The mercury hasn’t hit bottom yet.
January ranks as one of the most bitingly cold months Western Pennsylvanians can remember, though certainly not a record. A cold snap early in the month made the temperature plummet to 9 below zero near Pittsburgh International Airport with a wind chill that felt like 30 below.
State College-based AccuWeather predicts a low of 10 below zero on Tuesday as part of the latest bone-chilling cold spell, one that will extend through at least Jan. 31.
“We’ve been selling a lot of winter tires. People who have decided to try and wait to see how the winter goes, I think finally pulled the trigger,” said Nick Lenhart, manager of Lenhart’s Service Center in North Huntingdon. “They realized it’s not just going to be a one and done.”
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This winter is, I believe,the coldest in about 20 years.
It has been quite some time since I had to cover my vehicle’s engine because the temperature was going below zero.I’ve had to do it twice so far this month.We’ve had wind chills of below zero many times and I keep asking about that “global warming” thing.
This is a natural weather cycle that most believers of global warming will never understand.
Keep huggin’ those trees now,ya hear.