Five below zero Fahrenheit this balmy morning in central Illinois. Fun times. One degree below the temperature currently at the North Pole. Winter hasn’t been that bad thus far in central Illinois, but it can turn brutal in a heart beat as it has today. I salute all of you who live in more salubrious climes as I shiver the day away! For those who live in more godforsaken colder places, may God help you!
Yep from a northern Chicago suburb. It’s -5 farenheit at about 3 am Saturday. Typical Chicago winter though.
I’ve had that experience for 70 years in Michigan. Better now in Venice, FL which, at the moment, is 70 degrees.
It’s quite warm here in Cincinnati at 16°. However at 7 am I awoke to turn up the thermostat for the day and discovered that someone forgot to lock the front door yesterday and it had blown open 12″ sometime during the night….
Don,
What source had the North Pole at -5F? The Norwegian post has NP temp at -31C (-24F).
https://www.yr.no/en/forecast/daily-table/2-6269203/North%20Pole
North Pole, Alaska. My excuse is that I was blogging at 4:00 AM and my brain was half frozen!
(It’s a balmy 30F today in SE MA with a medium storm 4-8 inches in the forecast. It’ll be 4F overnight by the end of the week. )
Things that get me through the winter:
1. Embrace it. Do outside activities.
2. Remember “There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.”
3. Gardening catalogs, and starting seeds (ex tomato’s).
4. Seasonal foods, beer and libations.
5. Wood pellet stove.
Don,
I’ll admit, you did put a bit of a global warming fright in me for a minute. 🙂
A frigid 50 degrees in South Louisiana right now. Only expected to get to 60 today. Heavy coat weather. 🙂
My growing-up memories of January and February in Carroll County, IL are of stretches of days and even weeks when daytime temps barely rose above zero Fahrenheit, if at all. Oilpan heaters were a necessity if you wanted the car to start. I once saw the thermometer at my family home at -35F at midnight New Year’s Eve, I believe it was 1978, when I was home from law school for Christmas. Glad to be here in relatively warm north Texas for now!
Two years ago the temperature in Dwight got down to -21F.
https://the-american-catholic.com/2019/01/29/american-siberia/
That was brisk even for me, and I tend to love cold weather.
Iowa, it’s about -4 on the porch.
Read the title of the video– clothing tips– and my brain said “warm car!”
IE, don’t walk around outside…..
Just shoveled off my back walk to the garage. This is killing weather and not to be trifled with.
I had to fly into and out of Syracuse, NY (on business) one day when it was minus 20. Luckily, a man from our SYR office picked me up and brought me back to the airport.
Of course, there’s nothing but barbed wire fences between you guys and the North Pole.
Do you think sun beams and unicorn farts can keep you warm in an IL Winter?
For the record. Great moments in the climate hoax hysterics.
ON BORROWED TIME:
IT’S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!
● Four years to save the Earth: 2020 is the deadline to avert climate catastrophe, experts claim in chilling commentary.
—Agence France-Presse, June 29, 2017.
● President ‘has four years to save Earth.’
—The London Guardian, January 27, 2009.
Which brings us to our current hellscape: “A secret report, suppressed by US defense chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020.”
—The London Guardian, February 21, 2004.
In 1989, the Associated Press relayed a warning from a U.N. official: “A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”
The same U.N. official who predicted the loss of entire nations by the year 2000 also claimed: “the most conservative scientific estimate [is] that the Earth’s temperature will rise 1 to 7 degrees in the next 30 years.” But looking back from 2019, the temperature rose about half of a degree Celsius since 1989, according to NASA.
In 2006, while promoting his movie “An Inconvenient Truth”, Al Gore said that humanity had only 10 years left before the world would reach a point of no return.
Environmental Apocalypse Predictions Have Failed For Half A Century
Some examples:
1967 — Stanford University expert Paul Erlich predicted “time of famines” in 1975.
1971 — A top NASA expert predicted an “ice age” by 2021.
1988 — It was predicted that the Maldives would be under water by last year.
2008 — Gore said the Arctic would be free of ice by 2013.
2009 — Charles said there was just 96 months left to save the world.
To be honest, there’s nothing more tiresome than Boomer anecdotes but how much worse the winter is used to be. Just in the last few years we’ve had record cold and record snows. I get it you guys didn’t like to shovel 40 years ago. That doesn’t really do a lot for me today.
It was not only the six-foot snow drifts, Brian.
We had to walk five miles each way to school – uphill both ways.
haha
Winter’s always seem longer and snow height greater for children, because four months is a lifetime to a child and 2 feet is half a child’s height.
(And the climate propagandists know this.)
Good insights David. Propagandists seem to have the one truly perfected ‘art’ in modern society. If four months from now we have a moderately work June, the annual hottest summer ever hysterics will again scream the loudest.
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Enjoy your cool ‘balmy’ weather Don. Here in the South Pacific on a group of islands known as New Zealand, it is 11 am, and temp. outside is a pleasant 23 C 9 or about 74 F.) Here in Tauranga in the North Island we are having an average summer, if a little cooler than recent years. -Nights ore down to 12C – 16C., so quite pleasant also. The hottest days we have had this summer was a hot few days about 5 weeks ago, when the days got to 31C. I just get the feeling though, that our summers are starting to get cooler the last couple of years. I do recall in my youth some hot beautiful summers in the mid 1960’s. Ah……those halcyon days. I won’t experience them again till the Resurrection. 🙂
I suspect Don that New Zealand may have the best weather short of Heaven. Today Central Illinois would have caused Vikings to be concerned that Fimbulwinter had finally arrived!
Thank God (and Exelon) for the nukes at Braidwood, Byron, Clinton, Dresden, Lasalle and Quad Cities which generate 66% of Illinois’ electricity 2 / 7 / 365 regardless of snow, rain, wind, hail, heat.
But things may get colder in winter when Exelon shuts down Byron (2,347 MWe) and Dresden (1,845 MWe).
PS, the great thing about nukes: no pipe lines to freeze, no trains obstructed by snow & ice from delivering coal, no wind turbine blades to ice over, no solar cells to be covered in snow drifts. Refuel 1/3rd the core once in spring or autumn and run for 2 years straight. And all the power is carbon free.