I got absolutely no snow in Shawnee from latest storm

Spare a thought for overseas fans who like me will be watching the game at 1am in the blistering cold at 4 degrees Celsius.

Good. The earlier hours this morning was apparently a shitshow.

My Son lives near Kalispell, -43 windchill, -21 actual, supposed to get worse overnight, but that wind through the MacDonald pass is wicked.

That there is the damn truth.

I was asked if I was going to KC for the game since the tix were so cheap.

I have clothes that could handle the cold, but getting there would be terrible.

So I am going to sit my ass at home-enjoy the three day weekend, drink, and stay warm.
Wife took kid 2 to Philly for move in. I had to stay home.

Welp, i guess they adjusted the forecast to lower the ****ing hammer on us. It was like -5 as the lowest low a few days ago. We had -20 a few years ago. My ****ing dad got in the pickup to come to the farm and decided it was too cold, drove around, went by some feedyard and laughed at them trying to fix a waterer and went home. -20 is ****ing cold.

https://i.imgur.com/XztXUO6.png

You aren't figuring in the windchill, Bueh! That will make it feel way better.

Do they grow wheat and corn in the south?

I swear to god our ancestors hated their future kin. "Let's settle down HERE "they said.....

Our ancestors would think we're all a bunch of pussies.

They'd be 1000% correct in every aspect. My grandpa lived in a hole in the ground out here for years. A hole with a roof made of dirt and mixed straw and shit.


He'd slap me in the face for complaining about the CP server going down.

My uncle, who passed away a few years ago, would tell me stories about growing up on a farm in northern Missouri in the 50s. They lived a mile and a half from the bus stop, and he had to walk it, every day, regardless of the weather. The road went up and down several hills, and no matter how hot or cold it was, whether it was raining, snowing, hailing, whatever, he walked it. The man I would later call grandpa was his step-father, and apparently didn't like my uncle very much, because he would NEVER drive him, no matter how severe conditions were. Three feet of snow? 10 below zero? Raining sideways? **** you.

Good luck bitching to him about going out in the weather. :D

Channel 2 out here in the Denver metro area has a counter on the screen "Time Below Freezing". It is 20 F'n degrees right now. How about "Hours below zero".
If it bleeds it leads and if it is cold our "Happy" governor declares a state of emergency.

I have had very little snow. 10 miles away, 1 inch.

40 miles away--3 inches. Quite the cut off.

This is funny: Will Alaska Be Warmer than Kansas City?

https://www.kansascity.com/news/weat...284174868.html

Probably will be this weekend. We will be getting the usual low twenties for the high but then, we've already had a pretty good cold snap right after Christmas. Didn't hit 0 for a few days. And the end of January is typically the coldest part of the year so we have that to look forward to. Frankly, you all are getting what we typically get. Sunspot activity is diminished, which weakens the jet stream and pushes it east and south. That allows the cold Siberian air that typically hits my state to push further into the contiguous US instead of staying in Canada or the northern US. So just consider this a little gift from Russia and Alaska.

If you're going to the game, wear layers, especially for your feet. If you can, a thin layer of merino wool socks with a much thicker layer of wool socks can work wonders. SmartWool is a great brand of sock. Polypropelene is a good base layer. Under Armor makes some good base layers as does Carhartt. If you want to be really warm, get a good base layer for your legs, like long underwear. THen go to Cabela's or Bass Pro Shop and buy fleece wader liners. They're designed to be worn under fishing waders in cold weather. Standing in glacial-fed water all day, even in water-proof liners, can get very cold so thick liners really keep your legs warm. You wear those two layers and then your pants and you will definitely be warm.

Stay warm my friends.

It's funny - when it gets really cold up here in the Chicago area, I sometimes check to see what the temperature is in Juneau. Most of the time, Juneau is warmer. Sometimes significantly so.

I assume that will be the case tomorrow when the deep freeze hits.

Juneau is not really 'cold' by Alaska standards. It's notably farther South than Anchorage or even Fairbanks and its surrounded by water, which moderates the temp. Anchorage is typically notably colder than Juneau and Fairbanks is even colder. I've flown to Fairbanks a few times in January and getting ready to step out of the airport, you just steel yourself for those -45 temps.

Also, -10 and colder is BPC: butt-puckering cold. It's so cold that when you go outside, your butt puckers shut to make sure that no cold air comes in the back door.

It’s currently 71 degrees at 10:45 at night here. Just saying. ;)

Oh I know, I just like to use Juneau because I've been there.

When the lower 48 is butt ass cold, Alaska is warm and Vice versa. It has always been this way. This is not new.

THE STAR SHOULD KNOW THAT. But of course, they need clicks and need to sell bird liners.

There are times MPLS is colder than Mars. So F the Star.

Yay blizzard and frost bite. My nipples are so hard and frozen stiff I could cut glass with them. If this weather doesn’t make you horny and ready to chase Eskimo pussy then chances are you bite pillows or something

Evidently they may move or postpone the Bills game.

Then the Gov of NY said this…

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">New York Governor Kathy Hochul addressing the weather &amp; Steelers fans:<br><br>“We think it&#39;s just better if you (Steelers fans) stay home and tune in on television. It&#39;s going to be safer for all of us. It&#39;s going to be a rough game for you anyhow.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/tLSabQfwVl">pic.twitter.com/tLSabQfwVl</a></p>&mdash; Evan Abrams (@EvanHAbrams) <a href="https://twitter.com/EvanHAbrams/status/1745942023822012844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Clearly this means they have to award Bills another home game if they win.

Dang it's 1 outside now. Had to put the thermal underwear on the Yoder smoker for the brisket I am smoking in the AM. Probably should have wore a coat and gloves.

Had our first real blast of cold and snow yesterday up here. We got a little last weekend, then BOOM. It gets harder every year clearing the snow, and I feel like we're gonna get more this year than in recent years. It's also gonna be sub zero for the next couple of weeks at least per the forecast. Ugh.

I too heard about the cheap tickets for this game. I've never been to a playoff game at Arrowhead, but I wasn't even tempted...well, maybe a little.

I'm paying Peacock and watching from my couch. Stay frosty my friends...but stay warm as well. GO CHIEFS!

-10 on the West Side of Denver an hour ago. It has warmed up to -9. The fan on the smoker sounded mad when I started up this AM

put a six pack of Dews on the screened in porch. widows are in, but bottom is open like a deck

Coldest Dew I have had for a long time.

Some are slushy......:drool::drool:

It wouldn’t be thinking. Like having an opinion. It would be more like knowing. As a statement of fact.

Bastard lived with a swamp cooler until 2001 when he moved to town after grandma died.

Hell I wouldn’t have survived my dad’s life growing up. Much less his.

Right now in SUX -11, winds blowing 28 gusting to 41, WC of -40

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClic...42085999999995

SUX is the name of Sioux City's airport for those not in the know and confused. We aren't makin this up

I think I just had a drink explode on the porch


berry bubbler water. Blew through the box.

Yes sir. And it does suck. Going over to the gf's, her dish TV is out. Going to try to knock out any obstruction. Had to do that to my dad's twice this week. This shit is relentless.

I would expect to be below zero in the next hour or so.
and will be until Tuesday

1 foot of snow overnight but about 0 celcius , feels mild

and below....see you on the other side.

We got 16 inches in an 18 hour period, was truly incredible. The flakes were the size of apples at one point. They weren’t even flakes, more like clumps falling at an astonishing rate.

Lived here my whole life and still never witnessed anything like that before. Now we have subzero temps moving in. Good times.

Ick...that is too much. Then it will turn into a rock. Good luck.
Hope you have enough bread, milk and eggs.

Take the map in the OP and change it to temps. You can see it coming.

23 degrees in Juneau right now!

New Orleans area... Tuesday into Wednesday is supposed to get down to 27 degrees... That's hard nipple weather for us..

The arctic blast finally hit the Chicago area. It's 0 right now. High tomorrow is supposed to be -4.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Frigid Chicago Bean Shrivels Up From Below-Zero Temperatures <a href="https://t.co/1DjODSnO1V">https://t.co/1DjODSnO1V</a></p>&mdash; The Onion (@TheOnion) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1746676074241536398?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

My garage door was frozen shut this morning - hit the button to the opener and it wouldn't budge. Luckily a couple of kicks to the bottom of the door cracked the ice enough to get it to work. That had never happened before.

Welcome to hell. It's only -13 here right now.

That's about what it was when I posted that. It's a balmy -11 right now.

The main thing that keeps me going on days like this is reminding myself that I hate extreme high temperatures even more. As vile as this shit is, I'll take it over 100 and high humidity every time. You can protect yourself against the cold. All you can do when it's hot like that is suffer.

First morning of the snow, a 100 year old Hackberry tree in my backyard split in half. The half that fell just grazed my roof or I'd have been in real trouble. This half is about 50 feet long and easily two foot across.

Ironically, I'd taken a bid and made an appointment with a tree crew to take the tree down the week before.

Due to an emergency in which the job after mine DID have a tree go through their roof and puncture it, my job got moved back...and now it's still sitting there due to cold affecting several things on their end.

They're supposed to come tomorrow.

I got really luck, though. That would have done some serious damage if it had come down just a little bit over. And I'd have been basically exposed to the elements this whole time.

As it is, the furnace can't really keep up.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Bitter Cold Polar Air is currently as far south as Texas with Minnesota in the core of the Arctic Air. Air from the Pacific Ocean will push the Arctic Air back north into Canada this upcoming Sunday January 21 &amp; by Monday January 22 temps will climb into the mid 30s. <a href="https://twitter.com/KSTP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KSTP</a> <a href="https://t.co/9VhjcvuKkF">pic.twitter.com/9VhjcvuKkF</a></p>&mdash; Jonathan Yuhas (@JYuhasKSTP) <a href="https://twitter.com/JYuhasKSTP/status/1746904468115849368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

We’re at 16 in Texarkana with about .5 inch of snow. I’m sure 90% of town is closed.

Minnesota utilities tell residents: Turn down your thermostats amid deep freeze
The state is trudging through subzero temperatures.

Utilities in Minnesota are calling on residents to turn down their thermostats due to a rise in demand for natural gas as extreme cold makes its way across the United States.

Xcel and Centerpoint Energy have each recommended reducing heat through at least Tuesday, noting that spot prices for natural gas are spiking due to supply and demand during the cold weather, and excessive usage could land customers with much higher costs.

Centerpoint recommends lowering thermostats to 65 degrees during the day when home and lowering it an additional five degrees when asleep or away. Xcel asks thermostats to be set from 65 to 70 degrees while home and 58 degrees when away.

The reduction could help limit the impact of higher prices on customers' bills, with turning down the heat in your home by 1 degree resulting in around 3% savings on your gas costs.

Xcel says for its customers, the increase in natural gas prices is "significant smaller" than the massive spike experienced during Winter Storm Uri in 2021.



Do I set my furnace lower and run my gas fireplace more or vice versa?

-7 here in Iowa. Luckily no wind here so doesn’t seem so bad. The snow and blizzards over the weekend left a mess at my house. Been shoveling and plowing for days.
I heat with wood and we’ve been feeding the beast like no other. Thankful for my wood shed as it keeps everything dry.
Hot house by day/into the evening but when we wake it’s chilly in the house and it’s time to stir the coals and start again.
I thought we would have a surplus of wood this year with how December went. With the way things are going we are gonna burn it all.

I've been setting the alarm around 2-3 AM to toss more wood in our stove. It beats waking up to 50 degrees in the morning

Not sure where you're at but here in SUX the wind is blowing almost 20 and gusting higher, so it may pick up. Wind chill warning until noon tomorrow, but wouldn't take much with how cold it is. Good luck.

Slightly worried about my wifes car. It is at the airport-since thursday.

its tires were inflated well and the battery is not very old. Should be fine.
But if there is an issue, I should be able to get out there after school and help her.

ugh.

65? **** that. 58?? ROFL I'm not returning home to am igloo

This weather is bullshit

This is absolutely correct. I'll take cold weather over extreme heat any day.

Or you could just go sleep in your nice warm electric car.

I will bet the gov has his thermostat set to 72 or more

Good luck sleeping when the thermostat is at 60. Unless you're a White Walker or a pregnant woman, it will be miserable.

I wouldn't exactly like it, but as long as I've got enough blankets I'd be fine.

Hell, I'd be perfectly happy living in a place where the temperature never got above 60.

Its 4 balmy degrees before factoring in windchill here, just lovely

Bought a brand new battery for my truck just one month ago, it BARELY started this morning :shake:

My garage isn't heated. It's polar bear comfy in there at 11 degrees, according to the car.

Same here. Mine was 0 this morning. It was -11 outside.

Still, having any sort of garage is wonderful. I have zero fond memories of parking my car outside in this shit.

Yeah, piss on scraping windows in this weather.

Before I lived here I was in Chicago, digging out spots in the street and then marking them as my own with random bits of crap. That really sucked, but people mostly respected it.

Speaking of unheated garages, mine is attached but on the north side. It sucks because I would store liquids and they would freeze thus make them unuseable. I would have to move them inside over the winter.

We got a new garage door due to hail and got an insulated one. That made a big difference. I don't know if you could do a DYI slapping up foam boards (glue) in the door panels??

This last fall, I added more insulation in the crawl space above the garage (r13) to overlay the existing insulation.

It just got below freezing this last weekend. I am in NE KS.

Thinking these might be a simple band aide.

That sounds like COLD HELL

And counting on the goodwill of your fellow Chicagoans? Can't believe it mostly went well for ya

It was kind of an unwritten code that almost everybody honored. Also, people who parked in someone else's cleared spot tended to have rather unpleasant things happen to their vehicles that night.

-9°F

Heat index of 90 degrees here currently with stifling humidity.

Holy shit it's actually above zero

In the last 4 days I have..

Shoveled the driveway twice
scraped ice repeatedly
fixed my furnace
had to unfreeze a tub drain

Fun shit

here too, since 11 am


shorts weather

8 Degrees never felt so good

Next stop, -22 Friday night and maybe above freezing Monday!

I went out and de-iced the steps, got the truck thawed out and went to get dog food. No attempt at all had been made to do anything to the 4 roads I have to travel to get to a county highway. 21 degrees is our high today, which is a big deal down here. Thankfully, most of my MO cold weather gear was in storage when my house burned back in 2015. Though somehow all of the insulation in my green coveralls purchased in 1984 has disintegrated.

I’d be returning those 40-year old coveralls as defective! Do you have the receipt?

I'm stuck in the airport in Milwuakee.

Shit sucks

It got up to 1 here today. Heat wave!