Ridiculous Temperatures and Wind Chills

[je1279]

To our esteemed Canadian members: Please do everything that you can to lure our current weather back towards you as it is absolutely brutal, and those of us in the US have no idea how to deal with it. In other news, we continue to wish you the absolute best, and hope that all other matters continue to go well.

 

[ve9aa]

-47*C with the windchill here tomorrow. (it's quite windy)

NB, Canada

Meh - It's winter.

 

[Flintknapper]

-47*C with the windchill here tomorrow. (it's quite windy)

NB, Canada

Meh - It's winter.

^^^^^^

Says the guy with Penguin DNA.


Rest of us are freezing.

 

[DustyRusty]

It is the wicked witch of the North that has come to visit. It is so cold today that the red mercury in the thermometer disappeared and all that is left is the silver showing. Our power has gone off and on 8 times today, and my generator is so confused that it can't decide if it should just stay on or keep going on and off. The last time it transferred back to line voltage, and the line voltage went out just as it was transferring. This threw the generator into confusion, and the home went dark for a couple of minutes.

 

[Flintknapper]

It is the wicked witch of the North that has come to visit. It is so cold today that the red mercury in the thermometer disappeared and all that is left is the silver showing. Our power has gone off and on 8 times today, and my generator is so confused that it can't decide if it should just stay on or keep going on and off. The last time it transferred back to line voltage, and the line voltage went out just as it was transferring. This threw the generator into confusion, and the home went dark for a couple of minutes.

Put mine on a 90 second delay because of that. Sometimes we get a tree limb on a line and it just kind of 'strobes' the power. Confuses the GenSet.

 

[DustyRusty]

Mine has a delay but I don't remember what it is set at. The problem is that the power has to stay on for 3 continuous minutes, and then it shuts the generator down. Today it was already in that 3-minute delay period and set the message to the machine to shut down, but then the power failed again, and the relay dropped out again, and after the delay, it started up again only to get the shutdown message again. It was the perfect timing for a perfect storm. This happened once before and it blew out some transistors or diodes in the control module. I sent it out for repair and now I have a spare, should I need it. Problem is that I cannot do the work myself at the present time and finding an electrician on short notice is next to impossible. I have my fingers crossed that it is OK, and will test it in the daylight tomorrow.

 

[bearbait]

-25C here right now with a windchill at -41C and not much better tomorrow, guess I'll have to put sweatpants on over my shorts for a couple days.

 

[PHPaul]

-14.4 F (-25.8C) and blowing a freakin' gale here. Can't believe (knock on wood) we haven't lost power.

Not supposed to get back on the right side of zero until tomorrow.

 

[bearbait]

Hard to believe the deer can eat the frozen apples I put out yesterday. They sounded like bowling balls knocking together they were so hard. Well at least they have whats left of the protein blocks until I get out there later.

 

[Biker1mike]

-12 F. One of the benefits of retirement is that I can look out the door and not have to go out.

 

[GreensvilleJay]

gee, if someone shot at the Chinese spy balloon, it might retrigger 'global warming' for the midwest again.....
you know , the one sending gigabytes of data per second home, that 'can't be shot down as it'd harm citizens'....

 

[PHPaul]

-12 F. One of the benefits of retirement is that I can look out the door and not have to go out.

If it weren't for the chickens...

 

[Biker1mike]

gee, if someone shot at the Chinese spy balloon, it might retrigger 'global warming' for the midwest again.....
you know , the one sending gigabytes of data per second home, that 'can't be shot down as it'd harm citizens'....

If you dig around you will find an old news report where the US put a thousands rounds into a balloon to take it down. Had no effect on the thing.
The best I heard was a talking head say that it was filled with helium and may explode if shot !

 

[mikester]

-47*C with the windchill here tomorrow. (it's quite windy)

NB, Canada

Meh - It's winter.

Windchill - ha ha ha BS cough

If you run around flapping your arms then the wind chill is -65oC

If you add the humidex like they do in the summer then your -47oC "feels like" only -20oC

We had -27oC this morning on the thermometer. That's the number that counts. Unless you are a geriatric then it "feels" 30 degrees colder than it is.

 

[torch]

To our esteemed Canadian members: Please do everything that you can to lure our current weather back towards you as it is absolutely brutal, and those of us in the US have no idea how to deal with it. In other news, we continue to wish you the absolute best, and hope that all other matters continue to go well.

If I see any ridiculously cold weather, I'll be sure to hang on to it. Just for old times sake.

But it doesn't seem to get as cold around here as it used to. When we first moved into this home, overnight lows of -20°C were the norm, -30° was common and we saw -40° several times per winter. (Real measurements -- not that wind chill stuff).

Now -20° triggers headlines and warnings, we saw -30° last night for the first time this winter and I can't remember the last time the mercury dipped below -40°.

 

[mikester]

If I see any ridiculously cold weather, I'll be sure to hang on to it. Just for old times sake.

But it doesn't seem to get as cold around here as it used to. When we first moved into this home, overnight lows of -20°C were the norm, -30° was common and we saw -40° several times per winter. (Real measurements -- not that wind chill stuff).

Now -20° triggers headlines and warnings, we saw -30° last night for the first time this winter and I can't remember the last time the mercury dipped below -40°.

I read these headlines as "a slow news day, let's create a problem where there isn't one"

 

[GreensvilleJay]

'global warming'......
hmm what happened ???
shhhhh.......

re: If you dig around you will find an old news report where the US put a thousands rounds into a balloon to take it down. Had no effect on the thing.

kinda hard to believe a balloon with 2000 1/2" holes in it wouldn't come down...
I know it's big ( size of 3 pickups ) but even a few holes to allow the gas to escape and it HAS to come down...
.one of them phyziks things....

 

[Flintknapper]

gee, if someone shot at the Chinese spy balloon, it might retrigger 'global warming' for the midwest again.....
you know , the one sending gigabytes of data per second home, that 'can't be shot down as it'd harm citizens'....

News this morning says there is a Second Balloon. (Latin America)

 

[S-G-R]

Just a fair day..

 

[ctfjr]

Kinda nippy here also. -9 at 4am up to 2 already at 9:30. Coldest temps I can remember in a very long time. Follows an unbelievably warm January
Still no snow - putting that blower on turned out to be good insurance.