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[Lewisj41]

Only feels like -31 F here today

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[BRBUSTER72]

and that's after it's already gone through the PNW

Idaho has it all. The only state split between north and south by a time zone (pacific and mountain) and in the PNW.

 

[PSUTE]

Only feels like -31 F here today

We're neighbors! Grantsville checking in...

 

[MrGreen55]

Dumb question how is one pedal mode in icy conditions/snow?

 

[Wolfpack]

I'm in the Detroit area visiting my wife's family and it's effing cold here right now. Minimal snow but the wind is brutal. Can't wait to get back to the Charlotte area. I have seen more Broncos here than in Charlotte which is a plus.

 

[Jonny way]

-7 here in Kansas City, Kansas ...feels like was -37. Still took the Bronco out for some fun.

 

[TruckerDavid]

 

[nwGTS]

-7 here in downtown Chicago. Windchill is -(huge fabricated clickbait number).
I grew up in Wisconsin so this is meh. Still no fun to be outside in though. Sledding and skiing will have to wait. Driving in the Bronco felt like any typical Tuesday. Love this thing!

 

[Lewisj41]

We're neighbors! Grantsville checking in...

Well just here for the holiday, we travel here every Christmas. I see the Bronco community is strong here as I've seen several since I've arrived.

 

[Sven]

This fun is now headed east. Yellowstone National Park @ West Yellowstone, Montana 12/22/22

 

[skipole70]

Like icing on a cake

 

[DefNotBuddyLee]

I'm going to nerd out for a bit so feel free to ignore me... and @mtclimb3r can correct me if any of this is wrong. (I studied meteorology in college but got bored and switched to engineering.)

I don't know who came up with the name "bomb cyclone," but the actual technical term for these sorts of weather events are bombogensis... which is really just a really bad cyclogenesis. Cyclogenesis is a system that results in a dramatic drops of barometric pressure.

These types of cold snap storms have always happened, but what is strange about them now is how far south they are occurring. Traditionally the jet stream would keep these types of storms above the 35-38° latitude line... roughly the Arkansas/Missouri state line, middle of Tennessee, North Carolina, etc. If you were south of that line, these super cold snap systems were relatively rare (once every few decades or so) because the jet stream would effectively form a barrier and keep the system up north.

For the past decade or so, we've seen the jet stream effectively collapse, and areas of the country (Texas, MIssissippi, Florida, Louisiana, etc.) that only saw this type of weather once every few decades are now seeing it almost every year. Which people online love to talk about, and I suspect people down south hate. This type of weather in Chicago is common and boring. But Tallahasse, Florida having a HIGH of 32° tomorrow when their average LOW is 44° is the type of stuff the internet and news media loves to eat up.

@Crazy Bronc , I am impressed that at some point there was a discussion with your wife that ended with her out of the car filming while you drove through the packed snow.

 

[CT203]

50 and rain here in Maine...and lots of wind. Top of a pine just fell outside my office, hit the propane tank and vented the contents of the tank to atmosphere (300 gallon tank). Guess if the power goes out, the generator isn't going to run so we will all just go home early.

Supposed to drop into the low teens tonight.

(and stop quoting wind chill, that's just a garbage number)

Yeah, but.. it feeeeels like!

 

[Big Barney]

Survived the blizzard of 78. 42 plus inches of snow sustained winds of 60mph gust to 90 mph + and the lowest barometric pressure ever recorded look it up. Other than some cold this ain't nothing.

Remember it well, January 1978. Just picked up a new CJ5 a few months before. I was heading to work at 5:00am, temp was 4 above and falling like a rock but there was still water flowing across the road in places. I drove through it and it immediately froze on my windshield. Thank God there was no traffic that early and I was able to scrape it off. Worst part was I got water in the front hubs and it froze solid while I was at work. Couldn’t break it loose, had to have it dragged to a garage to thaw out. Good times.

 

[Lcubed]

*Post now included a video - even captured the American flag at the beginning.

Here’s a couple pictures from an hour ago just outside of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ripping through a few drifts. Special thanks to my wife for standing out in the strong wind and cold.

you need a bill board in the background:

"WELCOME TO THE OKEFENOKEE SWAMP!"

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