Subj : temperature dropped down
To   : AUGUST ABOLINS
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Fri Jan 24 2025 01:22:00

RM>> This year for the first time in many years I am staying through the
  >> winter in my cabin on the bay. [...]

RM>> Last night the
  >> temperature dropped down to at least -25c (-13f) and pails of water I had
  >> on the floor in the kitchen froze quite a bit. It was down near 40f when
  >> I woke up. I turn off the bigger heater and use just a single 2000 watt
  >> baseboard heater at night. [...]

AA>Bancroft, Ontario

AA>22 January 2025
  >11:00   n/a     -17  (-16.8)    SSW 8
  >10:00   n/a     -18  (-18.3)    calm
  >09:00   n/a     -26  (-25.9)    calm
  >08:00   n/a     -29  (-29.1)    calm
  >07:00   n/a     -29  (-28.7)    calm
  >06:00   n/a     -28  (-28.0)    calm
  >05:00   n/a     -27  (-27.2)    calm
  >04:00   n/a     -26  (-26.0)    calm
  >03:00   n/a     -26  (-25.9)    calm
  >02:00   n/a     -26  (-25.9)    calm
  >01:00   n/a     -25  (-24.7)    SSW 2
  >00:00   n/a     -24  (-23.7)    calm
  >21 January 2025
  >23:00   n/a     -22  (-22.3)    SSW 3
  >22:00   n/a     -20  (-20.1)    SW 2
  >21:00   n/a     -18  (-18.4)    SW 4
  >20:00   n/a     -21  (-21.4)    SW 3
  >19:00   n/a     -21  (-20.6)

AA>It was a long stretch of <-20C last night. Brrr.

Yes, I think your temperatures there are close to what I get here, possibly
even a little lower. Yesterday during the day wasn't down in the -20's,
something like -14c, but with all my heaters going non-stop all day I never
got the place above 17c (62f) due to the high winds. My place is not all
that hard to heat when it's above -15c (5f) or so outside with the main
heater running on and off as needed but I need some work sealing things
up better when it gets windy. Vertical log cabin with siding on it and
some insulation but more intended to handle cool days in spring and fall
than the cold of winter.

Vertical log is round logs split and the flats offset and nailed back
together so it appears to be just vertical round logs with a narrow flat
spot between them, but that design means that you have a floor to ceiling
joint about every  6 inches and after 70 years or so things move and you
tend to get some air leakage through the joints.

Today was nice after yesterday, about -9c but dropping to -20c tonight.
I spent a lot of time today shovelling about 400 feet of the paths I
use to get around the property to get the snow depth down from 12 to 24
inches depth to 3 or 4 inches to be easier to walk on. Imagine carrying
2 full pails of water up hill through snow often up to your knees..

You can tell I'm an older Canadian the way I jump between metric and
the old system for measurments..  But I figure it helps our American
friends reading this to follow it as well..   B)
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