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In other words, I hate winter.

Around 6 inches of Snow and about 30 deg F.
Will be a White Christmas this year.

its hot one day...like 70's weather, then freezin the next day

its wild

DITTO!

Its been rather cold here in southern UK recently but rather mild today. Shouldn't complain, its been much better than we have been used to in the past.

Blimey.... I feel like a weather forecaster!!

I live just south of Jeff. It's a blistering 18 degrees F here now. Up from the below 0 temps earlier in the week. We have a blizzard watch for the weekend.

Oh, great, Dana... And neither of my cars would start this morning in the horrendous cold! And we never even reached 10 F today!

Will this pity party never end (it's about the only celebrating I've got going on today)

The weather here is horrific and gives you Sad..... dull, grey and wet with a cold wind.... oh to see a blue sky!!

Sorry, dear. I read it a few minutes ago. My car almost didn't start one day earlier this week and my friend was telling me that I need to buy something to keep the oil warmed(?) because I bought my car in the south, where we don't need such things.

Em looked at me and said, "Why did you move us HERE?" I reminded her that it was a joint decision. It was better weather when we made that decision though and we were happy to be away from the little black biting flies that they have in MN.

Well, you're talking about something called a "block heater," Dana. My Yukon has one (though I never plug it in), and my Volvo doesn't

One problem might be that your oil is too "thick." You should have 5 - 30 weight in there now (it gets thicker as the numbers rise). The engine has more trouble turning over when the thicker oil gets very cold. Sometimes the engine will turn over and oil won't get to where it needs to be as quickly as desirable. The block heater would cost you 2- 300 dollars, including installation. I don't know if you have a garage available, but that might help.

Thank you, that's it. I do have a garage. I had thought about using, but haven't bothered.

I also have the wrong oil, but as it's time for an oil change anyway, I'll fix that part quickly enough. Thanks.

That should help, Dana. Also, the garage...I'm assuming it has electrical. You could use a little heater and turn it down on the lowest setting on one of the god-awful -15 or below nights. The rest of the time, it should be okay (you've already started it in temps near that).

Oh...you might want to check you coolant, too, when the oil's changed.

Ain't South Dakota fun?

Winter Storm Watch in effect. Supposed to wake up to snow lasting all day and changing over to sleet and ice. Could be the first big storm of the season for us.

Better turn up the lights in the hatchery.

Icy, Cold.

Not too bad today. The sun was trying to peek out. Not too cold, & most of the snow melted.

I think I actually saw stars in the sky tonight too!

Last night was "warm"......I didn't have to have the heat on!

the weather here is beautiful

it is going to be in the mids 60's today

Supposed to be a high of 80F today, but right now it's 55F

brrrrr!

It's windy w/rain and supposed to be high of 56 degrees today.

Then through the weekend it goes downhill again.