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Post by missouriboy on Dec 20, 2022 13:37:40 GMT
Blimey couldn't make it. He's buried up in North Dakota. They'll be shivering in their shorts in Cancun. Forecast here in Middle Earth minimum temp -7 F with 3-5 inches of snow Thursday. Winds 20-30mph. Squirrels and birds loading up on sunflower seeds on my deck. |
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Post by blustnmtn on Dec 20, 2022 13:48:45 GMT
They'll be shivering in their shorts in Cancun. Forecast here in Middle Earth minimum temp -7 F with 3-5 inches of snow Thursday. Winds 20-30mph. Squirrels and birds loading up on sunflower seeds on my deck. We're going upstate to our cabin on Thursday for Christmas and the following week. I'll be burning a lot of wood, though it looks like we won't get the worst of it. There's ~8" of frozen snow on the ground but the forecast of the impending storm doesn't seem to hold much other than a mix with a lot of wind. |
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 20, 2022 14:00:49 GMT
They'll be shivering in their shorts in Cancun. Forecast here in Middle Earth minimum temp -7 F with 3-5 inches of snow Thursday. Winds 20-30mph. Squirrels and birds loading up on sunflower seeds on my deck. We're going upstate to our cabin on Thursday for Christmas and the following week. I'll be burning a lot of wood, though it looks like we won't get the worst of it. There's ~8" of frozen snow on the ground but the forecast of the impending storm doesn't seem to hold much other than a mix with a lot of wind. You'll be canceled. I'm considering a bonfire of for the vanities. |
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 23, 2022 12:37:22 GMT
The Press (even Fox) has a penchant for labeling everything "the biggest". So this storm is the 'once in a generation' winter storm. Was this worse than the Texas Freeze-off of Feb. 2021? No doubt we will be told that Charles Oscar is responsible ... but they will not explain how. Conjuring is an intense mental exercise of extraordinary power.
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Post by gridley on Dec 23, 2022 13:26:19 GMT
The Press (even Fox) has a penchant for labeling everything "the biggest". So this storm is the 'once in a generation' winter storm. Was this worse than the Texas Freeze-off of Feb. 2021? No doubt we will be told that Charles Oscar is responsible ... but they will not explain how. Conjuring is an intense mental exercise of extraordinary power.
I wasn't here for the Texas Freeze of 2021, but I can say people around here are rather freaking out. I think it is a combination of trauma from last year's freeze (and power outages) and a fully valid realization that the building codes around here don't really account for temperatures this low.
I'm puzzled, since insulation works in the summer as well as in the winter once you put air conditioning into the mix...
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 23, 2022 14:04:12 GMT
The Press (even Fox) has a penchant for labeling everything "the biggest". So this storm is the 'once in a generation' winter storm. Was this worse than the Texas Freeze-off of Feb. 2021? No doubt we will be told that Charles Oscar is responsible ... but they will not explain how. Conjuring is an intense mental exercise of extraordinary power.
I wasn't here for the Texas Freeze of 2021, but I can say people around here are rather freaking out. I think it is a combination of trauma from last year's freeze (and power outages) and a fully valid realization that the building codes around here don't really account for temperatures this low.
I'm puzzled, since insulation works in the summer as well as in the winter once you put air conditioning into the mix...
My porch thermometer is stuck at -11F at 8am this morning. Technically, this is the coldest December night since 1989 when it hit -20F. And the all-time December low is -23F in 1901. Our building codes (depth of footings and water lines) still reflect the old cold times. And being a stubborn lot, we haven't changed. Maybe Texans should take some weather lessons and start adding insulation. Don't want to hear any bitching.  Just do it! Contractors like to build around hopes and wishes. It's cheaper. So in a more expensive energy market, imagine how much summer cooling is potentially bleeding off. The legislature needs to do something useful. |
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Post by walnut on Dec 23, 2022 14:21:58 GMT
My 1928 Tulsa house is a little drafty but we are warm.
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Post by glennkoks on Dec 23, 2022 17:59:06 GMT
The Press (even Fox) has a penchant for labeling everything "the biggest". So this storm is the 'once in a generation' winter storm. Was this worse than the Texas Freeze-off of Feb. 2021? No doubt we will be told that Charles Oscar is responsible ... but they will not explain how. Conjuring is an intense mental exercise of extraordinary power.
This is not a "once in a generation" storm. Maybe a bi-decadal storm. It got down to 16 last night officially at my house in Friendswood, TX. During the freeze of February 2021 it got down to 15 but stayed below freezing for much longer than this storm is forecast. In my part of the woods this probably won't even go down as a top 10 "Blue Norther". There are different metrics as well. Cold, ice storms, blizzards sometimes all the above... There is nothing "unprecedented" or "generational" about this cold front. |
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Post by glennkoks on Dec 23, 2022 18:09:25 GMT
The Press (even Fox) has a penchant for labeling everything "the biggest". So this storm is the 'once in a generation' winter storm. Was this worse than the Texas Freeze-off of Feb. 2021? No doubt we will be told that Charles Oscar is responsible ... but they will not explain how. Conjuring is an intense mental exercise of extraordinary power.
I wasn't here for the Texas Freeze of 2021, but I can say people around here are rather freaking out. I think it is a combination of trauma from last year's freeze (and power outages) and a fully valid realization that the building codes around here don't really account for temperatures this low.
I'm puzzled, since insulation works in the summer as well as in the winter once you put air conditioning into the mix...
Nothing about the Texas Freeze of 2021 was really that far out of the ordinary for a "cold spell" in Texas. Had the bureaucrats at ERCOT done their jobs and were actually slightly prepared for the increase in demand it would not have even made a headline. But the second the grid crashed people were unable heat their homes, pipes burst and people started dying. It was an uneventful 16F at my house last night. One degree warmer than the coldest night in 2021, but had we lost power it would have been a sleepless night tending the fireplace, hooking up generators and trying to keep pipes in my attic from breaking. |
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Post by blustnmtn on Dec 24, 2022 12:20:12 GMT
-5 this morning up here in The Catskills 🥶
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Post by Sigurdur on Dec 24, 2022 14:04:06 GMT
It is warmer this morning. Only -14F, not bad at all.
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Post by walnut on Dec 24, 2022 15:03:15 GMT
It is warmer this morning. Only -14F, not bad at all. This is where things really begin to fall apart in these parts, anything under -10 |
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Post by blustnmtn on Dec 24, 2022 15:05:10 GMT
It is warmer this morning. Only -14F, not bad at all. This is where things really begin to fall apart in these parts, anything under -10 Global Warming may kill us all but not for the predicted reason. |
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Post by walnut on Dec 24, 2022 15:12:44 GMT
It seldom gets to -10 around here, so we seldom have trouble. A couple of years ago, then also about 10 years before that. About once or twice a decade.
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 24, 2022 15:45:38 GMT
It is warmer this morning. Only -14F, not bad at all. Thought you were in Bama by now?
Sunny and going on 18F here. Whoopie!
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Just do it! Contractors like to build around hopes and wishes. It's cheaper. So in a more expensive energy market, imagine how much summer cooling is potentially bleeding off. The legislature needs to do something useful.
