Lots more of winter to come.

Usually I don't feel like this until mid to late February. We need a break from this extreme cold, wind and snow. It has been too severe for too long at this point.

We get it starting tomorrow here in Minnesota. It'll move your way, I guarantee.

We are supposedly going to start warming up, tomorrow, with RAIN in the forecast for Thursday. Unfortunately I also saw 'ice to rain' in Wednesday's forecast. Hopefully that won't happen. The last time I saw something like that in the forecast, we lost power for a week.

....damned ridge of H pressure is keeping it above normal temps here and the east coast and South are getting all our allotted snow! We have a little on the ground so its white but its been freezing rain for 2 days so its covered with a slick glaze and I'm not even going out to get the mail!

It's in the low teens today and I'm still able to go out without a jacket.

Sorry... 🌴🤙🏻

Still, I would gladly take it over the negative double digits (w/ wind chill) we are having here in Boston! Stay warm!

Hope it moves along to help the East. And we need snow! Have only had about 3 in. in my area so far this season.

and my legs sting from the cold when I'm out for just a minute or two to put food out for them in my yard.

I've got shelters--some of which have heating pads--and an electric water heater for them, but not all the cats are using shelters, and they are shivering hard when they come out for food.

For us, the worst cold is coming tonight. I don't know how they are going to survive. I think a kitten I started seeing a week before the blizzard has already perished, as I haven't seen it for two days.

Why aren't they using the shelters?

to keep them heated. Most are very feral. The kitten would run away if it saw me looking at it through the window.

But I just checked again, and at least one cat is using a shelter right now. I was able to scoop up two strays (as opposed to ferals) to keep inside until the cold snap breaks.

Three shelters are insulated and heated, and another is insulated with a deep straw bedding. I hope all the cats will relent and use them when it dips to 4 below zero tonight, with wind to boot.

And I sure hope that kitten returns. I saw it just after the blizzard and thought it was a miracle it had made it that long. Fingers crossed it is holed up under my porch.

I hope they make it through this cold snap!

No not the kitten.

The ferocious wind blew snow into a small shelter with two openings. I just cleaned snow and ice out, put down some fresh straw and threw in some dry food and smelly cat treats. I hope that will lure them to safety.

I will post if I get good news about the kitten. It's only about nine or ten weeks old. I'm heartsick for it.

money. He makes me take it and I just turn around and buy him cat food with it.

I always say there are three things that will make me go out to the store no matter how much I want to stay home: no coffee, no toilet paper and no cat food.

Here's a teenager I rescued from under our porch when he was a kitten last summer. He and his littermates have homes and his feral Mom is spayed.

It almost looks like Kitty is wearing a pussyhat

It is under a table and covered with a tarp, so they have a nice vestibule for food and water too. We give them hot chicken broth at night and they seem happy. One feral (actually an abandoned pet) moved into our kitchen the minute it dropped below freezing. He likes to sleep on the heating vent.

Thanks for taking care of them.

It sounds as if you have a perfect set up for them.

Be the snowflake. Become the ice.

Also, I have a horrible cold that I can't get rid of, so that is making me a little cranky about everything. Maybe I will order some Chinese food tonight and enjoy my cozy blankets.

Just kidding. At the grocery store yesterday, everyone in the parking lot was actually groaning in pain when a gust of wind came. Stay warm!

But we have had a few weeks of frigid temps and very high winds here in Boston, not to mention a major storm and flooding. This is kind of unusual for this early in the season. I am actually quite cozy right now, it only sucks if I have to go outside. Also, I think it's supposed to get back up into the 30's next week, so compared to this it's going to feel like spring!

I am in the North East as well, so I am certainly used to this kind of weather, but as you say, not this early in the season. I play a little game with myself to get through winter. I count the days remaining until May 1, because I figure that is when the weather is just perfect for working outside. As of today, there are 115 days left, which is only 31% of a year! That will go by quickly! Right? RIGHT????

And 46 here by Tacoma WA.
We got cold around Christmas......

8 months in Australia, 4 up here in our summers.

To move w/ the weather! To northern Europe in the summer and someplace that is in the 50's or 60's in the winter.

winds. The wind chill is in the double digits below zero. I can barely hold my own against the wind.

Hopefully temps will rise soon!

Which seems cold, but comparatively, it will seem like spring to us!

I know we've had cold days like this before but this stretch of it is just longer and harsher than usual. It's nuts. Looks like we just gotta survive Sunday and we'll start warming up. I saw boston itself might see 48 on Thursday!

we have had so many brutally cold days for such a long stretch. It is very trying, but like you said, I think next week will be much better!

better today than the last two weeks as that 13 was a warm up here.
Tomorrow the thirties and climbing . It will be your way soon I hope .

Right? I hope so anyway!

What bizarre weather patterns we are having here. Hope you are able to stay cool! I hate both extremes. Don't like extreme cold or heat. If only I had the money to migrate during certain seasons it would be great!

Stuck out here in MI.




Saw the story and it fits with the extremes we are seeing.

holidays. I am just snuggled up in bed with Vicks vapor rub and hot compresses. It seems to be doing the trick, although I am really tired of being sick.

The plane passed Newark, passed Manhattan, and was almost at Montauk before it turned around to head to La Guardia. I was worried that the pilot would tell us the winds were too strong, and land us in Rochester, or some place like that, and then tell us they were organizing buses to bring us down to the city. Eventually, we did land at LGA, although almost 2 hours late for a flight that wasn't supposed to last much more than 2 hours in the first place.

However I think the wind was a problem for them as well. I am so tired of hearing the wind whip outside my window. It's very eerie. I just wish it would die down.

I remember being totally freaked out at the wailing of the Banshee in the film "Darby O'Gill and the Little People."

Less than 20 years later, Leo Kottke came out with his song "Hear The Wind Howl," and I hear that song every time the banshee wails.

It's getting downright creepy!

My wife just got in from Vermont. She said it was 20 below with a constant blizzard and wind that would even make a banshee nervous.

back in the 50's. Of course people here still think that's cold lol

We are supposed to get back up into the 30's, but I will take that over these sub-Arctic temps that we are having now.

It's been a little colder this year, but last winter I never even wore a coat.

my back gave out. Hubby, who is still recuperating from his spinal surgery, still cannot go out and was under strict orders from his doc that he not attempt to go out in the ice and snow. He called our next door neighbor who is coming over to finish getting the snow off the car.

New England is very inhospitable this time of year.

I've got an MRI coming up on Tuesday and a neighbor is driving me. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate.

I hope the weather gets better there. I think we are due for a warm up in the region!

It is 72 today, in L.A. area. Supposed to get some rain next week, and daytime highs in the low 60s.

to warm up, we are getting snow, freezing rain, rain and back to snow again, sounds great.
I have to drive to Columbus Monday 130 miles.

I want it NOW!!!

Thermometer in the car was -5 when I went to the store.

it means that there's only ten weeks until the Vernal Equinox!

And even if he DOESN'T see the shadow of his mammoth ass, there's STILL only ten weeks until the Vernal Equinox!

Isn't it nice to know that he can't even screw THAT up?

(Me, I'm just looking forward to the temperature in my apartment rising above 56 degrees again.)

I don't even remember the last time I left the house.

if I have to go anywhere I usually take an Uber. I swear, I just can't deal with the extreme cold anymore. I am such a wimp.

The older I get the more I understand why people retire to live in the south. Guess I wouldn't want to do it, though, although I ought to reconsider the whole vacation on a beach somewhere idea. Stay warm.

w/o Dunkin!

You must be climbing the walls w/ out your coffee! Hang in there!

Reason I'm not going out, aside from just chicken, is path to my house isn't cleared of snow (part of agreement when I signed the lease,) so would be really difficult for anyone to deliver.

I will survive!

It was 9 degrees and windy. It is going to be -10 tonight. My laundry drain is frozen...to tired to get heat tape today so just waiting until Monday when the cold is supposed to break.We are getting a great deal of show on Monday too.

I think the cold will break here too on Mon or Tues (Boston) but I realize what an effect the weather has on my mood. Just running out to do a small errand makes me angry because it's just so brutally cold and windy. I'm fine inside, but if I have to leave the house, it just bums me out. Stay warm!

Northeastern Ohio...so east you can almost walk to Pennsylvania. We are moving towards Cleveland...as hubs got a job up there;it is too far to commute-Bedford Ohio. I am looking forward to living in a city. We always chose the burbs for schools...but now my youngest is in college. I love the idea of walking to coffeeshops and other places. Plus Cleveland is great. They have a theater district Playhouse Square- that is second only to New York and Cleveland has many other attractions. The drain in the washing machine is still frozen...pipes are in garage. I am going to put heat tape and insulation in their...cut a hole in the drywall. I am running the cord to a plug in the garage, but my friend who works on electricity will hard wire it in next week...and we will put in a door so there is access to the pipes...should work. It is 30 today so much better.

With a fierce wind 2 days post blizzard with 1.5ft snow ❄️. I’m worried about my 8 outdoor kitties. I have dug out their feeding area and they have a huge insulated shelter house in the woods. I hope they’re using it. I’ve only seen one in person come to eat. A recent Siamese mix stray maybe. We have had very cold weather for over a week now. It’s supposed to break on Wednesday finally. I went out yesterday and it was brutal. I’m sure yet if I’ll go out again till Monday.

Good luck and best to you for providing a home for the outdoor kitties. It's so kind of you!

Hope you stay warm too and I hope the winter everywhere will be mild from now on. I think taking care of them is one of the best things I do.

We probably won’t get our ice storms until February.

I now live in SoCal. It ‘s expensive, but winter means temps in the 50s and the occasional rain shower.

Watching winter on The Weather Channel is close enough for me.

Now I'm drinking hot tea and warming up with a heating pad on my back.

I know it's weird, but I love this.

You guys in Mass. - with that flooding, I'm sure I would feel the same as you are right now though.

Next week could have a day or two in the 50s in SE PA. Then colder, but not this bitter.

Wind chill is 4 below and going down to 15 below.
I take care of two feral cats who will not come in to the garage or the house. They have a heated cat box on our porch and I switch their water out almost hourly, bit I'm scared for them, it's so freaking cold and had been really cold for more than a week.
It's supposed to warm up later this week. I can't wait.
And I can't even imagine what homeless people are doing to cope with this cold.

Lots of above average temps in the West.