Bastardly cold outside

[jtbo]

-26.8C again, it is cold, could be colder

Predicted temp was -22C with one snowflake meaning little snow.

Last 24 hours average temp was -19.3C

You can see now why I need ambient temp gauge that can go lower than -25C, it simply would sit at minimum reading good part of night and it is night I often need to drive

[jtbo]

Coldest today -27.2C Current average temp -24.4C highest temp -21C

I decided to sculpture new ice lantern, took some two hours sitting in snow, did not came out too well, but at least there was nice breeze to make it feel like really really cold, which it was not. Oh yes and also zipper of my winter wear decided to dismantle, so it was not as warm as it could have been

7 days average temp is -19.2C, only thing where that really shows is my electric bill as house heating takes more energy, but on floor where I sit is +20C and room is +21C evenly around. Also I have so used to -20C temps now that they seem normal, -30C would be tad cold and -10C quite warm, amazing how human beings can adapt

[jtbo]

Small tip.

When outside temperature reads -26C and there is tad of wind, one may think that filling bird feeder does not require gloves. Well, it does, really, as in 20 seconds fingers start to loose precision and in one minute pain arrives, also bird feeder is so cold that finger that touches it seems to become quite quickly rather cold.

Trying to get into car without gloves is just plain silly, keys are not possible to operate as fingers will not respond to commands too well, so gloves are a must really.

Joints in fingers start to hurt so much after few minutes that it is practically same if you would hit them all with 15 hammers repeatedly, hard and very rapidly, effect is much stronger if you just have taken a shower and run to car, I found out.

Getting snow to your shoe which then melts making shoe wet inside is then another thing that you might like to avoid, this is what I also found out, if you take a wrench and wrist your toes while hammering them with several sledgehammers is perhaps how it feels after 15 minutes...

-27C here now, seems to be getting colder

[volvosneverdie]

Thats seriously cold dude!
Think I'd keep gloves on all day, just to be sure.
And I'd let the birds starve. Or eat frozen worms.

We're up above freezing again here, thank Jeebuz.
We dont get on with winter as well as the hardy fins.

[jtbo]

Thats seriously cold dude!
Think I'd keep gloves on all day, just to be sure.
And I'd let the birds starve. Or eat frozen worms.

We're up above freezing again here, thank Jeebuz.
We dont get on with winter as well as the hardy fins.

It is not that bad really, also luckily we have not had extreme weather now, just quite average for winter, unlike few earlier years.

Pain is only in your mind, control your mind and you control the pain, that helps a bit also when I do something foolish. For example one morning here I managed to somehow trip over, I landed on night table and I have nice cut on my arse from that, also left side is rather black and it hurts a bit. I did made mental note to not start running before I have actually completely got up from bed, blanket got me that time

Nowdays I'm quite prone to accidents it seems, so it is good to know how to control pain, there is constantly some place where it would hurt otherwise.

[volvosneverdie]

Pains easy if you know its not doing you any harm. (getting 9 hours of straight tattooing, getting whipped, putting a few cigarettes out on the palm of your hand etc.)
Pain where something could seriously be dangerously wrong ( getting run over, falling on a night table and bursting your arse, etc) is a lot harder to control. i think.
Panic at the unknown horrors of what youve done is far more scary than any amount of pain.

[jtbo]

getting 9 hours of straight tattooing, getting whipped, putting a few cigarettes out on the palm of your hand etc.)
&
Panic at the unknown horrors of what youve done is far more scary than any amount of pain.

Hmm, I see, interesting hobbies you have

[volvosneverdie]

Not all in the same day!

[jtbo]

Now we got interesting weather, very dense fog, -25C and quite strong wind. How on earth that fog is not frozen beats me

[jtbo]

Here 2010 January is 5th coldest January in 109 years, only 4 January's has been colder from year 1900. Current average temperature for this month is -16.8C and last 5th coldest was -16.1C so it is very unlikely that rest of this month can change situation.

Last 7 day's average temperature is -19.7C now and they forecast even worse for next month, we will see, but heating expenses are astronomous

[sven360]

Jani, chainsaw will save you.
Surrounded by trees-too tempting for me,I'm afraid.

Mercury says it's pretty cold here,wind chill tells me it's brassic.

I need snow and lots of it.

[jtbo]

I have plenty of firewood, yesterday there was fire at fireplace for 11 hours non stop

Oh yes, I do have a chainsaw too, also several axes, thing that I don't know what it is at English and also a Katana (tiny bit of practising with that too, more or less daily that is) which could work if in an emergency, however it is much better cutting other things, like limbs and heads

[sven360]

Just got mesel' one of these bad boys .........

http://www.raymears.com/Bushcraft_Produ ... ting-Maul/

A new Huskie 357XPG with the heated handles.


Winter-ha,gives us ya worst.I is ready for ya.

[nomead]

I got fed up with getting a faceful of snow when sitting inside the car and starting it! The way that happens is these small sharp snow particles somehow get into the ventilation air intake and then they get blown inside before the heater warms up enough to melt the snow away.

So now I bodged a large enough piece of a vacuum cleaner dustbag on top of the intake (under the bonnet) - first impressions are that it seems to work, though who knows for how long. I'll post pics only if the experiment proves successful in the long run (at least a few days from now). After all now it's only just a piece of dustbag with no fasteners, even.

A snow cap wouldn't help, either.

[jtbo]

Temp has been now between -10C and -28C, but mostly sitting below -15C during warm period of day, so weather has been stupidly cold.

I was just wondering here what would happen if in UK it would be -20C to -28C for month or so? It would probably be catastrophe in nation wide scale, however it is not entirely impossible event.

They say that El Nino have kept some of cold away, but as a result after El Nino starts to fade it would mean quite deep cooling perioid, some say that even next summer would already see lot colder weathers, that might affect somewhat to food production too