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General => Chat & Off Topic Stuff => Topic started by: Eddy Matthews on November 28, 2010, 08:32:02 AM
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So how are all our UK members doing with the weather?
So far we've had about 5" of snow here - It reached a scorching -2 degrees today. I've just been to pick my daughter up from work and it's now -4 degrees. The journey is about 4 miles and it took me 35 minutes as the roads are just sheet ice! I assume all the gritters and snowploughs are struggling to keep the main trunk roads open?
According to the weather forecast, this is what we'll have to put up with for the next 2 weeks at least! Who said we have global warming?? :hehe
Regards
Eddy
P.S. roll on summer!
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-9.5C here
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Really cold here now + 22c! Had to put a T shirt on!
all the best
Stuart
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More than a wee bit warm here, 28degrees C, a record high for Hamilton for November. Could do with some of that cool down here
kiwi
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Blizzard. Think someone has switched off the Gulf Stream. :o
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We're running out of places to pile up the snow from the driveway up in Aberdeenshire. - 15 degrees forecast for tonight - yippee (not)
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Well I set off to go to my club today (okay so I'm daft!), the 10 mile journey there took me 30 minutes, and when I arrived it was snowing very heavily - In fact it was blizzard conditions!
After about 20 minutes I decided that it would be wise to head home before I got snowed in. By this time the main dual carriageway had turned to sheet ice and driving conditions were lethal! It took me almost an hour to drive home, with a maximum speed at any point of 20mph....
Thankfully I'm now home again and back in the warm, which is where I should have stopped in the first place!
Regards
Eddy
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Having been promised by our local ITV news 'Fortunatly Sussex will escape the snow' we had light snow yesterday, imagining that to be the end of it, was very surprised to find thick snow all over this morning.
Had a nice walk through christmas card worthy woods and accross the fields to meet a teacher friend (who was beyond thrilled her school had been closed for the snow) for lunch in the pub, and stayed there most of the afternoon, just got home.
Great day, snow has its uses 8)
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I almost joined Eddy in a trip to our local club. Living in a dead end at the bottom of a short hill I thought I should take great care driving up that hill :thinking No chance, I bogged down in ten inches (25 centimetres) of snow at the end of my house drive :squareone Roll on spring!!
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Hi PD's
it is also snowing here in Switzerland with a temperature of -6 / - 10 degree Celsius :terrific, the Swiss people are well prepared for the snow lot's of snowplough's and enough salt ;) I like the winter on Saturday the 18.th i go to Berguen to have fun with my sledge on a 4 miles mountain pass road :s_cool
regards Hans
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After several years of drought, Victoria has just experienced the wettest spring for 14 years. Most major reservoirs are full.
I was with a Wooden Boat Association rally on Lake Nagambie over Fri.26-Sun.28.11. The lake was formed by damming Goulburn River, in the 1890s: the first river-damming project for irrigation. At the time, one paddlesteamer was kept above the weir, and two barges. They brought logs in from upriver forests to a sawmill in Nagambie. The hulls of the barges survive.
The Goulburn is effectively Victoria's own mighty waterway, formed by the convergence of many rivers rising in snow-clad alps. Upstream it was tamed by Sugarloaf Weir, expanded as Eildon Weir in the mid 1950s. I have boated to just above the pool of Lake Nagambie before: a pretty river, passing two wineries, but the water was too low to continue to Seymour (the seasonal head of paddlesteamer navigation before the 1890s).
For this rally, we all went to Tahbilk winer on Saturday for lunch; I was riding in a friend's boat, and we continued to Mitchelton winery. Jessie II had a failed impeller. I had planned to go upriver to Seymour on Sunday into Monday, exploiting the good flows. Overnight, the water rose, and there was an evacuation order on our caravan park, and a flood warning on the river (5.7 m at Seymour, and so above the normal 5.1 m at which a flood is declared).
None of the boats at the rally was a paddler, so I enclose a photo of the only steamer at the rally: SL Firefly.
I also enclose one next morning: all four boats in view have floated above the formed lake bank, and are onto the park grass, with the water rising more by afternoon.
Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
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I have lived in Teignmouth South Devon for 28 years, only the second time I have seen snow here. Gone by midday, my back garden (sorry the wife's). R.G.Y.
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We're not as bad as the rest of Scotland over here in the West. However things are bad enough and we have had snow for a week or so now. This is my car just before I dug it out. :o Most of the snow is falling overnight and we have had several clear calm and brilliantly sunny days.
However over a foot of snow is nothing to the bold Lachie and he was up just before lunch today to load Connaught into the Mazda. Quell Drama! But that is another story and will feature in the 'Stuart Badger's Connaught' thread. Watch that space
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However over a foot of snow is nothing to the bold Lachie and he was up just before lunch today to load Connaught into the Mazda. Quell Drama! But that is another story and will feature in the 'Stuart Badger's Connaught' thread. Watch that space
Ooh you tease! ;)
I'm now sitting here wondering what the heck happened with Connaught!!!
Eddy
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Ooh you tease! ;)
I'm now sitting here wondering what the heck happened with Connaught!!!
Eddy
All right ducky
http://www.paddleducks.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5349.0 (http://www.paddleducks.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5349.0)
Andy
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On one of my UK holidays, there was quite a good snow cover in Norwich (end of January). Snow was falling in London, but was melting as it hit the footpath, so there was no ground cover.
On one holiday in Canada, heavy snow fell overnight in St Johns (Newfoundland), trapping cars in garages. There was a heavy demand for taxis, and I had to get to the airport. I found a buried taxi, and offered to help the driver dig it out if he would take me to the airport. He decided to try to drive it out prematurely, and got stuck worse. Nevertheless, we completed the task, and I got to my flight. At Goose Bay, the temperature at the airport was -32 deg C. At that stage it was the coldest which I had experienced, but I have since been in -40 (Lynn Lake, Canada).
Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
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On one of my UK holidays, there was quite a good snow cover in Norwich (end of January). Snow was falling in London, but was melting as it hit the footpath, so there was no ground cover.
On one holiday in Canada, heavy snow fell overnight in St Johns (Newfoundland), trapping cars in garages. There was a heavy demand for taxis, and I had to get to the airport. I found a buried taxi, and offered to help the driver dig it out if he would take me to the airport. He decided to try to drive it out prematurely, and got stuck worse. Nevertheless, we completed the task, and I got to my flight. At Goose Bay, the temperature at the airport was -32 deg C. At that stage it was the coldest which I had experienced, but I have since been in -40 (Lynn Lake, Canada).
Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
When I was young and foolish I used to consider -40 ideal camping weather, went camping one Christmas holidays when it was below 0F and while splitting wood got warm and took my shirt off, after a half hour I had gotten a nice tan everywhere from the waist up except for where my snow goggles were. The coldest I have been out in was in Wawa Ont. while driving snow plow it reached -72F, now that was cold.
Regards,
Gerald.
PS No snow in Toronto -1C
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Last night the temperature fell to -12 degrees celcius here, and we woke up to two feet of snow.... Ever wondered what two feet of snow looks like? A photo is attached....
Sorry, I couldn't resist! :hehe
Eddy
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See www.paddleducks.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2491.msg9967#msg9967
That decommissioned paddlesteamer was in use as a floating restaurant in Moskva.
In the photo, the canal is frozen, but there is a layer of snow on top of the ice, and on the roof of the boat and on the roofs of the houses.
Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
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Weather? what weather?. Hee, when I wor a lad we had REAL winters! None of this Chicken Licken "the sky is falling down" stuff. I remember going to my village school (2 miles across the fields, 3 miles by road) riding on farmers snow plows as the only way to get there! (Schools didnt close then). Sit back and enjoy it- read plenty of books, get some glue on your fingers and thank your particular God that her indoors doesnt want to go shopping in the snow!. regards, Walter.
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I'm glad to say that the weather is improving..... Last night we had temperatures of -14 celcius, but tonight the weather has improved dramatically, it's only -7!
Eddy
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What glue are you using Walter? surely not the old animal glue you boil in a pot!
My workshop has been frozen for 2 weeks now and her indoors says the pensioner fuel payment does not cover my workshed,
Sandy