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milestogo

(16,829 posts)
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 09:49 AM Dec 2022

How's the weather where you are?


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Over 85 degrees F
0 (0%)
70-85 degrees F
6 (6%)
55-70 degrees F
11 (11%)
40-55 degrees F
11 (11%)
25-40 degrees F
9 (9%)
10-25 degrees F
20 (21%)
-5 to 10 degrees
27 (28%)
-20 to -5 degrees F
13 (13%)
Below -20 degrees F
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How's the weather where you are? (Original Post) milestogo Dec 2022 OP
0 (yes, zero) F. in Nashville! Wicked cold! Tanuki Dec 2022 #1
Charleston, SC OneBlueDotS-Carolina Dec 2022 #2
-2 but the wind chill is -40! Hope22 Dec 2022 #3
Norwich, CT 55F now, high winds, dropping to 10F tonight. NutmegYankee Dec 2022 #4
Cold and wet, basically gross bottomofthehill Dec 2022 #5
20 now, day's high - will be 6 by tomorrow AM NewHendoLib Dec 2022 #6
A balmy - 1f with wc more negative. 48656c6c6f20 Dec 2022 #7
Its -11 degrees in southern WI milestogo Dec 2022 #8
51 degrees. NH. Yup, it's raining. Go figure. Joinfortmill Dec 2022 #9
Winter is coming to N. Florida tonight for the first time in years. Chainfire Dec 2022 #10
Which trees in N Florida? N Fla is like San Antonio. LeftInTX Dec 2022 #49
I am jam up against the Georgia line nearly halfway between Jacksonville and Pensacola. Chainfire Dec 2022 #55
Good luck with the citrus! LeftInTX Dec 2022 #56
9 degrees with a "real feel" of -10 in howling winds in Detroit, but..... marmar Dec 2022 #11
Snow emergency. LisaL Dec 2022 #12
Here in N Fla it's in the low 50s at 9:10 am. Sky is clearing and will be sunny for the rest of the allegorical oracle Dec 2022 #13
Watching that movie makes me cold. milestogo Dec 2022 #14
Same here. Love the film's relentless, syrupy music. Am just a hopeless romantic. lol n/t allegorical oracle Dec 2022 #18
That movie had been on my bucket list for years Xavier Breath Dec 2022 #33
Look out for frozen iguanas falling from the trees! 🌴🦎🌴🦎 Tanuki Dec 2022 #19
Saw an iguana warning last week for S Fla. They also regularly short-circuit utilities. They're allegorical oracle Dec 2022 #22
They aren't "adapting". Florida doesn't have extended cold snaps anymore. Cetacea Dec 2022 #48
I am going to mangle the spelling but that house was called Fareekeno. Prairie_Seagull Dec 2022 #34
It was actually wax LeftInTX Dec 2022 #51
Currently -9F with Wind Chill at -37F. NT Happy Hoosier Dec 2022 #15
12 (-3 w/ wind chill) but sunny and bright. High today 28. Solly Mack Dec 2022 #16
Good luck, people! 50ish later NYC, but 20's on Sat electric_blue68 Dec 2022 #17
-9 with a wind chill of -38 in Eastern WI Luciferous Dec 2022 #20
-6 this am, but just a little snow. mopinko Dec 2022 #21
Cold and rainy in NYC Mz Pip Dec 2022 #23
Cold AF here in the Commonwealth of Kentucky... SKKY Dec 2022 #24
41 with rain whistler162 Dec 2022 #25
Just dropped 13 degrees whistler162 Dec 2022 #38
-2 and sunny in NE Kansas tapper Dec 2022 #26
-9 in Minneapolis iemanja Dec 2022 #27
But it's warming up! 2naSalit Dec 2022 #28
47 right now in NYC but temperature dropping like a stone Golden Raisin Dec 2022 #29
Coastal Maine, heavy rain and wind. 40s GPV Dec 2022 #30
51 and rainy on the Oregon central coast CanonRay Dec 2022 #31
Windchill of -12 at the moment in Morgantown, WV. róisín_dubh Dec 2022 #32
Now the system that touched us is heading east. Prairie_Seagull Dec 2022 #35
Seattle has 1/8" of ice on every surface. maxsolomon Dec 2022 #36
Portland is much the same MissB Dec 2022 #39
Beautiful partially sunny day nevergiveup Dec 2022 #37
So fascinating to see where everybody lives. DU is a widespread community. Nice. n/t allegorical oracle Dec 2022 #40
55 degrees in North Hollywood, CA at the moment. beaglelover Dec 2022 #41
Noon and 18 degrees here in Willis TX on Lake Conroe. bluesbassman Dec 2022 #42
right now high 40's low 50's littlewolf Dec 2022 #43
Colder than a brass monkey in Oregon gratuitous Dec 2022 #44
62 on the way to 69. Iggo Dec 2022 #45
I think it got down to 15 last night. San Antonio LeftInTX Dec 2022 #46
I Picked -5 to -20 ProfessorGAC Dec 2022 #47
Yeah we're at a high of -4 right now. And there's wind. milestogo Dec 2022 #57
Gonna hit 80 degrees this weekend here in LA tinrobot Dec 2022 #50
Yuck.. You know it's gonna come to Texas LeftInTX Dec 2022 #52
Unseasonably warm and dry. Elessar Zappa Dec 2022 #53
29 feels like 16 going to 9 or 10 overnight mnhtnbb Dec 2022 #54
sunny and 70. IcyPeas Dec 2022 #58
5 degrees Fahrenheit right now here in sunny Hamilton, Ontario. Jedi Guy Dec 2022 #59
Pittsburgh -4 with a wind chill reading of -30 debm55 Dec 2022 #60
Detroit--windy and 4 degrees. bif Dec 2022 #61
Brass monkeys in central Ohio Maeve Dec 2022 #62
Forecast for 84 deg on Xmas day. San Diego. maveric Dec 2022 #63
Northern Arizona: 58 degrees. We have no water but at least we're warm(ish) ... n/t wackadoo wabbit Dec 2022 #64
75 before noon ornotna Dec 2022 #65
Virginia - now down to 8 degrees Butterflies Dec 2022 #66
12 F in Philly right now. BlueTsunami2018 Dec 2022 #67

Hope22

(1,902 posts)
3. -2 but the wind chill is -40!
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 09:55 AM
Dec 2022

Hopefully this thing moves right along. Supposed to be in the forties next weekend! That’s crazy.

milestogo

(16,829 posts)
8. Its -11 degrees in southern WI
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 10:11 AM
Dec 2022

and I just saw a neighbor walking to his car wearing thongs on his bare feet.

Chainfire

(17,709 posts)
10. Winter is coming to N. Florida tonight for the first time in years.
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 10:16 AM
Dec 2022

We have a week of sub-freezing weather predicted. Since we are not accustomed to it, the consequences will be frozen and broken water pipes throughout the area. Up to now, the weather has been so mild that my fruit trees are budding, so no fruit this summer.

LeftInTX

(25,705 posts)
49. Which trees in N Florida? N Fla is like San Antonio.
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 03:55 PM
Dec 2022

I will probably loose my loquats this year. (Maybe not)
Jacksonville is milder than San Antonio though. Tallahassee can get like Austin.
I don't have citrus.

Too early for peaches etc..That's why I ask.
There are some oddball varieties recommended for South Florida and the Brownsville area. They might bud now. Wouldn't be recommended for N Florida though.

Chainfire

(17,709 posts)
55. I am jam up against the Georgia line nearly halfway between Jacksonville and Pensacola.
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 04:36 PM
Dec 2022

A half hour West of Tallahassee. We are too far inland for the Gulf to modify the temps. I just, an hour ago, picked all of the remaining Meyer lemons, and tangerines but the poor trees are flowering so there goes the next crop. My Loquats are just beginning to form so the next few days will do them in. I have a bumper crop of Calamondins ripe on the two trees, but I don't have the energy to pick them. We have given up on peaches here, it just generally doesn't get cold enough for the buds to crystalize. We have four days of hard freeze lined up starting tonight. Mind you, mine is just a hobby orchard so there is not big financial loss, but I do enjoy growing fruit.

I just ate one of the grapefruit sized tangerines and it was delightful.

Tomorrow morning I may sound like this "sportscaster." https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/reporter-rants-boss-live-air-155939746.html

LeftInTX

(25,705 posts)
56. Good luck with the citrus!
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 05:23 PM
Dec 2022

Citrus was lost here in 1989, then again in 2021. (Single digits) It regrew from the sour orange rootstock

We have lots of "sour orange" trees around town.

Protect the budgraft and area above it, so the area above the graft will regrow. We got down to 15 last night.

Peaches are hard to grow here. Not cold enough.

marmar

(77,109 posts)
11. 9 degrees with a "real feel" of -10 in howling winds in Detroit, but.....
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 10:17 AM
Dec 2022

.... looks like we're not going to get much snow out of this system. Thank goodness.

allegorical oracle

(2,357 posts)
13. Here in N Fla it's in the low 50s at 9:10 am. Sky is clearing and will be sunny for the rest of the
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 10:18 AM
Dec 2022

day as temps plummet to 20 degrees after sunset, tonight. My greatest fear is losing electricity; will not only be cold in my house, but will allow my pipes to freeze. Have a ginormous fireplace, but not enough split wood to last all night and tomorrow. Just watched the 1965 Dr. Zhivago movie last week -- and fear my house will resemble the "ice house" in that film.

Xavier Breath

(3,671 posts)
33. That movie had been on my bucket list for years
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 12:15 PM
Dec 2022

and I finally got a chance to see it last winter. Seemed like an appropriate time to watch.

I was familiar with the main song, and assumed it might appear a couple of times in the movie. Sheesh, did they get their money's worth out of that tune.

Beautifully shot, though, and the endless snowscapes were fascinating.

Tanuki

(14,926 posts)
19. Look out for frozen iguanas falling from the trees! 🌴🦎🌴🦎
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 10:34 AM
Dec 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/12/22/cold-iguanas-florida-falling-sea-turtles/

"....Sometimes, the National Weather Service in Miami issues announcements for “falling iguanas” to emphasize the severe cold and let people know the lizards are not, in fact, dead. But the freeze is temporary most of the time. When temperatures rise, some wake up and resume their normal activities. In the past, people have loaded the frozen iguanas, thinking they were dead, in the back of a car to harvest their meat, only to have the lizards thaw and attack. (So perhaps, don’t do that.)
...
"Some other lizards are also known to fall out of trees as iguanas do, but they don’t get the publicity that a five-foot lizard does,” said Jonathan Losos, an evolutionary biologist at Washington University in St. Louis.

But researchers and animal experts say the cold spells don’t seem to incapacitate the iguanas like they used to, suggesting that animals are adapting to the chilly weather. People may still see iguanas dropping during the upcoming cold blast, but not as many as two to three decades ago, said Zoo Miami’s Ron Magill.

“With each year when we get a cold streak, I see less and less of those iguanas falling out of trees and being cold-stunned … and it’s not because there are less and less iguanas,” Magill said. “It’s just indicative that these animals are, in fact, adapting. Less and less of them are succumbing to this type of temperature differential.”...(more)

allegorical oracle

(2,357 posts)
22. Saw an iguana warning last week for S Fla. They also regularly short-circuit utilities. They're
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 10:42 AM
Dec 2022

not this far north...yet.

Cetacea

(7,367 posts)
48. They aren't "adapting". Florida doesn't have extended cold snaps anymore.
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 03:54 PM
Dec 2022

File that one with articles that warn about climate change coming at the end of the century.

Prairie_Seagull

(3,344 posts)
34. I am going to mangle the spelling but that house was called Fareekeno.
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 12:15 PM
Dec 2022

One of my favorite movies. Had, probably still have a crush on the young Julie Christie staring as Lara Antipova.

LeftInTX

(25,705 posts)
51. It was actually wax
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 03:58 PM
Dec 2022

Omar Sharif was sweating.

Lol

I can't picture a home frozen like that in Fla!

Yeah, pipes might burst. But result is flooding. Water won't go through when frozen. Then when it thaws, it floods. At least that was how it was in our big Texas freeze.

My house "felt" like that last night. I had on coats etc. Still freezing. Finally looked at thermostat at 4 am. Hubby kept setting it to 74. I cranked it up to 80. I finally warmed up. House isn't built for cold at all.

mopinko

(70,294 posts)
21. -6 this am, but just a little snow.
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 10:41 AM
Dec 2022

about 4”, it looks like from my window.

my heat was out last weekend, and i’m super grateful it wasnt this weekend.

SKKY

(11,831 posts)
24. Cold AF here in the Commonwealth of Kentucky...
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 10:46 AM
Dec 2022

...Feeling cute. Might go on a long run later...idk.

 

whistler162

(11,155 posts)
25. 41 with rain
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 10:49 AM
Dec 2022

But give it a 1 hour or 2 and it will drop in temp and start snowing. Weather change is about 1/2 between Rochester and Syracuse.

Work for the state so I have the day off when the county closes except for essential personnel.

tapper

(145 posts)
26. -2 and sunny in NE Kansas
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 11:01 AM
Dec 2022

We had the temperature drop Wednesday night, a bit over 1” snow on Thursday. No rain before the drop, so no ice AFAIK. lowest was about -8.

Nothing compared to incident 41 year ago, north of Detroit — rain all day into the night, dive below zero, 6” snow all day. Still got to work in my little FWD econobox, 2” of ice in parking lot. Manager of the production floor ordered in pizza that day so his people wouldn’t venture out for lunch.

2naSalit

(86,889 posts)
28. But it's warming up!
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 11:34 AM
Dec 2022

We're expected to be in the high teens ABOVE ZERO by the end of the day.

Warm air is coming, everybody east and south of Montana!

Golden Raisin

(4,614 posts)
29. 47 right now in NYC but temperature dropping like a stone
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 11:35 AM
Dec 2022

and will be 12 or lower tonight. Also grey and gloomy.

Prairie_Seagull

(3,344 posts)
35. Now the system that touched us is heading east.
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 12:21 PM
Dec 2022

4 degrees this morning. New system hitting now. Not nearly as cold but supposed to snow most of the day here near Spokane Wa. Supposed to get up to 17 today.

Made it through with only one unburst pipe frozen. Good luck everyone.

maxsolomon

(33,449 posts)
36. Seattle has 1/8" of ice on every surface.
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 12:43 PM
Dec 2022

more coming down now, as the temp warms up 41F by 10 pm.

no buses are running, no one has dared walk down the street. the cat went out though.

MissB

(15,812 posts)
39. Portland is much the same
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 01:29 PM
Dec 2022

except that our ice is a bit thicker here. I think it hit here first?

Dh and one of my kids is out with the dogs, walking. I haven't seen any cars go by.

The other kid is supposed to fly into SeaTac, but his flight today was cancelled. I read that SeaTac has one open runway. PDX has zero.

His flight is rescheduled for tomorrow and we ended up getting him a flight from Seattle to Portland. There weren't any Amtrak seats left tomorrow. Zero, in any class. The only plane ticket we could find (one!) was in first class.

bluesbassman

(19,385 posts)
42. Noon and 18 degrees here in Willis TX on Lake Conroe.
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 02:09 PM
Dec 2022

Beautiful sunny day, just colder than a MAGAt’s heart, and there’s a lot of ‘em in these parts!

littlewolf

(3,813 posts)
43. right now high 40's low 50's
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 02:10 PM
Dec 2022

really windy ... tonight its in the 20's
getting the electric blanket out ...

LeftInTX

(25,705 posts)
46. I think it got down to 15 last night. San Antonio
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 02:36 PM
Dec 2022

It's above freezing now for sure.
Hubby had heater at 74. But my house is drafty. Had coats on etc. Couldn't sleep. Might as well have been outside. Cranked up thermostat to 80 around 4 am. Finally warmed up. My house is not built for cold. It's short lived.

ProfessorGAC

(65,325 posts)
47. I Picked -5 to -20
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 03:22 PM
Dec 2022

Right now, it's a balmy -4°. So, I'm fibbing a little.
It was-8 at 9 this morning.
Wind chill is around 35 below.

milestogo

(16,829 posts)
57. Yeah we're at a high of -4 right now. And there's wind.
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 05:28 PM
Dec 2022

When it gets this cold knowing the exact number makes me feel even colder!

LeftInTX

(25,705 posts)
52. Yuck.. You know it's gonna come to Texas
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 04:07 PM
Dec 2022

From freezing to 80
No thanks! Yes, we get plenty of 80s in the winter.
I prefer 60s.

Elessar Zappa

(14,118 posts)
53. Unseasonably warm and dry.
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 04:10 PM
Dec 2022

Here in the southwest NM mountains, we should be 30 some degrees with snow on the ground. No snow yet this year (except a small amount that didn’t stick) and highs in the high 50s. Don’t you just love climate change?

mnhtnbb

(31,411 posts)
54. 29 feels like 16 going to 9 or 10 overnight
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 04:16 PM
Dec 2022

With the wind blowing 18 mph.

Just put out a second round of the birdseed buffet on the retaining wall in my courtyard. Birds finished off the first round I put out at 7 am. Hope the 30 or so birds that flew off when I opened the door to go out come back. They had been sheltering in the sun among the plants and against the wall of my neighbor's house.

Durham, NC

Jedi Guy

(3,280 posts)
59. 5 degrees Fahrenheit right now here in sunny Hamilton, Ontario.
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 05:29 PM
Dec 2022

-15 Fahrenheit with the wind chill. Let's just say the doggo did not get his afternoon walk when I finished work.

debm55

(25,641 posts)
60. Pittsburgh -4 with a wind chill reading of -30
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 05:38 PM
Dec 2022

And today is not the worst day, tomorrow is supposed to be colder. Started the day at 9 degrees and it has been dropping all day.

maveric

(16,446 posts)
63. Forecast for 84 deg on Xmas day. San Diego.
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 08:04 PM
Dec 2022

Feel a little guilty knowing that most of the country is having real winter weather.
Stay safe my friends.

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