I have been out at -35C in northern Alberta.
The first night I tried the Synta goo in the ASGT froze solid and the next day I stripped the mount down and regreased it completely with lithium superlude, it did much better after that.

 

Tonight will be cold and it was the same pattern during all 2017 and 2018 winter. Decent temperature 0 to - 10 = snow, clear sky = -10c to -25c. (without the wind)

Tonight is clear and it will drop down to -19C (and close to -26 with the wind) We have to take what's available. But it's not going to be an easy one..

 

For a bit of trivia: The Centigrade (or Celsius) scale of temperature measurement and the Fahrenheit scale meet each other at -40°C. & F.

Too cold for my taste, but I wish we'd have the view afforded by a frigid winter's sky - but at around 30°C.

 

Last winter I was out one evening when it got down to about 45f. Yes that's +45f

Enough for me

 

I am back from my observation and in the end it was summertime, around -8C Way way better then -19C. It went well after out, i had 2 wool shirts, and 2 other shirts + my coat. 3 pairs of pants + snow pants (;

 

I am so glad I bought my 'Mad Bomber Hat.' And that it has the Rabbit-Fur ear-flaps that snap together under the chin. But even that's not warm enough for the Winter this year!

It got down to -20°F. with a wind making it a wind-chill of -45°F. Even sticking my head 'Up a Rabbit's backsides' (as I refer to wearing that hat) isn't warm enough.

I'm reduced to using one monosyllable word for it:

YUCK!

(Over and Out!)

 

Yeah, its been bad down here in NC, also. We were hitting 0°f 2 weeks ago. While thats not real cold compared to a lot of the country and parts of the world, our homes and plumbing are not built for it.
My water main is down only 8". When I lived upstate NY, I think it was down 2 feet or more.
I installed a wood stove years ago because the furnace will run non stop below 32f

 

Up here in Varmint (as I call it), most of us with brains in our heads downsize our living-space in the Winter. In my case, I simply use my all-in-one living-room & kitchen (and the bathroom off to one side) as my living-space and heat just that area. My other two rooms I close off and use them for storage. When I bought the place, the whole place was heated with baseboard-electric heaters. I pulled those and installed a super-economical Rinnai gas-heater, which are illegal in the state I was moving out of - Massachusetts. The government there declared them 'unsafe' and claimed they could cause fires. BULL!! They were super economical and the oil and power-companies wouldn't stand a chance if people tried one of these. They'd be out of business within one season! So as is often said:

"Massachusetts has the best government that money can buy!"

And that's the truth. And money did buy it! Bunch of crooks! But even my Rinnai is costing me nearly $3 a day this winter! That's like about $90/month. The cursed electric-heaters would be more like $12 a day. Oil would be even worse. If I needed a new heater, it would be a no-brainer: Another Rinnai. These are from Japan.

I've spent a Winter in North Carolina (Raleigh/Durham). I hardly needed a coat there, being a New Englander. If you folks came up here - I doubt you'd make it for a week! But it did make winter-stargazing a pleasure! It did present a challange to me from the lower-than-used-to latitude. My Horizon-Hugging stars were now easy prey. Venus was nearly overhead.

I had a very fun Winter in NC! But the North Country is my home. But I'll see what the Global-Warming has in store for us NEXT Winter.....?

evaD