Ski pass A. Check. Furnace on.
Ski pass B. Check. First snow.
Ski pass C . . .
Houston, we have a problem. Without ski pass C, there won’t be a major snowstorm this way. Needs must have ski pass C for the universe to function.
I’m beginning to think we’ll never turn our heaters on around here. (SoCal)
Today was 86, tomorrow is going to be 85, and the 10 day forecast doesn’t break into the 70s. I’d much rather be cold than hot.
I was being facetious - the first time the furnace comes on, it always smells terrible. That particular stink does smell like autumn to me, though - furnace is coming on again!
Any thing below 77 fahrenheit or 24 celsius I need the heat on in the house.I have a low tolerance to the cold.
But the strange thing I can go out side in a t-shirt and shorts at 55 fahrenheit / 13 celsius and be okay .
This has always puzzled me.And if it was 77 fahrenheit or 24 celsius out side I would be hot.
I normality do not put fan on to it gets to high 80’s. and put the A/C on if it is in high fahrenheit 90’s.
It is only October where do you live that you get snow in October.
Its just what you are used to is all. You probably compensate by dressing in layers. Sweaters and sweatshirts aren’t fashionable, but when you feel cold, they work.
So you saying that I’m use to it being warm?And my body is not use to the cold?
But what I don’t understand why can I go out in t-shirt and shorts 55 fahrenheit / 13 celsius and be okay.
If I don’t put them on when I get the car inspected (October) I put it off and never get around to it. It seems early but then we have gotten late October storms now and then.
Here in Alberta, we are almost guaranteed to get our first blizzard by Halloween (usually ON Halloween, just to make partying and trick-or-treating miserable).
We missed the MN snowfall, but the snow making system was tested today at one of the cross-country centres in Thunder Bay, ON.
Thanks, all. We’re in Chestnut Hill, about 1.5 miles from a grocery store. My wife commutes everyday to work on major surface streets. Luckily she can work from home if the weather is bad and I’d just skip class that day. I’m assuming if there’s snow we’re not going to go anywhere outside of the city.
We’re in a condo. I’m not sure how the water is heated (magic?) or what type of heat we have (I press a button on the thermostat and it turns on. So far it’s been really crappy. There’s two controls: one in the living room and one in the room. It seems as if hot air doesn’t come out of the bedroom, but out of the living room). I also don’t get any damn service in my unit (T-Mobile) so I’ve been using Wi-Fi to make calls. I’ll have to call the company about that, because if we lose electricity then we’re SOL.
Radiant heat from the sun makes it feel warmer.
Sounds like you have it easy!
Most likely both your hot water and heat are gas but without the electricity to run the fans for your heat, you’ll be SOL when power goes out. It would probably be smart of you to figure out what you have, though.
When we had the huge 8-day ice storm power outage last year, I ended up bunking with a neighbor who had a gas stove which kept her house warm-ish. And it was only because of pure luck that my pipes didn’t freeze and burst, causing very expensive mayhem. I’m better prepared for this year. I have a generator now. 
If you are renting and in a condo you’re probably OK. But I am still in the “better have it and not need it than need it and not have it” school.
It’s currently about 48ºF here. I finally turned the heater on a couple of hours ago to take the chill off (as opposed to turning it on to check function, as I did last week). I’ve turned it off again.
I turned the heat on today. Not much, just to take the damp chill off the air. But there it is. We had wild wind last night and it seems November is well and truly here. All kinds of leaves on the trees yesterday, today nothing.
We’re not like you weenies who have to have heat in the home at the least little chill.
Our heat only gets turned on when there are subzero temperatures for more than 24 hours straight, otherwise we do just fine with multiple sweater layers and lots of hot soup. In extreme situations we might light a fire in the middle of the living room.
Just like our pioneer forebears, only we eat better.
Just about right on schedule - Halloween was a GORGEOUS day (warm and no wind); November 1st, however, the snow started and is still falling this morning.
In Northern Ontario, our pioneers were primarily loggers. I can’t say that we eat better than they did. The way for employers to keep employees in the logging camps was to feed them exceptionally well, in both quality and quantity (the quantity was unimaginable by today’s standard, due to how many calories they were burning by cutting for long hours in the depths of the winter cold – from six to up to nine thousand per day, two or three times what we would eat today). Here’s a verse from a logger’s song from the Ottawa Valley in the north-east of the province, excerpted from http://www.foresthistory.org/Publications/JofFH/Conlin.pdf"]Joseph R. Conlin’s “A Social History of Food in Logging Camps”, Journal of Forest History, October 1970.
Now the board at the Caldwell,
The truth for to tell,
Could not be surpassed
In the Russell Hotel.
In the north-east of the province, our city’s most popular (popular as in lineups across the atrium, up the stairs, out the door, and down the sidewalk during peak periods) traditional restaurant, the Hoito co-op, was started nearly a century ago by the local Finnish Labour Temple when a Wobbly spoke to them about the logging camp workers’ desire for food in town as good as what they were getting in the camps. If you’re into healthy and delicious home-cooked meals, or if you want to sit down at a long communal table, then you’d do well to be one of our pioneers, but if your DeLorean won’t start at -40, then just head on over to the Hoito.
Here in TBay, the Hoito, the Kangas Sauna (that started as a family grocery store, but too many customers kept begging to use the family’s sauna), the Kamview Nordic Centre (a Cross-Country Canada National Development Team site), and Loch Lomond (Ontario’s best lift area skiing), make for a winter wonderland, so having to turn on the furnace is a harbinger of very good things to come.
Jackmannii- I’m trying to eat like some of my forebears because I suspect they had better food- but I’m sure we have MORE. This sometimes involves a lot of butter. We haven’t had the formal heat on yet- but the wood stove has been going for three weeks. I get cold when the house temp is under 60. That’s with three layers on. It’s down to 40 outside at night now, so the heat will need to come on soon. Ours is in the floor, and warm stone (slate) is really nice. Plus we have an electric heater in the bathroom.
My sister is cold at 75. She doesn’t visit in the winter (not after the first time,and that involved a death in the family)