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Luc Gilgemyn

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Re: Weather 2008
« Reply #750 on: December 30, 2008, 03:33:01 PM »
Stunning views Brian - thanks for showing !!
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Re: Weather 2008
« Reply #751 on: December 30, 2008, 03:34:51 PM »
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Re: Weather 2008
« Reply #752 on: December 30, 2008, 06:32:30 PM »
6pm - .....   -7 C already. 
-15 C predicted (!)

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Re: Weather 2008
« Reply #753 on: December 30, 2008, 07:01:15 PM »
After a chilly Christmas (clear but below freezing at night), today I opened the windows to warm up - it was 22ºC outdoors but only 13ºC in my unheated flat!

I loved your frost photos David! Where I live we only have a frost if the sky is clear and it disappears as soon as the sun comes up.

Chloë
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Re: Weather 2008
« Reply #754 on: December 30, 2008, 07:09:22 PM »
Thank you Chloe,there's plenty more frost out there still. It is wonderful for a day or two but this cold weather is now going on for too long. It is currently -10 and has not been above -4 all day; we never get prolonged cold like this. I don't suppose that there is any point in worrying but I know that we must have lost many plants and bulbs.
David Shaw, Forres, Moray, Scotland

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Re: Weather 2008
« Reply #755 on: December 30, 2008, 07:22:25 PM »
It was too cold here today to work comfortably while cutting back and general tidying. I wouldn't want to be in Northants tomorrow morning
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Re: Weather 2008
« Reply #756 on: December 30, 2008, 07:32:54 PM »
Sunburn weather here. My nose is peeling - and other, less prominent places.
Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9

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Re: Weather 2008
« Reply #757 on: December 30, 2008, 07:50:06 PM »
Still +3C outside here about ten minutes ago.
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Re: Weather 2008
« Reply #758 on: December 30, 2008, 08:13:52 PM »
Hang on.... I'll get a torch and go out.......


8.17 pm....... there, that didn't take long.......just on 0 degrees and dropping ....been all the way up to nearly 4 degrees today!
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Re: Weather 2008
« Reply #759 on: December 30, 2008, 08:20:19 PM »
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6pm - .....   -7 C already. 
-15 C predicted (!)

Good grief, Giles, put as many clothes on as you can.... especially socks..... can't have you end up as an ice sculpture.
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Re: Weather 2008
« Reply #760 on: December 30, 2008, 08:23:26 PM »
I just went out also. We are on the way up, "the only way is up, baby", it's +8C
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Re: Weather 2008
« Reply #761 on: December 30, 2008, 08:51:39 PM »
6pm - .....   -7 C already. 
-15 C predicted (!)
That reminds me of Oxford in the winter of 1981/1982. That was damn cold! But it was fun to have no school and to go sledging on Boars Hill  :D
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Re: Weather 2008
« Reply #762 on: December 30, 2008, 08:53:53 PM »
I just went out also. We are on the way up, "the only way is up, baby", it's +8C

Are you sure you didn't drop the thermometer in your coffee before you took the reading?  ???
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Re: Weather 2008
« Reply #763 on: December 30, 2008, 08:55:33 PM »
Hruska with one ice cube :D
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Re: Weather 2008
« Reply #764 on: December 30, 2008, 09:00:04 PM »
It's supposed to be -15oC in the north east tonight.
My car thermometer was reading -0o::) at 2.00 p.m. today.
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