Sissy stuff to keep warm with during the "VORTEX"?

[Betty]

Brrr. Floors suddenly got cold as it dips down to a windy 16F outside with a wind chill of 1F! Had to wear my thicker winter socks again. Won't be sitting on the floor playing with the kitties for a while. What little snow we had last week was all melted away by Sat. morning. It looks we got about a half a foot more today.

[Betty]

Once again the weather peeps become drama queens on the news for the hype & ratings, rather than do their job & report the facts.

It started earlier today when they reported on camera outside that we had white-out conditions downtown. On camera, I can see 2 blocks down the street. It was a common snow flurry, not a white-out. With white-out conditions, you'd hardly be able to see across the street. During the live newscast, I look out my window. I see the top of a building 2 blocks away. No white-out here, just a couple miles from downtown either. Just a snow flurry.

Tonight on the news, the drama queens are reporting how lucky this "storm" & "emergency" conditions happened on Sunday instead of Monday. What storm? What emergency? They were reporting live outside. In the background you can clearly see no snowbanks except a couple real tiny ones, & only a few inches of snow on the ground... meanwhile, on camera, it was not snowing at all. I got about 4-6" of snow in the yards around here.

Then they report city crews worked hard & tirelessly around the clock to have all the snow cleared off the streets by Monday. WTF are they talking about? It was a snow flurry & we got only 4-6" of snow. If the city crews did NOTHING, it would have made absolutely no difference to us at all Monday with only 4-6" on the ground.

[Betty]

Breezy 13F (-11C) with a wind chill of -2F (-19C)! Overnight & morning lows in the teens expected for at least a week. I guess the polar vortex is here to stay for a while, but I'll be extremely pissed off if it's still in the 20s F in April again.

[Betty]

10F (-12C), wind chill -4F (-20C) this morning. There goes all the money I saved on heating energy last month. Meanwhile in Anchorage, Alaska, it's a toasty 25F.

Our hottest visitor was in Bangkok where it is partly cloudy & a humid 90F, making it feel like 100F. Our coldest visitor, once again is in Winnipeg at -9F.

[BillieJo]

Mmmmmm.....Sunday morning we woke up to -12degrees and windy. Its been below zero here for well over a week now.

[Betty]

Are you talking C or F or win chill, or just the pre-dawn hours? I'm seeing 22F there & my weather trackers didn't pick up any below zero F temperatures in the lower 48 states this week, but with the high winds earlier this week, there were many below zero wind chills. 0C isn't that bad because that's only 32F. I don't even bother putting on a coat at 5C unless I'm gonna be outside for more than a half an hour.

[samantha1]

uk has been at -3c for the last few days and i feel it allot espically as i am getting up at 6am every morning too open my friends shop

[Betty]

Pre-dawn & dawn are usually the coldest part of the day not the middle of the night. We get more visitors from  the London area & it's suburbs than any other city in the world (NYC is a very close second place). I see it's currently -5C (23F) there. Yep, that's cold for London. Even though they're further north than my town, the warming effects of the gulf stream help keep their winters a little warmer than ours.

But they'll have highs in the teens C (50s F) by Friday again. They're expecting up to 6C (42F) for Thur.

Our current hottest visitor is in Sydney at 93F (34C). After today, things will cool down to the 80s & 70s (20s C) for the next 2 weeks... unusually cool for this time of the year down there. Our coldest visitor is in Fairbanks at 2F (-17C). They're expecting -19F (-28C) by dawn there. Friday night they're expecting a wind chill of -30F (-34C).

[Betty]

The east coast of the USA continues to get slammed by a big snow storm. Areas normally too warm south of us to get much snow most of the winter have or will get a foot or more of it.

The snow totally missed us in the Allentown Arts district of Buffalo. No additional snow, so it's only a few inches of old snow around here. But it's still very cold, fortunately there is less wind today to make it worse. 18F (-8C) with a wind chill of 8F (-13C).

By Sunday it may get up to 30F (-1C), & maybe 40F (4C) by Tuesday.

Our current hottest visitor is from Bangkok at only 82F (28C). Our coldest visitor is from Moscow at 1F (-17C).

46F (8C) in London. 27F (-3) in NYC. We get more visitors from those 2 cities (or their suburbs) than any other area in the world.

[Angela M...]

Hey Betty, so glad you didn't get all that snow. Like you it is pretty cold out up here too so I have stayed indoors most of the day. I did venture out for milk and bread and to check my Loto numbers though. I am still poor but hoping as usual to win something tonight. I just hate the cold weather now even though I loved it when I was younger. I have not been skiing or skating for some years now and not sure if I should try the skating again as my doctor says my hips are weak and could break easily if I fall. I miss gliding along the ice and showing off my moves but old age puts limitations on a persons body. The friends I had that were into Ballet in Toronto have all retired to teaching these days and I am out of touch now. One of my favourite pastimes was watching the dancers at the National Ballet during their practice or better yet the students at the National Ballet School. I have great admiration for them as it was brutal just seeing their pain and injuries to their feet. Ballet is not really for sissies if you are a dedicated dancer. Stay warm with your kitties Betty and lets hope spring is not too far away.