Temperature in Wyoming drops 40 degrees in a half hour as wind chills freeze US, break records

Fox News ^ | December 22,2022 | Stephen Sorace |

[Hojczyk]

The polar cold front shattered the previous one-hour temperature drop record in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on Wednesday, with temperatures plummeting from 43 degrees to 3 degrees between 1:05 p.m. and 1:35 p.m., the National Weather Service in Cheyenne said. The previous record was a 37-degree drop in one hour.

The agency warned at the time that temperatures were still dropping.

In a span of two hours, the winter chill dropped temperatures across southeast Wyoming by 51 degrees, from 42 degrees to -9 degrees, the NWS said.

[Eleutheria5]

So that’s why aol censors used to stop me from talking about Dick van Dyke! But anyway, if the oceans rise, you build dikes, which requires some people with strong backs to lay down pilings and sea walls at low tide. Heavy machinery and quick drying cement will get the job done fast. But the Dutch managed with considerably less back in the day.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks. That’s our neighbor’s house right on the lake. We are on a secondary lot one up from them. That’s the view from our master bedroom window. We like the view even more when the leaves FINALLY come off their oak tree!

[MeganC]

The Buffalo Bill is awesome and we get the kids to different events 2 or 3 times a year!

[MeganC]

Where did you live? We’re out past Buffalo Bill reservoir and I love it!

[MeganC]

It’s -26 right now!! Crazy!!!

[steve86]

Yeah, it’s amazing the stuff people will believe. Like you can’t charge or drive electric cars when it’s below freezing. The cars actually have pre-heat apps and other approaches for dealing with that. Disadvantages are it does require some power out of the battery and it has to be scheduled a little in advance of the drive, if not still warm from last trip.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’m always amazed when I think about Plains Indians and Eskimos surviving in this climate. Imagine living in a teepee, no insulation, no weather stripping to keep out the cold, a hole at the top to let out the smoke (and let the cold air in). You couldn’t pile on enough buffalo skins to keep warm.

[Guenevere]

How great for your kids!…what a wonderful heritage!
I love the West!
You live in beautiful country!

[rlmorel]

I see people say stuff like you can't charge below a certain temperature, etc, but I simply don't have the motivation to contest those things anymore. There is so much of it.

It reminds me of this meme:

The Internet is like a firehose of brilliance, stupidity, love, and anger all mixed together being sprayed in every single direction on everything, everywhere.

I would absolutely love it if electric vehicles became really viable as a replacement for ICE. There are many reasons ranging from aesthetic and ease-of-maintenance to engineering and performance-related that make me feel that way (And "Climate Change is not even in the top 100 or even top 1000 for me) but the factual, reality is: electric vehicles are not in any way, shape, or form, any more than an adjunct to ICE vehicles. If someone has a 20-mile commute and wants to get an electric car for that, power to them as long as they have an ICE vehicle they can fall back on.

Until they find a way to store energy that isn't Lithium-Ion based, can be recharged in under 15 min, and provide a range of 500 miles, they will be an adjunct for passenger car ICE technology. And there is no way, none, that they can replace working vehicles such as heavy trucks and such. Never mind that 'inane and irrelevant minor detail of supporting infrastructure and battery production and disposal.

And that is the plain, unvarnished truth.

[rlmorel]

I work with a post-boomer, bit of a social warrior type, the kind you wouldn’t joke around with about that stuff.

One day, we were working on something, and as I stared intently at something I was working on, I asked him to hand me a pair of dykes to cut a wire. I had my hand out, and when no dykes were forthcoming, I glanced over, and he was looking at me with an odd look.

Puzzled, I said again “Can you hand me a pair of dykes?”

His face was frozen, and he said awkwardly “Uh...uh...umm...’dykes’ is not a good word to use...they are called ‘diagonal cutters’...”

I forget exactly what I said, but it boiled down to an exasperated “Just give them to me.”

[Eleutheria5]

LOL

Dagnabbit. I'm too old to get canceled, or even GAGS if I am.

[Clutch Martin]

“Blue Norther”

That sounds like a nickname out of a Joseph Wambaugh novel...

[Clutch Martin]

Nebraska and The Dakotas man-oh-man they got some kind of inversion that occurs every winter in that place is freakin’ freezing!

[Clutch Martin]

“Once when I was in a shop in Laramie, Wyo., the woman at the counter said to me, “I tell visitors, yes, Wyoming is cold. So don’t move here!”

Went to Gatlinburg Tennessee once and went into the Smoky Mountains National Park the next day. Stopped at the visitor center and I was talking to the counter lady there and I said “I didn’t think Gatlinburg was such a tourist trap” and she looked at me and she goes “yep it’s just like the beach only ain’t no hope for hurricane.”

[rlmorel]

Funny, I have read your posts all these years but...there you are in flesh and blood!

I have been lucky-through my interactions with the DC Chapter of Free Republic, and going to the 1st Annual Free Republic Convention down in Washington DC, I have met a lot of Freepers in person. Interestingly, almost all of them comport in my brain with what I thought of them before I actually met them...:)

Heh, I am getting old enough where I just don’t care if I get canceled. I used to love people, and interacting with them in all aspects of life. I have been getting quite negative and pessimistic-I wasn’t always this way-and now, I have difficulty going out in society and interacting as I used to. I don’t like the change, and am working on how to deal with this negativity and pessimism. It is a challenge, but I have much to be grateful for, and have lived a wonderful and interesting life (to me, at least) so I feel like I can defeat this change.

So, all these years, I saw your FreepName, and wondered what it was. Then I visited your FreepPage, and saw that it is of Greek origin in meaning, not derived from a Caribbean island!

Well...a very Merry Christmas to you, FRiend, and best wishes for a happy, healthy, and prosperous year in 2023.

[Eleutheria5]

“Funny, I have read your posts all these years but...there you are in flesh and blood!”

No, that’s Dick Van Dyke at 96.

[Roccus]

re Blue Norther

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Norther_(weather)

re Gatlinburg and hurricanes, here’s from just the last three years

https://www.wdtn.com/news/flooding-forces-over-400-evacuations-from-gatlinburg-campground/

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/weather/2020/10/29/hurricane-zeta-flood-warning-winds-east-tennessee-storm-soaks-region/6067212002/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zPGdN-v7wg

[Clutch Martin]

Looks like her wish... but that was at least 20 years ago and she was old then, I can’t imagine she’s still around. I sure got a chuckle out of her quip though.

[Roccus]

Back in her day, on that side of the Allegheny Mts. they prolly just called ‘em storms.
Old NYC boy here and before they started naming every wet breeze we used to call ‘em Nor’Easters or three day blows.

[rlmorel]

Hahahahahahaha! I wouldn’t have known, I don’t think I have seen Dick Van Dyke for at least 30 years, probably closer to 50!

I know he is a lib, but...he sure looks like he is still having a good time. Dang, is he really 96???