A white xmas

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Absolutely chucking it down out there and I'm at sea level

Looks beautiful… as long as you don't have to go to work the morrah

My taxi guy has his police test tomorrow about 10am… yikes

covid19 rules now mean you get thrown out of the building for an hour while they do the test

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Kind of meaningless unless you give a location. No snow in London.

[Paul LParticipant @paull58212]

Posted by Bazyle on 29/12/2020 09:29:47:

Kind of meaningless unless you give a location. No snow in London.

His Profile says North Edinburgh.

[Brian HParticipant @brianh50089]

It is white over near Mansfield, Notts and still coming down.

Brian

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

And suddenly the garden looks so much better

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MichaelG.

[ and yes, we are situated on a compound slope ]

[Anthony KnightsParticipant @anthonyknights16741]

I woke up this morning to snow on the ground (North Yorkshire). The freezer has needed de-frosting for some time, so I bagged up the contents and dumped them outside. Then did the defrost (aided by a heat gun). Freezer is now refilled, neatly for now, but it won't last. Another round tuit job done.

[Ed DuffnerParticipant @edduffner79357]

Lovely and sunny here in Bristol but too cold to venture into the shed. Talking of defrosting the freezer, I did mine a few weeks back, also aided with a heat gun. The roof of the freezer now has a non-flat feature!

Ed.

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

aided by a heat gun

I’ve never tried with the hot air gun. I’ve always used the cheap low pressure steamer. Perhaps more water than a hot air gun but vey quick shifting the ice.

Snowed here, for a short while, but not settled.

Edited By not done it yet on 29/12/2020 12:22:31

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

I've used both a steam cleaner and a hot air gun and the steam cleaner is better

It also gives you more memorable burns if you make a mistake

Both will do the job though

[Douglas JohnstonParticipant @douglasjohnston98463]

After years of defrosting the freezer I finally bought one that defrosted itself. I have no idea how it works but it is a modern marvel.

Doug

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Covering of snow in Leeds.

Steve.

[JAParticipant @ja]

It is sleeting here but there is snow lying on the Cotswold edge 2 miles away.

The young man across the way is cutting up plywood sheets with an electric, mains, circular saw outside his girl friend's garage. He is wearing shorts!

JA

[Bo’sunParticipant @bosun58570]

Mountain biking today (in shorts). 2 deg.C. Fine until I got a puncture. Cold fingers and an innertube change. Not fine any more!

[JourneymanParticipant @journeyman]

Also biking today, definitely not in shorts though. Had to cut my usual ride short, too many people out 'socially distanced walking' getting in the way in my local South Bucks country park. No snow here but only 3degC.

John

Edited By Journeyman on 29/12/2020 16:27:36

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

But the real stuff is currently out of bounds

[Bo’sunParticipant @bosun58570]

Posted by Journeyman on 29/12/2020 16:26:50:

Also biking today, definitely not in shorts though. Had to cut my usual ride short, too many people out 'socially distanced walking' getting in the way in my local South Bucks country park. No snow here but only 3degC.

John

Edited By Journeyman on 29/12/2020 16:27:36

Yeh, I noticed loads of people out today and yesterday. Not much social distancing going on though. They'll be the morons complaining when we're locked down for another couple of months. Likewise, those that seem compelled to go to the seaside miles from where they live.

[JAParticipant @ja]

Posted by Frances IoM on 29/12/2020 16:37:29:

But the real stuff is currently out of bounds

Harz Mountains, I think. I went there within three weeks of re-unification. I was told about the railway by a friend who had frequently rode on it and worked for British Aerospace!

JA

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

I was there both the year before + the week of the Wende – at that time that view was out of bounds – on the first of the above visits saw the barbed wire being removed – the photo was 2013 when I went back to remember the system of 25years prior.

[mark costello 1Participant @markcostello1]

6" here and -4° for a couple of days or two at night..

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Snow on the ground in Warrington, most unusual, didn't get above 3.5C all day today and freezing at night. I've had to do my boots with dubbin so I can take the dog out without going flat on my derriere

[Danny M2ZParticipant @dannym2z]

No such weather here down-under, actually a mild Christmas, no 40°C days so far and thunderstorms for the next few days.

This time last year bushfires were rampant but now we have. **LINK**

So have to keep an eye on them as lightning strikes caused most of the fires

Have a great new year.

I have an idea to market toilet paper printed with "2020, put it behind you" just to wipe away the memories of a realy crappy year

^ danny ^

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

Used to go to Moscow + St Petersburg (then Leningrad) at Russian Orthodox Xmas (10 days later than West) – -3 was balmy weather and only once had this in Leningrad when the Neva hadn’t frozen, used to hate warm winters above -10 as slush everywhere – coldest one year was -39.6 according to street thermometer obviously no wind otherwise impossible to be out – glorious blue sky with tiny crystals dropping from trees + catching the low sun (this was in Leningrad) – overnight on train heating failed – slept in fur coat etc + ice on inside of double glazing – the joys of youth!

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

I have an English pen-friend living about "half-way " up Norway, and a few years ago she described the effects of an extremely unusual Autumn drought followed by a rapid drop in temperature and severe frosts.

This rapidly accumulated ice on overhead electricity transmission-lines, breaking them; and before the circuit-breakers had chance to act, the resulting arcing to ground set light to the tinder-dry grass and heather.

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