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Willy waving thread about how cold it is (oh the irony)
I'll start:
Linkyverybady
Bellingham, Northumberland -10c..tropical
A barmy 1 or 2 degrees on Plymouth although I’m sure things are different up on Dartmoor. Think we’ve only had 2 light frost so far this winter. Amazed how much warmer winters are down here - I’m still in shorts most of the time 😂
@bikebuoy you cant see the picture?
Picture is fine for me
Part way through last night's ride, although last week I saw minus 8
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Apparently -7 out there right now. Trying to plot a ride which minimises road riding...
Water froze in my bottle on last nights ride
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A balmy -6.5 in Malvern
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Balmy -2C in West LunDun and da car is all white (should be black)
-5 in a foggy denby (as in the pottery) in derbyshire.
130m3 of concrete on order, it's not happening just yet....
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oh ok, the picture at the start says
7:16am -24c 31 january 2019
+5 and raining in Pau. Snowing above 800m though.
-6 this morning
Had to have the heated seats on low for a few minutes
-6 and freezing fog when I walked the dog at 6.30 this morning along the River Dearne
A barmy 1 or 2 degrees on Plymouth although I’m sure things are different up on Dartmoor. Think we’ve only had 2 light frost so far this winter. Amazed how much warmer winters are down here – I’m still in shorts most of the time 😂
Was -3 when I drove across the moors last night about 6. Back to grey and damp this morning...rain later..
-7 in sunny leeds.
frozen canal. ice crystals floating in the air. freezing fog.
wore a buff under my helmet for the 1st time ever. toasty
-24C ?
S’rsly??
Thats mighty cold.
My Mrs wit is about that temperature 🤣💃
Currently 11, highs of 17.
Probably for the best as central heating and any kind of insulation are extremely rare around these parts.
bikebouy
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-24C ?S’rsly??
Thats mighty cold.
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-6 in York with thick fog and hoar frost
-8°C in Midlothian. Friend in the States was down to -33°C, feels like -47°C, yesterday. Another friend in Oz posted 46°C this morning.
I know which side of the planet I’d rather be on 🔥☀️☀️☀️
Albert: Cold, you bits of kid don't know the meaning of the word. You should have been with me on the Russian convoys. One night it was so cold the flame on my lighter froze.
I think Chicago has you beat howsyourdad1
I'm not there though, so I don't win
-8 when i left for my morning 20 miler, possibly colder in some spots, glorious morning though 🙂
-5 on ride to station this morning at 0545, hoping to get out of it snows later
Someone I'm working with today flew back from Chicago a couple of days ago, apparently his legs went numb walking a few hundred metres between hotel and office (suit trousers + thermal long johns on), only to be told pipes had burst in the tower block and they were closing it - he only just made it back to the hotel before his legs gave up :p
Was apparently -3 this morning in North London. It did feel pretty cold, largely because it was still pretty humid
Perfect weather. Was -10ºC when I went to start the car. Down in town much warmer -3ºC.
Bonus is it's nice and dry and a beautiful clear blue sky.
I really can't imagine these temperatures and the effect they'd have on most UK housing stock in terms of people's ability to keep warm and not suffer burst pipes etc.
-5 ...At work this morning,we have a nice,new shiny pound coin to the first person that spots an attention seeking student in shorts and flip flops.
@wwaswas that map reminds me of a 'song' by Venetian Snares
it's weird at -24c . it's a very 'dry' cold and it usually is completely windstill . As long as ou have the right clothes on its fine actually, but yeah your car breaks down somewhere you are in trouble
At least my Canada goose parka is getting used.
I like the cold, it’s the damp slushy thaw that’s horrible.
Not sure of temps, but it was so cold that I wore my wooly hat to work this morning. I work at home.
Saw a bloke wearing shorts and pushing a pushchair. Should I have alerted Social Services? This was in the shandy-drinking Sarf.
Bloke rides out of my road every morning (bit later than me, so only see him sometimes), was there this morning in shorts. Ok, so one of his legs is prosthetic, but the other one must get flipping cold!
Our postie (not Rich) is always in shorts.
-3.5C according to the car thermometer this morning, -3C now.
@howsyourdad1 - from memory you are in Finland (apologies if not) so you get long periods where it's well below freezing so any moisture in the air has long since gone. We're off to Rovaniemi in a couple of weeks and I've been checking the weather for a while: most of this month has been -24C or thereabouts but it's warmed up to -15C in the last couple of days.
from memory you are in Finland (apologies if not) so you get long periods where it’s well below freezing so any moisture in the air has long since gone.
When I was there over the winter the relative humidity was in the 90s the entire time, because the daytime temperature was the same as the nighttime.
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I really can’t imagine these temperatures and the effect they’d have on most UK housing stock in terms of people’s ability to keep warm and not suffer burst pipes etc.
US housing stock is appalling. They make and sell cheap houses built cheaply in large sizes - typical for the American Dream bullshit - a veneer of niceness but actually shit underneath.
Houses are basically built the same all over the country regardless of prevailing weather - because the traditional homely image in people's minds is that of the East Coast. My in-laws live in a 110 year old house which until recently had NO insulation in the walls. So there was a layer of lath and plaster, then a gap, then shipboard on the outside. In a climate that sees -20 every year. They had insulation fitted, which is seen as a progressive step. FFS. The walls are only about four or five inches thick anyway even with insulation, and were single glazed too. My sister in law bought a house that had no timer on the electric hot water heater so it was on all the time, but the tank had NO lagging. FFS again. Then in the summer the south side of the house is punishingly hot. So most people just whack up the aircon. The house was designed to sell on looks - absolutely nothing to do with suitability for the climate. But they get away with it because everyone's house is like that.
In contrast, the 60s flat I lived in in Finland had really thick walls, double glazing with a third layer of glass on another window opening into the flat. The balcony had two double glazed doors. That was typical, they designed their houses for cold.
GrahamS
Look How Quickly Water Freezes in the Air in Chicago!
The comments under that are actually pretty funny! 😆
I was talking to a friend in Chicago the other day.
Her: "it's minus 2 here."
Me: "yeah, it's cold, it's minus 3 tonight."
Her: "Fahrenheit?"
Me: "... Oh shit."
At least my Canada goose parka is getting used.
I like the cold, it’s the damp slushy thaw that’s horrible.
People are having their coats stolen at gunpoint in Chicago.
When I was there over the winter the relative humidity was in the 90s the entire time, because the daytime temperature was the same as the nighttime.
Err, that's not relative humidity
@Cougar - a friend's brother moved from the UK to Anchorage due to his work. He and his wife had a young toddler so they got some info from the kindergarten: "We don't let them play outside when the temperature drops below zero." "A bit soft" they thought, then realised that was Fahrenheit - -18C!!
the Fahrenheit scale really is shit isn't it.
its almost as bad as using month, day, year date notation.
Helpfully a friend is in Oz right now and posted that it's +41C...
the Fahrenheit scale really is shit isn’t it.
Yep. Just look at the Wikipedia page (usual caveats apply) to see how much of a hack upon bodge upon mistake it is.
A barmy 1 or 2 degrees on Plymouth although I’m sure things are different up on Dartmoor. Think we’ve only had 2 light frost so far this winter. Amazed how much warmer winters are down here – I’m still in shorts most of the time
Sounds like it's quite balmy too given what the rest of us are seeing 🙂
Schools closing early here in Swansea despite the fact that it’s just cold. No snow in miles and the forecast is now saying that it’ll arrive after 5pm. 🙄
From Austria earlier this month... a strange very quiet and "heavy atmosphere" kind of cold
https://www.flickr.com/photos/musselburghbikers/45862742414/in/dateposted-public/
A guy on the Fb Fatbike page is regularly out in -20 – 30 degrees...
cold limit here is -18c for kids to be playing outside. "In case they get lost in the woods"
You know -40 isn't all that bad a temperature as generally it means low (absolute) humidity and not too much wind. I'd certainly take still conditions and -40 over a sleety blizzard and 30 mph winds that is much more common in the (North) of the UK
We went out last night and my new Giant dropper post failed at around -3. The cable was stuck and it wouldn't lock out so sank when I sat on it. All of which gave me a perfect excuse to abort and head home to watch the footie in front of the fire!
I checked it at lunchtime today and its working fine again. :-/
I picked a great week to head North (from Calgary where it's not getting super cold for another couple of days...)
-18C is outside cut-off for Canada kids as well. It's some logic (that I can't find to refer to right now) about how that's 30 minute frostbite time for smaller people with less body mass.
Schools closing early here in Swansea despite the fact that it’s just cold. No snow in miles and the forecast is now saying that it’ll arrive after 5pm.
There’s a school in Russia which only closes when the temperature drops to -52 degrees... 🥶
Sister in Law lives in NYC, it’s been stupid cold even for there.
She caught a flight to Ohio earlier today, it shat it’s engine in takeoff due to ice and had to return. Apparently the stewardesses were strapped in and praying 😮
-17 feels like -27 in Whitehorse YT today. The cutoff temperature for me to go riding is -25ish. Below that it really is uncomfortable.
I used to own a car that I bought in Alberta. It used to start when it was in the -40’s. We moved to Texas and took the car with us. There it regularly saw +40’s. It always amazed me that it would work in such harsh temperatures.
-7 today in the here in the Borders, my kids went of cycling to school with the local village peloton. My lad was in shorts, like he is every day of his life (his choice). No chance of that changing until he is forced into it at High School in a few years.