Posted on 12/25/2022 3:17:02 AM PST by blueplum
The Lower 48 states are beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, as frigid subzero temperatures paired with brutal wind chill have several states with temperatures as cold as the North Pole ....
...The Norwegian Meteorological Institute reported that on Friday, the North Pole was experiencing temperatures of minus-23 degrees Celsius, or minus-9 Fahrenheit. Several states in the U.S. were experiencing temperatures of minus-9 Fahrenheit or lower, meaning they were as cold or colder than the North Pole.
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It’s just global warming, also known as climate change. A majority of humankind are stupid enough to believe in it, which raises the question “Is there intelligent life on earth?”.
It got down to -18 on Beech Mtn NC
We had freezing rain last night, so everything outside has a sheen of ice on it.
It should get above freezing around noon, but in the meantime the whole area is a skating rink.
Boise, Idaho, in case you were wondering.
Always with them negative waves!
Just be patient. I will warm up, rain, and then get cold again so everybody can ice skate on the roads. Just like we used to do after Christmas back in O6.
Quit wit dem negative waves!
The constant strong winds (no snow, just wind) was the killer though.
I assure you it was cold.
And no, I was not dressed for it.
I worked on a 20 story tall outdoor sub bituminous coal fired boiler in the high desert of Arizona. It was at 5,000 feet and cold as the North Pole in the winter of ‘75-‘76. Imagine the winds howling 200 feet above the high desert with absolutely nothing to block or break them. Now THAT was cold.
In North Pole, Alaska it’s currently minus 19 degrees.
I spoke to someone yesterday who didn’t know windchill is only the effect on human skin. She thought buildings and cars were affected by it too.
We got down to 7 or so in north Alabama. Plumbers will be busy for weeks fixing frozen pipes. Got to go fix one at my sons tomorrow. I winterized my elderly neighbors house before the cold hit. Half their crawl space vents are missing along with the crawl space door. They all got filled with insulation and covered with 1 inch foam board. Faucets got the same. No faucet covers in stock for 100 miles. Hope they survived it all. They have my number.
Ridiculous cold.
Correct...it’s all about the effect on human skin and your PERCEIVED temperature.
That said, winds actually DO remove more heat from a building. It’s called “forced convection” in engineering heat transfer terms.
On a calm day without wind, you have “natural convection” which is caused by buoyancy forces due to density differences caused by temperature variations in the air. The air next to a building is slightly warmer than air away from the building. That causes the air next to the building to rise and be replaced by cooler air that also will heat and rise.
Wind accelerates that process and moves more heat away from the building. So, in a way, “wind chill” does affect buildings. Buildings don’t “feel” or perceive a different temperature, but it does take more energy to keep a building warm in wind than a building in a calm air.
If you would have supported the President's EV leadership, you would have a vehicle that would have a very restricted range with cold temperatures. But I'm sure you would agree that ALL OF US getting EV's is the only way to go!(/sarc>
EVs are a bad idea in the cold. Coincidentally a Tesla passed me on the icy freeway yesterday, I was going 65ish, they had to be going at least 10mph faster than me. It seemed as though they were unconcerned with range limitations. I wondered how warm they were...
Family checked in today = Fairbanks at -22 and Tok (sp?) is -60. fun fact I didn’t know is, Alaska’s gasoline has a lot of alcohol added to it to prevent the gas from freezing
I don't know where you got that tidbit, but it's incorrect. Our gas is just plain old regular gas. The only thing different about it is we don't add ethanol to it.
God bless us one and all!
“...Alaska’s gasoline has a lot of alcohol added to it
to prevent the gas from freezing...”
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“What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know.
It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.”
~Mark Twain
Highs of 75oF, 82oF, & 81oF Friday, Saturday, & today here at our desert Lab.
Swam 25 laps in the heated pool each day, followed by a relaxing soak in the 102oF spa, just steps away.
Plenty of bright sunshine to replenish Vitamin D.
Stay healthy!
that came from DH, who was raised in AK, used something called ‘Heet’ that kept condensed water in gas lines from freezing. He said around Tok, the gas would turn into a slushie.
sometimes referred to as “isopropyl” by old timers because of its main ingredient
https://www.farmandfleet.com/blog/what-is-heet-2/
Ingredients For Gas Line Antifreeze (Homemade Heet)
3drops pine essential oil
4 c isopropyl alcohol
Heet is an additive that consumers buy and add to their gas tank when the temperature gets super cold. It's only used in areas of extreme cold. I live in southcentral Alaska, where it's definitely not needed, although people who don't know any better do use it. The only time I ever used Heet was when I drove back home up the Alaska Highway and I did have my fuel lines freeze up. Driving through Tok it was minus 72 degrees.
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