Banana Belt

[Oak]

I know it doesn't look too bad to those up north, but people around here lose their minds when this happens here. They said that this was the 3rd most snow we have ever gotten from a storm in December, and the 11th most for a storm in any month! That's why I like this place.

 

[elk_hunter]

LOL, Fin. The snow is fun and great when you can play in it...but coupled with those frigid temps of Montana, that makes for ridiculous times for sure!!

 

[oleefish2]

Well its 16 below and suppose to drop to -25 berrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[sweetnectar]

The best part about this weather is you don't need botox. You simply get your face in the position you want it them walk out to the mailbox and back. Your face just stay frozen in position for a good day and half.

 

[schmalts]

Well I got that foot of snow... the wettest crap you can get too. And to make matters worst it is going to single digits tonight and that crap is going to turn into a rock

 

[Oak]

Well I got that foot of snow... the wettest crap you can get too. And to make matters worst it is going to single digits tonight and that crap is going to turn into a rock

Yep. Minus 8 here right now...wind chill -27.

 

[Big Fin]

The best part about this weather is you don't need botox. You simply get your face in the position you want it them walk out to the mailbox and back. Your face just stay frozen in position for a good day and half.

Now that's funny nectar. I was thinking the same thing as I was working to get the heater in my shop into overdrive last night.

 

[oleefish2]

We just got a little snow but -24 this morning

 

[Randy11]

No snow here yet, but its supposed to be coming this weekend.
-11 first thing this morning.

 

[AZ402]

Huh, I thought this was a little chilly for Cottonwood,AZ...

High: 43°
Low: 25°

 

[fowladdict]

The Boise folks have been nipply with lows of -3 and highs of about twenty. Starting Saturday we have chance of snow for 5 consecutive days.

Snow days are great. The boys and I shovel the neighbor lady's driveway and then she brings us zucchini bread.

 

[powderburn]

I had to pull the long johns out of storage yesterday. -39 with a wind chill of -50 celsius.
I'll do the conversion on the wind chill -58. Yeah that puckers parts up to roughly your navel.

 

[elk_hunter]

Holy crap, powder. When you walk around in that weather, do you have to make sure every piece of skin is completely covered? Do the tires on your rigs freeze to the ground? How about oil...does it gel up or make it difficult to drive rigs? I can't imagine the havoc the cold makes......

 

[powderburn]

Exposed skin freeze's pretty quick but you dress for it. Crap our kids still walk to school in that. The vehicles that didn't prep for cold weather or the parts that are about to break usually do. Gas lines freeze and batteries crap out pretty quickly. Gas line antifreeze was sold out in Lethbridge so I had a case shipped by couriour so I did fine with only one car frozen up. Luckily it was my daughters jeep and it was at home. We just pushed it into the garage and put an electric heater under it for a couple hours. Forget about suspensions on the cars and trucks they just clunk on down the road and with the tires being that cold they don't flex much and you feel every little spot they hit. Other than that it's just another day in paradise. Almost hit my record of -63 with the wind chill when I spent 1-1/2 hours out of the truck hunting mulies. Now that was just plain stupid, the truck just about didn't start and I was a couple miles from the closeest farm.

 

[elk_hunter]

Wow...that's just crazy!

 

[mtmiller]

Powderburn, do you use gas line anti-freeze? I have never used it since moving to MT and have never had a problem. We hit -35 (ambient) or -37C and I had no problem with my ride starting right up in the driveway (it was plugged in). Not sure what the wind chill was, but it is a non-issue for a vehicle anyway.

Heat wave now. We are sitting at +11.

 

[powderburn]

I never use gasline antifreeze in my vehicles unless I freeze up. My daughters jeep froze up that day and I know what it's from. If you let your tank get low to many times and fill it up during real cold spells you end up with condensation in the tank. Water and cold spell ice up. The gas line anti freeze takes a little while to thaw a frozen vehicle but if you use it before you freeze up it disperses the water molicules passing it through the fuel system without freeze up. I always carry a couple small bottles during the winter and generally use it to help other people out. At 89 cents a bottle it's always in the tub with my battery cables, tow ropes and winch.

 

[powderburn]

This will help you South of the 49th guys under stand standard and metric conversion.

Official Temperature Conversion Chart..

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The Officia l Canadian Temperature Conversion Chart

50° Fahrenheit (10° C)
· Californians shiver uncontrollably.
· Canadians plant gardens.

35° Fahrenheit (1.6° C)
· Italian Cars won't start
· Canadians drive with the windows down

32° Fahrenheit (0° C)
· American water freezes
· Canadian water gets thicker.

0° Fahrenheit (-17.9° C)
· New York City landlords finally turn on the heat.
· Canadians have the last cookout of the season.

-60° Fahrenheit (-51° C)
· Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.
· Canadian Girl Guides sell cookies door-to-door.

-109.9° Fahrenheit (-78.5° C)
· Carbon dioxide freezes makes dry ice.
· Canadians pull down their earflaps.

-173° Fahrenheit (-114° C)
· Ethyl alcohol freezes.
· Canadians get frustrated when they can't thaw the keg

-459.67° Fahrenheit (-273.15° C)
· Absolute zero; all atomic motion stops.
· Canadians start saying "cold, eh?"

-500° Fahrenheit (-295° C)
-Hell freeze's over
-Some of you guys make sense in your posts. Even Moosie

 

[mtmiller]

I can tell you that I have finally found the temperature that my gas grill doesn't work. I was grilling a couple pork chops and a steak the other night at -18F and the flame was very weak. I eventually got the chops sorta done, but it took a while. Nothing wrong with a little bloody pork chop is there?

 

[Randy11]

Yours is a beast Miller,
mine wouldn't work two nights ago at -7.