If it gets to 20 below zero I'm going to start wearing underwear :innocentwhistle: 🥶
We wished for temps like that. :pout:
15 below right now. My tub drain is froze :doh2:
Last year our shower froze but I put the heat right to it and luckily she came undone with no damage.
We had -9 this morning. Not a fan.
28f this am with a 50mph breeze.
Just watched a blurb from Houston about how dangerous this little storm is gonnna be. Laughed so hard I thought i was gonna croak.
Quote from: pitw on January 21, 2025, 09:23:58 AMJust watched a blurb from Houston about how dangerous this little storm is gonnna be. Laughed so hard I thought i was gonna croak.
You need to remember that a normal low for them is 35 degrees F, so they are not used to cold and many don't have the prober layering for it. Then toss in some wind and they have a problem. That being said, there are some stupid people out there that we would be better off if they decided to go out and play in the cold.
I remember when I was stationed in Charleston South Carolina and they had a dusting of snow and shut the whole place down. I was thinking back home we call this a light frost.
Had a low of -6°F this morning. Our wind chill has been below zero for almost a week and won't be above zero for a couple more days.
Friend of mine lives in the FL panhandle. He has 10 inches of snow and ice. Said the roads were terrible. They are bringing in snow plows from all over to get it cleared. I say wait. It's gonna be in the low 60s in his area in just a few days.
Colder this morning in pa. -11 Wife called around 9 am and said furnace isnt running. This winter has been a dozy Over xmas and new years i fought our oil burner with random lockouts. Turned out to be a bad burner motor. new one in and been running good since. I figured it gelled this morning. Ran to home depot and grabbed a heat gun and new filter. went home hit it with heat for a few minutes and then restarted the furnace and still kept at it with heat. Seems to be working still. Supposed to stay frigid but not as cold. single digits but not as cold.
-15 last night, supposed to start warming up a little bit tomorrow. Barely have any snow at all just a little dusting on the ground. Almost through January and I find myself looking at my fishing gear.
We've been unusually cold and dry here. No snow in the lowlands and about an inch of rain in January, which usually has five inches by this time of the month. We've had frost about half the nights in the past month, and our frozen bird bath never thaws all day. So we have it pretty mild compared to everybody else :biggrin:
Woke up to a furnace still running and a nice brisk 7 degrees. I wish we didnt have any snow that would be nice.
woke up to 32f this am and the dog is stretched out in the snow on the lawn panting.
A blistering 17° outside, spring is on the way :biggrin:
Did I ever tell you guys how much I love my woodstove? :eyebrownod: :innocentwhistle:
3 degrees outside this morning. Me walking to the kitchen in my skivies to make some coffee. :thumb2:
My eyes :huh: ..... you can't beat a wood stove for instant heat :yoyo:
The heat wave has hit Ohio. We are up to 7 degrees this morning and expected to hit a high of 22.
Quote from: pitw on January 23, 2025, 09:03:37 AMwoke up to 32f this am and the dog is stretched out in the snow on the lawn panting.
Heat wave! Must be global warming :highclap:
Quote from: FinsnFur on January 23, 2025, 08:15:43 PMDid I ever tell you guys how much I love my woodstove? :eyebrownod: :innocentwhistle:
3 degrees outside this morning. Me walking to the kitchen in my skivies to make some coffee. :thumb2:
Wood stove heat just feels different, and better, than any kind of oil, electric etc. Also, bisquits baked in a wood stove oven taste better than those baked in an electric or gas oven. Doesn't make sense maybe but is true, no question.
5°F this morning but a dead still wind. Didn't even make it to 20 today but supposed to be above freezing tomorrow.
Soon comes the muddy mess.
-4
Thermometer bottomed out this am about -44C. Been a cold week or so. Good time to own a steamer truck as they are all busy. Mosquitos ain't much of a problem either. :laught17:
My truck said -21F below this morning on my way to work.
5shots texted me and sent me this pic from HIS truck :bowingsmilie: :holdon:
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Quote from: pitw on February 18, 2025, 06:29:30 PMThermometer bottomed out this am about -44C. Been a cold week or so. Good time to own a steamer truck as they are all busy. Mosquitos ain't much of a problem either. :laught17:
-44 Celcius is between 47 and 48 below zero F. That kind of cold is simply painful to me, and I feel pain rather than cold. I'll take our wet cold discomfort over your deep cold. Hang in there and stay inside as much as farming will let you! :biggrin:
We have had the longest continuous cold stretch since we moved here, but it finally got up above freezing today and most of the snow is gone. I think it got down to 22 F. at the coldest but it would stay right at freezing and below for days, most of the time for the past 8 weeks. Yesterday we had drizzling cold rain on two inches of snow. I hardly went outside. This is humid country close to salt water and the damp cold just feels colder and more miserable than the dry deep cold we endured in the Interior of BC.
Okanagan,
I will take the dry cold over your wet cold every day of the week. When the humidity is high it really bothers me. But then summer happens in Ohio and we have higher temperatures and higher humidity.
18 degrees here, its spring time! :innocentwhistle:
This is another tangent but comparing damp cold with deep dry cold reminds me of a discussion on another forum about wearing cotton in the damp PNW coastal cold. It got downright funny to those of us from SW Alaska, coastal BC and the Olympic Peninsula. Some guy from Colorado said that he logged in deep snow in 25 below zero and stayed comfortable wearing denim jeans. I laughed out loud because he simply did not get it.
I replied, "Try 34 degrees F. in mixed rain and sleet on 8 inches of wet snow in brush and forest where it has been alternating non-stop rain and snow for the past six weeks. Wear cotton if you want, and waterproof it with anything you want. Since it is a hunting forum, hunt steep terrain in heavy brush all day in those conditions, and for the serious backpack hunters, lie down and sleep in it that night."
FWIW, I don't wear a stitch of cotton on my bod from skin out when I hunt or hike wet cold country. If picking berries right by my vehicle on dry summer days, I may wear jeans and cotton. Cotton gets wet easily, stays wet and hard to dry, is heavy, cold and non-insulating when wet, plus wet cotton pants tend to bind legs when walking. I love cotton T-shirts, flannel and jeans when I get back to my vehicle after hiking, and change into cotton if I have far to drive to get home.
OK, this post is over the top with one of my obsessions. :readthis: :nono: :nofgr:
I don't wear anything when I'm hunting and picking berries. I like to become part of the natural landscape and one with nature :innocentwhistle:
Wool is the way to go !
Quote from: nastygunz on February 19, 2025, 06:12:49 PMI don't wear anything when I'm hunting and picking berries. I like to become part of the natural landscape and one with nature :innocentwhistle:
OH, my eyes!
Quote from: nastygunz on February 19, 2025, 06:12:49 PMI don't wear anything when I'm hunting and picking berries. I like to become part of the natural landscape and one with nature :innocentwhistle:
We have a fair number of hornets in ground nests, and the only time I seem to run in to them is when picking berries. Being one with nature can lift us to an intense experience when you step on one of those nests while entwined with the thick brush of nature. May such heights of sensation be yours.
Quote from: remrogers on February 21, 2025, 10:54:37 AMQuote from: nastygunz on February 19, 2025, 06:12:49 PMI don't wear anything when I'm hunting and picking berries. I like to become part of the natural landscape and one with nature :innocentwhistle:
OH, my eyes!
:doh2: We need an emoticon of rubbing my closed eyes!
5shots, where was your truck in -40 cold? -40 is the same in C or F.
Speaking of hornets and ground nests, I recall when I was a teenager the old man had us working out back clearing some trees and brush to put in a hog pen. My younger brother was cutting brush and I happened to look down and he had a cloud of yellowjackets swarming around his legs I didn't say anything and a couple of minutes later I heard some real solid cursing and he was streaking through the forest like a Bigfoot on methamphetamine 😂😂👍
Quote from: nastygunz on February 19, 2025, 06:12:49 PMI don't wear anything when I'm hunting and picking berries. I like to become part of the natural landscape and one with nature :innocentwhistle:
He means when he's harvesting raisins :alscalls:
Quote from: Okanagan on February 21, 2025, 11:26:41 AM5shots, where was your truck in -40 cold? -40 is the same in C or F.
I think Montana.
All this cold talk reminds me of an incident back in the day. I was part of a NATO winter warfare exercise called Thor's Hammer which took place in the Sondheim Fjord in Norway. We were practicing amphibious landings to counter the evil Russians in the event of World War III. We had a seal team on board and they were doing surveillance and other unknown things. One of them whose last name I recall was Potter was surveilling a small Norwegian village and some old guy spotted him and thought he was a peeping Tom and took a shot at him with his .22 rifle and did a threw and threw right on Potter's ball sack. As a result of that just about every time when everybody was having dinner in the mess deck somebody would yell out Potter show everybody where you got shot. Potter would jump up on a chair and drop his pants and whip his balls sack out :alscalls: :alscalls: . True story. Getting back to the cold, sweet frosted polar bear balls it was cold there. Even for a deep northerner like myself. The snow squeaked like Styrofoam when you walked on it.
With that kinda cold, I bet that hole made way for a helluva breeze.
Quote from: FinsnFur on February 18, 2025, 07:51:58 PMMy truck said -21F below this morning on my way to work.
5shots texted me and sent me this pic from HIS truck :bowingsmilie: :holdon:
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This was in my pickup between Glendive and Sidney Montana. I discovered it doesn't read below -40 the next morning when it was a little colder. I have started driving a water truck in the oilfield so I can be home more often.
Glad for you that you can get home more rather than living on the road.
I took a change of assignment at work one time that put me on the road. I had taken it partly to help a friend, but I bailed out on that after a couple of months of being gone from wife and growing kids so much. Being on the road gets old for most of us, whether in North America or internationally. I've sure enjoyed seeing pics of some of the places you've been over the years. You've been there and done that enough that I'll bet it makes it easier to stay home at this stage of life.
Quote from: nastygunz on February 23, 2025, 03:32:35 AMAll this cold talk reminds me of an incident back in the day. I was part of a NATO winter warfare exercise called Thor's Hammer which took place in the Sondheim Fjord in Norway. We were practicing amphibious landings to counter the evil Russians in the event of World War III. We had a seal team on board and they were doing surveillance and other unknown things. One of them whose last name I recall was Potter was surveilling a small Norwegian village and some old guy spotted him and thought he was a peeping Tom and took a shot at him with his .22 rifle and did a threw and threw right on Potter's ball sack. As a result of that just about every time when everybody was having dinner in the mess deck somebody would yell out Potter show everybody where you got shot. Potter would jump up on a chair and drop his pants and whip his balls sack out :alscalls: :alscalls: . True story. Getting back to the cold, sweet frosted polar bear balls it was cold there. Even for a deep northerner like myself. The snow squeaked like Styrofoam when you walked on it.
Yowie!
Re snow squeaking when cold, I've lobbied for years to have someone do a doctoral research project to show that we can tell temperature by the tone of snow squeaking. If you set it up to tell the difference between a fat white man walking on -40 snow vs a black lesbian trans, you could probably get some major grant money for the research. :huh:
That wouldn't make it with Elon on watch ! :biggrin:
Quote from: nastygunz on February 23, 2025, 02:21:20 PMThat wouldn't make it with Elon on watch ! :biggrin:
Hope you are right!