Alaskan cold

[moparguy]

Just read a bit about the current Alaskan cold snap. Man, some areas are seeing 50/60 below for two weeks. Gasoline turnes to slush at those temps, diesel must go solid.



Wonder how our diesel guys are doing.



Good luck if you're dealing with these extream conditions.



RR

 

[WDaniels]

Mopar guy,

The freeze point of gasoline is well below -120. The fuel we use in our planes at work burn JP8 which has a freeze point of -53 F. Number two diesel normally gels at about 15 F. Number 1 somewhere around -25 to -30. It will depend on how much ethnol and esters are in the diesel.

Right now mine is gelled up at work. Weather is suppose to break monday or tuesday.

WD

 

[fest3er]

Geez, Warren, are you still griping about the cold up there? After all these years, one'd think you'd be used to it by now. I thought you were moving to VA, where it stays warm year-round... .

Didn't you complain about the gas in your three-story igloo's generator freezing a few years back? Or am I mis-remembering?

BTW, yes, I've known when -30F is pretty frigid, when -10F is sock-n-sandals weather and when +30 is shorts-and-t-shirt weather. But I'm a wuss. +30F is *always* shorts-n-t-shirt weather for Steve SL in the MI mitten, unless he's riding his dirt bike around town to annoy his neighbors; he wears long pants for that. They'd shoot him otherwise.

Back to the topic, after a week or two at cold temps, one gets used to it. Like onegets used to a toothache. The downside is that a warm spell of 40F higher than recent temps is a real heat wave. So Warren, be sure to tell us of you and your compatriots sun-bathing when it warms back up to zero. And aircraft fuel needs to flow at those temps, since it's usually about that cold at 40K feet.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

:-laf This was last weekend:



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It was pretty balmy at +20 and I was sweating to beat the band - notice how my face is kinda blurry - that's from the heat rising off my body. I had my mesh armor and a jersey on covered by the jacket (which is just a wind/water block - no insulation).

 

[WDaniels]

Fest,

Actually, up at altitude, it is warmer than on ground by far. I do the Flight Data Recorder information for the engines and it is always warmer at 35k feet than right now. It is generally anywhere from -25 to -35. It is even that way during the summer.

As far as getting used to the cold, you know as you get older, and we are you know, a person gets to the point that they have had enough of this crap. I haven't driven my truck since mid summer and have #2 in it with only the summer amounts of diesel power service. On the 23 of Dec when it got cold I decided to drive the truck to work not thinking that I had 36 gallons of #2 fuel. It was -8 when I left the house in the hills, by time I got 3/4's of the way to work it had fallen to -40 and the pedal was floored to just keep it at 50mph. When I got to work it was -52 and there the truck has sat until hopefully this Tuesday when its suppost to warm up to -2 and I'll attempt to start it. Even 2 quarts of power service 911 wouldn't keep it running at -50.

And I was complaining about the second story of the igloo because I had to move from the second floor to the first because of the summer time sun. :-laf Could be worse tho, the neighbors 2 story out house isn't working properly in this cold weather.

But when I do move(sometime the end of this year)its to Florida where we have a boat and are going sailing.



Steve,

That looks like a blast. Would love to do it!

WD

 

[Jumbo Jet]

:-laf This was last weekend:

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It was pretty balmy at +20 and I was sweating to beat the band - notice how my face is kinda blurry - that's from the heat rising off my body. I had my mesh armor and a jersey on covered by the jacket (which is just a wind/water block - no insulation).

How come one of those bikes does not have any snow on the wheels, fenders, etc. ?