Arctic Hounds Unleashed: Long Duration Late January/Early February Cold Snap

[kdxken]

Joke all you want about sun strength. Just got in my car and the seat was toasty

[Modfan2]

9 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

I’ve noticed that a number of times. He won’t even hit 20 today 

Look at weather underground, plenty of 20’s around Killingly/Plainfield

[Ginx snewx]

1 minute ago, Modfan2 said:

Look at weather underground, plenty of 20’s all around Killingly/Plainfield

Danielson Arp is 21 an ASOS 

[Ginx snewx]

5 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Joke all you want about sun strength. Just got in my car and the seat was toasty

Sun feels great 

[CoastalWx]

10 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Joke all you want about sun strength. Just got in my car and the seat was toasty

WTTTE

[CoastalWx]

6 minutes ago, Modfan2 said:

Look at weather underground, plenty of 20’s around Killingly/Plainfield

Probably a lot of non sheltered instruments too. You get that sometimes with snowpack reflecting light back too.

[Kitz Craver]

What a stunner of a bluebird arctic day today

[dendrite]

The sun is so warm the mourning doves are sitting on the car

[Kitz Craver]

12 minutes ago, dendrite said:

The sun is so warm the mourning doves are sitting on the car

Just walked the dog, sun is pretty warm, lol

[BrianW]

1 hour ago, Modfan2 said:

Look at weather underground, plenty of 20’s around Killingly/Plainfield

Mid to upper 20's here around HVN. 

[BrianW]

Nice 27 degree rise here in Branford. 

 

[DavisStraight]

I'm 20 up on the Maine Coast.

[CoastalWx]

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

The sun is so warm the mourning doves are sitting on the car

It’s a nice March-like day out there.

[ORH_wxman]

On days with bright sun and relatively fresh snow pack, a lot of PWSs will prob run a couple degrees higher than ASOS. 
 

Within 1 mile of here, there are PWSs that read 19-20F. But some read 25-26F…the latter are absolutely contaminated by solar glare. 

[dendrite]

A lot of the PWSs have fans now and are pretty solid. Although there’s definitely some cheap ones out there now that easily connect to the internet.

[CoastalWx]

I think I’m getting evap cooling from a light N to NNE wind lol. 18F

[tamarack]

Pure sun here today, 16/-21.   January 2026 numbers:

Avg max:   23.1    -2.6   Mildest:   42   10th
Avg min:     4.0    -0.7   Coldest:  -23   28th
Mean:        13.5    -1.7   Mildest mean:  10th, coldest mean:  -5.5   24th

Precip:   2.23"    -0.97"    Greatest day:   0.55"   25th

Snow:     30.1"    +9.9"     Greatest day:   17.0"    25th
We had 19.6" from the 25-27th storm and 12 other distinct snow events, 0.1" to 3.0" - a dozen midgets plus a monster.  

Temperature had 4 distinct periods:
1-6, all BN:          18.0/1.7   -9.7
7-16, all AN:      35.0/19.8  +11.3
17-23: AN/BN:   23.7/4.3     0.0 (Rounded up from -0.04)
24-31, all BN:    11.5/-11.6   -14.2

[Snowedin]

4 hours ago, tamarack said:

Check around the bathroom stack.  We had a leak from cracked tar around that pipe one snowy winter.  Shoveling the snow away from the stack was a temporary fix and when things warmed up a quart can of tar made it permanent.

Reached -21 this morning but the max will be well above yesterday's windy 9.  Maybe another 40° diurnal range today; the 28th was 17/-23.

It’s actually a bathroom located near a basement so it’s naturally much cooler down there and the pipes aren’t used as often. I have a small heater running in the garage but it’s barely made a dent in this cold. Thankfully I did manage to clear a lot of snow that was hanging on one side of the roof and then tomorrow I’m gonna try some hot water with a hose attachment inside to clear the dam, at least partially. This cold is brutal though man, had to keep coming inside to prevent my hands from fully freezing up! It’s no fun at all.

[powderfreak]

Been a while since we’ve seen 20 degrees it seems like.

[mreaves]

34 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Been a while since we’ve seen 20 degrees it seems like.

The high here at home was 10.2°. I was riding in the NEK and I don’t think it got out of single digits. We didn’t stop and stand around much. 

[Modfan2]

How low to we drop tonight?

[Ginx snewx]

4 minutes ago, Modfan2 said:

How low to we drop tonight?

Cloudy getting windy.  Single digits? 

[metagraphica]

3 hours ago, Modfan2 said:

How low to we drop tonight?

 

3 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Cloudy getting windy.  Single digits? 

Temp bouncing around so far:

 

[ineedsnow]

-3 we take!

[powderfreak]

-9F

Not bad with OVC029… but we left a bunch on the table the past two nights with wind and/or clouds.

[alex]

-18.4F here. First night without much flakeage 

[dendrite]

-6.1

Tied for the coldest yet

[dendrite]

Congrats S FL. Goodbye oranges and iguanas.

[mahk_webstah]

15 minutes ago, dendrite said:

-6.1

Tied for the coldest yet

-8 here but I think we hit -9 one morning.  Grateful that we haven’t hit the peach killing -15. Afraid though that that might happen in this next cold snap which looks pretty fearsome next week.

[ineedsnow]

17 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Congrats S FL. Goodbye oranges and iguanas.

My brother lives in Lakeland he must be pissed he HATES the cold