No wonder he gets the last plate at Thanksgiving dinner, huh?
He’s not even invited, HH.
It was -5 when Daniel and I walked my wife to work yesterday. She’s about to leave again here any minute, let’s see, oh, the temperatures have shot up and it’s 7 above now. She can walk her own damn self.
A friend of mine from Minnesota told us they would wear scarves over their mouths so their throats wouldn’t get frostbite.
Yeah, it’s really bad out here. People are going to regret wearing shorts come 5PM.
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That’s just mean.
Don’t worry.
He won’t get to wear the badge of honor of surviving Winter Storm … Fern.
Fern.
Come on, Das.
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I had nothing to do with naming that storm. That’s just stupid weather channel marketing BS. Only tropical storms get named.
@Anyone, let me know if u have any ??’s about the storm. It’s pretty interesting.
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Please tell us anything you’d like to share.
Wait was “Winter Storm Uri” not an official name?!?
Well, the face is the only place where your normal winter clothing is likely to leave exposed. My wife sometimes wears multiple cloth face masks Covid style, but she and I both have hats that cover your head and extend down to your neck in a sort of upside down turtleneck leaving an adjustable opening for your eyes and if you should desire nose and mouth. I have a bank robber style ski mask that I wear to the same effect, and did so last night because I gave Daniel the hat I previously described. On our way home he decided to take that adjustable opening I mentioned and pinch it closed completely, wandering around blind. He collided with only one light pole.
Honestly? I wouldn’t want to hold a barbecue, but if you dress appropriately, this sort of weather is a nuisance rather than a mortal danger. I don’t mind being outside for measured stretches.
Anyway, I don’t know why I’m telling you this, you live in Calarada.
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It has a few interesting attributes. It’s a very El Niño-ish storm (shortwave undercutting a +PNA ridge in the pacific, shedding energy eastward as it gets held up by that ridge, some of that merging with northern stream energy coming over the top of that ridge) happening in a La Niña year. The last time that happened at this scale was 2016. The cold is quite anomalous. For example, the DC area could go 14+ days without hitting freezing and ight make 21 days. And, will have lows in the single digits for the next 7 days. The last time was in the 1880’s at the end of the Little Ice Age. And, even more incredible because of anthropogenic global warming. Another interesting thing; as the storm pivots up the coast, it is moving on the periphery of the part of the polar vortex that has been sitting in eastern Canada and supplying all this cold air. If you follow the progression, it very well continue up thru northern Canada, curl back west then drop down back into the middle of the U.S. and spawn another big storm in 7-10 days. And, last, the storm has spawned winter weather watches and warnings that cover 240+M Americans. Pretty sure that the largest impact ever for a winter storm.
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Yeah that’s pretty much what I was thinking.
(Thank you for your insight)
Give me single digits over 40 degrees and raining any day. Like you said, layers can be super effective. And we’re fortunate the house is well insulated and all the plumbing is located where it should be.
We got light snow and cold temps (3 this AM on our handy dandy accutemp thingy). Warmed up into the high teens, now heading back down.
The high today here in my part of VT was -1°F. It was glorious. On its way down to -12°F. And, I live in one of the warmer parts of the state.
Chuck is right. Dress right and you are fine. And, AFIC, the only thing worse that 40 and rain is 33 and rain. Or, for 5M southerners tonight , 18°F and rain.
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That question came up from a friend: what’s causing liquid precipitation with those cold ground temps?
Yeah, we’ve been well below freezing all day at my house, but it’s sleeting on us now. I was assuming I’d get snow tonight, not this sleet shit.
If you’re going to go through this sort of thing it helps A LOT to live in a place where they already know about it and build the houses accordingly.
It’s probably also handy to live in an area where your electrical grid stands a good chance of remaining intact.
Exactly. For example, our house in a western Chicago suburb had cutoff valves for the outside plumbing in our basement, and all plumbing for the house came up through the center. It could get to 15 below (and did) and nobody gave a shit because they drained the outside pipes in November and nothing else was going to freeze. But far be it for the necks down here to run another 100’ of interior plumbing so that nothing freezes in the winter. They probably get kickbacks from plumbers for the repairs.