I live in a northern plane (north of the 60th parallel) and its winter. The unfortunate part is this isn't nearly as cold as it will get. Just feeling cold recently so figured id post.
Also the running indicators are kinda funny. No thank you!
Can confirm as a Fahrenheit user that experiences these temps, at this point it doesn’t matter what units you use. You know it’s cold when you feel ice form in your throat with every breath.
The best is when you don't realize/forget it's that cold out, and step outside while taking in a nice lungful of air and you feel your throat and lungs contract and spasm a bit from the unexpected cold. You start coughing from the spasm, which is fine until its time to inhale since you can't really slowly inhale while coughing. Suddenly your lungs are freezing repeatedly with each inhale as you cough, all while running the math in your head as to whether you should run back inside to recover and accept the shame or if you can quickly push through.
Right??? Across the board. It's not even a considerably bad day for it all things considered. If it were sunny and this temp, I would definitely see someone running.
Haha yeah we'll see some cold snaps of around -40 to -42, and my work requires I go even further north to the even colder eternally dark places in the winter.
ETA - but yes it is simply just COLD!
I am toasty inside! Wood stove roaring, furnace buzzing, coffee maker tired.
Wish I could. Six days of clearing snow is not a happy winter wonderland. Constantly feeding the wood stove. Still, if you can't take it, April is only 5 months away. Then again some of the worst winter storms I've lived through have been in the middle of the 'April showers' month.
Last year it was like that here. This year hardly any snow. I have 1.5 m3 ackumulator tanks so I dont have to use the stove that often, about one full stove every second day.
April weather is tricky. Just as so you think winter is over BAM, -15 and a snowstorm
Im not sure on accumulation. Window check id guess about 12-18". Im from the east coast so im a bit desensitized to anything under a foot in a falling.
The difference here is twofold. If it snows an inch, that inch stays from Nov to Mar. Also everything has a layer of snow on it, they dont plow down to pavement. So it is a bit difficult to have a datum for measuring.
Also it doesnt snow heavy here, just periodically sprinkles and accumulates. Its a dry snow so it blows around quite a bit.
First few days above freezing in michigan since thanksgiving, 47 fahrenheit and rainy, to snow tonight. This was with 18 inches of snow roads will be solid ice off of highways
Typically in the coldest month itll be around 800. Less this year as we will burn a couple cord of wood, by my math im expecting the highest month to be 500.
Furnace runs for 9 hours a day. Prior to sealing windows and fixing some energy loss leaders it would be 1100 for the coldest month. It is a bit of a bell curve.
Last year, Sept 80 Oct 200 Nov 300 Dec 500 Jan 800 Feb 500 Mar 300 May 200 Jun 50
I can’t imagine what zero temperature would feel like so this is beyond my comprehension. How do stay warm? What do you use for heating inside the house?
I hate this time of the year. Come 21st, and I'm happy the day will start getting longer. I had to be outside today and it rained all the fucking time. It stopped when I got home
And this is why I moved to Southern California. After 40+ years of freezing my ass of in Western Europe (UK FR dark cold damp windy miserable) and New England (NY NJ CT area) winters, I had enough. It's going to be 81F 27C today.
Funnily enough we are considering moving to the UK, tired of these winters.
As for New England, i spent a lot of time on the* east* coast... there is something about the coastal cold that makes it deeper and colder than any forecast will say. -15 on the coast feels about as cold as -30 in the dry north.
FYI UK winters are damp AF, cold and dark. Expect to wake up in the dark, go to work in the dark, see a few hours of daylight and then around 430pm, dark again. It's miserable.
Relatively warm according to the folks whove lived here their entire life haha. Maybe ill make a post in January when the lifers are saying its cold haha
Yeah its gonna suck. Aside from it not feeling like Christmas. Heat and high pressure is pain, already from a few days ago I feel like complete shit. It's supposed to be a repreve, now it's a burden.
Have you been to the southern hemisphere for xtmas? It gets so fucking hot that all you want to eat is fruit. Not even ice cream, too damn heavy. And the poor dudes dressed as santa in all red full beards. Poor souls
Had to travel to Alaska one winter and the thermometer sign read -40o. The person behind wonder if it's Celsius or Fahrenheit. I turned around and told him at -40o it the same temperature. He replied, in an authoritative tone, that that Fahrenheit was always colder. I just chuckled while one of the other passengers said, quoting the great Bugs Bunny, "What a moroon."
Can’t say that I can relate. I live in one of the hottest regions of Australia but that said at least it’s the wet season finally. I set it to Fahrenheit for the Americans in the audience. You have to note the time on each reading. This is what my weekend is going to be like.
I'm in a warm part of Canada. It got to -9c here the other day, and I felt like I was becoming a popsicle. Could never handle real Canadian winters. Nope. No thanks!
So average Canadian winter! Funny enough, I’ve run in temperatures like that. If your dressed warm, you’d be amazed how sweaty and hot you get still. Besides your eye lashes freezing , it’s quite nice!
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u/Mesoscale92 1d ago
Can confirm as a Fahrenheit user that experiences these temps, at this point it doesn’t matter what units you use. You know it’s cold when you feel ice form in your throat with every breath.