| This week the temp is predicted to drop to slightly above zero late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning.
Tuesday night's temp about 12 degrees, with snow showers.
A year ago the weather people coined a new weather term, the "Polar Vortex," with temperatures dropping to near zero.
So far this winter we've had some cold nights, but mostly moderate temperatures with only a dusting of snow.
We plan on getting a weather report from a remote Calhoun holler, a former US post office - Frozen, West Virginia.
Winter's use to be cold and snowy in Sunny Cal.
Last winter was an exception, with heavy snow during January and February.
In the last century, snow often remained on the ground from November to the arrival of Spring.
How cold has it been?
Was it colder than a well-diggers arse?
In 1899, a newspaper account said temperatures broke the record "so far as the recollections of men in this section of the country are concerned."
The Grantsville newspaper reported temperatures at
Wiant & Barr's store, 33 below zero and at
Huffman Hotel it was 30-1/2 degrees below zero.
"Several people in coming to court last Friday morning (1899) were pretty badly frozen. Some fellow came from Harrisville and froze his ears until they were as black as a Stetson hat."
"I.B. Starcher and a young Townsand both had badly frozen ears and Mr. Starcher also had a frozen foot."
"Attorney W.E. Powell had one foot so badly frozen that he was unable to ware a shoe or even to walk, great blisters raised upon his toes even worse than if his foot had been dipped in boiling water."
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