Not A Polar Vortex, Could Have Fooled Me (Jan 2015)

[runco]

A year ago, I remember we had several vortex posts.  Well this is a new year, but this is not a post on a Vortex.  Weather man says this is just an old fashioned cold front.  Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!  Its like 12 degrees here with a good 20 MPH wind.   Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!  I don't know what the difference is, its just Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr cold here!

 

Whats your reading?

[TrickyNicky]

10 here in Nashville according to the iphone. It's going to dip down even lower to about 7 or so before dawn. I better put out some kind of shelter for the complex cats that are roaming around. I saw some younger ones a few weeks ago and it would be a rough night to be outside.

[2.ooohhh]

All I know is it's cold as $#!% here now, and I have to go to east TN tonight for work where apparently it's also cold as $#!% so I can only guess that I'll be an ice cube by dawn.

[vontar]

This morning in Oak Ridge.

 

 

We are having a severe snow storm in East TN. I managed to brave the cold(31) and storm long enough to get this picture. By all means, don't go outside. Due to the amount of snow we have received it has been difficult to get an accurate measurement. I am afraid I won't be able to attend work today. ‪#‎EastTNBlizzard‬

 

 

Urgent request for sherpa's, dog sleds, Siberian Huskys, Alaskan Malamutes, and Alaskan Huskys ‪#‎EastTNBlizzard‬

Edited January 8, 2015 by vontar

[2.ooohhh]

 

We are having a severe snow storm in East TN. I managed to brave the cold(31) and storm long enough to get this picture. By all means, don't go outside. Due to the amount of snow we have received it has been difficult to get an accurate measurement. I am afraid I won't be able to attend work today. ‪#‎EastTNBlizzard‬

 

 

Urgent request for sherpa's, dog sleds, Siberian Huskys, Alaskan Malamutes, and Alaskan Huskys ‪#‎EastTNBlizzard‬

 

Sounds like my office mate who every time I complain that it's cold tells me about his years stationed in Adak, AK like here isn't cold, but he's yet to take me up on wearing a set of OR scrubs to lunch down the block for just an hour to see what it's like.

[Oh Shoot]

This morning in Oak Ridge.

 

 

We are having a severe snow storm in East TN. I managed to brave the cold(31) and storm long enough to get this picture. By all means, don't go outside. Due to the amount of snow we have received it has been difficult to get an accurate measurement. I am afraid I won't be able to attend work today. ‪#‎EastTNBlizzard‬

 

 

Urgent request for sherpa's, dog sleds, Siberian Huskys, Alaskan Malamutes, and Alaskan Huskys ‪#‎EastTNBlizzard‬

 

Where is this snow storm? Haven't seen a flake here next door to you. This all happen briefly this am? I was up at the crack of 11.  Did it lay in OR?

 

- OS

Edited January 8, 2015 by Oh Shoot

[vontar]

What you see on my wipers is about as much as we got.  Very difficult to measure.

Edited January 8, 2015 by vontar

[Pain103]

Sounds like my office mate who every time I complain that it's cold tells me about his years stationed in Adak, AK like here isn't cold, but he's yet to take me up on wearing a set of OR scrubs to lunch down the block for just an hour to see what it's like.

 

 

  You shouldn't try to lure the poor fellow into your doctor/patient fantasy. :rofl:

[z0mbies fear me]

I know it was way too cold this afternoon to be working on a broken water line (while live) in Johnson City.

[2.ooohhh]

The cold still air makes for a great view though.

[c.a.willard]

I fly to San Antonio for three days tomorrow morning, wish i could have left yesterday.  Should be around 40 by the time i get back.  

[enfield]

Back in the old days, before 24 hour news channels, we did't have polar vortices. We just called it winter.

[hipower]

Don't care if it's polar or not. It's cold. And windy!

 

Wind blew a wooden rocker off my front porch about noon. I stepped out long enough to take about 6/8 steps both ways to wedge it back in place, and that was enough for me.

 

I'm not even supposed to set foot out of the house for the next few days. Doc's orders. And more importantly and dangerous to ingnore...wife's orders!

[analog_kidd]

Last year, we had a guy at work that was always giving things funnier names. He called the Polar Vortex the "Arctic Swirly". That's what everyone there calls it now.

[glowdotGlock]

I've been in Illinois today. Woke up to -7°. I'm back in TN now to a toasty 5° says the dash in my Pete. I am going to take a nap on the Goodlettsville exit in front of the big grocery warehouse. Stay warm.

[runco]

Well its 7 here.

[vontar]

I saw 8 degrees here, but we are back up to 9 now.

[RED333]

I was up at 5:00 AM, temp 4*F, all my chickens, dogs and cats made it OK.

Now we did have most of the cats and dogs inside(dad burn it) but as long as they did not make a mess I am OK with it.

No messes I have found yet.

Hope all yall had no worries last night.

[tennesseetiger]

Yea...I'm not sure this is just a cold front haha wind chill was -12 when I woke up.

[hipower]

It was a brisk 5 when I let Molly out for her morning run.

[2.ooohhh]

Temp was reading -17 at 12k feet on the way back from Knoxville. Wondering how much will change over the course of the day. Still made for pretty views and turbulence free flights though!

 

 

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Edited January 8, 2015 by 2.ooohhh

[Dirtshooter]

How does this compute with the global warming groups?? You come and stand at my back door at 4 a.m. at 4 degrees and tell me we have global warming. You will beg to come and sit in front of my Ashley insert!! Ya'll stay warm.

Edited January 9, 2015 by Dirtshooter

[hipower]

How does this compute with the global warming groups?? You come and stand at my back door at 4 a.m. at 4 degrees and tell me we have global warming. You will beg to come and sit in from of my Ashley insert!! Ya'll stay warm.

Oh this, it's just a temporary localized, seasonal, weather pattern. It's going to melt us all down very soon.

[E4 No More]

How does this compute with the global warming groups?? You come and stand at my back door at 4 a.m. at 4 degrees and tell me we have global warming. You will beg to come and sit in from of my Ashley insert!! Ya'll stay warm.

This is why they now call it "Climate Change."

[runco]

Temp was reading -17 at 12k feet on the way back from Knoxville. Wondering how much will change over the course of the day. Still made for pretty views and turbulence free flights though!

 

 

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