Weather where you are?

[Laverda SF]

Finally got about 6" of snow in the last week here on the North Shore of Lake Huron dipping to -5c at night. Now it's +3c with rain forecast for the next few days.

What's really unusual is the inland lakes are still open - They should have froze over on or about Nov 22nd.

 

[Andy J]

Apparently a lot of this has to do with an 'active jet stream' and so we can expect a few more storms like Darragh over the winter. However, it also means it will be milder.

 

[Eurocycleguy]

-2deg F / 19C
Brisk

 

[henrywillms]

Coldest morning here so far this winter in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada.

-29c and with the wind chill factor feels like -37c

The dog, who is a husky cross, couldn't give a shit....and wont even notice how cold it is and will enjoy his morning walk, including his shit. I'll dress for it and once underway it makes me feel damn lucky to be alive...as long as I make it back home without frostbite.

 

[Steve G.]

-3C morning with sun out Vancouver way. Problem is the local street crews are spraying salt brine on the roads, so my motorbikes stay inside the garage with that shit out there.

 

[martymoose]

Opposite here, just ride home in my shirt sleeves, skin cancer be damned! This time of year it's good to ride early, get home by 11

 

[Vince]

Be careful what you wish for, I have a small 6mm biopsy hole in the side of my neck and a couple of scabs from Liquid Nitrogen freezing on my bald head from last Tuesdays Dr visit. It's another regular skin cancer excavation. That's about 10 in the last few years, most on my nose. Thankfully, there are no stitches for a change, and it is not on my nose. For those that don't know, Oz is the Skin Cancer capital of the world.

 

[Vince]

My stuff is really mild, Bazel Cell Carcinoma. It has pertensile to be bad, but cutting it out isn't a big deal. Melanoma is way worse and kills plenty.

 

[Paul LeClair]

it is "that" time of year here in Calgary Alberta Canada.... we have had lots of snow but not terribly cold, minus 17 Celsius today, but the current weather prediction going forward is heading to minus 40 Celsius and lots of snow in the next few days.

The gas furnace in the garage is chugging along, no present motorcycle projects but the 1972 Triumph Spitfire MArk IV is up on four frame stands being made ready for another transmission rebuild and another new clutch (while I am at it.....). Odd driveline design, the transmission must come out from above the frame rails, through the interior of the car. The brass or otherwise flimsy stock sacrificial synchro rings only lasted about 8 years since the last transmission rebuild, shifts into 2nd from 1st, and down from 3rd into 2nd have become crunchier and crunchier. In addition to a brand new 2nd gear I am using fancy new high tech synchro rings this time, steel lined with carbon fiber, from https://kingsyncro.com/ They come well recommended from the Spitfire forums, we will see....... Youngest son Marc dropped by to help get the car up on the frame stands and strip the interior. Couple of photos

Paul

 

[GregT]

Be careful what you wish for, I have a small 6mm biopsy hole in the side of my neck and a couple of scabs from Liquid Nitrogen freezing on my bald head from last Tuesdays Dr visit. It's another regular skin cancer excavation. That's about 10 in the last few years, most on my nose. Thankfully, there are no stitches for a change, and it is not on my nose. For those that don't know, Oz is the Skin Cancer capital of the world.

Is it ? I thought we were pretty close or at the top of the league table. My head is tending toward the golf ball pocked look -but not so tidy.
Just had 2 lumps removed recently. Visited the surgeon yesterday and was shown a pic of the top of my head - and told sternly to keep applying
the Efudix ointment. Must start wearing a hat.
And weather....early drought and several fires already this summer. Very pleased to have moved to town away from the fire prone green spaces.

 

[piranha-bro2]

I was just watching a local Australian (ABC) news report on the fires in LA. We usually equate bushfires as non-urban disasters, but the extent of destruction in LA - and so much of it in very suburban areas - is unbelievable. My thoughts go out to any members who live in the city and have been affected. My sister lives in Brea in the south east and has escaped the catastrophe, but this stuff leaves its indelible mark on all of us.

 

[Vince]

Tech term, Urban Firestorm. What happens when buildings are allowed to be closer together. No amount of working or non-working Hydrants can stop this in 160kph winds. The 2 biggest Australian drivers of Building Code change were Ordinance 70, major changes after big Bushfires and Cyclone Tracy. Major changes to cope with Wind damages. It takes huge disasters to have change occur.

 

[Robin Webster]

-6 in the UK Midlands but what makes it worse is that the pump on the hot water/central heating has packed up and we have ice on the inside of the windows for the last two days. Double pump was quoted at £1700 but thankfully it’s discontinued and replacing it with two Grundfos pumps cost me £317 this morning. BUT, the plumber can’t com back for a few days!

-19 in NW Scotland.

 

[CLEMTOG]

why a double pump Robin, (proper term twin pull), or do you have two zones? two seperate pumps?
they dont have to be Grundfoss these days (too late , you said you had purchased) plenty of good and much cheaper ones out there. there are two types of domestic circulator in general, these are 130mm accros the flat jointing flanges or 180mm, less common, usually either side of the pump you will have isolator valves, so very little water is lost (use old towels to catch it) in the box with your new pump should be a pair of paper gaskets and a pair of rubber ditto, disconnect the elctrics, (wall end) close the valves, undo the 1.25" unions, remove pump, install new pump with rubber type if poss, and enough room, or paper type but add a little grease to them, do up unions, reconect electrics, job done. A very easy DIY job that might only be limited by the factor that you need a 18" stilson, slip wrench or big spanner to undo the unions, a lot of diy'ers just dont have that stuff.
CLEM

 

[Robin Webster]

Thank you Clem. There has been one problem after another with this houses plumbing. It was a one off built by a small builder and the next plumber along the line each time says ‘Oh I wouldn’t have done it like that’.Having done a few jobs myself - toilet siphons and the like - I’ve got fed up having to paint the ceiling of the floor below! All the pipe work for the new pumps needs altering, the old twin pump is leaking and fused the electrics. It is unavailable so now two new ones, one for c/h the other for hot water.
The front of our house has a Cantilever brick upper section which houses a bathroom, it was supported by oak pillars which expand and contract giving cracks in the plaster and brickwork plus leaking showers. A couple of years ago we had to shell out £12000 to get the pillars replaced with steel.

It’s a good looking house with lovely views two miles from Silverstone circuit where I worked for over twenty years but sometimes I wish we had never bought it. Builder was an arse..

 

[chrisk]

Rather humid today in Brisbanetown.

 

[1200ts]

My wife and I are off today to see her brothers house in Altadena which burned to the ground on Thursday. Her mothers house is in La Canada Flintridge and the fire is only 1/2 mile away and heading her direction. We are going on a bike, the RGS as it may make it easier to get there. We live 50 miles away from the nearest fire so are safe.

Her brother and mother are in Greece currently so can't do anything to save what is left.

 

[chrisk]

My wife and I are off today to see her brothers house in Altadena which burned to the ground on Thursday. Her mothers house is in La Canada Flintridge and the fire is only 1/2 mile away and heading her direction. We are going on a bike, the RGS as it may make it easier to get there. We live 50 miles away from the nearest fire so are safe.

Her brother and mother are in Greece currently so can't do anything to save what is left.

It’s so frightening how helpless the situation is…. keep safe.

 

[RGS1000RGS]

I have a 33 mile drive to work; there was a bit of ground fog leaving home this morning but all was fine until I got to Salisbury Plain (Stonehenge was ethereal) where there was a massive fog bank sitting above it, so fog has been the prevalent factor of morning during my working day, though it's been around 10c (50f) . It cleared around midday and we had lovely blue skies and sunshine this afternoon. Going back home late this afternoon, I drove into another fog bank about 9 miles from home. More of the same tomorrow, too!

 

[Exmoor beast]

I have a 33 mile drive to work; there was a bit of ground fog leaving home this morning but all was fine until I got to Salisbury Plain (Stonehenge was ethereal) where there was a massive fog bank sitting above it, so fog has been the prevalent factor of morning during my working day, though it's been around 10c (50f) . It cleared around midday and we had lovely blue skies and sunshine this afternoon. Going back home late this afternoon, I drove into another fog bank about 9 miles from home. More of the same tomorrow, too!

Strangely enough I took this picture on the way home, crystal clear blue sky with dense fog filling Luxborough valley, really odd.