It has definitely been the worst.
I took this screenshot after coming in from giving the outside cats food and warm water. I did NOTHING else out there this morning!
If you can’t see the Instagram image, we were at -34C/-29F with a wind chill of -46C/-51F at 8:32am. It’s now just past 9am as I write this and, while my phone’s weather app hasn’t changed, the weather on my desktop days we’re at -35C/-31F and the wind chill is at -42C/-44F
The heated water bowl in the sun room was almost completely iced over at the top. The one in the water bowl shelter was heavily frosted over. Only the one in the isolation shelter had no frost on it – it’s still pretty warm with that heat lamp in there! – but the sliding window beside it was so frosted, I struggled to get it open. Somehow, the food bowl ended up knocked down to the bottom level. I wasn’t about to move the box shelter over the entrance to get it, so I found another container to put inside. It’s just a light plastic thing, and will probably get knocked down, too, but it will do for now.
On my local highway conditions group there is someone who posts a picture with road and weather conditions at the start of their commute, every morning. They live to the southeast of us. This morning, they posted at 6:45am, and reported the temperature at -37C/-35F They did not report the wind chill.
Today’s high is supposed to be -27C/-17F. Barely, and only for a brief period, before things start dropping for the night away. Tomorrow?
We’re looking at a high of -17C/1F. On the 23rd, when we are booked to bring a couple of cats in for spay and neuter, we’re expected to have a high of -13C/9F. On Friday, the 24th, the warmest day being forecast at the moment, we’re expecting to reach -6C/21F.
If the forecasts are even half correct, this will be the last bitterly cold day of the winter. After this, things will warm up and any cold periods expected will not be anywhere near this several. In fact, the long range forecast into February has us going as high as 6C/43F in the second week of February!
I’ll believe that, when I see it.
I really feel for anyone who has to commute in this, or work outdoors. This is one time where I’m glad we don’t have any livestock animals! Homesteaders I know are having a real struggle keeping their water from freezing. We simply don’t have what we need to care for animals in conditions like this – which is why we still don’t have chickens.
One more day of this.
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 
THAT… is brutal. At least it’s almost over up there. Here, the worst of it is just getting started. We woke up to 11F temperatures with a feels like of 0 degrees. We had to move our stash of soda pop out of the garage so it didn’t freeze and have the cans burst. Our garage is pretty well insulated too and this is the first time that the inside of the fridge has been warmer than the garage.
Yep, fun times. We’ve got nearly a week of this to contend with. Happy defrosting on your end though. :D
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Hopefully you don’t have to heat the refrigerators to keep them above freezing.
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Our kitchen has no heat into it. It might actually be warmer in the fridge right now!
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There’s cold, really cold, damn cold and, I suppose, indescribably cold. I think you’re in the “indescribably cold” stage.
I wonder if even a CPO1 would have a sufficient vocabulary of “bad words” to describe such temperatures. :-)
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