Your weather

[maraudinglizard]

61° here now with overcast, low tonight is 27°. Tuesday and Wednesday is when this area gets hammered with the cold. Wintery precipitation Tuesday. FHP has put out an alert to minimize travel if possible. Here comes Florida's version of a demolition derby. 

[Bicycleman]

Forecasts call for 3 to 5" of..............SNOW here in South Mississippi on Tuesday...........

I got an email from a buddy in Cajun Country and he said they had bought groceries and fuel for the Coleman stove before the bad weather starts.  They could get as much as seven to eight inches before it is all done.
I never knew anything colder than 16ºF until I moved to Tennessee.

[airgunaut]

Monday night's predicted low was lowered to -1.

MaraudingLizard, that 61 deg sure is sweet, but I don't envy the ice sheets that might coat roads after the cold front moves through there. Stock up and stay safe!

[airgunaut]

Forecasts call for 3 to 5" of..............SNOW here in South Mississippi on Tuesday...........

I got an email from a buddy in Cajun Country and he said they had bought groceries and fuel for the Coleman stove before the bad weather starts.  They could get as much as seven to eight inches before it is all done.
I never knew anything colder than 16ºF until I moved to Tennessee.

If they rely on electric heaters, the portable Mr. Buddy Lil Buddy propane heaters would be good to have on hand. They use the small camping bottles and can take an adaptor to allow using the propane grill size of canisters (20 lbs, I think).

We bought them even when we had propane furnace and small wood stove two houses ago. In the next house (the one before we moved here), the electric heaters were out during an "atmospheric river" storm AND the propane parlor stove wouldn't ignite. The Lil Buddy heaters kept indoor temps tolerable and water pipes from freezing.

[A.K.A. Tommy Boy]

The high temp for today made it up -6°F.
There is 12 mph NW wind.
The wind chill is   -25°F
This cold snap is predicted to be short lived.
I am supposed to see temps in the 23F to 25F by Wednesday afternoon.
Tomorrow is predicted to be the coldest day.

Best Wishes - Tom

[Van]

Light snow today here but bitter cold for Kentucky single digits coming this week.  View of my back yard deer herd that don't seem to notice. About a dozen bedded down now in the snow.

[ricksplace]

Up here in northern Canada, we are right in the middle of it. -38.5C this morning (call it 40 below since C and F are equal there). Add in a 15mph wind and you get a blistering -70.6F with the wind chill! Stay warm and safe folks and watch for hypothermia.

[A.K.A. Tommy Boy]

Up here in northern Canada, we are right in the middle of it. -38.5C this morning (call it 40 below since C and F are equal there). Add in a 15mph wind and you get a blistering -70.6F with the wind chill! Stay warm and safe folks and watch for hypothermia.

You get the first place cold trophy Rick. 

Best Wishes - Tom

[avator]

It's 41f right now but the wind is kickin' and you can feel the cold in it. It is suppose to reach a low of 23 by 4am then climb back up above freezing tomorrow. That looks like how it's going to be for the next week with the lowest overnight to hit 17.
Hard to believe I can drive 2 hours south and put my toes in the Gulf of Mexico.

[WobblyHand]

Right around freezing now and starting to snow.  Can't really believe the sensational weather forecasts, could be between 4 to 8 inches, give or take.  Temperature will drop to below zero and the wind will kick up, but nowhere near as cold as in Minnesota or points north.  Might help the missus with some baking tomorrow, sure beats going outside.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Made me look at where we should be at our "Home away from Home" right now...
Quintana Roo, Riviera Maya, Mexico
High mid '80s, low mid 60's.. 

[airgunaut]

Oops. The product is the Mr. Heater Lil Buddy.

[maraudinglizard]

This area is now under a winter storm watch starting Tuesday night, YEE HAAWW!!!!!! Time to watch traffic cams and the mayhem.

https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=FLZ014&warncounty=FLC045&firewxzone=FLZ014&local_place1=Wewahitchka%20FL&product1=Winter+Storm+Watch&lat=30.1127&lon=-85.196

[Bicycleman]

Get this:  Our weather guy on the local channel may think it is going to colder here that anywhere else has ever been.  He said that our temperature is going to be 'below freezing' for the next three days.

[A.K.A. Tommy Boy]

Clear & Cold this morning
The outside temperature is -24°F (-31°C)
The wind speed is SW 10 mph
The wind chill is   -46°F (-43°C)

The high today is predicted to be around -8°F to -10°F

Best Wishes - Tom

[avator]

Dang Tom... I feel like I have no right to complain at all. I think however, that you folks up there kind of expect these weather conditions and prepare for them each year.
Down here they are calling for the possibility of snow tomorrow.. as much as 2" on the ground. We have lived here for 13 years and only saw snow one time here. And that was gone almost as soon as it touched the ground. The local ADOT has zero equipment for dealing with any snow accumulation what so ever. They roll up the sidewalk and street and lock the doors. They impose travel restrictions. If you venture out for anything other than an emergency you will be ticketed, fined and towed.
Most of the homes are not designed or built to withstand extended sub freezing temps. I know folks whose water lines are only buried 6" under ground. The freeze line for foundations in only 18". We have outside water faucets the are nothing more than a plastic pipe sticking out of the ground with a hose bib on them. I pack a 5 gallon bucket with insulation to cover them.
We live in a small mobile home and the plumbing runs under it with nothing but skirting to protect it from the cold.. I drip the faucets when temps drop below freezing as I did last night.

[Back_Roads]

 Yup dem peeps up north have it rough, a balmy -12 here this am, high of 0 predicted. Schools are closed for the next 2 days, hmm when I was a kid we needed a couple feet of snow on top of the cold to get the day off. but still had to walk a 1/2 mile up hill both ways to get the mail.

[avator]

Yup dem peeps up north have it rough, a balmy -12 here this am, high of 0 predicted. Schools are closed for the next 2 days, hmm when I was a kid we needed a couple feet of snow on top of the cold to get the day off. but still had to walk a 1/2 mile up hill both ways to get the mail.

LOL... it wasn't uphill both ways and I didn't have to do it barefoot but, I did have to walk 10 blocks to school on Walnut Blvd. which ran along the beach of Lake Erie up on the hill. I had to run from tree to tree to block the wind.
You're right... schools didn't close back then. The schools here were announced to be closed most of this week. That announcement came on Saturday. But, the kids are required to do virtual classes online. We didn't have that option back then either.

[ricksplace]

My outdoor thermometer registers "-LL.L" when the temp drops BELOW  -40. It read -LL.L at 8:00pm last night. Temp usually keeps falling until sunrise the next morning. It's 9:00am. It still reads -LL.L  I don't know how cold it got, but it's still colder than 40 below. Even the ski areas shut down.
You can be subjected to hypothermia in above freezing temperatures if you're not acclimated. Please be safe and check on family and friends.

[avator]

Got the woodstove fired up in the shop and the temp is up to near 70 right now. A couple more degrees and I'll begin choking off the air feed by closing the door on the stove. That lets the fire burn lower and slower while maintaining the ambient heat. I still have a small desktop fan on a shelf that blows into the rafters and moves the warm air around.
It was around 30f in there 2 hours ago.