coldest spot in the 48?

[Never Monday]

Fastest temperature change goes to Hiroshima!

About 0.2 seconds after the detonation over Hiroshima, the fireball created reached a surface temperature of 7,700 degrees Celsius. From 0.2 to 3 seconds after detonation, the intense heat emitted from the fireball exerted powerful effects on the ground. Temperatures near the hypocenter reached 3,000 to 4,000 degrees Celsius.

Enjoy the cool temps

Now that’s some man made climate change!

 

[BUCKLAND]

Fastest temperature change goes to Hiroshima!

About 0.2 seconds after the detonation over Hiroshima, the fireball created reached a surface temperature of 7,700 degrees Celsius. From 0.2 to 3 seconds after detonation, the intense heat emitted from the fireball exerted powerful effects on the ground. Temperatures near the hypocenter reached 3,000 to 4,000 degrees Celsius.

Enjoy the cool temps

Power plant I work at was built by Chas T Main/ New England Power Company with Hitachi and Toshiba

Story goes-

Jap: oh, you mericans no build good genaratah
Merican: yah, but we build a hell off a bomb.

Silence

 

[KDXSR5]

Wyoming set a bunch of records this week.
Temps in Cheyenne dropped 40° in 30 min, a world record.
Casper hit -41°, a new record.
Most of Wyoming was colder than Antarctica yesterday.

I am in central WY and lost power the night Casper hit -41*F. The house dropped 20 degrees in 6 hours before we got power again. Grandpa's house also lost power, so we were trying to keep him warm. Was a shitty night.

 

[Gtrplyr78]

I am in central WY and lost power the night Casper hit -41*F. The house dropped 20 degrees in 6 hours before we got power again. Grandpa's house also lost power, so we were trying to keep him warm. Was a shitty night.

Lost power around 11pm last night. Not sure for how long as I went to sleep. Woke up after 6am and power was on.

What you all are dealing with is in another realm, think it was in 20's here last night.

 

[aron82]

It was shitty, our power was down for over 4 hours. Only dropped about 10 degrees in that time though. Without electricity our furnace doesn't work and the only wood stove is in the shop.
Got above freezing in casper today though.

 

[YotaAtieToo]

I'm surprised that you guys live in areas that cold with total reliance on electricity for heat.

We has a regular gas furnace, but if we lost power we could at least crank the gas fire place. Even then I don't like being reliant on gas

 

[DRTDEVL]

I'm surprised that you guys live in areas that cold with total reliance on electricity for heat.

We has a regular gas furnace, but if we lost power we could at least crank the gas fire place. Even then I don't like being reliant on gas

Indeed.

We have the boiler. We have the fireplace and wood stove. We also have a dual fuel generator for extended outages and a couple propane heater in the interim.

 

[aron82]

Not the biggest fan of being dependent on electricity, but The cost to change everything out would be very expensive.

Would love to have a battery bank and solar, but also very expensive.
Cheapest option would be a whole house backup generator running off natural gas or diesel.

 

[YotaAtieToo]

Not the biggest fan of being dependent on electricity, but The cost to change everything out would be very expensive.

Would love to have a battery bank and solar, but also very expensive.
Cheapest option would be a whole house backup generator running off natural gas or diesel.

You don't have to change anything. Just add a wood or gas stove in the corner?

 

[aron82]

You don't have to change anything. Just add a wood or gas stove in the corner?

Would not work out very well with the layout of the house. Also there is no existing chimney or hearth to use.
Not going through the work and expense of adding a fireplace to the house and the hassle of wood heat for the 1 time a year the power goes out when it is ridiculously cold.

Eventually I'd like to get a solar setup with battery backup, but I don't think the battery tech is there just yet.

 

[KDXSR5]

Weather data shows Casper area hitting new record lows

CASPER, Wyo. — Data continues to surface Thursday confirming anecdotal reports of cold weather in central Wyoming, and it appears as if record lows have

oilcity.news

 

[gunracer1]

Crazy day

 

[Sceep]

 

[Deleted Member]

Gotta be a typo.

 

[Sceep]

Gotta be a typo.

If you go back through this thread we are often coldest in the lower 48 there in Angel Fire/Eagles Nest.

 

[Sandy Johnson]

 

[Sceep]

 

[2big bronco]

So cold... i might haveto break out the hoodie.

 

[Deleted Member]

It was 24 degrees yestermorning when I got up... To early for this crap.

Supposed to be a warm winter though, at least that's what the weather channel says. I won't take that as gospel.

Quoting myself to say that the weather people LIED. Again. All I heard in October was to expect a really mild and warmer winter. So far it's been more cold and getting the typical snow we usually get. We got like 10" yesterday from a storm prediction of 1-3". Aside of watching the newb's hoard food and panic there would be NO entertainment in any of it. Last night was 10 degrees, and a sweet little power outage to boot.

 

[Sandy Johnson]

So cold... i might haveto break out the hoodie.

It's been rough. I ALMOST had to scrape ice of my windshield today, but by the time I fished something out of my center console, the windshield defroster had taken care of it. I called FEMA back and told them false alarm.

 

[Sandy Johnson]

Quoting myself to say that the weather people LIED. Again.

All I heard coming into winter was that California was screwed because it was going to be another dry winter.

Actual California winter:

You can call weather people liars, but I think they just can't predict anything more than a few weeks out because weather patterns on the planet earth are an extremely complicated system with too many variables to accurately do any sort of long range predictions. AKA, they know about as much as we do what the weather is going to be in a few months.

 

[Wades_76_cj7]

but if we pay more in taxes it will stop climate change.

 

[Sceep]

You can call weather people liars, but I think they just can't predict anything more than a few hours out because weather patterns on the planet earth are an extremely complicated system with too many variables to accurately do any sort of long range predictions.

FIFY.
I can be more accurate than the weather liars around here simply by saying "It's going to be partly cloudy and most breezy for the next week". Dunno why they gotta make shit up that is wrong 95% of the time.

 

[Sandy Johnson]

FIFY.
I can be more accurate than the weather liars around here simply by saying "It's going to be partly cloudy and most breezy for the next week". Dunno why they gotta make shit up that is wrong 95% of the time.

Heh, fair. Our local predictions do a decent day to day job. It usually rains about the time they say it's going to rain... of course it's california, so they only have to pull that off a few months out of the year and the rest of the time all the really need to do is say 68* and partly cloudy and they're probably right.

 

[Deleted Member]

The farmers almanac runs at about 80-85% accuracy.

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The clowns on the Weather Channel are, at best, making a bunch of wild ass assumptions.

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Must suck to have a job where year after year a groundhog does better and more efficient work in about 30 minutes.

 

[Wheelerfreak]

Quoting myself to say that the weather people LIED. Again. All I heard in October was to expect a really mild and warmer winter. So far it's been more cold and getting the typical snow we usually get. We got like 10" yesterday from a storm prediction of 1-3".

For us they were predicting a warmer and drier winter than average, La Nina weather. So far this year we have gotten more snow than I’ve seen here in the 10 years I’ve lived here. One of my elderly neighbors that has lived here since the mid 80’s said this winter has been the most she has seen in that time frame. It’s been cold but not abnormally cold though, definitely not warmer than average.

 

[Deleted Member]

For us they were predicting a warmer and drier winter than average, La Nina weather. So far this year we have gotten more snow than I’ve seen here in the 10 years I’ve lived here. One of my elderly neighbors that has lived here since the mid 80’s said this winter has been the most she has seen in that time frame. It’s been cold but not abnormally cold though, definitely not warmer than average.

Yup... We were right at the interim of this storm, currently moving through your guys neck of the woods.

18 million people under winter storm warning stretching from New Mexico to Ohio: Snow forecast updates

This winter is by no means the heaviest winter I have witnessed here... just not at all accurate to the predictions I heard.

 

[Sceep]

For us they were predicting a warmer and drier winter than average, La Nina weather. So far this year we have gotten more snow than I’ve seen here in the 10 years I’ve lived here. One of my elderly neighbors that has lived here since the mid 80’s said this winter has been the most she has seen in that time frame. It’s been cold but not abnormally cold though, definitely not warmer than average.

yet down here in the EM, they were pretty much dead on (so far).

 

[bigun]

It was 14 at 0700 this morning, with windchill it was 7*
We got about another 1/4 inch of snow.

 

[Wheelerfreak]

yet down here in the EM, they were pretty much dead on (so far).

To be fair though there was no snow on the ground for Christmas, it was a few days after Christmas that we got our first heavy snow and it has just been continuous since then