Southern thing.

[YellowHammer]

15 degrees when I woke up this morning, 10 when I wake up tomorrow.  After last week's snow and this week's cold spell, I haven't been fishing in two weeks, and am now officially beyond grumpy.  My fluorescent shop lights don't work, the diesel Polaris barely cranked, (it's a 3 cylinder and I finally got one cylinder to hit) and worse yet, I had to put on socks and underwear today.  This is unacceptable.  

[customsawyer]

We've got 5-6 inches of snow on the truck this morning. These crazy folks down here were out putting brine on the road. Might stay home until the next rain washes it away.

[Machinebuilder]

5 degrees this morning, The frost looks like a layer of snow.

It's predicted to warm up the rest of the week.

[Magicman]

We were a bit too far North to see the snow but the low temps are here, t'was 14° this AM.  

It is amazing to see what happened even 30 miles South of us.  To see snow in New Orleans and across the Gulf of America region is unthinkable. 

[ron barnes]

It was 20 here this morning with a bit over an inch of the white stuff.  My beagle didn't know what to do this morning.  His short legs put him in a awkward position while doing his business.

[SawyerTed]

This is Ocracoke, NC on the Outer Banks of NC.  Reports show 4-6" of snow.  

Snow isn't unheard of there but it is a once every few years thing.  Often, if they get snow, they get anywhere from a few inches to a foot or more.  



The DOT has sand moving equipment to move snow off the roads.   This time of year there are a few tourists and the residents number 900 to 1,000 or so.  

We are 200 miles west, no snow just sun and 12 degrees.  

[Resonator]

They showed the snowfall New Orleans got on the news this morning.
People having fun with it skiing in the street and dancing around.  
One guy must've not had any ice melt salt, so he put Creole seasoning on his front walk.

[barbender]

I may run out and sprinkle a little Tony Ceceres (sp?) on our steps, just to be safe😂

[Magicman]

You were close enough for me to know what it was:  Tony Chachere's (sa-shur-ee)

[SawyerTed]

Something you don't see everyday, Ocracoke Light in the snow!



Photo by Karen Rhodes on FB. Not my image. 

[Andries]

Well, that place in Florida called Frostproof is sounding like a mistake about now.

Take care all you Southern Gentlemen, it's suddenly a whole different game.

 Stay safe!

[barbender]

I just looked at my container of it in the cupboard Magic, and I was going to go back and edit my spelling but you've got it covered. Now I just need to work on the pronunciation🤔😊

[Machinebuilder]

I was informed by a friend in Alaska that its colder here than there.

My response "For Now................"

[SwampDonkey]

What part? I follow a couple up there that have -40 to -58° F at their place in the mornings right now. 

[caveman]

Andries, where I work (guide) is a few miles west of Frostproof.  When I pulled into the parking lot this morning, it was raining, blowing and about 37 degrees.  There was not any frost, but it turned out to be a raw day, not reaching 50.  My next trips are on Saturday, with three scheduled.  All are fishing and the first one begins at 7 a.m., followed by a 9:30.  The weather guessers are predicting 35 degrees down there Saturday morning, but it should warm up and brighten up later in the day.  

I think the name Frostproof was conjured up by a real estate developer in the 1800's, when a lot of the communities in our county (Imperial Polk County) were in their infancy.

[TreefarmerNN]

Iguanas falling from trees: https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/falling-iguana-alert-amid-cold-temperatures-in-florida/1730875

I wonder how the pythons in the Everglades will handle the cold.  Maybe it will slow some of them down anyway.

[Andries]

. . . . There was not any frost, but it turned out to be a raw day, not reaching 50.  My next trips are on Saturday, with three scheduled.  All are fishing and the first one begins at 7 a.m., followed by a 9:30.  The weather guessers are predicting 35 degrees down there Saturday morning, but it should warm up and brighten up later in the day.  . . . 

Layer up Buddy, and here's hoping the wind is low to No.
 A fashion-sense is useless compared to a stay-warm-sense up here.
. 
Some of the video on the newscasts in Florida look like Canada, but a wee bit further Southward. 
Like a 31 hour drive or 3337km. (2073 mi.)

[SwampDonkey]

I heard a bunch of weather forecasters down south got fired over the unexpected cold weather. 

[Brad_bb]

It warmed up to 18F today where I am in Indiana.  Had to bread out the shorts.  Gonna be heatwave tomorrow - 27F.

[customsawyer]

Don't y'all worry. Last Sunday it warmed up to about 55 and I came across this little guy on the dirt road.



It's pretty rare to see a Hog Nose snake, they do happen to be one of my favorites. This is the second one I have seen in two years. They are non venomous, so the biggest danger is what some folks might do to them selves when they see them. I don't mind snakes and critters like them as long as they are in their environment, they will get left alone. 

[doc henderson]

When you speak to him, do you call him "scooter"?  

[Peter Drouin]

I don't mind snakes and critters like them as long as they are in their environment, they will get left alone. 

[Machinebuilder]

What part? I follow a couple up there that have -40 to -58° F at their place in the mornings right now.

One friend is in North Pole, and one is in Delta Junction

This morning I have 12, North pole is 14 Delta Junction is 18

I had to laugh at the weather warning for Central Alaska

There is increasing likelihood that a winter storm moving into
the area will impact the Central Interior, including Fairbanks,
Thursday into Friday, and lasting through the weekend. Potential
impacts from this storm include southerly winds of 25 to 35+ mph
and blowing snow, moisture-laden snowfall transitioning to rain,
and then a changeover back to more snowfall along a strong arctic
front Sunday into Monday. Given the warmth of the airmass and
the amount of liquid precipitation, travel will become quite
difficult late week into the weekend.

There is still some uncertainty regarding the strength and
positioning of the storm. Stay tuned for future updates as details
are ironed out in future forecasts.

" travel will become quite difficult late week into the weekend. "
I guess I have gotten accustomed to the apocalyptic warnings here

Southern Translation
OMG IT MIGHT SNOW YOU BETTER BUY MILK AND BREAD AND PREPARE TO STAY INSIDE TILL SUMMER

[SawyerTed]

Here in the South you understand we have sayings that mean something completely different than the actual words.  

You know, "Bless your heart" actually can mean something entirely different.  

So "Bread and milk" means an excuse to buy an unusual amount of beer and wine at one time. 

[barbender]

Over the years, there have been a lot of guys from our town of Deer River; MN that went up to Alaska for work. Back in the 70's and 80's I wouldn't be surprised if 10% of the men of the town were up there. 

Because of that, there's a pretty strong local connection to Alaska. 

The wives of the guys that worked up there would tell you that you had about 7-10 days for the weather in Fairbanks to get here. And that air doesn't warm up any by the time it gets here, either🥶

One fella I knew, a great guy, used to run a heavy haul lowboy up on the haul road (Dalton Highway) up to Prudhoe Bay. At the time I was working with him, the show "Ice Road Truckers" was on and they had a few seasons where they were on location on the Dalton. I asked him what he thought of that show, he just chuckled. He said that usually the road wasn't too bad other than a few areas with really steep grades. The main thing was the weather. Sometimes you'd get caught in a blizzard, and there was nothing to do but stop and hang tight. 

One time he got caught in one, in the morning he tried to get out of his truck and the snow was drifted right up to the windows of the truck. It was cold, hard packed snow. He had to crawl out the window, and he said you could walk right on top of that snow without sinking at all, because it was so dense.

I know he also froze a lung up there, I don't remember how that happened. 

Another guy told me he went up there, and he'd go to the union hall for operating work. They would dispatch guys up to the North Slope for the project going on there. He said there was a plane going up with guys that got hired, and it would come back with guys that got fired, "and I got to ride it both ways!"😂 

A lot of guys only came home once a year, if then. There were a few that came home to wives that had new babies...and they hadn't been home in over a year. No one much bothered with the math I guess🤷

I'm told there are areas of Alaska where the local dialect is straight out of MN, WI, and MI because of so many immigrants from the Lake States.

I may have to get up there and investigate Alaska myself.