Weather where you are.

[Nyboy]

This morning as I was sitting in my heated car drinking a hot coffee I watched the poor crossing gaurd standing in middle of street. I really feel for people who work outside now

 

[ducks4you]

-15 aGAIN this morning (5 AM)!! No predictions match the actual temperatures, but we are colder than central Wisconsin. Still, we had -20 F in the mid 1990's. DON'T want to break that record!

 

[ducks4you]

...chickens still alive and clucking...

 

[buckabucka]

-15 aGAIN this morning (5 AM)!! No predictions match the actual temperatures, but we are colder than central Wisconsin. Still, we had -20 F in the mid 1990's. DON'T want to break that record!

I know that the weather service cannot forecast for every microclimate, but it drives me crazy that no predictions match the actual temperatures. Last night they predicted -18, and then late in the evening, switched it to -15. Actual temperature was -28.

I had not used my car for 5 days, and each of those days ranged from -30 to 4 degrees, so I was worried that it would not start this morning. Thankfully, it did start, but it made such a loud noise it was almost comical. Something between a jack-hammer and a freight train, with accompanying vibration. I almost thought something was seriously wrong, but after work in the relatively balmy 10 degrees, it sounded like a regular car again.

 

[dewdropsinwv]

I went out to start my car this morning.... it didn't want to at first. It was like my car was saying "just joking" about starting. It finally did and sounded terrible. But all was well after it ran for about 10 minutes.

 

[buckabucka]

Bracing for the "bomb cyclone" today. Winter keeps getting stranger here.....

 

[Nyboy]

How did man survive the ice age with just fire and animal skins ?

 

[canesisters]

Got our portion of 'The Blizzard of 2018'
About 1.5" at 5am. Maybe a little more by the time it finished around 7.

It's dry and fine. Swept off the porches and truck. The roads are another story. Just packing into sheets of ice.

 

[catjac1975]

Here comes the Bombogenesis.

 

[digitS']

How did man survive the ice age with just fire and animal skins ?

Because of women.

There was a PBS show on the aurora last night. The film crew was in Lapland, northern Canada, Alaska ... I especially enjoyed the old Inuit teacher in Greenland talking about the "fire in the sky."

Think for a moment what life might have been like for his Asian ancestors and the generations migrating all the way across North America to Greenland. And, what the childhood of that 80 year old guy was like. The village seems a charming place now, in the twenty-first century.

Steve