Weather where you are?

The temperature in my shop in Abbotsford BC last Tuesday. Thankfully down to low 80’s F this week, and forecast the same low 80’s F the next week. I won’t complain about this, I just think of the 3.5 months of rain in the winter. Heck, people spend thousands each winter flying to the tropics for this!!
 

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Brrrrr, a cold start in Brisbane today. Im sitting in the sun trying to thaw out. Clear skies though. The cold weather is really annoying me old motorbiking wounds.

Maybe I should move further north.
 
GregT said:
Make the most of it. Back home in NZ, clear skies mean frosts all over the country - even Auckland.
Here on the Canterbury high plains, it's another hard frost with frozen water pipes.
Alkathene pipes are a godsend. Take freezing and come up smiling.
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Alkathene is great, the metal fittings they attatch to, not so much. Discovered today that the 3/4inch galvanised ball valve on our water tank has cracked. The line in has been freezing both sides of the valve and I assume expansion as it thaws has done it. Luckily i have a spare.
We get pretty much the weather forecast for Ashburton down the road. They got minus 8 degrees yesterday morning.Must have been around that here.
 
Had a problem with brass ball valves cracking due to heavy frosts, suppose due to the different contraction rates between the brass body and steel ball. Replaced with steel bodied ball valves and haven't had any further problems but maybe it hasn't been cold enough.
 
If freezing of pipework and/or valves is an on-going issue, there's a simple solution. Wrap a bit of heat trace cable around the problem pipe/valve and wire it via a thermostat so it comes on if the air temp falls below a set temperature.
 
Back when i worked for an electrical contractor, we were cleaning out shelves and came across a box of tapes which were wrap-on elements.
I'd never seen them before. He'd bought them when a wholesaler had a clearout. They're probably still on the shelf....
i used to have a heating element in the bottom hose of my diesel van. 18degree C thermal cutout hoseclipped to the top hose and it started easily in the hardest frost.
There is power adjacent to the pipework which froze. First time in the 20 years we've been here we've had trouble though. No rush to do anything.
 
Nice night in Townsville, popped up to Mission Beach to visit a mate. 27c and clear skies…. Nice. Sorry I can’t expand more….. but very busy checking out the arse of a blonde restaurant checkin chick…. Oops, I mean the view from the restaurant.
 
Last two days we had very heavy rain in parts of Germany and unexpected floodings in areas where this did not happen for decades.
In total about 45 people died and many houses were distroyed. Small rivers near the Nürburgring region came up to 6 m, usually they have 0.5….
Also the region where Piet lives was affected, as far as I know.
 
Hope he got away safely... There were some really serious situations out there... My son was on a camping ground in the "Westerwald"-area. there was a small creek aside the camping ground that turned into a river, flooding the camping area within hours. At 2:00 a.m. they were asked to leave. they packed their tents etc. back into the cars and the moment they took of with the cars, the area where the tends were before was knee-deep under water... :oops:
 
In Canada our water and sewer pipes are buried 8ft underground to prevent freezing. Though will shifting ground or lack of insulating snow they do still freeze.
 
Horrendous stories coming out from Europe. 1500 people not accounted for!?
and many bodies recovered. I hope all here and their families and friends are safe.
 
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