They're going the opposite direction, but we're ripping them over the equator and into it too. I'm not even sure which way my toilet water will flush down right now.
I'm glad I have 10"+ of pack because this cold would be doing a number on the root systems of my young fruit trees without it. 32F at 4" deep and 33F at 8" deep. So yeah, it looks like winter, but it's functional too.
lol…anytime 2 shortwaves don’t phase in our favor the new reason is a progressive pattern. I mean we’ve seen bigger Pac ridges or a more blocky atlantic, but what we have is anything but progressive.
MWN basically averaged a -30°F dew overnight while warming up to above 0° and they were only like 5kt this morning. Those really dry mountainsides radiated well and all of that snowsurface cold just kept draining into the valleys.
I’d rather be out in -25° and calm than -5° with 30mph winds. But yeah, this has still been impressive for rad cold. Anytime you get widespread -30s in NNE it’s impressive.