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8 years ago

Here in middle SD it is now 20 below regular temp. Supposed to keep dropping. This morning I drove to work in a blizzard for 12 miles, I couldn't see the white line so I drove down the middle of the highway.

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blfenton

8 years ago

I live on the west coast (B.C.) and can't begin to imagine those kinds of temperature or that type of weather. I'll take rain any day because I can still see the white lines and I don't have to shovel it.

I know others feel differently but that's my story. LOL

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lonestar123
8 years ago
I am in the middle of SD also and driving home from church about half an hour ago,the bank said -3. Tired of the cold
bengardening
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8 years ago
Lonestar will you tell me where you are located. I live 40 miles N of Pierre. For some reason I think you may be from Fort T
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8 years ago
Today in Kansas is was sunny, but cold. Right now it is 28 degrees and tomorrow's high is 21. The rest of the week is looking better with 30's and 40's and even better with some 50's next weekend. But things change too much to rely on the forecast a week out.
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Today in southern California it was grey and in the low 60s, probably.
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Not Fort T, Fort P
Alisande
8 years ago
Bengardening, those kinds of drives are so scary! Here in PA we had a relatively mild couple of days, but temps are supposed to drop into the low teens at night this week. We have really lucked out on the weather so far this winter. (Knock wood.)
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8 years ago
We had sun yesterday!

SoCal. Now it's back to very humid and overcast, so it feels like rain but nowhere near raining.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
8 years ago
Today was wet and kinda gray cool Temps for Houston. Now 47.
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8 years ago
We've had a warm, grey, gloomy winter in PA. The ski resorts are really hurting, and we have had not one flake of snow...the latest ever.
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8 years ago
-15 here. DD#2 at SDSU, in Brookings--6 pipes have burst in her dorm this week--four last night. I guess they don't need to window air conditioners for awhile. LOL
boops2012
8 years ago
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Yesterday was 78degrees and sunny. Went to a key lime festival and had a glass of key lime cider from a local brewery. Reading the temps and conditions that some of you are experiencing, it makes me glad that I'm here in Florida. Cold makes my bones and joints hurt. Stay safe and warm.
eld6161
8 years ago
NY suburb. We continue to have a mild winter. A few rally cold days, but for the most part unseasonably warm.

On Dec 10 I went to Florida for a long weekend. I wore a spring jacket going and it was fine when I got off the plane getting home at night!

Today will be high of 40 but cloudy.
llucy
8 years ago
23 here in central OH. An unusually mild winter so far, but I could probably count sunny days on one hand. Uniformly grey skies day after day is depressing.
jim_1 (Zone 5B)
8 years ago
A bit of snow on the ground in central Illinois, but not enough to shovel. At various times through the next week, more snow is predicted. However, some 40° days are predicted, too.
workoutlady
8 years ago
Here in Wisconsin-20. The high is expected to be -5. This winter has been warm. January is usually our coldest month so a weekend of colder than normal weather is to be expected.

Usually by now, we are ice fishing in our shack for the whole weekend. Right now, the ice isn't thick enough for that. Last night when we drove by the lake, we did notice some people driving small vehicles on the ice. But it's not thick enough in our mind. It's only about 9 inches. We want at least a foot. Hopefully with this cold weather, it'll make some decent ice and we can get out there next weekend. Last winter we were on the ice before Christmas.
grainlady_ks
8 years ago
A full 11-hours since jewels gave the Kansas weather, and it's a far cry from the beautiful 60°F days we had Wednesday and Thursday. Currently 12° (wind chill -5°) and the high is expected to be 15°. But this is much improved over last weekend when we had a low of 2° Sunday morning. And there's the rub.... We have shirtsleeve weather for two days, jacket weather for two days, then get out the thermal underwear and double layer of wool socks... You always need at least 3 coats/jackets in Kansas in the winter.
bob_cville
8 years ago
I've been in Southern Florida for the past few days. Yesterday was sunny, hot, and beautiful, but both today and the day before yesterday there were tremendous storms with tornado warnings.
KATHY
8 years ago
In Va, it was close to 60 yesterday and now we are in the 30's with a light snow.
dandyrandylou
8 years ago
41 here in Virginia this morning with the barest excuse for snow one can hardly see.
caflowerluver
8 years ago
I grew up in MA and IL so know all about that kind of cold and snowy weather. I always hated winters and was happy when I moved to CA at 25 years old, almost 39 years ago. Now I think 30 is cold. It got up to 65 two days ago and finally saw the sun. It has been overcast or rainy for the last couple of weeks. Not complaining, we really need the rain.
lindaohnowga
8 years ago
36 degrees here in our area of Georgia, going up to 48, then down to 27 tonight. We had wind and rain around 4 AM but now it is sunny and windy with a blue sky and nice white clouds. I couldn't stand those below zero temps any more. I'm so glad we moved to the south.
sleeperblues
8 years ago
Not a cloud in the sky, negative 10 here in Northern Wisconsin. We are licking our wounds after a Packer loss, and staying inside all day. (Still love my Pack, they are amazing). Little doggies need boots to go outside and do their duties, sigh.
dandyrandylou
8 years ago
One hour later, and we have lots of snow. Beautiful!
Georgysmom
8 years ago
40 degrees and snowing in Williamsburg, VA. I hope it doesn't amount to much. I have to play bridge tomorrow....very important! LOL
blfenton
8 years ago
Pouring rain here today all up and down the coast. A long wet storm hit the coast last night. Oh well, I'll put on my gortex and out I go.

My son flew down to Santa Monica on Friday for a weekend Ultimate Beach tournament. Hopefully the rain storm isn't that far south.
pkramer60
8 years ago
Here in Chicago, at 1 pm, it is 1.5 degrees with a wind chill of -25. I am not moving from the house today, although I should go and get on the treadmill.
chisue
8 years ago
We've had 82F most days in South Maui, but also pollution (vog from the volcano on Big Island of Hawaii). I even needed the A/C in the bedroom one night to breathe easily (asthmatic). Still pulling up a second light blanket on my side of the bed before morning. The Trades are supposed to return Wednesday; they will blow away the vog.

At home, north of Chicago, prediction is for more 'up and down', with heavy 'lake snow'.

Everyone around Tampa OK after the hurricanes there? (How unusual is THAT in January?)
nanny98
8 years ago
Here in So. Oregon, it is 48 degrees and raining. Yesterday was colder, but we did have a few glimpses of the sun, and we also had rain.
joyfulguy
8 years ago
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Some distance north of Duluth, on the road between Thunder Bay, at the apex of Lake Superior, and Winnipeg, capital of Manitoba, north of Fargo, they're to have about 25 - 30 below, Fahrenheit, and with wind chill that's equivalent to about -40 - -45 degrees F.

Here it's a few degrees below freezing and lightly snowing.

ole joyful
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8 years ago
It's 12 degrees here in Michigan but feels like -5 with the windchill. Kind of balmy compared to SD! I don't mind the cold so much unless it's my turn to take the dog out, then I'm not so fond of it! LOL
plllog
8 years ago
Sun is back today in SoCal. There's some high haze, but it's bright and nice out.
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8 years ago
It's below zero some number. Who ever said 5 or 10 degrees isn't noticeable is right. Cold is cold. The long range forecast is to be above zero by Wednesday. I'll take it. It was 10° colder last night than the forecast said it would be. I think the TV said minus 31 at 6:30 this morning. I wasn't watching real close but I think that's what the map showed. While I was doing chores the radio was giving the list of churches that had cancelled. Not ours. At least there wasn't much wind and that's what makes the difference.
cacocobird
8 years ago
I'm waiting for El Nino. I live in Southern California, and there was so much hype about it.

I live in Laguna Hills, and so far it has rained twice -- and not very hard.
plllog
8 years ago
The El Niño delay is actually a good thing. There has been a lot more arctic activity up north with rain in Oregon and Washington, and plenty of snow in the mountains. Good for the water supply. :)
cacocobird
8 years ago
That's good to hear. We certainly need the water, no matter how it gets here.
FlamingO in AR
8 years ago
NW Arkansas. it never got above freezing yesterday and then it started to snow last night, which wouldn't of bothered me, we'd just stay home, except my husband has a trip to Kansas today and I don't know what the roads are going to be like between here and there. I'm supposed to be driving a friend to the big city for a dental appointment and I'm not looking forward to it at all, since we live in the hills and they don't take real good care of the roads around here. Fortunately I have four-wheel-drive but even that is not enough. I kind of wish her dentist would call and cancel her appointment before we head out. Of all times for it to snow. Unpredicted, too.
rob333 (zone 7b)
8 years ago
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Single digits here today and tomorrow. I spent six hours trying to get the water pipes insulated yesterday, and only got 3/4 done. I hope it'll be ok! I also weather stripped the back door and caulked around the baseboards because I realized there was a gap there.

Worse, the Acura didn't start and so, I had to drive the Miata. Which has no heater. It was supposed to get fixed, first last Thursday, but ultimately this Thursday, and I was going to drive the Acura with heat. Danggit!
Elmer J Fudd
8 years ago
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p-log, the storm track currently being experienced in the SF Bay region (including the Sierra mountains and more northern Calif) is not Artic in origin. The storms have been riding a West->East jet stream that crosses the temperate mid-Northern Pacific and picks up a lot of moisture. Our weather is a bit warmer than normal right now but rainy. The rain of the past few weeks has had periods of intensity. It's come from clouds that are more moisture laden because of their warmer area origins.
plllog
8 years ago
I was talking about Colorado, but only have the map on the news as a source.
Elmer J Fudd
8 years ago
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My understanding is that so-called "El Niño" effect is marked by ocean temps higher than average (thus slightly higher than normal air temperatures) and from warmer than normal West-East storm tracks. You mentioned Washington and Oregon, not me, they've been getting these mid-latitude sourced storms too. The same as California has north of the Central Coast region.
lily316
8 years ago
Kinda brutal here in PA today. It's 17 and cloudy but a wicked wind. It's a two coats each for the dogs walk.
User
8 years ago
52º now but going down to 28 in the early morning, In Florida
rob333 (zone 7b)
8 years ago
14 and the pipes were still ok this morning. I may make it! I hope. I won't know until I get home this evening. Oy, I'm going to worry about this all day :(

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