Yeah, the ice storm will likely be in south GA and north FL. He didn’t really mention the keys.
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The nice thing about the weather up here is that if I wake up in the middle of the night tonight and check the temp, I won’t have to bother checking if it’s Fahrenheit or Celsius.
ETA: Those are just wind chills, not actual temps. I’m sorry for overreacting!
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Livestream from Ryan Hall, Y’all…
As for me, it’s very cold outside, but so far no snow, sleet, or even rain… it’s supposed to start sometime today, but it might just be flurries…
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Local update… getting some flurries now…
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It snowed a bit last night. Maybe a half-inch? The kid was still excited. My spouse and the kid decided to bundle up and go for a walk. They were gone for 2 hours and ended up walking roughly 3 miles. including the new grocery store where they bought some chocolate. Which my partner made into hot coco over the stove with some cream, milk, and sugar.
It’s mostly melted now. My partner took a pitcher of hot water out to the bird bath. It iced over again in 3 hours but we did get a lot of visitors before then. The sun has melted it now, along with nearly all the snow.
It is manifestly unfair my kid has a snow day but I haveta telework 
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We’re not getting snow, but it’s 16 F out there. And there’s a poor dog outside barking its head off. Idiot owners.
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Oh no!
Actually, I’m not shivering so I think I’m alright. Dude in the middle looks like me on a good day, though.
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Yikes! It’s in the 20s here… stay warm!
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and @mindysan33 , thanks for the thoughts. y’all stay warm and bundled up, up there!
it is a mild 74F ATM, with overnight temps in low 60s.
we got rain yesterday, and i had to drive DB up to Hollywood (about 2 hours north). no fun, but sun was shining when i got back to the island home.
also… no falling iguana (yet)!
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No snow here in Minneapolis, but it was -18F (-27.8C) air temp at 6:00 this morning at the airport, with a windchill of -33F (-36C), and Minneapolis and St Paul both declared the public schools closed.
I read that the guideline (it’s not a law) for keeping the schools closed here is a windchill of -35F, so it probably was that low somewhere in the Twin CIties.
It’s currently 5F (-15C) with a windchill of -12°F (-24°C) at the airport.
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Yeah, I’m down in SE Wisconsin / NE Illinois by the lake. I’m not laughing at those getting “down” to 20°F temperatures and considering that cold – if you’re not used to it, of course it’s cold! I’m just sitting here with a little envy and waiting for the ambient temperature to get back up to a positive number. 
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I fall apart when it gets above 78 degrees, and that’s not even dangerous (unlike snow and ice in areas that don’t have the infrastructure to deal with it).
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Definitely. And if you’re not used to it, you don’t have the outdoor clothing for it. It is still dangerous.
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My heat pump is good down to an ambient temp of -13 F, and we’re going to be a few degrees above that, although the windchill will be down to about -22.
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I’ve been leaving the bathtub and kitchen sink taps trickling b/c so damn cold.
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If it’s -40, then C = F anyway. (Provided it’s not the wind chill, I would guess.)
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Yeah, that’s what I was getting at. Actual temp when I took doggo out this morning was -21 F. It was a very brief trip.
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This is scary AF
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Can confirm, was very wimdy indeed here. Sustained wind speeds would have just pushed it into being a cat 2 hurricane on the other side of the Atlantic.
Fortunately, people seem to have heeded the warnings. All public transport was off and my work closed all their locations in the red warning zone, as did most other places, including all schools. There have been a lot of power cuts, especially in rural areas, but they seem to be getting things back online fast.
Also, since the last storm here to produce a red warning was 2016’s storm Arwen, perhaps the storm centre should stop using Tolkien as a source of names.
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