Bad weather

[Scrumpy]

I managed to get to the Co-op.. I needed milk.. The pavement was icy.. I walked on the sunny side.. Kept crossing the road in different places.. It was horrible..
The water in the bird bath is frozen solid.. I tried cracking it with a hammer.. No luck

[Alex]

It seems to be warming up here, minus 5 last night but it's only 0 degrees at the moment.     The car passenger door was stuck yesterday, same with the boot but once the heater had been running they opened ok.

[Diasi]

Thankyou, I do miss Dageus so very much. 

I imagine that everyone on here misses Dageus & his adventures, I know I do.

[Michael Rolls]

real change - yesterday at 1400 it was PLUS 7! Already today 0700 it is +7

[Scrumpy]

Sunshine here.. All traces of heavy frost has gone.. Milder weather coming this way..

[Mups]

Sunshine here.. All traces of heavy frost has gone.. Milder weather coming this way..

And slowly,  very slowly,  the days are getting longer.  
Isn't it supposed to be by about 2 mins a day?

[klondike]

Don't forget it gets lighter earlier too. If it is symmetrical these times need halving for how much later if gets dark.

ChatGPT.....

Daylight Changes After Winter Solstice

1. Rate of Change:

Around the winter solstice, the change in daylight is slow—only about 15-30 seconds per day.

By late January, the rate increases to about 2-3 minutes per day.

The rate peaks around the spring equinox (March 20-21), when daylight increases by roughly 4 minutes per day.

[Alex]

[Cassandra]

Currently, 1pm - 8c on my outside barometer. My electricity today is below 50% of the UK price and my heating oil is a fifth of yours. One of my relatives in the south of England (Sussex) tells me he can now only get heating oil (kersosene) delivered in 20 litre boxes, (min 5 boxes, so 100 litres which costs £227)! This equates to £10.32 a gallon - Ye Gods! So thats a 1,000 litre bunch of these cardboard boxes that at 75 he has to tip into his tank himself (200 boxes) - cost £2,270. His annual consumption is about 2,500 litres, so therefore £5,675 a year. He then has to add Electricity to that. There are no mains supply of gas available, it was going to be installed this year, but of course Millipede has cancelled it indefinitely, now he's running things! My cousin is a retired clergyman, who inherited the house years ago. He has a small pension from the Church, that pushes him past elibility for Pension Credit and of course the recently withdrawn Pensioner heating allowance. Many 000's in this area are terrified of switching their boilers on. I've told him to limit the oil to emergency need only and get Solar Panels everywhere he can to provide heating. Trouble is, the property is Victorian and poorly insulated from what he tells me. Poor chap, recently widowed is very down. I therefore didn't worry him about what this means in either capital expenditure, or what this has done to the value of his home, with the liability of these vast utility bills arrayed against it. 

I told him to get over here, buy one of Elon Musk's new 'modular home kits' for $50,000 dollars and that he can have a portion of my upper wood 'pro bono' to erect it on. With solar power and oil at 20% of what he's presently paying in boxes, delivered by a tanker. A lot for him to take in of course. my neighbour (retired civil engineer CEO) says he'll either dig a trench, or 'pole' the cables from my electric supply up to the wood for both him and Joe (my other tenant) ...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=US+elon+mussk+kit+houses&t=chromentp&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D28tm8o6xuSs

[JBR]

Currently, 1pm - 8c on my outside barometer. My electricity today is below 50% of the UK price and my heating oil is a fifth of yours. 

etc.

And I thought that the cost of living in America was much higher than here.

I hope you don't mind if I emigrate there too?  Unfortunately, I can't afford it!

[1955vintage]

Remember the cost of health insurance, thousands of pounds in insurance premiums but you are still not fully covered.

[Scrumpy]

And we have a better chippy... 
And the Americans do not know how to make a good cup of tea.... 

The last hotel I stayed in , over there, brought a teapot to the table with a teabag on a rope plus a jug of hot water.. The water had gone well off the boil..

[dextrous63]

And we have more insightful police...

[JBR]

And we have more insightful police...

Oh, he'll be given some excuse and released.  That's how our courts work now.
Or is it, perhaps, that we don't have any more room in our five-star prisons?

[Scrumpy]

   'Not suspicious' !!!!

We have more comedians in our police force.. and our courts...