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

This winter is getting old. Cold for around here...but nothing compared to you NY folks (0 last night, tonight, and -3 tomorrow night). I'm having to do some things different in the super cold too, but mostly just crank the T-stat on the stove to "nuclear" and reload more frequently. I'm going through loads in about 11 hours versus 14-16. Doesn't impact me too much...load it up at 8:00 in the evening, 6:30 in the morning, and a quick, hot fire from about 5PM-8PM. Used to be 6PM, noon, and 6PM.

Burned up all the good wood for this winter. Now I'm burning black and white oak.

 

Tonight / -30
Tomorrow / -4 with a wind chill of -23
Tomorrow night -23 with a wind chill of -34
Friday / 9 with a wind chill of -31

Thank god we have a chit load of seasoned wood ready, if this keeps up I'll be cutting all summer.

 

-29 this morning. Who is they Woodlands?

 

The radio gave out the temps this morning, it was on WMSA. I'm thinking I posted it wrong, Massena was -29, you were -30.

 

I believe it. The boiler went through every bit of wood I could put in it in just under 7 hours. Tonight I am going to leave two zones down a ways. We are not there over there and I don't want the oil boiler kicking on.

 

-20 on the back porch this morning. Boiler did better last night with a couple zones turned down lower. Cruisin through some White Ash.

Kids disappointed. They may have their first full day of school this week. Monday off (MLK day), Tuesday 2 hour delay, Wednesday closed.

 

Recorded 50* at my house yesterday afternoon. Now "down" to 41*.

Weather station recorded 48*. Record high from 1987... 49*

 

Lookin' at 4 on the garage wall thermo. Lookin' at 70 on the wall in the hallway. Go go Defiant!

 

It was -3 on the drive to work today. Stove fired up when I got to the office this morning. Still had warm stones this morning, so it shouldn't bee too long before I am up to temp.

 

-1 now. High of 7 today. Stove is keeping up, but just barely. Going to be sunny today so that will help out a lot.

Looks like they are calling for more snow tomorrow night followed by another cold snap (below 0 lows, single digit highs) early next week. I'm ready for April. Heck, I'd take a normal January.

 

12F this morning, windy
High of 17F today, windy
5F tomorrow morning, more wind

Plenty of Red Oak on hand, house will stay above 70F

 

Hovered around 3 deg last night, high of 20 today in SW Connecticut. Been burning a mix of Hickory, White Ash, & Silver Maple. It hasn't been below 70 degrees downstairs in a long time. For anyone struggling to keep up house temps, all I can advise you on is to air seal and insulate your home this spring and I promise next winter will not be such an issue.

Stay warm,
Jim

 

We had regular temps of -19.5 this morning, they're calling for -25 tonight.

 

You consistently have the worst temps on here other than the Alaska members. Don't envy that. Whew!!!

 

All of Northern NY is setting some records, another night of this, then we get a small break, during that break I'll be pushing in some Beech & Sugar Maple.

I'm just glad we heat with wood and not propane or oil. It just keeps on coming at us, realfeel of -26 tonight.

It just came over the radio, we have a realfeel of -20 at the moment.

 

Zap, you are certainly getting hit hard this year. Downstate we are fairing a little better, like 0° this morning. Going to hit a cold run till at least a week from Saturday that will keep us mostly in the teens and 20s during the day, and single digits to below zero overnight.

Keep on loadin' that stove!

 

We'll keep on loading, the wife just said this morning, all we do is load the stove. Between the pellet stove and the wood stove I had the basement at 86 before I hit the sack last night, it still was 83 this morning, the upstairs livingroom was 70 and the bedroom was 68.

I just pulled this off the NOAA site, it's colder than I thought.
Tonight Mostly cloudy, with a low around -25. Wind chill values as low as -35. West wind 3 to 5 mph.

• Friday Increasing clouds and cold, with a high near 9. Wind chill values as low as -39. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.

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The problem I have with burning so much wood is the near constant ash clean-out.

 

I usually do it on Sunday, I'll be doing it later today.