emergency announcement.

[AllaN01Bear]

just learned through a friend at church who said that her neigbor froze to death the other nite . it was 30 degees f in sonora ca 95370 last nite .
please check the eldery and frail at this time . last nie in parts of extreme northwestern ( mendcino etc ) the temps were 16 degrees f. i shudder with the temps in the great lakes reigion w the snow

[Karadeniz]

1. Such sad news... we need to be our brothers' keepers....

[Tetrachloride]

2. A friend came very close to death with temperatures in

the 40s. She had fallen outside on icy grass and was lying there for hours.

I was one of the 8 closest neighbors. 300 yards or so.

[Marthe48]

3. Hard to believe it got so cold in CA

My cousin in in Tampa says it has been cold there, not that cold, but she isn't used to it.

[NullTuples]

6. Sonora is at about 3000 feet on the West side of the Sierra Nevadas

It doesn't get down to freezing often, maybe a dozen nights in December and January. But we've crossed the threshold into the start of an era of chaotic weather, so I would expect more "hard to believe" reports in the future.

But also, there are many places in California especially in the valley, the mountains to the East and along the Northern coast that have snow every year.

[AllaN01Bear]

7. more like 1800 feet acording to a friends of mine altimeter .

we do. parts of the mendicino coast was 16 degrees f and the high desert , i can really get cold at night.

[NullTuples]

9. You are of course correct.

I dated someone from Sonora many, many, many years ago (I think I was 20 and Sonora was a tiny little mountain town) but still just did a quick Google lookup without thinking about the results. My apologies!

[spanone]

4. K&R

[Joinfortmill]

5. So very sad.

[Sympthsical]

8. It is very cold in NorCal overnight

It was 34 the other morning when I woke up. Forecast to 32 for tonight. I'm next to Napa.

It isn't super unusual - we have cold periods like this pretty much every winter. But people think California = warm and forget it can be dangerous to those who cannot afford heating or do not have it on overnight. We don't have our furnace on overnight, and this house is icy in the mornings.

Check your peeps.

[homegirl]

19. I am in

Santa Rosa and it is predicted to be 29 degrees tonight. Having enduerd many Scandinavian minus 30 centigrade winters I don't complain.

[SergeStorms]

10. It's a balmy 23 degrees in the Buffalo area....

right now. It'll dip down to a low of 16 degrees tonight, then a gradual warm-up to the low 40s on Thanksgiving Day.

With winter still a month away, I've got a feeling this winter will be one for the record books.

[Tanuki]

11. How terribly sad. Thank you for bringing it to our attention so we can

remember to check on those who might be at risk.

[MiHale]

12. Northern Michigan here...

Winter started in November, quite unusual. temps in the 20’s. Thing is though we’ve got the gear to be ok just gotta get it out early.
Love winter but not this early.

[LeftInTX]

16. Winter always started in November when I lived in Wisconsin.

Snow was common in October in Northern WI.
That was 40-50 years ago.

Usually by Thanksgiving, it was pretty bad.

[Demsrule86]

13. Oh no...that is awful. I didn't even realize it was that cold in California...

[Tribetime]

14. That's awful so sad 🙏

[jeffreyi]

15. 4 degrees.

Yes, California. But 10 years ago, it would have been 10 below.

[CBHagman]

17. Bumping

Thank you for mentioning this.

[KentuckyWoman]

18. Rec & Kick

Good reminder. Thank you.

[czarjak]

20. That global warming/climate change hoax has legs.

[calimary]

22. And dead bodies.

More every day.

[Blue Owl]

21. K&R for visibility

[CaptainTruth]

23. So sad...

[sarcasmo]

24. Two nights ago in Wisconsin we were 3 degrees windchill.

[ratchiweenie]

25. It's been -5, -6, -3, etc every morning for the last week. We're in Montana. Guess

that's why they call it Montana because I live in the Bitterroot range of the Rockies. It's been winter for a couple of weeks. Getting up to 20 or so during the days. Early for it to be this cold but certainly not weird. If anything, we have been having much warmer weather and more rain in Western Montana but on the Highline and plains, Montana is in severe draught. We moved back to Montana from North Central Oregon where our summers were typically getting up to 105 and even 110. I'm in my 70's and realized I could take the cold and even the rain increase here outside of Missoula much easier than I could take +100 for months on end. So glad we moved home.

Miss the trips to the Oregon Coast but don't miss 110F even one tiny bit!!!!

[sarcasmo]

26. Cold weather is easier than the dripping sweat of 100+ degrees.