How's the Weather Where You Are?

It is about 53 here right now and working on getting colder as we go into the weekend. By Sunday night, it is supposed to be in the teens, for at least a few days, and then it looks like it might warm up. I didn’t see any snow on the weather app yet, but that could still happen if it stays cold.
 
The weather up here in Massey is quite seasonal at present.. We have had about 18 inches of snow so far but the temperatures are reasonable at -10c during the day and some nights are down to -26c...
Winter hasn't really started yet..
The lakes are frozen enough to drive a snowmobile on safely.. Hopefully we will have some real cold temperatures to really freeze the lakes with a thick ice.. Something like the -35c to -40c mark for about a week..
Snow will come, but first the cold temps...
 
We hade a vehicle go through the ice. I reckon they got off the ice road and weren't familiar with things here. We have people go through almost every year. Many come here n the military and aren't familiar with the way ice works. If they stay on the ice roads, everything will be fine, but until the snow gets deep and they aren't limited to the roads by the snow, they think they can drive everywhere, then they hit the ice over a spring and fall through. Fortunately the areas where the springs are are generally fairly shallow, so the people inside can get out but they get hypothermic really quickly if someone doesn't save them.
 
Don Alaska said:
We hade a vehicle go through the ice. I reckon they got off the ice road and weren't familiar with things here. We have people go through almost every year. Many come here n the military and aren't familiar with the way ice works. If they stay on the ice roads, everything will be fine, but until the snow gets deep and they aren't limited to the roads by the snow, they think they can drive everywhere, then they hit the ice over a spring and fall through. Fortunately the areas where the springs are are generally fairly shallow, so the people inside can get out but they get hypothermic really quickly if someone doesn't save them.
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This means that they were rescued in time , this time, @Don Alaska ? I can see that would be a real danger up there where people think they can drive anywhere since there are roads on the ice.
 
An arctic blast front is moving through. Currently we are at 26 degrees but the temperatures are starting to plummet and winds are picking up speed. It is going to be very cold here tonight and all day tomorrow. By this evening and the morining hours, we will be in single digits with wind chills below 0.🥶
 
Yvonne Smith said:
This means that they were rescued in time , this time, @Don Alaska ? I can see that would be a real danger up there where people think they can drive anywhere since there are roads on the ice.
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Experienced drivers here can usually safely drive around the lakes and larger rivers, especially if they stay on the roads, as the ice under the roads is measured for safety. Even large trucks such as the septic tankers can drive on the ice roads for the coldest months. I remember going to bootcamp with guys from Alabama and the Minnesotans talking about driving on the ice to go ice fishing, but the Alabamans wouldn't believe you could drive on ice. When I lived in the bush, one of the rivers we were on had a 150-mile long ice road that served many of the villages on the river during the winter. That was particularly dangerous if they went off the ice roads though, and places where there were springs or swift water were dangerous or even open sometimes. Have you read, "To Light a Fire"?
 
It’s very mild , think it’s forecast for 20 c ….68f ..remember it’s summer here…..it’s currently 11.45 am and be got a jacket on ..

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As I write this, it is currently -24c and that is the temperature, not the windchill which is much lower than that... Somewhere around the -29c or -30c mark....
There is a brisk wind as well giving that low windchill......
 
‘The thing with weather is being able to deal with it. You are used to that kind of cold and the houses are insulated for it, and people dress for the cold. I know that -10c is not as cold as if it were -10f, but I am not sure of the difference and have to look it up.
We are at 18f here, 16 with windchill; but in the south, the homes do not have enough insulation or storm windows for cold weather. Our house is old, so there are lots of holes and air leaks all over, which makes it even worse.

When we do get snow, even an inch grinds everything to a halt, because people have no snow tires, and most native southerners have no experience driving in snow and icy conditions. The road people have no equipment to deal with the snow, so it just freezes onto the roads and stays there until it warms back up again, and the freeways have piles of cars and trucks that have wrecked in the snow.
Thankfully, it usually only happens once or twice each winter.
 
Yvonne Smith said:
‘The thing with weather is being able to deal with it. You are used to that kind of cold and the houses are insulated for it, and people dress for the cold. I know that -10c is not as cold as if it were -10f, but I am not sure of the difference and have to look it up.
We are at 18f here, 16 with windchill; but in the south, the homes do not have enough insulation or storm windows for cold weather. Our house is old, so there are lots of holes and air leaks all over, which makes it even worse.

When we do get snow, even an inch grinds everything to a halt, because people have no snow tires, and most native southerners have no experience driving in snow and icy conditions. The road people have no equipment to deal with the snow, so it just freezes onto the roads and stays there until it warms back up again, and the freeways have piles of cars and trucks that have wrecked in the snow.
Thankfully, it usually only happens once or twice each winter.
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-10 C. is about +14 F. @Yvonne Smith. That is about what it is here too as long as the wind keeps blowing. If the wind stops, it will be -10 F. or lower. I haven't checked for wind damage today, but it was howling last night and some stuff is cancelled due to wind. I think Palmer might get gusts over 80 mph.
 
It seems like the west is getting some pretty bad storms this month, @Don Alaska !
The whole Seattle area has flooding, roads closed from the floods and mudslides, and they just had a small earthquake east of Sedro Woolley this morning, too.
High winds are predicted there the next few days as well, and I think more rain. It reminds me a lot of what happened to Tennessee and North Carolina after the torrential rains that came with hurricane Helene.

Parts of I-90 are closed near Snoqualamie, parts of Hwy.2 are closed, and I-5 near chehalis was flooded and closed the other day, not sure if it is back open now or not.
But lots of roads washed out all over the state, and into north Idaho and Montana now. It is going to make getting supplies into the PNW pretty difficult if this continues.
 
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