Forecast for morning was -7C or so, but in reality there was -17C + some 12cm of fresh powder snow

macplaxton, nice french crap FWD (I call everything french being french crap if they are FWD as FWD is crap in general) there, those are very comfy and if you don't tell anyone I have grown soft for comfy ride so I would not see it very bad if someday would have one of those on yard along with Volvos (CX turbo2 is rather interesting )

jtbo wrote:

trabitom99 wrote: First November snow here, for as long as I can remember!

Am supposed to be driving to Munich tomorrow, 560km trip each way, weather forecast is bleak - lots of snowfall all the way, and there are several hilly stretches to cross. Am hoping a 22-year old Volvo with winter tyres will do a better job of getting me there than a cheap airline or the Deutsche Bahn

Tom

Watch out for those big lorries, they might have not proper tyres and are probably sliding all over the place

Oh and I guess after the trip you need to was underside of car, they probably have thrown lot of good salt away again to roads

Doing the trip by road turned out to be a good idea! 200 flights were cancelled on Munich airport that day due to icy runways, and several trains conked out on the way too, with their passengers spending the night in chilly school gyms. We made our way slowly down south, through blizzards and snowed up autobahns.

I missed one thing though - headlamp wipers - would have been very helpful as the lights got dimmer and dimmer ...

Had a heart-stopping moment last weekend, pulled out to overtake a car which was doing minus ten miles an hour and the rear of the car slipped all over the place. Seems like the chap was doing the right thing and I wasn't

Tom

trabitom99 wrote:Had a heart-stopping moment last weekend, pulled out to overtake a car which was doing minus ten miles an hour and the rear of the car slipped all over the place. Seems like the chap was doing the right thing and I wasn't
Tom

Young boy-racers.

I've had to deal quite a bit with bell-ends doing minus 10km/h.

No fun either when the tacho time is being chomped away, so given half a chance, I'll pull out where I shouldn't to get past these muppets that should simply stay at home.

-11 here Monday night. This is getting beyond a joke. This morning I had to (as I do almost every morning at the moment) put a fan heater underneath the sump of the transit for 1/2 an hour to warm the engine before I can start it. This time even this failed to work properly as the battery could take no more. Luckily I have a mains booster and was able to defibrillate the crap out of it till it started. It even got down to -5 in the lean-too where our poor rabbits are sheltering from the worst of it. The bath is filling from a dripping tap which has frozen the outlet pipe and I have done no deliveries for over a week.

This is the winter of my discontent.

On the bright side I've been able to play in the snow all week making igloos, snowmen and sledging with Jack aged 5!

My coldest start has been -8 according to cabin externaly temp gauge.
Took about 40 seconds of spinning from cold after a normal preheat to get chugging.
And thats on 60/40 veg oil to diesel.
Ive been happily surprised with the Cavalier in the cold.
Not that I EVER had any cold starting probs with any 300.

Actually we have quite mild weather at the moment, only -4.5C, but there is going to be nearly -10C tomorrow and -20C again at weekend, one bit more sensible day is not much in this constant coldness.

Not much of snow either, so small creatures usually living under the snow, ends up into house while seeking rescue from cold murder, just finding warm murder by 3 beasts that are made from claws and teeths, putting hand near them means you had functioning hand, kind of piranhas, but bigger, faster, move on land and jump easily 10 feet high...

jtbo wrote: so small creatures usually living under the snow, ends up into house while seeking rescue from cold murder, just finding warm murder by 3 beasts that are made from claws and teeths, putting hand near them means you had functioning hand, kind of piranhas, but bigger, faster, move on land and jump easily 10 feet high...

Well you DO feed them dude.

volvosneverdie wrote: Well you DO feed them dude.

Yeah, problem is food tends to freeze on cold day faster those can eat and they do eat really fast...

This current weather is just so warm, that they cool off by sleeping on concrete floor, that is as cold as is outside weather, one tried to sleep in their small box I made them, but after 20mins walked out with weak legs and after few steps just flipped to side, rolled to his back and was generally like you would except them to be at hot summer day, those are arctic versions, I believe

It is great fun to have video camera on warehouse and see their doing their stuff, one can see more than what you see usually, also I don't need to freeze to death, I can take perhaps 30mins of cold where those feel bit hot

It's been snowing "a bit" here near the capital Helsinki. It's around half a meter (~20 inch) of total now.

Still the roads have been in surprisingly good condition. No over-salting and plow-trucks and tractors have been running almost constantly.

So, we are getting now 2nd cold chill, I believe UK is at it again too?

Temp has dropped in 12 hours from -5C to -15C and what I have heard is that we should hit at least -20C again, maybe even colder.

Weird cat sits top of it's house ignoring the cold...

Snow never bothered our cat either, rain was more the problem ...

Very warm here, plus 6 degrees forecast for tomorrow, including rain Pity, I was looking forward to some sledging this weekend, never mind ...

Cheers

Tom

Tom, next week and weekend are cold there again, according to this forecast, which is often rather good at least for here:
http://www.yr.no/place/Germany/North_Rh ... /long.html

We have now -18C here, temperature is dropping straight down, this location gets all the cold when sky is clear and cold chill comes, not any forecast can guess that as most forecast -12C here for this moment or few hours ahead, but most likely we get temps below -20C very shortly as temp is dropping now faster than 2C/hour.

Only saw -10.5°C up in NI the other night. All the hard packed snow/ice has been thawing a bit today.

Bring it on if there's more, providing I can get from A to B on the 22nd, I couldn't give a monkeys.

-26C yesterday, -24C today, next week should be even colder