Bad Weather Arrives

[Fullbore92]

We have some wild weather going on here in Washington state too retrieverman. 18°F with a steady 33mph wind with gusts at 60mph+ wind chill is -3°
Edit* forgot to mention the heavy freezing rain that started about an hour ago.

 

[SuperKirby]

I was out for about 6 hours on the tractor today trying to move all the snow we got yesterday. I’m responsible for our farm and the lady up the road. I think the average temp during that time was -9 and windchills about -29. It was cold.

 

[fishhawk2700]

yep here in up state n.y. i going to get 3ft of snow, tonight, very windy, now

Eastern Lake Erie. Gale warnings. Waves 12-18 ft. with possible 22 ft. Winds to 72 mph.

 

[labbypoint]

well snow moved till sat, now, its raining, windy, lost power for few hours, and its 40 degs now

 

[edmehlig]

WOW! Where I live in Easton, PA it is 56 Degrees at 5:30 this morning and it is supposed to drop to about 10 degrees tonight at 10PM.

 

[Harley469]

I wanted cold and snow here in N IL/IA- we got a little snow and whole lotta cold. The wind is another story though- that is gonna put a halt to any hunting I wanted to do today. Unless you are in a box blind in our area, virtually impossible to keep warm enough with this wind. The deer have to eat at some point, but I don't think they want to travel very far in this wind and cold to get to that food. What do the rest of you think about hunting in this wind in regard to productivity? Huntwise is giving today five stars??? Hunstand is saying today is a crappy hunting day. Personally, I am not a big fan of Huntwise. Yes, the temp drop was a great movement indicator, but the wind, in my opinion cancels that out.

 

[Okie Hog]

We live west of Lawton, OK. Woke up at 04:00, wind began howling and gusting to about 60 mph. The temperature dropped 20 degrees in an hour. The lights were blinking off: i was sure the power would fail. Evening temperature was 7 degrees and the wind was gusting to 35 mph.

This morning the temperature is 9 degrees with a wind chill of -9 degrees. High temperature today is forecast at 24 degrees.

A nice warmup is forecast for next week. i need one more deer.

 

[HC]

Central Indiana, -9 , wind chill -38

 

[Harley469]

Seems like everyone is on the forums this morning because virtually none of us are headed out to hunt. I love late season hunting, and it looks like Christmas Day is going to be a much better hunting day up our way (N IL/IA)-I don't think the wife will be too big on that however.

 

[10acres]

-5 here this morning and I don’t hear the wind howling like it was last night.

 

[deermanok]

8 degrees here in Antlers, Oklahoma this morning. The wind isn't too bad.
We had a water line freeze up.
Haven't figured out exactly where yet.

 

[10acres]

8 degrees here in Antlers, Oklahoma this morning. The wind isn't too bad.
We had a water line freeze up.
Haven't figured out exactly where yet.

Same here. A frozen water line in my basement but I know where and thawing it out right now. It’s behind a finished wall though.

 

[retrieverman]

On my front porch. The wind is still howling. I have no idea what the wind chill might be.

 

[Ax Handle]

bucks have disappeared... they dont seem to like it any more than i do

 

[michiganmuzzy]

On my front porch. The wind is still howling. I have no idea what the wind chill might be.
View attachment 29158

If you know the wind speed…
A good way to find the wind-chill temperature can be figured by multiplying the wind speed by 0.7 and then subtracting that from the air temperature.

Or this chart

 

[10acres]

Well my water line is thawed out and good to go, no rupture so on to the next job.

We also only got around an inch of snow. The weatherman played this up like the storm of the century.

 

[nodanlboone]

Not in Kentucky, either! 3" snow, 40 mph wind, -29...........

 

[retrieverman]

From the chart MM posted, my wind chill is probably around -15*.

 

[GBG]

Here in west central AL the temp dropped from 51F to 9F at my place overnight. I know that's balmy to many who've posted, but I've worn T-shirts in Nov. thru Feb. The wind blew all night long. In the doldrums wind of any kind is always ominous. At least we're not getting F4 tornados like Dec. 2000.

 

[bronko220002]

Well today here in PA we're getting a "bomb cyclone" Just about every form of precipitation you can think of. Right now its snowing and the snow is blowing in all different directions. This is after it was raining all night. Going to be fun being on the roads tonight. Snow, black ice freezing rain, etc.