It made it to plus 42F today. I was busy hauling items I had acquired over the first half of the winter to the Cicely model structure for inclusion over there. There were some vehicles and also some circus items, including a rather impressive old-style merry-go-round. I also was finally able to put away the collection of eight various Aristocraft Milwaukee Road heavyweights plus the four Milwaukee streamliners into the unheated storage area. Until now it was too cold to even attempt to enter the building. There was a high risk of accidentally damaging something in the process of moving all that rolling stock over there in the extreme frigid air. All is now safely in storage and out of my way, awaiting mid-April when I finally begin assembling my consists for the summer.
Ron sent us his first winter present. -14 this morning when I got up.
The cold is on its way hear. Suppose to be below zero tonight and tomorrow. ALthough like AK
Well, I’m headin to Florida this afternoon…we’ll see what the temps are like down there…
It’s gonna be cold, but you might want to stay when you see what home is doing 
Well, I just got another load of firewood, so the wife will be happy…she hates using the thermostat. I have a thermometer on the dash of the truck and it’s interesting watching the temps go up as I head down there and then watchin it plummet as I head north…from 90+ to 20 in 24 hours.
Ken Brunt said:heck it will do that in St. Louis in 12 hours and you don't have to drive anywere.
Well, I just got another load of firewood, so the wife will be happy................she hates using the thermostat. I have a thermometer on the dash of the truck and it's interesting watching the temps go up as I head down there and then watchin it plummet as I head north...................from 90+ to 20 in 24 hours.
Lets see the website said 2 when I checked it in St. Louis. Here at work its 65 already and they are sayiong 79 for a high today. was a bit cool this morning had to put my jacket on over my golf shirt on my way to get coffee.
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It never dropped below freezing last night. Instead we have had some heavy gusts. Now I have some repair work to do on awnings built above parts of the model railroad and model railroad walkways. About half of the winter snow accumulation is already melted. Typically this means we are heading toward another cold spell. This kind of weather never lasts long this far north.
Images taken this morning of the temperatures over Alaska and Canada reveal the dramatic shift of the arctic air mass toward the southeast (relative to Alaska):
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Lookit the temperatures them Rooskies are having to put up with! :lol:
Just think how cold it could have been if we were not in the middle of a planet warming crisis as declared by Al Gore.
Big Joohn
Steve Featherkile said:
Lookit the temperatures them Rooskies are having to put up with! :lol:
Yes, look at the Siberian black hole:
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I feel so personally responsible for the Gorebal Warming that has caused these unreasonably high temps in sunny Siberia. I know its because of the car I drove as a youth. Shouldn’t it be at least -80 at this time of year? The personal pain I feel, is almost more than I can handle. Had “Italian Beef” made with a deer meat roast tonight. I know, I should have had tofu. But it sure was delicious. I feel so much better, because that deer can’t fart one more time.
Ric, I feel you pain. As a yout, I drove a 1962 Studebaker Pickup that had a 289 with a 4 barrel in it. I could pass every thing but a gas station. Then I upgraded to my Mustang.
Still, all of the trees I have planted on my railroad have equalized out my carbon foot print.
Ron, isn’t that black hole about where that meteor hit Siberia back in the early 1900’s?
Steve Featherkile said:
Ric, I feel you pain. As a yout, I drove a 1962 Studebaker Pickup that had a 289 with a 4 barrel in it. I could pass every thing but a gas station. Then I upgraded to my Mustang. Still, all of the trees I have planted on my railroad have equalized out my carbon foot print. Ron, isn’t that black hole about where that meteor hit Siberia back in the early 1900’s?
Not quite. The meteor landed at a place called Podkamennaya on the Tunguska River right in the very middle of Siberia.
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I don’t feel anyone’s pain when it comes to global warming. Keep it coming. We could definitely use more of it here in Alaska. None of those phony carbon off-sets, either. We want REAL warmth up here !
-31C here in Ottawa tonight…just a little bit of Siberia, a bit North of the USofA
It’s called “Glowball” warming around here…!!!
Five degrees here this morning. High of about 25 degrees today. Temperatures are below average, but are not record lows.
Ralph
I’m thinking Pravda is more likely right. Ice Age coming 