Time and Temperature: 11:35PM, 8 degrees below zero

It is currently 8 degrees below zero in Columbia, Missouri as registered at the Columbia Regional Airport and vacinity. The high temperature today was marked at 15:54PM, same location, and it registered at zero degrees Fahrenheit.

Time and Temperature: from 05:54AM until 07:54AM.....

-9F. This was the real and actual temperature registered, for the duration of two hours, at Columbia Regional Airport in Columbia, Missouri on the morning of Jan 6, 2014, this very morning. That is quite impressive considering how far south we are of North Dakota, or Minnesota and all parts north. Now that this has been established, I wonder how many grapevines I will have growing in late May of 2014. I wonder how many will survive this cold snap; I am pretty certain that the hybrids from the University of Minnesota's grape breeding program will come out of this unscathed. I can't hazard a guess, but I feel confident about the impervious ways of my grapevines, all of the varietals I have worked hard to grow in the past years. And that confidence helps in most situations. - Cheers to all!

Time and Temperature: 09:12AM, -7Fahrenheit

That is real temperature, not anything such as "...feels like negative 7 degrees.". Now, again, this is only little old Columbia, Missouri. Yet, I find it all pretty big news, actually. I suppose anything associated with the name or description 'Polar Vortex' is bound to be newsworthy. For my little internal gardener sensors, however, these are very interesting developments. I haven't checked the temps in the past four hours, so I may have missed a cooler low that had been registered, but I have to reference NOAA's website to review those logged temps for the past four hours. I will do so after this publishing. .....developing.

Time and Temperature: 04:18AM, -7F

-7 degrees Fahrenheit. 04:18AM Monday Jan 6, 2014. Columbia, MO

Time and Temperature: 02:50AM, -4F.

Current conditions in Columbia, Missouri: 02:50AM, -4 Fahrenheit. I work overnights and when I depart work at 730AM, the predicted temperature is slated for -10. At -4F, it feels like -22F. For Columbia, Missouri, this is a pretty decent freeze we are set to encounter. Moisture levels this winter, thus far, have been pretty lackluster. A small amount of snow fell yesterday throughout the day, perhaps we accumulated 3 to 4 inches, I should confirm that with NOAA, but haven't.