Durn. Was out with the kids, the rain had stopped, next errand was getting the tree, then horizontal stinging pellets of hail. Maybe tomorrow.
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yesterday evening at about 5:30 is was 82 degrees here in south Texas, by the time we went to bed it was in the lower 40’s, before morning we had a hard freeze. Gotta’ love Texas, if you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute, it will change 
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left Paducah, KY at 11AM Saturday and 75 degrees. Got to Springfield, MO at 4:30 and 22 degrees with ice. Heading to Felton, CA to do XMAS with grandkids. Santa will deliver my GF in March 2017…hopefully.
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Yeah, but you guys get those Chinooks that sweep down along the Rockies and jump the temperature from -40°F to +40°F in a few hours. It didn’t take me long to figure out why all the motels had electrical outlets for each parking space.
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Yep, and the strongest chinooks can take the temps up to mid-sixties, and it can happen in less than an hour sometimes too. They aren’t all good though; some people (including my wife and daughter) get headaches before and during them, and that whole sweeping down from the rockies thing can result in some stiff breezes - ok, gales - that make it a bit less enjoyable than the temps would otherwise allow.
Edit: for those folks saying what the heck is a Chinook, that’s an indigenous word that loosely translates as “snow eater”. Caused by warm moist Pacific air getting forced up and over multiple mountain ranges, getting progressively dryer and warmer as a result.
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Also, as the air mass descends from altitude there is a compression factor that contributes heat.
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…which it turns out is ~3x as effective as the cooling it experienced on the way up the other side. That cooling wrings out most of the moisture too.
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Saw -21 F on the way to work this A.M. though I backed the car out of a heated garage and got out in parking ramp so hardly noticed it.
@buschtrent, where on the Mississippi? I assume not to far from me.
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Quad cities, IA
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32 Fahrenheit is 0 Celsius. They converge at roughly -40.
I’ve been at -20 Celsius, and that was cold enough for me.
We’re currently pretty nippy at the high teens F. I’m grateful that I’m in neither Ottawa nor Iowa.
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I know, right? However, this window faces S- S/W, so in the summer it can get hotter n’ hades in there. I do have a portable AC, which should help. 
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Hubby is in Fairbanks right now and it was 11* there today but only 1* in Idaho (where I am). Generally much colder there than here. Crazy weather!
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Felton, CA? As in “right next to Santa Cruz” Felton? Small world. I have a good friend who lives in Felton (and not too many people do).
Safe travels!
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At least you guys that get cold weather on the norm don’t have water lines buried right below ground level like here in Texas. 23 tonight and faucets running!
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Hit -31 degrees F the other day here in Idaho. Did my best to not leave the house that day!
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I have noticed somewhere around -20F the moisture in your nose freezes on the inhale. When nose hair becomes ice cicles and the seat foam in the car is as stiff as tire rubber I feel the same instinctual drive of self preservation that causes geese to fly south.
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Oh, man, that just gave me a flashback to northern Maine around 1990 at -25F. I walked outside and inhaled but it felt like my lungs constricted and I got almost no air in. When I recovered from that, I walked over to my car and could barely get my key to turn in the lock. I sat down on the seat but the foam didn’t give even a fraction of an inch. I put the key in the ignition and turned. I have never heard an engine turn that slow. I was stunned when it actually started.
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Hehe, yeah. The engine oil viscosity approaches that of peanut butter, and the dog immediately pees right on the deck outside the door. 
Remember those Samsonite luggage commercials where they throw one out of an airplane and it bounces? At those temps it would shatter like glass.
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Mustaches freeze at 10F 
I went to college in upper state NY and learned to tell temperature by which body parts would freeze and which ones would stop working (I can’t inhale at -25F).
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I come from the Northwest…Chinook has always been a native American tribe from around the Columbia river and there is a type of salmon named for them as well…“snow eater”? I’ve never heard that one. - Rich
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