Colder here. What's your temp? What ya burnin?

31 with sunny skies. Ash, sugar maple and red oak to start out the day with.

 

-1/72 Hedge/honey locust

 

We're in it now, -32C feels -44C this morning. Slept almost 5 hours instead of getting up to feed the fire, and she's a tad chilly.

 

10/68. Dropped to 0 an hour ago.

I fired up at bedtime in anticipation of the overnight forecast...winds developing.

What a miserable night; it got to 73 inside temp!! Way, WAY to warm for sleeping!! I opened the patio door and left it open for 10-15 minutes.

 

Red sky this morning. It was 21 when I woke, 71 inside. RO doing the work.

 

-44 below now. Woke up after a full 8 hour sleep to 62 in the house. Got it up to 90 again. Bedrooms are probably 65 so far.

 

Where the heck in MT are you that it's colder than my province of Sask above?

 

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Generally South Western Montana. 44 below is with the wind chill. 6 miles as the crow flies it is 37 below. I live in a valley surrounded by mountains, so it is always colder in the winter than up on the mountains below the big rockies. My brother had 15 degrees warmer when he texted me this morning. He lives 1200 feet higher, but only 4 miles away as the crow flies. 30 miles away at my sister's house it was only 22 below. Mountains have their own weather.

Down the valley, some summers farmers can even grow corn. Never up here. No tomatoes either. Sucks when you like to garden.

Some of our older locals also go to Juneau Alaska for the winter. They testify that is it warmer, but they get more snow. Hard to wrap ones head around.

 

-35c/-31f when I got up this morning. It was nice to see my wife loaded the stove so its doing its thing. I start losing house temp below -23c/-9f with just the wood stove so the furnace has to do some lifting but not much. Not to bad for a 2 cf wood stove and a 2600 sq ft house.

 

Camber weve chatted about this before but for comparison Im a 1 hour drive north of Eureka Montana and they are saying -27c/-16f there and we have warmed up to -34c/-29f. You also have pretty big elevation differences for communities in your state right? Ive been impressed with some of your cold temperatures that you get. I live relatively high up for communities in BC at 3900 ft and right in the Rockies. I used to do lots of ice climbing and I had a friend that moved to the Eureka area and he was dismayed at how warm the winters are in Eureka as a general rule. I guess he was in the wrong part of the state for an ice climber. We are generally milder than saskwoodburner though.

 

We peaked out at 45 today, headed downhill until tomorrow night when we hit 0. Raining hard right now...changing over to snow at some point. We are under a wind advisory so it is probably going to feel pretty brisk out there.

I checked the boiler this AM and it had a lot left in it from yesterday. I'll put 2/3 of a load of hickory and oak on this afternoon and it will be good for at least 24 hours.

 

65 yesterday. 18 today. Oklahoma weather at its finest.
Red oak and hickory doing it's thing.


Loading up the Lopi
Mike in Okla

 

Yeah, we have a big elevation difference in the communities. I'm actually at just a mile high. But you know west yellowstone is colder than we are and they are further south and at a lower elevation. Cold air sinks, and it just gets socked into the valleys and basins. I have a ex girlfriend from 30 years ago that lives in Eureka. She also has told me that it is warmer in Eureka. Same as the Yak, or Kalispell. The arctic fronts come in from you guys and works its way south. We never trust some weather app to tell us the temperature. The weather station for my local news has a temperature reading that is never ever accurate for me. We started texting each other a few years ago to inform each other of the temp at each other's homes. You can really feel the difference when riding the sleds over a 60 mile run.

 

Looks like 7AM was the heat of the day @ 6F. Now at 2PM it’s down to 1 above zero and the high for tomorrow is supposed to be about -5F

3 kinds of wood by the stove, mulberry, hackberry, elm.

 

Our forecast has only gone up.

I'll go out and do the first round of snowblowing and try to get an assessment, but we've got to have 6" already, and they are saying about a foot is expected now. Yesterday they were saying 6+". Yep. Definitely got that already

 

7.5" of wet heavy snow so far, as of a good half hour ago. It's still snowing and it's expected to keep snowing until tomorrow 8am. The good news is that the white of supposed to be much drier and not as heavy for the remaining amount we get, so it should be much easier to snowblow.

73° inside, elm and oak in the quadrafire. 31° outside

 

Our local TV weather crews have separate forecasts based on where you are and take effect any lake effects to alter the amounts.

 

34 outside , 78 inside about two inches of snow out there right now who knows how much we will actually get But it definitely looks like it's going to get coooold