Need I say more!!! *&%$#

I am looking at -15 for tomorrow AM.

-- Maplewood, MN

Yikes. How do you do it? I am miserable at + 60 here this last week.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Below zero in Edmonton… Weird!

-- Hutch, Montana

With the wind chill were are looking at -52°.
The ice fog is so thick right now you can only see about 100 feet in the river valley.
We also were blessed with a blizzard prior to this deep freeze so clearing drifts of up to 2 feet is all part of the outdoor fun.
Last night the city snow ploughs came to clear the street in front of my place and filled in the whole 80 feet of sidewalk I just cleared. Hummmffff!

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Wow. You’re 76° colder than us.
I think you should stay inside for a bit….

-- Furniture Medic- the prescription for damaged furniture

You wuss! Come out the rural areas!

.... where we only see a plow before the spring thaw!

All kidding aside, though, Bobby!

I spent 2 hours last night, in -50 wind chill, snowblowing a 4 foot drift off my driveway. When I went to put my truck in the garage, it was dead. I took my portable starter out…it was dead. I got my wife’s truck out to boost it and while I was working under the hood, suddenly things went black and I felt a searing pain in my hand. The pistons that hold the hood up were frozen and the hood of the Navigator slammed down on my hand. It was a fun way to spend almost 3 hours outside playing in the snow.

Tom

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

I am also waiting for warmer weather. With it so cold and my shop so big I cannot afford to heat it so I am unable to work until the temp goes up.

-- Hope Never fails

Another WOW…..thats 91 degrees colder than us!!!!! I never would go outside!! We are looking for highs in the 60’s today.

-- -- Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of a woodturner.

Rain and ice here. 28 degrees. In the 40’s later today then back to the deep freeze.

-- Bruce from Central New York

It’s snowing here with a temp of somewhere in the 20’s. I wonder why it’s so cold in Edmonton?? Waitin’ fer a chinook!!

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

No chinook’s in these parts, Tom. Too far north. We only see, typically, a couple of weeks of this sort of cold each year. It’s normally in the -15 area. In another few days, we’ll all be wearing short sleeved shirts and sandals again. You get used to this pretty quick. If the wind keeps blowing though,that’s another story…an entirely different level of miserable.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

And when they are done with that miserable week, they send it to Nebraska in the form of the “Alberta Clipper” to share the love. Yesterday 50°F, today 5°. Thus endth the electolysis experiment in the garage.

Sorry you’re grumpy, Bob. If I had any of Coswell’s dovetail samplers I’d let you smash one, just to cheer you up.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Yes, that did bring a smile to his face, Douglas. It might, however, be funnier to dump about 200 of them on the sidewalk in front of his office.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

I’m sure you would be suspected, Tom. Ah, where is the cyber-joint share (joinery) when you need it.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Ah, you guys a got me all wrong. I like Mr. Cosmans dovetails.
They are among the best I have seen in my travels.
I am not sure that they are suitable for standiing on and perhaps it is an oversight asking the unwashed masses to step on them.
Perhaps just asking them to stand on them would be sufficient.

Now Tom, today would not be a real good day to ask me to experiment with this type of foolishness.
At least not till it warms up. <g>
The thermometer on the house read -41 °C this morning at 5:00.

p.s. The coldest I have ever witnessed was -72°F at Aishihik, YT.
Your breath drops straight down out of you mouth at that temp. The tree crack like 22 bullets going off when the moisture pops the bark and the trees split.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

I was just thinking about how cold I am sitting inside our tool store in Santa Cruz, CA.

It’s 58 degrees F in here.

Thanks for the post. I feel much warmer.

-- Dust collectors suck.

we were watching the news this morning and shivered for you.
We’re fairly warm here right now but the weather is supposed to turn by tonight.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I think we are getting some of Florida’s weather today . It is + 7 here in Cranbrook Ontario.

-- John in Cranbrook http://www.extremebirdhouse.com ....http://community.webshots.com/user/cranbrook2

Yes you can keep that up there. It is mid-50s here and I haven’t pulled out the snow shovel in the last 3 years. I had much rather be making sawdust than shoveling snow.

This is the only time that I can comfortably run my table saw and especially my planer since I get yelled at if I run them inside the shop. I have to move them outside the shop onto the driveway. Even then I still get yelled at because the dust manages to blow back into the shop.

After 31 years I have learned to simply say yes dear.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Where I live, winter temperatures range from 30 to 50 degrees F. Sometimes we dip down into the 20’s and once in every few years we may see the teens. Nothing compared to what some of you are experiencing.

Stay warm everyone.

Dalec

I was born in Minot, ND and my Grandfather used to live in a small town just north of there called Glenburn. I was once told as a young child that there were no trees between us and Artic circle. The last time I was there was Christmas 1982. Christmas Day was -45 with a -99 wind chill. I vowed never to return, and I have kept that vow.

-- Greg - Charles Town, WV

70 deg. here in st pete today , a little cool for my taste so i wore my sweatshirt all day ! sorry about your luck bob . lol

-- if you aint the lead dog the scenery never changes

It was 50 in Delaware today. But was not a comfortable 50. The wind was blowing.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

A smidge warmer over here on the east coast.

4 °C
Observed at: St. John’s Int’l Airport
Date: 8:30 PM NST Tuesday 29 January 2008
Condition: Cloudy Pressure: 101.3 kPa Tendency: rising Visibility: 13 km

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

It was 50°F this morning. Around 10:00 am the temperature dropped 20°F in less than an hour. It’s now 4°F. Oh, yeah, did I mention the wind gusting to 50mph making wind chills -21°F. It’s supposed to hit -6°F later tonight. I can handle the cold, just can’t stand how much it can change here in Iowa. 100+°F temps during the summer, -20°F in the winter.

I keep trying to talk the wife into moving south but she just LOVES the change of seasons and the snow. <- note, that was sarcasm. She says she enjoys it but she tends to get over it fast during the winter months.

-- Owen Johnson - aka IowaWoodcrafter

My newest addiction has me surfing in this stuff. Unfortunately the best waves in New England are when a winter nor’easter hits.

Surfs up for tomorrow…:)

All is not lost though…headed to Maui in a week to help my brother with his board and paddle showcase.

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

Glad to be here in India for work. Back home is cold and here it is quite nice. Poluted and smelly as hell, but warm. I will be back int he cold on Friday

-- making sawdust....

Look what happened to poor old Mot today!

Regina overnight -52 with wind chill.

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Bob #2

It’s a rough way to lose weight.

Dalec

Now that is funny ROFLOL

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

Just saw a brass monkey run past my office window. He was looking for something…..

-22 c on the thermometer+ 70-90 k winds= mind numbingly cold

Not as cold as Edmonton though. Wow

-- The only easy wood project is a fire

poor Mot :( first his hand in the hood of the vehicle and now this!!!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

LOL

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

Nice reading everyone’s weather reports. How much to all you guys pay for heating oil? We’re at $3.38/gal. in the midcoast Maine area. Glad we have plenty of dry fire wood this year.

Tons of snow so far this year, some dang cold weather, but today it was 43 and rainy. I’m happy the furnace didn’t cycle on – the wood stove takes care of things perfectly, especially when I make mistakes in my wood working.

I’d like to try -71, just to see my breath freeze and do the throwing water from a cup trick.

-- Rob, Maine

Hi rob:
We use nat. gas up here and right now it’s running about $7.75 a gigajoule.
To heat a 10,000 sq foot warehouse I will pay about $3500.00 this month being so cold.
That’s about 35 cents a sq ft. on 22 foot ceilings.

Probably the best way ot figure your oil cost too.
I’d like to swithch to wood pellet furnaces here to get away from the corporate pirates. ( for a while)
last night on the locals TV some weather man was pouring wate ona winshield and it was frezzing before it could run. at -34.
At -71 even your voice wont carry.
You don’t want to go there. Every thing dies. birds, dogs, weasels.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Yep, good advice Bob.

Pellet stoves are gaining some ground here in Maine, as are the outdoor wood boilers, though new pollution restrictions are going into effect for those, because they weren’t as tightly regulated as wood stoves. I’ve heard good things about corn burning stoves, too, clean burning, high efficiency and low ash, but I don’t think there are many of them in this part of the country. Makes sense for the corn belt folks though.

Never been to Edmonton. We’ve toured a bit in the Maritimes, New Brunswick & PEI, beautiful. Also liked going to Grand Manan Island. Hang in there. It can’t stay that cold for too much longer.

-- Rob, Maine

Well, I could put up some pics of the terrible weather we’re enduring down here but don’t want to insight any kind of riot or worse… migration! We had to suffer through 60 F this morning and near 72 F in the afternoon. Whew. Makes a body shake just thinking about it, don’t it?

I know, I know, kind a like enjoying a steak in front of a starving family, eh? Sorry. Heh, heh, heh…

always,
J.C. in Hell

-- "Imagination is more important than knowledge" -- Albert Einstein

Y’all come down here to Tejas, and work with me (and teach me). Free room and board. I run my heater when it gets below 45 degrees! About that now!

-- North Texas

You know, I was just talking with my wife the other day on how warm it’s been here for the past several years. Used to be that here in Upstate, NY the first two weeks of January would be the coldest, with expected temps in the -20 to the -30’s. We haven’t seen that in a long time. As a matter of fact, I don’t think it’s dropped below zero but maybe once a year anymore. Global warming? I dunno. But one thing I learned form those cold temps is that you just don’t need to go outdoors when it’s that cold! We’d invite the son to dinner and have him grab the mail on the way in! We’re not old; just wise.

Syracuse, NY still reigns as the snowiest city with 65” accumulated so far…but used to be we’d see 120” as the norm!

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

as my gas attendant once said, “well, if we didn’t have winter EVERYONE would want to live here!”

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

LOL, going to be 70 here in Virginia today folks, maybe I’ll go play golf today LMAO, Ah, but the days of living in the great white north. Originally, I’m from on the Canadian Boarder in NY. DON’T miss the winters. Glad you Canooks are there and not me [GRIN]. Ah, but it’s all part of the great heritage of being in the north, and like he said Ms Debbie, heck everyone would want to live there.

-- Jim Hallada, Chesterfield, VA

It’s true, the North does have its perks especially during the summer. Down here in the swamp the month of August is hell on earth. There’s a reason the dermatologists call this part of the country the skin cancer belt.
95 F might not sound that hot but add 100% humidity and well, you get the picture. Rust never sleeps.

always,
J.C.

-- "Imagination is more important than knowledge" -- Albert Einstein

I will never complain about 40 degree weather again! God bless you poor souls.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/