-33 feels like -45 with the wind at the moment and lows of -55 brrr. The battery on my truck gave up so im off to the store to get a new one this morning.
Whoa... that's cold! You really don't want to know what it is here in Florida Sean... Stay warm brother!
Will be very close to 60* Friday with heavy rain in NYC. Saturday morning will be 15*. That's a heat wave compared to Canada. What kind and grade of oil do you use in your daily drivers? Must have a block heater as well?
5W30 synthetic in everything that runs at winter here. If you take a jug of conventional oil and stick it in the freezer overnight you will see why we only run full synthetic. I don’t typically plug in my vehicles, I run high end batteries and I feel if it doesn’t start without a block heater then I need a better battery. If you use a block heater it will warm up a lot quicker, they say it’s easier on stuff but I’m not sure. I just got back from a week away for work and my daily driver was slow cranking and barely started (-40) so I will put in a new battery today. 2012 GMC 2500 with the 6.0 LS and Headers. Funny as it sounds when it’s cold like this most vehicles won’t reach operating temp idling you need to drive them to get them warmed up fully. Yesterday I came out to -40 to my POS Ford 2017 F-150 (company owned not mine) fired it up (not plugged in) scraped the ice off the windows and drove away immediately. Drove about 8 minutes to my office and it was starting to warm up. I went inside, left it running and made coffee. Then took it for a 20 minute drive to check on a job I’m looking after and then back to the office. It stayed at operating temp all day. Meanwhile my co worker who I ate breakfast with had started up his truck at the same time as I did, but his was plugged in. Except he ran back inside and left his truck for 30 minutes before coming back and it still wasn’t warmed up much, plus all the idling there made the ice in his windows soften up and made it way harder to scrape off vs mine that just peeled off fully frozen. He wasted the first hour of his day being pussy basically. I was off without delay. Often we park in locations without plug ins for block heaters so I run trucks that can start in -40 without being plugged in. Always have dual batteries. Battery blankets help keep the batteries from freezing up. For my wife’s daily driver I will plug it in if it’s outside but we have a garage that fits 3 vehicles plus one on the lift so that’s not typically an issue.
It will be 1° F later today here in the Nashville, TN area. The high was 50° yesterday and today will be 51°, but later today the cold front arrives and the bottom falls out and it will drop 50° in just a few hours down to 1°. That’s nothing for you northern guys but this is a big deal for us. The coldest it has ever been in Nashville is -17°F back in 1985.
33 deg here currently. Blizzard warning in effect starting tomorrow at 7 AM with 70+ MPH winds predicted. Debating on taking the Christmas lights down outside before it hits.
It's in the 60s today but, we expect temps in the high 20s by Christmas day, and Monday. That's a pretty good cold snap for Central Florida. Stay warm, my friends up there.
Raining &40 in SC, feels like 34. Tomorrow dropping to 20s, weekend in the teens with the wind chill.
Man, I’ve been to Antarctica and saw -67 F. With zero wind and it was the Summer season. Here’s a couple of my rides…
9 degrees and trying to snow. I’m in Illinois right on the Mississippi. Supposed to be 10 to twenty below on Christmas
I have no clue how you really really cold climate guys do it I guess if I grew up in the enviorment I would deal with it. Not to say I haven't felt -10 F in my lifetime in MA which probably you would just wear a sweater in that temp Same hear Larry. With the windchill it will be probably be 5 F. All that rain during the warm will leave a ice coat over everything the next morning.
Just got home from work, 9* here at the house. Supposed to be freezing rain tonight. Been through that a couple times, not fun...
38 and raining. It's truly a miserable day to be out. Too damn warm to snow, and too damn cold to be running around soaking wet. They are calling for single digit temps overnight, so tomorrow morning's commute should be nice and slick out once all this moisture ices over.
