4 degrees and a blizzard condition

It's 55* here and we're under a Severe Thunderstorm Watch! Winds up to 70 mph have been recoreded in the southern part of the state with heavy rain and hail up to 1" in diameter.:grumpy:
It's a weird winter it is!!!! :rolleyes: :eek:

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Later this week we're supposed to have lows down in the single digits with highs in the 30's and 40's!
That's about normal but the forecast could change by morning and we could be 72* and bright and sunny by the weekend! I could dig on that! :cool: :D
 
It's headin' our way. Tomorrow the temp will fall from 60's (rain) to 12 (snow) over an eighteen hour period. In between is the big worry. Ice? AGAIN??!!! :rolleyes:

At least the swamp will go away. Every river in the state is over its banks. Roads closed. Basements flooding. Standing water in most every yard. Cold will slow things up (while turning every outside surface into a sheet of ice).

(But not is Sunny Southern Ohio where Nasty lives. Cold weather would hurt his orange grove.)
 
Ohio has Orange trees?

When I read the National Weather service report it said, "an Artic Front is moving into the area..." I thought that rather strangely worded, as it had been in single digits all week. I guess one was static, the other dynamic, and both cold.



munk
 
It rained today and is freezing now. SLICK!!

It's really pretty, though, to look across the snow. Its top layer got wet and then froze. With streetlights in the background, it looks just like a skating ring. Vaguely surreal. I walked on it, and made a crack about 6' long! Ice on snow alone is about .25" thick.

Nam
 
AI= artificial insemination

Get best bloodlines without paying for expensive stock.

Lotta dairy farmers use it; smaller farms as well as big ones. Difficulties include the timing of seasons. Bulls have built-in sensors for freshening cows and eliminate the need for farmer awareness. On the other hand, bulls will always try to get you, sometime. That said, my immediate neighbor always uses bulls and doesn't always tell me when he has moved one up to the heifers up near my house. We are NOT amused.

Dunno what the big Texas and California industrial farms do, probably AI, or just buy pregnant stock. They go through their cows annually, whereas the family farms can keep a producing cow for as long as ten years or more.
 
Kismet said:
AI= artificial insemination.
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Thanks Kis. I know about AI, it was just the furthest thing from my mind, must've had a brain fart.:rolleyes: :grumpy:
I couldn't put two and two together to save my life. I started off thinking Artificial Intelligence and knew that wasn't right. Guess I was half right anyway hunh? ;)
 
Living in Southeast Florida, I have one question. What's snow??? :yawn: Only kidding. I lived in Philadelphia, Pa. for 50 years, and I had my share of the white stuff and freezing rain. Last year I got nailed with 2 of the hurricanes. Which proves, when it comes to Mother Nature, you can run, but you can't hide. :eek: :eek:
 
munk said:
Ohio has Orange trees?
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Not much any more...mostly replaced them with the lemons and grapefruit... ;)

No munk...I wish!
 
Was 8 degrees this AM when I looked out at the thermometer. We're having an unually cold and snowy winter here in Reno so far this year. I hope it improves. Worst winter I've seen in the 12 years I've been here.
 
We are expectig highs in the mid to upper 40s today but freezing rain once the moist southern air get here tomorrow. I don't even have snow tires, and the studded tires for the scirocco (not my daily driver) are down at my grandparents 30 miles south.

I saw on the weather channel yesterday that they had a tornado watch east of atlanta and one cyclone touched down in south carolina. We have people in that area right (bill marsh?)?
 
It's about 15 below out there now- just got back from Billings where it's probably 20 below.

It was so cold when I hit the Mo Riv breaks that the engine temp dropped to almost nothing. I was a little concerned I wouldn't be able to climb back the opposite bank.


munk
 
munk said:
It's about 15 below out there now- just got back from Billings where it's probably 20 below.

It was so cold when I hit the Mo Riv breaks that the engine temp dropped to almost nothing. I was a little concerned I wouldn't be able to climb back the opposite bank.


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Sure glad you made it safe and sound my friend!!!! Now make a new post that you are back and everythings all right. People are worried about you.
See the, "Luck thread for munk's drive.":D

I saw on the news that it was supposed to get really, really, cold in your part of the country.
It's been many a year since I've experienced that kind of cold and that hasn't been long enough!!!!
 
munk said:
It's about 15 below out there now- just got back from Billings where it's probably 20 below.

It was so cold when I hit the Mo Riv breaks that the engine temp dropped to almost nothing. I was a little concerned I wouldn't be able to climb back the opposite bank.


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Glad you made it back home.

Have you tried cardboard to block windflow to the radiator and engine compartment?
 
Never had to with the Honda, Thomas. It even starts when it's cold.

But I heard a lot of gear noise last night, and the stick and clutch were sluggish. I figure they never warmed up.

When it gets that cold, you hop in the truck, and reach for the heater knob. The knob breaks off in your hand- or the vent plastic shatters, or the sliding heat bars on the panel. Everything breaks when it's 20 below.

I had a plan if I had a flat tire- drive on the rim. I wasn't getting out unless I absolutely had to.

The Ramcharger with the 440 needed cardboard, and in summer, it liked to overheat.


munk
 
Hey- just found out it was minus 31 here last night.

The Wild turkeys nested in the tree's behind my house. I think they picked the spot as the warmest in town- its on the slope of a protected mountain.



munk
 
Can't see ten feet. Snowing virtually non-stop for 22 hours. 10F and wind. I want April and I want it NOW. :mad:
 
Montana sympathizes and wishes you well with the storm and conditions she pretested for you Ohioans. At least it is warmer for you.
Try 30 below and the same conditions.


munk
 
munk said:
Montana sympathizes and wishes you well with the storm and conditions she pretested for you Ohioans. At least it is warmer for you.
Try 30 below and the same conditions.


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I served my time in Alberta, thank you. A year of that was plenty. (Spit and watch it bounce!)
 
It surprises me not at all you have been many places and know much.


I do have it on good authority, though, that urine does not freeze before it hits the ground. Now, as to spit; what exactly is that made of?



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