I live in Montana where it is COLD! But when I return to California, I freeze my donkey off. The high humidity and mid 30°f temps are indeed cold. Stay warm Brig. Stay warm Randie
It was almost 80 degrees today where I reside. I won’t be having hot cocoa until the weather cools down. It just doesn’t taste right when it is hot outside.
Night before last my girlfriend’s furnace went on the fritz (did you know that newer furnaces have catalytic converters? I didn’t, but the one in her furnace stopped working, and so did the furnace.)
Which led to a rousing game of find the Khat (finding her other cat, Tomathy, is easy… look down and there he is) and heading over to my place.
The temperature was a cozy -9, with a nice high windchill.
We left water trickling to keep her pipes from freezing, and good thing too – her landlord found an icicle under the bathtub tap.
Her furnace wasn’t up and running until 5 PM the next day.
I made her cocoa with chili and cayenne peppers, to get her warmed up.
Current temp at 4am in Des Moines is -12F with a wind chill of -37F … forecast was for us to hit -16F air temp (putting wind chill below -40F unless the wind gusts ease up), see how close we get. While driving to lunch, the humidity from my breath wasn’t just fogging up the inside of my windshield, it was actually freezing into frost!
It is a winter without rain, thus far. It is rather shocking. The day temps have been high, and the night temps cool. I think the Fall is dragging its feet (we have nice fall weather here) and winter is dragging its feet. I drove from Central Calif. to SoCal…. and I’ve never seen a more parched landscape in Jan. before! The whole state is brown when it ought to be green! Yikes.
Yes, we don’t have winters of snowy, bone chilling temps. We are fortunate. We often complain about our weather but have no right to. I am feeling for yous who live in the upper East right now… and my people in Canada… ! I am sorry for that winter blast! Sheesh!
Those are the Duke Energy plant’s smoke stacks… I’ve never heard them called horns… but I like it, Scott!
And yes, the seagull is frozen. Give him a nudge and he’ll fall over stiff!
Before the upgrades about 10 years ago the smoke was often white when they were burning wood chips, and a breeze off the Bay would make the smoke almost horizontal and curly, opposite like Goats horns.
We used that as a land mark coming in from sea in 1971 on the fishing boat I was on, and then that set of stacks could stink like sulfur when they burned some crude diesel fuel.
The Canadians make fun of our sweaters because we call them snow birds, and their tuks never caught on here. I’m treading on thin Ice, I grew up on the N foot of Mt Rainier, Western Washington where a fair day is a California winter day, and our foot ball was like theirs, at 1 3yo I saw a foot ball, you carried! How odd these Americans!
It’s fun for us Canadians when we visit you Californians in winter. We laugh at your sweaters, you laugh at our shorts. Good times, good times. 🙂
I see the horns of the Duke Devil in the background!
Seaside or Monterey?
It’s been quite nippy on my motorcycle recently…
And where is the rain?! It’s been so dry this year…
I’m pretty sure that seagull is frozen to that bench 🙂
I live in Montana where it is COLD! But when I return to California, I freeze my donkey off. The high humidity and mid 30°f temps are indeed cold. Stay warm Brig. Stay warm Randie
“Crisp January air”? What is it, 60°?
I have a co-worker who runs here space heater year-round. Even in summer.
This morning here in S’toon when I went out to walk to the store to get groceries it was -33C/-28F, wind chill -48C/-54F.
The gull on the bench has been frozen solid for days.
At least she’s wearing a hat.
It was almost 80 degrees today where I reside. I won’t be having hot cocoa until the weather cools down. It just doesn’t taste right when it is hot outside.
Night before last my girlfriend’s furnace went on the fritz (did you know that newer furnaces have catalytic converters? I didn’t, but the one in her furnace stopped working, and so did the furnace.)
Which led to a rousing game of find the Khat (finding her other cat, Tomathy, is easy… look down and there he is) and heading over to my place.
The temperature was a cozy -9, with a nice high windchill.
We left water trickling to keep her pipes from freezing, and good thing too – her landlord found an icicle under the bathtub tap.
Her furnace wasn’t up and running until 5 PM the next day.
I made her cocoa with chili and cayenne peppers, to get her warmed up.
The Auld Grump
Current temp at 4am in Des Moines is -12F with a wind chill of -37F … forecast was for us to hit -16F air temp (putting wind chill below -40F unless the wind gusts ease up), see how close we get. While driving to lunch, the humidity from my breath wasn’t just fogging up the inside of my windshield, it was actually freezing into frost!
Squiddies…
It is a winter without rain, thus far. It is rather shocking. The day temps have been high, and the night temps cool. I think the Fall is dragging its feet (we have nice fall weather here) and winter is dragging its feet. I drove from Central Calif. to SoCal…. and I’ve never seen a more parched landscape in Jan. before! The whole state is brown when it ought to be green! Yikes.
Yes, we don’t have winters of snowy, bone chilling temps. We are fortunate. We often complain about our weather but have no right to. I am feeling for yous who live in the upper East right now… and my people in Canada… ! I am sorry for that winter blast! Sheesh!
Those are the Duke Energy plant’s smoke stacks… I’ve never heard them called horns… but I like it, Scott!
And yes, the seagull is frozen. Give him a nudge and he’ll fall over stiff!
How come Canadians make fun of our sweaters?
Before the upgrades about 10 years ago the smoke was often white when they were burning wood chips, and a breeze off the Bay would make the smoke almost horizontal and curly, opposite like Goats horns.
We used that as a land mark coming in from sea in 1971 on the fishing boat I was on, and then that set of stacks could stink like sulfur when they burned some crude diesel fuel.
The Canadians make fun of our sweaters because we call them snow birds, and their tuks never caught on here. I’m treading on thin Ice, I grew up on the N foot of Mt Rainier, Western Washington where a fair day is a California winter day, and our foot ball was like theirs, at 1 3yo I saw a foot ball, you carried! How odd these Americans!