Whats the weather like near you?

[AHPP]

17 hours ago, Mike Hill said:

 

 

 

He looks quite annoyed.

 

Good work. Squid's delicious.

[Big J]

A beautiful morning on the bike today, after 20-25cm snow yesterday. 100km at minus 6°c and epic beard-cicles afterwards ⛄

[Big J]

Finally, some sustained cold here. It's a few degrees below freezing just now - everything dry, largely ice and snow free. Very pleasant. Our weather forecast:

 

[Stubby]

6 hours ago, Big J said:

Finally, some sustained cold here. It's a few degrees below freezing just now - everything dry, largely ice and snow free. Very pleasant. Our weather forecast:

 

Hi Jonathan . We have sustained cold here also . sorta just above freezing all day and all night and a bit of a wind making it seem colder . Its the leaden grey skys that make it depressing mate . 

[openspaceman]

54 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Its the leaden grey skys that make it depressing mate . 

Yes and it has had a terrible effect on my solar pv panels, it has already doubled the amount of electricity I have had to buy this winter and no sign of let up. I would normally be self sufficient in 20 days from now.

[sime42]

Well, would you look at that; the sun and temperatures above 3deg. Something we've not seen for weeks now.

 

 

[Big J]

Wonderful weather at the moment. Deep frosts overnight and a degree or two above during the day. We did a lot of skating over the weekend on the lake. I am not a very good skater, but it is a lot of fun.

[sime42]

14 minutes ago, Big J said:

Wonderful weather at the moment. Deep frosts overnight and a degree or two above during the day. We did a lot of skating over the weekend on the lake. I am not a very good skater, but it is a lot of fun.

 

 

Very envious of that I must say, looks great. I love skating but never had the opportunity to try the "wild" version. Interesting that you've had to clear the snow off first. Is that a lake, if so do you check ice thickness before committing? Or is it shallow enough not to be a danger?

[Big J]

1 hour ago, sime42 said:

 

 

Very envious of that I must say, looks great. I love skating but never had the opportunity to try the "wild" version. Interesting that you've had to clear the snow off first. Is that a lake, if so do you check ice thickness before committing? Or is it shallow enough not to be a danger?

 

The ice had been forming for a week or more, and we just had one period of a few hours of snow that lightly covered the ice. It's a good idea to try to clear it before the sun gets on to it because if the snow melts partially and then refreezes, you have a very rough surface to skate on.

 

That whole corner of the lake is only about 90 CM deep. The lake as a whole is 120 ha and this corner is maybe 15. 

 

I use an auger to drill through the ice and take measurements from various places. It all tends to be pretty much the same though and we have about 95 mm of ice.

[Stubby]

I remember in 1963 riding my bike on Chichester canal . I was 10 . 🙂