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Hey get this guys Saskatchewan today +5F today and highs of 34-39F till tuesday. Fishing for sure

A friend in Columbia Falls, Montana told me a few days ago they got lots of snow with brutal temps and now it's all melted.

-30 this morning; I'm runnin' out of thermometer
(actually, it says -32, but I refuse to believe)

-7 F in Pittburgh this morning. F!

That IS brutal!!!!! I'm shrivveling shiverring just thinking about that temp!

What's the all time low around your parts B'ski?

By "my parts", I assume you refer to my geographical location.
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Since we are the chaff that blew away from the metropolitan Chicago area, we don't really count in the records. I don't really know what the record is.

Man, we have a few cold fronts coming through down here - the high will only be up to 67 tomorow with a low temp in the upper 40's!! Time to break out the sweater!!

According to my windshield, it was -18 F when I got to work.

Hi, I've not been around much but doing some lurking. Reached -33 this morning here in central MN. And I was worried my ice wouldn't get thick enough to plow the snow off! Coldest I've seen in MN is -44 the other day.

...hence, the thread title
take a bow, bz

O.K., I have had ENOUGH of this In The Winter We Can Build a Snowman mode. I am sick of these stupid snow boots, ugly hat and all this polar fleece. I want to move to Texas. More snow tomorrow, at least the snow removal crews are happy to have the work. Wonder if there will be more fish kills than normal because of the sub zero weather and heavy snow fall???? It would make me so happy if those gizzards went out on their own.

You don't want to move here 2catmom. Maybe we should post a brutal thread this summer about heat? Everybody gets sick in the winter to because the weather never makes up its mind. I think every week this winter has had at least one cold day and one high 60s day. They call them "snowbirds" for a reason.

Catmom, it was 17 degrees this morning at my place North of Fort Worth. Tomorrow, it will be in the sixties.

At 36 degrees yesterday, some of my BG and CC fed. The water hadn't had time to cool down.

Come on down but you will want to go back in August.

Believe it or not, I am supposed to be living in Texas but never made it there. My boyfriend (now husband) had a job lined up in Texas in 1978, we set off for it and 21 days later ended up in California for a year, (after losing all our money in Vegas, Reno & Lake Tahoe!) then came back to Michigan. Young and Dumb! But boy we had a blast. I recall when we got back to Michigan it looked like a rain forest to me, so green compared to out west. Texas looks very beautiful and diverse from the photos on Pb Forum. I don't like the extreme heat either, I always think Kentucky would be a good place, a shorter winter and longer summer, and one gardening zone better. Our summers go so fast here. The winter we are having now is more like I remember as a child. 4 to 7 inches more snow today and sub zero. Even the cats are getting bored.

Wasn't there a movie based on that? I forgot what it was called.

Call me boring but I've always stayed away from gambling against the house since the house is heavily favored, to say the least. The fact that the house gets alarmed when someone wins too much should tell you something.

I think those kind of places hate me. I've tagged along for the buffet but never gamble. The eye in the sky probably wonders why I never play.

You're defo not alone Cecil. I have zero use for gambling (with money, that is...excluding my 201-K).
I have been to Vegas once. It was an amazing spectacle and I recommend that every big boy and girl should at least see it once. Past that, tho, I doubt that I will go out of my way to return. No interest.
I did get a buzz outta the Fremont Street Experience light show. WHOA.

2catmom
That could of been my fault. Back in the day some of us got the idea that we could stem the invasion by changing the road signs on the other side of the Red.
Having grown up in Texas, just a stones throw from the blackland praries, we got use to looking at the horizion. Never had to study the road maps in too much detail, just needed to know the general direction of your destination and you'd get there eventually. A landmark from wich get your bearings was never too far away.
I took a job in Conneticut one summer and stayed in upstate New York. It was beautiful country, but all those trees and clouds blocking out the sun, with two lane roads that never seemed to have a straight section over a quarter mile long... I was lost and felt a little sense of claustrophobia the whole time. My internal compas was wacked.
That was the first summer I spent out of Texas and the first time I ever had to consider wearing a jacket on July and August mornings. But every two weeks we'd fly back to DFW. I'll admit that there were a couple of times, when upon opening those teminal doors and being greeted by that expanse of sun soaked concrete and seeing the tar boiling on the blacktop, I questioned whether if we had landed at home or in hell.

Ah yes,the wonderful summer memories.Thats always a constant in Texas weather in summer....see the weather for tommorow?Yea...HOTTER!

You know what's really disgusting? I heard about a woman at the casino in Hammond, Indiana that was so unwilling to leave her chair at a particular slot machine she peed her pants and kept on playing!

Don't get me wrong. For those people that just play a little for recreation (my mother-in-law has a $20.00 limit) more power to them. But I've seen some good people ruin their lives and their families when they get addicted. I just don't think our government should be condoning it.

Whoops I can just see the PM's going out already! Cecil's at it again!

Uh-oh...Cecil said the "G" word!!!

Yep sure did. At least I did not use the 'p' word!

In a desperate attempt to get back on topic which I so flagrantly hijacked, here is what is going on at all of my ponds which I find curious.

After a six inch snowfall and sub zero temps over several days peaking at -18 below zero and 13 + today it looks to me like snowblowing snow off in strips today may not be safe.

Here's a section that is slushy and even has an open hole! Mind you this has all culminated with temps well BELOW freezing. Apparently the weight up the snow has and is bringing up above freezing temp water? And the snow has acted as a great insulator. I'm guessing if the ice had been thicker before the snowfall, this may not have happened or to the degree it's happened.



Here's a close up of the hole. Yes it goes all the way through!



Goes to show you nature is not always predictable.

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...seamless; good work

I know!

-18 F this morning; Fish Wife and I went and picked up our new hay rake.

I may not get to use it right away.