Arctic Hounds Unleashed: Long Duration Late January Cold Snap

[Damage In Tolland]

13 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

ORH did indeed tie the record low max of 10F in 1934. Kind of a weak vulnerable record but tied nonetheless. 

It’s always amazing to me how often our highs and lows are almost dead nuts on -0.7 here and 0 there and 10.3 here and 10 there for high. Except of course in zr and MLK winter storms 

[Ginx snewx]

2 hours ago, Roger Smith said:

Has there been much mention in this thread of the Feb 1934 cold records? Today's record low max at NYC is 16F set in 1934. December 1933 had been very cold but January 1934 up until this event had been near average. Then February produced record cold averages and extremes. The strongest of these arrived on Feb 8th with a 1050 mb high over Ontario. By morning of the 9th it was -15F near the coast and -30 to -50 F further inland. I believe both Saranac Lake NY and Bancroft Ontario (150 miles west of Ottawa) had lows near -52F. Lake Ontario froze over completely that winter. Toronto had an interval of 36 hours below zero F and a low of -21F on Feb 9th, NYC was -15F. So I wondered what data there might be for New England. A second record cold spell arrived in late February but it was not that extreme, about like today's values. 

2015 broke our 34 records all month

[Damage In Tolland]

No idea when it’ll hit freezing again here. Certainly will be longest stretch since I’ve lived here. It’s been something like 7-8 days  since it hit 20

[kdxken]

Enough of the cold. Sign me up. 

 

[kdxken]

32 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I love this column from the Gardner News.    
I know the writer but who knows how accurate any of the temps mentioned were 

https://www.thegardnernews.com/story/news/2004/01/16/the-chill-winter-in-gardner/11270366007/

That's wild that the newspaper has survived this long.

[Ginx snewx]

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

Yore

Look forward to these from 2015

[HoarfrostHubb]

25 minutes ago, kdxken said:

That's wild that the newspaper has survived this long.

It’s a ridiculous rag at this point.  Somehow they still put one out 6 days per week.  We used to get it here until 10 years ago or something.  My mother in law still gets it even though her eyesight doesn’t work well enough. It’s only like 4 pages long. 

[mreaves]

4 hours ago, powderfreak said:

Is that 128F by NYC?  lol.  I’m assuming it’s two sites next to each other.

It’s @MJO812 police car after one of his big Italian lunches. 

[Snowedin]

One of our pipes is leaking in the bathroom but thankfully it’s just a few drops for now. I’m probably gonna have to go out and knock some of the ice and snow off the roof that’s contributing. Can’t wait for a little thaw next week as this cold has just been brutal and relentless! The heat needs a serious breather as well.

[MJOatleast7]

We have ice on our oyster beds in buzzards bay that's unprecedented in our lifetime. Maybe yore yore.


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Any slurpee ocean waves on Nantucket Sound yet?


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