Tonight’s going to be 17F, then we’ll finally get above freezing tomorrow. It looks pretty warm-ish for the rest of the week, with highs normally about 35F or so. Next Monday we go back to weirdly warm with highs in the 50s and rain.
Do you have an automatic icemaker in your 'fridge? If so, it’s got a water hook up.
Well, we didn’t have a blizzard, but Mother Nature did turn my 3-day weekend into a 5-day one! We had a major snow storm last Thursday night into Friday that created an “E-learning Day”, and then bitterly cold weather moved in over the weekend. Tuesday was declared another “E-learning Day” because the wind chill was almost 30 degrees below zero. We’re back today, though, but it’s just a three day week. 
Whee. I went to turn down my thermostat before bedtime-and the thing just went totally blank-maybe I hit the down button too hard or too fast? I just called the apt. office, and-fun!-the maintenance guy is off-duty today. Thankfully it will be close to 32F and sunny today, and my space heater is performing as well as I could hope.
I do but it’s turned off since I never use it. I guess it could have come from water in that line. Whatever it was, it soaked two towels and that was it. No evidence of any water now. At this point, I’m just going to wait until next week to investigate. We aren’t out of the woods yet with this historic freeze and there are so many people dealing with true water emergencies.
We got through last night with a low of -1 and the grid held. They have rescinded the conserve energy alert this afternoon and the temp got up to a whopping 27. But tomorrow we are getting freezing rain and Saturday and Sunday will have single digit lows again. We won’t be above freezing until Monday.
I noticed something bad today. Last summer AT&T connected fiber to my house. I wasn’t really happy with the placement at a roof joint but didn’t even think about icicles. Well, there’s a large one hanging there that’s formed around the wire. When that thing falls, goodbye TV. Dammit.
Ugh, you have my sympathies as well. Freezing rain is the worst.
Hey, we got above freezing today in DFW! After that, we go on a roller coaster of warm, then dumb old cold for three days, then warm and rainy for a few days. Hey, it beats February, but February is just around the corner. 
It was supposed to get warmer in the long range forecast, but that was probably just a ‘regression to the mean’ forecast,as every day the warmmweather gets pushed back. It’s -23 here today again. We had one day where it got into the minus teens, then back into the deep freeze.
Yep our windchill was back to -40 this morning.
Tuesday night was briefly warm : around -20.
Thanks, but my experience is that once a battery fails in this weather, it’s done. It’s not unusual for them to freeze and crack.
That’s what I call the “receding [blank] forecast”. Long stretch of dry weather, rain keeps being promised for four or five days out, never any rain or not more than a brief mist by the time we get there but it’s still in the long-range forecase? “Receding rain” forecast. And so on. You’ve got a “receding warmth” forecast.
These things always* break eventually – often to give you way more than you wanted of whatever had been receding.
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*so far . . .
Well, after bragging that it doesn’t really get that cold here in southern Ontario (relatively speaking) we got a good blast of some of the chill that’s been settling over much of North America. Still not that bad, though; I don’t recall temps being much below around -10ºC (about 14ºF). Which is cold enough that for the first time this winter season I could feel it in the house, namely in terms of cold spots, and the amount of time the furnace was running. And the refreshingly cold iced tea and cold Caesar mix out of the garage was wonderful! But it will be warming to above freezing over the next few days.
But El Nino continues to refuse to give us much in the way of snow. Almost all of the snow forecasts we’ve had so far have not even bothered to give us a predicted snowfall amount, because if there was any snow at all (there often wasn’t) it was just a light dusting. The snowplow guy who does my driveway has come by a few times out of some sense of obligation – much as I pay him out of some sense of habit and obligation – but mostly all he really does is scrape the light dusting on the driveway, to make it look like he’s actually Doing Something.
Our guys haven’t had to use shovels since the first snow in October. They’ve been able to use leaf blowers for the dustings since then.
I’ve mostly been sweeping snow instead of shoveling it – just a standard broom. Only needed to use a shovel once, and then only in a few spots.
The ground, however, has finally frozen up. Don’t know how long it’ll stay that way – the frost hasn’t had time to go very deep.
I wish you guys up north could take our snow. It’s still here four days later with a frosting of freezing rain today. It’s shut the city down. We don’t have snow plows down here so even the major streets are still treacherous. There’s no mail, no garbage pickup and, of course, no school. Even UPS and FedEx are staying off the streets. And it’s not going anywhere until next Monday.
Tomorrow all of NE Ohio is to get almost a foot of snow. Its usually never as much as they predict, and I hope thats the case here. Taking the bus isn’t fun when theres blowing snow.
Next Wednesday-near 50 degrees.
It beats walking to work.
Probably 10" maybe 12" now (Cleveland)-I measured it 2 hours ago @ 8", but all of my footsteps on the lawn outside and the sidewalk track I had cleared have both been obliterated.
There seems to be 4 or 5 here in Lake county.
I was just out for the first time since we got hit with this cold snap, and it’s damn cold. The currently reported temperature as of 3:00 PM is -10°C (14°F). It was all I could do to make it between the car and the grocery store. But we still have no snow of any significance. Despite all that, somehow a sheet of ice formed on my front porch, perfectly designed for someone to slip and break his neck and then sue me. Fortunately I had a bunch of rock salt (the plant-safe and concrete-safe kind) that took care of the problem.
I initially felt bad for the poor kids that have to go to school every morning, many of whom have to walk in the early morning, but watching them happily going home this afternoon, with or without Mommies and doggies, reminded me of an important difference. To wit, kids are young (more or less by definition!) whereas I am a whiny Old Fart who is sensitive to any temperature that deviates to any extent from 22°C (72°F). Kids, dogs, and apparently Mommies can handle the cold; I can’t.
Sitting in our front room, and the traffic is very noisy. The snow outside on the road is at the “crunchy” stage - every car that goes by is packing the snow down, so they make the “crunchy” sound as they drive by.