Low of 26 this morning, high made it to 38 for a brief few minutes then I watched as it started to fall...down to 20 now.
We're headed for the same Signet, tomorrows morning low is expected to be our high around 15 to 17 then falling during the day to around -5 overnight and windchill -25 to -30F into Friday...
I might need to get the winter coat out this year

Ok people that have warm weather, Linda, Kelli, and others, you can blow some North or East or whatever direction you need to blow to get it to Iowa this weekend Brrrrrrrr If you blow hard enough Margaret and Signet and Char and Rita (and others) might get some too

I’m going to post this on my most used forum threads so I’m sorry if you see it twice. I won’t be my normally chatty self for a while as I have now started my 10 hour days and weekends at work until April 15, the receptionist (our only other support staff) is out for 12 weeks on maternity leave, husband has knee surgery December 23, QUICK trip to Kentucky over New Years with daughter for their Christmas , and still have to wrap all of the presents for 24 people and I haven’t even started yet. I’ll try to read your posts when I can because I love hearing from you all and consider you all my new friends! I’m not ignoring you - just really struggling for time right now and trying not to go completely crazy (I’m only half way there so far! ) If I really need to see something tree-mail me so I pay attention!

That moon shot is gorgeous, Margaret. Looks like you could almost reach out and touch it.

Best of luck with the work, Ginny.


They are calling for a high of 65F. There is a good chance it will rain tonight.

Thank you Linda, it truly was magnificent.

mcash70 said:Another beautiful sunny day, not much wind, low last night was -26f, present temperature is 2f. The rising moon last night and the night before was spectacular, drives me crazy that I can't capture it's beauty like I see it with the camera. The lens started to fog up so that didn't help.

I went out in the freezing cold and this was the best that I could get. Too bad the house was in the way and the dang TV antenna.

A lovely clear full moon!!

-26 is not something I can imagine. Don't want to ever have to have that here!!

To me it is terribly cold today at maybe 22 but the wind is fierce so makes it wind chill of 13. Plenty nasty enough for me.

Thank you Rita!

We are still in frozen mode, -22f last night, bright and sunny again today which I love, but it is only 6f degrees, luckily no wind. The cold water line to the kitchen froze, soon as we turned the heat up a few degrees it thawed.

Topped out at 84 F today which I think they said was 20 degrees above normal.

Lines did not freeze here, Margaret.

quietyard said:

Lines did not freeze here, Margaret.

Your probably jealous that my line froze and yours didn't.

I can honestly say I would rather be too hot then to have a frozen water line. That is where I draw the line.

Thaws out in a few minutes Linda, no big deal, does it at least once in the winter.

quietyard said:Topped out at 84 F today which I think they said was 20 degrees above normal.

Lines did not freeze here, Margaret.

I'm relying on you guys to keep me laughing

mcash70 said:Another beautiful sunny day, not much wind, low last night was -26f, present temperature is 2f. The rising moon last night and the night before was spectacular, drives me crazy that I can't capture it's beauty like I see it with the camera. The lens started to fog up so that didn't help.

I went out in the freezing cold and this was the best that I could get. Too bad the house was in the way and the dang TV antenna.

Gorgeous

I agree, the moon shots are awesome.

We're in frozen mode too. Strange this morning as it was 17F like they said it would be. Then a snow squall came through around noon with a blast of warmer air pushing the temp up to 28. As the snow let up the temp dropped like a rock, down to 20 within a half hour. The steady fall started late this afternoon as the wind picked up, 12 out now with sustained winds of 20+ and gusts to 30+. Not sure what the wind chill is...expecting with lower temps below zero over night to be -25 to -30. Not worried about frozen pipes, you are lucky yours thaw easily Margaret...just the wind doesn't take out the power overnight.

Take care Ginny, check in with us when you can!

Thank you Ginny and Char.

Margaret, what wonderful pictures of the moon ! I can almost hear the snap of the snow as you walked around taking those pics . You cant get much more clear a sky than that . I bet it was still , still , still out there . Just lovely.

Today is almost the same as yesterday temps wise -25 celcius but finally there is no wind . It is actually quite pleasant out there . Went out to let the chickens and ducks out . They were stuck inside yesterday because of the wind so things were a little tense inside the coop this morning. We have a Colorado low heading our way though , getting ready to dump more snow on us . Do you think you might just want to keep your Colorado lows to yourselves down there ? We dont want them . Just an FYI

All the plowed paths are blown over and there is a 5 foot drift in front of my greenhouse ( figures )cuz that is where I keep my straw for the animals . So will have to wait till tomorrow to get some fresh stuff for them once my DH plows it out .

We have an overcast day with no wind but my it is cold at only 11 degrees. Supposed to get 7 more inches of snow tomorrow.

We got 1.6 inches of rain overnight - always overnight, remember. They are calling for a high today of 58F. If that happens, it will be the coldest day of the year.

Great news about your needed rain, Kelli ! We may get some tonight.