Brrrrr!!!!

“Friday 1/16
Cold with sun and clouds
High 17° F
Friday Night 1/16
Partly cloudy and quite cold
Low 3° F
Saturday 1/17
Very cold with clouds and sun
High 19° F
Saturday Night 1/17
Partly cloudy and very cold
Low 6° F
Sunday 1/18
Cloudy and cold with snow
High 24° F”

“It's actually "0" on the thermometer at 1700' & I imagine at least 10 degrees cooler on Hunter & lowered more by wind factor.

Next week its supposed to hover around 30”

“So you think it will be in the - numbers next weekend?”

“Funny, those are the temps right now in Metro Detroit. No mountains necessary. :)”

“Work has me heading to AK Sunday. The current temperature is 0, windchill -27. I hope this southern boy can survive it. Actually, I think the 4 hours of daylight and driving on a slab of ice is what is going to do me in.”

“Supposed to warm up next week to 25-30 above. Right now EVERTHING is ice encrusted right to the top of hundred foot trees. Kinda pretty when the sun shines thru it. Sparkles. Been that way for a few days, which is rare.

If it stays that way,I'd bring fire starter as it is hard to light campfires with everthing encased in ice.”

“Good idea Catshiker! How cold do you think it will be on hunter next weekend?”

“7 below right now in Saranac Lake, with a low tonight of 33 below. I hope Lumberzac doesn't ask me to go up there for a dayhike tomorrow.”

“Brrrrrr!! At my house it’s currently 1 degree. Should be well below zero tonight and a high of 9 tomorrow.

I could test some cold weather gear out in the yard tonight. LOL”

“-3 for a low tonite, 5 for a high. Its frickin cold then a witches tit.”

“Our high today was -2, and it's -14 here right now, -24 with the wind chill. We've had minus 20-30 during the day with the wind chill and tomorrow will be the same.

The snow is really pretty all frozen like it is - glazed and shiny, and cool with the moon reflecting on it.

When I came home tonight, a herd crossed the road just before my driveway. Nothing to do with snow or cold or hiking, but it was cool.

o(=D”

“that would be "herd of deer"

sheesh!”

“It is now 8* at my house in CT without the wind chill. It is going to be a FYAO at Hunter Mtn next weekend.”

“It's 0 here now and they expect -4 tonight. The wind isn't bad though. When the wind starts and it's below 0 it's pretty much time to hide in a tent, unless you're hiking.”

“-4 is a tad nippy but around here we're pretty happy if it's above -20 when we have to go to work..I try to not think about windwhill unless it gets to -35..now that I have an electric car starter (I love my SO) I don't care la-dee-dah;)”

“We broke a record at -6 this morning. I was out in my yard testing parkas last night. I modified a TNF goose down parka so I wanted to see how much it was improved. I put it up against a Golite Six month night parka and a Goretex quallofil parka. The temp was -2 with windchills of -18 at the time. The most noticeable thing was that a parka that doesn't have a hood is at a disadvantage to one that does. In these temps a vapor barrier shirt makes a dramatic boost in warmth to anything you've got on for only a few ounces more. The gore tex shell on one coat helped a lot in the wind, but adds weight. With 15 lbs. less body fat than I had last winter I need another layer to stay as warm and that was pretty noticeable. I want to make my own parka so I learned a few things last night that will help when I decide what to use for materials and some other details.”

“What's the matter with you people? It's not nearly that cold in my freezer, <G>


My warmest s-bag is only rated to 15°, but the VBL really helps if the temps drop any further.

Speaking of parkas... I have a Feathered Friends Volant jacket I really like, but I think I'm loosing loft in the shoulders. Once it warms up in the Spring I'm thinking of sending it back to them for some more 'stuffing'.”

“Tilt, that's one of the things I've learned in testing the jackets. They really need to beefed up in the shoulders because just the weight of the jacket can compress the loft and make a cold spot. Also all the body heat rises and if it doesn't get trapped really well in the shoulders it won't accumulate in the jacket. That's one of the modifications I made to TNF parka was to beef up the shoulder area and it seems to have worked.”

“For Sure. I had a TNF parka years ago that lost loft in the shoulders completely. I finally stuck some oval-shaped pieces of closed cell foam in it to compensate....”

“-10 this morning. Baby it's cold out!”

“Man, it's gonna be cold out there. Lots of things are going to just not work until they warm up.

Tonight. Partly cloudy. Much colder. Lows near 15 below. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph. Wind chill values 35 below to 45 below zero.

Wednesday. Partly cloudy. Highs zero to 10 below. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph. Wind chill values 35 below to 45 below zero.

Wednesday night. Partly cloudy. Lows near 20 below. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph. Wind chill values 40 below to 50 below zero.

Thursday. Partly cloudy. Highs zero to 5 below. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Wind chill values 40 below to 50 below zero.”

“Translating into Fahrenheit will probably give me brain cramps, but here goes: right now it's down to -18°F from a high of -15°F outside my school with fierce winds. It will be going down to -22°F to-night with a wind chill factor of -45°F.

Canadians love to talk about these things to you guys down there - a sort of perverse pride to cheer ourselves up, I guess.

The good news is that my pipes weren't frozen this morning and I hope I'll still have running water when I get home after our after-school (indoor) rugby training. I didn't have time to go home and run the water at lunch.”

“my weather

weather where I'm going

it's gonna warm up for the weekend!

o(=D”

“IMHO, anytime the actual temperature drops below -10F, or the windchill is -25F or below...baby, it's cold!”

“Just look at that sunshine. 8)”

“Where ya going Twigeater?? You gonna be around Saturday night?

We plan to take a couple of my boys skiing this weekend. Need to prepare for the weather...”

“monkeyboy - I'm headed to Patten Friday night, for a trip to BSP, coming home Monday, wahoo!

o(=D”

“whoops, I didn't check those links - for some reason the second one didn't work.”

“And we're complaining about the cold? Check out these temps for Barrow, Alaska. The HIGH for the next 5 days will be minus 19.

Tonight
Low -26° F

Thursday 1/15
High -19° F

Thursday Night 1/15
Low -31° F

Friday 1/16
High -23° F

Friday Night 1/16
Low -34° F

Saturday 1/17
High -25° F

Saturday Night 1/17
Low -34° F

Sunday 1/18
High -21° F

Sunday Night 1/18
Low -28° F”

“Damn, Pennsy! And I felt like it's cold as hell here.

Only have 1 inch of snow on the ground currently and it stopped snowing. What a bummer.”

“High 76*F-low 37*F.Did see a small cloud off to the north three days ago.The desert is the place.”

“you haven't seen a cloud in 3 days? how cute.”

“-14F here this morning with a windchill of -32F. Winds are expected to pick up this afternoon around 25-30 mph. Dangerous windchills -30 to -50F. I love living up here!”

“-12, windchill -27.
it doesn't seem that cold anymore...

o(=D”

“twigeater...it's still cold...we're just getting used to it. 20 degrees this weekend is going to seem like a heat wave!”

“yes it will!”

“You're right , twiggy, once it gets down below 0 for awhile, you get used to it!

It was -20 here a couple weeks ago and now 32 feels like summer.”

“It was like that here as well, minus temps, then 32 felt like a heat wave, now back to minus temps - this weekend I'll be sweating in 10-20 above!
that's winter for ya...

We've got ice for fishing, now we need more snow.

o(=D”

“-6 right now. I bet it drops to about -10 by morning.”

“Has anyone else read anything about the hiker in the White Mountains who was found frozen? I just found one small reference to it so far.”

“I just heard about it, and am looking for the story.”

“I've only found references to it within other stories...maybe skiracer has more info...”

“I heard about it from you, twigeater. Shortly after, I heard something about it on VPR or NPR.”

“I have to go out at lunch today. Zero degrees is going to seem downright warm.”

“yeah, it's 1 degree here, but still minus 18 with the wind chill....not too bad!”

“Today at 5pm I left northern Maine in a blizzard (over a foot of snow) and arrived home a few hours later to a paltry 2 or 3".

:(

I wanna go back!

o(=D”

“We heard about the snow up north. Nothing down here in Southern Maine.....

Gotta check if Big Squaw ski mountain got any.

We went out yesterday, and I thought it was 30 degrees out. It never made it above 10. The winter weather aclimatization is setting in.”

“I know what you mean, monkeyboy. This morning it was about 10 degrees out and the wind was blowing a bit. Seemed like it was fairly warm. Wait until late Friday and Saturday. It's supposed to get a little chilly. Then again...it's January.”