Wow What a Cold Snap.

Well it all started on Friday January 1 2010 at around 4pm. My thermometer dropped below 32° and as of Midnight tonight it will be a total of 230 hours ago. I have recorded only 2.5 hours above freezing since that time. We are not forecast to go above freezing until Monday , and right now I am at 27.1° so it does not look to threaten the streak. So 227.5 hours of below freezing temps, an average wind chill of 14.3°,average temps during this span of 26.3°, and 2 nights of single digit temps. Yes I did fall victim as well as my neighbors and had frozen pipes, although I did not have any burst. We look to have a nice warm up (in the 40s) over the next week with a chance of RAIN by next weekend. This by far is our coldest in a long time. I do not think that it is at all over we could see a couple more chance of snow and 1 or 2 more cold snaps before winter is all over.