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Lars39

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35. Probably ice storm with snow.

Reply to VGNonly (Original post)

Thu Jan 22, 2026, 10:13 PM

Jan 22

Getting flashbacks to the one in the nineties where we didn’t have electricity for two weeks.

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How's your weather forecast? [View all] VGNonly Jan 22 OP

Sunny and 50, same tomorrow. RandySF Jan 22 #1

It's 67, sunny, and my hibiscus is blooming, but it's going to be 28 degrees Monday morning surfered Jan 22 #2

we have something big coming for us in western NC - forecasts are too iffy to know how bad it will get NewHendoLib Jan 22 #3

Yeah, these ice predictions are scary Nittersing Jan 22 #5

In short: Snowpocalypse. Xavier Breath Jan 22 #4

Shitstorm likely with a chance of nuclear war (nt) Kennah Jan 22 #6

Right now it's 65 and cloudy. Haggard Celine Jan 22 #7

similar, just a little bit colder surrealAmerican Jan 22 #8

Schools already cancelled for tomorrow. -35 to -40 windchills forecast here in Appleton, WI (just South of Green Bay). Greybnk48 Jan 22 #9

Update: At 8:00 a.m. we will be at or around 48 below zero wind chill. Yikes! n/t Greybnk48 Jan 22 #36

Not good here in CT. But we are safe in our retirement community. The people who provide our services will be impacted, CTyankee Jan 22 #10

I am about to change into an Icycle Beringia Jan 22 #11

Cold. But the lowest wind chill they're predicting is -35, and since I can recall a winter when that was highplainsdem Jan 22 #12

The coldest I was ever in -30 VGNonly Jan 22 #19

Wonderful! Greg_In_SF Jan 22 #13

Some predictions for the Pittsburgh area and doc03 Jan 22 #14

And a dry, powdery snow they're saying. Xavier Breath Jan 22 #15

cold trueblueinmo Jan 22 #16

You'd hate me canetoad Jan 22 #17

I looked at your profile. VGNonly Jan 22 #21

I can see Tasmania from my ... canetoad Jan 22 #22

I believe Sir Douglas Mawson VGNonly Jan 22 #23

Gnarly EarthFirst Jan 22 #18

6 to 8 inches predicted, and bitter cold temps. Emile Jan 22 #20

Brutal. H2O Man Jan 22 #24

My sister and I are hunkering down in our homes. ananda Jan 22 #25

66 high, 51 low. Clear and dry. Iggo Jan 22 #26

It is -26 degrees (that is negative 26) at 8:30 p.m. CST on the western tip of Lake Superior (Duluth, MN). waterwatcher123 Jan 22 #27

Northern Virginia, DC, suburban Maryland, and beyond: mahatmakanejeeves Jan 22 #28

Currently 9 degrees in our far northwest suburb of greater Chicago, feeling like... 3catwoman3 Jan 22 #29

-37 C tonight, with windchill of -50 C, Swede Jan 22 #30

It's going to a high of 7 tomorrow MustLoveBeagles Jan 22 #31

Crappy. 3-9" snow, sleet & freezing rain SheltieLover Jan 22 #32

Not too bad in Wilmington, DE right now: 43 degrees. But . . . peggysue2 Jan 22 #33

Cold Weather Advisory and a Winter Storm Watch Coldwater Jan 22 #34

Probably ice storm with snow. Lars39 Jan 22 #35

The forecast keeps changing so I have no idea - but I expect trouble BlueSpot Jan 22 #37

Windchill could go as low as -35 tonight happybird Jan 23 #38

Ended up with 8.5" new snow. VGNonly Jan 26 #39