CapturedNature Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I must say, the cold actually really hasn't bothered me as much as it used to in past years. Perhaps I'm just dressing properly but walking around Hartford yesterday and last night and going outside just now I wasn't freaking out trying to get inside. Actually makes me miss the brutal cold I felt up in LSC back in 2006-2007. Back when I went there in the 80s, you either took the long walk from Stonehedge over the library (the addition hadn't been built yet so it was an open deck) or across campus past the ponds. I think they have closer dorms now and you can walk through the library hall way so your exposure is a little more minimized but either way, you have great exposure to the north. I remember several times looking at the feeble sun and feeling no warmth from it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice Warrior commander Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Well my yard is fully snow covered. Biting winds.. It feels and looks like winter. Hopefully another inch tomorrow night followed by a cold W/E. 15F / -8F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 point and click for tonight seems kind of cold I dont think we will reach it Mostly clear, with a low around -9. Northwest wind 7 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Couldn't pull off back to back days of single digit highs. Max/min was 11/-10 today. Winds are beginning to increase so I'm not sure we radiate much tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Sebago is always notorious for freezing later in the season due to it's depth. 300ft+. It's the deepest lake in Maine. Many years it never freezes, Between Frye island and north towards the State Park ,The max depth is 315' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quincy Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Wind Chill Advisory up for much of SNE, including Boston and Hartford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Wind Chill Advisory up for much of SNE, including Boston and Hartford. Yea noticed winds picking up in NNE pretty good, a night fit for man nor beast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quincy Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Where's Tickle me Kevin? Euro says "what warm-up?" next week and then brings another blast of cold air by Thursday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Yeah, (and I'm sorry for being OT in a discussion about the cold) I agree some what with your points but I don't agree that midnight to midnight is more representative of an average 24 hour reading. While it does represent what occurred on a calendar day, I recall their being some validity doing it AM to AM to represent a meteorological day. As you pointed out, your afternoon high of -3 was negated by the previous nights temp. In my opinion that doesn't represent what happened during the day. You almost have to make note of it in your comments, which I do if my min was recorded the previous day. Anyway, just our opinions! Like you and others have said, it's important to remain consistent! I'm sure you enjoy having a long record going back to the 70s. I wish I had data going back a few more years but I was too young to start. Temp is up to 16° but should start heading down in the next hour or so (I have a hill to my west). My big problem with 7A-7A is the same as for stations using 4P-4P. When the obs time is near to that of the normal times of diurnal highs or lows, the obs can put a one day extreme into two days, two into three, etc. As one exanple, Farmington's coldest temp in 120 yr records was Jan. 20, 1994 with -39. Their 2nd coldest was -38 on 1/21/94, recorded at 7:01 on the 20th as the morning of the 21st was 10-15F less cold. And like you (and I suspect, most met hobby recordkeepers), I note when a daily high/low is outside the usual time, as I did yesterday. The afternoon -3 was the coldest afternoon max here since 2004. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I'm skeptical we hit BTV's -19F forecast low for tonight, as I'm seeing some high clouds overhead and the breeze is still fresh, but either way, another brutal night in NNE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I took a quick trip down to our local river, the Willimantic at Merrow Meadow. At this point the river is only moving slowly and has a chance to ice up. Other faster flowing areas of this river are ice free. Ice thickness here looks to be about 4-6" and it's seems that the river thawed last weekend as there are frozen blocks of pancake ice mixed with smooth uncracked ice: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 A beautiful but cold day in NNE... Warmer than yesterday's -60F wind chills, as today it was only -40F to -50F with the wind, lol. Those strong 40-60mph winds were transporting a lot of snow today, and you could even see the plumes of snow blowing around from down in town. I tried to capture some photos from town but didn't get anything good to come out. Pretty regularly these gusts would rip through and pick up snow off the forest floor and toss it way up into the air. When the temperature is in the negative teens, and you see winds strong enough to cause these waves of blowing snow around the mountain, you know its brutal in those wind gusts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Beautiful January day... but pretty freakin' cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey2002 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Brutal walking around campus today...not because of the cold but because everyone bi***ing lol, the wind at uconn is always nasty though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Winds were brutal here this afternoon gusting to 40, almost calm right now made for a nice lumber session from 430 on. Very dry, I find turning on the shower opening the door turning it all the way to hot and let it run for ten minutes really throws some nice moisture into the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Balmy 1.2F. Warmer than yesterday but the wind is worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 lol, the wind at uconn is always nasty though... What's your major? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsnow Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Coldest week in 17 years for nyc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Beautiful January day... but pretty freakin' cold. IMG_1901_edited-1.jpg Looks great up there PF, Im coming up Feb 4 for a few days with my wife, hope you can pile up so more snow before I come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N. OF PIKE Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 13f not a bad nite to take a walk, actually. with hat and gloves NBD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I'm skeptical we hit BTV's -19F forecast low for tonight, as I'm seeing some high clouds overhead and the breeze is still fresh, but either way, another brutal night in NNE. Shortwave is swinging through now, so I'm expecting clouds start to scatter back out after midnight. Might do our damage late when the winds try to decouple some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey2002 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 What's your major? Finance... have you taken the "Climate, Weather, & Environment" class? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Finance... have you taken the "Climate, Weather, & Environment" class? With Dr Seth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey2002 Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 With Dr Seth? Yeah, that's the one... how was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Yeah, that's the one... how was it? Meh almost all global warming based..radiation fluxes and stuff very little actual weather. More longterm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 1F...cloudy and even saw a stray couple flurries falling. Looks like there's some very weak echos making their way south down the Spine. Will definitely hold us from dropping too quickly this evening. If it clears out again later though, we should plummet like Oceanstwx said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted January 25, 2013 Author Share Posted January 25, 2013 Now tonight is brutal. This is the good stuff.. 7.7 currently..winds gusting to 37mph..Wind chills around -15-20.. This is when you get after it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Skiing at Wachusett with the wind and temp around 10F was interesting Kept the crowds low though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Temp stuck at.7.0F with quite the wind. Should drop in a bit Gunshot.from a tree a few minutes ago. Those sound scary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Temp stuck at.7.0F with quite the wind. Should drop in a bit Gunshot.from a tree a few minutes ago. Those sound scary Had one of those tonight while I was out with the dogs, scared the crap out of them. Tonight is awesome, missed this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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