sorry if we pissed you off Mes, but after the first 2 responses, you had you answer. I don't know if its Birmingham AL your from, but I have ranted on and on, and so have others on smoking in -10 weather up here, and wind is the enemy. Search posts on cold, wind, and use the author of myself, Mark, 2fat, midnight, and Cue'lio, and all your answers are there.
Its wind thats your problem. I use a cardboard box. Plain and simple. 2fat uses 55gal drums on his WSM's. Put up a windscreen. Its -6 on one Nu temp probe, and 220 on the other, and a single piece of cardboard, blocking the wind, is all the difference.
The moderators, I included, have been quite busy with non-site related stuff. So we haven't scrubbed or split as many posts as we would like. But this particular thread is really not gone crazy.
Qtalk, for the most part, is pretty on topic. even the turkey frying thread drifted, but came right back to have awesome info on Cajun injecting that has helped MArkbet and Solidkick,
just my .02, hope you stick around and have some fun. Fun use to be the first sentence of our group description.