How’s the weather?

[jjohnwm]

Winter stargazing is the best.

I though you might get a chuckle from a pic I just took of my newest dog tool; it's a brand new poop scooping hand shovel to take me through the coming winter. The new one is obviously on the left; on the right is the remains of last winter's scooper, showing signs of its age after several months spent chiseling frozen surprises out of the ice.

 

[TwoHedWlf]

I picked our dogs crap up in the back garden first thing this morning. There was a hard frost and it was jolly well cold. When I got in the car it said -1°C.

However, i've come to the conclusion that in the uk when people start talking about frost and snow and how cold it is because the temperature gauge is nudging -1°C or something, that we just sound soft and foolish, lol.

To be fair...Going from Alaska where it got -30c during the day on a fairly regular basis to NZ where hitting even negative numbers was usually an overnight low. I found it much colder here. In AK you'd tend to be all buttoned up with a nice heavy jacket, running from well central heated house to nice warm car. If you were going to be outside for a while, nice heavy gloves, hat, probably snow pants.

NZ? Huddled in front of a little LPG heater and poor insulation in the houses, but excellent ventilation, heaviest jackets you can find are like wind breakers. Gloves? Oh, here some gardening gloves. And it's 100% humidity that just sucks the heat out of you.

 

[esoxlucius]

To be fair...Going from Alaska where it got -30c during the day on a fairly regular basis to NZ where hitting even negative numbers was usually an overnight low. I found it much colder here. In AK you'd tend to be all buttoned up with a nice heavy jacket, running from well central heated house to nice warm car. If you were going to be outside for a while, nice heavy gloves, hat, probably snow pants.

NZ? Huddled in front of a little LPG heater and poor insulation in the houses, but excellent ventilation, heaviest jackets you can find are like wind breakers. Gloves? Oh, here some gardening gloves. And it's 100% humidity that just sucks the heat out of you.

Good observation. It's not us who are soft. Them lot who live in much colder places have better clothes and better houses. We're just as hard as them really. That's what I'm telling myself from now on anyway, lol.

 

[jjohnwm]

Good observation. It's not us who are soft. Them lot who live in much colder places have better clothes and better houses. We're just as hard as them really. That's what I'm telling myself from now on anyway, lol.

Okay...you go, girl!

 

[pacu mom]

Our forecast for tonight:


Tonight
Showers. The rain could be heavy at times. Low around 39. Very windy, with a south southeast wind 30 to 38 mph, with gusts as high as 55 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between 2 and 3 inches possible.

In town 9 miles away, winds could gust up to 65 mph.

I got this email this afternoon:

Hello Spectrum Customer,​

We are preparing for potential service outages that may occur as a result of Winter Storm Diaz. If you lose power during the storm, please contact your local utility company for updates. Once power is restored and conditions are safe, our technicians will resolve any service issues. We will send you a message to let you know if your Spectrum service is affected.​

It's almost guaranteed that trees are going to come down causing power outages Internet is already ON/OFF.

 

[esoxlucius]

Well it's official. Old blighty is in the big boys league now regarding snowfall and brutal temps. It's about -5°C and we have a good 3" of the white stuff!!!

Don't piss on my parade jjohnwm , it's a starting point at least, lol.

 

[pacu mom]

Power went out about 20 minutes ago. It got really quiet. Had to go around and turn the air purifiers back on. Thankful we have a generator.

 

[pacu mom]

Hour 5 and power is still out in our area. We didn't get nearly the possible rainfall predicted, but enough to raise the river which is reflecting a stormy day.

Here's some today pics compared to the usual sunny day pics

 

[esoxlucius]

Beautiful day today in Blighty. Very crisp and very cold. Decided to give my new steed a bit of a workout over some back roads and trails. Loved it.

 

[jjohnwm]

Okay, I'm not going to start complaining about the weather...but...I am scheduled to leave on a drive-to camping/hunting trip on Friday, approximately 400km from my driveway to the campsite. Most people in North America can probably see the difficulty here; it began snowing this morning and the forecast calls for snow more or less continuously for the next 80 hours...and then they throw in little kicker words like "tornado"...

My buddy and I were extremely lucky to draw this tag; tags are issued on a lottery basis and this particular one typically requires a 7- 8 year attempt before a successful draw. The odds of drawing it again while I am still physically capable of doing this hunt are very slim...I just turned 65...and now we are facing a long drive with a foot of fresh snow on the ground, actually still falling when we leave. This is a hunt that demands lots of walking...I would have expected to cover 10+ km per day on foot, in mixed prairie/brush terrain. That for sure will not be happening in a foot of snow, snowshoes notwithstanding.

So...yeah, okay...I guess I am complaining about the weather...