How cold is it where you are?

[Karen]

Parking Ban?

Our temps will seem balmy to you. Today it got up to 37F, but all this weekend and next week the night temps will be in the upper teens and low twenties. This is cold for us.

Yes, in these old New England town and cities, with streets laid out by following cow paths, dodging swaps, etc, long before civil engineering nd street planning was a "thing" end up banning on-street parking for storms, simply so they can plow safely. The streets are already much narrowed by the [previous storms' snowbanks, and they are running out of places to put the excess! Running errands today, I ended up waiting for 5 minutes as a guy in a Fedex truck stopped in the middle of the street, put on his flashers and delivered a package - thank heavens he apparently didn't need a signature! There was nowhere for him to pull over or off the road, and the road was down o=to one land of navigable space.

I got a call less than an hour ago, my own city, Waltham, is having a parking ban staring at ten p.m. Saturday night, but they at least list alternative places for folks to park if they need it!

[chocolatepuppy]

In my little town, they have street signs (that are up all year)warning you not to park on the street when there is any accumulation of snow.
This is because they will be plowing the streets.

[Karen]

The snow started falling a couple hours ago, we are supposed to get 12" to 14" or more, or less, depending on what station you listen to. There's not much wind yet, that's supposed to come later, and the storm will intensify overnight. The little birds (juncos and sparrows) cleaned off two plates of seed from late this morning, I put out more. I haven;t seen the mourning doves yet, they may be sheltering in the hedge until they have to eat!

Church tomorrow has been cancelled, so has a lot of everything else in this end of the state! The bigger weather news is after the storm, the temps are supposed to drop like a rock, it is now 21°F (-13C) but is supposed to drop below zero Sunday night into Monday, with winds making it feel like -25 to -35°F (-32 to -36C).

[chocolatepuppy]

5°F Feels Like -13° We has about 3" of snow today on top of the 14" we already had.
At least it was warmer earlier so the dogs got some play time.

[chocolatepuppy]

-5°F Feels Like -23° Luckily, no snow overnight!

[kaycountrygal]

Sunday Feb 15 2015
What a night! The wind blew hard (at times 50 mph near me) all night long and today to be 20 mph. The lights flickered but managed to stay on here but some are without power. At last we're to get SNOW and/or a mix Monday night and Tuesday. The high for the next four days is 28 or so. Right now it is 14 and with wind it feels like -2. We will not be outside very long with the little girls. George loves it though; he loves to run in the wind.

Later today I'll get a big bag of sunflower seeds for the birds. I have some but not enough. Hope everybody stays safe.... Kay in NC

[Karen]

Glad you are all safe! And that you still have power, that's always a worry with wind storms, no matter the temperatures.

It is still snowing and blowing here, hard too tell how much we have gotten, but it looks like the snow has reached the spot on the little tree where the trunk splits into 2 branches, so there must be at least about 4 feet of snow back there!

The intense cold has not hit yet, we are all the way up to 18°F(-7 C) out there!

[lizbud]

Sunday Feb 15 2015
What a night! The wind blew hard (at times 50 mph near me) all night long and today to be 20 mph. The lights flickered but managed to stay on here but some are without power. At last we're to get SNOW and/or a mix Monday night and Tuesday. The high for the next four days is 28 or so. Right now it is 14 and with wind it feels like -2. We will not be outside very long with the little girls. George loves it though; he loves to run in the wind.

Later today I'll get a big bag of sunflower seeds for the birds. I have some but not enough. Hope everybody stays safe.... Kay in NC

Indy had those high winds yesterday. Every time I opened the back door to let the dogs out, the wind nearly blew the back door off. I had to grip the doorknob
with both hands. The winds have calmed down today but it's still cold & no snow. 13 degrees, feels like 2 degrees.

I'm really over this whole Winter thing by now & can't wait for Spring.

[mrspunkysmom]

Well, it hit 8 degrees last night. it was 12 when I awoke. It's now 25. We get a repeat tonight. Most of us do not have winter gear. I do, but I'm strange.

School is in session but delayed. The students would get frostbite waiting on the school bus. Hopefully this extreme cold will kill off some of the fire ants. BRRRRR

It's a great day to burrow under blankets and watch old movies.

We might get more of the wet stuff.