How Is The Weather Where You Are?

It was -20 (twenty below) yesterday morning here actual temperature.

You know how in Arizona they say "it's a dry heat" to make 120 degrees sound bearable? Well yesterday was a dry -20 so it wasn't bad.

haha I know all about the dry heat thing.... lived in the california desert long enough... didn't bother me nearly as much as the tourists... since then I have lived in TX and we get humid heat... specially Houston... 3 years in Houston and I swear every day was humid, some worse than others. 90º feels like 110 easily but 110 and sticky as well. san antonio isn't to bad on the humidty but still not as dry as that west coast heat :)

For me once it goes below 40 it's cold... I start putting on layers. 40-50 I'm good with Jeans and a longsleeve, maybe a hoody if it's windy. 30-40 I put on thermals under my jeans, hoody is required even if it's not windy. below 30 and I start complaining. my bottom layers progress to multiple pairs of socks, thermals, jeans and top is t shirt, longsleeve, hoody and if it's really bad a leather jacket too.

I don't do well with the cold. did 3.5 years in ohio... hated every winter and half the year. the last winter I was there it was -16º with a -30º windchill... that was the final straw and I moved to TX. 2013 I had the fun of learning the wonders and miseries of a wood burning stove for heat. my final project of first year of AmeriCorps was with Habitat for Humanity in Rockport, Maine... in late October / 1st week of Nov. anyone who knows anything about maine and other far north states, know it gets cold much earlier than less northern states. well our housing was at an old summer camp. our 2 cabins (1 for girls 1 for guys) were insulated (thank the lord! cause the ones without got cold and stayed cold even when it was 60º in the afternoon) but had no heat or ac, just a wood burning stove and 3 bunk beds, well 4 but one of my team mates pushed 2 together to make 1 large bed haha. early evening, not to bad. get the fire going nice and toasty warm... but you know what happens to wood when you burn it... it turns to ash... you need to add more wood. who's gonna stay up all night and keep that fire going... none of us! sooo that fire would go out maybe an hour or two after going to sleep... cabin kept warm a little while till one of my dumbass team mates would open the window cause he was hot.... and leave it open all night and just curl up in his sleeping bag. so much for the warmth. so yeah when we would wake up and it was 23º outside it was freezing in the cabin... i swear by the time our project was done I was about 1 day from locking him outside the cabin... put the bunks against the door or something. anyways... yeah woodfire stoves, great source of heat... when you're awake.

I have both a wood stove and a propane furnace (we don't have natural gas on my road) and I keep that wood stove cranked. It's usually 73-77 degrees in here. My years in trucking where you're used to waking up and going back to sleep 20 times a day really helps with keeping the stove going at night. I always get up a time or two during the night to fill it.

Eventually I'm going to get a new place and I'm going to install a huge coal/wood combo furnace.

20 below the other day was pretty darn cold though I've gotta tell ya. I put a couple of heat lamps in the coop to help the chickens a little bit during temps that low and they spent the majority of their time huddled underneath it. But heck, it's going up to like 30 today so we're packing for a picnic at the beach!

Currently in the Hartford CT area: 37 degrees. Mix of snow/sleet and rain, last night. Roads have been treated so all good now.

Im in Austin, TX and my current temperature reading is 77 and sunny.

Loving it!!

But heck, it's going up to like 30 today so we're packing for a picnic at the beach!

yeah... ughhh... you have fun with that one brett... still to cold for me haha granted after -20 +30 would feel quite nice I know that from my experience of living in ohio haha

it's funny when I lived in the california desert... 60º felt cold to me... like I would be dressing as if it was 40º. now 60º and i'm in shorts and a t shirt. but I guess when you're used to 120º in the summer 60 in the winter is kind of cold.