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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | It was 25 below zero when I got up in the morning, and it is still 13 below. Perfect sunbathing temps. How about where you are? |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | -31 in Chisholm, MN this morning. Dogs weren't happy |
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| Wind chills in the negative 30 range. Been outside 5 minutes total today. Gonna go for a hike tomorrow, its supposed to be 5 with light winds. |
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| Also in Rhinelander, so same as Steve. One of the few advantages of being old is I got the right clothing for any weather. I went to YMCA this morning and a bunch of high school swim team members came as I was getting done with my workout. Hoody sweatshirts, jeans, hands stuffed in their pockets. Hope none of them had car troubles going home.
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| -22 at my house in the metro when I woke up. All the way up to -10 now. Spent most of my day visiting a number of our sites. Wind was howling last night, but not too bad today, with good clothes. |
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Location: SW Ohio | Was a balmy 3 deg with -5 windchill at 8 am. Forecasting 10-14" of the white stuff starting this afternoon. That's a huge amount for us in SW OH. |
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| They were off on their prediction relative to temps here in Rhinelander. Minus 36 at 8:00 AM. That is cold, no matter how you parse it. |
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Location: Duluth | -26 at my place on the river in Duluth friday morning, -23 today. At least the wind is down for now. |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | Minus 35 here in Hayward Saturday morning! Better than the snow and ice up to 1.3 inches some of the 235 million people are going to get to the south!!! |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | +2 here in SE Ohia on my porch. m |
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| Larry Ramsell - 1/24/2026 8:54 AM
Minus 35 here in Hayward Saturday morning! Better than the snow and ice up to 1.3 inches some of the 235 million people are going to get to the south!!!
Indeed, ice can cripple a region for days, even weeks. Look at northern MI a year ago. |
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Location: E. Tenn | Larry Ramsell - 1/24/2026 9:54 AM
Minus 35 here in Hayward Saturday morning! Better than the snow and ice up to 1.3 inches some of the 235 million people are going to get to the south!!!
Full scale panic here in East TN.. The 15" snowfall forecast for the weekend, (issued Wednesday), dwindled to a snow to sleet/freezing rain to rain, back to snow, and eventually a 0 degree low on Tuesday morning..
I took a stroll over to the local Walmart for grins..
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| Very cold, but balmy as compared to this place, Yakutsk, Russia. Don't know how they do it. Kdawg |
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Location: Brighton CO. | It had been really mild all winter in the front range of the Rockies half of December had highs in the 60's and my bird baths not even freezing at night. And a few very small snow falls. Well here in Denver we have a big Stock Show (Rodeo) every January and it's the coldest of the weather of the year and it's known as stock show weather. Well the stock show ends tomorrow and we got stock show weather yesterday highs in the upper teens today high of 18 and kick off of the football game tomorrow 15 and 14 by the end of the game. It's 10 degrees on our front porch and we have less then a inch of snow on the driveway from yesterday and last night. I like the four seasons and I just got new tires on my car so I'm good. |
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Location: PA Angler | 3* here with wind chill of -11. Looks like some ice is here. Can’t find a loaf of bread anywhere.
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| When you get weather that is outside normal, can be hard for folks. When I lived in the snowbelt of the U.P. people always assumed schools were closed a lot. But the Detroit Free Press did a comparison and downstate schools actually closed more often because of snow. The snowbelt communities invested in the equipment and manpower to deal with it. I followed my son's school bus out of our rural subdivision one day and I could see where the bumper on the bus was plowing snow. It was up to the bumper on my 3/4 ton Chevy pick up. But, light fluffy snow, so keep on trucking. Every one in the neighborhood had big, heavy duty snow blowers. Moved to SE Wisconsin and 6 inches of snow put folks in a panic. |
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Location: Selkirk, Manitoba | Cold up here, which is not really too out of the ordinary, (-34 C last night), but last week and the week before we had ice rain, then lots of snow, then more ice rain - which will mean a massive die-off of whitetails come this spring from starvation given they have to use too much energy to survive right now. Also will mean all our Hungarian (grey) partridge will be wiped out given they are not adapted to burrowing into snow like sharptails are - which also are going to be in tough with the crust and easy marks for coyotes. Wolves already expanding here and they and the coyotes are going to have a bonanza. Very unusual to get the mix of lots of snow, extreme cold and then a mix of a few really warm days and rain that create that ice crust. Frankly rain in Jan/Feb is a brand new thing that never happened in the past, but we've had it now a couple years in a row.
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| Angling Oracle - 1/24/2026 1:37 PM
Cold up here, which is not really too out of the ordinary, (-34 C last night), but last week and the week before we had ice rain, then lots of snow, then more ice rain - which will mean a massive die-off of whitetails come this spring from starvation given they have to use too much energy to survive right now. Also will mean all our Hungarian (grey) partridge will be wiped out given they are not adapted to burrowing into snow like sharptails are - which also are going to be in tough with the crust and easy marks for coyotes. Wolves already expanding here and they and the coyotes are going to have a bonanza. Very unusual to get the mix of lots of snow, extreme cold and then a mix of a few really warm days and rain that create that ice crust. Frankly rain in Jan/Feb is a brand new thing that never happened in the past, but we've had it now a couple years in a row.
Just talked to my sister in SE Alaska, they have a ton of ice. They have an old beater pick up they used to bring supplies from the dock to their place on two track. Putting chains on because all four tires spin. They have a tracked ATV but that can't haul propane tanks. They have never had so much ice. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | Last night jumped in the car to go get us some burgers for dinner (the temp read 17 degrees ) I get to the burger place and it's 6:00 P.M. and if you went to that place on a regular Saturday evening it would be mayhem, the lot was half empty and walked in no line and was out in no time. On the drive home no cars around the road was empty. A long the same lines my mom moved to Denver from Deer River MN. in the 40's my mom and aunt got up to go the high school and it was -20 so they bundled up walked to school got there and it was closed due to the cold so they went to the movies.
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Location: E. Tenn | North of 8 - 1/24/2026 1:31 PM
When you get weather that is outside normal, can be hard for folks. When I lived in the snowbelt of the U.P. people always assumed schools were closed a lot. But the Detroit Free Press did a comparison and downstate schools actually closed more often because of snow. The snowbelt communities invested in the equipment and manpower to deal with it. I followed my son's school bus out of our rural subdivision one day and I could see where the bumper on the bus was plowing snow. It was up to the bumper on my 3/4 ton Chevy pick up. But, light fluffy snow, so keep on trucking. Every one in the neighborhood had big, heavy duty snow blowers. Moved to SE Wisconsin and 6 inches of snow put folks in a panic.
Here in my neck of the woods, TDOT & VDOT do a pretty good job treating, and clearing interstates, federal, and state routes.. Locally however, snow removal is done with a fleet of Ford pickups, with a blade in front, and either a brine tank, or salt spreader in the bed.
Folks up north like to give us crap about our inability to drive in snow.. I found an article in the 1/7 issue of the Vilas County News Review quite amusing. It went to great length covering the difficulties in handling the heavy wet snow that fell on 12/28-29.
Heavy wet snow is what we get almost exclusivly down here... I can only recall one instance where we got fluffy dry snow. Add to it the hilly terrain, and yes, things are going to be pretty shutdown for a bit.
Anymore, when meteorological armaggedon is forecast, I just pour a cup of coffee (or some Crown Royal, depending on the time of day) and watch it play out.
Admittedly tho, I'm still trying to wrap my head around what the guy with 2-24 roll packs of toilet paper going through the check out at Walmart was going to do with it.
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| Regardless of where a storm happens, I've always been baffled by the emptying of store shelves. It's usually just a few days at worst, that you are shut in. Don't people have food in the freezer, cupboards and fridge? I could feed a family of 4 for weeks, without going to the store. |
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Location: E. Tenn | I don't get it either, (and at the risk of derailing this thread) but it's not only weather related events.. I distinctly recall the run on toilet paper when the tariffs were initially announced, even though 90% of the stuff is produced domestically. |
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| Must just be some sort of human panic thing, that prevents clear thinking. |
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| On the Arkansas Missouri border the temp was -5 at 6am. I had to wear my Stormy hat. The much bigger deal is the 6-8" of snow that effectively shuts down driving on these crazy Ozark rural roads. So everybody just stays home. We didn't have any runs on stores around here, but again, it's a rural area so not too many people in the first place.
A guy with a plow could make a fortune around here. Hell, an experienced guy with a Yooper scooper could make great money. |
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| Ranger - 1/25/2026 1:51 PM
On the Arkansas Missouri border the temp was -5 at 6am. I had to wear my Stormy hat. The much bigger deal is the 6-8" of snow that effectively shuts down driving on these crazy Ozark rural roads. So everybody just stays home. We didn't have any runs on stores around here, but again, it's a rural area so not too many people in the first place.
A guy with a plow could make a fortune around here. Hell, an experienced guy with a Yooper scooper could make great money.
Ranger, don't you still have your Yooper Scoop? |
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