We're Old Men (Mostly) so Let's Discuss Weather.....

[Bruce Wrenn]

It was warmer in Anchorage than Raleigh NC yesterday. Yesterday's high: Anchorage 42, Raleigh 32. It's funny to watch Floridians deal with snow and ice. I don't think there is a salt / sand truck anywhere in the state. We have been as low as 8 earlier this week. Expecting some light snow as I type. School is already closed tomorrow.

[Stephen Tashiro]

It was a typical sunny day today, but cool enough that I wore a long sleeved t-shirt while doing some yard work. There were a few honeybees in one of the bird feeders. The internet tells me that on warm Winter days bees visit bird feeders to collect the grain dust and pollen that comes with bird seed.

(Besides, I thought old guys were suppose to talk about present medical problems or the way things were in the distant past.)

[Rich Riddle]

Stephen,

I hope you have a large house. You might have quite a few unannounced visitors from the Creek after your boast. The song lyrics just address old men talking about the weather, but I have read a few post from "old men" lamenting modern issues as opposed to the distant past as well as health conditions.

[Rich Engelhardt]

The wooly bear caterpillars were a bit thicker of coat this year.

How do they know?

From Woolly Bear central....

This coming Fall marks the 45th festival!

[Jerome Stanek]

It was warmer in Anchorage than Raleigh NC yesterday. Yesterday's high: Anchorage 42, Raleigh 32. It's funny to watch Floridians deal with snow and ice. I don't think there is a salt / sand truck anywhere in the state. We have been as low as 8 earlier this week. Expecting some light snow as I type. School is already closed tomorrow.

I think they have to import sand there

[Wayne Lomman]

You guys are certainly copping it with the cold. For me it's going to be 30C tomorrow. Our record is 35C so it doesn't get much hotter.

Speaking of talking about the weather, someone checked statistics recently and discovered that Australians look at weather on the net more often than they look a p##n... Keep warm. Cheers

[Matt Meiser]

I started training for a spring marathon on Monday. I haven't run on a treadmill in over 2-1/2 years but I am later today. Today's wind chill advisory didn't even start until after dawn. Saturday morning they are talking we could hit -10, actual air temp. Even a slight breeze will make that dangerous in minutes.

[Keith Outten]

Its 24 degrees F this morning here in Eastern Virginia with about 4" of snow on the ground and still snowing. We expect between 6 to 8 inches with temps dropping to the single digits late tonight. I am just a few hundred yards from where the York River connects to the Chesapeake Bay on the back side of my place and Sarah's Creek is just about two hundred feet from my front porch, lots of water so the humidity is always high.

Nothing like upstate New York, I spent two years in Oswego in the mid 1980's and the temperature was -30 F every day and the air was so dry all moisture became snowflakes. The average winter snowfall in Oswego was 320 inches so I got used to traveling in the snow and cold weather. If we get 8" of snow today it won't shock me but my neighbors will be devastated

The wet snow will probably knock down some trees so we always expect power outages. That's my warning to everyone about SawMill Creek being online today or NOT.

I have my tractor full of diesel fuel in case I need to pull someone out of a ditch, it happens on occasion

[Ole Anderson]

I need a new indoor outdoor thermometer that is acurite I tried 2 that were off by 4 to 6 degrees according to 2 of my glass thermometers and one is was tested to be true.

I have a roof top weather station and an old digital outdoor thermometer. They generally agree within one or two degrees, often read the same. Hot, still weather, not so much.

[michael langman]

Snowing like the dickens outside, and 13 degrees.It has warmed up the last 2 days. More artic cold coming tomorrow. It felt good to go out for a walk yesterday afternoon. I'm in southern Vermont.

[Rich Riddle]

Who would have thought one of the warmer places to be in the United States in January would be Anchorage, Alaska? We will be in the negative numbers for low temps for a few more days.

[Dave Anderson NH]

Snowing about 2" per hour right now with a forecast of about a foot coming. Winds are about 30mph with chances of gusts to 50+. Yesterday we reached a daytime temperature of 24F which is only the second day in 2 weeks where daytime highs weren't single digit. Night temp have been all over the place ranging from +1 to -12. Further north in NH running as low as -30.

Ho hum,it's winter, it's NH, it snows. Always been that way and is unlikely to change.

[Al Launier]

Snow is really coming down with much wind. Started early this AM with predictions to a foot with winds gusting to 50 mph ending 4 AM tomorrow. If it dies down later this PM I may go out to snow blow drive ways & walkways to reduce the snow level. Easier for me (75) to do two 6" than one 12" of snow. Yet, if winds keep up the drifting would blow snow back in so I probably will have to wait until tomorrow.
Have a snow plow guy teed up if I need him, but I would still have to gear up & do the walkways/steps, so I usually prefer to do this myself.
Expecting power outages. So glad I have a 20 KW whole house backup generator. No worries for safety & comfort.
Stay safe, stay well, stay happy in your workshop!

PS Just read Dave's post. Looks like we are sharing the same weather. So far, so cold!

[Tom Stenzel]

Day after Christmas, Tuesday: Driving the van,the smell of gasoline coming out of the heating system.

Wednesday: Found the fuel pressure control valve was spurting gasoline. Bought replacement.

Friday: Started installation. Ran into the usual GM problems with doodads and junk in the way. Plastic lines shattered from the cold. Outside 5 hours, temp was about 15 F.

Saturday: finished fabricating parts, installed them. 1 1/2 hours outside. Temp about same as yesterday.

Sunday: Drove van to store, no more smell of gas. Yay! Then suddenly get the smell of antifreeze. Front seal of water pump blew out. Managed to limp home (insert SMC approved symbol for SMC unapproved language here).

Monday: Stubbornly refused to do anything except to enjoy the holiday.

Tuesday: Installed water pump. Went well except I dropped a pulley bolt and it didn't find it's way to the snow. Had to jack up van, remove passenger side wheel, pull the fender liner and get the bolt. It was trapped on top of the lower control arm. Outside total of 3 hours, high of 12 F.

The van is now running but still in the yard. I'm afraid to go near it. The starter was looking at me a bit funny while I was under the hood. I think it wants to go someplace warm, like a repair shop.

Wednesday: Stubbornly refused to leave the house for any reason. Temp: Who cares?



-Tom

[Malcolm Schweizer]

Day after Christmas, Tuesday: Driving the van,the smell of gasoline coming out of the heating system.

Wednesday: Found the fuel pressure control valve was spurting gasoline. Bought replacement.

Friday: Started installation. Ran into the usual GM problems with doodads and junk in the way. Plastic lines shattered from the cold. Outside 5 hours, temp was about 15 F.

Saturday: finished fabricating parts, installed them. 1 1/2 hours outside. Temp about same as yesterday.

Sunday: Drove van to store, no more smell of gas. Yay! Then suddenly get the smell of antifreeze. Front seal of water pump blew out. Managed to limp home (insert SMC approved symbol for SMC unapproved language here).

Monday: Stubbornly refused to do anything except to enjoy the holiday.

Tuesday: Installed water pump. Went well except I dropped a pulley bolt and it didn't find it's way to the snow. Had to jack up van, remove passenger side wheel, pull the fender liner and get the bolt. It was trapped on top of the lower control arm. Outside total of 3 hours, high of 12 F.

The van is now running but still in the yard. I'm afraid to go near it. The starter was looking at me a bit funny while I was under the hood. I think it wants to go someplace warm, like a repair shop.

Wednesday: Stubbornly refused to leave the house for any reason. Temp: Who cares?



-Tom

It's not that I'm laughing at your plight- it's that I'm happy that I'm not the only one that these things happen to. There is a vortex in my Jeep where anything dropped- especially if it's a relatively important thing- goes and is never again seen. NEVER EVER say, "Okay, all I have to do is put this one bolt back on...", for that appears to awaken the vortex, and it will suck the bolt right out of your hand. Also if you should happen to spend all day fixing something, there will inevitably be some other something to require fixing the next day which will require you to remove whatever you just fixed to get to the other broken something. I hate Murphy.