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Damndable Weather

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Well it got here-- and hit with a bang....It was 34 degrees when I went to bed last night- 5 BELOW this morning...NW wind at 35-40 mph with temp down to -9 now giving us windchills of -35 to -40....
Snowing and blowing and visibility is about 1/4 mile...I don't even know where the old girls came from this morning, just appeared out of the storm when I drove in with a couple of bales....Tried to feed behind all the windbreaks to help them- and keep the hay from blowing to SD....

Predicting 25- 30 Below tonight with wind chills of 50-60 Below...I hope I've remembered to plug all the right heat tapes, heaters, and light bulbs in.....
 
Y'all need to come down ans stay with me till about april. We played with the baby outside yesterday afternoon in the liw 60's. I will trade fence building for room and board.

I pray that y'all don't freeze.
 
It was 50 in western North Dakota yesterday. Here is todays report.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A WIND CHILL WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM CST /8 PM MST/ THIS EVENING TO 12 PM CST /11 AM MST/ TUESDAY. THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST /8 PM MST/ THIS EVENING.

A STRONG COLD FRONT HAS PUSHED ACROSS THE AREA BRINGING FALLING TEMPERATURES...STRONG WINDS AND AREAS OF LIGHT SNOW. LIGHT SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW WILL REDUCE VISIBILITY TO LESS THAN ONE-HALF MILE AT TIMES. THIS WILL CAUSE BRIEF PERIODS OF WHITE OUT CONDITIONS...ESPECIALLY IN OPEN AREAS. NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH WITH A FEW GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED. THIS WILL PUSH WIND CHILL VALUES TO 40 TO 55 BELOW ZERO LATE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. THE BITTER COLD AND DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS WILL CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY MORNING. THE SNOW SHOULD COME TO END BY TUESDAY MORNING. AROUND AN INCH OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE.
 
fedup2 said:
It was 50 in western North Dakota yesterday. Here is todays report.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BISMARCK HAS ISSUED A WIND CHILL WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM CST /8 PM MST/ THIS EVENING TO 12 PM CST /11 AM MST/ TUESDAY. THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST /8 PM MST/ THIS EVENING.

A STRONG COLD FRONT HAS PUSHED ACROSS THE AREA BRINGING FALLING TEMPERATURES...STRONG WINDS AND AREAS OF LIGHT SNOW. LIGHT SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW WILL REDUCE VISIBILITY TO LESS THAN ONE-HALF MILE AT TIMES. THIS WILL CAUSE BRIEF PERIODS OF WHITE OUT CONDITIONS...ESPECIALLY IN OPEN AREAS. NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH WITH A FEW GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED. THIS WILL PUSH WIND CHILL VALUES TO 40 TO 55 BELOW ZERO LATE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. THE BITTER COLD AND DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS WILL CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY MORNING. THE SNOW SHOULD COME TO END BY TUESDAY MORNING. AROUND AN INCH OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE.
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Sounds just like us :?

Hope the buses run tomorrow, otherwise I will have to drive MCG into school (40 miles one way) in -30 to -40 degree temps :(
 
-40.....man, that's too cold to go to school :shock: :shock: :shock: ...if ya ask me...which ya didn't!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
kolanuraven said:
-40.....man, that's too cold to go to school :shock: :shock: :shock: ...if ya ask me...which ya didn't!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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They let the kids out of school this afternoon at 2PM-- Bitterly COLD out....I went to town today around 11 AM only because I had a doctors appointment that it took 3 months waiting to get into....Much of the 5 mile trip was at 5 mile per hour because otherwise you couldn't see the road....

After the Doc said I'd live to be 100 to harass Mrs. Greg and the Canucks :P - I stopped at the waterhole- where all the weekend fishing tournament folks were showing up (two SIL's took the $650 1st place with a 11 1/2 pound walleye they speared :clap: )...

Headed for home about 3PM- snow had quit and the sun was trying to shine-but still quite a ground blizzard- altho the roads are blowing pretty well clear and all the snowdrifts are building in the barrow pits and coulees....When I got home I ran out to make sure the floats weren't froze on the water tanks- and plugged my vehicle in and thought my hands were going to fall off since I'd cleaned up to go to town and only had a light pair of roper gloves on...Still haven't got them warmed up..

Temp is -20-- Wind is out of the WNW at 35-40 mph and the windchill is 50 Below....

Not fit for man or beast.....Man am I glad I'm not calving for another month and half...
 
Well, I can honestly say, when it's like it is out weatherwise, I definitely DO NOT miss my cows!
It's -30 C with a strong NW wind. Bloody cold!!!
 
Oldtimer said:
kolanuraven said:
-40.....man, that's too cold to go to school :shock: :shock: :shock: ...if ya ask me...which ya didn't!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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They let the kids out of school this afternoon at 2PM-- Bitterly COLD out....I went to town today around 11 AM only because I had a doctors appointment that it took 3 months waiting to get into....Much of the 5 mile trip was at 5 mile per hour because otherwise you couldn't see the road....

After the Doc said I'd live to be 100 to harass Mrs. Greg and the Canucks :P - I stopped at the waterhole- where all the weekend fishing tournament folks were showing up (two SIL's took the $650 1st place with a 11 1/2 pound walleye they speared :clap: )...

Headed for home about 3PM- snow had quit and the sun was trying to shine-but still quite a ground blizzard- altho the roads are blowing pretty well clear and all the snowdrifts are building in the barrow pits and coulees....When I got home I ran out to make sure the floats weren't froze on the water tanks- and plugged my vehicle in and thought my hands were going to fall off since I'd cleaned up to go to town and only had a light pair of roper gloves on...Still haven't got them warmed up..

Temp is -20-- Wind is out of the WNW at 35-40 mph and the windchill is 50 Below....

Not fit for man or beast.....Man am I glad I'm not calving for another month and half...
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Dang Dr. :? :wink:

Yup -50 here tonight with the windchill...BRRRRRRRRR
 
OT---our kids were sent home at 11 this morning because of "severe cold, and blowing/drifting conditions on the roads"....ich!!! :( Anyway, most roads around here were closed for a better part of the day and the road south to yellowstone is STILL closed!! Temp right now is -6 and the wind is howling!! Brrrrrrrr!! Time to batten down the hatches and get ready to snuggle in for awhile!! :wink:
 
With wind chill we're sitting at -52,was supposed to work this morning but my run was cancelled. No buses in our county are running. Ohhhhh to live in Goergia sipping on mint julips in a pink bikini :shock:
 
Mrs.Greg said:
With wind chill we're sitting at -52,was supposed to work this morning but my run was cancelled. No buses in our county are running. Ohhhhh to live in Goergia sipping on mint julips in a pink bikini :shock:
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See, I told ya so!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


My builder brought me by 2 bottles of homemade Strawberry Wine last nite!!!!

Supposed to be about 72 today...nice ' sippin' weather!!!


-52, be it -52F or -52C...ARE YOU PEOPLE CRAZY???? :shock: :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:

My gosh, how deep are your water lines?
 
Our water lines are about seven feet,below the frost line.If they don't go across a road your pretty safe,if under a road it drives the frost down.

A "greg" story,from a few years ago,The ducks tend to hang around the power plant all winter instead of flying South,the plant feeds them now because they stay :? But greg says the ducks were freezing and falling out of the sky into the pits at the mine because they weren't made for this type of weather.


oh and greg says...It was our ansestors that were the CRAZY ones..... :lol: :lol:
 
Temp at 6AM was 25 below with little wind-- as the sun raises the temp continues to drop (-31 now) and the wind is coming back up---making a chill factor somewhere between 50-60 Below.....

Definitely a brisk morning!!!I don't think I'm going to get in too big of hurry feeding- as I haven't seen a cow move off their bedground or out of a hole yet....
 
My vet buddy is at a conferance in Italy and I'm trying to get his @#$%^^ tractor started to unload feed for him this A'M. Nothing like the death rattle of a diesel engine in -50 lol.
 
This weather reminds me of the story I used to tell my kids about the cold. I told them it was so cold when I was a kid that when I came home late one night it was completely dark in the house. I turned on the light switch but the electricity was to cold to flow so nothing happened.

When I threw back the covers to get into bed, I noticed a small lump on the sheet. I took out my Zipo lighter to see what it was. When I held the lighter up to it, the lump melted and went Fffffffttttttpppphhh! Yep! A frozen fart from the night before! Now THAT was cold! :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
Dang.... it hit -48C (-55F ?) without the wind chill factor yesterday morning. Kids haven't been to school yet this week. Tomorrow it's supposed to be nicer, high of about -30 so back they go, I think.

I was thinking though, that this is the price we pay for not having to put up with summers in the high 90's or more, and I'd rather deal with a few days of this than the other.
 
Silver said:
Dang.... it hit -48C (-55F ?) without the wind chill factor yesterday morning. Kids haven't been to school yet this week. Tomorrow it's supposed to be nicer, high of about -30 so back they go, I think.

I was thinking though, that this is the price we pay for not having to put up with summers in the high 90's or more, and I'd rather deal with a few days of this than the other.
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Believe I will swat mosquitoes :D :D :D
good luck
 

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