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

No, this is normal cold. I've seen it 21° colder here at the cabin. Rope has had more than 30° colder in Tok. It gets REALLY cold in Tok ;-)

This is what I call the dawn drop.
It might bump down a bit more this morning. Winds are calm.

 

When it gets that cold up there do you ever get wind with it . Here in MN when gets that cold we very seldom have hardly any wind. When we do it's nasty.

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When it gets down to 30 below ambient. That's life threatening cold. An intelligent or respectful person , thinks before they do .
40 below is a good bit different than 30 below. And 40 below Is Cold ! But, many parts of life can continue along normally. 50 below is when normal begins to stop. 60 below ambient is just plain hard to deal with. You Have To pay attention to things you normally never would even think about.
I know a guy that spent a winter in a cabin somewhere between Chicken and Eagle. They had several nights of 80 below ambient. It would be 40 below inside the cabin as they would let the stove go out to save wood. That winter they burned 20-25 cord of firewood. They just couldn't keep up. My Pastor and his wife homesteaded down at 72 mile off the Richardson highway . The Glennallen school district cancels school if it hits 50 below at the school. One winter in the late 60s school was canceled for about 1 1/2 months continuous. They had to have school almost all summer to make up for it.
That's Cold.

 

Very seldom. When it does , usually that blows the cold out. But it can be a bit rugged at 20-30 below with a north wind blowing 20 mph.
Now, it gets similarly cold in Delta Junction and it can REALLY howl there. I know of it being close to 40 below ambient and the wind blowing over 70 mph.
Best kind of house for that is an underground house !!
Our cold snaps usually don't last very long . Rope gets long and drawn out cold snaps. 50 below for weeks.

 

It looks like we bottomed out and now it's on the rise. It got to 42 now it's back up to 41.7°

 

It depends what the output of the heat tape is.

How far from your house is this building ?
Reason I ask is , its pretty easy to run a coil on your stove pipe with a circ pump . Run it to your pump/well house. A small circ pump doesn't draw much electricity.
And it wouldn't Rob a lot of your household heat.
A nice thing about a glycol loop is you don't have to worry as much if there is a water leak. Its not going to destroy a small baseboard type register.

 

Wow -20f with even 5-10mph wind super nasty . Can't imagine any more wind than that. That's just brutal. In 2014 we got like -16f with 15mph wind . It's was literally sucking the wood out of the outdoor boiler.
And I would fix the fire 10 mins I got back in house I had ice balls pulling at my eye lashes. That is some crazy cold. In 2014 I went thru 18 cord of Oak. Putting wood in the boiler was more like a career lol.

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A double insulated run from the stove to where you need heat wouldn't be too spendy . A 40 watt circ pump should do a good job of it. Since your already making the heat. If I was more technically minded I would be heating my hot water from my wood stove. I have a good idea and plenty of people do up here . Just don't want to do the job myself And there aren't any plumbers around here. .

 

This is low to mid 70s below . I had been outside working near Nuiqsut for several hours. Getting hard to breath at that point as my facemask was about sealed off from ice.

 

0c in the uk after rain all day so expecting black ice .
Burning some holly I found dumped months ago , had to chop it in to blocks with saw , way too hard for my 6 ton electric splitter

 

Just set up a online meter thing for my gas .
24 quid a month , gas cooker ,gas central heating,gas shower and standing charges .
Iv turned in to eberneezer since we had Fire installed

 

Clicked another button and it came down again , start working on electric next.
Meanwhile stick another log on I can’t see a thing sat in the dark

 

That sounds like 1969. It never got above 0°F in Saskatoon during January, plus a few more days. The coldest I ever saw was 60° below F near Norman Wells, Northwest Territories.

 

Boy, I think we'd be in trouble at -40s here. People fail to prepare for the -teens that come a few times here almost every year, and it gets silly with people running out of oil, pipes freezing, etc. I'm usually Mr Prepared himself, and got caught with my pants down with frozen fuel lines in my truck. -40 would be like when South Carolina gets a few inches of snow. Shut it down! I guess whenever you are, you just get used to things. Plenty of respect to those of you in the far north who ride out weather like that and even thrive in it.

It's a balmy 19 here, the wind is finally done, and red maple remains the order of the day. (And night)

 

Not much of an improvement today, and it'll only drop from here it looks like. Poplar and heating oil.

 

Weird warm up here. Low teens overnight, but 33F now with a snow/rain mix. Light south wind. They guessed at 3-6" of snow, but just a dusting so far. Hauled in some good dry Oak expecting colder, but oh well. Supposed to get cold again tomorrow, we'll see. I can not & do not even want to imagine -50 or-60 degree temps. I have ultimate respect for you guys that work in those temps.