It was below zero all Friday in Central Illinois, down to -7 except for a brief period when the temperature reached 0. Windchills are negative 26-negative 35. Not much was moving in my home town. Let me know how all of you are doing in the comboxes.
Brrr!
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Weather reports mixed here in South Louisiana. Might get ice but likely north and west of us. Temp down to low 20’s next couple of days with wind chills in the teens. Having lived in New Hampshire for years not bad, but the natives don’t like it.
Ice storm has not yet arrived in the greater Charlotte area. With the two McGuire nuclear reactors to the north and the two Catawba nuclear reactors to the west, unless power lines collapse due to ice accumulation, we should be ok. May God keep everyone safe.
Oh, BTW, it won’t be useless worthless solar and wind energy keeping us warm during this winter storm.
-0 weather is playing in Peoria.
Your area is not due for ice accumulation and your local governments indubitably have the equipment to cope. I used to live in such an area, but do no longer.
Southeastern MA is used to NorEaster’s that bring 1-2 feet of snow, and periods of cold, but not used to cold (-1F this AM) proceeding and following a storm. This is dangerous because of power outages.
Snow power outages are all about the trees. In winter deciduous have no leaves, it’s all about pine. If it’s heavy sticky snow w/ no wind to knock it off, pine breaks. It looks like with this one the snow will be fluffy with enough wind present. We might get lucky.
God Bless anyone facing an Ice storm. The additional weight causes everything power line related and trees to break. Everything encased in ice makes things extremely… difficult to repair. The absolute worst is a transmission tower collapse, and those can happen in the South because the (#%!) accountants often think it’s not necessary to ($) build for an ice storm.
David WS is 100% correct.
“The absolute worst is a transmission tower collapse, and those can happen in the South because the (#%!) accountants often think it’s not necessary to ($) build for an ice storm.”
Our neighborhood in suburban Dallas is relatively new (subdivisions all date to the early to mid 1990s), meaning all power lines in the actual residential areas are buried. So the ice is not a real threat, and the transmission towers in North Texas are built for the ice and wind conditions we see regularly. Our house also happens to be two blocks from a fire station, and we are supplied by the same power substation as the firefighters. In the 2021 near-disaster (caused by too much reliance on “renewables”), when most of our suburb lost power for almost 48 hours, we were okay thanks to our location. Thus, we feel pretty safe as we go into a predicted ice storm today and overnight tonight.
Despite the presence of a large number of Yankee transplants like us, the general reaction to winter storms around here is actually amusing, as the bread, milk, and eggs (why only those things?) start to disappear from the stores as soon as the forecast hits. This year I noticed that the bathroom tissue started to dwindle pretty fast, too. A psychological fallout from the Year of the Black Sniffles, I assume. The ice and a little bit of snow will be gone by Tuesday, so the “OMG” factor should wear off by then. 😁 My family in NW Illinois are just fine at their current 10 below zero reading. No biggie there.
-17 actual temperature in Southeast Michigan
Funny how whenever there are severe storm power outages.. with linemen working 18 hour days to restore power.. in conditions that are both frigid and dangerous..
-there are no cries for “line-person” pronouns.
Was pleasant for a January day at the March yesterday (around 40-42) but once I got home around 1800, the wind started kicking up and the plunge began. While here on the Eastern Shore it is balmy compared to our host’s Midwestern location or New England (10 degrees currently, chill minus 3 at 0845 EST), it is going to be the ice storm that I fear coming tomorrow. It’s kind of a “Junior South” situation. We can handle, infrastructure-wise, about 3-5 inches of snow and perhaps a tenth an inch of ice. Anything more than that is a total shutdown around these parts.
“-17 actual temperature in Southeast Michigan“
Makes me glad I don’t live there anymore.
I’m thinking I can get to 5pm Mass tonight and make it home before the first flakes. I expect (hope) attendance is standing-room-only.
“-17 actual temperature in Southeast Michigan“
Makes me glad I don’t live there anymore.”
Now you know why my wife, the Texan, never really forgave me for moving her up here. The only reason she went along with it was grandkids.
My earliest memory is of sledding in Michigan. It could have been in a December, could have been in a May.
Yankton SD, got down to -11 degrees yesterday, but today we’re having a heat wave where it will be around 0 degrees! Back to shorts and a t-shirt!
We’ll be pulling our heavy-duty winter umbrellas out of storage to protect us from falling iguanas.
It’s a balmy 6 degrees right now, not counting windchill. They’re predicting about 8-10″ of snow by tomorrow.
Been iced/snowed in since Friday night about 8:00 pm CST. National weather service is predicting that we will stay iced/snowed in through Tuesday at 12:00 pm. The high today was 20. The predicted low for tonight is 2 degrees.
“My earliest memory is of sledding in Michigan. It could have been in a December, could have been in a May”
I grew up in Detroit. Did a lot of sledding as a kid.
We dodged the bullet twice. The expected ice accumulation never arrived and the electricity stayed on. Also, a trio of neighbors we have never met before arrived with their youth, vigor, and tools and cleared that part of the driveway I’m too old to get to and that part I was too weak to clear after the snow was replaced with sleet and the sleet turned into a block. They cleared about 2/3 of the driveway in about 45 minutes. (The snow started around 7:00 pm. The sleet was already coming down at 5:00 am and continued until 7:00 pm). It looks like city and private ploughs are doing preliminary work on a street perpendicular to ours. Our immediate neighbor told us the last time this happened (in 2022), the street was ploughed by the city about two days later. If they can plough the street, we might be able to arrange for home delivery of some groceries.