I’ve been reading these news reports on widespread snow, freezing temperatures and even blackouts in places known for having warm winters. As a Canadian, we have long indulged in weather comparisons - it’s what makes Canadians so exciting and lively. At a minimum, it’s always discussed here.
If you are having terrible weather and live in a place unaccustomed to snow and freezing, I will lend a sympathetic ear to your tribulations and want to hear about them.
I live in Minnesota and the weather here is quite normal, albeit this deep freeze did arrive a little later than normal. I am saddened to hear about the rolling blackouts in Texas. Texas often gets ice storms though, so I’m a bit confused. Maybe it’s because of the unaccustomed cold that accompanied the storm. They are also used to ice and snow melting right away. Some homes there are not insulated (do not ask me why as we know insulation works against heat too). I do feel bad for them.
Cold and snowy here in Rhode Island. That’s seasonal.
Houston was down at -11C (for all yall metric people) this morning , we had power out from 5AM until a couple of hours ago, so getting the house a bit warmer for now. It wont surprise me if we get another cut as Texas power grid is doing rolling black outs.
We used to live in the mountains in Utah so we are quite OK with cold temperatures , but texas infrastructure isn’t.
In case it wasn’t obvious-11C is pretty unusual here.
All 254 countys have been declared a disaster area. 3000 Texas National Guard. They went to drive the frozen windmills. ERCOT (ENERGY REALIBILITY OF TEXAS) . They cut output to keep houses at 68 degrees. The brownouts are from 45 minutes to 5 hours to conserve.energy.
You ever wondered why some electric companies offer free electric in the summer after certain hours? For those of you in Texas Reliant and Oncore are the ones metering the output to 68 degrees. This info came from Bloomberg or financial News org.
Oil is over $60.00 a barrel and rising. Our production is down 100 millions barrels a day. The cold has something to do with it.
There is another cold front headed to North Texas Wednsday it starts as snow then up to 1/4 to 1/2 in ice. If it is a 1/2 inch ice my friend said it will bring down power line. He is a lineman for Perdnales Electric in Central Texas.
Fort Hood got some snow plows. They’re headed somewhere. She saw them in a convoy.
Stay warm if ya can!
Defrost the wind mills.
Chicago. We’re being pummeled with more snow than is usual these last two weeks or so, and there’s been a good long spell of single digit and teen highs, but December and January felt unusually mild to me, so much so that I was complaining about the lack of winter. (Last winter was also pretty mild.) I think I shoveled three times last winter. Well, we got it now! This type of weather is more what I expect January 15 than February 15, though.
We (bottom of Wisconsin) went from above freezing (mid-30’s, minimal snow so I was biking everywhere), and in two days we were way below zero with mountains of snow. I took a walk today in -27º wind chill, and snow on the paths was almost over my tall arctic boots.
It’s suddenly like Saskatoon here, man… there, happy, Canadian Weather Spotters?
Central Arizona here. Its been very warm and dry, which isn’t normal for this time of year. It should be cold, cars should be icing up over night and there should be some form of water falling from the sky. Instead, its clear and sunny. Today it was almost 70F. This isn’t right.
Sleet, freezing rain, on top of 18" of snow, temperatures whipsawing between 35 and 5F. Pretty normal. New England.
Central Kansas here. Our high today was -1, and the forecast is for -15 tonight. We haven’t been above single digits for several days. Not unprecedented, but this is the coldest stretch of weather since 1983.
Here in Miami we’re warmer than normal right now and once the edge of the frigid stuff affecting everybody else sideswipes us this weekend we’ll be back down to normal or a bit below. So unseasonal, but not highly so.
here in eastern Wisconsin, we’re having what I think of as a normal winter, like those of my youth, again. Hitting double digits below zero, snow storms, etc. The expected stuff.
It’s the Weather Channel and local news that makes it out to be a prelude to the apocalypse.
Yeah. When I lived in the Midwest I learned NWS had one story and Weather Channel had the same weather, but twice as severe. Local news was advertising about double whatever Weather Channel said.
Now here in FL the same exaggeration happens for our hurricanes, hot spells, “cold” snaps, etc.
I’ve never heard of such a thing. Do you have a cite?
It’s technically the wet season down here in northern Australia, but the actual wet stuff has been intermittent and when it has rained, it’s mostly been offshore instead of hitting the mainland and especially getting across the Great Dividing Range. The monsoonal rains in the far north help to provide water farther down into central Queensland waterways…and that just hasn’t happened this year. Much of the state is in drought.
Originally our weather bureau was predicting 80mm of rain today, and 150 - 250mm of rain TOMORROW!! Haven’t seen a drop today, and tomorrow’s forecast has been downgraded to just 80mm too. Betcha it’ll be another beautiful day instead, dammit.
Here in south Louisiana it is cold, -4C, which is chilly for us in Jan/Feb but not that unusual. Of course the mere threat of freezing weather closed the schools and canceled services like trash pickup. The problem here isn’t that freezing is widespread, but some places have standing water and/or bridges which freeze. Basically if there is ice on the roads anywhere in the area, everything shuts down. But it isn’t rare, happens every couple of years. It will be around 20C by the end of the week.
Yep. We’ve gotten a little less snow than is typical in New Hampshire by mid-February, but it’ll probably catch up over the next 8 weeks.
We have had, so far, a mild winter in Southern Ontario. Tomorrow there is s’posta be twenty cm (8 in) of snow to a low of minus 18C. But I won’t believe it until I see it - so many times it has turned out much milder than predicted.
With the lockdown though, everyone seems grumpier than usual.
It appears that Colorado has been hogging your cold. Yesterday the high was -3, which is EXTREMELY unusual. We get cold, yes, but it usually stays above 0.