HIPPYVALLEY Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Relatively cold overnight temperatures this week with -10’s Friday night and single digits Saturday night, should set up epic pond skating for Sunday! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 7 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said: Relatively cold overnight temperatures this week with -10’s Friday night and single digits Saturday night, should set up epic pond skating for Sunday! Pond skaters Saturday falling in by Sunday afternoon near 50? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSC97wxnut Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Having gone to school at Lyndon, I sure remember a few cold days up there. January 94 was special, but February 93 had its fair share of cold days too. One day we didn't want to change out of shorts going to lunch as the old Wheelock dorm was about 1000 degrees on the 4th floor... That short run to the dining hall was pretty cold!Was also working security overnights at Burke in 97 and remember seeing -28 on the bank thermometer in town one morning heading home.That said, any time it gets below zero here in Newtonville, it's very impressive.Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 My P&C forecast is for -21°F here, I'm betting at least -35°F in Eustis saturday morning. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 17 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said: Pond skaters Saturday falling in by Sunday afternoon near 50? My p/c forecast said low of 4F Saturday night. If we hit 50 Sunday that will be impressive turnaround. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 I see a -79 windchill modeled at Katahadin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 13 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said: I see a -79 windchill modeled at Katahadin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qg_omega Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 1 hour ago, powderfreak said: Mansfield probably -35F and wind chills in -50s. I‘ve skied whiteface in those conditions, pretty much unskiable after a run Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qg_omega Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 1 hour ago, powderfreak said: Saturday is honestly a day when we think about operations and what lifts run… is it high speed with ride time less 7 minutes? Is there shelter at the top of a running lift? Do we only go to mid-Mtn? What’s the exposure for any mechanical/maintenance stops that may run 5-10 minutes and are fairly common at ski areas throughout a day if sensors or switches trip out? Open some lifts at noon when the 850s are about 10-15C warmer? It looks to come up fast Saturday from -38C to a balmy -25C lol. Theres a lot of things that can factor in and get discussed. I’ve been to whiteface where they closed the summit lift due to wind chills 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 worst part of the 94 cold snap was it flipped warm. -25 at dinner to rain the next day and 40s then back below zero. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 25 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said: Wonder what @STILL N OF PIKEthinks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 MWN has beat -100F 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Just now, dendrite said: MWN has beat -100F I think they’re talking about where people live though. Not 6200’ Mtn peaks 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Just now, Damage In Tolland said: I think they’re talking about where people live though. Not 6200’ Mtn peaks More people live on Mt Wash than the summit of Katahdin 1 2 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 There are only three times in U.S. records that the wind chill on the currently used scale appears to have hit -100°F. On January 16, 2004, New Hampshire’s Mount Washington Observatory, notorious for its harsh winter conditions, recorded a temperature of -41.8 degrees and a wind of 87.4 mph, leading to a wind chill of -102.6°F. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 “ Interestingly, the wind chill of -100°F degrees in McGrath wouldn’t have even qualified for an NWS wind chill advisory, Brettschneider noted. This is because the wind was only 7 mph at the time, and NWS offices in Alaska do not issue wind chill advisories or warnings unless the wind is expected to be sustained at 15 mph or more for at least three hours.“ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 It must have gotten pretty close to -100F windchill on MWN on the 15th of February, 2015. I recorded my fastest wind gust (55mph) and lowest temperature (-17F) in the same night. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 20 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said: There are only three times in U.S. records that the wind chill on the currently used scale appears to have hit -100°F. On January 16, 2004, New Hampshire’s Mount Washington Observatory, notorious for its harsh winter conditions, recorded a temperature of -41.8 degrees and a wind of 87.4 mph, leading to a wind chill of -102.6°F. Jan 04 was nasty. We were weenieing out over the obs back on WWBB. They hit either -45 or -46 for a low during that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 I saw -30 on a bank thermometer (always known for their accuracy) walking to school in Barre, VT in 6th or 7th grade. Stopped at Dunkin Donuts and got a hot chocolate and had the same spill experience as the poster above. A couple of years later heard a radio announcer say it was -40 in Randolph, VT. That was in the way to school too, the bus driver had the local country station playing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qg_omega Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Hummm, Whiteface earned the nickname Iceface for a reason. New York winters can be brutally cold, we’re talking colder than Antarctica, cold. During a cold spell in 2016, the summit of New York’s fifth-highest mountain once reached -114℉ with wind chill. https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/blogs/vote-up/2016/02/15/youre-cold--114-summit-ny-mountain/80406860/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 11 minutes ago, dendrite said: Jan 04 was nasty. We were weenieing out over the obs back on WWBB. They hit either -45 or -46 for a low during that. I remember it being the first time I ever saw schools in SNE being closed due to cold. I know it had happened way back in the day but never that I had seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STILL N OF PIKE Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 with those wind chills to ski resorts wonder/ take into consideration what would happen to skiers if a lift had a power issue and stopped during that with folks on it , it probably seems silly to some , or maybe that is covered in the “waiver “ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoth Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 3 hours ago, STILL N OF PIKE said: Perfect for a day of family skiing "I proclaim this the Griswold family ski vacation. Isn't Stowe beautiful, Audrey?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rimetree Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Still have fond memories of skiing Saddleback some time in the mid-eighties on a day that chased most people off the mountain. Wind chills were certain below zero at the base and well below up high. I loved being out in it though and then we had some nice squalls blow in later in the afternoon. At one point it was just me and a ski patrol riding up the T-bar to the summit. They were probably worried I'd get in trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoth Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 35 minutes ago, MarkO said: It must have gotten pretty close to -100F windchill on MWN on the 15th of February, 2015. I recorded my fastest wind gust (55mph) and lowest temperature (-17F) in the same night. Sadly there was a hiker from NY who froze to death that day trying to do MWN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 2 hours ago, cleetussnow said: I skied in -30 at Stowe in 2018. The wind so bad we could not ski at the summit, so we had to stay on the resort side and ski there only all weekend. It was bad. I had a charity ski race to be in otherwise I would have stayed home. I wore my snowmobile gear and that mostly worked. Snowmobiling at twin mountain in I think it was 94. Came back late from the bar and decided not to put the sleds on the trailer. Plugged in the block heater on the truck and went to bed. Next day you couldn't turn over the snowmobiles or the truck. Figured we could just muscle the sleds onto the trailer. My brother drops the front ski on his privates between the rail and the bed. Not pretty... 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 11 minutes ago, Hoth said: Sadly there was a hiker from NY who froze to death that day trying to do MWN. I remember hearing about it a day or two later. Tragic event, but "Where You'll Find Me" was a good read about her ordeals. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxWatcher007 Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Can't wait for the weenie NAM and HRRR runs that show -20 in Hartford...or the models moderating the cold by 30 degrees 24 hours out to keep the futility theme going. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 After a relatively mild winter this will catch the homeless population off guard. Not good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nova737 Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 So am I the only one crazy enough to intentionally want to go outside just to experience such cold in person? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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