The Cold Weather Is Here!

Woke up to 6° this morning, then hit 26° for a high. 16.8° right now and dropping.

House was 65° this morning. Fire had half the box dead for some reason, so I was nowhere near the BTU output I needed. Burned alot of oil today. Stove was only about 450° when it should have been north of 700° on a night like that. It'll be north of that tonight, that's for sure!

5 Degrees this morning basement 74 upstairs 68. Right now 9 Degrees and dropping just brought up another 400 lbs of coal from the coal shed for outdoor hopper near the back door, will oil it with peanut oil as I fill it and should be good for another week.

-12F on the porch, -20F about 50 feet from the house. It seems I may have some heat-loss through the windows and doors facing the porch...or my Chinese thermometers need to be calibrated.

Not as cold as you up here Rob.................-5 at 0700. Suppose to warm up some tomorrow.

Yey! Finally, I get to compete with you Northerners. 5* here this morning! (Southern New England.). Unfortunately my Surdiac couldn't keep up with it early morning as it slowed down while we were sleeping, and the oil furnace had to kick on to support 67*. The outside temps have risen back up to the 20s, so we were thinking of taking a beach trip this weekend, and getting a little sun.

sterling40man wrote:Not as cold as you up here Rob.................-5 at 0700. Suppose to warm up some tomorrow.

Same for me sterling right at 6am. Jeeze Rob, that's brutal! I went out to bring the trash to the end of the drive and feel like I got a windburn and chapped face for my trouble! Very crunchy out there.

SteveZee wrote:Very crunchy out there.

Steve, I bet it was toasty inside!

Bob

We had minus 7 this morning at sunrise. At least the wind has stopped. Yesterday was minus 5 & windy as all get out. AA is happy!

This morning not too much wind with a -12 temp. It's 12 above now. Used 80 lbs of rice in the 520 over the last 24 hours, it's a steady 72 inside.

Rob R. wrote:-12F on the porch, -20F about 50 feet from the house. It seems I may have some heat-loss through the windows and doors facing the porch...or my Chinese thermometers need to be calibrated.

Hey Rob,

-18 F on the porch last night... I could have used a second stove for rear half of house. Wadhams had very little wind... too cold to walk off the side porch.

I got a load from Whitehall this year... nut and pea... used a 50lb bag of stove last two days... burned nicely in the VigII.

Matt

We are in the mid twenties and loving it.

Mid 20s in Alaska? Has summer come early? (Did Sarah have anything to do with it?)

It was -3 this morning on the coast at 0700. The old Glenwoods were hanging tough at 625° on the big guy and 450° on the kitchen range. House was 69° overall downstairs which is quite amazing for this old place. I'd imagine if I replaced some windows and doors there isn't anything the two stoves wouldn't hold back.

Outside at 0230 temp was -12 F... no wind... 'ran the Vigilant @ 700F... good heat upstairs for the sleepy heads.....

10° this morning at 0800. Breezy with wind chill of -3° . Both stoves about 350 to maintain 70 in the house.