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Winter 2015 - boom or snow job?

Re: Winter 2015 - boom or snow job?

Courtesy of the National Weather Service, here is your windchilll / frostbite chart:

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/winter/windchill.shtml

They also have a calculator there if you enter temperature and wind speed and it calculates wind chill.

Exposed skin can develop frostbite in 10 minutes at minus 25[SUP]o[/SUP] F wind chill.


They are predicting - 35[SUP]o[/SUP] F wind chill here for tonight....and then a shift in the weather and + 50[SUP]o[/SUP] F on Tuesday around noon.


Anyone with radiator heat need be especially careful, when this cold, in certain areas, water can freeze in the pipe so quickly that it can freeze faster than the temperature in a room drops to activate the thermostat to circulate the water. We learned that to our chagrin several years ago and now have one place under the porch where we have to run a space heater to keep the pipe from freezing there.
 
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Why don't you just insulate the pipe? Or better yet, reroute it or drain it during the winter.
 
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Also, this may be obvious, but windchill doesn't do anything to areas that are protected from the wind nor does it drop the temperature below the air temperature.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Also, this may be obvious, but windchill doesn't do anything to areas that are protected from the wind nor does it drop the temperature below the air temperature.
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It's not obvious to some, which is sad.

And while the last couple days have been colder than average, not bad. But then that wind hits and JeFFC. Overall, I can't complain about this winter too much. Rather mild by MN standards.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Also, this may be obvious, but windchill doesn't do anything to areas that are protected from the wind nor does it drop the temperature below the air temperature.
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It doesn't make the actual temperature any lower, but it does affect how fast something will cool off/freeze (I believe that's the case anyway... I think it has to do with not allowing the warmer thing to establish an envelope of warmer air around itself). That is, as you mentioned, if that something is exposed.
 
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Yeah, that it does. It's a gradient in a still system. That gradient is greatly diminished with turbulent movement of the air.
 
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Mt Washington was the 6th coldest place in the world a few hours ago. -11.4F when I woke up/ After the sun had been up for a bit. Wonder how cold it was in the dark!
 
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leswp1 said:
Mt Washington was the 6th coldest place in the world a few hours ago. -11.4F when I woke up/ After the sun had been up for a bit. Wonder how cold it was in the dark!
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Bottomed out at -12 at the Weather Center at UMass-Lowell - coldest morning since January 22, 1984.
 
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ScottK said:
Bottomed out at -12 at the Weather Center at UMass-Lowell - coldest morning since January 22, 1984.
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Brrrrr!! It was -11.4F after the sun had been up a bit here so no telling how cold it got.
 
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Lost hot water this morning. Happened for the first time last year. Don't think there are any burst pipes and I'm pretty sure that the culprit is a faucet in the garage.

Huzzah! Space heater near the garage faucet did the trick!:):)
 
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leswp1 said:
Brrrrr!! It was -11.4F after the sun had been up a bit here so no telling how cold it got.
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That's what it was at 8AM yesterday at my house. It'd been close to that for the past few mornings. It's a dry cold.
 
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leswp1 said:
Brrrrr!! It was -11.4F after the sun had been up a bit here so no telling how cold it got.
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You guys got the wind to go with it?, it was -7 here but the wind was cranking, dying off now. Suns out anyway
 
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we getting rain from this. looks like (at least they forecasting) the low will fly by west of us so the temps will reach up into the 50s tomorrow (nice range of 60+ degrees over 60hrs)
 
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Someone has a good imagination.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/capitalweather">@capitalweather</a> can you see Jefferson's face in the ice? (Rock Creek this am, on Taft Bridge) Happy Presidents' Day! <a href="https://t.co/c6xh5bBgBA">pic.twitter.com/c6xh5bBgBA</a></p>— Jenn W (@jenn_wurz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jenn_wurz/status/699280331514474497">February 15, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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