Central Arkansas here.0 F this morning and about 6" of snow. I vaguely remember temps below 20 F when I was a kid. Grocery stores were closed last night, and police were out closing businesses.
In Texas. I’m one of the few people I know that hasn’t had to deal with any black out. I suspect it’s because I live near a hospital. Or I’m just lucky I guess.
DC has been relatively normal. We had some ice a few days back but that’s not unusual.
The farm in NM was so cold that the new ducklings had to be brought in under a heat lamp in the bathtub. They have a heated shelter outside but it isn’t insulated enough.
The chickens didn’t even come outside Sunday.
It’s not the ~6 MW of wind generation that’s down which is the problem, it’s the 30+ MW of conventional generating capacity that’s also down due to weather. Apparently after pretty much every winter storm like this, we find out that producers fail to properly winterize their plants, and then have trouble, and ERCOT sternly tells them to do it next time, but doesn’t actually mandate it. And shockingly, when the next winter storm hits, we find out that they didn’t actually spend the money to winterize anything because it costs money and there was no legal requirement to do it.
The other problem is that something like 60% of Texas households have electrical heating. Which isn’t such a big deal in normal circumstances- a huge chunk of the state doesn’t even get below freezing on any kind of regular basis. But in situations like this, it drives the load sky-high, as those electric heaters are terribly inefficient, and they’re trying to offset a 60-70 degree difference from the outside temperature. Contrast this with air conditioning, where they’re only trying to cool a 25-30 degree difference, and air conditioners are basically moving heat, not actually creating it, so they’re more efficient than heating.
As far as the weather here goes (Dallas), it’s definitely unseasonal. The usual winter low temp is something like maybe 19 on one night, and then otherwise the lows are in the 20s, 30s and 40s during the winter. Last night it got to -1 F, which is unheard of, and we got about 6-7" of snow on Sunday night as well. Unheard of.
The good news, such that it is, is that temperatures will be warmer, although still below freezing for the rest of the week. So the load on the power grid won’t be quite as high. We are forecast to get another 3-4" of snow tomorrow though.
The big unseasonal portion of our weather in the foothills above Denver is the lack of snow. Sure the high Sunday was -1F with a low of negative 7 but it was so bright an sunny we just opened our curtains and let the sun heat the house. This whole winter has been crazy dry and I don’t think we’ve seen 6" of snow yet. Typically, by this time in the year we’ve had a least one storm of 12+ inches.
I know the higher mountains are getting snow and we’re at like 80% of snow pack so I’m not overly concerned but it’s just weird denver has constantly been getting bigger storms then us.
Like @Oredigger77, Colorado Front range, but a bit south. On 2/14, we had about 2-3" of snow, which doesn’t normally even qualify for a late start for schools or work, but the -3F/ -20C high and the -20/-29 low was rather unusual. And that was before the windchill! I’d say that’s about 20-30 degrees or more lower than the usual temps this time of year (I’d say the average is highs in the 30s-40s) or about 10 below the previous worst ‘cold snap’ of the past 20 years I’ve lived here.
The local newspaper said it was the coldest in the last 125 years, but not quiiiiite record breaking. 
Monday 2/15, and everything started a bit late, not from the remaining snow (nobody in my neighborhood at least bothered to shovel in sub zero temps) but once it was above zero around 10-11am everyone was back to normal. So yeah, noticeably colder than normal, but well within Coloradan coping, as long as you aren’t a recent Californian import like one of my wife’s coworkers.
At least for our little town we had a high of 0 F just back on Jan. 1, 2019 (I remember because we had friends from California visiting us at the time) so we were only 1 degree colder for the high on this storm. I’m sure it broke records for Feb 14 but it wasn’t unusually cold for a winter cold snap in general. It wouldn’t surprise me to see us reach 0F as the high at least once every winter or every other winter.
Oh, no argument. It was unusually cold, but I couldn’t in all honestly say it was unseasonal. In our area, there’s usually a half dozen winter days with highs in the low single digits - this was lower, but not out of the ballpark. But it’s certainly the lowest I’ve seen in the 20 years I’ve been in Colorado.
The advantage, as others have pointed out, is that there is a big difference being prepared and used to cold weather, and having it be colder, and being in an area that is used to a mild winter getting hit by hundred year lows. I’ve been in touch with friends and family in the Dallas/Ft Worth and Austin area who are without power, water, or both, and they as well as all others getting hammered right now have my sympathy and best wishes.
In south-ish Texas here. In central to south TX we don’t usually have ice storms. I think sometimes it happens in Dallas or the Panhandle. Around here we don’t usually even hit freezing or a bit below overnight only and any ice is quickly melted. Almost never any snow. This is unheard of, like batshit crazy weather for this area for it to snow and ice to stick around for days.
Power went off sometime during the night last. It’s 22 outside and 54 in the house. No answers as to how long this will go on.
About 18" of snow here in the near SW suburbs of Chicago, between yesterday and last night. I just finished clearing everything. That’s the biggest snowfall we’ve had in a couple of years.
Here in Montreal, there is light snow, high today -4C and low tonight -14C. Absolutely normal for this time of year.
The main-on-the-toilet temperature!
It might. If that is the case, I used the wrong word.
Houston northern suburb here. Bottomed out at 12 degrees this morning, the lowest I’ve seen in the 19 years I’ve been here. Made a brief foray onto the roads this morning and they were basically skating rinks; nasty combination of snow over glare ice. Power went out for about 8 hours from 6 AM Monday, but miraculously has been on continuously since then. That said, I’m fully expecting to be caught up in rolling blackouts over the next 12-24 hours. Supposed to get above freezing by 8 AM tomorrow. Long as I get to that point without an outage of 8 hours or more, I’m good. Glad I’m not in Galveston, where 95% of the island has been without power for more than 24 hours, or, say, Zimbabwe, where lengthy daily power cuts are a matter of course.
Meanwhile I fully understand that the Texas power grid is not highly winterized, but nevertheless, I think the various utilities have some ‘splainin’ to do.
AHA! Now we know who to blame for daring the weather gods.
Qadgop did my local weather report as it isn’t very far away.
-27F wind chill isn’t like Saskatoon. You need it to be -27F before wind chill. Here in actual Saskatoon we’ve just come through an unusually late cold snap, 11 days where the overnight low was only above -30C once (the exception was a balmy -29.3), including 2 nights below -40 and 5 more below -35. And daytime highs have only been ~10 degrees warmer. I started to think the big red bars proclaiming EXTREME COLD WARNING were a new permanent design feature on the Environment Canada forecast website.
Thing is, while we did break a few records with this run, if you put that cold snap in mid-January it would be a pretty run-of-the-mill cold snap. We’re mostly all accustomed to and equipped for dealing with such weather.
So, you won’t see any smirking “it’s not really that cold in Texas” from me. True it might be warmer there than it is here, but I’ve got gas heat and a stable power grid. So long as they promise not to smirk when I suffer in a 90F “heat wave.” Actually even if they do smirk at that. 90F won’t kill you. -11C will.
Anyways, we’ve got above-freezing temps in our long range forecast. Now that is highly unseasonal weather (though it’s probably just the usual promise of nice weather in the long range that vanishes by the time the long range becomes short range).
We’re having the most snow we’ve had in years, but mixed with warming trends, so the snow bells are already up, and the crocuses are about to bloom.
In general we are warmer than normal.
Fairly normal here in Northern California. It was a bit rainy a few days last week, with temperatures in the 60s Fahrenheit. Now it’s sunny and in the high 50s.
It was kind of funny to come in from mowing the lawn (yes, around here it’s normal to have to mow the lawn in February), check Facebook, and see a post from a Canadian friend about her day of ice fishing.
Brilliant!! 
Well, our power has come back on after about 7 hours off. It’s about 29 here now. That is just an unheard of temperature in all my years in Texas. Before this, it was suuuuper cooooold (and didn’t happen very often) for the low temp to be around 29 to 32 overnight and the high around 45 or so. And that would be like one day only. The next day it’d be 70 F again. LOL.
Very grateful to have power again although still at risk for it to go back off, I guess. So grateful. Was supposed to WFH today, but that didn’t happen!
Two of our cats go out some of the time, and both of them have been nutso today. They don’t usually use an indoor cat box (though we have one set up for the all-indoor kitty), so they freaked out when they found out how cold it was outside and started roaming around the house and crying, poor things. One of them finally figured out how to use indoor cat facilities but the other one used the carpet. 