Anyone else in the middle of the arctic blast? NWS reports -20F, wind chill of -38F, in my town this morning. It's been this way the past couple mornings, and supposed to be the same tonight, then we'll see a warming trend. Highs in the 50s this weekend!
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Saskatoon, NE of you was -40 in the dead calm yesterday. There are gong to be some new records set in mid west apparently.
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All the coastal cities along the Gulf of America will be freezing for a few days. 
Just got started where I live in Texas. Was 15 this morning with a wind chill of -6. While not near as cold as some of y'all in the north Texas is not designed for this weather.
There should be an Executive Order declaring Winter over.
I just got back to Vermont from 4 weeks in more moderate locations. No place I was to was actually warm. I could not get back to my home because, at my house on the day of my intended return, we were experiencing 21 inches of snow and freezing rain. Got home yesterday, and this morning it is clear and temperature is -8F
I just got back to Vermont from 4 weeks in more moderate locations. No place I was to was actually warm. I could not get back to my home because, at my house on the day of my intended return, we were experiencing 21 inches of snow and freezing rain. Got home yesterday, and this morning it is clear and temperature is -8F
-4.5*F near you in Orwell. I bet you're a bit higher in elevation, we be on the lake.
4 degrees here in the mid west. Question for those of you who have a heat pump and are experiencing these unusually cold temps, how is it keeping up? Have your auxilary heat strips kicked in, or are you using another method to get supplement heat?
Good question, I just sent a message to a friend with a heat pump, asking how it's done through our prolonged cold stretch.
It's still very cold here, but the temperatures are supposed to moderate starting tomorrow. Phew!
Ours at work has had 0 issues. It goes in defrost I think every 30 mins of run time. Electric strips kick in on defrost.
What make is your HVAC system?
Mine is a 2012 American Standard and I have it set to use the auxiliary heat at 27 F. The auxiliary heat is my Viesmann propane fired boiler and water to air heat exchanger. If it’s humid outside I manually switch over to avoid the defrost cycles.
Yes, we are at 2300 ft above sea level and 1000 feet above the valley below. In Andover Vermont, near the Vermont Country store in Weston.
I’d feel sorry for my car in these temps.
Scott
Scott
Buffalo NY
So cold and miserable that for a moment I thought that I angered the Tzar and was in Siberia
So cold and miserable that for a moment I thought that I angered the Tzar and was in Siberia
We have Mitsubishi heat pumps that are designed for use in cold climates. They continue to produce useful heat down to about -5F. Then, we throw in the towel and turn on the oil fired hot water baseboard system that we left in place after the heat pump installation.
What's extreme cold? Temps are forecast to be in the teens here in North AL tonight, and hopefully that's the last of what we consider extreme cold until next year. We'll be mowing grass here this time next month. 
Temps are forecast to be in the teens here in North AL tonight, and hopefully that's the last of what we consider extreme cold until next year. We'll be mowing grass here this time next month. 
