Weather in your neck of the woods?

[Kenny B]

3 minutes ago, Vegan_Golfer_PNW said:

Ya was gonna go to the range this morning. Even with the heated bays the 15 mph winds with 40 mph gusts are not sounding pleasant. 

It was very bitter outside yesterday.  Our light over the garage/walkway went out and my wife wanted it fixed.  I wanted to wait until next week, but Nooooo!  Wouldn't be too bad, but it's not a bulb; it's an LED array and fixing it means removing the fixture from the wall, taking it apart and replacing the LED driver plate.  By the time I got it off the wall, my fingers hurt; temp was 10º with 10mph wind.  

[Tom the Golf Nut]

Rain, lightning and 52 degrees. Cold snap coming in for the weekend but then back into the 50's and 60's as we get closer to next weekend. 

The important part is that I have all my applications and such ready for the new country club. 

[Caddie1966]

Watched the temps drop 14 degrees in 40 minutes this past hour.  40-26 in Texas.  We are going down to 11 tonight.  It was 71 Saturday.  Wind chill now is 18 and will be near 0 when we hit the lows tonight.  Stay safe everyone. As I wrote this we dropped another 2 degrees to 24.  

[tony@CIC]

1 hour ago, Kenny B said:

It was very bitter outside yesterday.  Our light over the garage/walkway went out and my wife wanted it fixed.  I wanted to wait until next week, but Nooooo!  Wouldn't be too bad, but it's not a bulb; it's an LED array and fixing it means removing the fixture from the wall, taking it apart and replacing the LED driver plate.  By the time I got it off the wall, my fingers hurt; temp was 10º with 10mph wind.  

Did she at least hold the ladder for you?

[fixyurdivot]

2 hours ago, tony@CIC said:

Everyone affected by the 'bomb cyclone' stay safe! 

We'll be staying indoors here in FL. Temps are supposed to get down into the  mid to high 40's both Saturday and Sunday. I expect to see everyone around here wearing parkas. 

"Bomb Cyclones", "Bombogenesis" and "Explosive Cyclogenesis"... you just have to chuckle at the terms we come up with. Looks like a definite white Christmas for much of the nation... but maybe a bit more white than desired .  Stay warm and stay safe to everyone affected.

[fixyurdivot]

Where we are not .  Even when we were in Yuma for winter season, these temps always had me worrying about the heating system. We spent our first winter there and saw -27F and a week where the high temp was 0F. 

[Kenny B]

12 minutes ago, fixyurdivot said:

"Bomb Cyclones", "Bombogenesis" and "Explosive Cyclogenesis"... you just have to chuckle at the terms we come up with. Looks like a definite white Christmas for much of the nation... but maybe a bit more white than desired .  Stay warm and stay safe to everyone affected.

I bet you are glad you are not in MT right now!!

[Kenny B]

16 minutes ago, tony@CIC said:

Did she at least hold the ladder for you?

Yes, I was on a ladder!!  No, she had to stand on a step stool and hold the lantern while I removed it from the house... and put it back on.  My hands were so cold, but I only dropped the nuts/washers twice!!

[Vegan_Golfer_PNW]

Just now, Kenny B said:

  My hands were so cold, but I only dropped the nuts/washers twice!!

They have a pill for that these days. 

[GolfSpy_SHARK]

6 minutes ago, fixyurdivot said:

Where we are not .  Even when we were in Yuma for winter season, these temps always had me worrying about the heating system. We spent our first winter there and saw -27F and a week where the high temp was 0F. 

Oh wow....I remember being close to that in Great Lakes when I was there in February BC. But still close to that is not that.....

[Muckinfiddle]

We've got one to two inches of rain coming tomorrow and high winds up to 40 miles an hour. It says it's supposed to be up to 48°, but that's not going to be a good sign in this area because there's a pretty good chance that it's going to get too cold and the rain will be ice in the trees will be coming down. We would probably be better off with snow. Who else is dreaming of an powerless iced Christmas?

[fixyurdivot]

4 hours ago, Kenny B said:

I bet you are glad you are not in MT right now!!

That would be the safest bet you ever made.  I'm sure there will be a few times this coming summer where cold temps sound great and my fishing jones aches, but yea, MT right now is no bueno unless ice fishing, snowshoeing, or snowmobiling is your thing.

[fixyurdivot]

4 hours ago, Lacassem said:

Oh wow....I remember being close to that in Great Lakes when I was there in February BC. But still close to that is not that.....

Yea, I always chuckle at the wind chill warnings with air temps at -30... at some point it really doesn't matter .

[MacTourney]

What's a little blizzard when you can settle in with wine, cheese, crackers, and some very fine Italian olives.   Bring it on!

Edited December 22, 2022 by MacTourney

[GolfSpy_SHARK]

2 hours ago, fixyurdivot said:

Yea, I always chuckle at the wind chill warnings with air temps at -30... at some point it really doesn't matter .

Once ya get below 0 it all hurts

[sirchunksalot]

We're looking at some cold temperatures tonight. It's supposed to get down to 7° with around 15 mph winds. Makes me kind of glad that our winter shutdown starts tomorrow and I can sleep in. 

[chisag]

2 hours ago, sirchunksalot said:

We're looking at some cold temperatures tonight. It's supposed to get down to 7° with around 15 mph winds. 

... One of my winter playing pards and his wife had to go back to Chicago for Christmas and texted me the forecast for Friday with a windchill of 47* below zero! Gonna be sunny and 67* with a windchill of 67* here. 

[EasyPutter]

1 hour ago, sirchunksalot said:

We're looking at some cold temperatures tonight. It's supposed to get down to 7° with around 15 mph winds. Makes me kind of glad that our winter shutdown starts tomorrow and I can sleep in. 

This winter storm whateveryouwanacallit is forecast to arrive here Friday (tomorrow) morning.  The Regional Office notified all of us employees who telework to take home what we need as maximum telework is instituted for tomorrow blah blah blah.  Temps expected to plunge through freezing from an overnight rise to the low 40s in front of the cold wave when the plunge to single digits with 25 to 40 mph winds gusting 65 to 70 mph will happen before midday.  

Forecasters are comparing this forecast to our legendary Blizzard of '77 that paralyzed Western NY and the City of Buffalo for a week in January 1977 when snow drifts as high as buildings from that stalled front that sat over our Neck of the Woods for about 3 days.  I delivered newspapers through that one as the Buffalo News never stopped printing and I remember well icy roads without cars and scaling many house size drifts to put newspapers into mailboxes, some that required ducking underneath porch roofs that would require a ladder to touch on a normal day.  So similarities so far: I will be working despite the storm [check], and being home with family for the event [check], and people decide to drive in it will perish in their vehicles found by rescuers looking for vehicle antennas poking out of the snow as the only indication of where a vehicle might be... [     ] at this point remains to be seen.

Would rather be playing golf with those in other parts of the world      yeah it's going to be great!   ho ho ho!!!

[Kenny B]

6 hours ago, fixyurdivot said:

Yea, I always chuckle at the wind chill warnings with air temps at -30... at some point it really doesn't matter .

In winter 1962-63 as a sophomore in Fargo ND, I walked home from school in in below zero temps without a hat.  Even now my ears are very sensitive to cold; kinda like Martha in reverse with her heatstroke when temps get over 100º.

[Kenny B]

2 hours ago, sirchunksalot said:

We're looking at some cold temperatures tonight. It's supposed to get down to 7° with around 15 mph winds. Makes me kind of glad that our winter shutdown starts tomorrow and I can sleep in. 

Never got above 7º here today, but tomorrow is a heatwave!!  15º + I get to shovel the driveway so I can go to the store.

[funkyjudge]

12 hours ago, Muckinfiddle said:

We've got one to two inches of rain coming tomorrow and high winds up to 40 miles an hour. It says it's supposed to be up to 48°, but that's not going to be a good sign in this area because there's a pretty good chance that it's going to get too cold and the rain will be ice in the trees will be coming down. We would probably be better off with snow. Who else is dreaming of an powerless iced Christmas?

Our winter golf tour actually played today despite the storm that brought us more than an inch of rain which occasionally turned to freezing rain. There was a frost delay and it was only 34* F with winds of about 12-15 MPH at tee-off. Rain got progressively stronger, as did the wind, as the day progressed and 11 golfers who started the event (out of 96 entrants) did not finish. Today’s high temperature was 41* F here, and it is now in the upper 40s, but will be in the low 20s tomorrow, with a forecast for temperatures between the low teens to low/mid 20s for the entire Christmas weekend. All of this rain (it’s still raining and will be into early tomorrow) will freeze and make roads into big ice skating rinks.

With today’s rain, freezing rain and wind, scores were much higher than usual, even when weather is pretty bad. Nobody in the open (professional) division shot better than 78 when we usually see at least a few scores in the 60s, and the best score in the amateur division was an 82. We have a couple of plus-handicap amateurs and a few more with 0 indexes and none of those guys broke 83 (the guy who shot 83 is a plus-1 and he’s a member at the private club that we played today). One other plus-handicapper who is also a top NCAA Men’s golf coach was a DNF, so I suspect that he was having a rough day (well, we were all having rough days, but his must have been REALLY rough!).

 I play in the senior division and I shot an 88 but didn’t finish in the money (we get gift cards or pro shop credit except for the cash prizes for skins and closest to the pins). A few very high-handicap seniors shot between 92 and 95 and took all of the senior division net money. Still, there was not a single net score of par or better, which is the first event in my five years on this tour where I have not seen a single net score below par and no pro scores close to par—and we have played some events in pretty brutal conditions! I even won the season-ending tournament of the 2021-2022 tour season with a net 65 in rain that was blowing sideways at times, but it wasn’t as cold and the rain was not nearly as relentless as it was today.

My golf gear and multiple golf towels are currently drying out and the clothes that I wore today (except for my rain jacket and hat) just came out of the dryer after being washed. Nothing felt as good as a nice warm shower after getting out of those wet clothes (even a good FootJoy rain jacket didn’t keep my layers below it dry and my rain pants were leaking around the pockets and seams by the end of today’s round). It’s ironic how a shower feels good after getting wet all day!!!

Edited December 23, 2022 by funkyjudge

[funkyjudge]

27 minutes ago, EasyPutter said:

This winter storm whateveryouwanacallit is forecast to arrive here Friday (tomorrow) morning.  The Regional Office notified all of us employees who telework to take home what we need as maximum telework is instituted for tomorrow blah blah blah.  Temps expected to plunge through freezing from an overnight rise to the low 40s in front of the cold wave when the plunge to single digits with 25 to 40 mph winds gusting 65 to 70 mph will happen before midday.  

Forecasters are comparing this forecast to our legendary Blizzard of '77 that paralyzed Western NY and the City of Buffalo for a week in January 1977 when snow drifts as high as buildings from that stalled front that sat over our Neck of the Woods for about 3 days.  I delivered newspapers through that one as the Buffalo News never stopped printing and I remember well icy roads without cars and scaling many house size drifts to put newspapers into mailboxes, some that required ducking underneath porch roofs that would require a ladder to touch on a normal day.  So similarities so far: I will be working despite the storm [check], and being home with family for the event [check], and people decide to drive in it will perish in their vehicles found by rescuers looking for vehicle antennas poking out of the snow as the only indication of where a vehicle might be... [     ] at this point remains to be seen.

Would rather be playing golf with those in other parts of the world      yeah it's going to be great!   ho ho ho!!!

I lived through that blizzard of ‘77 (I’m from Lockport, and lived just west of Rochester by the 1970s).

My son, who now lives In Batavia, texted me at about 1:30 this afternoon, telling me that he was packed and getting out of WNY, headed south to southwest. We are meeting in Nashville for a huge family get-together in a few days (after I visit my wife’s family over the Christmas weekend, we are heading down there). Hopefully, everyone will be able to get to Nashville safely, as we have an Air BNB rental for nine people who are coming in from NY, PA, WV, and elsewhere in TN.

[Siamese Moose]

It was 42° when I went to bed last night. It's now -8° with a wind chill of -59°. It's hard to judge how much snow is here, as I live on a windy ridge, and there's lots of bare spots and drifts of 2 feet. I think the "official" count is 3". I did have to go outside this morning to put out the trash and recycling. I didn't do it last night due to the wind. I was afraid the cans would be blown over and everything scattered. The cans are currently nestled snuggly in a drift to secure them in place.

In 1980 I visited a friend in upstate New York (near Saranac Lake) for New Years. We experienced an actual air temp of -49°, but with absolutely no wind it was surprisingly endurable. We had a shirtless snowball fight around 1 AM.

[EasyPutter]

Here we go, 2 hours into the storm and power is out. 

 

[TylorJudd]

British Columbia is getting hammered right now. We had a -28 yesterday with a wind chill of over -40. Winds were above 80 km/h, three power outages. Another 20cm expected today. 

[Muckinfiddle]

11 hours ago, funkyjudge said:

Our winter golf tour actually played today despite the storm that brought us more than an inch of rain which occasionally turned to freezing rain. There was a frost delay and it was only 34* F with winds of about 12-15 MPH at tee-off. Rain got progressively stronger, as did the wind, as the day progressed and 11 golfers who started the event (out of 96 entrants) did not finish. Today’s high temperature was 41* F here, and it is now in the upper 40s, but will be in the low 20s tomorrow, with a forecast for temperatures between the low teens to low/mid 20s for the entire Christmas weekend. All of this rain (it’s still raining and will be into early tomorrow) will freeze and make roads into big ice skating rinks.

With today’s rain, freezing rain and wind, scores were much higher than usual, even when weather is pretty bad. Nobody in the open (professional) division shot better than 78 when we usually see at least a few scores in the 60s, and the best score in the amateur division was an 82. We have a couple of plus-handicap amateurs and a few more with 0 indexes and none of those guys broke 83 (the guy who shot 83 is a plus-1 and he’s a member at the private club that we played today). One other plus-handicapper who is also a top NCAA Men’s golf coach was a DNF, so I suspect that he was having a rough day (well, we were all having rough days, but his must have been REALLY rough!).

 I play in the senior division and I shot an 88 but didn’t finish in the money (we get gift cards or pro shop credit except for the cash prizes for skins and closest to the pins). A few very high-handicap seniors shot between 92 and 95 and took all of the senior division net money. Still, there was not a single net score of par or better, which is the first event in my five years on this tour where I have not seen a single net score below par and no pro scores close to par—and we have played some events in pretty brutal conditions! I even won the season-ending tournament of the 2021-2022 tour season with a net 65 in rain that was blowing sideways at times, but it wasn’t as cold and the rain was not nearly as relentless as it was today.

My golf gear and multiple golf towels are currently drying out and the clothes that I wore today (except for my rain jacket and hat) just came out of the dryer after being washed. Nothing felt as good as a nice warm shower after getting out of those wet clothes (even a good FootJoy rain jacket didn’t keep my layers below it dry and my rain pants were leaking around the pockets and seams by the end of today’s round). It’s ironic how a shower feels good after getting wet all day!!!

You broke my weather rule. No combined extremes...

My weather was supposed to be less than 1" of snow and then 1-2" rain. Of course, I got 5 inches of snow and then it started dumping buckets of rain. I have no idea what to do with my driveway now. It is a complete mess. It will be frozen hard by this evening.

[GaDawg]

Most of you guys are accustomed to the cold, but here in the deep south we are not. It's already reached the high of 20* for today with a windchill of 4*. We are not prepared for this weather.

[Bag Ratt]

Sunny and 55 today in Cali …

On 12/20/2022 at 7:59 PM, Kenny B said:

You live there!!  So, go play them... get an advantage!

 

[sirchunksalot]

1 hour ago, EasyPutter said:

Here we go, 2 hours into the storm and power is out. 

 

From what I've seen online, y'all are getting hammered up there. Stay safe. 

[GolfSpy_SHARK]

1 hour ago, GaDawg said:

Most of you guys are accustomed to the cold, but here in the deep south we are not. It's already reached the high of 20* for today with a windchill of 4*. We are not prepared for this weather.

Worst part is its dangerous. Buildings aren't equipped for daily cold down there or houses. Never mind snow plow companies or salting for ice.