@flyingcheesehead .... I wonder if you're gonna change your moniker to "Frozen Cheese Head"
This is one week I won't be griping about Texas winter weather.
Yeah, I might have to be FrozenCheesehead on Wednesday. I hope this is our coldest day of the winter, it's really pretty unusual to be that cold and sometimes we'll go a decade without a day like that. Really kinda prefer my winter highs in the +20s.
I wonder how this is going to affect flying around the affected areas, especially KORD.
And if any, ANY, GA is going to be flying.
I wouldn't hesitate to fly if I had a mission... But I won't go flying just to fly, like I used to. I've already pegged the VSI at +2000 fpm on a cold day in the 182, I don't need to do it again in the Mooney, 'cuz I could probably do that any day this week.
Calling for record cold here Wednesday. Wind chill around -50. After like -30 do you even notice the difference?
Well, yes, maybe... I do remember my freshman year in college, there were two days where the wind chill was -90. The dorms were built in the 60s so not particularly well insulated. There was about an inch of ice on the *inside* of the windows, our room was maybe 55ºF... You could see your breath in the lounges at the center of the towers, and in the "commons" area that connected the three towers, the outside walls were all glass and it was below freezing *inside*.
I think I still had to work (elsewhere on campus, in a server room) so I went out... Holy crap. I was bundled up in everything I had. Big fat winter coat, long underwear, jeans, windbreaker pants, etc... But as soon as I stepped out the door, it felt like someone had dumped a 5-gallon bucket of ice right down my back.
Not a fun time on the farm.
I remember you posting about a similar day a few years ago, and all the stuff you had to do. Definitely did not sound fun.
Not if you're comparing Celsius to Fahrenheit, lol. The coldest I've been was AB, Canada with -20 temps, wind chill to -35. It's always fun when the moisture in your breath freezes to your beard/mustache and melts when you walk back inside after 20-30 minutes outside, leaving you with a wet chest. Good times.
Yep... And when the boogers freeze inside your nose too.
At least it should stay in the high single digits long enough this afternoon to clear 8-10" of snow off the driveway before the temperature begins to plummet tonight. Current forecast shows the low tonight at -4ºF, and tomorrow's high of 0 will be at 6 AM before it continues to plummet throughout the day. Tomorrow night's low is forecast to be -25, Wednesday's high will be -14, and Wednesday night's low -29!
And then it's going to be above freezing this weekend... Probably long enough to melt everything, get everything wet, and then freeze it again Sunday night. That should be fun.
What's that, you say? Move south? Hell no! Our weather can be a pain in the ass, but at least it's not boring!
