sven360 wrote:Sounds grim,Jani.
Newcastle looks like a scene from Dr Zhivago this morning.
About 8" snow lying.
About same amount here, might be even bit less as there has not been new one recently and snow has odd habit of compressing over time, so what was fluffy snow becomes thicker and more solid.
-16C now, falling 1C per hour, estimates are around -20C, but might get even colder.
Still strong wind and very damp weather (74% humidity) = bastardly cold
Currently November average temp is -4C, however I lost two cold days as sensor wiring failed, cat or bird is responsible from that. Anyway long time average is -2.2C so it is bit colder than it should be, they say that following few days will make November all time record lows, but you never know about those, they talk lot of other odd things.
Last year November had -0.9C average temp and our main met office told winter will be really warm and southern finland will probably not have snow at all at winter, well in reality there was more snow and more cold than a decade, but they are pro forecasters, they probably know things better
For this winter I have seen forecasts of worst in 1000 years, lot warmer than usual, lot colder than usual, but none has picked average as base of their forecasts, all I know is that sea climate is still weaker than mainland climate and it means hotter and colder, depending if it is summer or winter, so I guess winter will not be easy one for us, must be easy living for those who live at area where is no such winter as we have, but for some odd reason those areas seem to be bit restless, which is odd as life would be so easy compared to our daily heating problems.
Speaking of that, I started fire at 9am and it is still running hot, just need to add fuel to the flames so that I can get house temperature up before it gets really cold, having been on road again, house temperature were bit over 0 when I came back yesterday, takes quite bit of firewood to get temp high again as all walls and floors are still cold.
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and the gulf stream and/or jet stream is altering and the winters will be like this for a few years. On top of the snow we had at the beginning of the year this weather's certainly breaking records fast. A mate who used to work for the met office reckons the gulf stream is being affected by the melting ice at the north pole. Not sure how this affects the jet stream position (which is causing our cold weather) but I suppose everything has knock on effect.
