Northern weather

[healey36]

Twenty-seven degrees at 11:00AM here with a nice breeze. Scavenged the last of the scraps from the shop, together with a couple old fir 2x4's that looked like sled runners; likely to light off a fire this afternoon.

The postman tells me it will be nearly sixty by Wednesday. Maybe it's that Chinese balloon that's messing everything up meteorologically...yeah, that's it.

[robert.]

Ím up by Niel. It´s brutal. 4 degrees 30+ moh winds and whirling snow

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Twenty-seven degrees at 11:00AM here with a nice breeze. Scavenged the last of the scraps from the shop, together with a couple old fir 2x4's that looked like sled runners; likely to light off a fire this afternoon.

Got enough dry oak and poplar in for this evening; it's tomorrow's fire that will be harder - have to run out and refill the wood boxes!

[healey36]

I started this year with a greatly diminished wood-pile, and now I'm down to just a half-rack. I didn't burn much last year and figured I'd do the same again, but I discounted the the nicety of a fire and its ability to ward off a cold damp day (and we've had quite a few). Strategic error, one I'm unlikely to repeat.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I started this year with a greatly diminished wood-pile, and now I'm down to just a half-rack. I didn't burn much last year and figured I'd do the same again, but I discounted the the nicety of a fire and its ability to ward off a cold damp day (and we've had quite a few). Strategic error, one I'm unlikely to repeat.

I did as well, but then I had a good pile of unsplit logs around back that I needed to clear away, so I had close to a full rack for this year.

I have a pallet of split oak from this year's tree and then enough logs from that same tree to replace and fill the rack again once they are split this fall, so I'm good through 2023/24. It's the following season that I'll be needing to replace the log rank. Have to keep an ear open for a neighbor having some tree work so I can wander over and collect the wood.

And yes, a good fire drives out that cold damp feeling very nicely.

[RBH29]

9 F below zero with a windchill of minus 28 F here in southeastern MA at 6:00 AM. But all is good so far. At the summit of Mt. Washington, the highest peak in New England, the temperature is 45 F below zero (a record breaker), wind is 96 mph with gusts up to 105 mph. The windchill is 107 F below zero. Yikes!

[robert.]

Im in Norfolk CT. Today. It is -14. Not much wind.

[healey36]

Just eleven degrees here at 0600 this AM. I’ve never had an issue with frozen pipes here in this old house, but I left a tap dripping anyway. This “clipper” must be moving fast. Cold today, but supposed to be back close to 50-degrees tomorrow.

[robert.]

Come back to this photo on Aug.4

[healey36]

Hmmm, never saw it that dire here at the lower end of Zone 3 (Mid-Atlantic region). We got down into the mid-teens Friday night at the coldest.

If you're one for paying any mind to the almanacs, the Hagerstown has virtually no measurable snow south of the Mason-Dixon this season. I can't remember reading an issue with such a sparse chance of frozen precipitation. The conjecturer must have found out I bought a new snow-thrower back in November.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Hmmm, never saw it that dire here at the lower end of Zone 3 (Mid-Atlantic region). We got down into the mid-teens Friday night at the coldest.

Reagan's 2nd inaugural was -10 degrees. I was at my place in PA burning wood like crazy as we had guests.

[robert.]

somewhere west of Syracuse video wont load.

[healey36]

Looks like my kid’s commute from Albany to Schenectady. Better him than me.

[healey36]

Hmmm, never saw it that dire here at the lower end of Zone 3 (Mid-Atlantic region). We got down into the mid-teens Friday night at the coldest.

Reagan's 2nd inaugural was -10 degrees. I was at my place in PA burning wood like crazy as we had guests.

Poorly worded on that; I meant to say it never got that dire here the other day/evening.

I remember Reagan’s second inaugural, wondering if the old man would survive it.

I also remember the blizzard of 1996, waking up in the morning and the guy on the radio saying it had been snowing for a couple hours and that total accumulation was expected to be upwards of 30 inches. What a croc I thought to myself...must have shoveled the driveway a half-dozen times that day.

[robert.]

That 96 storm never hit us. Our local weather people hyped it for a week. When they day came. They kept saying. "It's a little off on timing". " In the next hour it will be here" One by one they all backtracked. Then saying " It staid south" One guy would not give in. John Balarus (sp) he doubled down on his prediction. It's 4 hours late. 36 inches will come. 2-3 inches an hour." Blah blah blah. Never happened. Ruined his career. He later blamed it on being kidnaped by Russian hookers.
I was wrong he choked on a 2001 storm. Always comparing to the 96 storm.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/john-bola ... 10304.html