Single digit temps first of 2016 what are you roasting ?

Curran softwood pellets mixed in with Ash cordwood. They are doing well in the gasifier boiler!

 

It's supposed to re bound tomorrow and for the rest of the week

 

Here... Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Monday... back to 40's..
must be similar your way...

Dan

 

Take a guess. Hint: They smell like Bear Mountains, are slightly red in color, and I have been waiting patiently for a frigid cold night like this to try em! They are not listed in my sig.

 

Over priced horse bedding pellets

just mess'in with ya Bro

 

Just dumped in the last of last years left overs. STOVE CHOW.......HOLY CHIT.... HOT HOT HOT. Surprised me

 

I know bud! You are close with that guess.

 

Yup! Every batch of chows I have tried has been consistently super hot! The ash volume varies, but they always produce terrific heat!

 

Oh Oh Not sure I believe it but ????

The polar vortex will shift southward toward the Hudson Bay in Canada for a several-day stint during the second full week of January.

While this arctic blast is not uncommon for January, it will deliver a cold shock following record warmth during December. The cold will also affect a large swath of the nation.

While the core of the cold air with the arctic outbreak early this week focused on the Northeast, the outbreak next week will first plunge across the Rockies and Plains, before turning eastward.



Even though the air will moderate as it moves along this path, there is still the likelihood of the lowest temperatures of the season so far from the northern Rockies and Plains to the Midwest, South and East by the middle of the month.

Temperatures will dip below average even for the middle of January.

During the second week of January, highs will be within a few degrees of zero F over the northern Plains and Upper Midwest. Lows will be well below zero in the region.

With the mid-month cold blast, multiple days with highs in the teens are likely in Chicago. High temperatures on one or more days in New York City could be held to the 20s. Temperatures could struggle to climb past the lower 40s as far south as Atlanta with hard freezes at night across the interior South. However, freezes are likely to stop short of the Florida Peninsula during the mid-month cold outbreak.

As the cold air first begins to push southward and eastward, a couple of storms will have the potential to bring a general swath of wintry precipitation from part of the interior South to the Northeast during the first half of next week.

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How much snow falls and where will depend on the track and strength of the storms, Pastelok stated.

There is no guarantee that the pattern will bring accumulating snow in the swath from Washington, D.C., to New York City just yet.

In addition to a possible snowstorm, bands of heavy lake-effect snow will develop as the cold air streams across the Midwest during the middle days of the month. The pattern could unload a few feet of snow and produce local blizzard conditions, where lake-effect bands persist.

The staying power of the mid-month cold blast is uncertain at this time.

"Indications are the polar vortex will again retreat northward after several days," Pastelok said. "There is a significant chance that milder air from the Pacific will mix in from west to east beginning on or before the third week of January."

While the Pacific air would allow temperatures to trend to near or above average in many areas, the recovery would likely stop well short of record warmth.

"Because of a buildup of snowcover over eastern Canada and big storms moving offshore, cold air may continue to periodically invade part of the Northeast, especially New England, during the latter part of January," Pastelok said.

 

Oo Ooo I know!!!!!!! lol

 

Yeah, I had a funny feeling you would know!

 

Good for your business bad for us that work outside

 

I bet I have a bag of those in my stash too

 

This makes me wish there was a dislike option! I prefer the fall-like winter we've been having to this frigid prediction!

 

Thanks a lot, Buddy....

Dan

 

Nicely seasoned spalted maple !

 

Not so sure about the business. i've been feeling a little like the Maytag repairman for the last 6 weeks. It's been so cold in other markets I've been able to re position all of the pellets destined to the Northeast. If the weather does indeed get cold like that, I will be scrambling for product in the weeks to come. I sure wish my crystal ball was a lot clearer!!!!!!! lol

 

You better save a few!!

 

It will never be a problem for our mutual friend. he is one of the "good ones"

 

I changed over from FSU's to Pre-to's last night in the P43 (main floor stove). They seem to burn a little hotter, even though they are ashier . I have used up all my FSU's from last year, so it just worked out that way. The P61 is still burning its mix of FSU's/ThermaGlos (been buying FSU's a few bags at a time to mix for that stove to keep the ash production down lately). Yeah, I know, my system may seem non-sensical to some, or even most.

I have two bags of good stuff; one bag of Vermont's from last year's buy of 6 bags (at $7+/bag ). Also have a bag of La Cretes (CleanFire gifted to me ). I'm holding those for the cold nights. Yeah, its dropped to 4* (was 5* half an hour ago), but still not "cold" here.

All you guys and Stove Chows are killing me. That is what I hoped I was getting when I ordered 2 tons from HD, since that is what they had all over the store (during the fall). They wouldn't let me choose . Instead, I got the ThermaGlo's . Ah well, they burn okay in the Cellar Dweller, so it could be worse.