It's freezing today.

[Vanessa]

It's snowing!
Do you have snow where you live? :blush:

[thesheriff443]

It’s been trying to snow all day in Berkshire

[AnnieK]

No snow in Manchester. Bitterly cold though

[rusticgal]

Flurries in Farnham…

[bots]

yeah we had snow here, but it didn't settle

[Mystic Mock]

It feels like the Antarctic where I live at the moment.:laugh:

[arista]

It's snowing!
Do you have snow where you live? :blush:


South Snow is not settling


Also we are in Winter
it is meant to be COLD.

[Ammi]

Flurries in Farnham…

…that sounds very poetic…a new drama series title, Flurries in Farnham…:laugh:…

[Ammi]

…we did have some little attempts at snow also but nothing lasting…but yeah, freezing, Vanessa…wrap up warm today…

[Cherie]

sitting in the sun...we are back Thursday though :worry: I do have the nifty hive app on my phone so I can turn the heating on before we get back...hope it works :worry:

[user104658]

sitting in the sun...we are back Thursday though :worry: I do have the nifty hive app on my phone so I can turn the heating on before we get back...hope it works :worry:

:nono: You should leave your heating on a few hours a day while away in Winter dontchaknow Cherie! My mum learned this the hard way (in a rented house too, lolz) - went away for a week over winter, came back to burst pipes and the whole ceiling caved in. Two ceilings actually - pipes burst in the loft, ceiling caved into the upstairs bedroom, then through again to the living room. Tens of thousands of pounds of damage :joker:.

I'm sure your house is fine though :hee:.

[Gusto Brunt]

And it's freezing today too. I couldn't feel my hands when I went out and I was wearing three coats!

I was still cold. :(

[Vanessa]

I'm not going out unless I have to.

[Cherie]

:nono: You should leave your heating on a few hours a day while away in Winter dontchaknow Cherie! My mum learned this the hard way (in a rented house too, lolz) - went away for a week over winter, came back to burst pipes and the whole ceiling caved in. Two ceilings actually - pipes burst in the loft, ceiling caved into the upstairs bedroom, then through again to the living room. Tens of thousands of pounds of damage :joker:.

I'm sure your house is fine though :hee:.

Of course our house is fine, we left the theromstat at 15 so it will click any lower than that :hee:

[Zizu]

Of course our house is fine, we left the theromstat at 15 so it will click any lower than that :hee:


Always wondered if it’s cheaper to leave it on all the time or just keep firing the heating up as and when required ..


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[Cherie]

Always wondered if it’s cheaper to leave it on all the time or just keep firing the heating up as and when required ..


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it is not on all the time as mostly indoors the temp will be 16 or thereabouts without the heating on, and when we are at home we put the thermo down to 10 at night as we dont want it coming on at night unless it is baltic

[Zizu]

it is not on all the time as mostly indoors the temp will be 16 or thereabouts without the heating on, and when we are at home we put the thermo down to 10 at night as we dont want it coming on at night unless it is baltic


Ah ..

I do know that some have their heating on low 24/7 in cold weather and thought it maybe better than our method of banging it on full when it gets too cold


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[Cherie]

Ah ..

I do know that some have their heating on low 24/7 in cold weather and thought it maybe better than our method of banging it on full when it gets too cold


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There never seems to be a definitive answer to this, that said if it is not on, it is not costing (apart from the standing charge) is my motto :laugh:

[bots]

This is where smart meters are very useful. It's different for everyone, because everyone's house and heating needs are different, but my smart meter showed that it was more cost effective for me to keep my heating on 24/7 than switching it off at night and having the place warm up from cold every morning

[Zizu]

This is where smart meters are very useful. It's different for everyone, because everyone's house and heating needs are different, but my smart meter showed that it was more cost effective for me to keep my heating on 24/7 than switching it off at night and having the place warm up from cold every morning


Interesting , thanks


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[Ray.]

I've taken to wearing fingerless gloves. I feel like Albert Steptoe.

[Parmy]

I've taken to wearing fingerless gloves. I feel like Albert Steptoe.

We used to call them lazy grannys.

[Alf]

Greta Thunberg has apologised for being wrong and said "It's fckin freezing"

[Cherie]

The good news is, and I know SB will be worried, the house was fine, it was a balmy 15 degrees while we were away, bumped it up on the way home to 21 and it was toasty on arrival..... :hee:

[Maru]

I've taken to wearing fingerless gloves. I feel like Albert Steptoe.

Adorable, though (the gloves)

Snow is a once a decade thing here and usually flurries, though that varies. On average, we have less than 24 hrs of freezing temps each year. So maybe a couple of hours per night during "cold spells".

Anyway, we're supposed to get an arctic hype thing beginning Monday I think. Temperatures are supposed to be down to 18F ~ 22F (-7C ~-5C) for a couple of nights for a few hours... mid 30s/above freezing during the day... that's pretty cold here and we don't really winterize in this part of TX. We don't even salt. We just wait for temps to come back up. So we're going to drain the pipes for a couple of days and just move to bottled water. Not really drama for us, we're accustomed to this... drama would be leaving the water in the pipes.

It's only because we have one brick wall that stays in the shade nearly 100% of the day and it has a lot of pipework that loves to freeze even if we drip the faucets. Most people keep their pipes in the attic where it is fully uninsulated.

Anyway, when we lived in the Northeast US, we had two blizzards in a week and had to Minecraft out of our homes and shovel snow off our garage port cover (very flat), so this is a non-event for us. /weather chat

Edit: I do miss winter fashion, though. It doesn't really go with the humidity.

[Ammi]

I've taken to wearing fingerless gloves. I feel like Albert Steptoe.

…I wear fingerless gloves also and Claudia Winkleman is now wearing them on The Traitors series ….so I think they’re the new style accessory of now and we’re ahead of the game….

[Vanessa]

It's really cold. I've done all my shopping online this week :laugh:

[Gusto Brunt]

It's not snowing yet but the tarmac has turned white due to the frost. It's 3 below zero here in the North.

https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-67afae02710e824d6b6ee3c915751b64

[arista]

It's going to get Colder in the next few days
below 0.


In USA it's -19
in the voting area.

[Vanessa]

I've been doing my shopping online. Not going anywhere until it gets a bit warmer.

[bots]

it's going to be cold tonight, i'm going to look out the thermals

[GoldHeart]

I think snow is coming , it's ridiculous how cold it is . I know it's winter but still .

[Kate!]

We have loads of snow here in Wigan

[Zizu]

We have loads of snow here in Wigan


Define ‘loads’

:)


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[Kate!]

Well it's layers, ice underneath and more snow on top. Dangerous. I nearly fell when I went out to the wheelie bin.

[AnnieK]

We had around an inch this morning and it was a bit dicey at rush hour but pretty much all gone now

Bloody cold though

[arista]

Yes GBnewsHD
are there.

Schools are Closed in Wigan.

Cars have crashed.


Yes Kate you are on a yellow weather warning.

Sun has gone down,
Kate take care as you go below Zero

[arista]

Well it's layers, ice underneath and more snow on top. Dangerous. I nearly fell when I went out to the wheelie bin.


Yes the Young Lady Reporter there
from GBnewsHD said Wigan is freezing more right now


The Sun has gone down

[Maru]

In case anyone needed the laugh, this is about as well as SE TX copes with freezing weather... our news was nice enough to put up a counter for us so we could note each second of our suffering...

https://i.imgur.com/j70aXAu.png

https://i.imgur.com/0C2EXlU.png

This meme has been making the rounds...
https://i.imgur.com/EkR0RXG.jpg

I have two outdoor sensors and they both reached 19F(-7C) last night but other than that, nice and toasty here. We got some wintry mix that was sleet for a little bit, but not very much at all.

[Gusto Brunt]

It's VERY cold today.

Coldest I've known for many years.

It's supposed to be -4 but it feels like -10.

[Zizu]

It’s gonna be even colder tomorrow !!


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[Vanessa]

I'm staying home until it gets warmer.

[bots]

wake me up in March :laugh:

[Zizu]

All the side roads and paths near us are solid ice !!

No gritting done at all ..

Treacherous for drivers and older pedestrians


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[Maru]

wake me up in March :laugh:

I do not miss having to wait that long for warm weather... it'll be back up to 70 (20C) tomorrow. It was even longer than that some years and I remember when we couldn't afford to heat the home consistently. Long story short, but our rental was very expensive to run heating because it was added before electricity was deregulated (rates were like 1/3rd of market)... I used stay up to burn firewood and we had pipes running through the fireplace and a switch put in for the water pump to run the heat from the fireplace through the rest of the house. So sort of like a backup boiler? I was very happy when we ran into some Maple... and our cat loved her spot in front of the visual toaster.

Old news now but we are well out of freezing. We get to turn our water back on.
https://i.imgur.com/tOtlD5A.png

[Kate!]

It's minus 6 degrees here as we go into Thirsday morning. Brrrr.

[Parmy]

I saw 2 people in shorts today.

[Zizu]

I saw 2 people in shorts today.


Bet they had leg tattoos ..


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[Parmy]

Bet they had leg tattoos ..


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No. Ball problems.

[Mystic Mock]

I'm wearing two Dressing Gowns.:joker:

[AnnieK]

My phone is showing -7 today :sad:
That'll be a fun car defrost this morning

[bots]

just don't look at your phone and it will be much warmer :laugh:

[Gusto Brunt]

It's currently minus -3 outside but we've had a blanket of snow during the night which oddly makes it feel less cold.

I don't know why that is the case, but I've always felt that.

It actually feels like 3c.

[Kate!]

Minus 6 here today

[AnnieK]

just don't look at your phone and it will be much warmer :laugh:

Took your advice - wasn't any warmer :laugh:

[Vanessa]

It's -3 :bawling:

[Gusto Brunt]

Just turned very cold. Minus 5 now. :( and I'm feeling it. :(

[Gusto Brunt]

Just looked at the weather tomorrow for my area.

It's gonna be 6c degrees. It's gonna feel like summer. :D :D :joker::joker:


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