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[begreen]

Let's hope this long spell of cold kills off a lot of the bugs moving northward.

 

[granpajohn]

Great Lakes ice coverage double normal; (the green line is average) Canadian Ice Service

(broken image removed)

Record highest for this date (Environment Canada)....

 

[Shari]

-10 this morning

 

[Jags]

-10 this morning

I don't get this. You are North of me and I hit -22 this morning.

 

[Shari]

I don't get this. You are North of me and I hit -22 this morning.

I'm just outside of Milwaukee - that lake effect can work both ways (warmer/colder or colder/warmer).

 

[Jags]

I'm just outside of Milwaukee - that lake effect can work both ways (warmer/colder or colder/warmer).

I'm just cranky. I am done with this cold weather. It can be over anytime now. I don't know if I can ever recall a winter with so many days that hit single or minus digits.

 

[Shari]

I'm just cranky.

You are not the only one. I really hate to comment on the weather. I could just talk about my truck doors freezing shut, or the frozen fan on my heater in my truck, or it's frozen leather seats.................

 

[begreen]

Sorry to say that there's more cold coming. We are due to be cold and clear for the next few days. Low 20's in the city and possible single digits in the rural sections, all with strong north winds. While that doesn't sound cold next to -10, it's a harbinger of what is heading east. We are just on the edge of this next cold bubble.

 

[Frozen Canuck]

Hoping that the cold weather lasts at least until the end of March. Plenty of pipeline breaks to fix here & that won't happen after it warms up. Need a solid -30 to settle in & just get bigger & stronger, deeper, more spread out so it can't be pushed away until then. Perhaps if all the Great Lakes freeze to a depth of 4' that will be enough. If you can get to your garden & start planting on May 21, then we have had the winter we need. Wear more layers everyone. Stay warm.

 

[Jags]

Hoping that the cold weather lasts at least until the end of March. Plenty of pipeline breaks to fix here & that won't happen after it warms up

Color me confuddled. Why do you want cold weather to fix pipelines? Are the breaks due to the cold?

 

[woodgeek]

Color me confuddled. Why do you want cold weather to fix pipelines? Are the breaks due to the cold?

I'd assume it is easier to drive on the Muskeg in Jan than in August. Fewer flies too.

 

[Frozen Canuck]

Need the ground to be frozen solid to a depth deep enough to support all the equipment.

Many of the pipelines run through the muskeg's here (think Louisiana swamps just not as warm).

Breaks are due to the wear of the high sand content bitumen.

Think pipeline buried at about 12' in the Louisiana swamps, it's a lot easier to fix if the ground freezes solid. Actually in many cases impossible to fix until it freezes solid, just shut the pipeline in & wait for cold weather & hope the cold lasts long enough to fix the pipeline.

You can ask BB just how hard it is to get a pipeline right of way through anything that is not considered worthless ground, they almost always run through some of the worst ground possible to get to their destination. Makes fixing them a real challenge most times.

 

[Jags]

Got it - makes sense to me now.

 

[parthy]

It's a balmy -19C where I am today. Everybody is out about like it's spring. My car even started without being plugged in (it will start until -24C). My cat even has gone out twice!

That said I just had to pay someone 200 bucks to shovel the snow off my roof. over 2 feet there was. First time ever. We get lake effect from Lake Winnipeg.

 

[Doug MacIVER]

bastardi's weatherbell take on feb, released ten days ago (broken image removed)

 

[Frozen Canuck]

Yes, very warm here too today Parthy. Not good. Need it to get colder & stay colder. At the very minimum 60 more days of -30. Buy more sweaters & socks everyone & hope for a lot of cold.

 

[Jags]

& hope for a lot of cold.

Nope - ain't gonna do it.

 

[Frozen Canuck]

Lol . I understand completely Jags. Just doing my bit too keep all my friends on Hearth supplied with fuel so they can drive 4 abreast on I85 at 85 this summer. Don't worry plenty of folks here wish these breaks were summertime fixable as well.

 

[parthy]

FrozenCanuk - hate to disappoint, but the coldest it's going to be here until mid feb is -27C. Gimli, MB long term outlook. Of course, it's snowing again right now. It snows everyday here. I am getting old, but I used to think that when it was really cold, it didn't snow. Now, here, where I live, it snows when it's -30. The lake is frozen over, I just don't get it. Cold is cold. You don't have to shovel it.

 

[Frozen Canuck]

Yes I hear you parthy. Far too warm here as well. Hoping for a long deep, hard, cold spell. Or there will be a lot of unhappy folks when fuel prices go up do to supply issues. Gotta keep all my friends that want to drive at 85 on the I85 happy & in fuel for their drag racing.

The lady that keeps me in line was born in Boissevain, MB. She has family in Killarney, MB. Nice little community, I get quite a hoot out of those Turtle races.

 

[bag of hammers]

FrozenCanuk - hate to disappoint, but the coldest it's going to be here until mid feb is -27C. Gimli, MB long term outlook. Of course, it's snowing again right now. It snows everyday here. I am getting old, but I used to think that when it was really cold, it didn't snow. Now, here, where I live, it snows when it's -30. The lake is frozen over, I just don't get it. Cold is cold. You don't have to shovel it.

Yeah that's the kicker - crazy cold and snow. Weird year. Had to go up on the camp roof this weekend and dig down to get to my vent stack (30" and buried). On the leeward side of the roof - wind just dumping a ton of snow off Superior. My propane tank was gone. Somewhere in front of the place is a 10' utility trailer. I'm digging down to get to firewood.

 

[Seasoned Oak]

Mostly just a bit below average winter temps for the next 10 days. Was 47 on saturday. These temps are a breeze. Anything over freezing(32) daytime is good.

 

[Swedishchef]

-20 to -23C every night this week. I think this has been the coldest winter overall in the past decade. I am some glad I bought 15 boxes of eco logs. Mixing 1-2 per fire is making quite the difference in how much wood I burn.

Andrew