Jack frost is coming
5 below zero this morning. They're saying 17 below by Thursday.
Winter has arrived!
I guess be thankful were not in Russia. Anyone see the pics of their storm? Cars buried in 8 feet of snow. Drifts up on the buildings 4 stories high :holdon:
You always have better weather than here. I mean, we started at 4 above and are already up to 15, but the 23 mph wind with gusts up to 37 do make it feel a little brisk. ❄️
Been wearing mine for a couple of weeks. Our damp wet coastal cold is merely miserable, not like the sharp dry cold we lived in for years in inland Canada. Deep dry cold is pain. Wet coastal cold is long term misery. Pick your poison! :huh:
Feel for you, Jim, as you live through 17 below. Our weather forecasts have consistently missed lately. For the past four days it keeps telling us it will get down to a low of 40 F -- and every morning we wake up to heavy ice on roads and everything. It is more a layer of ice than normal frost. My old bod never seems to get warm. A few nights it rains at midnight and then is frozen solid by morning. The ground has been utterly saturated for almost two months now, puddles on lawns and level ground, rivers in and out of flood levels. A wheel that strays off of a hard driveway onto lawn will bog to the rim or deeper.
I'll take this wet cold over your cold below zero. Need our late friend John to show us pics of sunshine tea in warm Arizona.
Our weather guessers are now saying that while the next two days will be very cold, it will be worse on Friday and Saturday. Before, it was going to be warmer at the end of the week.
I am ignoring the weather and thinking about buying another fly rod :eyebrow:
An Ohio Poem
It's winter in Ohio,
And the gentle breezes blow,
Seventy miles an hour,
At thirty-five below.
Oh, how I love Ohio,
When the snow's up to your butt,
You take a breath of winter air,
And your nose gets frozen shut.
Yes, the weather here is wonderful,
So, I guess I'll hang around,
I could never leave Ohio,
Because I'm frozen to the ground.
I cant do too much griping though I guess. It hasnt really been THAT bad of a winter thus far.
Clyde, I could never handle the constant sogginess you go through. Uuuuhg. That would just eat at my sanity.
If what the weather guessers are saying really happens I think there will be a lot of us that will be needing long (insulated) underwear.
Quote from: Hawks Feather on January 21, 2026, 07:45:35 PMIf what the weather guessers are saying really happens I think there will be a lot of us that will be needing long (insulated) underwear.
Yep. looks like a pretty crisp week coming starting tomorrow for us.
My already cracked open finger tips look forward to this :biggrin:
This might be a great time for street water workers to quickly look for a new job because there will be broken pipes this weekend. I saw a street crew working on a line (probably an 8 inch line since it was a main street) yesterday and thought how glad I was that I was not in that hole with the mud and water. I can't imagine what it will be like for them this weekend when the temp really drops.
Quote from: nastygunz on January 19, 2026, 01:44:04 PMI am ignoring the weather and thinking about buying another fly rod :eyebrow:
That's the spirit! :biggrin:
I hate long handle underwear. They always seem to get bunched up around the waist and in the crotch area. I switched to flannel lined pants.
Stay warm
Almost ready to put January to bed.
Finally found a 'weather guess' that I trust.
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That's exactly when the phone repair man is supposed to be here to fix my line.
Quote from: msmith on January 22, 2026, 02:54:14 PMI switched to flannel lined pants.
I bought a pair of these a couple years ago and loved em so much I went back and bought another pair right away. I love em!.
They were both Key Brand and I cant recall where I got em.
Couple weeks later, seen them at Farm and Fleet on sale. Bought another pair. Dont do it. The brand was Full Blue and they fit like they were manufacture defects. They literally felt like they were on backwards. :madd: