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bugnot1 · 02-08-2011, 09:25 PM

SW Missouri is really cold tonight. It's about 10 degrees right now. Temps will drop tonight to zero - oh yay - NOT. SNOW AGAIN TONIGHT & TOMORROW. Isn't there a temperature where it's too cold to snow???? We're there.

Just a bit ago I turned off the water for a second (duh, forgot). I decided to fill the teakettle and NO WATER. I immediately opened all the faucets - had water in the bathroom - so I left it on and we went outside to see if the dogs had knocked out the plug for the heat tape. The heat tape was fine - the line was warm - but the water line had started to freeze just behind the kitchen faucet. Within a couple seconds it opened up and we again had water.

Tonight we're running more than a trickle -

I'm over winter. I'm feeling a need for temps above - well, anywhere above 32 would be dandy. Enough already!!!!!

bugnot1
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Splitrock · 02-08-2011, 09:43 PM

The coldest I've ever been in my life was July in Santa Barbara, California. I like Springfield, the food is good and the women are all pretty. If I waz going to move to Missouri, that's the town I'd pick.

Jammer · 02-08-2011, 10:00 PM

Well, yes, -4 here now, -15 this morning, and no, I don't like it.

Silverwanabe · 02-08-2011, 10:38 PM

Too cold for my tastes.

What happened to global warming?

This has been one nasty cold winter in the US.

AIR-Quarius · 02-09-2011, 01:56 AM

I hope this one going on now (Got blowing snow and wind chill alerts/warnings going on)---get to sit through this all day tomorrow. The wind will cut right through you!

eubank · 02-09-2011, 06:35 AM

Our final count: 14 inches. I'll insert the temp. Can't bring myself to type it.

TG Twinkie · 02-09-2011, 07:12 AM

Minus 10 here right now, up from -22. Glad I'm not staying in the Argosy.

Lumatic · 02-09-2011, 07:17 AM

37 below last week in Estanica. about 0 this morning

70s guy · 02-09-2011, 02:41 PM

I i'm here to brag then. bragg about my luck this winter. My temps are a balmy 20 high and lowes around +10. break out the beer and grill.

summerkid · 02-09-2011, 03:05 PM

I don't understand how New Mexico can be so cold! Altitude? Isn't it one of our southernmost states?

That's, like, Montana cold (grew up there, never going back, love Oregon's rain) ...

eubank · 02-09-2011, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by summerkid

I don't understand how New Mexico can be so cold! Altitude? Isn't it one of our southernmost states?

That's, like, Montana cold (grew up there, never going back, love Oregon's rain) ...

8,400 feet in elevation at my house in the valley floor, for starters. Cool in the summer. Cold in the winter.

Lynn

Minno · 02-09-2011, 04:31 PM

That's colder than Minnesota's been! Think I'll stay here. Minus 8 this morning on my way to work. Plus 4 now but with well below zero windchills. Pumping gas is NO FUN! Pony probably wouldn't even start - haven't driven her since the first snow in Nov. because of snow on the roads (no traction). It's not top down weather anyway.......

Kay

Gene · 02-09-2011, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by summerkid

I don't understand how New Mexico can be so cold! Altitude?

Yes, altitude. Santa Fe is 7,000'. Temp drops about 3˚ for every 1,000 feet, so instead of highs around 90˚ in midsummer, if SF was at 1,000' (more like Phoenix, actually 1,117')), 108˚, also more like Phoenix. Grand Junction, near 5,000', and often close to 100˚ in summer, at 1,000', 112˚.

We are at 6,837' and it's supposed to be -5˚ tomorrow morning. It's 16˚ now. We had 3 1/2" of snow in the latest storm.

Angel Fire is nice in the summer (and so is Lynn and Maria's campground) and seems to be colder than usual this winter.

Gene

eubank · 02-09-2011, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by CrawfordGene

...Angel Fire is nice in the summer ... and seems to be colder than usual this winter.
Gene

It's been an unusual winter. Our mean temperatures have been above average, but we've also experienced the lowest of lows, too. We're a bit off on snow, though this last storm did us a 23" favor in the end.

Lynn

Gene · 02-09-2011, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by eubank

It's been an unusual winter. Our mean temperatures have been above average, but we've also experienced the lowest of lows, too. We're a bit off on snow, though this last storm did us a 23" favor in the end.

Lynn

Climate change predicted this—higher average temps and more extreme temps and storms.

We are also low in snow. In the early part of the last decade (the "oughts") we had severe drought with as little as 30" one winter and 36" 2 others. Last winter we had 80". So far this winter we are a bit over 31".

Gene

TG Twinkie · 02-09-2011, 05:33 PM

garry · 02-09-2011, 05:47 PM

We have had officially 26" so far in Feb drifts are pretty impressive.
Temp now 18 forecast -5 lots of snow on the ground.

Not much to do since we can't get out. Today we watched the cell phones charge not sure what we will come up with for excitement tomorrow..

Airdog · 02-09-2011, 06:31 PM

For all my friends that chase 70 degrees. Take glee in our suffering, 18 inches of snow since the first, -9 this morning without windchill, were the hell is all this global warming I have been hearing about:') I am looking forward to SPRING!!!!!!