Post the daily low temps in your area

[JonathanBelles]

42° We would have had frost if the wind had come down as it was expected to, but didnt. Wind Chill hovered around freezing at points.

[HURAKAN]

MIA: 54°F
TAMIAMI: 49°F
MY HOUSE: 52°F

[Scott Patterson]

-5F

[Lowpressure]

36.7 with a light winter mix band moving through.

[bob rulz]

Do you guys often get the same effect the Uinta Basin does with trapped cold air, or does it just have to do with your location in a mountain valley?

Even when it's warm in the rest of the state, the cold air continues to hang around the Uinta Basin; it was 34/18 in Salt Lake City today, and a whopping 8/-7 in Vernal, for example.

Yes, same affect as the Uinta Basin. Our climate is very similar to the Uinta Basin, but a usually a bit colder in winter (but not the past two days-we've got up into the 20's) with more snow and not quite as dry. The Uinta Basin is straight west of here.

Just like the Uinta Basin, the river bottoms get much colder than the higher hillsides. For example, the Weather Station Craig 4SW is on the high hill south of town and at the Trapper Mine. Since 1977, the coldest it has gotten there officially is -41F, and in winter is the warmest of the locations in the area. At the Craig-Moffat Station which is just outside downtown and only seven miles away has gotten as low as -56 and has dropped to -50 on several occasions (last time in Feb 1989). It's at the airport and is the closest official station to town. Maybell, the next town down river is a bit colder still. In 1985, it hit -61 in 1985 and still remains the record low in Colorado. Surpisingly, it's considered a fairly low altitude in Colorado (5920 feet) and is not much higher than Denver.

The cold temperatures that are trapped by these steep, low basins is a truly phenomenal weather event. I love the cold weather, but I'm not sure if I could even handle the Uinta Basin in winter. Large areas of the Uinta Basin saw several consecutive days with subzero or low single digit highs and lows below -30 last January.

It reached 9 degrees Saturday morning, the lowest yet this season. It was 23 yesterday morning, and this morning looks to be much warmer in advance of a cold front that will bring up to 6 inches of snow today. It's 33 degrees as of 3am, which is actually warmer than the high temp yesterday!

[cycloneye]

Here in central Puerto Rico,52*F was the low this morning.

[boca]

What is the coldest temp reported in Puerto Rico?

[pwrdog]

27.3 near livingston texas in the trinty river flood plain.

[cycloneye]

What is the coldest temp reported in Puerto Rico?

The record for the lowest temperature in Puerto Rico was 43*F in Aibonito,in 1985.

[Scott Patterson]

The official low this morning here was -15F, but our min gage thermometer said it got down to -24F at our house sometime when we were gone (we've been in AZ for a few days and just got back home). Anyway, the -24F is the coldest we've had in 11 months, but not close to the -42F we had on January 15, which will almost surely remain the low of the year.

What a wonderful welcome home present. I guess I have to go shovel the walks. Everything is buried. Forecast the next few days:

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.ph ... 107.55&e=1

Tonight: Snow likely. Cloudy, with a low around -5. Wind chill values as low as -20. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming north northwest. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.

Thursday: Snow likely, mainly before 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 11. Wind chill values as low as -20. North northwest wind between 10 and 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of around an inch possible.

Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around -15. Wind chill values as low as -30. North northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south southwest.

Friday: A 50 percent chance of snow, mainly after 11am. Mostly cloudy and cold, with a high near 10. Wind chill values as low as -25. South southwest wind between 5 and 15 mph. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.

Friday Night: A 40 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around -7. West southwest wind between 5 and 10 mph.

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The cold temperatures that are trapped by these steep, low basins is a truly phenomenal weather event. I love the cold weather, but I'm not sure if I could even handle the Uinta Basin in winter. Large areas of the Uinta Basin saw several consecutive days with subzero or low single digit highs and lows below -30 last January.

It's true that the Uinta Basin is colder than Salt Lake in winter, but I almost prefer the winters there to SLC. There's actually more sunshine there in winter and none of the inversion smog. I really like SLC, but I think the least pleasant part is the smog during the inversions in the valley floors (though the mountains are sunny). Other than that, I really like SLC.

[Extremeweatherguy]

Only got down to 43.5F here last night. This was the warmest low in quite a while. The last few days before this morning have all been at or below freezing here in my backyard (with the coldest being 27.7F on the morning of the 23rd).

[bob rulz]

It's true that the Uinta Basin is colder than Salt Lake in winter, but I almost prefer the winters there to SLC. There's actually more sunshine there in winter and none of the inversion smog. I really like SLC, but I think the least pleasant part is the smog during the inversions in the valley floors (though the mountains are sunny). Other than that, I really like SLC.

Yeah, even I, who loves winter, hate the inversion. It's only worth it when it actually produces fog, but that just doesn't happen often. I wouldn't like the Uinta Basin not only because of how cold it is, but they also don't get as much snow as Salt Lake does because of the rain shadow (and no lake-effect, either), and also because there would just be nothing to do in winter. I'm a city person. At least in summer you could actually do things outdoors.

How much snow was there when you got home, would you say? There's almost a foot on the ground here.

It was 17 degrees this morning, but it was 12 in the evening.

[Scott Patterson]

How much snow was there when you got home, would you say? There's almost a foot on the ground here.

About two feet. Anyway, SLC actually can sometimes get bigger storms then we do (at least on the benches during the lake effect); it's just that the snow sticks around longer here. When we lived on the bench in SLC, we actually had some bigger one day snows than I've seen so far here. One night we got 31".

At the official station, we have 82 inches of snow a year on average. That's more than downtown SLC, but about the same as the benches of SLC (the mouth of Big Cottonwood gets an average of 90 inches a year). It's just around here the snow doesn't melt for months.

[bob rulz]

How much snow was there when you got home, would you say? There's almost a foot on the ground here.

About two feet. Anyway, SLC actually can sometimes get bigger storms then we do (at least on the benches during the lake effect); it's just that the snow sticks around longer here. When we lived on the bench in SLC, we actually had some bigger one day snows than I've seen so far here. One night we got 31".

At the official station, we have 82 inches of snow a year on average. That's more than downtown SLC, but about the same as the benches of SLC (the mouth of Big Cottonwood gets an average of 90 inches a year). It's just around here the snow doesn't melt for months.

The biggest storm I remember was 28", and I don't live on the benches. The lake-effect is great; I don't know what I'd do without it.

It was 5 degrees this morning, the coldest yet. It's already down to 10 at midnight today.

[Scott Patterson]

It was 5 degrees this morning, the coldest yet. It's already down to 10 at midnight today.

-30F out here this morning. That one deserves it's own thread.

Looks like Salt Lake is going to have one of their snowiest Decembers.

December has been pretty good around here, but snowpack in the mountains is below normal. Most of the snow is hitting the areas south and west of here.

[JonathanBelles]

I had a LOW of 70° last night!!!

[TampaFl]

Another balmy, warm humid December morning here - 70.9º in Brandon, FL - 12 miles ese of Tampa, FL

[NetZeroZeus]

Low of 51F this morning....coldest this year.. I enjoy it...I could finally see my breath condense over.

[Scott Patterson]

-13F this morning. Supposed to get much colder tonight.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.ph ... 107.55&e=1

This Afternoon: Partly sunny, with a high near 12. West wind around 10 mph.

Tonight: Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, partly cloudy, with a low around -24. Wind chill values as low as -35. West wind between 5 and 10 mph.

New Year's Day: Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 13. Wind chill values as low as -30. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming east southeast.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around -19. Wind chill values as low as -30. East southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm.

[Scott Patterson]

-24 outside.

Happy New Year!

Have to go to work.