Temperature

For those that have to deal with cold winters, what do you set your thermostat at and when?

For winter I'm thinking of setting mine at 68. I had it at 70 one year but wondered if that was too high. I don't vary much whether during the day or night, I tend to keep it pretty steady.

For summer I was at 73 at one point but moved to 75.

We have a programmable-during the week it is around 64 during the day, 66 during the evening, then back down to 64 overnight.

Weekends are 64 overnight and 66 during the day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

My gosh you keep it cold!!

I dress accordingly.

I was doing 65 during the day when only the dogs were home. Hey, they're wearing coats!
Now between elderly mother and recuperating hubby, temps are a bit higher and it's already showing on my gas bill.

65 at night, 65 during the day, all year round.

65 during the day, 68 when we are home.
(Unless we burn wood in the fireplace, then it's 75+)

74 during the summer with AC.

Thanks everyone, I know there really isn't a right or wrong answer, I was just wondering.


Except for this person:



If I wanted your opinion on what others keep their thermostat set at I would have asked. I will form my own opinions, thank you very much!

Mazda, Gin, Aquanet

64/65 when home, 60 when not home and at night.

Programmed 60 during the day, 63 evening, then 57 while sleeping.

^^^smart lady^^^

^^^smarter adolescent^^^

I'm a bit older than that!

Heat comes on if below 68/ Air Conditioner comes on if above 73. Between 68 & 73 - nothing...... I could probably drop the 68 to 65 and be perfectly fine.

I like it to be 86 at all times.

I jus' playin witcha!

We don't have central air, and live on the second floor of an apartment building. Mid-winter it can be zero outside, and in the upper 70s in our place, without having the heat on. It's ridiculous, we often have some of the windows cracked throughout the winter. Our heat is set to kick on if it drops below 60, it almost never does .

meanie!!

quit your whining and answer my original question or take your thread derailing elsewhere

I'm almost ashamed to say....

I keep mine at 76-78 during the winter, and 72-73 during the summer. I like to be warm and not be overly burdened by layers and layers of clothing.

Summer - 73
Winter - 68

I could move in with Minion! I like sleeping COLD.

Happy Cake, Peepers.

Well now we actually HAVE heat... we keep it around 72 when we're up/home, 67 when we're at work, and 65 overnight. During the summer it's 70-72 all the time.

Woodstove, old mobile home. On a cold night, we'll try to get it pumped up to around 75 before going to bed, and it can fall to as low as 50 by morning. I love country living!

65 in the day/evening, but we'll probably kick it down to 62 soon. Then we set it for 58 when sleeping. 58 when we're not home, also. We use sweatshirts and blankets to survive and an electric blanket at night.

It dropped into the 20s last night, and we woke up to snow-covered roofs, though the ground is still too warm for anything to stick. It was quite a shock to walk out the door this morning. I'm ready for Spring.

Several years back we put in geothermal heating. This was after years of paying huge propane bills. Back then, it was always cold in the house. Now, I generally keep it at 72-74 when we are home, and 70 in the summer, sometimes lower. Average bills between summer and winter run around $110.00. I love it.

This is the time of year when we alternate between the fans blasting away and the A/C going. The A/C is on right now, but we are getting down to near freezing tonight.

Anything I say will just get me in trouble so I will just let the statement stand on its own.

I can go outside with wet hair and a t-shirt inthe mornings no matter what the temp...but in the evenings I can be wrapped up like the michelin man and be cold outside...go figure!

I wood half to wear a noce midden!!!

If it's less than 70 outside, our heat is set at 69. If it's more than 75 outside, our a/c is set at 74. Between 70-75 outside, nothing on in the house and windows are open.

Sorry. I get cold easily.

If I could find a way to prevent the wife from changing it, it would be 60 in the winter and 80 in the summer. However, it usually ends up around 68 in winter and 75 in summer.

If it drops below 64 inside, I'll turn it on to 66. Nothing at night, that's what blankets are for!!

I've only had my heater on twice so far this year. Oh, and I ran the A/C once last summer, on the day I was moving into the house.

I don't like to spend my money paying utility bills!!

Summer - 75
Winter - 70

All day and night, I don't do well cold. Ex father in law was in the HVAC industry for years and was very against having the temps adjust day and night. Said it didn't save anything and was very hard on heat and air units.

Interesting Jen, I wondered about that.

Mine only differs by one degree from day to night (heating and cooling) but I wonder if that really does anything, if it's even worth it.

The one nice thing I do have is a thermostat that switches over from heat to cool without setting a switch. That's sometimes needed in WI during the beginning of Fall/end of Spring

divorce?

<<<----hasn't switched over to heat yet, so the AC isn't running very often. I think the thermo is set on 74 maybe?

It was 21 degrees here this morning!!! Heat was on!

Yup, 17F here! Beautiful sunrise though.

Sunrise was beautiful here as well, just deceiving!

The unfriendly little thermometer on the porch this morning said 15.

No wind though. Made for a lovely walk.

You people are insane. It was upper 30s here and even all bundled up I was still cold while outside feeding the horses.

29 degrees and did not appear to be cold for the morning walk.

Windy here...and cold...although I don't feel it first thing...the horses were ridiculously frisky tho.

Boy there is a lot of whining about the cold in this thread. Suck it up people! And rub some dirt on it.

You left of man up and %$%$*# you #$#*(#.

It was so cold here yesterday (close to being below zero with windchill) that the 20 degree temp this morning felt downright balmy.

I learned my lesson years ago when we got the first husky. I bought an amazingly warm knee-length North Face jacket. Worth every penny and it has lasted me years.

I'm plenty warm on our walks and in the snow.

Windchill was 20 here this morning. a bit nippy. Supposed to be cold again tonight and then start warming up back into the 70's by Friday..... Not good for the sinuses......

The dirt isn't frozen quite yet, so at least that's still possible!

I'm looking forward to the construction crew ripping our building's west wall off in the next week or two. I'm sure that this winter will be nice and chilly in here!

Supposedly we'll get to 77 degrees today. I'm whining because it's NOT cold and rainy yet!

It was 24 on my way to work this morning. I like the cold, it wakes me up! My bathroom window is cracked all winter. Most winter holidays are at my house. I have pictures from every year with my mom and aunt wrapped in blankets while eating dinner. My family does not like the heat. It's easier to layer on if you're cold, then it is to remove layers when hot.

Then again, I'm always hot!

You really ought to have Joe fix that.

I was just going to brag about our high 70's today!! Too bad it's not the weekend!

mtngrll and bOatn Shasta should be banned from posting in weather threads from November until April.

I was not pleased with the drop in temperature last night.

Sunny with temperatures rising to near 89F. Winds light and variable.

:stares at cg:

Are you being held in NJ against your will?

I am not allowed to leave the state.

I am certainly not holding you back!

Yep - got down to 56 degrees last night.... currently just after noon and 90 degrees.
(It's just wrong - I like the cold weather!)

We usually keep A/C at 74 and heater at 66 (but mostly turned off at night)
Right now we have not had A/C on for about 6 weeks and have not switched to heater yet.

Life in So Cal...

You wouldn't like our house. We keep it at about 61-63. But, both my husband and I are pretty warm-blooded. I will get cold before him, but I don't mind curling up in a blanket.

Goodnight, I would freeze to death living in Michigan with the thermo set at 61-63!!!!

Crazy weather here as well. It's in the 30's today and tomorrow and then it's supposed to be upper 70's this weekend. Next week is back down in the 40's. No wonder everyone is getting sick!

It was down in the 30's at night around here for Thanksgiving, and now that it is December, we are back to 80 degrees.

This is the kind of global warming I can handle!

We are supposed to get into the low 50s this week with rain. Then back down to the 20s-30s this weekend.

We are supposed to get SNOW Thursday and Friday. SNOW. Gross.

It is mid-20s right now and intermitten snow flurries (had about 6 inches of the fluffy stuff on the ground this morning). Supposed to get another 5-6 inches tonight and then the temps will hit the deep freeze for the rest of the week and through the weekend. Brrrr...I'm not ready!

Yes. It is supposed to be in the 70s today and then fall apart Thursday night.

High of 55 today, 70 tomorrow and 38 on Thursday. Weird!

Arctic cold front on the way!

fixed for Pale

freaking 80 degrees today...

It's pretty warm here. 40's. I'm sure the hunters are loving it.

Going to get in the 20's here tonight, after all the warm weather here lately, it will come as quite a shock!

The weather channel tweeted a picture of a city's forecast that was supposed to go from 40-something highs down to negative 30 as a low within like 4-5 days. I can't remember the town tho...

I think that may be my town mani.

well, that's very helpful...

Stanley, Idaho

Forecast High of 40 degrees Sunday, then low of 26 BELOW zero on Thursday morning

Sounds like us in May, but the difference there is a low Sunday of 40 followed by a high on Thursday of 106.

We're supposed to drop to 40 the next few nights. :bbrrrr:

Wed, Dec 4: 81°

Thu, Dec 5: 85°

Fri, Dec 6: 83°

Sat, Dec 7: 84°

Winter Storm Warning here from 9 tonight through Thursday. 6-10 inches of snow in the Twin Cities. 15-20+ in northern MN. Highs this weekend will be in the single digits with lows just below zero.

::looks up Accuweather App::

Today: High 65, Low 45
Tomorrow: H 58, L 39
Thurs: H 57, L 34

Forecast here (Southern Colorado):
Today: High 64, Low 22, chance of snow 60%
Wed: High 23, Low 8, chance of snow 40%
Thur: High 9, Low 0, chance of snow 20%
Fri: High 17, Low 0, chance of snow 20%
Sat: High 21, Low 5, chance of snow 10%
I am not looking forward to Saturday, when we are decorating the parade of lights float for the Cub Scouts. Parade starts at 5:30. The boys are going to be frozen by the time they get done.

My dogs are so jealous... but I'm not at all. It's 50 right now and humid as all heck. Stay safe, PP!

projected high today of 82...which means fog over the lake again tomorrow morning...which means a 22 minute drive on the bridge turns into almost an hour as they restrict speeds by police convoy to 30 MPH...ah, commutting, so much fun

Thanks but worry more for RR Sarah. Northern Minnesota has been getting hammered the last couple of days. And they will likely be colder than down here in the Twin Cities.

Currently 63 here - with a high of 78 - not coming out of the 70's until next week and then we're in the 60's.

-11 on the way to work this morning!

Fresh!

Should end up with probably 15" of the white stuff by the time this storm is through. We're actually pretty lucky because some surrounding areas are going to see as much as 30". That's a lot of the first snowfall of winter. Temperature is not too bad right now but I believe Saturday we're supposed to have a HIGH of -2. Woot!

We've got a cold front in our area. It was 11* at my house this morning! Brrr! My husband sets the thermostat to 65 during the day so it was a little chilly last night in the house. We heated it right up with a fire, though.

We're going from a high of 68 today to 28 tonight, then ice/sleet/snow for the next two days. Then at least 10 days below freezing. I wish I lived further north where the winter precip was just snow. I really don't like the phrase "wintery mix."

Global warming!

I've got some warming below my equator........shouldn't have had a burrito

::LIKE::

Better than our week of highs in the low to mid 30s and lows in the low to mid 20s. It was 23 this morning. I wore ski pants to walk the dog....

Gulp. Highs for this weekend:

Friday - 27
Saturday - 26
Sunday - 28

Jesus H in a heatwave!

It's 60 here today.

High of 30 by Saturday.

You are getting what we had yesterday and Tuesday!

Now it's 25 degrees.

We're looking at highs in the 50s, lows in the 30s through Tuesday!! I'm not ready for this cold.

It's 23 here and freezing rain. I hate Mother Nature.

68 this morning at 6:00 - and supposed to be down to 43 by 5:00. Currently (10:30) it's 48.

Highs for the next few days:

Friday: 1
Saturday: 2
Sunday: 10
Monday: 4
Tuesday: 10

Lows will be below zero each day. Windchill tonight estimated at -25 and tomorrow night -30

So all you all (except RR Sarah) can quit yer belly achin'

May break a record today. The record is 81.

Sorry PP, I'm not going to quit b!tching today. I can hear the sleet hitting the window. My trip to Memphis tomorrow is in jeopardy.

Good luck driving in that. Freezing rain and sleet are worse then snow, I will give you that

I'm not driving...especially since I don't have 4WD any more. There are 8 of us who want to run the St Jude half marathon Saturday in Memphis. I'm at the mercy of one of the drivers. If they are brave enough to drive it, I'll go. If they say no way, I'm stuck at home.

Temp outside my office window says 52 ..... that is doubtful and since it's New England it could be 35 in a matter of hours

That being said I don't envy you PP - stay bundled up

Hope you make it Jen, but don't put yourself in danger driving in sleet and freezing rain. Research and healthcare for the kids at St. Jude will go on without that half marathon.

The marathon weekend raises over $8 million dollars for St Jude. A lot of that is in participant fundraising that has already been collected, but I'm certain the race weekend adds to it with 20,000+ participants coming to town.

A co-worker was supposed to run in that also - then she sprained her ankle horribly and just got out of the boot the other day.

Just as I suspected, you're an alien. These are not Earthly temperatures.

We're supposed to set a new record at 86 today...

Today on the way to work it registered -18 and right now it is -11. It won't go above 0 until Sunday. I am going to die

it isn't cold until it gets -15 without the wind. these just temps just make you put on a sweater.

Time to go ice fishin'!

It was 55 here this morning, now it is 39 and it is going to get colder. Not to mention, wind is just a howling.

Hope everyone in the storms path stays safe!

My BIL put his fish house out on Sunday. Seven inches of ice is plenty he says. I won't go out on the lake until there is over a foot of ice.

Today High = 0, Low = -9
Friday High = 0, Low = -18
Saturday High = 0, Low = -15
Sunday High = 7 (heat wave, woot!), Low = -11

It was 24 this morning, which isn't all THAT bad in the grand scheme of things. But it was nearly 80 degrees here last Sunday so most folks are pretty cold.

Yikes!!!!!!! Where do you live?

Nowhere I want to be!

So essentially, the inside of JWills' refrigerator will be about 60 degrees warmer than the low temp on Friday.

I agree, the temps are just getting right. I love the wintertime.

Jen, Memphis is forecast to get .5 inches of ice today. Marathon may be postponed. I would make sure before I headed out. I am in East TN. Thankfully, ice is supposed to stop just West of us. Our Temp today is 72 but high on Saturday is 47.

Northern Minnesota.

And RR Joker just wishes she lived here!

It was 23 when I was getting ready for work this morning but is showing 19 now.

At noon it was 80. We are having record highs in Florida and there is horrible winter weather up north. I'm not getting it...

Typical. Hot in the South, cold in the NOrth.

It's 82 here...me thinks we broke the record!

I don't really get bothered by the cold until it's dropping down into the single digits. But add snow/sleet/ice onto any temperature, and things get wacky on the roads around here.

Twenty five and snowing here! I hope it doesn't start sticking until I leave this evening...

Temps were in the high 50s here today. Feels more like October than December.

I live in Northern MN, too -- and today I'm asking myself, "WHY?". It's C-O-L-D!

Currently -7 actual temp and -25 to -30 windchill in the Twin Cities. Just getting brisk here. Not sure I want to know what it is like up north. Stay warm KDF and RR Sarah.

It's official...we broke the old record.

High for today is 79 but may end up being in the low 80s... We may break the record today - We will see. Tomorrow's high will be 58 and Sunday's will be 38. Then Monday, it will be 62.

No wonder why I am sick.

12 below on the way to work ... I brought the kids ot the bus stop this morning and ended up with 5 kids sitting in my truck to warm up while the bus came. (yeah, I'm in northern MN also)

-10 here in NW Iowa with the wind chill at -20. We have new neighbors on our block that were not prepared.

Thinking of all of you for whom this isn't the norm at this time of year.

Gotta love Cincinnati weather... nearly 60 degrees a day ago, freezing rain today

Stay warm everyone! It was 10 this morning. Had to put on two pairs of pants in order to stay warm while walking the dogs. I usually don't do that until it snows, but the wind was sharp!!

I was just thinking of you Mani! We have about 6-7 inches of snow already and it's still snowing. I was walking the upstairs catwalk to the kitchen and saw a VERY happy husky running around in the bank parking lot! Our customer was trying to coax it back into their Jeep but the snow was just too much fun for the fur ball to resist!

HAHA! Yes. Snow is like catnip for huskies.

79 when we went to lunch today. Perfect day to sit outside and eat.

It's up to a nice 19 degrees right now. Glad I work inside!

26. My kids were all excited to get outside and build a snowman - yeah, that lasted less than 10 minutes. (Plus it is icy and not really suitable material for a snowman.)

Supposed to be 87 tomorrow.

We just broke 0.

Weird in New England today - still 50 degrees but very overcast and dreery. We should start seeing all the rain and meyhem the rest of the country had earlier this week ..... Stay warm and safe Northerners

-17 when I went out to feed horses this morning. Brrrrr

-136 in Antartica according to the news. Beat that!

I think I'll keep my 18 degrees!

40...almost thought about wearing long sleeves but then realized that i own a car with a heater, my office has heat, anywere i go for lunch has heat...and in this town, everyone will have it blasting, so long sleeves would be overkill

love passing people driving wearing heavy coats, hats, scarves, and gloves...windows all fogged up...hate to see if they actually lived somewhere cold

We are supposed to get above freezing today. Yea!

It's supposed to start cooling down some - in the 30's at night and 50's-60's during the day this week. It is currently raining!

temp was -5 this morning with a wind chill of -20

Must be the global warming thingy

It's not a competition.


And if it were, I'd totally throw the game!

4 on the back porch with steam coming off the pool.

73 and rainy this morning, supposed to get down to 40 tonight after the rain clears. Time to switch the a/c back to heat!

It was down in the teens this morning, but we're headed for a sunny 32 or 33 today.

currently 11


"why don't you make 10 the loudest?"

"but this one goes to 11"

Party sunny and 81

That isn't fair!!! Send some my way!

But it was supposed to be -138...

cloudy and currently 82

It's cold. That is all.

Sunny and 35! I heard a bird singing this morning for the first time in ... ages, it feels like. I'm just happy to see the sun.

It’s so cold…

•The rock rattling around in your shoe is your toe.
•Richard Simmons wearing shorts that come nearly to the half-thigh region.
•Lawyers have their hands in their own pockets.
•You have to break the smoke off your chimney
•You have to open the fridge to heat the house
•Your false teeth chatter, and they are still in the glass
•Police tell a robber to freeze, and he does
•Our words froze in midair and we had to put them in a frying pan to thaw them so we hear what we were talking about.
•People look forward to getting a fever
•Mailmen watch out for both dogs and polar bears
•I’m shivering like a mobster in a tax office.
•We had to chisel the dog off a lamp-post
•Refrigerators are redundant
•Pet stores sell hamsters, gerbils and penguins

It was -1 this morning! No wind though. Made for a fun romp in the snow.

The high today will be -1. The current temp (not windchill) is
-9. I love winter.

-15 on the way to work ... from the National Weather Service "* WIND CHILL VALUES... 35 BELOW TO 45 BELOW ZERO THIS MORNING..."

it's been colder, I may have to put on a sweater. the scary thought is this is still December ... what's going to happen in January/February?

We were in the teens this morning. Felt nice. And that's kinda sad.

Current temp -24...

The sun is out and that is all that matters to me!

Got outside this morning and decided as I was heading to my car that it was nice out! I guess it was the lack of wind though...since when I saw the temp sign as I got to work, I realized it was only 16.

I heard we are hitting high 20s today!

::puts on shorts and tee shirt::

24 here!! That's practically bikini weather!

Or mankini, whatever.

Freak?

Just snowed in Israel and Egypt. I wonder how Yoss feels about his false global warming proclamation.

Stay classy BOLers!


It was 6 degrees this am. Loving the seat warmer.

we are at 21 here, with light snow showers!

Mid 70's and sunny here..

Low 40s. I didn't have to break up any ice in the horse troph this morning. Woo Hoo!!

57 and sunny, but it feels much colder in the shade.

59 and sunny

Move On!!!

That's what your momma says every morning!

That's because, by definition, it can't be sunny in the shade.

That's always the BEST part!

We did have frost this am.

Today 79° 50°
Tomorrow 83° 48°
Wednesday 83° 48°
Thursday 82° 48°

Last week, it was in the 20s M-W, then Thur - yesterday it was in the 60's. Today, back in the 40's and then 20's rest the week.

Note to self: turn on heat at office before leaving tonight - rain brought cool front.....

I had to run out to the parking lot to give my niece some cash and she insisted on carrying on a conversation while I stood there with my teeth chattering. She told me to buck up, it's not that cold! Send the girl to college in North Dakota and she no longer thinks -2 is cold!

Stay classy BOLers!

-14 with wind chill.

-9

Wind child factored in = -9 (thankfully there is no wind it's too cold for even the wind to move )

sunny and in the 50's here, that is cold enough!

-17 without windchill. One of the colder actual temps I've seen in quite a while.

Thankfully there isn't much wind or it'd be intolerable! Supposed to get to positive digits at some point...hopefully.

-14 actual temp. Some areas of northern MN in the 20s or 30s below zero actual temp currently. Great snuggle weather with your significant other.

MN is warmer than Iowa. That's it, the whole world is messed up!

... 22 below on the way to work, wind is picking up and snow is coming. Merry Christmas!

-20 when I was doing horse chores this morning.

34 this morning, should be up to a balmy 59 later today...high 50s or low 60s rest of the week...very sunny, but also windy...

they are saying that after Saturday afternoon we aren't going to get above 0 until thursday ... I guess I will have to put on a sweater.

We are currently at 25, but Saturday we are expecting a heat wave of 37. Hopefully it will melt alot of the ice that came from the ice storm last weekend. Still have people without power. The trees are so heavy with the ice, then 2 inches of snow on top of that. Any wind at all causes more damage.

JWills, I have alot of family in MI, and they all finally got the power back yesterday. I am so thankful they had generators. I don't miss MI winters!

This winter has been very weird, and it is only December! Michigan weather has been very strange.

Weird? 80 on Christmas day is weird, even for here. And it sure beats snow!

I would love an 80 degree day!

We were in the teens the same day that the dipster posted pics at the beach on FB......Just not right.

Same here. There's not nearly the snowpack in the mountains this year.

Alas, we have no mountains, so no need for snowpack....

C'mon JW, have you never skied Bintz' Bump?

Not sure what that is. Maybe I do not want to know!

It's in Freeland, near Midland - Bintz' Apple "Mountain" - actually it is an old landfill .....I bet it is 100 feet above sea level...

It's a balmy 5 degrees here. That is a 9 degree swing from this morning when I came into work and it was -4. But reading the above temperatures makes me not feel so bad about it anymore.

Good to know it wasn't something too bad. I was a little scared to ask. I am in the middle of the thumb. We have good old Deanville Mountain, the closet thing we will ever have to a mountain!

54 degrees here as I type.

There is an 81 degree difference in temp between you and I this morning.

I'm sending the warm sunshine to all of you.
Yep - - Hot and sunny in California.

There was a brief rain a few weeks ago (which I call a cloud sneeze, as nothing really gets wet) so I threw a sweater in the back seat of my car.
Haven't worn it at all. (which is sad, as I love cold Christmas weather)

Sitting outside at a restaurant on Dec 26th with friends from Ohio - they got sunburned. ( . . . hehe - it was almost funny)

Also - Our trees think it's Spring already - they've got buds all over!

we're havin' a heat wave! It's going up to 8 today.

I'll ship ya some extra suntan lotion, Truff

Coming up on -4 degree high for this coming Monday day and -14 degrees for the high over night. Those are not with wind chill, take another 20 to 25 off that is the forecast. The Iceman is back!!!

I took my horse for a walk yesterday as it was too icy to ride. There is hardly any snow up in the mountains, it's going to make for a dry summer.

19 in Waco this a.m., and to be about 65 tomorrow, WACKY, eh?

So - it's wacky in Waco? Is that what you're saying?

Gonna be up and down like that all next week papa. Hope we don't get sick.

-3 here this morning, a high of 12 expected today.

Today 72°
Tomorrow 80°
Sunday 80°
Monday 72°

I don't know how you folks get along in the cold country!

Today 18°
Tomorrow 25°
Sunday 0°
Monday -11°

I wanna come and stay with you.

today - 12
tomorrow - 0
Sunday - -15
Monday - -17

Those are the highs ... the lows are terrifying

THE WINDY CITY TEMPERATURE CONVERSION CHART
60° F: Arizonans shiver uncontrollably; people in Chicago are still sunbathing.
50° F: Californians try to turn on the heat; people in Chicago plant gardens.
40° F: Italian sports cars won't start; people in Chicago drive with the windows down.
32° F: Distilled water freezes; Lake Michigan water gets thicker. 20° F: Floridians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves and wool hats; people in Chicago throw on a light jacket.
15° F: People in Chicago have the last cookout before it gets cold.
0° F: All the people in Phoenix die. Chicagoans close the windows.
10° below zero: Californians fly away to Mexico . The Girl Scouts in Chicago are selling cookies door to door.
25° below zero: Hollywood disintegrates; people in Chicago get out their winter coats.
40° below zero: Washington, DC runs out of hot air; people in Chicago let the dogs sleep indoors.
100° below zero: Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. Chicagoans get frustrated because they can't start 'da car.'
460° below zero: All atomic motion stops (absolute zero on the Kelvin scale); people in Chicago start saying, 'cold 'nuff for ya?'
500° below zero: [censored] freezes over. The Cubs win the World Series.

54 yesterday 7 this morning
20 today 18 Saturday morning
45 Saturday 32 Sunday morning
50 Sunday 18 Monday morning
20 Monday 3 Tuesday morning
10 Tuesday

This up and down temperatures are causing all kinds of illnesses here. We are not used to the extremes and especially when it changes so dramatically. My Uncle Artho is killing me in all my joints.

We don't have any extremes---just cold and bitter cold

The thing that bugs me the most about cold weather is how dry my eyes get with the heat blowing constantly.

Yes, but your summers are not 100 degrees with 80% humidity either. Now that sounds better to me right now than it will in July.

More like 85 with 90% humidity, but still.

Packers VS SanFran : forecast is 51 below 0 windchill

Will be a new record, 2 degrees colder than the Ice-bowl's -49

They really are!!! My troop is selling this weekend, the high for Monday is -11

Chargers and Bengals (sometime in the 80s) played a game in windchills very near that as i recall (obviously, not in San Diego).

52 below in 1982. Last time these 2 teams met in the playoffs, or so I have heard.

Bwahahahahahahaha!

Like Chicagoans know for cold.

Come to Northern MN sometime and we can show you cold.

And: Bears fans stop talking about the 1985 season.

I watched that game (i was a kid Peepers). Made you cold just watching it.

It was a bit chilly this morning:
Today - high 44 low 25
Sat - high 55 low 42
Sun - high 63 low 37
Mon - high 44 low 19
Tues - high 37 low 20

Our predicted temps for the next few days.....

Dang, makes being in the 60's all week seem downright frigid!!

They've adjusted our forcast DOWNWARD:

Mon. High 37 Low 15 BRrrrrrrr Shiver!
Tues High 34 Low 19
Wed High 50 Low 32
Thur High 60 Low 40

On Monday, when we leave for work / school, the projected high is 18. EIGHT. TEEN. (Going to a balmy 34 after that, thankfully. )

Surely that is illegal.

In Texas? Yes, that's illegal.

Our forecast was revised downward also. Only 72 tomorrow, not 80.

Currently 67 in south Louisiana, will be 27 tomorrow morning, and 20 on Tuesday morning...

Everybody stay warm!!!! Supposed to get -2 on Tuesday morning here. That's very cold for South Central Kentucky.

Walden - that's excessively cold for South Georgia.

Windchill here on Tueday morning of -35.

Currently -22 actual temperature. Windchill in the Twin Cities of -48.

It was 65 and raining here at 5:30 this morning. By the time I left the house it was 49 and windy (not sure what the wind chill was, but it felt friggin' cold to me). Now TWC on my phone says it is 42 with a wind chill of 34. Supposed to get down to 19 tonight. I guess winter had to show up sooner or later.

I like my phone temp better. 46 with a chill of 36. I'm not looking forward to the next couple of days.

The wind chills here will be in the -20's to -30. Brrrr. Weird thing - my shelties love this weather. They go outside (dog door) and sleep on the back porch. Worries me, but they seem to be fine. They were both in this morning when I got up.

-18 here right now. That is the actual temp. -18

Wind chill = -47
-47

Hard to breathe at this temp.

53 today in Mass, 19 tomorrow. Good times.....

50s today 5 tomorrow

Global warming?

You know it's windy here when you walk around the drivethru picking up palm fronds.

6 degrees here and they closed OKC public schools, because it was too cold! Really?
Its -47 in Iowa and I'll bet school is open there!

I'm not surprised. I rememeber seeing kids walking to the bus stop with blankets because they don't have coats. It's sad but a fact of life in the city.

7 below here, 25 miles from St. Louis. And we're buried in snow. Only a few of us hardy souls who happen to live close by are here at work. The bank is not opening until 10 today, because of the weather.

My day started just before 4 AM, when my wife woke me to let me know it was 50 in the house, and the furnace wouldn't come on. We had electric, and the gas was working, so I was at a loss. Then it occurred to me that the furnace is vented through a PVC pipe in the side of the house, the same side that had a four foot snow drift. I grabbed a flashlight and snow brush and headed outside. I only got as far as the garage door, though, because a drift to high to stop over had formed. I shoveled a path and then staggered through the yard like a lost Antarctic explorer, and found the vent pipe was packed with snow. I cleaned it out, and the furnace came on.

So then I shoveled away the rest of the drift by the garage, then cleared the pile at the end of the drive that the snowplow made, and then went back to bed at 5:30 for an hour.

We opened on time. And everyone is here. But they did close the schools.

It sounds like you had a pretty eventful morning MBH!

5:30 all ready on the train bound for work

The governor closed schools here (Minnesota) today on Friday because of the frigid cold. According to the news if we were on the old wind chill scale (which was changed in 2001) the wind chills would be in the 70-80 below range.

Phx is having okay weather, but where I grew up (and my family still lives there) the high is 2, low of -13!! Tomorrow 2 is the high snd -1 is the low. I'm not sure what the windchill will be.

Bout the same here, I think -14, with wind chill around -50. Hubs had to work an overnight last night downtown. They called everyone in a few hours early, but he still didn't get home until 2:30.

That's including the windchill BBB, let's not be overdramatic! It's -22 actual temp, but it's getting warmer as the day goes on!

Some of the schools aren't back in session yet, some have a two-hour delay. The delay is thanks to the buses not being able to run though, not because people are wusses!

-14 actual temp, wind chill is -33.

School in SE Iowa actualy started cancelling yesterday. Most are already delayed for tomorrow.

Pammy, will you be getting more snow? I saw a shot from space of the storm moving through the northern parts of the country, it was so pretty (but kind of scary.)

It was 16 this morning. And you could tell which (stupid) businesses didn't turn off their sprinkler systems.... So thankful we didn't get any precipitation last night, and by the time we're scheduled for any later this week, the temps will have come back up to the 50s. Whew.

The Sago palms are not going to survive this weather.

Is that a heated back porch or an open one, Skittles? Unless it's heated, I'd be barring that dog door. Whether they seem to like it or not, everything I've read says you shouldn't let dogs sleep outside in single digit temps.

-18 here on the way to work and I'm typing this wearing my fingerless gloves. :shiver:

It was -11 when I came in today. Should get up to 5.

high today of 32 in south La., tonight is supposed to be 14 with high tomorrow 28...and back in the 60s by Friday...

thankfully, no snow, rain, sleet, ice, etc...because that would be gridlock as these drivers can barely handle driving in sun...

I assume you meant sunshine Hap, and not in sun....

Don't be such a lazy typist!

Highs in the mid- to upper-40s for the rest of the week, lows in the low 40s. Goodbye sunny weekend, hello rain for the rest of the week.

Typical January weather. I'll take it and be happy after reading some of the temps posted above. Brrr!

High of 80 today, down to 69 Wednesday.

My sister lives in Alaska, and her temps are higher than where most of you are.

Wow, that's crazy, cali!!!


Still in the 60's here.

They call what's happening in the upper midwest a polar vortex. That means some of the temps could actually be COLDER THAN THE NORTH POLE!!! Looks like Wisconsin dodged the bullet and is ONLY getting down to -teens.

May a seagull poop fish on your windshiled while you are at the beach!

Better to scrape off the poop than to scrape the ice!!

Now, we're closing at 2 PM! I think this is getting a little wimpy. Having grown up in Chicago, I've never quite adjusted to the inability of downstaters to handle cold and snow. Half the staff opted to burn a vacation day rather than leave the house.

Thankfully, no snow or ice in the mix here so far today, just cold!

And I don't think we had anyone not come in due to the weather. Just a few that came in late due to late starts for school. Didn't hear of any car trouble, which was a little surprising.

Cold, cold, cold!

2 inch thick ice in the horse troph this morning. Once I broke through, the water that splashed on my clothes froze before it could soak in.

Hubby's new truck wouldn't start this morning but the three other house vehicles, including the one originally from Green Bay, started up just fine. Parked inbetween other cars hoping to shield mine so she starts to go home without any problems.

Oh - you are a crafty one, Truffle.

Sounds like Mr. Truff needs an engine warmer.

It's -3 today but supposed to be in the mid 50's this weekend after another round of freezing rain on Thursday. Perfect running weather!

Start at 54 at Midnight, we are now down to 6.

Pretty much the same forecast here in South Carolina - but the schools are all on a 2 hour delay tomorrow so the kids don't have to stand out in the cold waiting for the bus.

So they will have to stand in the cold two hours later?

Our high here was a nice -13 with a balmy -40 wind chill.

We just went out by our front sign and did the whole "throw boiling water up in the air" thing and watched it turn to snow and blow away. Pretty neat, and a nice random post for our social media pages.

Sign showed -5, but it appears to not want to go below that, since it was showing the same this morning when it was 15 degrees colder!

Have you seen any St. Bernards carrying whiskey barrels yet?

Mmm....whiskey!!

NJ is a balmy 2 with a wind chill of -17 today.

OK, i have had enough winter.

Not according to the weatha I watched on the news last night. 54 yesterday, 9 this morning....and supposedly back up to 50 by Friday. WTH is going on with mother nature. She scares the bejeejus out of me, just sayin'.....

Very odd around here as PQ pointed out-pretty balmy yesterday and close to 0 this morning. Thankfully the roads dried up before they froze over.

thank gawd Sox! Although there were a few patches of wicked thick ice on the roads to work this morning where there's water run off.

no ice, but a chilly 21 this morning...was upset as the weatherman had predicted 14...high today is 35...back to 70s by saturday

today's forecast cold with temperatures warming up to cold.

It is -11 here with wind chills at -24. 18 inches of snow between Saturday night and early Monday!

This is getting old!

I had to break ice this morning...coldest it's been since the 90's here. Ya'll can keep your old vortex thank you very much.

(I overdressed for barn duty last night and nearly sweated to death before I got in and went to shucking clothes...I think I had steam coming out of the top of my head)

Not so much this morning.

Sounds about right. We might actually get above zero today.

Yay?

It was -24 when I went out to feed horses this morning. Supposed to be a high of -6 today. Going to warm up after today though.

-8 this morning...that's been our high the last 24 hours! Wind chills are around -20. Woke up today with the furnance at 61 but was set on 68. I think its being overworked!

it was 45 when I woke up, it's currently 53 now and our highs are expected to be in the low 60's. Inasmuch as this is really cold here for us, I still sympathize with all of y'all

It's warmer in the interior of the Antarctic today (high 20s) than it is in Dallas (low 20s)!

Of course, it is their summer.

-6 this morning, wind chills in the -20 to -35. Truck had a hard time starting this morning.

Stay warm, y'all. I feel so bad for the homeless and hope they found shelter.

I agree BB. I just walked back into the bank from the parking lot coming back from lunch, a 10 second walk and my hands HURT from the cold, I cannot imagine being homeless.

I know, right? Hope this craziness doesn't carry over into hurricane/tornado season.

Suppossed to be 37 here by the weekend. I GUARANTEE you people will be out in shorts here.

BITE your TONGUE!!!

if it needs to carry over a cold winter should carry over to a nice spring.

At least we should have a nice bluebonnet season - we've gotten a decent amount of rain.

still only 30 degrees...but very sunny...

48 hours below freezing, that means the peach blossoms will set up nicely for the hill country peaches next summer....

Yeah, the peaches are probably happy. The citrus...maybe not so much.

30 here, feels like low 20's. Partly to mostly cloudy...can we say GROSS!

moving to the country
gonna eat a lot of peaches
yes moving to the country
gonna eat me a lot of peaches

peaches come in a can
they were put there by a man
in a factory downtown

!!

I will not be in your area in shorts!

you getting a new hat?

My husband.

HA!

It's going to be cold here again. The only saving grace is the skeeters will go into hiding again.

quit your whining, you should have grown your winter coat by now

Just because you have extra fur and lint doesn't mean everyone else does. :-p~~~~~~~

It's spring here, just gorgeous!

mid 50s today, very sunny, very windy...yesterday was 65...high 50s to low 60s and sunny for the rest of the week...man, I hate winter!

Winter in SoCal:

Forecast
89° Today
87° Tomorrow
85° Friday
81° Saturday
80° Sunday

screw you

You need a vacation, Peepers. We have Burger King here. And Del Taco. Have you you ever tried In 'N' Out Burger?

You missed Carl Jrs. and Jacks?

If you have a "High tech Burrito" you may never get him to leave the state.

Oh yeah? Well.....well.......
Carp! I got nuthin'.
::puts his sweater on and shivers::

You both missed the Fast Food thread. It's over there >>>>>

And 5 Guys, Red Robin, Smashburger.

And PHx is a bit chillier than SoCal:

Today: 77 and sunny
Tomorrow: 76 and sunny
Friday: 77 and sunny
Saturday: 77 and sunny
Sunday: 78 and sunny

we have a smashburger now in NO...great burger, fries leave a lot to be desired...same with 5 guys fries...both way too greasy

way too greasy



???????????

is that possible?

Yeah, it's going to be in the upper 80s here and in some areas possibly up to 90!

High desert versus the armpit of the US America, got to be a little cooler...