Posted on 01/30/2019 10:38:49 AM PST by MplsSteve
In case you were interested in current temps in the upper Midwest, here are a few to consider...
Pembina ND (on the Canadian border) -25 air temp/-25 wind chill
Minneapolis MN -18 air temp/-38 wind chill
Sioux Falls SD -12 air temp/-27 wind chill
Mason City IA -19 air temp/-44 wind chill
Solon Springs WI (northwest WI) -17 air temp/-32 wind chill
Indiana, -17 with a windchill earlier of -45, I’ve got frozen pipes but at least my power is on.
I know about sunspots, the Maunder Minimum, and the rest. And I’m sure Hubert Lamb did also.
I think you missed the point of what I posted.
Hubert Lamb started the Climate Science discipline. He’s not responsible for what others have done with it after he got it going.
Moreover as those who followed in his wake went on to their Anthropogenic Global Warming theories he didn’t join them. He stayed with his belief that an ice age is what is in store for Earth.
One theory for the Little Ice Age was atmospheric dust created by two massive volcanic explosions that preceded it.
“Here in San Antonio we are enjoying a nice 42 degrees.
The high will be 53.”
Day before yesterday, we got up to 70 degrees.
Chicago is like a ghost town... I hopped on the train this morning to go to work and there were about 3 other people on the 8 car train. Even bundled up with thermal gloves, being outside for 10 minutes my fingers started to go numb.
sunburn combined with windchill is very real on cheeks, ears, and nose.
So many edicts, I ‘m not able to keep track...
Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?
Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and unscientific, controversial new research suggests—and quite possibly even racist. How did we get it so wrong?
Here in beautiful Huntington, Indiana
Sunny
-10°F
Feels like -38°F
Thats the thing about living in california. The positive things they can say about living there is the weather and scenery.
“But we got warm temps all year ‘round! And we got mountains! And a beautiful ocean!”
All that isnt worth living in a state that is ruled lock, stock and barrel by democrats who are turning the state into a third world socialist hellhole. I’d rather be living in various cold or coldest states run by republican majorities.
It could freeze due to radiational cooling.
Right now it’s -15 in DuPage County, IL.
I hate this state.
L
“Right now it’s -15 in DuPage County, IL.”
Damn.
Come on down to FL. It’s a balmy 61 degrees.
We will will welcome you at the airport.
5.56mm
I wish we could. The temperature is supposed to keep dropping to -25 overnight.
I hate this state.
L
Volcanoes do it, too. When that ONE volcano went up in Iceland some years ago Europe had a very cold winter and a a cool summer and some crop problems and lots and lots of atmospheric haze. The sunspots do correlate exactly with the last two minima and what observations there from the last couple three millennia suggest that previous minima probably also correlated. Volcanic activity makes for cold year or two. Sunspot minima are good for a century or more. The resurgence of the last ICE Age was the result of a supervolcano and made for, I think, 1500 years of further Ice Age.
When I was growing up in Spokane, I remember walking to school as a teenager in -20 weather. I lived a little more than a mile from my high school. There wasn't any wind, so I didn't have to deal with wind chills. About the worst thing I had to deal with was frozen hair...the part that wasn't under my knit cap.
I can't even imagine what a wind chill of -57 (what a friend in Marshfield, WI reported to me this morning) feels like.
I survived that temperature some years ago in downstate Illinois and have lived to tell about it. It is suppose to get down to -15F tonight. I grew up in house that had practically no insulation. The house was heated with a natural gas boiler and radiators. Kerosene heaters were used to keep pipes from freezing in the basement during cold spells. Before the energy crisis of the early 70's, you just cranked up the heat when it got cold. My parents live in the same house today. It has been insulated a few times. They got tax breaks for the spray in insulation back in the day. They added more insulation when they did siding and windows upgrades.
Blow on some diethyl ether in a watch glass held over warm water. The water vapor will form ice crystals on the bottom of the watch glass.
I grew up in southern Minnesota in a 65 year old house with no insulation. Several times we had a week with high temperatures less than zero F. Had a wood stove in the kitchen and a pot-belly stove in the parlor. Didn’t bother us a bit. Might be a week before the road was plowed.
I would get up at 2am in February/March; plod two blocks in deep snow to the brooder house to be sure the brooder stove was still working. Didn’t want to lose a hundred chicks.
Spent 5 years in Iowa City where there were 2 occasions of below zero temperatures for a week. When it warmed up to zero, I would wear a light jacket for a while until I adapted to the cold, then back to the heavy overcoat.
1995 was a bad winter. A grove on the farmstead north of us sheltered 10 deer. Only one lived through the winter.
I don’t miss Minnesota a bit.
Switch heaters are old hat on the railroad. Near where we used to live, they once put in an LP-fueled set of modern heaters for a crossover and proceeded to throw dozens of the old kerosene switch heaters into the weeds next to the switch; I wish I had had the sense to take a couple before they rusted into decrepitude. Some railroads used the old round "Toledo torch" or "smudge pot" to heat switches, but the long, low rectangular ones worked better.
A bit more picturesque is when a section crew uses a "fire rope" to heat (and thereby expand lengthwise appreciably) rail to deal with a "pull-apart" (break) caused by the rail contracting due to the cold.
Mr. niteowl77
I called my brother in Germany this afternoon,the news about the big freeze is getting big coverage.
People in Minneapolis have power failures,no heat.
-8 here in Michigans thumb. Which is supposed to be the low. It’s going lower before dawn, I guarantee.
CC
Worked as a Prison officer for 24 years, quite a bit of it as a “yard dog”. Wind chill is no joke. There were a few winters that it was so cold you could hear the metal mesh in the fence contract. I’ve also managed to kill a few patrol cruisers in this kind of weather. Walking back to the main gate with a rifle and shotgun in -20 is no fun. But I couldn’t put the fact my cruiser died on the radio for security reasons so I had no choice.
CC
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