Temp check!

[Texasgal]

What do you have your heat set on?

It's 41 degrees here in Austin TX. To natives like myself that's pretty cold. It'll get down to about 36 tonight.

My heat is set on 68.0... because am a Texan and a baby!

I seriously cannot imagine the cold that is being reported in the Midwest! YIKES!

Check in here: What's your temp? Are you keeping warm?

[MrGrieves]

1. -24 here in Minneapolis MN

The real feel temperature is at -55

[Texasgal]

5. Yikes!

That just sounds awful!!!

Are you keeping warm?

[MrGrieves]

7. Yeah we are good just got back from a hockey game

Yeah we are good just got back from a hockey game but it was indoors. The scary part is that several areas near me have lost power!

[bobbieinok]

19. That temp and no power! Are there shelters?

[MrGrieves]

24. Yeah I don't know what the plan is for those folks.

We have friends on the other side of the twin cities and we have a deal that our families will relocate for the noght if we lose power.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

36. There was a large encampment of mostly Native American people but I think

the city was able to find other shelters for them before the weather got bad. Minneapolis is generally pretty humane in the way it treats homeless people; I sure hope everybody was able to get out of the cold. I worry about animals, too.

[MrGrieves]

21. Check out this forecast

[AJT]

51. Ah, Edina....cake eater country. I lived there through high school.

It's supposed to get to -27 here in Madison tomorrow night.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

32. Isn't it lovely?

I don't think I'll go outside for a couple of days. Before the mid '90s or so we'd get a nasty cold snap or two every winter but we're not used to it any more.

[MrGrieves]

115. Yeah its great.

We did have a week long cold snap a few years ago but this is pretty nasty. Oh well doing some baking with the kids today

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

81. I lived in the Minneapolis in 1981 and 1982,

and I recall wind chills of at least that cold.

Not fun.

At the time we lived in the upper half of a duplex, which probably made our life better since we had the benefit of hot air rising. I can recall going down to pick up the mail and the temperature from our apartment to the mailbox being a LOT colder.

What I learned was to bundle up, although I already knew that from a childhood spent in northern New York State where temperatures were frequently -20 and colder, and who knew about wind chill in the 1950s?

Here's a story about windchill.

In 1970 I was living in the DC area. I happened to work for a small airline at DCA. In January of that year they were experiencing (then) record lows of 3, 4, maybe 5 degrees above zero. One morning, when I had a few days off and had decided to visit friends who lived in northern NYS, I waited for the bus to take me to DCA to catch the flight. It was so cold, and I was so miserable, that I was all but in tears from how bad it was. The radio had told me the wind chill made it feel like minus 20 degrees. Nasty.

So I took the bus (and it was at the bus stop that I was so incredibly miserable) and got on the plane to Utica, NY. When I got off, I laughed out loud, because I could tell the air temperature was -20, but it was no where near as awful as it had been an hour or so back in DC. And, sure enough, the large thermometer they had outside the entrance to the terminal clearly showed the -20.

Things like wind chill or relative humidity matter a lot.

Which is in no small part why I chose to live in Santa Fe, NM, where it simply doesn't get all that cold or all that hot, and since it's relatively dry here we don't have the complications that high humidity entail.

[brooklynite]

105. But it's a dry cold.....

[MrGrieves]

114. If only that were true.

Often it feels a lot colder here in Minny than it does at my buddy’s place in MT when the air temperature is colder than here.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Seattle here...about the same as you...nt

[slumcamper]

3. 9 below here in east central Iowa.

Heat set to 68. Toasty.

[MissB]

4. 40 in the Pacific Northwest

I keep mine at 69 degrees because when it’s wet, it seems colder.

[Texasgal]

11. Wet weather does seem colder

agreed!

I had a work convention in San Francisco a few years ago. I froze my ass off! The fog made me so cold!

Hope you are staying warm tonight!

[Blue_true]

6. I like the cold. My heating system has been off all winter.

I just I will crank it up for an hour or so some time, but I am in no rush.

[ProudLib72]

8. 20 degrees here in Boulder, CO

I like my house to be cold. I go for low 60s, maybe even into the 50s. It's 68 upstairs now, but I'm downstairs wearing shorts.

[beveeheart]

75. 18 degrees here in Broomfield, a few miles away.

Heat set at 68.

[Laffy Kat]

87. I'm between Boulder and Broomfield in Lafayette.

It was 12 F when I was driving home from work tonight around 10:30 p.m. It feels colder. I have both dogs and the kitteh in bed with me with the heating pad at my feet. Cozy.

[ProudLib72]

113. I have a dog, but she gets kicked out of bed when it's time for sleep

And every other time of the day, she insists on curling up on my pillows. Have you ever seen a 60 lb dog who can take up an entire queen sized bed?

[Laffy Kat]

116. Well I only have a double-size bed...

One 50-lb and one 40-lb dog and a cat who hates both of them, yet somehow we make it work.

[Poiuyt]

9. 59 here in Florida

But we’ll be leaving in a day to go back home to Wisconsin. It’s -11 there right now.

Believe it or not, I’d rather stay here.

[BigmanPigman]

10. My heat is in the ceiling of all places.

It is electric and costs a fortune and heats the lucky tenant upstairs before I begin to feel it. Who the Hell puts heat in the ceiling? I hadn't turned it on in over 20 years and opted for space heaters until this year. Southern CA does get cold at night (in the 40s) so I finally put the heat on a few weeks ago and it does still work I am happy to say. I am not looking forward to my bill though. For a 500 ft apt it will be $150 for a month.

[Texasgal]

14. Interestingly enough

My town house has a fire place in the living room AND in the bedroom!

Austin can get cold for sure, but it never lasts for too long. I've lived here for over 15 years and have only started the fire place once!

I hope you keep warm!

[LeftInTX]

42. Our fire place is completely shut.

It just seemed like it would let cold air in and roaches and whatever.

Then, we sealed the chimney when raccoons figured out how to open the flap. Forget it.

[Texasgal]

46. I always laugh

as a native central Texan... when the fist mild front hits after a hot summer you can smell the fire place soot all over the city!

Crazy!

[LeftInTX]

56. No need for them.

I don't like the smell and smoke etc. I don't "get it".

Even when I lived in Wisconsin, I didn't like fire places.

When we first moved to Texas, my parents had a mesquite and would chop and burn it in the fireplace.
For years their house smelled like a BBQ joint....(Groan...)

[Solly Mack]

12. 36 right now but in the 70's again by Friday.

The nights will be 20 degrees warmer by then.

Louisiana.

[Texasgal]

17. Thought I saw on the news

that LA and MS were gonna get snow?

Hope you are staying warm!

[Solly Mack]

25. No snow here. Maybe in the northern part of the state.

[fleur-de-lisa]

72. I'm in New Orleans. No snow predicted for us.

Folks further north in Louisiana will see some snow and sleet.

[MontanaMama]

13. 18 degrees in Missoula.

Should only get down to 15 or so tonight. We have had sun the last few days which has all of us a twitter. We don’t get much sun in the winter.

[Maru Kitteh]

88. It was -2 driving home west of Kalispell tonight.

But our high today 28. Yesterday was really beautiful - 37 here at the house.

[Lefta Dissenter]

15. -9 right now - on our way to -26 tonight.

I keep my thermostat at 68 during the day and 65 at night, but I have a nice little wood stove that keeps the house well up in the 70s. The dogs and I are pretty spoiled that way.

[Texasgal]

29. Thank goodness you have

the extra heat source!

Do you have a lot of snow? What do you do with the doggies? Are they able to go out?

[Lefta Dissenter]

44. We have about 10 to 12" of snow on the ground

I shovel areas and paths in my fenced back yard, and I now have a big tarp out there with horse bedding (wood shavings) spread on it. They’re learning that that’s easier on the feet. My dogs are small (10 and 7 pounds), so they don’t enjoy this weather at ALL. The older guy is very efficient at running out and doing his business and coming back in - all in about 20 seconds, but the youngster spends so much time sniffing around for the right spot that her feet hurt and she comes back in without having accomplished a thing. I was out with her earlier, trying to keep her on the bedded area and remind her to pee, but we were not successful. I might take them to a nearby horse barn tomorrow to let them run around in the indoor arena for a little bit. That could be a fun and productive adventure, unless we slide off the road on the way there!

[GreenEyedLefty]

16. Detroit area

1 degree. Feels like -17. Expecting actual temps in the minus double digits in the next 24 hours.

Indoor temp is set at 70. Furnace is running constantly. Here's hoping it keeps working.

[Texasgal]

30. Oh geeze!

That just sounds awful!

Hope you keep warm!

[FakeNoose]

86. In Pittsburgh we're down to 14 degrees, but it should be 0 by tomorrow night

Luckily no snow predicted, or maybe flurries with no accumulation.

I keep my thermostat set at 62 and I wear a lot of sweaters and hoodies. My dog doesn't complain.

[FreeState]

18. 66 here

Don’t have the heater on. Forecast low of 54° so I’ll turn it on around 11 (68°).

[bobbieinok]

20. Supposed to be in single digits tonight in northeast OK

[Corgigal]

22. 20 degrees in Berea Ky, which is 20 miles

outside of Lexington.

Tomorrow morning, will be -20.

[MLAA]

23. 57 in Southern Az

[EX500rider]

26. 56 right now, low of 45ish tonight, heat 70 now, 65 when i go to bed..Fla n/t

[Texasgal]

33. Lol!

We are such babies!

January is our coldest month in general. It's been pretty mild this year.

I hope you are keeping warm! That temp just sounds dreadful and confusing to this Texan!

[Ohiogal]

28. 12 degrees in NE Ohio right now

Feels like -3 with the wind chill.

Wind chills in the -20s all day tomorrow.

[Texasgal]

37. Holy MOLY!

That just sounds dreadful! I honestly think I would CRY!

I hope you are staying bundled up and warm!

[NRaleighLiberal]

31. 33 here in Raleigh NC at 11:15, heading for 21 degrees by 7 AM

we have our temps at 62 at night, 68 during the day indoors. Gas logs in our family room get use in the morning and our evening movie time.

Nice and cozy here, worried about the intense cold over so much of the country - stay warm and be safe, fellow DUers in the frigid zones!

[Horse with no Name]

34. 40 here in Dallas

Heater on 68 with a fuzzy blanket!
Stay warm everyone.

[Texasgal]

38. I'm with you.

We Texans are such babies!

My heat is at 68.0 and may very well go to 70.0 overnight!

[AJT]

35. -12 at 10pm in Madison.

[htuttle]

39. With a windchill of -40

Plenty of howling, piercing wind to go around.

[AJT]

43. I have my outside wall kitchen faucet dripping. I couldn't

find the shutoff for the outside water faucets.

[htuttle]

52. Same here

The washtub one down in the basement, too.

Our outside faucet doesn't have a shutoff either. Old house.

[Ellipsis]

54. Same here.

[MustLoveBeagles]

41. 2 degrees

I'm not sure about the windchill. I'm talking a few days off this week so I'm staying indoors as much as possible.

[LeftInTX]

45. San Antonio 42..I don't mind it

It's not windy.

My house has poor insulation, so I don't like windy cold.

[UniteFightBack]

47. It's a nice 35 degrees here in NY and my apartment is usually between 75-80 degrees plus.

I don't wear a bathrobe often and my winter slippers are flip flops around here.

[LeftInTX]

60. Some like it hot!!! LOL

[bullwinkle428]

48. -12, with a -37 wind chill in eastern Iowa right now.

Received our boss' blessing to stay home tomorrow, as forecast "high" is -13.

[benld74]

49. STL has 10 now, single digit negatives 2nite

[Ellipsis]

50. -14 with a balmy -44 windchill.

Thermostat is set at 73 with the only place were it's 73 is right next to the thermostat in this 170 year old farm house; Heated mattress pad and flannel sheets... it's the only way to ride.

[Glorfindel]

53. 23 degrees here in the southern Appalachians of north Georgia

predicted to get down to 18 degrees, but up to a blistering 36 degrees tomorrow. I don't know how anyone who lives in a really cold climate can stand it.

[912gdm]

55. 18 degrees in SE Indiana

the snow squalls are starting. my black trunk is covered in a nice white coating that looks like someone dusted it in fine sugar

[mrs_p]

57. -27F/feels like -50

Fargo, ND

Furnace set to 68

[dawg day]

58. It's 5 here-- negative 11 by 8 am

And this weekend? +45.
No, Mr. Trump, this isn't normal. A 16 degree drop in a few hours? A 56 degree swing in three days?
I've lived in the Midwest most of my life, and I've never seen swings like this.

[aeromanKC]

59. 9 in KC feel like -5

Tomorrow mid morning forecasted -5 feels like -17

Furnace set at 65 with a comfy comforter in my townhouse. Though tonight it's a fireplace night!! Toasty warm!!

[LakeSuperiorView]

61. -9 on the way to -24. Heat set for 60 overnight.

Means the furnace has to overcome 84 degrees from ambient temp in the middle of the night.

I like having some blankets on in winter. In summer, only a sheet or maybe nothing if it's hot.

[Hortensis]

108. But the view's still gorgeous in the minuses, right? :) We sleep the same way,

windows open as much as possible also. Unfortunately, I usually wake up in the small hours, not pleasant getting up at 60, but I can't see heating the whole house instead of just the little sitting room off the kitchen that I head for in very cold weather.

That said, we're in Florida now but same situation here today. Thanks for the polar vortex, Deniers.

[jcgoldie]

62. 7 degrees at 10:30 pm in southern Illinois...

Wrapped all the beehives with blankets today and brought a couple Nubi goats who could kid in the next couple of days into the basement. I do also have one of these weather stations up outside though and it says the wind at the moment is 2 mph... 7 degrees and "feels like" 7. I know the temp is going low forecast says -9 (I know thats nothing compared to you tough Minnesota DUers)... but I'm holding out hope the wind stays relatively calm through midday tomorrow... that would make a HUGE difference.

[IcyPeas]

63. 58 SoCal

[WillowTree]

64. -8 actual.......Chill factor is -30.

[democratisphere]

65. 12 degrees with temperatures steadily dropping combined

with Lake Effect Snows. Upstate NY.

[smirkymonkey]

66. 37 here in Boston.

Not too bad. We seem to be escaping the worst of it. Much better than a week ago when it was in the low single digits. Stay warm and inside everyone. I don't even turn my heat on in this weather because my building is so warm. I like it cold, especially at night.

I grew up in upstate NY and we never really heated the upstairs. Just lots of warm blankets, so I love sleeping in cold air with lots of covers. I feel suffocated by the artificial heat.

[lapfog_1]

67. fun fact

Fairbanks, AL is 120 miles from the Arctic circle.

Tomorrow in the early morning it will be 50F WARMER (wind chill taken into account) in Fairbanks than the upper Midwest (Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc).

but yeah, the climate is "normal" according to Repukes and Twitler.

[Luciferous]

68. -11 here with a wind chill of -35. Have the heat set at 68. Will probably have the fireplace on

tomorrow when it gets even colder!

[jalan48]

69. A cool 41 here on the Oregon coast.

[SoCalDem]

70. thermostat 70.... outside temp 34 (98531 zip)..n/t

[Kali]

71. 44 out

only 66 in, needs a bit more heat in here, my hair is still damp from swimming earlier today. brrrrr

[Bayard]

73. Sub-zero wind chills here tonight, with some snow

The actual high tomorrow will be 14 degrees in southern Kentucky. Worrisome for the farm animals, but have them tucked in as well as possible.

No thermostat. Have the wood stove cranked up in our log cabin, and electric heaters in a couple other rooms. Water dripping in the kitchen sink. Spousal unit is traveling, so no supplemental body heat. The wiener pup and I love our 'lectric blankey!

[DFW]

74. I have the thermostat in the room set at 20

That's 68° F, and it's about 1° C (33° F) and rainy outside here in downtown Brussels (here for the day). I don''t know if it'll improve later on (6:30 AM now).

Tomorrow, I have to be in Berlin, which is fairly close to the Polish border, so I'm expecting it to be quite a bit colder.

[House of Roberts]

76. It's 21 in North Alabama. That's supposed to be our low.

I have the woodstove set on medium. It's not hot enough to sizzle the water in the bowl on top.

[3catwoman3]

77. -12 actual and -36 windchill in a far northwest...

...Chicago suburb.

Thermostat set at 69 right now. We usually turn it down to 60 when we go to bed, but maybe not tonight.

[Demonaut]

78. 17 in Denver

[emulatorloo]

79. -14, feels like -36 here in eastern Iowa

[Mendocino]

80. 2 with WC -20 now,

-12 with WC -37 forecasted at 10AM this morning.

NW Ohio

My buddy lives in Ely MN. There will be as low as -33 with WC of -47.

[Talitha]

82. - 24 with a wind chill of -47 here in northern WI

And it's supposed to be worse tomorrow night.
There are benefits, though...
No Fire Ants, Rattlers, Scorpions or Tarantulas.

[Baltimike]

83. 26 here in Baltimore. nt

[riversedge]

84. -24 mid Wisconsin Wind Chill -49

-24° RealFeel® -50°
Clear

Winds from the WNW
13 mph
Humidity: 61%
Pressure: 30.18 in
UV Index: 0
Cloud Cover: 0%
Ceiling: 2469 ft
Dew Point: -34° F
Visibility: 9 mi

Sunrise/Sunset

Sunrise: 7:26 AM
Sunset: 5:09 PM
Duration: 9:43 hr

Moonrise/Moonset

Moonrise: 3:19 AM
Moonset: 1:00 PM
Duration: 9:41 hr

Astronomy
TEMPERATURE SUMMARY 1:05 AM
Temp (°F)
Now -24°
Yesterday -50°
RealFeel® -50°
RealFeel® Shade -50°
Wind Chill -49°

[LeftInTX]

111. Yikes!!

I know in WI, we had windchill factors when there was no wind. (Well maybe it was 5 mph)

Right now, I'm sitting pretty in balmy San Antonio and we actually have a wind chill. There is no visible wind and it's cloudy.

Mostly Cloudy 41 degrees
Humidity 55%
Wind Speed NE 6 mph
Barometer 30.25 in (1023.8 mb)
Dewpoint 26°F (-3°C)
Visibility 10.00 mi
Wind Chill 37°F (3°C)
Last update 30 Jan 8:51 am CST

[Cha]

85. 69 degrees where I am on Kauai..

Feels like 50!

Used to live in New York up by the Adirondack so I appreciate the weather here! It's 6 degrees in the Adirondacks.

Stay Warm, Texans!

[Mister Ed]

89. -26 out on my back porch in Minnesota. n/t

[wishstar]

90. 18 in NC but expecting 50's and 60's by Friday through next Wednesday

Always glad to have moved here from Great Lakes after college

[pansypoo53219]

91. -18 or so outside. 62 inside. i have many layers on. how many layers can you take off in summer?

we did not have a day over 90f this summer. HA HA,

[obamanut2012]

92. 51 this morning in SOFL

BRRR

[malaise]

93. 73

Heading for our morning walk.

[hatrack]

94. 2 below here in Kansas City

The good news - it's dead still. On our way to a balmy 8 this afternoon.

[ProfessorGAC]

95. Minus 20 at 5 am/Chicago Area

[nuxvomica]

96. 24 F in Queensbury, NY

I just finished clearing about a foot of snow from the driveway.

[Vinca]

97. 20 where I am. The vortex is inching closer, but I don't think we'll get it as bad as the midwest.

[Sancho]

98. If it gets to freezing here, I'll have to move South....

high about 60 today in Clearwater, FL.

We hear there are caravans coming from the North and Midwest. You may as well turn back now - we're building a wall.

[Delphinus]

99. -15 / -40 windchill

House (125+ years old) set at 69 - never really gets there. I'm about to go put on another layer.

NE Indiana

[leftyladyfrommo]

100. -5 in Kcmo north.

Not too bad. Wind has died down. I have so many layers on I can hardly move.

[Cairycat]

101. -24,windchill makes it feel like -46

third day of no school, no mail delivery today. We have our heat cranked to 70, but it's pretty chilly near the windows (drafty 98 year old house).

[LeftInTX]

112. Wow, third day of no school!!

Never had that in WI...school was cancelled for one day due to cold.

[mindem]

102. -39

I have honestly reached the point that I know I am going to sell the house and move to a warmer climate. It costs me around $500 a month to heat this old place during a Minnesota winter. Tired of it.

[Johnny2X2X]

103. High is supposed to be 0 here today in Grand Rapids, MI

Windchill -30

An hour South it's much colder though. Kalamazoo might see -20 today with Windchills 50 below.

[madaboutharry]

104. -20

-20 with a wind chill of -41.

[Nay]

106. 25 in Richmond, VA. Thermostat set at 70.

[mn9driver]

107. Minus 31 in Minneapolis this morning.

Time to go see if the car will start.

[iamateacher]

109. 14 degrees in the Philly burbs

High tomorrow is 18.

[mcar]

110. 46 in Central Florida

Thinking about friends and family in the north.

Heat is at 67 but I turned it off this morning.