Will the Arctic Cold Front Cause Severe Weather and Damage to Crops?

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The discussion centers around varying winter weather experiences across different regions. An Arctic cold front is expected to bring severe conditions, including strong winds and potential blizzard-like conditions, leading to dangerously low wind chills in some areas. Participants share personal weather updates, with some experiencing significant snowfall while others report mild conditions. Notably, areas in the Midwest and parts of the UK are facing heavy snow, while regions like Western Washington and parts of Florida are seeing typical winter temperatures without snow. Concerns about the impact of cold weather on crops, infrastructure challenges in handling snow, and personal anecdotes about coping with the cold are prevalent. The conversation also touches on the contrasting experiences of those in warmer climates, highlighting the diverse impacts of winter weather across the globe.
  • #781
OCR said:
Here in eastern Montana, on Thursday night November 17, the low was -2° F ( -18.9° C ).

I didn't have to go for a walk, though... lol

We have about the same amount of snow as you do, also... typical weather for this time of year.


Just for some fun information, if anybody would like to reply... what's the lowest temperature you've ever experienced?

It was -52° F ( -46.7° C ) here, for a couple of days... think it was 1986, or there about, I don't remember the month.




OCR
With wind chill 63F below zero, Upstate, NY. The most uncomfortable was Steamboat Springs, CO. You would inhale through your nose and your nose hair would instantly ice up and crackle.
 
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  • #782
OCR said:
Here in eastern Montana, on Thursday night November 17, the low was -2° F ( -18.9° C ).

I didn't have to go for a walk, though... lol

We have about the same amount of snow as you do, also... typical weather for this time of year.


Just for some fun information, if anybody would like to reply... what's the lowest temperature you've ever experienced?

It was -52° F ( -46.7° C ) here, for a couple of days... think it was 1986, or there about, I don't remember the month.




OCR


Sounds close to what I experienced for several days when I lived in Fairbanks, AK. It was bumping around between -45 and -50 C.

The year after I moved away from Alaska, they had record-breaking cold. The thermometers at Eielson Air Force Base only went to -70 F and I heard they were pegged out. Brrrr, I'm glad I missed it!
 
  • #783
right when it hit -30 F here, the water heater element burned out and the upstairs registers got airlocked. It happened to be a weekend too. All's well now, though.
 
  • #784
This brings me to mind of the winter of aught five. Well sonny, it was so cold that we emptied out the freezer and got inside to warm up. It was plenty below, but it kept dropping. We had to push the house down the street to jump start the furnace. That's when it really started to get chilly. We went to milk the cows and got ice cream instead. It still fell lower. It was colder than a snowball on a rat's #$@ in hell on a cold day in July when the sun don't shine. But lower it went. Flashers would merely describe themselves. But then it got really cold. I had to button up my vest.
 
  • #785
Jimmy Snyder said:
This brings me to mind of the winter of aught five. Well sonny, it was so cold that we emptied out the freezer and got inside to warm up. It was plenty below, but it kept dropping. We had to push the house down the street to jump start the furnace. That's when it really started to get chilly. We went to milk the cows and got ice cream instead. It still fell lower. It was colder than a snowball on a rat's #$@ in hell on a cold day in July when the sun don't shine. But lower it went. Flashers would merely describe themselves. But then it got really cold. I had to button up my vest.
:smile:
 
  • #786
Jimmy Snyder said:
This brings me to mind of the winter of aught five. Well sonny, it was so cold that we emptied out the freezer and got inside to warm up. It was plenty below, but it kept dropping. We had to push the house down the street to jump start the furnace. That's when it really started to get chilly. We went to milk the cows and got ice cream instead. It still fell lower. It was colder than a snowball on a rat's #$@ in hell on a cold day in July when the sun don't shine. But lower it went. Flashers would merely describe themselves. But then it got really cold. I had to button up my vest.
I hate when that happens.
 
  • #787
OCR said:
Just for some fun information, if anybody would like to reply... what's the lowest temperature you've ever experienced?

OCR

-63C in Resolute, NWT, Canada in February 1989

The station temperature was a bit higher but we were in a shallow valley, where the coldest air tends to accumulate.

So why be in a valley anyway? because that's where enough snow accumulates to build yourself an igloo. We were practicing arctic survival, hosted by the Canadian Armed Forces.

Actually the thermometer minimum was -60C so we had to estimate the length of the fluid column. So that challenges Mark Twain's hypothesis:

Mark Twain said:
“Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd have frozen to death.”
 
  • #788
We have about 4" on the ground, so it's just starting to actually snow. The breeze is out of the E-NE, so this one could last a while. If the wind was stronger, we could hope for it to move on soon. Not happening.
 
  • #789
Thats such a contrast from where I am at the moment. Its the most unusual feeling being in a temperate city where its still 25-35C outside in NOVEMBER! I almost can't believe it. I recently went back home and brought a load of warm clothes with me, but I don't use them :p
 
  • #790
Look around you, chaos. What are other people wearing? When I was doing consulting work in south GA, I'd fly into Tallahassee because air-fares to there were very cheap. I'd be dressed in jeans and a T-shirt in winter when I got out of the terminal, and so many of the people around me were wearing sweats and down vests/jackets. When the daytime temps plummet to ~60F there, out comes the winter gear. It's pretty crazy.
 
  • #791
Duke and I took a run to the nearest large town today. Normally a 20-minute drive at most, but today it took almost 45 minutes because people were freaked out by the snow. It's the first time that the dog-limo Honda pickup truck has been out in the snow, and it performed beautifully. Gotta love the Ridgeline for this climate.

The temp has been vacillating around freezing for the last couple of hours, so I'll have my hands full tomorrow. Maybe a bit of shoveling and a lot of Kubota.
 
  • #792
It's not cold here yet in Houston, but wow, the fall foliage is absolutely fantastic this year compared to normal thanks to the prolonged drought last spring/summer/fall.
 
  • #793
Getting whip-sawed today. The temp is not bad, but the winds have been scary. We have lost power at least twice today, and I don't think it's over yet. My wife called during her lunch break, and I was walking around with the cordless hand-set and saw heavy rain coming down diagonally driven by an east wind, looking out the back door. A few minutes later there was equally-heavy rain coming down diagonally driven by a west wind. Just nuts!
 
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  • #794
turbo said:
We have lost power at least twice today ...
We too lost power at the Johnson Space Center, a couple of days ago. Some idiot in a pickup truck ran way, way off the road and into one of the towers that support the high tension power lines that feed the center.Edit
It is getting a bit chilly outside here. Tomorrow's high is only going to be 58°F, almost ten degrees below average. Finally. It's been a warm fall here.
 
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  • #795
So this morning whilst I was pleasantly dreaming a scrapping sound started to enter my dream. After a while it woke me to a lucid state and I idly wondered what it was, I concluded it was someone simply scraping ice off of their windscreen outside. But after it had gone on for a while I realized it sounded less like a scraper and more like a shovel. I jumped out of bed, drew my curtains and found...
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SNOW! None was predicted but we had several inches, Christmas has started.
 
  • #796
I love the weather forecsters, who else can be completely wrong most of the time and keep their jobs?

Nice picture!
 
  • #797
Evo said:
I love the weather forecsters, who else can be completely wrong most of the time and keep their jobs?

Nice picture!
It's an enviable career, for sure.
 
  • #798
Best I can make out, there are probably no windows at the weather bureau.
 
  • #799
Years back, we had a radio DJ whose "forecasts" consisted of looking out the studio windows. "Wow! Look at it snow out there. It will probably keep up for a while, although it could turn to rain..." The guy was a hoot!

Actually, if you were allowed to listen to the radio when at work in your windowless cubby, his "forecasts" could really be useful when planning your commute home.
 
  • #800
Evo said:
I love the weather forecsters, who else can be completely wrong most of the time and keep their jobs?

Nice picture!
Cheers :biggrin: On the news just now there was a reporter interviewing someone from the Met Office. They asked about some of the incorrect predictions and he said something like "well we knew it was either going to be A, B, or C and we had to pick one"
 
  • #801
I always say "tomorrow weather will be the same as it is today". I am about as good as forecasters, but much cheaper.

It is raining now, so I think it will rain tomorrow.
 
  • #802
It is 32 degrees here. The problem is that the ground is frozen and the rain is freezing to the road-deck. I went out to our paved driveway to get Duke to come back in the house, and damned near took a header. Cars and trucks are off the road everywhere, and the roads are so slick that ambulances and wreckers are having a hard time getting to the wrecks,

Now the REAL bad part: my wife is on her way home from work. She has studded snow tires on her AWD Subaru Forester, but I'm afraid that extra level of confidence could result in over-confidence. (fingers crossed!)
 
  • #803
I'm sitting here in the comfort of the family room so you can well imagine how overconfident I am. I just hope I don't spin out and hit the sofa. Give your wife my best when she gets home.
 
  • #804
turbo said:
It is 32 degrees here. The problem is that the ground is frozen and the rain is freezing to the road-deck. I went out to our paved driveway to get Duke to come back in the house, and damned near took a header. Cars and trucks are off the road everywhere, and the roads are so slick that ambulances and wreckers are having a hard time getting to the wrecks,

Now the REAL bad part: my wife is on her way home from work. She has studded snow tires on her AWD Subaru Forester, but I'm afraid that extra level of confidence could result in over-confidence. (fingers crossed!)
Turbo,

Let her take the Ridgeline next time, higher up, safer, and the traction control works great on slush, ice, but not stone hard ice. I love the truck in the snow never have come close to getting stuck, go slow and easy and it is a piece of cake.

Rhody...
 
  • #805
rhody said:
Turbo,

Let her take the Ridgeline next time, higher up, safer, and the traction control works great on slush, ice, but not stone hard ice. I love the truck in the snow never have come close to getting stuck, go slow and easy and it is a piece of cake.

Rhody...
Her Forester has full-time AWD, traction control, stability control, etc, like my Ridgeline. The difference is that we bought a set of fully studded soft-compound snow tires, so her vehicle us preferable to mine in ice.
 
  • #806
turbo said:
Her Forester has full-time AWD, traction control, stability control, etc, like my Ridgeline. The difference is that we bought a set of fully studded soft-compound snow tires, so her vehicle us preferable to mine in ice.
I think her Forester would be a blast on a frozen lake. I love the drifting... it looks like so much fun...

Rhody...

P.S. If you think that is fun, how about this ? A BMW 1000RR with monster hand applied cleats, that is just sick...
 
  • #807
Yay! She just pulled in safely after 2 hours for what is normally a 1/2 hour trip.
 
  • #808
Even though it's warmer than normal here, I have been ice skating on outdoor rinks with my daughter a couple of times in the last few days.
 
  • #809
George Jones said:
Even though it's warmer than normal here, I have been ice skating on outdoor rinks with my daughter a couple of times in the last few days.
That's so nice! We couldn't afford skates when I was a kid, so I got hand-me-downs that older kids from more affluent families that had outgrown their skates. Hockey skates, figure skates (one time, even white figure skates!) Generally, we could skate starting around Thanksgiving, then spend afternoons after school shoveling off local bogs and ponds so that we had "rinks" for Christmas vacation.
 
  • #810
Just got electricity back! Don't know for how long, since it's been out for ~3 hours. Ice storms up here can be a bear.
 

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