It snowed today and it’s 20 degrees right now. So I’d say I still need my heat. If you had asked a few weeks ago it would have been completely different. It’s like the weather doesn’t know if it wants to become spring or keep a hold of winter.
The only reason the heat is on at our house is because my husband is a normal human, unlike me, who is always dying of overheatedness. I wear shorts and a t-shirt in the snow.
Considering it’s 15 out and is supposed to get down to 9 tonight, plus high winds, I’m going to go ahead and keep the heat on for a while. Besides, there’s still snow piled up here and there around town.
It was a gorgeous 73° yesterday. However, temps dropped last night and it stayed cold all day. It’s 28° right now and the heat is definitely on. I even bumped it up to 68° a little while ago.
Here in DC, we’ve had an unusually warm winter, and the cherry blossoms had been all set to spring to life early. But now a cold front came through and has made itself at home, and now there are predictions of a snowstorm Monday-into-Tuesday. The cold may end up killing most of the cherry blossoms. Sigh.
@gertiestn I don’t know what sort of trees they are in the Haupt garden by the castle, but the blooms were so beautiful last week… now they’re all shriveled up and dead. Hohum.
It says that Wednesday night is supposed to get to 46℉. I’m waiting. I think I only had to turn on the central heat 4 nights this year. I need to move somewhere a little colder that doesn’t get huge snow storms.
Tonight’s low is 7 degrees, tomorrow’s is 4, and Sunday’s is 8. We got a little taste of spring recently, but Vermont went back to laughing in our faces.
This old building has awful windows. The wind comes right through when they’re shut, and it’s been wicked windy lately. The thermostat for the whole apartment is in my bedroom for some reason, but if I get it any warmer than 65 in here, my poor roommate ends up sweltering in his room, which I can’t explain. I cannot wait to move to a nicer, warmer, more energy-efficient apartment next month!!
Below zero wind chills here in Michigan. Almost Hurricane winds on Wednesday put almost a million people without power. It was 65° last week. Gotta love Michigan!
@katbyter We haven’t had power since Wednesday morning. A friend loaned us a little generator. We have a well with a 240 volt pump. The generator can power the sump pump, refrigerator, and some lights, but not the well. My wife got tired of camping in our own house. Road trip time.
We went to a science fiction convention in Cleveland. We got here too late for the programming, but the hotel showers work.
@hamjudo In answer to the big question, our thermostats have batteries in them, so they are pleading to the furnace for heat. We have natural gas for the furnace, but it isn’t kicking out any heat unless it gets some power first.
All of the switches are in the on position, but there is no heat.
My adult son is home with instructions to empty the pipes if the inside temperature drops below 40.
@katbyter@hamjudo same here, and still no estimate this morning. I twisted half an extension cord into the furnace and have been running it and the fridge off a borrowed generator. Gas stove and water heater are working at least.
@evbarnstormer No power company estimate, but I can make my own educated guess.
Only 10 customers in our outage. Every one of us has a generator. The top of a pole was broken off. Truck access is going to be very difficult, involving some tree cutting just to get to the broken pole. After the tree work is done, the pole has to be fixed, then the wires need to be fixed.
We don’t have a crisis, and there is a whole lot of work for only ten customers, this means we will probably be in the last 2% to get power. They expect to get power to 90% by Sunday night. We won’t get power until Monday or later.
We have an above ground pool. We have been using buckets of water from there to flush the toilets. The surface froze last night. Our neighbor across the street has a big generator, so their pump works. So we have to go further for flushing water. Ickk.
@hamjudo Why has the water stopped? Are you on a well? And out of curiosity, do you use the bucket to fill the tank or dump pour directly into the bowl?
NYC had 60+ degree weather yesterday and it snowed about 2" today, though it was still warm enough during the snow that most of it melted except on a few cars.
It is rather windy and 25 now, going down to 20. Tomorrow’s high is 32 and Sunday’s is 33. This sucks as I’d much rather be sitting outside watching a soccer game in 60-70 degree weather than in 30 degree weather. ~60% chance of snow Monday night, tho still too early for any useful predictions of depth.
After the warmest February on record (average high of 66.6°F, warmest observed was 83°F, monthly mean of 53.3°F, breaking the old record of 52.7°F from 1890), and a high temperature of 75°F on Thursday, we’re expecting snow tomorrow and potentially on Monday and Wednesday also. In February I left the air conditioning on upstairs and the heat on downstairs. Not that they were running at the same time, but in the rare occasion that it got cold in the house, the heat downstairs would rise and keep the upstairs tolerable, and when it got warm enough to want the air conditioning on upstairs, the downstairs also stayed tolerable. However, if next week’s cold snap lasts long enough I might end up having to turn the heat on upstairs, too.
There is still snow on the ground. Snow. On. The. Ground. This is March. Normally, we are taunting the rest of the country by wearing shorts. This situation is intolerable. I shall be writing a stern letter to management.
I’m in NH it’s been cold and windy for a couple days it snowed today and it’s 10° and tomorrow night it’s gonna be 4° so yea gotta keep this old house warm.
Live on the 4th floor… laws of science (despite the current administration’s attempts to deny and outlaw them) still work. Turned heat on once this winter and set the smoke detector off due to burning dust on the coils LOL. Don’t seem to need it even when it is 30 outside. Now summer that is a different story. My A/C runs constantly (for the same reasons)
Furnace broke in November, had to wait a week for the key part (and had to run 4 of these little space heaters for the whole house), electric bill/usage was 400% of “normal” for that single week’s usage. Moral(s), don’t lose your furnace, and expect these space heaters to suck power like nobody’s business. And yeah, a bit west of DC, it’s 28 with a wind chill of 13. I moved here from California. Meh.
Southern Ohio here. 70 a couple of days ago, everything’s blooming. 23 this morning, possible snow in a few days. So far this year our only snow removal equipment has consisted of a broom.
Northeast Indiana here. We’ve been having massive temperature swings - 70 degrees two weeks ago, high of 20 today, and everything in between - so the answer really depends on when the question is asked.
I don’t actually control the heat in my apartment. The building has central heat from a boiler and the Super controls it. It’s been off and on all week, because the weather here went from cold on Sunday, to 61 on Thursday to below freezing today.
Right now, it’s on. Thank goodness, because it’s so cold out that a two hour walk took my phone battery down from a full charge to 33% before I got home.
No. Finally turned the A/C off yesterday, after 7 record highs so far this year. Sunny, 65-70 all week. Got a flat of marigolds to put in, weed/feed for lawn, overseeding bare spots. Home ownership is a lot of work. No-see-ums are ferocious already.
On Friday the windows were open and it was a beautiful 75 degrees. Today it snowed and is currently 36…the windows are closed and the heat is on. Mother nature is screwing w me
@tinamarie1974 yeah, it’s been a bitch. I am getting tired of pulling my lemon tree in and out of the house. One week I am looking at the pool thinking I might want to take a dip (even though the water is only 65) since it’s 85 degrees outside, then 2 days later we have a frost… stoopid global warming!!
I haven’t even turned it on once this winter (because SoCal).
@narfcake you just add a few t-shirts to the bed and you’re all set.
@Thumperchick You’ve been spying on me again, haven’t ya?!?
@narfcake well… I mean… yeah.
@narfcake because SoGA.
@narfcake What are you talking about? This was the coldest, rainy-est winter in years. We spent more on heat than I ever have. Orange County, CA.
@Fuzzalini It didn’t get under 50° inside my house. I was fine.
@narfcake You obviously didn’t grow up here. If it gets under 63 in the house, that heat goes on!!
@Fuzzalini Born and raised in SoCal, actually! I’m just weird, I guess.
(Alas, cost of living means I’m in the 909.)
@narfcake also socal. I am cusping on 661/818/805 area
Heat on, heat off, heat on, heat on… this is the winter in the mid Atlanta.
/giphy roller-coaster
@jml326 I was in Atlanta on business a few weeks ago. Question for you - is there a city mandate every third street must have the word ‘Peach’ in it?
@elimanningface It’s a Georgia thing.
/image Georgia peaches.
@elimanningface hahaha my wife talk about that every time driving in atlanta comes up. Every street is peach tree.
@elimanningface come to Springfield, IL and everything is freaking Lincoln here. Ugh…
@elimanningface I wouldn’t know… Auto correct got the best of me. Mid Atlantic
It snowed today and it’s 20 degrees right now. So I’d say I still need my heat. If you had asked a few weeks ago it would have been completely different. It’s like the weather doesn’t know if it wants to become spring or keep a hold of winter.
@ninjaemilee Are you also somewhere in the Midwest? It’s been like that for us here too.
@AiliaBlue I’m actually in Pennsylvania. We had the warmest February day on record a few weeks ago. Almost 75.
The only reason the heat is on at our house is because my husband is a normal human, unlike me, who is always dying of overheatedness. I wear shorts and a t-shirt in the snow.
Considering it’s 15 out and is supposed to get down to 9 tonight, plus high winds, I’m going to go ahead and keep the heat on for a while. Besides, there’s still snow piled up here and there around town.
It was a gorgeous 73° yesterday. However, temps dropped last night and it stayed cold all day. It’s 28° right now and the heat is definitely on. I even bumped it up to 68° a little while ago.
Was 70º yesterday, snowed this morning. I don’t even know.
yes and no. Last week no this week yes. next week yes. after 70s for the last week, we’re getting ready for an ice storm.
A plow just went down my street.
Here in DC, we’ve had an unusually warm winter, and the cherry blossoms had been all set to spring to life early. But now a cold front came through and has made itself at home, and now there are predictions of a snowstorm Monday-into-Tuesday. The cold may end up killing most of the cherry blossoms. Sigh.
@gertiestn I don’t know what sort of trees they are in the Haupt garden by the castle, but the blooms were so beautiful last week… now they’re all shriveled up and dead. Hohum.
It says that Wednesday night is supposed to get to 46℉. I’m waiting. I think I only had to turn on the central heat 4 nights this year. I need to move somewhere a little colder that doesn’t get huge snow storms.
Tonight’s low is 7 degrees, tomorrow’s is 4, and Sunday’s is 8. We got a little taste of spring recently, but Vermont went back to laughing in our faces.
This old building has awful windows. The wind comes right through when they’re shut, and it’s been wicked windy lately. The thermostat for the whole apartment is in my bedroom for some reason, but if I get it any warmer than 65 in here, my poor roommate ends up sweltering in his room, which I can’t explain. I cannot wait to move to a nicer, warmer, more energy-efficient apartment next month!!
Below zero wind chills here in Michigan. Almost Hurricane winds on Wednesday put almost a million people without power. It was 65° last week. Gotta love Michigan!
@katbyter Hi, also from Michigan. I’ve had friends stopping by for showers and whatnot, still.
@katbyter We haven’t had power since Wednesday morning. A friend loaned us a little generator. We have a well with a 240 volt pump. The generator can power the sump pump, refrigerator, and some lights, but not the well. My wife got tired of camping in our own house. Road trip time.
We went to a science fiction convention in Cleveland. We got here too late for the programming, but the hotel showers work.
@hamjudo In answer to the big question, our thermostats have batteries in them, so they are pleading to the furnace for heat. We have natural gas for the furnace, but it isn’t kicking out any heat unless it gets some power first.
All of the switches are in the on position, but there is no heat.
My adult son is home with instructions to empty the pipes if the inside temperature drops below 40.
@katbyter @hamjudo same here, and still no estimate this morning. I twisted half an extension cord into the furnace and have been running it and the fridge off a borrowed generator. Gas stove and water heater are working at least.
@evbarnstormer No power company estimate, but I can make my own educated guess.
Only 10 customers in our outage. Every one of us has a generator. The top of a pole was broken off. Truck access is going to be very difficult, involving some tree cutting just to get to the broken pole. After the tree work is done, the pole has to be fixed, then the wires need to be fixed.
We don’t have a crisis, and there is a whole lot of work for only ten customers, this means we will probably be in the last 2% to get power. They expect to get power to 90% by Sunday night. We won’t get power until Monday or later.
We have an above ground pool. We have been using buckets of water from there to flush the toilets. The surface froze last night. Our neighbor across the street has a big generator, so their pump works. So we have to go further for flushing water. Ickk.
@hamjudo Why has the water stopped? Are you on a well? And out of curiosity, do you use the bucket to fill the tank or
dumppour directly into the bowl?@jqubed Well. The well pump takes too much power for our borrowed generator to have a chance, even if it could handle the voltage.
@jqubed we pour water either place. You can use less water straight into the bowl.
@katbyter Almost the same as Wisconsin.
I loathe the weather in Illinois. I’m sooooo ready to move.
NYC had 60+ degree weather yesterday and it snowed about 2" today, though it was still warm enough during the snow that most of it melted except on a few cars.
It is rather windy and 25 now, going down to 20. Tomorrow’s high is 32 and Sunday’s is 33. This sucks as I’d much rather be sitting outside watching a soccer game in 60-70 degree weather than in 30 degree weather. ~60% chance of snow Monday night, tho still too early for any useful predictions of depth.
Yes.
This damn winter is lasting forever.
It’s 34 degrees out right now.
The snow plows were out a few days ago.
Heat was such a cool movie.
After the warmest February on record (average high of 66.6°F, warmest observed was 83°F, monthly mean of 53.3°F, breaking the old record of 52.7°F from 1890), and a high temperature of 75°F on Thursday, we’re expecting snow tomorrow and potentially on Monday and Wednesday also. In February I left the air conditioning on upstairs and the heat on downstairs. Not that they were running at the same time, but in the rare occasion that it got cold in the house, the heat downstairs would rise and keep the upstairs tolerable, and when it got warm enough to want the air conditioning on upstairs, the downstairs also stayed tolerable. However, if next week’s cold snap lasts long enough I might end up having to turn the heat on upstairs, too.
Ridiculous weather.
There is still snow on the ground. Snow. On. The. Ground. This is March. Normally, we are taunting the rest of the country by wearing shorts. This situation is intolerable. I shall be writing a stern letter to management.
I’m in NH it’s been cold and windy for a couple days it snowed today and it’s 10° and tomorrow night it’s gonna be 4° so yea gotta keep this old house warm.
I’m seeing wind gusts over 20 mph this am, and the temp is -1°. Still got the heat on, and it works, thank goodness.
@sligett We’re up to a balmy 7° now (in VT). Still got the heat on. A foot or so of snow expected Tue/Wed.
Live on the 4th floor… laws of science (despite the current administration’s attempts to deny and outlaw them) still work. Turned heat on once this winter and set the smoke detector off due to burning dust on the coils LOL. Don’t seem to need it even when it is 30 outside. Now summer that is a different story. My A/C runs constantly (for the same reasons)
Furnace broke in November, had to wait a week for the key part (and had to run 4 of these little space heaters for the whole house), electric bill/usage was 400% of “normal” for that single week’s usage. Moral(s), don’t lose your furnace, and expect these space heaters to suck power like nobody’s business. And yeah, a bit west of DC, it’s 28 with a wind chill of 13. I moved here from California. Meh.
Snowed yesterday. Small chance of more today. MUCH higher chance Monday and Tuesday (80-90%)
Midatlantic states
@sgrazi Yep same for me. I’m not looking forward to this Monday blizzard nonsense.
Southern Ohio here. 70 a couple of days ago, everything’s blooming. 23 this morning, possible snow in a few days. So far this year our only snow removal equipment has consisted of a broom.
Northeast Indiana here. We’ve been having massive temperature swings - 70 degrees two weeks ago, high of 20 today, and everything in between - so the answer really depends on when the question is asked.
We keep switching between heat and AC like every other day
I don’t actually control the heat in my apartment. The building has central heat from a boiler and the Super controls it. It’s been off and on all week, because the weather here went from cold on Sunday, to 61 on Thursday to below freezing today.
Right now, it’s on. Thank goodness, because it’s so cold out that a two hour walk took my phone battery down from a full charge to 33% before I got home.
No. Finally turned the A/C off yesterday, after 7 record highs so far this year. Sunny, 65-70 all week. Got a flat of marigolds to put in, weed/feed for lawn, overseeding bare spots. Home ownership is a lot of work. No-see-ums are ferocious already.
Arkansas: Heat yesterday morning 45. AC yesterday after work 73. Heat today - 40.
Winter was done by Feb 1 in North central Texas, which is weeks early.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/february-2017-warm-temperatures-climate-change/
This article surveys the nation’s Feb weather and says the for Texas and Louisiana, warmest Feb ever recorded.
According to meteorologists, this ups the odds of vicious storms out of the Gulf from now through fall.
So hello hurricanes.
A few days last month where the heat didn’t kick in… otherwise heat all winter. Even now.
We still* have snow!
*We actually only had snow like five days this winter… deny that climate change deniers!
On Friday the windows were open and it was a beautiful 75 degrees. Today it snowed and is currently 36…the windows are closed and the heat is on. Mother nature is screwing w me
@tinamarie1974 yeah, it’s been a bitch. I am getting tired of pulling my lemon tree in and out of the house. One week I am looking at the pool thinking I might want to take a dip (even though the water is only 65) since it’s 85 degrees outside, then 2 days later we have a frost… stoopid global warming!!
@chienfou I feel your pain. What I wouldn’t give for an 85 degree day. I woke up to 20 degrees with windchill issues.
yeah dang it, now it’s not gonna be back in the 60s until Saturday.
Actually March has been kinda Feb. and Feb was kinda April.