Baby, it's cold outside.

[vakkotaur]

Yes, I know it's colder elsewhere. But now it's cold here.

It's probably as well that Jay is away on business just now. It was below zero (F) when I got home last night and I could almost watch the temperature drop, as the sky was quite clear and heat could readily radiate off into the great heat sink of space.

This morning it was about -13 F out. I left early, wearing my windbreaker under my wool cloak and the fuzzy gloves my folks gave me for Christmas over my leather gauntlet gloves. That kept me warm, or at least not too cold, though it was a reminder of just how hard things can be with heavier gloves.

The garage door opener worked, though it grumbled a bit, and the car started on the first try - though it may have had to turn just a bit longer than usual. As this looks like the coldest it'll be this season, I think the battery will get through the winter. I should have a load test done next fall, though, and possibly get a replacement before next winter. I'm still on the original battery from 1997, so I don't expect it to last just too much longer.

Used the extra time to drive around a bit more than usual, to get things good and hot. The last couple evenings I've been doing that as well. And it looks like I'll be doing that again tonight.

The forecast actually has the temperature up in the 40s next week, which will be welcome, if a bit strange. I'm just hoping that the predicted snow for Saturday won't be too much. I'd like to get out and maybe go to Sioux Falls or something.

Comments

[frostyw.livejournal.com]

My understanding is that he's in Pennsylvania, not exactly much warmer than Minnesota right now.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Plans changed and he wound up in New York for most of the week. He called that night and asked of the temperature and the low (+0.6 F and -12.7 F) as someone there was complaining of it being only +13 F. The high in Fairmont that day was +7 F.

Today it's warmer. Already +10 F and it's snowing those biting small pellets that don't quite seem to count as snowflakes, though they are small and seem not to accumulate much.