How Cold in Your Neck of the Woods

Carl

Carl

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Heard the sleet fallling last night, woke up to 18 degrees and ice/snow mix all over. Neighborhood roads were all ice, good thing they called off school.
As of 11:30 am, its still only 26 degrees. Our heat pump has been running since 5am and its still only 57 inside the house. We just arent built for this kinda cold.
I've been in Alabama since 1986 and on the Gulf Coast since 1997, we've never had a winter this cold since I have been here. Strangely, the weather hasnt seemed to bring us many ducks.
Icy snow on the boat for the second time this year:


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Local Streets as of 8am, that's ice, not snow:



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Once again, you've got us beat. 23 F and snowing when I woke up this morning.

(Though we did bottom out at -22 about 10 days ago.)

A lot of Maine has seen temperature swings of over 70 degrees since the New Year. At my house it was -22 one morning and 57 and raining 3 or 4 days later.

I think Presque Isle up north went from -27 to 58.
 
Carl,

it's right about freezing with the wind blowing here. The rain blew through here. I'm not sure if we got sleet or not but the rain was coming down like snow this morning. Soft, slow. It's sunny here but the maintenance people here at work have told us all to be extra careful while they get around to salting the entrances and sidewalks because we have an ice problem right now. Hopefully it'll warm up enough that ice isn't an issue when it's time to go home.

Dani
 
It has REALLY warmed up here. It was -2 this morning. We have been seeing -15 to -20. A friend in Watertown, SD had -31 a couple weeks ago. These are actual temps... not windchill or real feel...
 
Carl, make sure your outside unit is not iced up. If it is you can put the unit on A/C mode and it will deice. You can also cut the unit off and take a water hose and melt the ice. This should make it run more efficient.
 
South east Ohio currently [1608] 15 degrees was 8 at 0630. About 3 inches of fluffy snow over inch and a half of rain soaked snow, sleet and freezing rain from two days ago. Tough on the few quail we have left. Did jump some birds as i approached the feeder this p.m.
 
Ours does it automatically, I heard the unit go into de-icing mode at least once this morning!
 
We topped out at 33 for about an hour and then it started dropping again.
water on the streets is already re-freezing.
Schools are closed again tomorrow because of ice and the predicted low of 16 degrees in Mobile.
Just talked to a buddy of mine who's lived here all his life, he's not seen a winter like this.
 
I think you do more harm than good running your heat pump. It will not extract any heat below around 38 and running it none stop can not be good. Do you have an internal electric coil or just the pump?
 
Live in Delaware not to far from the river, solid ice for the last 2 weeks, they run an ice breaker up the channel to allow freighters to come in and off load oil. Haven't seen it like this in at least 10 years. Our duck season is about ruined , water locked up everywhere.
 
It’s two stage heat, heat pump plus electric coils. But you don’t get to pick the system does
It’s pretty much what everyone who doesn’t have has heat has down here.
 
Same weather as Jeff, -28, two day of 55 then back to -22 in an afternoon. The unheated camps I take care of were sweating with condensation when the temp came up and the buildings wee still below zero. Balmy 14 degrees now,changed the brakes for my daughter no gloves no hat . It's funny how we all adjust,back in October I would have been freezing at 14 degrees.

I read the same thing in LA no big push of birds , I think Rod only saw a dozen birds on the last day.

Mean while on the Big Horn I saw a video of thousands of birds from today,their season closed yesterday.

Big warm up on the way for us, 30's low 40's ,I'd just assume have 20 degrees
 
Monday and Tuesday it was very cold again, Monday was below zero all day.
Today was fairly nice for January, mid 20s. For the next couple days we are going to be in the upper 30s and maybe hit the mid 40s.

Next week looks like highs in the 20s which is normal for this time of year. I hope the arctic blasts are going to slow down a little. Maybe we can get a little snow too, we need some before the end of winter.

Tim
 
Yesterday marked the coldest full day we have had yet this year. Started the day being at 18F and that rose to 44F. Today it will bounce back up to 56F with a low of 27F and the cycle to continue in the mid 50sF to low 60sF like it has all winter so far. The meteorologists have nailed their forecast for the southwest it seems. We have never experienced a winter so warm.
Al
 
This morning it was 17. Large shallow areas of upper Mobile Bay and the lower Delta are frozen over. I've never seen anything like it.
Water pipe going from our tankless gas hot water heater back into the house froze, had to hit it with a hair dryer for 5 minutes to get the water flowing.
That's a first for us and we've been in the house for 13 years.
Supposed to get to 44 today.
 
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