I suspect we’ll see this as a record cold March this year too. 14 degrees last night and 10 degrees expected tonight here in southern michigan. I went out and cut a hole in the ice and it’s nearly 16 inches thick.
And with the dang flu / colds going around, that cold air is NOT very sore-throat friendly.
Cheers!
Frozen birdbaths here in Sedona, AZ!
Doesn't this mess up the "irrefutable evidence" of warming of 1 degree over a century if cold records are being set this winter? Seems like this year will negate a lot of "warming".
That’s warm!
Here in Western Wisconsin (granted, we live in a valley on a river), it got to -18 overnight Friday after several nightime lows of zero or below. We woke up Saturday morning to find that the frost had penetrated deep enough (under feet of snow!)to freeze the pipe (6’ underground) from the submersible pump to the pressure tank. It usually takes several days of below zero and below -18 at night to do this. Last winter, we had 2 nights in a row of -35 and both the septic pump and the pump pipe froze. I don’t quite understand how we can get such severe freezing this year in a shorter time at higher temperatures.
Because we have had to keep electric heat on in the cellar and in a cold spot in a closet with a capped pipe (where water doesn’t flow), as well as run the propane wall furnaces so much, even after burning 5 1/2 cords of wood over the winter, we had a $200 electric bill, a record. Of course, the propane bills are also obscene, even with a capped price, due to the *keep full* part of the contract (two 500 gallon tanks). Since we expect it will cost more next year, we just bit the bullet and will be as miserly with propane as possible over the next few months.
This is the coldest March, so far, that I can recall in 33 years of living here. We have had colder temperatures in the past in January and February, but that was 30 years ago. We usually have 2-3 thaws approaching 50 degrees in January and February and this year we had perhaps one day each month where it briefly hit 40 daytime. March is usually 40s-50s, daytime.
Just 2 weeks ago, we saw the ice fisherman pulling their huts off the ice. There were open channels and thin spots on the Mississippi. Many fishermen were just out in the open near the power plant outlets, fishing off the edge of the ice, which was thick enough even there, to support them.
Winter from hell! I expect a late cool Spring, mild Summer and early Fall. I am keeping fuel and food stocks topped off.