Not only is it cold, it’s really windy, so the ground should freeze pretty hard. Should help cut down on migration of Southern agricultural pests. But I can remember when this kind of thing was every year instead of something you hope will happen.
UPDATE: even colder today 05 February
The foam padding on my bicycle seat turns to something resembling oak or hickory at this temperature, which my bony butt did little to reshape. And it made MrsDoF’s morning quite interesting too.
I remember growing up in Iowa where if we had a mild and short winter, the mosquitoes were always worse that summer. Probably it was because if we had rain instead of snow in April there was more standing water for them to reproduce in, giving them head start on population, but I always suspected that frozen ground killed off any eggs hanging around.
Well the Town of Normal children are on your side DOF. They get school off today. Me I am just glad that it is getting cold after those strangely warm months of Oct-Dec…
I do remember those days growing up in Northern Indiana, I will take the heat and humidity of the south, thank you very much. Our two weeks of semi winter are about over.