Baby It's COLD Outside!

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18 years I've lived in Albuquerque. Never have I seen it this cold! At 6am this morning it was -11F (-24C). Yesterday morning it was -2F (-19C). The last time it was even close to this cold was 1939 at -6F.

Gotta love these strong La Ninas!:censored:
 
A friend of a friend took off from Sydney 40C and arrived in Canada -30C. 70 degrees difference! That would be a shock to the system
 
Rally said:
A friend of a friend took off from Sydney 40C and arrived in Canada -30C. 70 degrees difference! That would be a shock to the system
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I used to work in a composites lab and some stuff was stored in a walk-in freezer at -40F. You're right, it's a shock!

Kevin said:
Send some of it our way pls!
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Give me a few months to package it into some small packages. You should start seeing it around April.;)
 
That it is! We aren't in the negatives by any means, but it's been down around 15f (-9.4c) every day until after noon. Kind of crazy considering just sunday & monday it was near a pleasant 80f (26.6c) here. The windchills have been below 0f consistantly though. Suppose to start snowin here in just a bit. 'Ol Lonestar over in Conroe 'ought to get quite a few inches over there with more moisture being closer to the gulf.
 
Matt- how far are you from the equator in degrees north? And what is your elevation?
 
Tony-
I have no idea. If i wasn't on my phone, i could probably find out. If you google Wimberley, Texas, you might be able to find out. Elevation wise our house it right around 1060ft.
 
Your latitude north is equivalent to a southern latitude of between Sydney and Brisbane, and the towns stated elevation is 860 feet- which means you should have a rather nice view! Apart from on top of the ranges, I cannot think of anywhere in Australia at that latitude or near it where it gets that cold, let alone snow. i wonder why the temperatures in Australia- given equivalent altitude and latitude- are so much more temperate? any meteorologists out there?
 
Yeah, with this being the hill country, it can vary a good bit. The town sits in a valley will most of everything else is scattered through the hills. This cold weather is not our usual though! Maybe once or twice a year we get down this low, but it never sticks around like it has. Usually we're around 40's-50'sF for highs with lows in the 30s. Weather can change pretty quick out here though. Summers are usually damn hot & somewhat dry. Not last summer, but the summer before we had 69 days of 100f + weather. Just about dried all the rivers and lakes up!
 
I think the major reason for it being much colder at an equiv. lattitude north of the equator to us down south is that there is a higher percentage of surface covered by water (absorbs solar energy) down here and a much larger percentage of land (doesn't absorb heat, but gives it off) up north.

This is also what accounts for the great ocean currents, water is heated in the south, flows north in the upper levels until it cools and sinks up north and heads south again.
 
Barry's answer sounds good enough to me!

So we only got about a half inch of snow - bummer, but it was fiiiiiiiiine snow! Usually when we get it down here, it's real slushly & wet. This stuff was like powder! Frozen sleet under the snow made for some fun times on the roads:biggrin:.
I tried to get my wife out of the car to record me doing a little drifting, but she wouldn't have it.... :eviltoyou:
So this is about all i got..
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dirtyRU said:
Barry's answer sounds good enough to me!

So we only got about a half inch of snow - bummer, but it was fiiiiiiiiine snow! Usually when we get it down here, it's real slushly & wet. This stuff was like powder! Frozen sleet under the snow made for some fun times on the roads:biggrin:.
I tried to get my wife out of the car to record me doing a little drifting, but she wouldn't have it.... :eviltoyou:
So this is about all i got..
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That's about what we got on the west side of Albuquerque. The east side that backs up to the mountains got several inches. Schools have been closed since tuesday due to the cold, busted pipes, and natural gas shortages.
 
geez, thats crazy. Yesterday energy reliance council of tx ordered all utility company to have controlled outages all over the state because of the cold. Makes me wish we had a potbelly stove in our living room.
 
dirtyRU said:
geez, thats crazy. Yesterday energy reliance council of tx ordered all utility company to have controlled outages all over the state because of the cold. Makes me wish we had a potbelly stove in our living room.
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What's crazy is that we get our natural gas from Texas, and the rolling outages are shutting down the natural gas pipe line compressors. Why would a gas utility be relying on the grid only, to power the compressors. With all the natural gas available, why wouldn't they have natural gas powered backup generators to keep the compressors operating? Seems like a no brainer!:rolleyessarcastic:
 
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