Dire and unhappy report. The garden room where some standard veggies were being attempted under artificial light has been negatively affected by the current cold snap.
We are at -37* outdoors, and the contents of the two closets appear to have been hit by serious frost. The watering can that sits in the room itself just outside the closets is frozen. Solid. The aerated fertilizer water is frozen. Solid.
My car wouldn’t start this morning because it was (you guessed it) frozen. Barely got the SUV started, going to plug in the block heater in a bit.
It’s bloody COLD!
We’re right behind you! Temps will be dropping at an alarming rate between now and Wednesday. -4 predicted for tonight to kick things off. (SW corner of Wisconsin)
“EXTENDED FORECAST: Bitterly cold weather will follow in the wake of the snow, arriving by early Sunday morning. Low temperatures will be from zero to 15 below zero, with early morning wind chills from 20 to 35 below zero from Sunday morning through Wednesday morning, and high temperatures will only be near or just above zero with daytime wind chills as cold as 15 degrees below zero.
It will remain very cold from next Wednesday through next weekend, with morning wind chills as cold as 20 below zero. A few flurries are possible on Wednesday and Thursday, but we will be mostly dry for much of next week. Temperatures will rebound back to near normal on Monday of the following week.”
I hear ya. My little garden room is blanketed off right now to help keep the rest of the place warm. Nothing to start this month but in Feb I will want to start a few kinds of seeds.
Un-insulated floor with a crawl space that’s not fully closed in. My son and I have our feet up on the other two dining chairs because it’s warmer than the floor. Torso height is 66 degrees, 43 at floor and 77 at ceiling. Think we need a ceiling fan. Got the wood stove going and a space heater aimed under the dining table for our feet.
It’s still -3 outside which is about what it will be tomorrow morning when I need to head out for work so I guess I’ll go out shortly and see if the truck will start so I’ll know if it will tomorrow and/or see if I need to put a charger on it when I get up.
Gonna warm up in the middle of the week and then drop back down to Low 2 and high 20 for next weekend.
Hope it gets back to the normal Low 20, high 40 soon. We’re going through firewood fast right now.
Gonna be a busy year working on long overdue improvements to this shack.