The big Freeze, how cold did it getat your place?

[slowpick]

This terrible freeze is still going strong, are any of you caught up in it?
Alaska has been -49 below zero fahrenheit in cities, even -65 in outposts.
Hope the old and young are being watched carefully, hypothermia at
those temperatures is easy to underestimate. People should
not travel, or stay alone.

[Capoeira]

i'm feeling with you guys. i'm sitting here at 31°

[SR]

Been a disappointing winter here. All week the temp has been flirting with the high 70's until the first significant "cold" front of the year brought things down into the 50's.

[autostatic]

There was a big freeze predicted but everyone was skeptical because apparently it didn't come. But few days ago temperatures dropped below -20C in some places and there is a slight chance we will have an Elfstedentocht again!

[Scary Hallo]

My car didn't start this morning
Had to buy new battery. We have -16 deg in the night (and mornig) here in the South of Germany. No weather for me. So I avoid going outside, whenever I can. That leaves me more time for recording.

[slowpick]

I broke down and bought a battery charger, on sale luckily, after a failed start last week.
Now I keep a spare battery charged and ready, and will put it in the trunk
if I must travel during extreme cold. Polishing the poles and cable heads
with trips of 400 grit emery cloth can make a huge difference. Twelve days
of nonstop 25 mph winds, have kept things very cool.

Elfstedentocht sounds like fun, especially if some stray kegs are left unguarded
along the route.