the old days all of us rural southern folk had Butane tanks buried in the ground because butane does the same thing propane does but at +33Deg F. Now they have learned how to turn Butane into gasoline, and everyone had to switch to propane. (Every once in a while I run across an old, above ground, Butane tank that has, or once had, a vaporizer built in. They used an open flame to vaporize the butane. YIKES!)
I didn't know that (the specific temperatures). So I assume that a buried propane tank pretty much works anywhere where there is civilization.
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I didn't know that (the specific temperatures). So I assume that a buried propane tank pretty much works anywhere where there is civilization.
Yes. Here, anyway. Though there are plenty here that ain't buried. The hillbillies bury en.
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Might want to add a scarf. :laugh:
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Might want to add a scarf. :laugh:
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He scarfed down that beer well enough.
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He scarfed down that beer well enough.
That he did. :laugh:
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its ccoooooooollllld outside
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LOL - going to an event during a blizzard to scream the planet is on fire is peak idiot.(Video)
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1746266356935237782
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Had a good friend whose sister and her children were dragged by her husband to Ohio just in time for the worst winter in a very long time, as a matter of fact I think they called the blizzard of 1978 the storm of the century. Anyway it also blew up their marriage, you just don't take a SoCal girl into a situation like that and expect her to adapt.
That brought back memories of a sort. I was young enough during the '78 blizzard to think it all just great fun and a wonderful LOOOOOOOOONG school break.
However, in January 1994, I had been married about 6 weeks. The weathermen were predicting a wintry mix followed by a few inches of snow. The wintry mix came through well enough and dropped a solid layer of ice over everything, and then we had an episode of thundersnow overnight that dropped 15-18 inches of snow in the metro area and 20 inches at my house just a little farther out, followed by temperatures in the 20 below range for a few days. Pretty much the entire city of Louisville shut down for most of a week. I'm the "let's stay in and watch movies and stay safe and warm" sort, and my husband was the "let's drive around and see how crazy it is everywhere" sort. It was a trial by fire .... errrrr, snow .... but our fledgling marriage managed to survive.
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its ccoooooooollllld outside
Indeed it is!!
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I would like to take a moment here....
We talk a lot about the weather here, and we drop a lot of jests about how hot or cold we have it. I've gotten my share in!
We are seeing a brutal cold coming in in most of the country right now and it has us all so worried about our dear friends. Worried enough to all of us to express prayers and love to keep us all safe.
Some of us are lucky because we are in the small corner of our country that is spared from the cold temperatures. From those of us, I want to offer Prayers for my TBR family in the teeth of this. I am so lucky. We joke at how I get such high temperatures (120F), but I love the heat! I would never trade. That said, I am in fear for my dear friends that they be spared the wrath!
May God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost spare us all in this. May all of us see each other in the week ahead.
Amen!
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I would like to take a moment here....
We talk a lot about the weather here, and we drop a lot of jests about how hot or cold we have it. I've gotten my share in!
We are seeing a brutal cold coming in in most of the country right now and it has us all so worried about our dear friends. Worried enough to all of us to express prayers and love to keep us all safe.
Some of us are lucky because we are in the small corner of our country that is spared from the cold temperatures. From those of us, I want to offer Prayers for my TBR family in the teeth of this. I am so lucky. We joke at how I get such high temperatures (120F), but I love the heat! I would never trade. That said, I am in fear for my dear friends that they be spared the wrath!
May God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost spare us all in this. May all of us see each other in the week ahead.
Amen!
Amen.
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Supposed to be getting close to zero here in the Heart of Dixie. I just pulled the grill off the porch and into the living room in case we lose power. Propane is low, but I got plenty of charcoal and lighter fluid.
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Supposed to be getting close to zero here in the Heart of Dixie. I just pulled the grill off the porch and into the living room in case we lose power. Propane is low, but I got plenty of charcoal and lighter fluid.
@Hoodat
Watch out for carbon monoxide. That stuff will kill you and you will not see or smell anything. Suddenly, out of nowhere, you're dead.
Yep, here we go. For me, it is hitting tonight and through next week. It is odd to wake up and get a temperature in the morning and then see the temp go down during the day. The day is 'supposed' to warm up, not get colder.
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@Hoodat
Watch out for carbon monoxide. That stuff will kill you and you will not see or smell anything. Suddenly, out of nowhere, you're dead.
Seriously.
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Supposed to be getting close to zero here in the Heart of Dixie. I just pulled the grill off the porch and into the living room in case we lose power. Propane is low, but I got plenty of charcoal and lighter fluid.
WOO! Don't forget the cheddar jalapeno dogs..
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WOO! Don't forget the cheddar jalapeno dogs..
Copy that.
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Be glad you're not in the Peoples' Republic of Canuckistan:
Rolling blackouts for Alberta tonught. The province is now feeling the full effect of Rachel Notley prematurely shutting down our coal plants. Wind and Solar at ZERO, while Natural Gas is barely keeping the lights on, literally.
https://twitter.com/TheRealKeean/status/1746349920188002442
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https://youtu.be/Hvtc9BWahMQ
hope that helps people stay warm. it's so cold - and now I have that song by the Stones stuck in my head.
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The Independent, 2000:
This was 24 years ago.
Snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain's culture, as warmer winters – which scientists are attributing to global climate change – produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries … Global warming, the heating of the atmosphere by increased amounts of industrial gases, is now accepted as a reality by the international community … According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event". "Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said.
Stand by for icy blasts and heavy snow
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/children-just-arent-going-to-know-what-snow-is/news-story/5a16c85680b7cc94f345240a727fb09d
Do you get it? Everybody understands? The Global Warming freaks say no more cold weather, ever. And no more snow.
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Be glad you're not in the Peoples' Republic of Canuckistan:
Rolling blackouts for Alberta tonught. The province is now feeling the full effect of Rachel Notley prematurely shutting down our coal plants. Wind and Solar at ZERO, while Natural Gas is barely keeping the lights on, literally.
This showcases why elections matter. While in power in Alberta for only four years out of the last half century, Canadian leftists were able to inflict such a severe and long-lasting impact on the average Albertan. Notley should be given hard prison time for any Albertan who freezes to death because of rolling blackouts.
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@Hoodat
Watch out for carbon monoxide. That stuff will kill you and you will not see or smell anything. Suddenly, out of nowhere, you're dead.
Yep, here we go. For me, it is hitting tonight and through next week. It is odd to wake up and get a temperature in the morning and then see the temp go down during the day. The day is 'supposed' to warm up, not get colder.
Very seriously. Nothing to mess with, I know of a young lady who died of Carbon Monoxide poisoning just using a Coleman Lantern to warm her tent--in Sturgis one August.
Burning charcoal can be a killer, and it produces high levels of CO.
Propane, burned with a catalytic heater, produces less, but ventilation is needed to keep levels of CO from becoming dangerous. (Ice fishermen using tents or 'ice houses' just keep the temp warm enough for their cold weather gear to be comfortable, with constant ventilation.)
The EPA recommends that indoor CO levels should not exceed 9 parts per million (ppm) for more than 8 hours, or 35 ppm for more than 1 hour.
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Thirty one below in the North Dakota banana belt this morning, same yesterday, only with wind (-61 wind chill yesterday). Posters are up for a chap who is missing and has been for a few days, although if he isn't somewhere warm, I don't hold out much hope for him, although God has worked miracles before.
It's Winter.
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Thirty one below in the North Dakota banana belt this morning, same yesterday, only with wind (-61 wind chill yesterday). Posters are up for a chap who is missing and has been for a few days, although if he isn't somewhere warm, I don't hold out much hope for him, although God has worked miracles before.
It's Winter.
It's pushing out over here... Only got -11 or so last night, and at -2 right now... by the end of the week back in the 30s...
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-19 in the Florida of Iowa this a.m. We were actually colder than NE IA in the little cold pocket here.
People hate it, but this kind of cold kills things you don't want, and keeps others from migrating up here, like fire ants. Keep them evil things down there.
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-19 in the Florida of Iowa this a.m. We were actually colder than NE IA in the little cold pocket here.
People hate it, but this kind of cold kills things you don't want, and keeps others from migrating up here, like fire ants. Keep them evil things down there.
Yep. Spending a couple weeks with the Folks, where I grew up, I was appalled at the rate of decay of wood and steel. The former succumbs to a remarkable assortment of fungi and insects we don't have here in North Dakota. Any papers from my youth and books are generally placed in cold storage for a winter or two before being brought in the house, just to assure the death of all those nasty little critters that would doom my library to destruction or total fumigation.
The latter is destroyed thanks to high humidity and salt in the air...again, at an appalling rate.
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@Hoodat
Watch out for carbon monoxide. That stuff will kill you and you will not see or smell anything. Suddenly, out of nowhere, you're dead.
Yep, here we go. For me, it is hitting tonight and through next week. It is odd to wake up and get a temperature in the morning and then see the temp go down during the day. The day is 'supposed' to warm up, not get colder.
A dear lady friend of mine lost her aunt's entire family of five or six due to carbon monoxide poisoning.
Uncle left the automobile running in the garage...upon arriving home drunk.
Found one person in the middle of shaving at the bathroom sink...water still running.
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A dear lady friend of mine lost her aunt's entire family of five or six due to carbon monoxide poisoning.
Uncle left the automobile running in the garage...upon arriving home drunk.
Found one person in the middle of shaving at the bathroom sink...water still running.
I could be entirely wrong, but I thought modern cars (last 15 years or so) don't produce much CO.
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-19 in the Florida of Iowa this a.m. We were actually colder than NE IA in the little cold pocket here.
People hate it, but this kind of cold kills things you don't want, and keeps others from migrating up here, like fire ants. Keep them evil things down there.
Ohh... I was thinking hippies. :whistle:
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I could be entirely wrong, but I thought modern cars (last 15 years or so) don't produce much CO.
It happened in the 1990's.
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Ohh... I was thinking hippies. :whistle:
Das is vahr.
We will never know and will never be told the number of homeless who die this winter. The government will never tell us the truth. Most cities have a crew which trolls around the city looking for dead bodies. They will be busy this week.
Man ... I look out my door and I know nobody is going to survive out there. Some will seek shelter. But the mentally deranged, the drug addicts, the alcoholics, they will stay outside until they die.
You are correct. The cold does kind of 'wipe the slate' when it comes to feral hippies in the wild. But we will never hear about it. It is too sensitive a subject for the common people.