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OwenChristensen
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2014 07:46am
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I can't take it anymore. I've always liked winter , but this one, here anyway , northern , MN, is real tough. I like snowmobiling if it's above ten deg. or so, but it seems that when I could go, it's been too cold. If I was at the cabin, I'd like it there. I like a wood fire and I'd even like to go out and cut wood. Woods work in the cold is actually fun for me. If I was living at the cabin it would be all better.
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Gregjman
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2014 07:55am
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It's been cold this year. I'm pretty sick of being shut in. I go ice fishing a lot but it seems like even that has fell off for me this year.
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Rossman
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2014 09:19am
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Yes, very cold this year for sure. I kind of like it, as when it goes back to more seasonal temps, it feels positively warm and balmy!
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Dillio187
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2014 09:52am
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I'm with you Owen, I'm ready for spring. Hopefully in about 45 days we will start seeing some changes in the weather!
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MJW
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2014 10:20am
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15 degrees here in the Ozarks this am with wind gusting to 30 mph and a wind chill of below 0.
Thank God there is no snow...
Yesterday it was 60 degrees and it will be back to 50 tomorrow. 
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bldginsp
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2014 10:29am - Edited by: bldginsp
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60-70 degrees sunny and clear here in California, weeks on end, no change in sight. But we are trembling in our boots- if this keeps up we'll have one of the worst droughts on record, with severe forest fires, farmers going bankrupt for lack of water, etc.
But it is truly amazing for January. We usually have some nice days between storms, but this is bizarre.
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rayyy
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2014 04:21pm - Edited by: rayyy
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This winter would have fit in nicely with the winters we had back in the 60's and 70's.Extremely cold and lots of snow.I got rid of my snowmobiles back in the early 80's because we never got enough snow to run them any more.
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2014 04:58pm
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I hear ya, Owen  Snow is good....extreme cold,  not so much!
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ErinsMom
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2014 06:58pm
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From the not so warm NE TN (low tonight 9degrees F), I don't know how ya'll do it in the north. With the large volume of snow, wind chills, and long winters, I must say "my hat's off to you"! Of course, this is all I have ever known and I'm sure the same is true to you.
STAY WARM AND DRY!!!!!
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silverwaterlady
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2014 07:21pm
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It helps me to know that both my siblings live in S FL and have invited us to spend winters with them. And they have been invited to spend summer in Canada at the cabin with us to get away from the heat and humidity. Retirement can't come soon enough for all of us!
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OwenChristensen
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2014 08:28pm
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You didn't here me complain about the snow, just the cold. The snow covers us like a white cozy blanket. It covers the rocks and brush and with our powered sleds , we can explore swamps, lakes and backcountry that is sometimes impossible to get to. Some like skiing and other winter sports even more than any summer hobby. BUT I have thin blood, only comfortable in my warm clothes down to about five below.
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hattie
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2014 09:50pm
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We had better hurry up and get some snow here or we're going to be in for some serious water shortages this summer. The locals are starting to worry.
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OwenChristensen
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# Posted: 22 Jan 2014 07:27am
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I feel sorry for you people in a drought. It seems that when you are dry we are wet, well not wet , but white.
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hueyjazz
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# Posted: 22 Jan 2014 12:24pm
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When I open the door up this morning to let the dog out it was -3 F before the wind chill here in Upstate NY.
The dog turn and looked at me with the"you don't expect me to go out there do you?" look.
When I conviced her, I did; she paid me back by taking two steps, a quick whiz and then flew back into the house.
Now the nationwide freeze has yielded a propane shortage????
Somehow I bet you can still get it but it will cost more. Funny how that type of shortage works.
We own the better part of one of the Great Lakes. We are willing to trade water for heat.
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MJW
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# Posted: 23 Jan 2014 12:18pm
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9 degrees here this am with wind chill in the -15 to -20 range.
High today 15, low tonight 3.
I mean, damn, we are 30 miles from the Arkansas border...aren't we still in the south?
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 23 Jan 2014 02:01pm
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BRRRRRRRRRRRRR.........Holy buckets.....it"s a cold one for sure! -9F. right now at 1pm. GRRRRRRR..........
Quoting: hueyjazz Now the nationwide freeze has yielded a propane shortage???? Somehow I bet you can still get it but it will cost more. Funny how that type of shortage works.
Just bought more here in Wisconsin. Paid $2.15gal/cash on delivery price. Ouch, painful, but after reading about a shortage, maybe I'm glad that is all it was
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Just
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# Posted: 23 Jan 2014 04:27pm
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just got a load today $ 1.05 a liter . Thats about 4 $ a gal. US
last month it was 79 cents
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MJW
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# Posted: 23 Jan 2014 04:39pm
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Thought some of you might appreciate this.
I sure do...
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PatrickH
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# Posted: 23 Jan 2014 06:59pm
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Schools where closed again today car said -16f this morning and the wind was brutal when I hit the garage door it just sat there for a minute I laughed tomorrow suppose to be in the 30's then sub arctic again it is getting old.
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 23 Jan 2014 07:30pm
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Our temperatures are fairly typical for the time of year. But like bldginsp we are way too far in the direction of too little precipitation. Been in a drought for a few years now. Still able to drive all 4 miles of the FR from the highway to our cabin. In a normal year the last 3 miles would have been in snow too deep to think of driving since mid December. Looks like late spring.
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OwenChristensen
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# Posted: 23 Jan 2014 08:44pm
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It's now ten below 7:30 pm Thurs. headed for a warmer day tomorrow. It will be nice, mid twenties, then dropping to twenty below Sun. again. Cold most of the week. I mean really cold.
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tnky03
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# Posted: 23 Jan 2014 08:54pm
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This evening it's a bitter 7 degrees here in central KY, feels like -6. Ah yes, propane shortage... of coarse just as we are getting low. When I called to check price was told $3.69 with a 10-14 day wait time, great. Have a kerosene heater for back-up, but so hope we don't have to use it, hate the smell. Will plan for woodstove before next winter, LOL! Hurry up, Spring!!!!
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ErinsMom
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# Posted: 24 Jan 2014 05:57am
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NE TN this morning is a very cold 4 degrees F. with a low later this week of 1 degrees not counting wind chills. My patients are cancelling right and left and I don't blame them. We've had several patients to ER with frostbite and/or hypothermia! We are just not used to this!
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Martian
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# Posted: 24 Jan 2014 07:59am
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Last Sunday, I was soaking up some vitamin D while splitting firewood. It was close to 70F. Yesterday morning, it was 5F with a high of 15F. Today it is 10F, but on its way to the mid-40's, and will be in the upper 50's this weekend. That rollercoaster really makes the cold feel even colder!
Tom
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OwenChristensen
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# Posted: 24 Jan 2014 08:23am
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Tom, I'll take a rollercoaster. I'd sure like a day to work outside.
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Martian
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# Posted: 24 Jan 2014 08:35am
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Owen, I'm having to arrange my work schedule around the weather, that's for sure! With temps in the upper 50's, I'll be working this weekend. Monday's forecast high...22F.
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old243
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# Posted: 24 Jan 2014 09:59am
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Nice and sunny this morning was -3F this morning , sw Ontario. We have had one of our old fashioned winters this year. We are in the lee of the great lakes so depending on wind direction and if the lakes are frozen over. we can get a lot of snow. I would guess 18 inches on a level field . Much more in my yard and driveway. I have a tractor and snowblower and lots of time . So it gives me something to do. At least there no mosquitoes around. We have a good wood stove and lots of dry wood. Quite comfortable. old243
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creeky
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# Posted: 24 Jan 2014 07:10pm
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It's been an evil cold winter. I used all my split wood up before xmas. Thankfully I had some good sort of dry lengths ready to go. And the chopping does wonders for the physique.
Cashier at the grocery store said the farmer's almanac is calling for a hot summer. bring it on.
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OwenChristensen
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# Posted: 24 Jan 2014 07:19pm
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I wouldn't go that far.
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toofewweekends
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# Posted: 24 Jan 2014 07:37pm
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Folks, gotta come north to warm up. +45 and sunny in Anchorage today. Looks like early May instead of late January.
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