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That makes me feel a little better.

I rode my sled for about 1 hr, and decided to go in.
Back to “Factory Zero” tomorrow.
Have to devise a plan to clear a million square foot roof.

Yes, calving during nasty weather is an extremely brutal, miserable and often heart breaking job which the vast majority of people don't think about and are totally unaware of.

Welcome to my world. Not unusual at all north of the cities, here, this time of year.



At the height of the “Polar Vortex”, what 2 winters past? 1:00PM, -47 degrees F. The nice thing about that kind of cold, is, there is no chance of snow, or, wind. The bad thing, is, it is 47 degrees below zero. Yes, that is ice on mine, and the dogs face.
If she is ever cold, she doesn’t show it.

Best,
Ted

Having spent half my 62 years in Winnipeg, in Manitoba, where at least a dozen all time record lows were set this past weekend, temps in the -30 to -40 (sans wind chill exaggeration) range are all too familiar. I don't live there now.

Happy to go back for visits, not in January or February.

James,
I don’t find the windchill index to be an exaggeration at all. I can take literally any temp outdoors, if the wind isn’t blowing. Last nights 3 mile walk with the dog was at about -13 degrees, but, the damn wind was steady out of the northwest at about 18-20 mph.

I think I was hypothermic, when I got home. Took me an hour and a half to warm up.

Tonight was perhaps 3 degrees, but, no wind. Got my coat off and cracked a beer. Hands weren’t even cold.

Best,
Ted

We used to get an occasional-40F or colder, and regularly 2-3 nights in the -30F range here in ND. But I can't remember any nights that cold for many years. Just read a study that showed three species of birds in SD tended to winter 200 miles farther north toward the end of the period 1974-2017. It used to be odd to see common crows during the Christmas Bird Counts here, but now they are are seen regularly. No shortage of plants invading from the south either. Canvasback would you believe corn, soybeans, and sunflowers are now produced over a hundred miles north of Winnipeg?

Constant rain here in GA. Well .......... 5 days out of 7 each week, lately. Temps running from lows in the 30s to the 40s, to highs from 40s to the 50s.

Hey, somebody's got to populate the South .............glad to oblige.

What the "h*** "is a Christmas Bird Count? For us it's how many doves are feeding in the peanut fields.

SRH

in the piney woods of ne texas...monday night was -4...to my understanding possibly breaking records back to late 19th century....certainly never seen anything below +4 in my lifetime (i'm 71).

the deal for us, like the louisiana guys, is the total lack of any infrastructure to address the conditions...little or no salt, no snow handling equipment, just an endless supply of fools who believe they can drive like always...regardless of the conditions.

ERCOT has dropped the ball - big time (Electric Reliability Council Of Texas)...numerous generators were off-line for scheduled rotating maintenance...numerous others could not access fuel stock piles...many fingers wiil be pointed...but i figure problem can be solved by simply removing the R from their acronym...

but, it's an ill wind that blows no good...we're supposed to stay below freezing for 7 - 8 days & nights....plumbers will have a field day.

Ted, that didn’t read the way I meant it. I’m in agreement with you. Very often a -15 sunny day is a lovely winter day. Gloves off, jacket unzipped, warmth of the sun easily felt. Wind takes that away. I just get tired of weather porn and exaggeration, which is common where I live now. People talk about windchills as though it was just the temp, in order to make their minus 5 sound worse. I’m always game for using the same measuring stick. One or the other and not conflating the two.

I was in Manhattan today to get my 2nd COVID vaccine. It was 52˚.

And found a parking spot around the corner.