The view from inside my nice, warm RL about 9 AM today, ET. Welcome to Cleveland, OH in January! Coldest day of the year so far.

 

I think it was so cold....your "warning" light came up! haha

 

Forecast from National Weather Service As of 8:32 PM CST on February 4, 2007
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Rest of Tonight...Bitterly cold. Mostly clear. Lows 10 to 15 degrees below zero outlying areas to around 5 below zero downtown. Wind chills dropping to as low as 30 below to 35 below zero. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.

Monday...Mostly sunny but continued bitterly cold. Highs around zero. Wind chills as low as 25 below to 30 below zero. West winds 10 to 20 mph.

Monday Night...Increasing cloudiness after midnight. Continued very cold. Lows 3 to 7 degrees below zero. Wind chills as low as 20 below to 25 below zero. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.

 

The warning light is for my A1 service. I'm down to 15%.

 

Yep. Supposed to be about 65 here today, I think.

But we've had 2 solid weeks of crappy, snowy, icy weather, and we're due to warm up. (Okay, okay it got down to only about 22 at the lowest point.)

BTW, I'll bet you Mid-westerners are wishing for a little of that "global warming" right now, huh?
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Too bad there isn't a "wind chill" display too.....It feels ALOT colder than Zero here in Windy SE Massachusetts.

 

You're complaining about 0F?

HAH! Try -16F this morning here in Madison WI with a high of lofty -1F.

It is supposed to get to 8 tomorrow, I'm getting my swimming trunks out!

 

My temp display showed -12F this morning.

 

Yesterday it reached 72. Sunny and warm. Worked all day in the yard. Suppose to be a repeat today. Might just wash the new MDX.....

 

Now THAT is cold. It got to 5 F yesterday here. Today, not much better. It's supposed to be in the 20's tomorrow, I'll make sure to put on MY Speedo.


An RL-related question: Do you guys turn off the auto-light function when it gets this cold? While I usually use the function, I'm afraid that I won't get enough "cold cranking amps" to start the car if I don't turn auto-lights off. Or does it matter in a relatively new car with a presumably fresh battery?

 

Mine stays on. I thought I read somewhere that the accessories on most cars are designed to "defer" power to the starter when starting (not sure I used the right term).

IOW even if you left your radio, wipers, etc., the drain to the starter supercedes the other accessories in the car.

 

Hey Bob, I got my temp. gauge on the RL to -11F today.

 

How many miles on the RL now, Doc?

 

Brrrrrr.....

 

Sorry Guys!

http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USFL0242.html

 

Too cold for me. Today it was in the low 20's. It's at about this point in the winter that I'm so inured to the cold that I don't even feel it below my layers of clothing. I just feel for those poor souls in Oswego, NY who have gotten the ultimate lake effect pasting from Lake Ontario, which is not even close to being iced over. For us in NE Ohio, though, the worst is over because Lake Erie is just about frozen over. Yaaaaaaaay! http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/Great...70208color.jpg

Just about 6300 miles now. Trying to get an appointment for this week to get rid of the "starter" oil.....

I thought you lived in a cold climate too.

Thhhhhhhhpt! Yeah, we'll see the sixties in April if we're lucky, May if we're not.