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The cold is out again

Jassy said:
Thursday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 35. Windy, with a north northwest wind between 20 and 25 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 19. North northwest wind between 15 and 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 31.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 18. :shock:

Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 40.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 23.[/b]

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 45.





Thats to cold for us southern boys and girls. Thank god I finish picking pecans today now I just have a trailer load to clean.
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Ummm...maybe it's cause some Nebraska folks are coming down and bringing our weather as "house warming" gift...lol sorry..lol[/quote]


Then I will take the cold. But you all have to take some of these hogs back alive. They are digging holes to the core of the earth to stay warm. I seen the devil wearing coveralls its so cold down here.
 
George said:
+7F right now with a high of +20F predicted for today - -- - normal for here this time of year of a low in the mid 20s and a normal high or +36F

Two week forcast just came out with nothing above +25F - - - -cattle don't seem to mind, Dogs seem to love it, Wife is ready to shoot the weatherman!
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I always hear more babies are born 9 months after a major cold snap. :wink:
 
Trinity man said:
George said:
+7F right now with a high of +20F predicted for today - -- - normal for here this time of year of a low in the mid 20s and a normal high or +36F

Two week forcast just came out with nothing above +25F - - - -cattle don't seem to mind, Dogs seem to love it, Wife is ready to shoot the weatherman!
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I always hear more babies are born 9 months after a major cold snap. :wink:
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New Years Eve- a bunch of the neighbors were discussing this very topic- but decided (in our cases anyway) that was impossible because no one could find the wives under all the layers of fleece and woolies that make up the ladies winter sleeping fashion.... :wink:
 
http://www.accuweather.com/news-weather-features.asp?partner=&traveler=0&date=2010-01-04_1701&month=1&year=2010

Nearly the entire eastern half of the United States is enduring bitterly cold temperatures not experienced since 1985. Even Florida, which has been hovering around freezing levels overnight recently, is also feeling the almost-nationwide chill.

"It'll be like the great winters of the '60s and '70s," said AccuWeather.com Chief Meteorologist and Expert Long Range Forecaster Joe Bastardi.

The last time a large swath of severely low temperatures struck the nation was in January 1985. That historic arctic outbreak had below-zero temperatures Fahrenheit stretching from Chicago eastward to New York City, and all the way south to Macon, Ga.

While Bastardi says the upcoming days will bring cold not seen since 1985 or 1982, he believes this winter is shaping up much that of like 1977-78. That winter, nearly all of the United States east of the Rockies had a cold October followed by a warm November, with the cold returning in December.
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Oldtimer said:
Trinity man said:
George said:
+7F right now with a high of +20F predicted for today - -- - normal for here this time of year of a low in the mid 20s and a normal high or +36F

Two week forcast just came out with nothing above +25F - - - -cattle don't seem to mind, Dogs seem to love it, Wife is ready to shoot the weatherman!
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I always hear more babies are born 9 months after a major cold snap. :wink:
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New Years Eve- a bunch of the neighbors were discussing this very topic- but decided (in our cases anyway) that was impossible because no one could find the wives under all the layers of fleece and woolies that make up the ladies winter sleeping fashion.... :wink:
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I would tend to agree with that OT. I actually didn't realize my wife owned so many fleecy / woolie night clothes :?
Thermometer reads right on -42 here this morning.... I'm getting tired of it. Weather man claims it will be real nice by thurs., about -8C which is perfect winter weather.
 
We were 14 Above this morning- and plumb calm..Picked up about 2 inchs of new snow during the night- and now its snowing pretty heavy and the NE wind is coming up....
Weather boys say the temp will keep falling today until a low of about 15 Below-- winds will pick up and switch to the NNW at about 30mph...

Still looking like Wed and Thurs nights will be the coldest here with as low as -25 to -35 as an Alberta Clipper goes thru.....
And they keep promising a warmup starting Friday- with temps going into the 20's and maybe even the 30's with the Chinook (one weather guesser even suggesting melting snow)....But I sure aren't putting a lot of hope in that yet....
 
Oldtimer wrote:
New Years Eve- a bunch of the neighbors were discussing this very topic- but decided (in our cases anyway) that was impossible because no one could find the wives under all the layers of fleece and woolies that make up the ladies winter sleeping fashion....

layers of fleece and woolies _ Never STOPPED me
But enough...

In the 50's I remember Stories about "Hay Air Lifts" and "Frozen cow"
I can understand putting a few cows in a Barn BUT what do you do with 100's? Just Wind breaks and/or ????

It's hard for a California guy to understand.
When we get a "Cold Snap" I put on a SWEATER
 
OldDog/NewTricks said:
Oldtimer wrote:
New Years Eve- a bunch of the neighbors were discussing this very topic- but decided (in our cases anyway) that was impossible because no one could find the wives under all the layers of fleece and woolies that make up the ladies winter sleeping fashion....

layers of fleece and woolies _ Never STOPPED me
But enough...

In the 50's I remember Stories about "Hay Air Lifts" and "Frozen cow"
I can understand putting a few cows in a Barn BUT what do you do with 100's? Just Wind breaks and/or ????

It's hard for a California guy to understand.
When we get a "Cold Snap" I put on a SWEATER
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The only barn I have on this place will only fit 4-5 cows...Only use it to throw a new calf or two in to warm up....

With the predictions of the cold and -40 to -50 wind chills I just fed in around the corrals and behind the windbreaks today- gives them pretty good protection from north winds- and rolled the old gals out a little wheat hay with the grass/alfalfa mix hay they have been getting...Give them a little more roughage to digest to keep them warm....
 
Hey Trinity. At least you got all those pine trees to break the wind blast whne that front comes through! And that's moonshine country over there, isn't it! Better bring in the jugs!
 
Liveoak said:
Hey Trinity. At least you got all those pine trees to break the wind blast whne that front comes through! And that's moonshine country over there, isn't it! Better bring in the jugs!
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Pretty sorry moonshine if your worried about it freezing. :roll: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
Big Muddy rancher said:
Liveoak said:
Hey Trinity. At least you got all those pine trees to break the wind blast whne that front comes through! And that's moonshine country over there, isn't it! Better bring in the jugs!
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Pretty sorry moonshine if your worried about it freezing. :roll: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Maybe it's that ProhibiSHINE, near beer stuff. :wink:
 
Liveoak said:
Hey Trinity. At least you got all those pine trees to break the wind blast whne that front comes through! And that's moonshine country over there, isn't it! Better bring in the jugs!
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I live out on the open Prairie. The only thing I have to break the wind is some big Post Oaks and they don't do to good of a job with no leaves. I have some moonshine that you could use in racing car. My wifes grandfather made it before he pasted away. They said it 180 proof. I had one slip and I started seeing pink elephants. Good old Polish moonshine. :wink:
 
A neighbor has next to no natural wind breaks so he lines his round bales up two high and forms three sided breaks open to the south - - - a hot wire running down both sides and they work great - - - He keeps feeding from the two legs going south so the north wall is the last to go and the west wall gets used after the east wall and they really seem to work great.

He likes to calve in Febuary and the calves will duck under the hot wire and lay right against the hay with direct sunlight on them and seem to really thrive.
 
Thank goodness we do have pine thickets for the cows to go into when it gets windy and cold. I just don't want any of the wet stuff. That's when it gets skeery......freezin rain ain't fun in the piney woods.
 
The snowstorm is apparently past us- as the sun is shining bright...Picked up about 5 inchs- and luckily the high winds some areas got didn't develop here- and so its not bad for drifts...

But now the Canadians went and left the back door open again- 9 Above when I went to bed- 2 Below this morning- and now when I just got done feeding its dropped to 8 Below- and with the 15- 20 mph winds makes it feel a little nippy...
Predictions for tonight are for the coldest temps of the winter so far-- somewhere around 30 to 35 Below....

Weather boys are still teasing me with their predictions of the Chinook moving in from Alberta by the weekend- and temps in the 20's by Saturday....
 
with the wind we are at about -30. sounds like it could get worse before it gets better. they are talking mid-high 30s for the weekend
 

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