Weather early 2009

[johnw]

i think what i hate most about the really bitter, contact-freeze type of cold is the multi-layers of clothing required to bear it.

Kristl - I feel the same way.  If you can believe it it is +4C here today and everyone is running around with umbrellas.  Tonight the low is expected to be -13c. What's worse than multi-layers are the skates required to go with.  It's all downhill for the next 4 days.  I hate this too.

johnw

[Maggi Young]

.....down jacket...................with the coming of spring, you can't help but feel you've lost 20 pounds!!!!!

Who knew that a duck was so heavy??   

[fermi de Sousa]

.....down jacket...................with the coming of spring, you can't help but feel you've lost 20 pounds!!!!!

Who knew that a duck was so heavy??   

Well, Maggi, if you remember your Monty Python, it does weigh as much as a witch!
cheers
fermi
feeling a bit cooler with a predicted 28^oC after yesterday's +40^oC.

[Maggi Young]

Well, Maggi, if you remember your Monty Python, it does weigh as much as a witch!
cheers
fermi
feeling a bit cooler with a predicted 28^oC after yesterday's +40^oC.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail! ......
....what make you think she's a witch?
.... she turned me into a newt.
......A newt?
.......Well, I got better!.....
I'd forgotten about that !


More need of a waterproof than a down coat here tonight.... cold and wet, yuck!
 

[Martin Baxendale]

better warm up the mukluks before i head out.

I've been wondering all day but afraid to ask in case mukluks was some sort of highly personal anatomical thing, so just looked them up in the dictionary. Very disappointed it wasn't something ruder.   

[Kristl Walek]

I've been wondering all day but afraid to ask in case mukluks was some sort of highly personal anatomical thing, so just looked them up in the dictionary. Very disappointed it wasn't something ruder.   


ah, a man with an active imagination; although some would say that is an oxymoron 

as it turned out neither heated mukluks nor down jacket were necessary for the level of cold yesterday; the -35C +/- without any wind chill,  felt quite average and bearable to me. as a friend said "what's the big deal; it's January in Canada, after all".

and all the weather prediction did was force me to waddle around for hours like a stuffed duck!!!

[James Cheshire]

It snowed about six inches here yesterday. The high was -6C, but it got down to -15C overnight. The roads still haven't been plowed yet, as usual. I'm not the only Ohio citizen to notice this problem.

The snow is fine and fluffy, so it's great for the plants in the ground. Next year I will try to minimize the number of pots I have to overwinter; I'm finding it stressful to care for so many these days.

I put a jug of really hot water in the cold frame the other night, and it seems to help a lot. Then again, my cold frame is a custom job made of pine slabs and an argon-filled window.

[Anthony Darby]

I'm not the only Ohio citizen to notice this problem.

[Michael J Campbell]

Typical Irish weather here today,120klm  winds and heavy rain,some sunny spells. Can't get into the greenhouse, if it is still there,must go and check.

[David Nicholson]

Strong winds started here a couple of hours ago. It's forecast to get a lot worse over the next 12 hours with torrential rain as well. I think the greenhouse will make it but I'm doubtful about some of the fence panels!

[ashley]

Trees down here.  I had to squeeze the car under one of them this morning to avoid a long detour.  More scary was a sheet of corrugated iron on the road; wouldn't like to meet that on a dark night!

[Michael J Campbell]

My greenhouses are still intact, but a lot of my pots and containers have been upended. The forecast says that it should pass by midnight. Hope they have it correct this time.

[Jo]

OOps, I talked about the weather in the wrong thread     Yea its really wild here at the mo, wonder if I should turn off the computer

NO, silly idea 

[Maggi Young]

Good heavens, Jo, turn OFF the computer? That's a bit drastic, isn't it?

That being said, the wind is building now, and if the rain starts and I think there's any chance of an electric storm I will turn the pc off then.... just before I head under the dining room table!

OOps, I talked about the weather in the wrong thread

We're British, Jo, it's programmed into our genes to talk about the weather EVERYWHERE!

[Jo]

Haha Maggi,

Seriously though, If there is lightning it can knock out a modem by hitting the telephone wires if you don't have anti surge on the phone. My son Jack lost all his downloaded music that way, shame.........