19 degrees here in SW Wisconsin
OMG and in Sun City West, AZ it’s 51 and I think 51 is cold with my heat pump set at 68.
It’s 80* in Ft Lauderdale
What’s winter?
I’m just south of Denver and it was 6 degrees when I went to bed last night. Currently it’s warming up — 17
6 degrees in Minneapolis suburbs.
Same here in the SW Suburbs outside Shitcago. BRRRRRR!!!
13 in east central WI.
“19 degrees here in SW Wisconsin”
7 degrees in Minneapolis this morning.
33 degrees here in Rome, New York. Nothing different from all the other years I’ve lived here. I think this is about the third year in a row that we didn’t have snow before, or on Halloween. It never snowed around Halloween in Rochester, NY when I was a kid, but when I moved here back in the early 70’s...it snowed before the end of October every year. That’s normal for this area. It snowed a little last Friday, and there’s snow on my car now. Glad I dug my brush and ice scraper out of the trunk already.
Weather update: 79 degrees here, the low might hit 73. Clearwater, FL area.
Luckily, by Friday we’ll have a low of maybe 47 so we can light up the 36” copper kettle and have a fire. We live in a forest so firewood is just a collection of deadwood small to large.
Palmetto leaves are remarkably flammable - no stinking tinder and blowing on a hot spark here. Just a few dry palmetto leaves - like small palm fronds - so palmetto leaves, twigs, adding small cut branches and we have a fire, as it kicks in add the bigger stuff.
I was only a cub scout but with reading and several semesters of “Survival” classes I ain’t no country boy but I can survive.
Me? I prefer to sit in my chair on the hardtop screened-in porch, 25x30. 15’ by 15’ screening floor to ceiling, wet side fully screened, south side the same except it has the screened door. Heh.
We’ve been here 25 years. Hurricanes tend to come from the east across land or just head north to Mexico, Texas, Louisiana or north Florida. See Hurricane Florence for reference.
Which is nice because most everybody will be in shorts and a tee shirt but we’ll be warm. ;-)
Tired of snow boots, gloves, snow shovels/blowers, scraping ice off you windshield, cold coffee, etc.
Come on down to Florida - no income tax, most counties are 7% sales tax, 6 months of the year the gulf is 80 degrees plus and the beaches are scenic complete with sea shells, lots of other amenities.
We definitely need more conservatives down here!