Weather where you are

[bobwysiwyg]

Cold, cold, cold! So cold, when I started the car, the LCD display showing which vents, defrost, etc. in use, it barely worked. At first I thought it was broken. Oh, and according to Accuweather, more snow on the way this weekend.

 

[Truzi]

I'm about 22 miles West of Cleveland, Ohio. Right now (about 12:40 p.m.) it's 9 degrees F (about -12.7 C), but has stopped snowing. Where I live, we accumulated about a foot and a half of snow in the past 48 hours; I like snow. The "snow belt" is to the East of Cleveland, and they get far more snow than we do.

Just a typical winter for us. It will probably all melt in a week or two, then happen again. We also get the most snow in February, and it looks like this is going to be a good year for snow

Even though this is normal, it seems the area is populated with clones of Chicken Little. Every year they panic, even the years we get very little snow. People born and raised here often act like they've never seen snow before. I set them up by kindly telling them they will get used to it after they've lived here a couple years. When they say they've lived here all their lives I sarcastically ask why, then, are they panicking.

 

[Tom1956]

At Christmastime I noted to my Dad at how northerners move south, but had never heard of it happening in reverse. I guess it happens, but I've never heard of it. It's COLD up there. I don't see how you all can take it. But I guess once it gets below about 20, you can't tell any real difference.

 

[smithdoor]

In the upper 60's here It is changed from the past years down in 30's. Also, we have had only 3.01" of rain in one year
Getting tired of the sunshine all year long

Dave

 

[removed account4]

8+ inches of snow
wind chill about 8ºF

 

[Truzi]

Hmm... forgot about the wind chill, and I'm about to go out and clear the drive.

 

[bobwysiwyg]

Even though this is normal, it seems the area is populated with clones of Chicken Little. Every year they panic, even the years we get very little snow. People born and raised here often act like they've never seen snow before.

And usually drive like it as well. I love how the media blames "the storm" for auto accidents and sometimes deaths.

 

[erikg]

At Christmastime I noted to my Dad at how northerners move south, but had never heard of it happening in reverse. I guess it happens, but I've never heard of it. It's COLD up there. I don't see how you all can take it. But I guess once it gets below about 20, you can't tell any real difference.

You never heard of the Great Migration? Lots of people move north, but not for the weather.

 

[Steve Smith]

Lots of wind and rain with flooding here. A repeat performance of what we had last week.

My local railway station looked like a canal with water instead of tracks and a tunnel had water up to about 18" from the top.

Railway on the right, small stream in the middle, playing field on the left: http://onthewight.com/wp-content/2013/12/Simeon-Rec-flooded-24-December-2013-by-Talk-To-Tippers.jpg

Tunnel flooded (at its peak, it was higher than this): http://www.iwcp.co.uk/files/images/newsimga55fa3b7r48713jpg.jpg?width=411&height=219


Steve.

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

No snow, windchill here more than a week per year. Some years its max. 3 weeks not more. Its 10 degrees or so.

 

[Tom1956]

No, ericcg, had honestly never heard of that. Not till you mentioned it did I google it up. Sure explains a lot. Was just mentioning a couple days ago to a guy on here how I learn things on here. Seems like years ago in the newspapers was a column by some nationally-known fellow who would every so often have a column on "things I learned in route to looking up other things". Guy's name was Sidney something-or-other, I think.

 

[Tom1956]

Well I guess the one thing to come from a day like this--at least you can get somewhere on getting that blasted sweetgum to split. Why god invented that miserable tree I'll never know.

 

[Truzi]

And usually drive like it as well. I love how the media blames "the storm" for auto accidents and sometimes deaths.

I know. I've no problem driving in the snow - and have even driven in an upper Michigan blizzard. The problem I have is how most people here drive in the snow. One time when it hadn't snowed in a while, and the roads were dry, a minivan was so afraid of the tiny bit of snow 40-feet away in the grassy median that the driver almost side-swiped the tractor-trailer on the other side of her. It was rush hour, so that would have been a spectacular accident.

 

[erikg]

People don't drive well around here any time of year so it's hard to tell, but what I don't get is how every year and with almost every big-ish storm stores run out of snow shovels. We get snow every winter and I've kept the same shovel for years. What gives? Maybe people throw theirs out in frustration at the end of the season, that I could understand.

btw I'm working in my nice and toasty darkroom today, jealous?

 

[markbarendt]

Minus fucking below. When the temp in Celcius=Fahrenheit, not good.

Tell us how you really feel.

 

[Rick A]

-4f this morning, wind chill of -17, Eight inches of fresh white schtuff to clear off the walks and dig away from my cars. It managed to get up to a pleasant +8 for the high today.

 

[K-G]

Minus fucking below. When the temp in Celcius=Fahrenheit, not good.

Thats around -40 F/C , isn't it ? Warm regards from a wet, windy and about 44 F Sweden.

Karl-Gustaf

 

[Tom1956]

Michael R, as I look at a map of Canada, you're "way down south". There's a whole lot of Canada above you. Wonder if anybody lives up there. That has got to be some kind of cold way up there. I don't even want to imagine it. It's 31F here right now and I'm shoving wood in the stove as fast as I can haul it in the house, and I'm about to freeze. More power to ya, buddy.

 

[markbarendt]

Yeah I'm really losing it here. This winter has been totally relentless so far and the freezing is just too much. Maybe I'm too old, but -40? Seriously? I'm about ready to light myself on fire to keep warm.

I'm working on a move to Portland OR to, among other things, get warmer than CO.

 

[paul_c5x4]

Looks like we are going to get a bunch of wind and storms over the weekend from N.America thanks to the jet stream. Thankfully, it appears to be looping well south over the Atlantic before heading north to the UK. This will bring the air temperature up so we won't be freezing our nuts off.

 

[Tom1956]

I'm glad I cut off the propane company last winter. To heck with burning up that kind of money. Of course with a decision like that I made a bunch of work for myself. I would have never believed then that I could swing a 12 pound maul with as much force as I can now. POP!, and those 2 pieces of log as big as Jackie Gleason go flying apart like I lit dynamite under them. Everybody ought to spend a few winters living by the saw and ax. It's downright good for you; heals what ails you. OK people, keep warm.

 

[jovo]

Having moved from NY to north Fl in August after retiring, I'm celebrating a 'cold' day that topped off at 46 degrees F. What really made me happy though, was the picture my dear colleague Jessica sent me of her husband clearing the entire street where they live in Westchester County NY with the snowblower I gave her when we moved. I've even forgotten how to spell 'shuvle' hehehe....

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

Yeah I'm really losing it here. This winter has been totally relentless so far and the freezing is just too much. Maybe I'm too old, but -40? Seriously? I'm about ready to light myself on fire to keep warm.

"Start a man a fire and you'll keep him warm for a night. Set a man on fire, and you'll keep him warm for the rest of his life."

:eek:

Frozen rain coming down here right now. Lots of it.

Ken

 

[markbarendt]

Having moved from NY to north Fl in August after retiring, I'm celebrating a 'cold' day that topped off at 46 degrees F. What really made me happy though, was the picture my dear colleague Jessica sent me of her husband clearing the entire street where they live in Westchester County NY with the snowblower I gave her when we moved. I've even forgotten how to spell 'shuvle' hehehe....

I'd like to persuade the wife to retire further south, say on Oahu.

 

[markbarendt]

I'm glad I cut off the propane company last winter. To heck with burning up that kind of money. Of course with a decision like that I made a bunch of work for myself. I would have never believed then that I could swing a 12 pound maul with as much force as I can now. POP!, and those 2 pieces of log as big as Jackie Gleason go flying apart like I lit dynamite under them. Everybody ought to spend a few winters living by the saw and ax. It's downright good for you; heals what ails you. OK people, keep warm.

Been there, done that, get it delivered pre-split now.