What's your Weather like today

[Jacob Petersheim]

Cold here, mid-20s (F) and hard ice over nearly every bit of pavement. A little dicey getting to the pharmacy, but no serious traffic woes. About the same tomorrow, but after that we get cold.

 

[Don Alaska]

What we have is a natural gas wall mounted heater, @Marie Mallory . It is not a space heater, at least what I think of as a space heater. The houses around us all have them, because they are old and used to have the floor furnace years ago, just like our house did.
The central heating and air has not worked in this house for several years now, and we have tried to keep warm using those little electric floor heaters, which are not safe to let run overnight.
Bobby installed the gas heater about a year ago, and it has worked really well. This picture from amazon is exactly what we have. It can work with an electric fan or with the fan turned off.

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The ones I dealt with were not so nice. I think mine were from the 1970s. That looks great @Yvonne Smith. We replaced ours with something called a Gaspack or some such ( I never saw it written). It heated with gas and cooled with electricity. It made life in South Georgia much more pleasant.

 

[Mary Stetler]

Well, it is zero this morning. Saturday and Sunday are supposed to be below zero but then it it is supposed to warm to the 30's mid week.
?????
January thaw early?

 

[Yvonne Smith]

We are supposed to be down in the teens overnight by this weekend also, but warming back up by mid-week. I am hoping that it is not going to last any longer than that. We already had enough cold to kill most of the unwanted outside bugs, and I am ready for spring to start, just any day now would be fine.
Bobby has already been talking about the swimming pool for next summer, and I take that as a maybe good sign.

So far, it is pretty outside and sunshine, but still cold.

 

[Mary Stetler]

We are supposed to be down in the teens overnight by this weekend also, but warming back up by mid-week. I am hoping that it is not going to last any longer than that. We already had enough cold to kill most of the unwanted outside bugs, and I am ready for spring to start, just any day now would be fine.
Bobby has already been talking about the swimming pool for next summer, and I take that as a maybe good sign.

So far, it is pretty outside and sunshine, but still cold.

We need it to get a LOT colder to rid of us next season bugs.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Well, it is zero this morning. Saturday and Sunday are supposed to be below zero but then it it is supposed to warm to the 30's mid week.
?????
January thaw early?

Mary I'm not sure I could take that kind of cold anymore.
I just found out yesterday after google search I have a new ailment, called Raynards Syndrome., my fingers and toes get really cold and turn white. Then they hurt until I thaw them out under got running water or keep rubbing them, then sit on them if no water available.

 

[Don Alaska]

Mary I'm not sure I could take that kind of cold anymore.
I just found out yesterday after google search I have a new ailment, called Raynards Syndrome., my fingers and toes get really cold and turn white. Then they hurt until I thaw them out under got running water or keep rubbing them, then sit on them if no water available.

That is really tough on folks who have that up here.

 

[Mary Stetler]

Mary I'm not sure I could take that kind of cold anymore.
I just found out yesterday after google search I have a new ailment, called Raynards Syndrome., my fingers and toes get really cold and turn white. Then they hurt until I thaw them out under got running water or keep rubbing them, then sit on them if no water available.

Can you get a bag of 'hot hands' on amazon? You can put them in your gardening gloves if you don't have winter gloves. They are little pillows that get warm when exposed to air. I use them up her when it gets below zero to keep my fingers warm.

 

[Mary Stetler]

I got married in 1978. And then this:

 

[Don Alaska]

Our first -20 F./-29 C. morning so far this morning. Beautiful blue sky and I am very thankful for central heating.

 

[Bobby Cole]

Silly people. You can do plenty using solar-powered lights, and far more elaborate than my cheap and minimal-effort ones.

This was long-exposure and my hands were shaky. I should try a tripod some night. The "smoky clouds" are snow on the branches, enhanced by my shaking. The white lights below are my normal year-round lighting.

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I can set different fades and patterns. One nice variation fades into and out of blue and green, then orange and red.

I'm still tempted by a cheap string of solar fairy lights in a golden-white. I figure I could take a circle of cardboard, paint both sides for durability, then lay out a star design and poke the lights through holes. That's about the limits of any "crafty" ambition on my part though.

Cool !
One other thing I like about solar lighting is that when the weather gets rough and the electric goes out, (which it often does) the larger solars can be brought in-doors to provide light during the black outs.

 

[Mary Stetler]

I can't believe how warm it is and will be in the upcoming week. Tomorrow i the coolest day. Down to 7 and up to 22. Afterwards it is forecast 30's and even 40! highs.
Today it will be up to 32. We went from foot deep snow to seeing green grass on lawns.

 

[Mary Stetler]

Cool !
One other thing I like about solar lighting is that when the weather gets rough and the electric goes out, (which it often does) the larger solars can be brought in-doors to provide light during the black outs.

I got a little solar radio. It is better than I thought and already used it when power went down shortly. It has a wind up battery, a solar battery, an led light, radio and ports for charging a phone/laptop.
$29 from amazon a couple of years ago.

 

[Mary Stetler]

I have just decided I like Global Warming. Sadly it has become climate change just after I decided that.

 

[Don Alaska]

Global warming has brought "record" low December temperatures here according to the national Weather Service, although that is only referring to the last 20 years and it was pointed out that temperatures have been unusually warm for the past couple of decades. We are getting January temperatures in December and we are not getting our usual snow. This happened in 1989 when REAL record cold happened here. We lived in the bush then but our neighbor here said it hit -72 F./-58 C. that year. I don't know how reliable his thermometer was though. I do know that planes couldn't fly for periods here as we couldn't adjust altimeters for pressure that high and we had to get coaching from Russia/USSR on how to deal with the atmospheric pressure and they had several instances of tires blowing out on planes when landing on brittle tires. 1996 was a year similar to this one and the sewers and water pipes in Anchorage froze several times as they are only buried 11 feet down and the ground froze deeper than that causing street flooding and freezing. We had almost no snow that year until February when it dumped.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

We warmed up, lost all non-banked snow, got cold, warmed to almost 40 today. Dry enough that I went out and blew some leaves. Not sure where they came from, but it got me up and out and moving around.

 

[Bobby Cole]

I have just decided I like Global Warming. Sadly it has become climate change just after I decided that.

Global warming, climate change, rising seas and melting icebergs ended when we (the U.S.) backed out of the Paris accord and quit giving billions of taxpayer dollars to those who only use our money to line their pockets.

Awfully strange how that happened.

 

[Mary Stetler]

Global warming has brought "record" low December temperatures here according to the national Weather Service, although that is only referring to the last 20 years and it was pointed out that temperatures have been unusually warm for the past couple of decades. We are getting January temperatures in December and we are not getting our usual snow. This happened in 1989 when REAL record cold happened here. We lived in the bush then but our neighbor here said it hit -72 F./-58 C. that year. I don't know how reliable his thermometer was though. I do know that planes couldn't fly for periods here as we couldn't adjust altimeters for pressure that high and we had to get coaching from Russia/USSR on how to deal with the atmospheric pressure and they had several instances of tires blowing out on planes when landing on brittle tires. 1996 was a year similar to this one and the sewers and water pipes in Anchorage froze several times as they are only buried 11 feet down and the ground froze deeper than that causing street flooding and freezing. We had almost no snow that year until February when it dumped.

Only 11 ft down? ours are 9 and we have had frozen pipes in the past.

 

[Don Alaska]

Only 11 ft down? ours are 9 and we have had frozen pipes in the past.

That is the city, and Anchorage probably doesn't average too much colder than you, but our winters are longer. Out here, it gets much colder, but our pipes never have standing water.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

Sunny, for Winter. And I was out for a bit thinking it was around 32 degrees but my hands quickly got too cold. It was only 19 F out there.