Change in the weather; first nasty day this season

[fdcg27]

Yesterday afternoon, we had temperatures here in the sixties.
This afternoon, we've had a few inches of heavy, wet snow which has left the pavement as slick as a good oil.
We had sleet and freezing rain overnight, with both cars we'd left in the driveway covered in a thin skin of ice. The snow began early in the day and is coming down pretty hard right now and the temperature is in the twenties.
I saw the predictable couple of cars spun off the road into the ditch. No injuries, but their hapless drivers seemed to be laboring to get them out of a position where only a number of hands pushing or a snatch strap with the other end on a 4X4 would help.
What a difference a day makes.

 

[donnyj08]

the weather is the same here in Indiana. I drove 240 miles in it today.. that was a long 8 hours. even the interstates had a couple of inches on them.

 

[Panzerman]

Seriously, What do you think all those pieces of Heavy equipment have in them sitting outside. 10w30 wont hurt a thing. 15w40 will still turn over fine. What did we do before the introduction of the 0w oils and 5w20s. I guess everyone wore snow shoes and just walked.

 

[Zaedock]

Originally Posted By: Panzerman
Seriously, What do you think all those pieces of Heavy equipment have in them sitting outside. 10w30 wont hurt a thing. 15w40 will still turn over fine. What did we do before the introduction of the 0w oils and 5w20s. I guess everyone wore snow shoes and just walked.

 

[Rand]

Originally Posted By: Panzerman
Seriously, What do you think all those pieces of Heavy equipment have in them sitting outside. 10w30 wont hurt a thing. 15w40 will still turn over fine. What did we do before the introduction of the 0w oils and 5w20s. I guess everyone wore snow shoes and just walked.


uh that was kinda out of nowhere off topic? did I miss something?

Back on topic.. the ice rain last night was making wierd noises on my house windows..
Popped my head out the door for a sec.. figured it out real fast after a bunch of pellets hit me in the face.

 

[morepwr]

Originally Posted By: Panzerman
Seriously, What do you think all those pieces of Heavy equipment have in them sitting outside. 10w30 wont hurt a thing. 15w40 will still turn over fine. What did we do before the introduction of the 0w oils and 5w20s. I guess everyone wore snow shoes and just walked.


Ummm, ok?

 

[DoiInthanon]

Originally Posted By: Panzerman
Seriously, What do you think all those pieces of Heavy equipment have in them sitting outside. 10w30 wont hurt a thing. 15w40 will still turn over fine. What did we do before the introduction of the 0w oils and 5w20s. I guess everyone wore snow shoes and just walked.

Sorry.
I think Winter Rules are in effect. Posters from Florida, Hawaii, Oz, et al similarly situated are enjoined from comments about unfortunate weather in other parts of the world.

 

[fdcg27]

Originally Posted By: donnyj08
the weather is the same here in Indiana. I drove 240 miles in it today.. that was a long 8 hours. even the interstates had a couple of inches on them.


I once drove through a blizzard from here to IND so that we could catch a flight to LAX. It took us ~six hours to drive ~120 miles.
I was scheduled to be in Columbus today for a meeting. Thank goodness it was cancelled, since 100 miles there and 100 miles back would not have been fun.
Driving the twenty five miles to work this morning was okay.
The drive home was a little more challenging, although I've certainly driven the same route in much worse.

 

[Rand]

I put the other snow tires on yesterday.. knew this was coming. 56F yesterday morning..

put the xice xi2's on the 2010 accent.

The defenders they replaced were great in snow for an all season but the winter tires are much better.

I already put my blizzack ws-70's on the forester last week.. Got the round of jokes at work about causing the heat wave (2-3 days of 50-60F here)

 

[Kuato]

Good luck with that. It was 27 here this morning.







That's negative Fahrenheit BTW. Our high temp was -16F.

 

[eljefino]

Originally Posted By: Panzerman
Seriously, What do you think all those pieces of Heavy equipment have in them sitting outside. 10w30 wont hurt a thing. 15w40 will still turn over fine. What did we do before the introduction of the 0w oils and 5w20s. I guess everyone wore snow shoes and just walked.


I saw footage of Texans spinning tires all over and wondered how equipped their cars were, including oil viscosity. So you are not the only one.

 

[fdcg27]

Originally Posted By: Kuato
Good luck with that. It was 27 here this morning.







That's negative Fahrenheit BTW. Our high temp was -16F.


We haven't seen temperatures that low here since January 2010.
I posted in a thead at the time that between the two cars I had on PP 5w30, the one on GC and the one on M1 0w30 AFE I really couldn't discern any difference in how they started and ran.

 

[daves87rs]

Dipping into the teens here now....

 

[jrustles]

http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sfc_con.php?image=na&inv=0&t=cur
does this look a little off to anyone?

 

[bdcardinal]

I was freezing today, it never got over 60. Literally I was in a jacket, shivering all day.

 

[HTSS_TR]

Same in Irvine, it only got to 58 today and they predict a low of 34 on Monday night.

 

[Anduril]

Had our first night of below-freezing yesterday. Started having to wear long sleeves; made it all the way through November in shorts and t-shirts.

Supposed to be 60s again by the end of the week.

 

[Win]

Hi teens here.

Six inches of snow yesterday on top of about a half inch of freezing rain. Lots of large tree limbs down in the yard. The SteppIR looks like it could be next.

Just heard a transformer explode.

 

[Barkleymut]

Originally Posted By: Kuato
Good luck with that. It was 27 here this morning. Just hope they treat the roads before Monday morning when I have to drive 70 miles on my worn out tires on the Saturn.







That's negative Fahrenheit BTW. Our high temp was -16F.


sounds great, it was mid sixties here today. But if it makes anyone feel any better it is supposed to snow/ice a little here Sunday.

 

[NHHEMI]

Was in the 50's and raining yesterday but swapped to snow last night. It is sitting at freezing right now( 32 )and we have about 2" of snow with a little drifting down still. Supposed to be snow showers off an on until the afternoon and temps in the mid 30's.

Nothing serious and actually pretty tame for December around here. A more normal 20's in the day and teens and single digits at night are coming in the long range forecast so this warm weather won't last.

My duck boat is hooked up and I will be off in a little while. I fully expect the brain dead morons to be out and off the road left and right while I chug along doing just fine towing my duck boat. A couple inches of snow and temps north of freezing should be nothing to a New England native but you see it every year. I swear people forget how to drive from one winter to the next.