Prepare for arctic blast !

Arctic Blast: Is that what happens after you eat too many Klondike Bars? ; )

 

I agree, its just cold.
'Course here, we call it stoopit cold....where metal becomes brittle.
I won't be out in my bed time shorts to pee the dog and grab an armload of wood off the porch tomorrow!!

 

One place I worked for had agreed to a better electric rate of they put themselves on a list that would be shut to absolute minimum electric use when it guy really really cold. Guess what. Those temps hit and we got to go home and not have to work. I was salary anyway, but those that were hourly had to get paid a full 8 hr day each day. They tried to weasel out of parking the go hourly workers, but they were reminded that the company agreed to have their power essentially shut off to only having enough power to run the HVAC. They even had to sit the servers down so we couldn't even with remotely. That one bit them in the a$$.

 

Polar vortex, actually, a troposphere fold, Think SOMETHING like that scene in the day after tomorrow movie. LOL

 

Got to minot area and on the trip out, instead of coming home empty, had to run to Williston ND to pickup a JLG 1500 SJ boom lift.

that’s a big 150’ reach lift. Weighs 52,000 lbs.

it was -7*F when I picked it up.

 

Wind started picking u a few minutes ago and I can hear the low moaning of it in my office. Means the system is making its way thru. 10 minutes ago it was 30* and now it is 27, so lets just see how fast that falls. Once the wind really gets cranking, it will no longer be that low moan I hear now - but a higher pitched scream.

 

I saw a list of school closing during the news last night. My guess is every school in the state will be closed

 

Gotta use up those snow days one way or another.

 

And 25 minutes later it is 23* - and snowing for the 3rd morning in a row.

 

At least it's not to be cloudy. Your panels will suck up as much sun as they can.

 

They close the schools now a days if they think it might snow or if it is going to be hot outside so why not close them for cold weather.
All I can say is times have certainly changed.

 

9⁰ drop in 3hrs. Down to 20⁰ and breezy

The woodstove and humidifier are battling it out for air supremacy!

 

-8 and -30 wind chills

 

Maybe your High for the day.

19 and dropping here with 25 mph winds.

 

High was at midnight but temperatures dropping all day
In this cold and wind we are having intermittent power outages. A few hours with no heat could make you nervous. Wood stove keeping up so far

 

My senior year high school, the month of December, only had 1 day went above 0 not freezing
This is not unprecedented

 

13F out right now, feels like temp is -6F. Wind gusting a lot. Just read a report on WMUR that a tree came down on a couple cars on a road in Salem NH, 1 person hurt. Funny in the story the writer says "why the tree came down is unknown". Really? Let's see, in the 2 weeks previous we have storms that left frozen snow on all the trees for those 2 weeks, high winds, many power outages from falling limbs & trees. Maybe trees that were weakened will probably fall today & tomorrow? I think ChatGPT could write better copy.

sam

 

"The tree has so far refused to comment." lol