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Any one colder??? Air temp in ND a minus 22

11 years ago

Yep, woke up and temp reading a minus 22. But the sun is out if that counts. Wind chills in 40's below. It is the coldest day many can remember. Will start up tomarrow!
Tom, our wonderful and I mean that in a postive way, was warning everyone not to go outside unless it is necessary. Skin can freeze in less than 5 minutes.
But that is No Dakato
Marie
who likes cold, but would like it a bit warmer

Comments (11)

yayagal
11 years ago
I hate the cold and darkness, we had wild wind last night 60mph and power loss but today is a very strange 57 degree day and I'm getting out to take advantage of it. I feel for you.
rob333 (zone 7b)
11 years ago
Our high on Tuesday was at midnight and it was 73 degrees, which was record breaking. Today, we have snow. Tomorrow, the low will be 19. 54 degree difference in three days? Weirdness!
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Brandon our posts must have been at around the same time, I just read your question of me sorta confusing the issues. The point of bringing the glacier trees was just me wondering that if nobody was polluting the air causing the warming effect all those years ago, that the warming could possibly be something that has nothing to do with human related climate change.Because this has happened before when people weren't enhabiting earth. It was not my original question because you did answer that. I got caught up in all the debating and went from my original question to thinking about the warming being our fault or gonna happen anyway.Toronado brought up that it's possibly human related and that's where my topic switched. Not anything against Toronado, but him stating that got me wondering if we're the cause why has this mummy tree thing happened before we were on earth? There is alot of science put into the human pollution, man caused, warming theory, and I even sorta think it's true but if that's true, why was there climate change before humans?I got fossil and mummyfied mixed up. I hope I've explained my leading off in another direction good enough.And the zone maps (as far as I thought) were very rigidly based on a zones lowest temp being the coldest each plant will survive.In other words I buy a Bur oak which is (guessing) zone 3 -8. I based on that map can be sure that tree is hardy to what zone 3 is on the chart, being -30 or whatever zone 3 is. That is what I,ve always thought. Well, according to that map the Live oak Q.Virginiana should not have died because last year our lowest temp was 12F and if the tree was labeled zone 7 that is 10 - 0 F if I'm not misstaken. (Even though My tree was labeled zone 6, but was from a Florida store).By the way that's something else about the hybrid tree thing.They must have been an extremist.It would be like saying that a mutt is a satanists dog.Sorry this is so long.
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caroline94535
11 years ago
Hey Marie, over here on the east side we're at -12 with a windchill of -27. We have a double sundog around the sun again today. Third one since I posted the first picture.

I have to pull on my big-girl thermals and go out to top off the bird feeders. I need to go to the grocery store, too...but I'm still considering that.

Ambient is supposed to be -22 tonight. DH will be out with annual police training starting at 6 p.m. I'll have soup ready for when he gets home.
bigack
11 years ago
70 here in WV yesterday, 20s and snowing today! Come on spring.
Lily316
11 years ago
Weird weather for sure. 70 yesterday and day before, rain all yesterday and now it's in the 30's with gusting winds.
iowagirl2006
11 years ago
It's 5 above now - with that brisk 30 mph wind!

Surely can't beat your -22Ã¯Â¿Â½ ! It is supposed to get back down to -7Ã¯Â¿Â½ tonight (actual temp) with this nasty wind. It is a challenge to keep the barns warm and the waters thawed. My furnace runs frequently today - but my house stays warm.

How did those Pioneers make it? Gosh, they were made of sturdy stuff!!!
Rudebekia
11 years ago
Going to be -13 tonight here in the Twin Cities of MN with -40 wind chill.
dedtired
11 years ago
Brrrrrr, how do you stand it? We also had two days of oddly warm weather in the 60's with lots of wind today and lots of rain last night. It was so windy that my recycling can blew over and all my recycles blew down the street. I'm sure I looked ridiculous "trash picking" on all the neighbors lawns.
workoutlady
11 years ago
Supposed to be around -20 here in northern WI. I'm glad it's not supposed to last long. Its supposed to warm up by the weekend.

But I remember 20 below weather a lot more in my youth. The coldest air temp I rember was 50 below which was in the late 70s and yep, we had school.
ont_gal
11 years ago
Last week we had temps that went down to -36F-news reported with the wind chill that it got down to -44F

Then it was "normal'-just winter-THEN,it warmed up-Tues and Wed of this week-+46F;sunny,off and on-beautiful-then rain-all day and night-melted all the snow-then wind and the temps dropped last night back down to 20F-cold and windy-and all that rain left EVERWHERE coated with ice
jemdandy
11 years ago
we'll be in the neighborhood of 0 F tonight. Can't challamge ND. I'm redy for spring. Why oh why did January have to prove it is still a winter month?

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