Wow! It was cold here last night!

[Xringer]

This is the coldest I've ever seen it around here.. (Since 1965 when I moved here)..
I think the last time Boston saw temperatures like this, was about 60 years ago.


Needless to say, our last functional Mini-spit started to malfunction, yesterday at about 16:30..

Here's the local temperature map from this morning..


It's warming up now (11:55AM), it's up to 7 deg F.. Getting great solar gain!
Should hit 10 deg at 3PM.. I can try the mini-split again..
Woburn Hourly Weather - AccuWeather Forecast for MA 01801
Maybe get an hour or two of cheap heat..


I guess the era of -20F mini-splits is really here..

[pinballlooking]

I thought we were cold right now. Wow now that is cold.

[pletby]

Sounds like a nice day to me. Enjoy!

Glad it's warming up for you shortly.

[Xringer]

Originally Posted by pletby

Sounds like a nice day to me. Enjoy!

Glad it's warming up for you shortly.

I wish we had your weather tonight..
Winnipeg Hourly Weather - AccuWeather Forecast for Manitoba Canada

Mostly in the 20s? That's perfect for my Mini-Splits.. (Well, the one that's still working)..

The temp here is going down now.. It's 7.7 deg F
and that caused the Sanyo (was running @ 10F) to go from 480W to 1.2KW just now...
I decided to turn it off for the night..

[pletby]

Originally Posted by Xringer

I wish we had your weather tonight..
Winnipeg Hourly Weather - AccuWeather Forecast for Manitoba Canada

Mostly in the 20s? That's perfect for my Mini-Splits.. (Well, the one that's still working)..

The temp here is going down now.. It's 7.7 deg F
and that caused the Sanyo (was running @ 10F) to go from 480W to 1.2KW just now...
I decided to turn it off for the night..

Yes we are getting unseasonably warm here. I don't like it when the snow gets soft. Makes it stick to everything. Better cold and dry or just get on with the melt and have it over. I feel more comfortable with -15C or 5 than -5C or 23. Once you get close to freezing the humidity just cuts through me. I can dress for the cold and dry. We get that regularly here and we are ready for it. Much tougher for you there as you don't get this weather normally and have no need to be ready for it for the most part. We were in Louisville last month when they got a small snow that would've just seemed like a normal winter day to me and it pretty much shut down the city. We ate at the local Bob Evans the day after and enjoyed the place to ourselves for 2 meals. Then the locals began showing up again.

Like I said, it's unusual for them so they do the best thing to do in such cases and just stay home and wait for it to get better.

Sorry to hear you've got a breakdown. Not fun when the weather gets cold and your hardware has trouble keeping up. I can't imagine the rime icing, we hardly get any when it's as cold as you are as the humidity usually is so low.

[Xringer]

Originally Posted by pletby

Yes we are getting unseasonably warm here. I don't like it when the snow gets soft. Makes it stick to everything. Better cold and dry or just get on with the melt and have it over. I feel more comfortable with -15C or 5 than -5C or 23. Once you get close to freezing the humidity just cuts through me. I can dress for the cold and dry. We get that regularly here and we are ready for it. Much tougher for you there as you don't get this weather normally and have no need to be ready for it for the most part. We were in Louisville last month when they got a small snow that would've just seemed like a normal winter day to me and it pretty much shut down the city. We ate at the local Bob Evans the day after and enjoyed the place to ourselves for 2 meals. Then the locals began showing up again.

Like I said, it's unusual for them so they do the best thing to do in such cases and just stay home and wait for it to get better.

Sorry to hear you've got a breakdown. Not fun when the weather gets cold and your hardware has trouble keeping up. I can't imagine the rime icing, we hardly get any when it's as cold as you are as the humidity usually is so low.

We had deep snow last year. But it was DRY and lighter than normal..
So, it was okay to deal with.. Just hard to throw, if there was any wind, it would just blow-back into your face.. And under the hood of your parka.

It wasn't as cold last night..


At 6:30 AM, it got down to -3.5°F
Which is still pretty cold, to a Texas boy..

[Xringer]

Originally Posted by pinballlooking

I thought we were cold right now. Wow now that is cold.

Yeah, I think this global warming thing is going to keep on happening..
Last year, it was record-breaking and now we are doing it again..
But, this time.. It's without the super deep snow.. Almost no snow this time..
I've saved money on gasoline for the snow thrower this season..

I'm starting to think I should move to a new house with land suitable for a GSHP..
Blowing snow, with poorly executed defrost cycles and too dang cold temps aren't any fun,
when you are 70, and your bones feel like they are going on 90..

[Xringer]

Originally Posted by pinballlooking

I thought we were cold right now. Wow now that is cold.

I was just watching the local weather.. The weather girl says,
"We broke another record. Since it only climbed to 12 degrees today in Boston, that's a record low-high"..

I didn't hear her say how long they've been tracking record low 'high' daily temps.. But it was still pretty funny..


In Woburn, today: +11.1°F was the high, and -11.0°F was the low..

Is something 0.1°F out of calibration?

[celblazer]

Yea in NJ we were at near zero this weekend also, wih wind chills below zero most of it. Brrrr.

[Xringer]

Originally Posted by celblazer

Yea in NJ we were at near zero this weekend also, wih wind chills below zero most of it. Brrrr.

Yeah you got it made living near the water.. Look at that map up top,
the warm spot was on the tip of Cape Cod... Warm sea all around..