Weeks of tempetures colder than -35*F up here don't even make a blip on the news but a couple of cool days and Texas is bent out of shape......

Currently +15* and snowing. Nice weather.


That's why I air-conditioned my igloo. Wouldn't want it to accidentally melt away......

 

It has been a strange winter. We had maybe close to two weeks where every night dipped down to about zero and even a few nights that left a small amount of frost on the vehicles, but this was all gone by about 7 a.m. Even the sunny days only got up to the low to mid 69's which is very low for this part of the world. The sun is quite warm, but shade gets coolish and forced me to occasionally wear a sweater more than I ever have since moving to Mexico 10 years ago.

Down here everybody is "dying" from the cold if it gets below 50F. The buildings can take the small degree of cold due to the fact that the cold never lasts long enough to cold soak anything. Water pipes for the most part are exposed and I have never heard of one freezing. Even my hose pipe which never comes inside has never frozen. No houses have central heat, but a few now use small portable propane room heaters. My house does not even have a portable heater and when it gets cold, everybody just throws on another sweater. Very few houses even have A/C as it is not required, except for at the most a total of 10 random days during the hottest summer days. My automatic lawn sprinkler system is on every night and even during the coldest part of winter, the grass grows enough to get mowed about every two to three weeks.

The vegetation does occasionally get slightly frost burned, but only the top leaves and not enough to kill anything. This winter only had one small tree in with any signs of frost burn on the crown and that is a strange one because it is right next to a similar tree that had no problems

 

Well, we went from -16 F which is pretty common to it could rain today with a high of 42. I don't understand it.

 

30F atm

 

Sunny and warm 75 mornings 50's

 

Went off and left the iron plugged in. When I got back, stinking huskies had a hockey game going on in the living room.

 

Well we hit the old 80 mark this afternoon in the lanai - - sure was nice getting some good tan again - - been way too long. Quick dip in the pool to cool off and back to work.
Bob

 

34 and rain with snow tomorrow here. Warm for here again tomorrow and then back into the deep freeze on Sunday.

Roads are slick and nasty out there.

Be safe folks.

 

-40F Windchill this morning.
-15F Ambient.

I like summer.

 

Dipped to -11 F on the way in to work today. Forecast calls for 40 at the end of the week but we have a couple days below zero until we get there. From 30 degrees below normal to 10 above normal. I'm ready for it to warm up some. The horses won't eat so much hay then.

 

-40 C/F windchill here today. Plus 4C or Plus 38 to 40F for Saturday.
Steady rise in temps starting tomorrow. No precipitation in the forecast either.

 

Colder than a Witch's Welldigger. Don't think it quite made the double digit negatives last night. Suppose to get cooler though. A thaw may be on the horizon though. They're saying the jet stream is gonna move back north.

 

Said when you walk back from school and comment on how it feels warm out, and its -2 according to the care, most days sitting in the freezer would be warmer then outside.

 

Slugging/delivering bread all day long(3AM till finish-about 2PM---depending on weather/call volume/traffic)it was -25C today but getting warmer/long underwear kind of day. -----After 20+ years doing this with the same company 6 days a week, i still get a few dummies asking"WHY IS THE BREAD FROZEN" in this weather.Go figure!!!!!DW

 

We're gettin' another "arctic blast" tomorrow. That's what the weather folks like to call strong cold fronts; "arctic blasts." Gonna be all the way down into the ..... gulp...20's.