# How Cold Will it Be When the New Year Arrives at Your Location? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 29, 2017, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498 "2017-12-29T07:09:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/61 "2017-12-31T03:52:26Z")
61F expected at midnight, thankfully cool this year. Will be taking my daughters for their first midnight NYE fireworks, now that they are old enough to stay up that late. My wife is on a business trip to New York. I hate the heat and she hates the cold - we really got this one wrong! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/62 "2017-12-31T12:44:28Z")
As a right now, at 12:01 on 1/1 it’s fittingly forecast to be 1. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/63 "2017-12-31T12:45:27Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > As a right now, at 12:01 on 1/1 it’s fittingly forecast to be 1. C or F? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/64 "2017-12-31T13:51:07Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > 16°C They got it exactly right. Impressive. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/65 "2017-12-31T16:38:22Z")
[Where I am it is bright and sunny out, and -23 F. “Feels like” -43.](https://twitter.com/slackerinc/status/947505348591661058) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/66 "2017-12-31T20:20:51Z")
Right now where I am (Barry’s Bay, ON), it is brilliantly sunny and beautiful – pale blue sky, snow with crystalline glitter, on the ground and trees – and -19C. The prediction is for a low of -30C tonight before windchill. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/67 "2017-12-31T21:12:07Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > The forecast right now is for -27C on New Year’s Eve. Environment Canada has revised our forecast. Now, we’re looking at -31C tonight. It should warm up by midweek, if -4C during the day is warm. At any rate, it will be better than what we’ve got now. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/68 "2017-12-31T21:23:39Z")
I’m in the SE Indiana 'burbs of Cincinnati, forecast: Midnight tonight: 8 degrees F Wind Chill: -1 degrees F It’s lightly snowing now. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/69 "2017-12-31T22:01:40Z")
Update from Environment Canada for Regina for tonight: “Extreme Cold Warning in Effect”. Overnight low forecast at -33 C. With windchill, -42 C. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/70 "2017-12-31T22:43:49Z")
NWS is holding steady on our prediction. 62F/17C and a light breeze under partly cloudy skies. It’s just sunset a couple minutes ago with 72F/22C & clear skies with a bit of high cirrus here and there. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/71 "2017-12-31T22:57:17Z")
36F and damp. T’ain’t fit weather for man nor beast. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/72 "2017-12-31T23:20:37Z")
7°C with heavy showers. Pretty much bang on average for here. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/73 "2017-12-31T23:24:22Z")
Tonights low is forecasted at 12F. 4 days ago, the low was almost 40F. Amazing what a cold front can do to weather. We have no plans to leave the house on New Years Eve. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/74 "2017-12-31T23:34:10Z")
We’re going out in half an hour to take the Cub to see Ferdinand at the movies. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/75 "2018-01-01T00:03:41Z")
It’s forecast to be 9 or 10 degrees. Dang, I miss the old days, before global warming, when you could have your New Year’s Eve party outside. ---
**Author:** ![krisolov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krisolov/32/3724_2.png) [@krisolov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krisolov)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/76 "2018-01-01T00:17:40Z")
Supposed to be 14 F / Feels Like 6 F with wind chill in Baltimore MD. This is more like the upstate NY temps I grew up with, not the mid Atlantic! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/77 "2018-01-01T04:22:39Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Right now where I am (Barry’s Bay, ON), it is brilliantly sunny and beautiful – pale blue sky, snow with crystalline glitter, on the ground and trees – and -19C. The prediction is for a low of -30C tonight before windchill. Well, it’s 40 minutes to midnight now in Monteagle Valley and it’s already -32C (-25F). :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/78 "2018-01-01T10:53:48Z")
Well, we ended up at -34C/-29F. I’ll be glad when this cold snap is over. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/79 "2018-01-01T11:40:23Z")
Dunno how cold it was at midnight, but when I let my dog out at 6, it was 8°F!!! ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498/80 "2018-01-02T01:10:50Z")
It’s funny how within literally a 70 degree range, people ITT are freaking out about how bitter cold it is. (All in all, there’s about a 100 degree range, but the people in the top 20 degrees of that aren’t complaining.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-cold-will-it-be-when-the-new-year-arrives-at-your-location/805498.md?page=3)