9 Below This Morning!

[ka jowct]

-1 according to NY1. Started my jobs late but it didn't help. Might have climbed to zero by the time I stepped outside. When you are not sheltered from the wind, it is really nasty. And yet I still saw some people ambling won't, staring at the smartphones in their bare, blue hands.

[RgrF]

Most nights are tough for the homeless, this one will be a killer night.

[Rick-o]

I saw a kid get off the school bus the other day wearing a t-shirt, longish shorts, and long socks. Granted, it was only about 15ºF out, but damn, this kid looked to be only seven or eight years old. He didn't seem the least bit concerned with the temperature as he walked down the street playing with his phone.

I see this a lot around these parts. My Mom would have skinned me alive if I went out like that in freezing weather!

[SDGuy]

Well...after my jab two days ago, looks like
[spoiler=y'all can laugh at me later this week...]


temps in the 60s? Looks like we're going to be breaking out the winter jackets around here*

*yes - that sounds like a joke...but it's not
[/spoiler]

[JoeH]

blooz wrote:
Pittdfield, MA has -18. My thermometer doesn't go that low but I bet we're close to that in Cummington.
I slept on the sofa last night rather than try to heat up the upstairs.

So my parents and a few other family members beat me for low temp today. Having gone through Cummington many times over the years making the trip from Greenfield to Pittsfield, you might have beat them depending on how the cold air flowed from Windsor.

It is a it of a shift in winter weather for here. I can remember that it was common for several periods of below 0 weather to occur in this area almost every winter from the '60's into the early '90's. Then there was a period of over a decade with little to no sub-zero days. That ended just a few years ago.

P.S. Wonder what the low was in Florida, MA last night. Frostbit a toe there many years ago on a scouting winter camporee when the lows went to -20 plus a wind chill that weekend.

[Jack D.]

DinerDave wrote:
OK, looks like blooz is the Mass. winner at minus 18.

Any Massachusetts-ites beat that?

Dave

Can't beat it (gee, I really wish it was colder out!) but it hit -15F at 3:30 AM with a wind chill of -39. This is probably the coldest I remember it in the 28 years I've been living here.

The unfortunate part for me is my little 750 sq ft poorly insulated house does not have central heat. So with the wood stove cranking in the living room, I have a pedestal fan blowing heat into the kitchen and bedroom.



In the living room the tomatoes are ripening nicely in the 85 degree heat but the bed room is only 55F. The 55 in the bed room is nice for sleeping but there are times I open a window in the living room because it's gotten unbearable just sitting there watching the tube. The hounds like the heat and are usually snuggled up to the wood stove.





This is Woody and he likes it real warm. All we do is turn and baste every so often 'til he's done.

[OWC Jamie]

Yeah in the 70ies/early eighties I had Winter cold weather gear. Air Force issue long coat with the fur lined snorkel hood. Zipped tight mu glasses would fog up. Insulated pants and boots. It all sat in the back of the closet mid-eighties until we had a real prolonged cold snap (Cape Cod canal froze and was closed ) and went to use it and it just smelled too bad from not being used. I've replace the jacket with something from LL Bean that has no snorkel hood and it is being used today to just get out and about. I have good Winter boots for use with the snow blower or tractor but no heavy snow/winter over pants. Jut haven't really needed them. Even my thermies were still in storage from last year. Just haven't needed them. Can't find a single scarf from last year.

[wurm]

Compared to blooz, I guess I'm experiencing a veritable heat wave here along the South Shore of MA. It was 2 degrees when I got up this morning and about 5 when I walked the dog around 10am. Now we're really gettin' up there.



On a side note, when I tried to use the "degrees farenheit" symbol, it was fine in preview, but I got a phorum error when trying to actually post. Tried tthrice with the same result. I deleted the symbols and wrote out "degrees" and it posted fine.

[blooz]

DinerDave wrote:
OK, looks like blooz is the Mass. winner at minus 18.

Any Massachusetts-ites beat that?

Dave

In fairness I should emphasize that my thermometer doesn't go that low. I'm basing my estimate on the usual correlation with Pittsfield.
Where i am I get a breeze off the river which I think has a tendency to lower temps—especially when there is ice on the river. Folks a half mile away and further from the river had -11. Someone on one of the higher hills around here claimed -20.
YMMV.

[Speedy]

Wait for it.






















+10F for the low.

:emoticon-tv-015: