Is It Winter Yet

[runco]

Don't know about you, but where is winter?  I don't like the hard colt bitter stuff, but I do like a little chill in the air and a snow flake or two.   So today is the first official day of winter of 2015, and is this is the weather outlook for my area:

 

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[nightrunner]

In the end times, you will only know the seasons by the budding of the trees.

I'm ready for the cold weather as well. Mostly to watch everyone else look and act like fools because of it.

[56FordGuy]

I'm sure it's on the way, it's already made a stop here.




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[peejman]

It's cold and raining, so yes it's winter.

[Grand Torino]

I'm digging this warmth but I hope we don't have to pay the price with severe weather.

[10-Ring]

The only compliant that I have is that when I kill deer I have to act fast to get them cut up and on ice.  I prefer to hang them up, go get breakfast, wait around until help gets ready to help me, etc.  This year for the most part it's been shoot, retrieve, hang process.  I've killed a couple this year where I didn't think it was safe to keep hunting and waiting for another to wander through.  Being this late in the season I don't mind if the warm weather sticks around so I can be comfortably fishing here in a couple of more weeks.

[analog_kidd]

I do NOT like the cold weather. I grew up in s. Florida, and just can't get my blood to thicken up enough to stand the cold.

 

On a brighter note, 12/22 was the Winter solstice... Every day will get longer from here on out. I hate that it's dark when I leave for work, and dark again when I head home.

[btq96r]

This is getting ridiculous. If the rain lets up sometime, I'm going to have to mow my lawn during the last week of December.

I hope we get a Nor'Easter or two as compensation. I'd love to see people here deal with one of those. Edited December 23, 2015 by btq96r

[TMF]

I do NOT like the cold weather. I grew up in s. Florida, and just can't get my blood to thicken up enough to stand the cold.

On a brighter note, 12/22 was the Winter solstice... Every day will get longer from here on out. I hate that it's dark when I leave for work, and dark again when I head home.

So glad I moved back.

[Jamie Jackson]

I'm liking it! Heck, I refinished and painted my decks over the past few weeks. And yep, I need to cut the grass as well.

 

It's confusing the heck out of my fruit tress though...the apple and peach trees are starting to bud out....

[K191145]

This is getting ridiculous. If the rain lets up sometime, I'm going to have to mow my lawn during the last week of December.

I hope we get a Nor'Easter or two as compensation. I'd love to see people here deal with one of those.

 

Not big deal, we would handle it fine. I've experienced much worse, was right smack dab in the thickest sleet storm hitting my face in 120 MPH winds in early September in West Tennessee, it was 70+ degrees that day. That is the truth.

[bersaguy]

I have found that in Tennessee when we have weather like this in December we get a payback in January and February and sometimes in March to make up for the warm December. I just don't like the weather like this in winter because when storms show up they normally will have tornadoes with them. They are calling for some bad stuff today here and tonight. Hope it's just rain and maybe wind........... :ugh:  :ugh: 

[jgradyc]

I do NOT like cold weather... with cold being defined as below 60 degrees. I'd move to Florida except I've already lived there twice and the non-winter months are oppressively humid and hot. Plus, you have to go to South Florida to get weather above 60 degrees almost every day.

Edited December 23, 2015 by jgradyc

[bersaguy]

If I was 45 years younger I would consider moving to Alaska. I have been there twice back when I was much much younger and had I not been married I might have just stayed there..............jmho

[analog_kidd]

When I lived in FL I dreamed of living in Alaska. Now that I live in TN, and have experienced actual "cold", which is nothing compared to Alaskan winters, and experienced dealing with minimal daylight in the cold, I have reconsidered. Might be a nice place to visit in the early Fall sometime.

[NextExit]

And now that we've reached the winter solstice, the days will start getting longer. Spring is around the corner. Winter is over! ;)

[MrJones79]

I just moved here from New England and love the warmth so far, though I realize it's unseasonably warm even for here. For those that want cold, go spend a week in New England in mid winter. You'll get your fill fast.

Now as for summer, I'm sure I'll be complaining as I've never dealt with the heat down south. If we got three consecutive days over 90 up there it was an official "heat wave". Not sure if it's defined the same everywhere, but you get the idea.

[K191145]

I just moved here from New England and love the warmth so far, though I realize it's unseasonably warm even for here. For those that want cold, go spend a week in New England in mid winter. You'll get your fill fast.

Now as for summer, I'm sure I'll be complaining as I've never dealt with the heat down south. If we got three consecutive days over 90 up there it was an official "heat wave". Not sure if it's defined the same everywhere, but you get the idea.

 

We get about 3 consecutive "months" of 90.  :)

[Hitower]

[Possumslayer]

According tooo my thermometer it hit 74......Fayetteville.

[runco]

We discovered yesterday that my wife's van A/C is out.  This sucks, late December, and the temperature is in the mid 70s.  Had to drive the truck to church tonight.

[bersaguy]

Weather man on channel 5 just said it will be Wednesday before we might see more normal  temps for this time of year and until then Rain, rain and more rain with storms mixed in. I'm ready for some snow instead of rain............jmho

[NextExit]

We discovered yesterday that my wife's van A/C is out.  This sucks, late December, and the temperature is in the mid 70s.  Had to drive the truck to church tonight.

Same here.  I'm gonna investigate mine this weekend between downpours and hopefully fix.  Don't need to wait til its in the 90's. :pleased:

[K191145]

Weather man on channel 5 just said it will be Wednesday before we might see more normal  temps for this time of year and until then Rain, rain and more rain with storms mixed in. I'm ready for some snow instead of rain............jmho

 

A little snow doesn't bother me at all, now that damn ICE back in March was a pain, had to break it off my porch roof, it ice dammed at the gutter and caused the roof to leak and driving was a little too slick. Snow I can get a little traction but we had roads last March the yankeeist of yankees couldn't drive on. 

[Ron_TN]

I just bought new tires for the car and truck.....and have enough fire wood cut for about five winters.  I'm thinking Ole man winter is laughing at me.