White Christmas, Green New Year

[unixfish]

The week of Christmas, we all remember the cold weather ravages that ran through the USA. We had a white Christmas, with about three inches (7.5 cm) of the white stuff.

When I got up this morning, all the snow is gone. It is now in the 50s F (10s C), and it all melted. We will have a green New Year.

What a difference a week makes.

 

[Knows3Chords]

Yep, same here. All the the snirt (dirt snow) has melted away. Just a lot of puddles. Supposed to get almost 60 next week. The sparrows are out today. I bet is see a mosquito soon.

 

[haggardfan1]

Same in NE Texas. Highs around 70F, lows only in the 60s. Lots of rain last night.
The fruit trees will probably bud out prematurely and ruin the peach crop, among others in our zone.

My gas bill was over $200, a rare occurrence. I don't think I trickled enough water to make a huge difference in that bill, but I didn't have any frozen pipes.

Electricity usage is minimal during winter, so that takes the sting out of the occasional high heating bill. I wouldn't trade for my gas furnace, water heater, and range. It's so much more efficient than electric.

And thoughts to everyone who is digging out of real winter problems!

 

[rcole_sooner]

 

[Mike Eskimo]

Yeah - I’m regionally close to you - a week ago we had the howling 30 mph winds for 36 hours and a high of 3 or 5 (I forget) and now I’m in shorts and a tube top !

 

[unixfish]

Same in NE Texas. Highs around 70F, lows only in the 60s. Lots of rain last night.
The fruit trees will probably bud out prematurely and ruin the peach crop, among others in our zone.

My gas bill was over $200, a rare occurrence. I don't think I trickled enough water to make a huge difference in that bill, but I didn't have any frozen pipes.

Electricity usage is minimal during winter, so that takes the sting out of the occasional high heating bill. I wouldn't trade for my gas furnace, water heater, and range. It's so much more efficient than electric.

And thoughts to everyone who is digging out of real winter problems!

Like all the people that flew SouthWest over Christmas and are still waiting for a flight or their luggage to return?

Or all the people that lost power during the brunt of the cold snap?

My wife's brother and his wife live about a half hour from us. They lost power during the cold snap for about 6 hours - the house got down to about 60F when power was restored. A team mate at work lives three miles from me, and he lost power for 3 hours during the worst of it. We were fine - and our new furnace ran like a champ.

 

[unixfish]

Yeah - I’m regionally close to you - a week ago we had the howling 30 mph winds for 36 hours and a high of 3 or 5 (I forget) and now I’m in shorts and a tube top !

No offense, but we don't need pics.

I wear gym shorts and t-shirts and bare-foot all year round. I did put on socks when it was so cold last week.

And nope - ain't nobody seein' pics of that either!

 

[jimd]

There's still a couple of spots in my yard with some snowy patches, but the rain remove that quickly. The real evidence of the nasty weather is the 6 inches of salt and crud on my car. I'm gonna take care of that shortly.

 

[Knows3Chords]

Yeah, not quite Speedo weather, yet.

The car is like a salt lick with wheels. The car washes will be crowded next week.

 

[KC]

Well, we had a nice white Christmas thing going then it went down to 20 below with 20 mile an hour winds followed by 41 degrees and raining on Christmas Day followed by another hard freeze. Snow on the ground, ice on the streets, looks like it'll be here for the foreseeable future. What time's spring?

 

[dkmw]

Funny, I almost started a thread asking how you guys wash your cars in the winter. I have a hard enough time finding warm days here. I have three vehicles to care for, which makes it an almost constant job.

But I’m a baby about the cold, anything under 80 is too cold to get wet washing cars.

 

[unixfish]

Funny, I almost started a thread asking how you guys wash your cars in the winter. I have a hard enough time finding warm days here. I have three vehicles to care for, which makes it an almost constant job.

But I’m a baby about the cold, anything under 80 is too cold to get wet washing cars.

If it is above freezing, I often just do it in the garage. This helps to keep the floors clean, as grit gets mixed in snow and melts to the garage floor. Or I just run it throught the car wash around the corner.

I have washed cars in 35F weather, but I am probably an outlier in this regard.

 

[Recce]

I’m in northwest Kentucky. -6 around Christmas for lows. Highs of mid sixties now. The snow stayed until Wednesday and is a distant memory now.

 

[Dave Hicks]

Pretty much gone here in Hoosierlandia, too.

Oddly enough, some of the snow we got was clean and white, but the earlier snow was cruddy and gray. It left a dirt stain when it melted, which has now washed away.

D.H.

 

[imwjl]

I'm with Ricky, Bubbles and Julian on this. It's totally ____ ____ to have the holiday weekend not great for powder or fat biking.

 

[fendrguitplayr]

It was near zero on Christmas but today is 60* F.

 

[Mike Eskimo]

It seems crazy but just to the right of the rabbit’s ear (shoulder area) in the UP is Marquette where NMU is and my son goes to school.

Crazy hilly and they get waaaaaay more snow than we do in SE Mich.

And - they don’t use salt.

They’re just really good at plowing and they use this reddish iron oxide sand gravel mixture but - no salt.

 

[yegbert]

While the winter solstice being passed means the daily period of sunlight is on the increase afterwards, and that cold spell seems behind us now; in my experience, the coldest periods of winter often occur later in the season.

 

[unixfish]

Pretty much gone here in Hoosierlandia, too.

Oddly enough, some of the snow we got was clean and white, but the earlier snow was cruddy and gray. It left a dirt stain when it melted, which has now washed away.

D.H.

When I was getting the mail this morning, I walked past my daughter's car which is parked outside on the driveway. It looked like it was leaking oil, so I muttered an expletive and walked up to get a closer look.

No oil. Just lots of crud and grit and dirt that had melted off the bottom of the car from her driving this last week. It was wet still, so the sun made it look reflective like oil. Ah, Midwest winters!

 

[imwjl]

It seems crazy but just to the right of the rabbit’s ear (shoulder area) in the UP is Marquette where NMU is and my son goes to school.

Crazy hilly and they get waaaaaay more snow than we do in SE Mich.

And - they don’t use salt.

They’re just really good at plowing and they use this reddish iron oxide sand gravel mixture but - no salt.

Did he make the Boho opening day LOL?