bitterly COLD in Pittsburgh!

**Catlady711** · 12-21-2008, 10:32 PM

-3 here and I think the wind chill is -22 or so. And to boot I went out Christmas shopping and grocery shopping in that!!

**Karen** · 12-21-2008, 11:35 PM

We are supposed to get the wind and bitter windchills tonight, but I'm not gonna go out and check! We have had three days of snow, like one of my favorite old Christmas carols:

Snow has fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow
In the bleak midwinter, long long ago.

**Maya & Inka's mommy** · 12-22-2008, 03:24 AM

Bbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, to cold for my old bones.....

**davidpizzica** · 12-22-2008, 04:25 AM

At 5:00 this morning the temperature in the Pittsburgh icebox is three degrees! The winds are blowing at a 22 mph pace with gusts clocked at 28 mph!, making the wind chill -18 degrees! It's supposed to "warm up" to a balmy 19 degrees today which is stil too cold for comfort! There are also tons of school delays and a few cancellations and an advisory for high profile vehicles in the wind suh as SUVs, delivey trucks, and any car that sits high.

**chocolatepuppy** · 12-22-2008, 05:03 AM

Checking in at 6:00 am it's 3* and -17* windchill!

**Medusa** · 12-22-2008, 06:34 AM

Originally Posted by david p

At 5:00 this morning the temperature in the Pittsburgh icebox is three degrees! The winds are blowing at a 22 mph pace with gusts clocked at 28 mph!, making the wind chill -18 degrees! It's supposed to "warm up" to a balmy 19 degrees today which is stil too cold for comfort! There are also tons of school delays and a few cancellations and an advisory for high profile vehicles in the wind suh as SUVs, delivey trucks, and any car that sits high.

That's exactly what it was here last night before I went to bed. I have artificially lighted tall Christmas candles on my porch and they got blown over so many times that I finally gave up. Besides, it was too cold and windy to keep going outside to stand them up again. My son doesn't like to pack his heavy winter coat to travel because it takes up so much room in his suitcase but I told him that he has no choice on this trip home. The winds howled all night long. Poor little critters and homeless animals. I'm so grateful to have a warm home and that all my Fur Posse are safe and warm.

**Laura's Babies** · 12-22-2008, 06:44 AM

MY GOD! That is just TO cold!! I jsut could not handle that.. It is warm here...31* (compared to all of you)..

**davidpizzica** · 12-22-2008, 08:12 AM

Mary, Marigold won't have to worry, either. She's comfy and warm. My worry is for people that have animals outside, I pray that they are brought inside into a warm house and prayers to the ones that don't have a home in this weather that they find some kind of shelter.