We’ve got about 3-4 days of the brutal cold temps in East Tennessee. It was 10* this morning with a high of 22*. It’s 14* here right now. I’m getting to where I despise winter anymore. Got the water dripping so it doesn’t freeze between house and meter. Definitely looking forward to spring.

 

Yep, same here, 21 degrees with snow now, going to 9 degrees tonight, I got so bored today, temp in the mid 20’s with light snow showers. I went out and shot the coupound bow for 20 minutes, took the ladder down and pulled my new deer feeder out of the tree. Put several things in the storage building, carried out the trash and recycling, cleaned a successful crossbow bolt, visited with the neighbor as he worked with his forge on a knife project in the back yard. Shot the crossbow once for good measure and confirm zero

I watched this site for something interesting, commented on a few posts. All in all, still feel like a caged animal. 😬😬😬😬

 

-18°F right now in MN with a feels like temp of -43°. It's only supposed to dip a couple more degrees tonight.

 

Oh you poor babies. 20 degrees would be a heat wave here. We’ve had -25 lows and -15 highs for the last three days and tomorrow isn’t going to be much better. We’ve are getting a heat wave in a day or two should be in the mid 20s. But hey the days are getting longer and before we know it spring will be here and the gophers will be out.

 

-5 tonight in KC

 

I won't comment what the weather is here.

 

Got out and shot Friday.

Got another 8-9 inches of snow yesterday and it's currently a balmy -5 degrees. Southern WV in the wintertime. At least it rarely gets over 90 in the summer.

 

I guess I need to figure out how to operate a 4 ounce trigger with gloves. 🤔

 

Yeah, all you Northern people don't realize we are not ok with yalls weather invading our world.

 

Yankee aggressor snowballs gettin ya? 😅

 

I grew up in TN (near Memphis). Then TX, NM, OR and now Maine. Even after backpacking in the Rockies for decades, I didn't know what cold was until I got to Maine. When I lived NW of Bangor (4 winters), -20F was common along with a 2'-4' snow base from late December through March. Snowshoeing was a blast.

Now I'm downeast on the coast. The strip image below shows today and the next four (predictions). We got 8" of fresh powder last night.

I'll trade you 14/-6 for a 22/12. I'll even take your 2" of snow.

PS: Here's a pic from snowshoeing days in the Maine central highlands. This was only a few hundred yards from my apartment. Great way to spend an afternoon with hot soup. Always had extra layers (for late afternoon near dark) and camera gear in the pack. (An Eberlestock Halftrack; my favorite 35L day pack ever.)

 

Big difference between a humid cold and a dry cold isn’t there ?

most everyone in the pine belt has a humid cold which in my humble opinion regardless of its -20 or +20 is just an awful cold.

been in the upper teens here in north Texas with wicked humidity to go with it. That humid cold just goes through your jacket right to the bone.

in comparison to here I would take southern Wyoming or northern Colorado dry cold over what we get here.

 

PS. Speaking of snow ... here's a tangent appropriate for winter. The year after I took ^that picture^, the land owners who owned that space (which was publicly accessible land) clear cut a 2500' x 200' strip through that ravine and turned it into a snowmobile drag strip. That's usually done on frozen lakes, but there wasn't one of those big enough nearby.

The guy who spearheaded the project told me that speeds topped out there around 180mph. IIRC, the race itself only required a few hundred feet. The last 1000' or so was just for slowing down.

I moved away before that got started.

 

3 degrees here. Feels like -13. Got a lot of snow last week, then the sun came out and temps went up, starting a melt. Then temps dropped again and the remaining snow turned to ice. Streets are clear so that's good.

My Golden Retriever loves it though, and refuses to come in once she's outside. Pretty stubborn about it, too.

Oh, be sure to keep your bird feeders full.

Hector

 

Colder weather here in the southeast USA is hard on the vegetation as it isn't conditioned to living in it. It kills a lot of trees and damages very many. Ice breaks huge amounts of tree limbs damaging powerlines, causing widespread power outages. Ornamental plants get flat out killed.

 

it cain't kill the Kudzu tho, can it...

 

-19 on my way to work this morning with a feel like temp of -30. I’ve been in worse but this still isn’t fun by any means. Even being in my truck for my 45min commute isn’t fun. Engine just won’t warm up more than halfway between fully cold and normal operating temp. The older I get the more I hate winter!

 

-14ºF 500mi. N of Deetroit​

 

Snow and ice on the ground here in southern indiana.. had it for a week and a half now.. balmey 7 degrees now with a 7 below windchill.. bout over it...

 

-31 F this morning, but the wind isn't blowing too bad. So there's that.

 

No thanks. -19 with a 14 mph wind is bad enough. Cabin fever is setting in pretty bad for me. But about 4 hours north of me is -50 so I guess I shouldn’t complain, but I hear I am. Complaining lol.

 

23F and lightly snowing now in central Louisiana. Supposed to get down to 14F tonight. That's hardly Alaska but it's cold enough for us warm-blooded southerners. Not that I want a lot of this, but all in all I'd gladly take a little more winter than usual if it meant we had four actual seasons and could dispense with some of the 5+ months of relentless heat and humidity we call summer.

 

......I'd gladly take a little more winter than usual if it meant we had four actual seasons and could dispense with some of the 5+ months of relentless heat and humidity we call summer.
Oh brother, isn't that the truth

 

 

Well we got 25 this morning dry and clear skies.

 

Got a little snow on the ground here in Shelby County East Texas. We are on the fringe of the main weather maker. What is wierd is that you would assume the folks north of us would be ones getting the brunt of it. But no, it's down along the gulf coast; like the weather man inverted the weather map.

Here is the problem with that kind of weather in places like that...they aren't prepared for it. Having to worring about bursting pipes is a rarity, so most folks aren't prepared. School transporation systems aren't set up for those kinds of conditions. In addition, those folks have little experience in driving under icy conditions. And there are many bridges in the gulf coast area, and like all bridges they are prone to icing. I assume folks in Minnesota know the drill and go into winter fully prepared for what winter has to offer.

The worst thing in the south is freezing rain. It really tears up the timber and the electrical grid and produces dangerously slick surfaces. And it is tough on the livestock where a lot of the cattle are of breeds adapted for hot weather. We just aren't as well prepared for these once in twenty years, once in a lifetime, once in a century events. So, I am thrilled that I only found a light dusting of snow on the ground this morning considering what could have been.

 

My aunt moved from Iowa to Texas a long time back, the area she moved to received a rare snowfall. She was involved in a huge multi-car pile up on the interstate. She moved back to Iowa the next spring. Stay safe.

 

I lived in Denton, TX (north of Dallas/FW) for two years (1974-1976). During winter, with north winds, I learned that a common expression there was, "There's nothing between here and Canada but a barbed wire fence."

 

Woke up to 10 degrees this morning. Going up to low 20’s today. Same tomorrow. It’s winter. Cold snaps and heat waves. Been happening since the beginning of time.
I’m sitting in an old school building, some rooms are nice and toasty, some are on the cool side. Clothing technology makes the cold bearable.

 

Haven't been around kudzu in decades. But as I recall from kidhood in TN, that plant could live on the surface of the Sun.

 

yep... here at 44.5 North we understand about these things.

Let me school ya: It's all the fault of those pesky Roo-shians
ya folla...
They built themselves these monstrous fans back in the bad old days
of the Cold War. They wanted to make it a bit colder eh? When they
turn those on, they blow the arctic air towards us. The weatherman's
got some fancy terms for it: "Polar Vortex" etc...

But it's really those Roo-shians and their big fans. They don't have our
best interests in their hearts. We all get colder, and not much bolder.
Our Canadian friends, they don't know the difference. Maybe for them
there ain't any difference. Take off, eh!

So we're used to it here in the North country.
This is the beach: (ya orta see it in the summertime... lovely Northern ladies
lolling on the icebergs)

These cold temperatures are very hard on cars. The durn starter has to work pretty hard to get all that cold metal to move in the morning.
RRRRR.... RRRRRRR..... RRRRR..... RRRRR.... click click click...
Some keep a heating element in the engine, down the dipstick hole, plugged
into an extension cord. Warmer oil lubricates better doesn't it.
The rest of us keep some gear for times when the car wants to make trouble.
You don't need one of these in barmy Southern climes, do ya.

 

Big fans is more believable than the local weather on TV, and southern folks have battery chargers also. Mine is an older model that can be switched to 50 amp engine start.