Minus temps to continue

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Huntindog1

Huntindog1

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Dec 6, 2011
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Midwest to keep seeing temps and wind chills in the minus range.

I have started shoveling out hot coals to cope with the situation. I have to keep the stove going more and not much time to let coals burn down.

The positive is, as I hear stories on the news that people are paying much higher prices on fuel oil and LP gas due to the higher demand plus burning more of it costs them. I not taking joy in people having to pay so much for their heating but I am taking joy its not costing me anymore than it does any other winter as I cut my own wood.

This coming week has a -15 one night forecasted , pretty cold for this neck of the woods. Who knows what the wind chill will be.
 
Huntindog1 said:
This coming week has a -15 one night forecasted , pretty cold for this neck of the woods. Who knows what the wind chill will be.
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Wow. That much colder there than here? They got us for -2 Mon night and 2 Tues night....
Brought up three quad trailer loads of wood up to the on-deck circle today. I've given up trying to keep up; I'm just burning down the coals and being happy with 64 room temp when it's that cold out...still got too many air leaks in here. Back up to 67 in here today though, and tomorrow's warmer yet but still windy. I'm gonna try to seal one more air leak tomorrow; The three I fixed last week gave me an extra three degrees or so in the house....
 
Heading below zero tonight with a high of -7 F tomorrow. Then dipping to -21 F on Monday night with wind chills to -40 F.
 
Swedishchef said:
As I said in another post.."Polar Vortex the only thing Canada can give the US!!
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We get it from Russia and don't like it any more than you
Today -28 c wind chill -45c cold enough to freeze the ba--s off a brass
you know what
 
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Heading below zero tonight with a high of -7 F tomorrow. Then dipping to -21 F on Monday night with wind chills to -40 F.
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We are a little east of you - Monday night's forecast is -47 windchill for us. Argh! Argh! Argh!

When I was a teen I got frostbite - didn't realize it had happened at the time - not fun when I thawed out.
 
Think Eeeeek!

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The good part of that BB is that the end of January is in sight!
 
The bad part is that the upward flow is gonna pull that "warm" air from the Gulf up with it and we are gonna get bombed with snow.
 
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on the bright side, all those tree beetles that are killing all the trees will take a big hit.

http://www.npr.org/2014/01/10/261435111/the-upside-of-the-bitter-cold-it-kills-bugs-that-kill-trees

"There's no magic number in all of this," says Robert Venette, a research biologist with the U.S. Forest Service in Minnesota. "When temperatures fall to minus 20 to minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit, that's when things get interesting."

At 20 below zero, as much as half the population can die off. At 30 below, nearly all of the pests are likely to die, he explains.

It got cold enough in parts of Minnesota to possibly wipe out up to 80 percent of the emerald ash borer population and significantly slow the advance of the invasive insect there, Venette says."
 
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Vinny that's an interesting bit of info. There is a bit of a bright side to this relentless deep freeze....
 
Gonna freeze your cheese. >>
 
On the way into work this morning, had the news on the radio, said shortage of LP gas is causing price of a gallon of LP gas to go to $5.00, Wow!
 
They have to do something to get the price up, price has been dropping for a couple of years now...?
 
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Probably lead to a whole bunch of people slamming in stoves and inserts, along with burning fresh-cut oak.
 
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At 20 below zero, as much as half the population can die off. At 30 below, nearly all of the pests are likely to die, he explains.
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True for a lot of pests. The deer and moose have been ravaged by ticks, some say the northern caribou are being affected in a similar manner. It's a cycle, hurts some benefits others. If the beetles and fungi have their way up here our beech and ash population are going to get hit hard.

Last load of wood my gf had delivered in North eastern CT had ash borer larvae like I never seen. Luckily we were able to knock 90% of the bark off w little effort but each split had half a dozen or so larvae under the bark.

Common sense, but after seeing that I realize how important it I'd to keep your wood local.
 
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I wonder, how will it affect the pollinators? Honey Bees are in bad shape already.
 
the native species have evolved to survive these drops in temperature, the article says. it is the new, invasive species that will suffer.
 
This is for this afternoon and Tuesday

Ottawa under wind chill warning
A wind chill warning has been issued for the Ottawa area from Environment Canada.

The temperature is forecast to fall to minus 16 degrees Celsius this afternoon, before plunging to a low of minus 26 overnight. The wind chill overnight will be around minus 35.

Tomorrow's forecast high is minus 14, with a wind chill of minus 38.

Had an Alberta clipper through here last nite dropped 12 in. of snow
and as they would say down east now were haven a right good blow
 
20F last night, 52F and sunny an hour ago. 40F sliding fast now headed for 9F tonight. Want a wood heating challenge anybody?
 
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