The Weather Thread

[Joey D]

Our average for the season is about 140" of snow:

We're on pace to beat the previous high of 207" set in '96-97. We're averaging 5" per day and our snowfall season typically goes through about March 15th. Now I know we won't sustain 5" per day, but it's not unreasonable to maintain around 2" of snow per day which would put us in the neighbourhood of 250" on the season.

 

[W3H5]

Lol, and I though it was getting chilly when my engine intake is reading 23°C.

The day it snows here is the day the 4 horsemen ride. Last snow here must have been the ice age.

 

[z0id]

not excited for the rest of the snow. the cold weather has been making one of my surgical scars hurt really bad.

 

[Joey D]

It was cold this morning:

My garage didn't even want to open it was so cold and it hurt just to get out and pump gas.

 

[Keef]

It was cold this morning:

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My garage didn't even want to open it was so cold and it hurt just to get out and pump gas.

Why on earth did you wait until a record day to get gas?

Our average for the season is about 140" of snow:
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We're on pace to beat the previous high of 207" set in '96-97. We're averaging 5" per day and our snowfall season typically goes through about March 15th. Now I know we won't sustain 5" per day, but it's not unreasonable to maintain around 2" of snow per day which would put us in the neighbourhood of 250" on the season.

We need photos of this stat!

 

[TB]

6, feels like -6 at home.

74, feels like 74 at my temporary home for the week.

 

[TB]

Yesterday:

Today:

 

[Barra333]

Welcome home!

 

[W3H5]

The best explanation of contrast. Ever.

Meanwhile my family are sending frozen pics of their gardens at 6°C. I’m complaining that I have to wear a shirt to go for a smoke outside at 14°. For me, that’s cold.

 

[Touring Mars]

Yesterday:

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Today:

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Is that South Dakota at the top?

 

[TB]

Is that South Dakota at the top?

Only if South Dakota moved to the Caribbean and changed its name to the Dominican Republic.

 

[Barra333]

The best explanation of contrast. Ever.

Meanwhile my family are sending frozen pics of their gardens at 6°C. I’m complaining that I have to wear a shirt to go for a smoke outside at 14°. For me, that’s cold.

This is the forecast coming my way for the next few days...

 

[ScottPuss20]

Yesterday:

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Today:

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This is what it's like to live in Melbourne. Sort of.

 

[TB]

This is what it's like to live in Melbourne. Sort of.

The lowest temperature on record is −2.8 °C (27.0 °F), on 21 July 1869.

Nice try.

And that's just a Tuesday here, not the record.

 

[Barra333]

The -20°F there is equal to nearly -29°C in the rest of the world.

 

[Joey D]

That dark red spot west of Gaylord? Ya....I live smack dab in the middle of it.

 

[Barra333]

How much snow have you had now?

 

[Joey D]

How much snow have you had now?

Gaylord (nearest "city") is 118 inches, but we get more where I'm at. The guy who works for the National Weather Service and lives in the neighborhood put on Facebook that he's measured 129 inches to date. It doesn't look it though because we've had two decent melts, which is nice because I would've run out of places to put the snow.

 

[Barra333]

Wow. My next question was whether you got the couple of warm stretches that I've had that melted most of the December snow. Quite fortunate that you did.

 

[TB]

When Celsius and Fahrenheit both agree on the temperature, it's too damn cold.

 

[Barra333]

Same temp as my place right now.

 

[Joey D]

Here's me at a standstill on US 131 because people can't be bothered to prepare their vehicles for the snow. The car to the right of the pick up is in a potato field and some is trying to pull them out (albetit poorly):

 

[TB]

The car to the right of the pick up is in a potato field

 

[High-Test]

Tonight it's supposed to get down to -7 in Kansas City. I don't miss that Fargo January weather, @TB .

 

[TB]

I don't miss that Fargo January weather, @TB .

And miss out on this I-have-ice-in-my-garage cold? Are you crazy?!?

 

[High-Test]

And miss out on this I-have-ice-in-my-garage cold? Are you crazy?!?

I mean, my favorite pizza topping is anchovies and my favority TMNT film is secret of the ooze. Probably Am.

 

[ScottPuss20]

And miss out on this I-have-ice-in-my-garage cold? Are you crazy?!?

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Yeah I'm never complaining about the weather here in Melbourne again.

 

[Jezza819]

How do they handle plumbing pipes in those kind of temperatures? Is bursting pipes a big problem? Down here they panic if it drops to about 20F overnight. When the pipes busted in my building back in December 2022 it had been below 20F for almost 48 hours straight.

Pipes in the north are way better protected. While it gets hot here, the cold is way more brutal so we build houses with that in mind. I know my cousin's house in Florida has pipes in the attic and her home has virtually no insulation. My house has pipes through the crawl space right under the floor so they are closer to the heat source. I also have about a foot of insulation in the attic that keeps the heat inside the house. We do get freezing pipes occasionally, but it's not like in the south.

Water pipes are buried 8 feet in the ground and the frost line is 4 feet so the main lines are safe from freezing.

Coming into the house, they get roughed into the basement before the slab is poured so they're already in conditioned space.

I'm not sure what they do for trailer homes as I've never lived in one, but it might have to involve running a sink to keep the water moving or using something like heat tape.

There was a reason why I asked this back in the first part of December. I was wondering how plumbing pipes handled the extreme temperatures of the northern US. As I indicated I experienced a sprinkler system pipe break in my building in December 2022.

Well..........IT'S HAPPENED AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!! It has been below freezing here for about 48 straight hours with last night being the coldest at 9 degrees F but today it was supposed to go back above freezing, barely at 34F or so but sunny. I come home for lunch at 11am and at about 11:30 or so the fire alarm goes off. Just like it did in 2022. I stick my head out of the door and don't see anything. Then about 30 seconds later water starts cascading down from the top floor right outside of my door. I go back inside and water is starting to come through the ceiling right in front of my tv in the living room. It's also hitting my gaming PC that is right beside the tv. I move it back and get a garbage bag to throw down on the floor to try and catch the water and I get my spaghetti cooker to put under the stream. Then water starts dripping along the same seam in the ceiling towards the dining room as it did in 2022. I keep some soak pads that I brought home from work and put them over there.

The dripping stopped after about 15 minutes as I guess maintenance got the sprinkler system shut off fast enough and got a garbage can in the top floor apartment to catch the worst leak. Now I've got one of those blower fans in my living room pointed at the ceiling for the next 2 days or so. They're going to have to do some work on the ceiling along those same two seams as they did in 2022. But I shouldn't have to move out this time (I don't think).

But there has to be something wrong with this building in how the sun hits it or something for it to break again in the exact same spot as 2022.