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Re: $hucks it is cold...
« Reply #60 on: January 10, 2025, 11:16:39 AM »
It's 37 here going to 39 and sunny, Warm for upstate NY.
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Re: $hucks it is cold...
« Reply #61 on: January 10, 2025, 11:24:49 AM »
Ow. I've been sitting around in my bathrobe and my knees are hurting pretty bad. I'm going to put my fleece pants on and see if warming them up helps. I never used to have a problem with the cold, bur ever since I retired I spend most of my time half-dressed and sitting still. Not the best way to stay warm. I could turn up the heat but the rest of my body feels good at 68 or 70 degrees.
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Re: $hucks it is cold...
« Reply #62 on: January 10, 2025, 04:40:45 PM »
We have an honest foot of snow.  Makes tending animals a bit of a pain.
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Re: $hucks it is cold...
« Reply #63 on: January 11, 2025, 03:44:21 AM »
It looks like we got 2" in the last 12 hours and it's very slowly coming down. It's 22 degrees but should warm up 5 degrees by 11 am. I don't know if I'm going to put the snowplow on my ATV and play in the snow, or just let it melt on its own like I did the last few winters. I might shovel my sidewalk once this year if I feel ambitious. My snowplow is 52" and the sidewalk is 60" so I can drive down it and be mostly done in 15 seconds.
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Re: $hucks it is cold...
« Reply #64 on: January 11, 2025, 05:42:16 AM »
27 and lightly snowing at 20 til 5 this morning.   Heat wave compared to the -4 a few days ago.
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Re: $hucks it is cold...
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Re: $hucks it is cold...
« Reply #65 on: January 11, 2025, 01:31:39 PM »
It's 32 now but feels like 23. I think it got just above freezing, but now it's getting ready to dip below freezing again.
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Re: $hucks it is cold...
« Reply #66 on: January 11, 2025, 01:32:01 PM »
I know this is just a sprinkling for you northern peeps, but in the ATL it's a major holiday.  And don't tell me we don't know how to drive on it.  There's ice underneath it all and most grades which includes overpasses, exit and entrance ramps are coated with it.  1-1/2" in a little over an hour.  Followed by 3 hours of light drizzle.  All on top of the frozen ground and roadways.   My Sunday IDPA match my be cancelled.  Fortunately because of the wide temp swings, this should all disappear by Saturday afternoon.

My kid lives in Peachtree City and sent me almost the identical photo.  We're in the high 20s here in Western North Carolina and I can't get down my 1/4 mile driveway.
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Re: $hucks it is cold...
« Reply #67 on: January 11, 2025, 02:39:11 PM »
I'm not going to ask why it's colder in NC than it is in Michigan. Sometimes it's colder in Texas than it is here. And Arkansas too when I checked a year or so ago. One guy at Universal Coin & Bullion in Beaumont, TX would ask how the weather was when he called. Sometimes he called when he wasn't trying to sell me anything, just to talk. It was funny to hear the times it was really cold there and maybe 20 degrees warmer here. Then in summer it was 30 degrees hotter there. It didn't sound very comfortable most of the time but I guess they have a couple of nice months a year, one in spring and one in fall. :)  A lot of people think it's like a frozen tundra here in winter, but it's usually about like mid-Ohio, not like Canada or even the U.P. 
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Re: $hucks it is cold...
« Reply #68 on: January 23, 2025, 09:35:11 PM »
Yesterday it was 5 below at 5 am. I guess there was a cold warning for a few days. I didn't know about it but put an extra blanket on my bed for a few days starting Monday.
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Re: $hucks it is cold...
« Reply #69 on: January 26, 2025, 04:23:40 AM »
It's 27 degrees now, but "feels like 14". It didn't actually feel that cold when I walked out barefooted to get my mail a moment ago.
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