View Full Version : What was your low temp last night?



Gob-ler
01-24-2011, 09:51 AM
As I get ready to run for a new one (go figure!) it is a balmy -8 here in Darlington PA. Almost like Maine! Not really, but I was thinking about you folks up there.

Global Warming, go figure!

surfacewarrior
01-24-2011, 10:08 AM
17 below in Readfield this morning. but toasty by the wood stove.

Fins_Up
01-24-2011, 10:23 AM
I hit -18.4 in China. I stayed nice and toasty with my pellet stove.

pm28570
01-24-2011, 01:06 PM
It was -14 at the house in Hampden when I left for work at 6 AM. Between Pittsfield and Clinton on 95, it was -23 on the truck thermometer. As I've said in the past, there is always a positive in a negative......blackflies were not bad at all this morning. :)

cano
01-24-2011, 03:06 PM
I had to turn furnace on this morning for the first time this winter, LOL.

WhereRWe?
01-24-2011, 03:11 PM
Minus 15 in Solon. Car wouldn't start and I had to jump it with the plow truck which stays in the barn in winter. :D:D

shuman road searchers
01-24-2011, 05:32 PM
I live in the warm section of China! Only -8 on the house thermometer and -9 on the car. I did see -16 in Freedom village and -18 in Brooks village.

dubord207
01-24-2011, 05:40 PM
It was so cold that while at work today I had my hands in my own pockets!:D

Ekidokai
01-24-2011, 06:47 PM
-15 at the house and -20 at the radio station. The doors were frozen shut and we had to dump water on them to get them open.

Lots of fun.

Team2hunt
01-24-2011, 07:10 PM
It was -15 in Windham and a refreshing 50 degrees in my kitchen this morning. It was nice to sit beside my coffee and warm up.

WhereRWe?
01-24-2011, 07:24 PM
It was so cold that while at work today I had my hands in my own pockets!:D

Sheesh! I don't care who ya are, that's funny right there! :D:D

JustKev
01-24-2011, 07:36 PM
Sheesh! I don't care who ya are, that's funny right there! :D:D

Unless he's got his hands in your pockets.

WhereRWe?
01-24-2011, 07:52 PM
Unless he's got his hands in your pockets.

The joke will be on him... I've got a hole in my pocket... :eek::eek:

cano
01-24-2011, 08:20 PM
http://www.wimp.com/bubblefreeze/

shuman road searchers
01-24-2011, 08:44 PM
The joke will be on him... I've got a hole in my pocket... :eek::eek:

This thread has gone horribly wrong!!!!!!!

firefighterjake
01-24-2011, 09:58 PM
-19 in Unity-Troy . . . by the time I got to work in Bangor it was a balmy -10.

Had to take the wife's Subaru . . . my Honda Accord decided it didn't want to leave the garage.

Gob-ler
01-25-2011, 09:11 AM
+34 this morning. What a difference a day can make!

JustPJ66
01-25-2011, 09:16 AM
going swimming???

pm28570
01-25-2011, 09:37 AM
It was so cold that while at work today I had my hands in my own pockets!:D
That one was good Dan.....:D

fins2right
01-28-2011, 10:30 PM
Jumping in late, but the temp was a nose freezing -17 degrees in Oakland.

It sounds like the old story of walking uphill to school in 10 feet of snow, but when I was in the Air Force, my first base was Grand Forks, North Dakota.

If you have never spent a winter in the upper plains, it is truly the 7th level of Dante's inferno. The average daily high seemed to be 0 with at least a week of -15 to -25 now and then. My 1983 Suburu had the worst time starting until I put a block heater in it. At the time most every parking spot had a plug in. You would wrap an extension cord around your grill, raise the hood, plug in the car, and close the hood. That way no one could steal the extension cord.

One morning, getting ready to spend a very exciting shift walking around a B-52 bomber, I was out in the deathly cold scraping off my windshield. An idiot from Alabama (feel free to think it, I did :rolleyes:) walked out with a pot of boiling water. He announced loudly to us "You Northern boys may be the stupidest M.F.ers ever". Despite the guys from Maine, Minnesota, and Montana telling him not to, he poured the hot water on his -20 degree windshield. The result, a magnificent implosion that dropped glass throughout the interior of his car. Because he called us stupid, No one would give him a ride to work and we made him walk. The northern tier boys considered it a life lesson.

Needless to say, when Desert Shield kicked off, my first thought was "War Zone? Is it warm?". I quickly volunteered. The result? I spent 6 Months in sunny Saudi Arabia and 12 months in sunny Diyarbakir, Turkey. I don't regret a single minute.

In 19 years, 6 months and 9 days I can retire. (maybe) I assure everyone, I'm going to a place where the word "snowflake" is not part of the vocabulary.