Here in SLC UT. Nope. Need more winter, need more SNOW!
(snow = water for summer)
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Hell no, it’s the biggest reason why I hate Florida. I miss the New England winters a lot. Give me five straight months of 20-40* weather and I’m a happy camper.
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Cleveburg here.
We good!
It’s just winter and it is very pretty!
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Investigating retirement property in warmer climates.
I’ve had enough of cold, dreary, ice pack and lake effect.
I could really use white sand, sun and Pina Coladas right now.
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My new year starts when I can plant potatoes. But that’s not going to happen for several months. Meanwhile, service all small engines and do mid-winter cleanup/prep for the new year, which always can’t come soon enough. Spring fever now!
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It’s 48°F and sunny here. Too cold for me.
FJB
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2 more significant east coast snow storms in the next week and a half.
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Living here in upstate NY and 73 I don’t like minus numbers in the low temperature range for too long. Keeping the wood and coal stoves going so my pipes don’t freeze keep me too busy along with 2 other houses in two different states my girl friend needs help with is too much. I have 200 year old house and I can’t imagine what the former owners went through. No running water or electricity back then. No insulation in the walls and a out house in the back yard. I must be a woose.
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It was 60 degrees yesterday in the Black Hills and is supposed to be 6 degrees tomorrow. I don’t have a season long enough to get tired of it!
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South of Cleeeeeeeveland in the secondary snowbelt. Die winter die! 14 inches of snow. The power stayed on so that’s good a thing. Sadly our township is short on snowplow drivers for the roads.
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Short on snowplow drivers? Everybody else is short on help, why not them too!
Ole Slingblade with a poop knife has made sure of that!!
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My pipes froze Saturday night, had to go out with a heat gun and defrost them. The intra-medullary nail in my leg complained mightily. I’m ready for spring.
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Foggy, drizzly, damp and doldrums here in the Queen City of King County. These are the dog days of winter that make me long for Hawai’i, but I see that the islands are now requiring 2 shots and all boosters in order to be “fully vaccinated”, so that’s off the menu now.
I’m not whining about our winters. This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
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30 degrees here today with a week of subzero weather forecasted.
We’ve got more than half our firewood left, which is good because Winter in NW WI doesn’t really loosen its grip for another couple of months. More snow, less cold would be preferred at this point.
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Its best not to live life with an imaginary gap between what you want and what you have.
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No. We need more in Colorado this year. Y’all are free to ship us some
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What happened to the “Polar Vortex?”
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^^^It’s comin in a few days, why you miss the ultra cold.
it’s called Winter … happens this time of year EVERY YEAR!
… just like Cold & Flu season happens EVERY YEAR!
(wink, wink, nudge, nudge … know what I mean? … say no more, say no more)
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Meanwhile in the midlands of SC, Sunday freezing rain, Monday high winds. Guess that takes care of the winter and “in like a lion” portion of spring. Probably be 95 and heavy pollen next week. smh
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So far we’ve had a fairly easy Winter here in Eastern Washington and N. Idaho, nothing to complain about except 2 weeks ago Monday on the first workday of the new year when Sandpoint and Bonners Ferry, Idaho had 8 or more inches of snow and the driving was very slow that day, I couldn’t drive over 35-40 mph unless I wanted to end up stuck on the side of the road or worse from Sandpoint to Bonners Ferry and fortunately there was nothing for Libby, Montana that day. I did get my van stuck in my customers parking lot trying to get out but the owner and I were able to dig and push my van out after 15 to 20 minutes. It could’ve been worse as the central part of Washington state got 3 – 4 feet of snow out around Wenatchee. Having gone thru a snowpocalypse during the Winter of 2008 and 2009 where we got 3 and half feet to 4 feet of snow in 36 hours a week before Christmas 2008 I don’t wish that much snow that quick on anyone. Fortunately the days are slowly getting longer, we’re almost at 9 hrs. of daylight now and every day is a day closer to Spring, hallelujah. And I have to agree with Abigail Adams that this is the day that the Lord has made and I will rejoice and be glad in it no matter what the weather is. 6 months ago we were bitching about it being so friggin hot in July and August when it was over 100 degrees for a while and now this, so what else is new. It would be nice to be in San Diego for a while though at this time of year like when I was in the Navy in the early to mid 70’s.
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I’m leaning towards selling everything and moving to Central Florida away from hurricanes but nice and warm year round. If I have a pool then I don’t care how hot and humid it gets.
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Here in the peoples republic of maryland (libtardia) we are right in the storm transition zone – getting the typical waves of cold and precipitation that cause snow, sleet and freezing rain all in a matter of hours.
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Central VA got hammered with a wet, heavy snow, followed by ice a few weeks back. No power for 7 days. Now it’s not too bad, but I’d rather be in Tavernier, FL for the next couple of months. Low 62. High 76.
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Wild Bill…I always keep my faucets dripping to keep them from freezing,..all of them, hot and cold. It has been working for me for quite a few years. I don’t like surprises.
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It was cold, cold, cold here in Sarasota county last night. It got down to 59 F! When I went out to run errands today I had to put on my sandals with toes along with my shorts and T-shirt. No socks, though.
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Its been so brutal here in AZ Ive ben obliged to cover my delicate hibiscus plants TWICE. Those pretty little things just go downhill when it hits 35. And theres a infintesimally small chance I may have to do it again in February
Enough already! Give me those record destroying July and August heat waves with the ten straight days over 115 (with humidity)
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Hell no!
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I live near the Rampart Range in Colorado (Colorado Springs).
I agree with RogerF.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow…
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Deplorable Second Class – My “faucet” was dripping so much my owner had to come and break me off the fire hydrant!
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Northern Ontario reporting in.
Very cold at -19,and lots of snow, but I love winter.
I hate bugs and this season stops them at least for a few months.
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MissInMi, “Iâve had enough of cold, dreary, ice pack and lake effect.”
I’m with you, there! Winter is not as fun as it used to be when we were young! And it’s so looooong!
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Beautiful, clear day here in NW Florda, nearly 60 degrees. Just got back from shooting a few hundred rounds with my son out on some private property.
No, I don’t miss the “lake effect” winter cold I grew up with in NW Indiana.
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I love winter and miss a decent winter season of several inches of snow and quiet cold months. As a Central Illinois native living in NC for years it still amazes me how freaked out the southern state gets during their short winter.
The ground never gets really cold and it was in the 70s until December 2021. Still, there is last minute grocery shopping no matter how far in advance the snow storm warning.
NC has just gotten caught up in a winter storm that swept through the eastern side of the state. The “storm” was a couple of inches of snow followed by cold rain, a combo resulting in slush and black ice.
Next day the sun melted most of it, with temps in the 50s. In that short winter blast, NC natives and warm weather transplants proceeded to speed and crash all over the place – they never learn. The roads are “brined” (salted) before a winter storm, but snow plows are rare once it snows.
Expecting another “storm” this weekend. The fun starts all over again. I’ll take what I can get, even if it’s just a dusting of snow and 30s temps at night.
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NO. I want another snow storm starting TODAY so I don’t have to climb up on the roof and take down the Christmas lights!
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I turned the A/C off a few weeks ago⊠ð
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I’m east of Cleveland in Geauga County. We got a solid foot on the ground after it settled. I love it.
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Haven’t had a proper winter in three years so need a solid week of single digit highs to kill every last tick, chigger, stinkbug, and any other bloodsucking bugs we have in the region. Last year was getting ticks in February. Don’t care if it snows but give me some real cold.
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@ Uncle Al Ê FU46i JANUARY 18, 2022 AT 3:01 PM
Salute to you, you’re one rugged individual!
That’s why I moved back to Texas after 6 years in Wisconsin. I knew it didn’t have to be that way.
The occasional awesome snowman, the skiing, the icicles, ice sculptures, ice fishing, ice skating, black ice on roads, iced windows from just eating lunch somewhere, ice ice ICE !! – it wasn’t worth it when you know what it’s like living further south.
Maybe it’s just me being raised where I had unlimited access to the world while wearing shorts, if I wanted.
Maybe it’s also a little bit of me not wanting my young family to freeze if I didn’t have the money to pay for fuel oil that week. A week’s pay only lasted 20 days for heating back then.
(spitting on the ground thinking of Carter)
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@ 99th Squad Leader JANUARY 18, 2022 AT 4:31 PM
HaHAhAHA ! Yes. Welcome to winter – southern style. Where we don’t really believe the weatherman until we see it for ourselves. Even if we’re talking hurricanes and tornadoes.
As far as bad road conditions, no southerner, that’s only driven locally, has hardly any experience on ice and snow.
They should just stay home a day, maybe two.
I was given a set of chains for my trucks in the mid 90s here in Dallas.
Never put them on.
Because we have idiot drivers here with zero experience driving in slippery conditions.
Maybe if I have an emergency during icy conditions. Otherwise – stay in and enjoy the time off with something cozy. It won’t be too long.
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^^ Plus the south is not equipped to deal with snow and ice on the rods. At least not here. Just sand. Which is barely any good at all. No plows!
That adds to the strain on the inexperienced southern driver.
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Dadof4, you’re spot on. I’ve lived in NC over 30 yrs. and you can bet the people who should stay off the roads during a winter storm here, are wrecked somewhere on an icy road. It’s inevitable.
Northerners like me know the roads in the south are ice rinks and untreated. We wait for the sun to clear the roads, because it’s the south’s natural snow plow. Yes, it happens in just a day or two.
It took me five years to get used to the southern culture’s way of dealing with winter weather. However, I still think it’s wacky, but understandable given it’s humid and/or hot almost 85-90% of the time in North Carolina. Weird, but it wasn’t that bad (constantly warm) in the 1980s and 1990s or early 2000s.
Most people don’t care for winter, but it really does have the seasonal purpose of a clean slate and preparation of a new, fresh beginning.
Here in SLC UT. Nope. Need more winter, need more SNOW!
(snow = water for summer)
Hell no, it’s the biggest reason why I hate Florida. I miss the New England winters a lot. Give me five straight months of 20-40* weather and I’m a happy camper.
Cleveburg here.
We good!
It’s just winter and it is very pretty!
Investigating retirement property in warmer climates.
I’ve had enough of cold, dreary, ice pack and lake effect.
I could really use white sand, sun and Pina Coladas right now.
My new year starts when I can plant potatoes. But that’s not going to happen for several months. Meanwhile, service all small engines and do mid-winter cleanup/prep for the new year, which always can’t come soon enough. Spring fever now!
It’s 48°F and sunny here. Too cold for me.
FJB
2 more significant east coast snow storms in the next week and a half.
Living here in upstate NY and 73 I don’t like minus numbers in the low temperature range for too long. Keeping the wood and coal stoves going so my pipes don’t freeze keep me too busy along with 2 other houses in two different states my girl friend needs help with is too much. I have 200 year old house and I can’t imagine what the former owners went through. No running water or electricity back then. No insulation in the walls and a out house in the back yard. I must be a woose.
It was 60 degrees yesterday in the Black Hills and is supposed to be 6 degrees tomorrow. I don’t have a season long enough to get tired of it!
South of Cleeeeeeeveland in the secondary snowbelt. Die winter die! 14 inches of snow. The power stayed on so that’s good a thing. Sadly our township is short on snowplow drivers for the roads.
Short on snowplow drivers? Everybody else is short on help, why not them too!
Ole Slingblade with a poop knife has made sure of that!!
My pipes froze Saturday night, had to go out with a heat gun and defrost them. The intra-medullary nail in my leg complained mightily. I’m ready for spring.
Foggy, drizzly, damp and doldrums here in the Queen City of King County. These are the dog days of winter that make me long for Hawai’i, but I see that the islands are now requiring 2 shots and all boosters in order to be “fully vaccinated”, so that’s off the menu now.
I’m not whining about our winters. This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
30 degrees here today with a week of subzero weather forecasted.
We’ve got more than half our firewood left, which is good because Winter in NW WI doesn’t really loosen its grip for another couple of months. More snow, less cold would be preferred at this point.
Its best not to live life with an imaginary gap between what you want and what you have.
No. We need more in Colorado this year. Y’all are free to ship us some
What happened to the “Polar Vortex?”
^^^It’s comin in a few days, why you miss the ultra cold.
it’s called Winter … happens this time of year EVERY YEAR!
… just like Cold & Flu season happens EVERY YEAR!
(wink, wink, nudge, nudge … know what I mean? … say no more, say no more)
Meanwhile in the midlands of SC, Sunday freezing rain, Monday high winds. Guess that takes care of the winter and “in like a lion” portion of spring. Probably be 95 and heavy pollen next week. smh
So far we’ve had a fairly easy Winter here in Eastern Washington and N. Idaho, nothing to complain about except 2 weeks ago Monday on the first workday of the new year when Sandpoint and Bonners Ferry, Idaho had 8 or more inches of snow and the driving was very slow that day, I couldn’t drive over 35-40 mph unless I wanted to end up stuck on the side of the road or worse from Sandpoint to Bonners Ferry and fortunately there was nothing for Libby, Montana that day. I did get my van stuck in my customers parking lot trying to get out but the owner and I were able to dig and push my van out after 15 to 20 minutes. It could’ve been worse as the central part of Washington state got 3 – 4 feet of snow out around Wenatchee. Having gone thru a snowpocalypse during the Winter of 2008 and 2009 where we got 3 and half feet to 4 feet of snow in 36 hours a week before Christmas 2008 I don’t wish that much snow that quick on anyone. Fortunately the days are slowly getting longer, we’re almost at 9 hrs. of daylight now and every day is a day closer to Spring, hallelujah. And I have to agree with Abigail Adams that this is the day that the Lord has made and I will rejoice and be glad in it no matter what the weather is. 6 months ago we were bitching about it being so friggin hot in July and August when it was over 100 degrees for a while and now this, so what else is new. It would be nice to be in San Diego for a while though at this time of year like when I was in the Navy in the early to mid 70’s.
I’m leaning towards selling everything and moving to Central Florida away from hurricanes but nice and warm year round. If I have a pool then I don’t care how hot and humid it gets.
Here in the peoples republic of maryland (libtardia) we are right in the storm transition zone – getting the typical waves of cold and precipitation that cause snow, sleet and freezing rain all in a matter of hours.
Central VA got hammered with a wet, heavy snow, followed by ice a few weeks back. No power for 7 days. Now it’s not too bad, but I’d rather be in Tavernier, FL for the next couple of months. Low 62. High 76.
Wild Bill…I always keep my faucets dripping to keep them from freezing,..all of them, hot and cold. It has been working for me for quite a few years. I don’t like surprises.
It was cold, cold, cold here in Sarasota county last night. It got down to 59 F! When I went out to run errands today I had to put on my sandals with toes along with my shorts and T-shirt. No socks, though.
Its been so brutal here in AZ Ive ben obliged to cover my delicate hibiscus plants TWICE. Those pretty little things just go downhill when it hits 35. And theres a infintesimally small chance I may have to do it again in February
Enough already! Give me those record destroying July and August heat waves with the ten straight days over 115 (with humidity)
Hell no!
I live near the Rampart Range in Colorado (Colorado Springs).
I agree with RogerF.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow…
Deplorable Second Class – My “faucet” was dripping so much my owner had to come and break me off the fire hydrant!
Northern Ontario reporting in.
Very cold at -19,and lots of snow, but I love winter.
I hate bugs and this season stops them at least for a few months.
MissInMi, “Iâve had enough of cold, dreary, ice pack and lake effect.”
I’m with you, there! Winter is not as fun as it used to be when we were young! And it’s so looooong!
Beautiful, clear day here in NW Florda, nearly 60 degrees. Just got back from shooting a few hundred rounds with my son out on some private property.
No, I don’t miss the “lake effect” winter cold I grew up with in NW Indiana.
I love winter and miss a decent winter season of several inches of snow and quiet cold months. As a Central Illinois native living in NC for years it still amazes me how freaked out the southern state gets during their short winter.
The ground never gets really cold and it was in the 70s until December 2021. Still, there is last minute grocery shopping no matter how far in advance the snow storm warning.
NC has just gotten caught up in a winter storm that swept through the eastern side of the state. The “storm” was a couple of inches of snow followed by cold rain, a combo resulting in slush and black ice.
Next day the sun melted most of it, with temps in the 50s. In that short winter blast, NC natives and warm weather transplants proceeded to speed and crash all over the place – they never learn. The roads are “brined” (salted) before a winter storm, but snow plows are rare once it snows.
Expecting another “storm” this weekend. The fun starts all over again. I’ll take what I can get, even if it’s just a dusting of snow and 30s temps at night.
NO. I want another snow storm starting TODAY so I don’t have to climb up on the roof and take down the Christmas lights!
I turned the A/C off a few weeks ago⊠ð
I’m east of Cleveland in Geauga County. We got a solid foot on the ground after it settled. I love it.
Haven’t had a proper winter in three years so need a solid week of single digit highs to kill every last tick, chigger, stinkbug, and any other bloodsucking bugs we have in the region. Last year was getting ticks in February. Don’t care if it snows but give me some real cold.
@ Uncle Al Ê FU46i JANUARY 18, 2022 AT 3:01 PM
Salute to you, you’re one rugged individual!
That’s why I moved back to Texas after 6 years in Wisconsin. I knew it didn’t have to be that way.
Besides salt eating your car out even if it was Zeibart-ed https://www.ziebart.com/auto-care-services/undercoating/undercoating-services …
The occasional awesome snowman, the skiing, the icicles, ice sculptures, ice fishing, ice skating, black ice on roads, iced windows from just eating lunch somewhere, ice ice ICE !! – it wasn’t worth it when you know what it’s like living further south.
Maybe it’s just me being raised where I had unlimited access to the world while wearing shorts, if I wanted.
Maybe it’s also a little bit of me not wanting my young family to freeze if I didn’t have the money to pay for fuel oil that week. A week’s pay only lasted 20 days for heating back then.
(spitting on the ground thinking of Carter)
@ 99th Squad Leader JANUARY 18, 2022 AT 4:31 PM
HaHAhAHA ! Yes. Welcome to winter – southern style. Where we don’t really believe the weatherman until we see it for ourselves. Even if we’re talking hurricanes and tornadoes.
As far as bad road conditions, no southerner, that’s only driven locally, has hardly any experience on ice and snow.
They should just stay home a day, maybe two.
I was given a set of chains for my trucks in the mid 90s here in Dallas.
Never put them on.
Because we have idiot drivers here with zero experience driving in slippery conditions.
Maybe if I have an emergency during icy conditions. Otherwise – stay in and enjoy the time off with something cozy. It won’t be too long.
^^ Plus the south is not equipped to deal with snow and ice on the rods. At least not here. Just sand. Which is barely any good at all. No plows!
That adds to the strain on the inexperienced southern driver.
Dadof4, you’re spot on. I’ve lived in NC over 30 yrs. and you can bet the people who should stay off the roads during a winter storm here, are wrecked somewhere on an icy road. It’s inevitable.
Northerners like me know the roads in the south are ice rinks and untreated. We wait for the sun to clear the roads, because it’s the south’s natural snow plow. Yes, it happens in just a day or two.
It took me five years to get used to the southern culture’s way of dealing with winter weather. However, I still think it’s wacky, but understandable given it’s humid and/or hot almost 85-90% of the time in North Carolina. Weird, but it wasn’t that bad (constantly warm) in the 1980s and 1990s or early 2000s.
Most people don’t care for winter, but it really does have the seasonal purpose of a clean slate and preparation of a new, fresh beginning.