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Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Tap

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I stumbled upon this page (below), and immediately thought of the southerners on this board. Are you looking jersey lilly? I don't know if I am even tough enough to take those temps. They are from the other side of the state, but it gets cold here too. :wink: I see it is -38 in NE ND this AM. We are 22 above thankfully. Yesterday it made it above freezing. Wooo Hooo!

So you think this is cold?

Public Information Statement
Issued by NWS Aberdeen, SD




PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABERDEEN SD
1018 AM CST SAT FEB 3 2007

...PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...

MOST SOUTH DAKOTA RESIDENTS WOKE TO BITTERLY COLD TEMPERATURES THIS
MORNING WITH READINGS AS COLD AS 23 BELOW ZERO RECORDED IN ROSCOE.
WITH THE COLD TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TO CONTINUE RIGHT ON THROUGH
MONDAY...SOUTH DAKOTA RESIDENTS WILL FACE THE COLDEST WEEKEND SO
FAR THIS WINTER. ALTHOUGH IT WAS QUITE FRIGID THIS MORNING...NO
NEW RECORDS WERE OBSERVED. THE FOLLOWING ARE SOME OF THE MORE
MEMORABLE COLD FEBRUARYS IN THE ABERDEEN AREA.

FEBRUARY 1893...THREE OF THE FIRST FOUR DAYS OF THE MONTH SAW HIGH
TEMPERATURES REACHING ONLY 20 BELOW ZERO. THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE
WAS 42 BELOW ZERO RECORDED ON THE FIRST OF THE MONTH.

FEBRUARY 1895...THE TEMPERATURE NEVER ROSE ABOVE ZERO DURING THE
FIRST NINE DAYS OF THE MONTH. ON THE 7TH...THE HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS
18 BELOW ZERO AND THE LOW FELL TO 46 BELOW ZERO.

FEBRUARY 1899...THE TEMPERATURE NEVER ROSE ABOVE ZERO DURING THE
FIRST TWELVE DAYS OF THE MONTH. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE ON THE 8TH
WAS 21 BELOW ZERO AND THE LOW WAS 35 BELOW ZERO.

FEBRUARY 1936...FROM THE 4TH UNTIL THE 20TH...THE TEMPERATURE NEVER
ROSE ABOVE ZERO. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE ON THE 15TH WAS 18 BELOW
ZERO AND THE LOWEST TEMPERATURE WAS 40 BELOW ZERO RECORDED THE
MORNING OF THE 16TH. THE AVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH WAS
16 BELOW ZERO. THE NORMAL LOW FOR FEBRUARY IN THE ABERDEEN AREA IS
8.8 DEGREES.

FEBRUARY 1989...THE FIRST FOUR DAYS OF THE MONTH THE TEMPERATURE NEVER
ROSE ABOVE 1 BELOW ZERO. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE ON THE 2ND WAS 16
BELOW ZERO. THE COLDEST TEMPERATURE OF THE MONTH WAS 26 BELOW ZERO
RECORDED ON THE 4TH.

FEBRUARY 1996...THE FIRST TWO DAYS OF THE MONTH THE TEMPERATURE
NEVER ROSE ABOVE 16 BELOW ZERO. THE HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS 17 BELOW
ZERO ON THE 1ST AND 16 BELOW ON THE 2ND. THE LOW TEMPERATURE
DROPPED TO 36 BELOW ZERO ON BOTH THE 1ST AND THE 2ND.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Once again I thank the Good Lord for plantin me in Texas!!!!

I don't know how ya'll survive those temps......that's just too dern cold for anyone to live in. Ya'll stay warm....if ya can....

I can't imagine havin to cut fire wood enuff to keep me warm in those kinds of temps...lol
 

Northern Rancher

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I just talked to my friend that I guide for-he's as good in the bush as anybody-says it hasn't been like this since 1974-3-4 feet of snow in the muskkegs and ice so poor you can't run a trapline. The deer are getting into the meadow hay bales that's something I've never heard of is deer eating slough hay. Ty saw two moose and about 40 deer in the bush yestrerday and they still aren't suffering too bad yet. Funny thing is the fox are really moving now must be getting ready to mate-no matter how bad the weather some things never quit. Actually a good cold winter is easier on the moose because they get less ticks-nothing looks worse than a anemic moose with all the hair rubbed off-makes getting killed by a wolf a blessing-momma nature is tough.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Woo Hoo, we are lookin at a high today of around 65...and in the 70s for the next few days...I love it I love it.

yesterday started out chilly. but by noon it was time to shuck the jackets. we had a cow out, and had to go fix fence again at the flood gates....(she's lookin for any and all places she can git her head thru, and where her head will go......she pushes her way on thru. Even found one place she jumped over. If she don't look out she'll be takin a trip shortly. bout 5 minutes into the job, I hadda git rid of the jacket and was workin in shirt sleeves......
 

Ranchy

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It's not always warmer in the south........

Back the first of 1979, it never got above 7* where I lived, which is south of where I live now. It was freakin cold, and Dad and I had to move all the cattle from the mesa, to Slaughter Pen.........had to ride from the house, cause the roads were still all washed out from the floods we had between Thanksgiving and Christmas.....

After we got the cows moved, and showed em the water and salt, then Dad built a fire in a bear brush, and we warmed up a bit, before heading back home again. Even with 2 pair pants, long johns, etc, I was still a popcicle when we got back and unsaddled...........BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
 

Jinglebob

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reader (the Second) said:
We're FREEZING here in the mid-Atlantic states, after a very warm winter. I don't know what the wind chill is, but it's too cold to venture outside.

It's never gotten so cold here that we don't venture outside. Funny, most people don't realize, that the worse the weather, the more "cow people" need to be out in it. :wink:
 
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Anonymous

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Jinglebob said:
reader (the Second) said:
We're FREEZING here in the mid-Atlantic states, after a very warm winter. I don't know what the wind chill is, but it's too cold to venture outside.

It's never gotten so cold here that we don't venture outside. Funny, most people don't realize, that the worse the weather, the more "cow people" need to be out in it. :wink:

:lol: :lol: I heard on the radio today that the temps were so cold in NYC that they closed the schools-- it was something like 3 ABOVE :lol: :lol:

I don't remember them doing that when its 40 BELOW up here.....
 

IL Rancher

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Just makes the spring and summer that much nicer.. The cold is bad, don't get me wrong but usually most of me gets hot working on days like this... Just the area around my eyes gets cold (Only skin showing) and sometimes my fingers..

It generally isn't the cold that gets me, it is the wind... that being said -11 last night was cold, but with the 30 mph hour winds shaking things up it was not fit for man nor beast out there... Felt bad for the cows..
 

ranchwife

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Oldtimer said:
Jinglebob said:
reader (the Second) said:
We're FREEZING here in the mid-Atlantic states, after a very warm winter. I don't know what the wind chill is, but it's too cold to venture outside.

It's never gotten so cold here that we don't venture outside. Funny, most people don't realize, that the worse the weather, the more "cow people" need to be out in it. :wink:

:lol: :lol: I heard on the radio today that the temps were so cold in NYC that they closed the schools-- it was something like 3 ABOVE :lol: :lol:

I don't remember them doing that when its 40 BELOW up here.....


AMEN, OT!!!!! Here, the "unwritten rule" is.......
if the school doors can open, then school is on!!!! Heck, it's take 5 feet of snow for the doors NOT to open!! :?
 

IL Rancher

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They closed a bunch in Chicago back in winter of 96 when I was working at the board... I guess a -11 high with 35 mph winds was too much...I remember thinking at the time that I never had school cancelled because it was cold.. We used to walk to class at NU when it was about that cold for labs and stuff and it was a mile from the dorms to the lab at 10 pm... BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Snot freezing cold and icicles hanging from the beard by the time you got home and eyelashes frozen together... Ahhh, the good old days.
 

Hanta Yo

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Roundup schools have a rule now, if -30, don't plan on the buses picking up your kids. School will be open, however. :roll:

That's a 40 mile drive ONE WAY for me to get MCG to school. :(

Geez, I sure hope it doesn't get that cold this winter. :(

Sure am looking forward to spring :)
 

Canadian_Cowgirl

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Here if its -40 with windchill busses dont run. School is open but the buses dont run.

I have an hour bus ride.

One of my teachers like like 40 minutes away from school and she still has to drive even if the buses aint running, thats not fair! Just becasue the townies send their kids in why should the teachers have to go in? I dont think the teachers that live that far away should have to come in. JMO



Katy
 

IL Rancher

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So, I am sitting here, minding my own business, thinking to myself that at least I don't have to deal with any snow when I hear a clipper is heading our way from Eastern Montana and we should be getting 3-6 inches of the stuff tonight... Ahhhh. Winter...Good news is that it will be 16 degrees tomorrow, time to get out the shorts and sandles and sun screen.

:roll: :lol: :lol:
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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I know here the main reason durin the last ice storm and cold that we had, the reason the schools close is because....here they sit, and sometimes the power goes out....for a good while. Who wants to sit in school freezin, in the dark. I'd think that would be the main reason other places close too. If there's a major power outage, all them kids sittin at school. Bad weather...parents tryin to get there and get them, when everyone would be better off at home.

Now ....when they cancel school because of rain.....it's because all roads goin in and out of our lil town get under water. I've refused to send my kids to school because of high water...when the buses were runnin anyway, and then the one's that went to school were stranded there over night.
 
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Anonymous

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IL Rancher said:
So, I am sitting here, minding my own business, thinking to myself that at least I don't have to deal with any snow when I hear a clipper is heading our way from Eastern Montana and we should be getting 3-6 inches of the stuff tonight... Ahhhh. Winter...Good news is that it will be 16 degrees tomorrow, time to get out the shorts and sandles and sun screen.

:roll: :lol: :lol:

New record high for Helena today- 63....Billings and many places in the 60's-- Bozeman high in the state with 65...

But over here in the eastern frigid zone we only got to 23 and the weather boys say it will barely get above 0 for the later part of the week with lows back closed to 10 Below.....Oh Ya -- and good chances of snow- which we need the moisture...
 

cowboyup

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from eleven below Friday morning to 50 above today. what a swing and it sure felt good. Snowdrifts and ice melting like crazy, might make it to grass yet.
 

Jassy

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Jinglebob posted it all...the colder the weather..the more cattlemen have to be out in it..don't seem fair..lol
 

Northern Rancher

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Nasty out there tonight-one bale plot was finishing up so cows came up to yard. Let them in as I didn't want them drifting all night. Last winter I had to spend a couple grand hauling water because of no snow-this winter I had to spend it on snow ploews lol.
 
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