First 100F+ day this winter! 105F right now. -35F outside, 70F inside, and wouldn't surprise me if we nearly hit 110F within a couple of hours. Just love that 100F heat from the wood stove in the living room.
It's 100F differential and Rising!
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North of Brainerd about 45 miles. Temp bottomed out at -36F, I think. Still 70 inside. A 106 temp difference.
Nisswa/Pequot Lakes area, very nice........ right now its -10 in Plymouth. Do you do any Ice fishing?
Still -20F. Ice fishing - only for frozen fish. Ice is probably thicker than my ice auger; need to get the ice block saw out to put ice up in the sawdust warehouse for our summer refigeration. ;-)
We too have seen those differences but it has been a long time ago. Not long enough.... I think the last time was in 1993 when we hit -28 and our house was around 76. Yes, we did stay indoors as much as possible!
When it hits -40 and below we tend to like the house hot. Since we only have wood for heat I always liked the house at 80 or so when we went to bed. Its left over from the days we only had a 'Ashley tin stove" and I knew it would be out before I got up. The idea was to get the logs walls hot so they would keep the heat.
Many times -50f and 75f to 80f inside. I have to control myself now and my dw reminds me that we do not need to do that anymore. Hard to get us old types to change.
Many times -50f and 75f to 80f inside. I have to control myself now and my dw reminds me that we do not need to do that anymore. Hard to get us old types to change.
jebatty said:
And that's why I ate my last caramel roll at Tobie's decades ago and have never been back home in the winter. never Ever am I doing winter up there again..
EVER.
This thread brings back memories for me. The ironic thing, they just talked about it on TV. On this day in 1985, Knoxville set their all time record for coldest temperature ever recorded there. It was -24 and was -28 where I live. Never will forget because we lived with my inlaws and they had an oil furnace. FIL and I took turns going outside thru the night having to change filters on oil tank about every 45 minutes to an hour. Even the smallest amount of moisture in the tank was freezing up in the felt filter and blocking flow of the oil. Problem was that you couldn't wear gloves and do it because you couldn't feel the threads engage on the filter. You had to do it bare handed and diesel fuel is awfully cold to the skin at that temp. Thank goodness, that old Williamson oil furnace is long gone.
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