Freezageddon

[OhioIrish31]

60 inches of snow since 7pm on 12/24 and counting here in Erie, PA.

That's exactly why it took us eight hours to get from Cleveland to Rochester. How about a snow plow on route 90? If they are going to plow any road...90 should be the one. It was brutal!

 

[loomis41973]

2 more weeks of this I can't feel my face weather?

FML

 

[sharksamardzija8345]

That's exactly why it took us eight hours to get from Cleveland to Rochester. How about a snow plow on route 90? If they are going to plow any road...90 should be the one. It was brutal!

Yeah, Idk man. At the rate it was coming down, plowing was damn near impossible. It was falling like 1.75 inches an hour for 24 hours straight. Really tough to keep em clear. So many roads to take care of, but I agree, interstate should take precedent. I think they were clearing them, but just couldn't keep up with how fast it was coming down. Plus, I think Erie dedicates a huge portion of their budget to snow removal, the snow just fell in epic proportions. Couldn't keep up. Couple that with it being Christmas and people being pissed off they couldn't be with their families, it's a mess. It's still freaking snowing haha. Another 4 inches since I posted that initial comment.

 

[Cackalacky]

Note that the coldest place on Earth right now is North America. The rest if the worlds land mass is much warmer than normal.

 

[BGIF]

Note that the coldest place on Earth right now is North America. The rest if the worlds land mass is much warmer than normal.

OMG, did Trump end global warming in America?


Even with California ablaze?



Merry Christmas, Cack!

 

[Cackalacky]

OMG, did Trump end global warming in America?


Even with California ablaze?



Merry Christmas, Cack!

I mean look at how much warmer Cali is than the midwest and east. Crazy how its ALL concentrated here.

Merry Christmas to you BGIF! Happy New Year.

 

[Irish YJ]

The cold snap is F'ing up my vacation to FL next week. Now expected highs in the low 60s (last year same time was mid 80s). Can someone turn up the pollution quickly. PLEASE....

I guess it's better than 20s/30s in ATL. I guess more fishing, less beach if any...

 

[BobbyMac]

Note that the coldest place on Earth right now is North America. The rest if the worlds land mass is much warmer than normal.

That's an anomaly map, not an actual temp map.

The coldest temperatures are still in Northern Siberia where the map shows the darker reds... it's just warmer there than usual. So if it's -20 F there, it should be -30 F.

Conversely, it's 10 degrees F colder in NA where it shows purple, meaning it's -10 F instead of the usual 0.

Can confirm, no one is sun bathing in Oymyakon, Russia.

 

[BobbyMac]

...and so you guys don't feel like you're facing this alone.

It will be in the low 40's tomorrow in Scottsdale.

 

[Irish YJ]

will be getting down in the twentys and teens here in Hotlanta over the next week.

 

[Irish Man3]

Woke up to 3 degrees with a -16 windchill in CT today

 

[BobbyMac]

Mowed the lawn in flip flops and a Speedo. Arizona's just grand!

 

[Irish YJ]

Mowed the lawn in flip flops and a Speedo. Arizona's just grand!

I really didn't need that visual NDC lol.

 

[BobbyMac]

I really didn't need that visual NDC lol.

Still got it, so I still flaunt it.

 

[Cackalacky]

That's an anomaly map, not an actual temp map.

The coldest temperatures are still in Northern Siberia where the map shows the darker reds... it's just warmer there than usual. So if it's -20 F there, it should be -30 F.

Conversely, it's 10 degrees F colder in NA where it shows purple, meaning it's -10 F instead of the usual 0.

Can confirm, no one is sun bathing in Oymyakon, Russia.

Right. Its relative to average. I guess i needed italics with my bombast.

Anyway its still interesting the large cold ANOMALY is over NA while the rest of the world is relatively warmer.

 

[Cackalacky]

will be getting down in the twentys and teens here in Hotlanta over the next week.

I am going up that way this weekened. Not looking forward to it.

 

[Bishop2b5]

...and so you guys don't feel like you're facing this alone.

It will be in the low 40's tomorrow in Scottsdale.

Laugh it up now, Chuckles. Let's talk in August when I'm enjoying a typical Black Hills summer day at 70F while rocks in Scottsdale spontaneously burst into flame.

 

[Irish YJ]

I am going up that way this weekened. Not looking forward to it.

UCF Auburn?

 

[Cackalacky]

UCF Auburn?

No The Confederacy Capital Bowl (my wife's hometown). We will be around Elberton to Athens as well.

 

[Irish YJ]

No The Confederacy Capital Bowl (my wife's hometown). We will be around Elberton to Athens as well.

Good time to be around Athens. Dawg fever running crazy around these parts.

 

[BGIF]

That's an anomaly map, not an actual temp map.

The coldest temperatures are still in Northern Siberia where the map shows the darker reds... it's just warmer there than usual. So if it's -20 F there, it should be -30 F.

Conversely, it's 10 degrees F colder in NA where it shows purple, meaning it's -10 F instead of the usual 0.

Can confirm, no one is sun bathing in Oymyakon, Russia.

Brrrh!

https://weather.com/travel/news/breathtaking-photos-coldest-city-world-20140128

Think we’re having a brutal winter? Winter temperatures in Oymyakon, Russia, average minus 50 C ( minus 58 F). The remote village is generally considered the coldest inhabited area on Earth. Oymyakon is a two-day drive from Yakutsk, the regional capital which has the lowest winter temperatures of any city in the world.

How do the locals deal with the cold? “Russki chai, literally Russian tea, which is their word for vodka,” photographer Amos Chapple told weather.com after his visit to the coldest city.

Oymyakon ironically means “unfrozen water.” This is due to the thermal spring located nearby. Originally the location was used by reindeer herders who would water their flock in the warm springs.

Oymyakon’s lowest recorded temperature was a frigid minus 71.2 C (minus 96.16 F) back in 1924. According to The Independent, wearing glasses outdoors can cause them to stick to the wearer’s face. This is just one of the more menial problems of the extremely cold weather.

Other adaptations locals have to make in their daily lives are more extreme than a short time of nearsightedness or farsightedness when stepping outside. The frozen ground makes it difficult for working indoor plumbing, so most toilets are outhouses. The bitter cold also makes it difficult to dig graves. The ground has to be warmed with a bonfire before a funeral. Locals use heated garages for their cars. Cars left outside need to be kept running, otherwise they will not restart. Planes cannot fly into the area in the winter. And of course the risk of frostbite is great after only a few minutes in the cold.

"I was wearing thin trousers when I first stepped outside into minus 47 C,” Chapple said. “I remember feeling like the cold was physically gripping my legs, the other surprise was that occasionally my saliva would freeze into needles that would prick my lips."

Due to the frozen ground, crops cannot be grown in Oymyakon. The population survives on mostly meats. "Yakutians love the cold food, the frozen raw Arctic fish, white salmon, whitefish, frozen raw horse liver, but they are considered to be delicacy," local Bolot Bochkarev told weather.com. "In daily life, we like eating the soup with meat. The meat is a must. It helps our health much.”

Chapple traveled through Oymyakon and Yaktusk on a journey for interesting pictures about life in the brutally cold environment. As a photojournalist, he searches for uplifting stories around the globe. He said that the cold posed some difficulties for his photography. He said that focusing the lens would sometimes be as challenging as opening a pickle jar.

Summers, however, in Oymyakon and Yakutsk, are relatively warm, and average around the mid-60s and 70s, and have reached as high as 94 degrees F, according to meteorologist Jon Erdman. But the winters are long and the summers, short, and according to Bochkarev, many locals actually complain about the warmer weather.

 

[NorthDakota]

Brrrh!

https://weather.com/travel/news/breathtaking-photos-coldest-city-world-20140128

haven't experienced that kind of cold... but have hit the -30° F temps. Nose freezes up. Face hurts. Lungs hurt.

Stay indoors. You don't get used it anything below about 10° F. Any lower than that and you are gonna be miserable.

 

[BobbyMac]

Laugh it up now, Chuckles. Let's talk in August when I'm enjoying a typical Black Hills summer day at 70F while rocks in Scottsdale spontaneously burst into flame.

Been to Sturgis, while at some point it's 70 everyday, it's not 70 for long. A week in Sturgis looks like M=94, T=98, W=85(rain), R=69(rain), F=78, Sa=86, Su=90

There's nothing typical about any of the 4 weeks of summer in those parts.

In AZ, it's 105-115 everyday for 4 months. 60 of those days it's still nice in the morning. The other 60 you go to San Diego/Orange County or 60 miles up the road to Payson where it's in the 80's at 5000+ feet.

 

[Bishop2b5]

Been to Sturgis, while at some point it's 70 everyday, it's not 70 for long. A week in Sturgis looks like M=94, T=98, W=85(rain), R=69(rain), F=78, Sa=86, Su=90

There's nothing typical about any of the 4 weeks of summer in those parts.

In AZ, it's 105-115 everyday for 4 months. 60 of those days it's still nice in the morning. The other 60 you go to San Diego/Orange County or 60 miles up the road to Payson where it's in the 80's at 5000+ feet.

You're right, there's really no such thing as typical up here in the summer. I've seen 100+ every single day for over a week, and then the next year never seen it hit 90 the entire summer. We don't even have AC in our house. We usually get a few days that are uncomfortably warm, but manageable. We'll even get downright cold a few times in the summer. I've seen snow in every month except August, and seen plenty of cold days with hail even in August. We're more likely to need to run some heat every now and then on summer nights than need AC.

 

[MNIrishman]

Brrrh!

https://weather.com/travel/news/breathtaking-photos-coldest-city-world-20140128

My kind of people. Let the ice reign.

 

[BGIF]

haven't experienced that kind of cold... but have hit the -30° F temps. Nose freezes up. Face hurts. Lungs hurt.

Stay indoors. You don't get used it anything below about 10° F. Any lower than that and you are gonna be miserable.

I skied in -75° F wind chill at Whiteface Mountain in the 70's when I was young and foolish. It was brutal. Ski Patrol was stationed at the bottom at each chair lift. They had people remove goggles and scraves between runs to inspect their skin. Most people they sent in after one run "to have a cup of cocoa and warm up". IF you gave the ski patrol any backtalk they quietly reached over and cut your lift ticket off and told you you could pick it up in an hour.

I couldn't make more than one run at a time without having to come in to defrost. They shut the mountain down for the day shortly after midday. It was the coldest I've ever felt until I had bypass surgery.

 

[NorthDakota]

I skied in -75° F wind chill at Whiteface Mountain in the 70's when I was young and foolish. It was brutal. Ski Patrol was stationed at the bottom at each chair lift. They had people remove goggles and scraves between runs to inspect their skin. Most people they sent in after one run "to have a cup of cocoa and warm up". IF you gave the ski patrol any backtalk they quietly reached over and cut your lift ticket off and told you you could pick it up in an hour.

I couldn't make more than one run at a time without having to come in to defrost. They shut the mountain down for the day shortly after midday. It was the coldest I've ever felt until I had bypass surgery.

Ouch. Can't recall hitting that kind of windchill. That sounds completely miserable.

 

[SonofOahu]

I was walking from my car to class, one day, when it was a windy -26. My Starbucks would freeze on the cup, as soon as it splashed out of the drinking hole. Craziness.

 

[wizards8507]

My ten day forecast peaks at 24. My wood pile is going to be rekt by Valentine's Day. Sunday is going to be "Sunny" with a high of 12. Patriots - Jets is going to be played in 15/-4.

 

[BobbyMac]

I was walking from my car to class, one day, when it was a windy -26. My Starbucks would freeze on the cup, as soon as it splashed out of the drinking hole. Craziness.

Wow! They never tell you that in those Waikiki Beach brochures.