Exactly. Typically (though, not in the past few winters, as you note), if we get a real cold snap, with subzero lows, it’s sometime from Christmas to late January. My wife’s birthday is on January 29th; on her birthday, we were joking about it having been a mild winter, and it was now late enough in the winter that the odds of deep winter weather were declining. Ha!
It’s been incessantly snowy for 2+ weeks now, and I don’t think we’ve gotten above freezing in all that time. As you say, not atypical for winter weather here, except for the timing.
The weather in northern Virginia is rather seasonable. We are south of the bigger mid-Atlantic snowfalls of this year. We have had some below-average temperatures, but not by much. Precipitation has been low to moderate. No big blizzards, but we have this problem with temperatures that hover at freezing so we get ice storms very slippery roads–comes down wet, freezes on surfaces.
We’ve had nothing BUT cold rain (with some occasional sleet) for the last 4-5 days, and we’re not done yet. It’s about 20 degrees below where it normally would be at this time of year - I don’t think we’ve broken 40F since last week sometime. Blech.
Portland usually gets between 0 and 2 snow events per winter. Occasionally we get an ice storm. They don’t usually occur this late.
In some circumstances, the amount of snow and or ice varies drastically by neighborhood due to elevation and or proximity to the Columbia River Gorge, which can act as an arctic air pipeline. We’re not too far from the gorge. We loaded up on firewood on Wednesday in anticipation of power outages.
My neighborhood got probably 12" of snow between Friday and yesterday. Then we got 1/2" of ice from freezing rain on top starting yesterday afternoon.
So, a fun couple of days of snow, temps in the lower 20s F. Wind chill of 12° F. (Very unusual this time of year, if at all.). Power flickered for us once, but has stayed on here. Out for lots of others. My work is cancelled for tomorrow, even for people working from home, due to power outages to our network.
It’s melting now. I dug the car out to make a grocery run, and saw there are massive tree limbs down all around us. We’ll be back to normal temps in the 40s from today. Side roads are still a mess.
Another Texan here. We’re setting daily low records (Sunday’s low was 5°, previous record for that day was 15°) We haven’t quite broken the all time low but we’re close.
Blackouts are affecting a lot of people I know, including my Mom who’s been without power since before daylight.
Temps are just about normal here in central Nebraska but the amount of snow on the ground is much higher than average. We’re usually too dry and having six inches is impressive. We’re at close to a foot and a half now and it’s getting mighty tedious IMHO.
Southern Ontario here. If it’s been unseasonal, it’s been only in the sense of having relatively little snow and more sunny days than typical. Whenever I hear of some big nor’easter hitting parts of the US, we get a little dusting of snow or nothing at all. Temps may have been a bit warmer than normal. However in the past week or so we’ve been getting some of that chill that’s been hitting much of the US. Temps have been well below freezing for about a week now and will remain so for about the next week, which is a pretty long stretch without a thaw.
And the matter of “relatively little snow” looks like it’s about to change. For the first time this winter, there is actually a snowfall warning, with 15 to 25 cm expected (6 to 10 inches) overnight and into tomorrow. Naturally, since I had planned to go shopping tomorrow.
It’s a cold snap here, but those aren’t completely unusual. If anything, what’s been weird is how winters have been a bit milder. It’s almost like we got all the cold coming in at once for a bit.
And since you can’t easily see my location: I’m in northern Arkansas. We have about typical snow, but a bit colder than it usually gets, and much colder than in the last few years with its milder winters.
I’m having to use a space heater and blanket combo to keep warm, as our heating (and insulation) just can’t handle sub zero Fahrenheit temperatures.
Power is flickering every so often, and we’ve been warned to turn off any extra electricity. Apparently there’s a bit of a power shortage due to the weather.
Its pretty common to see in the Houston area at least “free nights” or free weekends or some such heavily discounted offer (free excluding the delivery charge that is)but your on peak rate is a lot higher.
They are trying g to balance out industrial/commercial and residential useage given there is a fair bit of renewables in the Texas electricity mix.
I had pretty decent records of my electricity useage and couldn’t really make it work unless we started washing clothes late at night and ran the ac down to fridged and off in the day, basically the life style hassle wanst worth the small savings (12 c /kw hr but 6c is the delivery charge which is not free)
Now if I got a swimming pool cooler I might reconsider but that would be obnoxiously decadent.
a relative sent me a meme that people are going to have to pay up and sent me a picture of texas saying "it’s snowed in hell " some people thought it funny and a few didnt …
Western Pennsylvania is a fucking winter wonderland. Our snow changed to rain overnight, now the temperature is dropping just in time for my drive to work.
Yesterday I arrived at work just as things were turning ugly. The roads were getting really bad, so we shut down and went home. I spent more time driving to and from work than I spent at work, and I’m only 6 miles away.
From Tennessee. There have been a couple of short (15 minutes or so) of power outages. Everything is icy. This is the first time for me where walking on a gravel driveway was slick. I’m taking the dog out for the morning walk in a few minutes. We’ll see how that goes.
In Montreal, the daytime temperatures during January and February have been normal during recent years - but the overnight temperatures have been warming up. “Record” (i.e. since the 1870’s) daily low temperatures during these two months always show in the -30s C (low to mid -20s F) - mostly from the 1930s to the 1950s - but there hasn’t been a reading in the -30s C in the last 25 years.
Yeah, it depends on your local market and the usual marketing definition of free, ie it’s not really free unless you really work at it.
Well we had power for 4 hours yesterday, but it went off at 8 pm , through the. Ight and still no power this morning. Back at -11C , 12F but it will warm up and get to freezing point by this afternoon and stay around there for the next few days.
Our autistic son is not handling no internet or playstation well, so its a bit stressful in casa mollusc.
On more positive notes I always made quick and simple quesadilla in the microwave (cheese marmite between two tortillas). I was forced to make them on a griddle on the gas range, and am now wondering why have not always made them that way, crunchy cheesy goodness moistened with steaming globules of marmite joy.
I’m just south of the bay area of California. We’ve had considerably less rain than we should, so the drought goes on. Wave after wave of storms swirl down from Alaska, but for the most part they poop out just before reaching this area. The north bay sees some rain, but we in the south bay don’t.
I feel like Jean de Florette. Storms came to his area, but a nearby mountain split them in two, and his farm sat right in the dry rain shadow divide.
