Currently 21F OAT right now.
A few nights ago local news and the weather channel showed -2F with 20mph west winds and a windchill of -26F… but something was odd…I could feel cold moving into the house like it was getting colder even though the furnace wall thermostat still said 74IAT. So I glanced over at my indoor/outdoor thermometer by my chair and this is what I spied.
I thought my indoor/outdoor thermometer was broken so I grabbed the IR gun to double check the temperature outside. One picture is the fender of one of our vehicles, a few pictures showing the door of a detached garage, and some pictures of garage and house bricks to deny metal being a factor.
Conclusions:
1. Two thermometers don’t lie and neither do pictures. I even have screen shots from the news apps showing only -2F.
2. A pocket of super cold air moved into this valley for at least two hours.
3. Two hours later we had a heat wave of +1F.
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My indoor/outdoor thermometer sat at -15F for about 24-30 hours over this cold snap.
The big Hitzer 354…well the hardest it ran was a peak of about 390F on face of stove above the doors for a few hours…barely working the entire time. Stove top still never got hot enough to boil water in my coffee pot sitting on top of the stove. Sucks! Can’t make coffee or cook on top of it, but there are advantages. 🤣😂👍