Southern thing.

[Andries]

Resonator:
We're bilingual up here. 🤦�♂️
Weather, gas and speed are metric.
Groceries and lumber are Imperial (USA) measure.
For my American friends, I switched the website has a °F setting. 
YH:
The new First Lady wanted to be warm for the Inauguration, she asked for some assistance. 
We were happy to share.
 It's just who we are.

[SwampDonkey]

Like Andries said, we are bilingual. Most post 70's high schooled folks still like Fahrenheit up here unless they more science oriented or teachers. Sometimes you just have to be practical. No mater how loud you say it, it doesn't make it any more understandable. 

[Magicman]

I have received my free sample of Winter.  I would like to cancel the remainder of my subscription.  Thank You.

[YellowHammer]

I found that I had a wood stove hidden under the decorations, and it's running.  Been here 23 years, who knew?  It stinks from burning Brown Recluse so I had to open the windows, a little.   

[TreefarmerNN]

I have received my free sample of Winter.  I would like to cancel the remainder of my subscription.  Thank You.

I would like to suspend my subscription and possibly start it again for a very brief period in July or August.  (100 +14)/2 would be very nice in August. . .

[GAB]

I have received my free sample of Winter.  I would like to cancel the remainder of my subscription.  Thank You.

MM:
Sorry to have to inform you that that request needs to go to a higher court.
You may get a reply by May.
Also you may need to plan another "bringing up the wood day".
Keep feeding the fire and stay warm.
GAB

[Andries]

YH: very nice, a Vermont Castings enamelled woodstove. 
Many of them in daily use up here and they're easy to look at too.
Your sawmill 'burn pile' might get a new name: 'woodstove pile'.
MM: remember the Readers Digest subscriptions from about fifty years ago? That Arctic Air is just like that.
You might stop the subscription, but it just keeps on a'coming.

[SwampDonkey]

2° here, but at least the sky cleared out for once in 3 weeks.  Lots of dry wood by the stove.  

[doc henderson]

- 5 degrees here now.  24 hour turn around from 5-night shifts (60 hours in 5 days) and back to days in 3 hours.

[Peter Drouin]

Think of all the $$ your making, time and a half after 40
-3 here and no mosquitos.

[WLzM1A]

Don't forget chiggers

[customsawyer]

Low 20s here so not to bad. The fact that our normal high is close to 60, the fact we won't break 35 today, is the part I'm not looking forward to. Hope the wind dies down from yesterday. I'm not good at this cold weather stuff and they don't really sell proper cold weather clothing this far south.

[SwampDonkey]

Temp dropped to -3° here since last report. No ticks either, unless they are on the moose's fur.  

[Chuck White]

It's 4 degrees up on the hot side of zero this morning!

[Magicman]

Our Snow accumulation hardly qualifies as a "dusting".  Maybe 1/4"at best.  We do have 26° and a forecast 15° for tonight.  Dat's Cold in my book. 

[Nebraska]

-14° degrees at 5:15 am in town according to the retired feedlot cowboy who helps out at the clinic, his indoor outdoor thermometer is right by his coffee pot. Colder than I thought it would get.

[Nebraska]

Just checked it's 13 to the good side wind is blowing hard out of the South.  I saw snow pictures from San Antonio TX a few minutes ago. 

[Old Greenhorn]

He He, that's rich! I love when that happens! I have close cousins in Angleton/Freeport/Lake Jackson and occasionally they do see some snow, but it's very rare. They are at the same latitude as San Antonio, but of course a different climate. When it does snow, they have to be vigilant to see it, because it can be gone within minutes or hours. One Christmas they did get 3 inches and it freaked them out. Nobody has snow shovels or anything of the like. But within one day it was all gone like magic, but they had a freakish day for sure.

[SwampDonkey]

These are the type of storms we've had all month. Just a dusting and more like squalls. Them tracks by the barn are before the latest storm. Maybe 3"all moth off squalls. Won't cover a logger's boot toe. We even had a squall around the mountain today for good measure, but nothing over the house, yet.



Don't amount to beans. But today was -3° F, that'll grab ya. But it was 90° in the shop when I stepped in to do some planing, sanding and drilling. Door and windows had to be open the entire time. I was in there for 8 hrs today. Opened up all the time. Yeah, I did throw a couple maple in there around noon, after 7 hrs since the fire was lit there was a shovel full of coals. I bet it's near 90 again, close dup for the day/night. Was terrible dry, 12% RH. 

[Andries]

"Won't cover a loggers boot toe"
.
Some measure snowfall without the boot.

[GRANITEstateMP]

I had 4F when I left for work around 6:20 this am.  I saw -11F at a "cold spot" on my way into work about 15min from home.  I drove a little faster trying to outrun the cold...

[SawyerTed]

What does a southern man do on the coldest day of the year?  

Shuck and eat oysters!  Wild caught York River, Virginia oysters!  

No photos of the event but here's the aftermath...



I ate about a dozen and froze the rest for stew or chowder. 

Our high temperature was 21 F and it will be 15 F predicted tonight.  I expect colder.  All the snow is east of here, Greensboro to the coast.  

The Outer Banks are expecting 4 or so inches!  It ain't right!  

[Texas Ranger]

Funny you say that, I had a dozen oysters scampi and a half dozen fried, with an adult beverage.  My oh my Mr. Benny, best season on the Gulf coast,

[Old Greenhorn]

I think this thread might become the 'part B" of the weather thread, but as I consumed a few adult beverages tonight I realized that the demographic here is largely connected to, and dependent on, the weather in our various regions. It's 7° here now and headed below zero tonight again. As much I would like to bemoan that or brag about that, the fact is, on reflection, I have to embrace it. This is more of a 'NORMAL" winter season for us. We would typically have at least a week of below zero weather at night and just singles digit highs during the day for a week or so around the middle of January. It was pretty predictable. This is what we are getting now. We (I) never enjoyed it, but we knew we would get it.
 Last winter we had almost no snow and the temps were mild all winter, in fact the ground never froze at all. Frankly it was terrible and had a very negative effect on a lot of forestry related businesses. It really messed up my mushroom logging entirely to the point I delayed cutting until the end of March hoping for a freeze up that never came. I really had to scramble and was not happy of the quality of logs I provided to my clients.
 So in spite of some discomfort and inconvenience, I am very pleased we are getting this cold weather because this is normal, not unusual.
 Now for our friends in the south who are not used to it, I apologize on behalf of mother nature, but it is what it is. Just do what we do, put another log on the fire.  

[beenthere]

Funny you say that, I had a dozen oysters scampi and a half dozen fried, with an adult beverage.  My oh my Mr. Benny, best season on the Gulf coast,

Is that the American coast now? Gulf of America