StockholmRam Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 5 hours ago, eddie said: 6 degrees, raining and 1979 still in Nottingham this morning. My dad is a Nottingham lad. We tolerate him mainly. Knocking on a bit now. Last trip over I took him to visit his cousin who lives near Trent Bridge within touching distance of the councils painted red toilets. We " dined" in a cafe just across from the cricket ground and had a beer in a pub on the corner there. It was an alien adventure for me and it was most defiantly 1979 that day too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ossieram Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 I don't know how true this is, but a Latvian lad I work with reckons he feels the cold more since he's been in England than he ever did at home and the temperature in Latvia drops a hell of a lot lower than here. He says the damp air over here means it feels colder at -4 than it does when it it -20 in Latvia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mafiabob Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Alvaston... 6 degrees some shiny thing in the sky everyone is pointing at, starting to chuck stones at it now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesterRam Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Leicester warm and moist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StockholmRam Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 52 minutes ago, ossieram said: I don't know how true this is, but a Latvian lad I work with reckons he feels the cold more since he's been in England than he ever did at home and the temperature in Latvia drops a hell of a lot lower than here. He says the damp air over here means it feels colder at -4 than it does when it it -20 in Latvia. Dunno about feeling colder when I'm back home Ossie but those murky drizzle or plain peeing down with rain all day days are a real bugger... Prefer our cold but proper crispy. My little lad always gets poorly, colds, coughs etc when we visit England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ossieram Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 56 minutes ago, Mafiabob said: Alvaston... 6 degrees some shiny thing in the sky everyone is pointing at, starting to chuck stones at it now... We did that with lamp posts when we were kids Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Grimsby, grim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kernow Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 For the first time in this year, it's actually blue skies and sunny a few miles away from Lands End, Cornwall. Still bloody nippy out though. Apparently it's 8 degrees. No chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cisse Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 3 hours ago, StockholmRam said: Minus 38 up in Haparanda Sissy... Yikes. Does it matter though after minus 20? Can you literally feel any colder? Minus twenty doesn't feel cold at all with good clothes. I'd say the coldness start to set in around minus 30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 I have been out riding my bike this morning and for the first time this year I had to wear a long sleeved top....dropped really cold now, about 20 degrees....wow I am getting soft.. Glorious sunshine, clear blue skies and cool blue sea....I miss Ripley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StockholmRam Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 3 hours ago, MuespachRam said: I have been out riding my bike this morning and for the first time this year I had to wear a long sleeved top....dropped really cold now, about 20 degrees....wow I am getting soft.. Glorious sunshine, clear blue skies and cool blue sea....I miss Ripley. Did you say you were once " Miss Ripley"?!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 37 minutes ago, StockholmRam said: Did you say you were once " Miss Ripley"?!! I reckon I could still win that..the competition would be pretty weak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Ram Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 8 hours ago, ossieram said: I don't know how true this is, but a Latvian lad I work with reckons he feels the cold more since he's been in England than he ever did at home and the temperature in Latvia drops a hell of a lot lower than here. He says the damp air over here means it feels colder at -4 than it does when it it -20 in Latvia. He is probably drinking WKD over here where he's used to anti-freeze in Latvia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ossieram Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 2 minutes ago, i-Ram said: He is probably drinking WKD over here where he's used to anti-freeze in Latvia. He's actually developed a taste for Pedigree! I can be a good influence it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bridgford Ram Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 On 06/01/2016 at 22:37, StockholmRam said: Northern Sweden, Lapland. Minus 28. Brass monkeys but lovely and crisp. I went to the Ice Hotel (nr Kiruna) in February last year and the minus 20/30 there didn't feel as cold as the minus 10 in Stockholm (we stopped there for a day / night on the way). The Ice Hotel felt like no more than a cold day in the UK - I guess because it is such a dry cold? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StockholmRam Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 8 minutes ago, Bridgford Ram said: I went to the Ice Hotel (nr Kiruna) in February last year and the minus 20/30 there didn't feel as cold as the minus 10 in Stockholm (we stopped there for a day / night on the way). The Ice Hotel felt like no more than a cold day in the UK - I guess because it is such a dry cold? Exactly mate... Hope you enjoyed the experience? I'm only a couple of hours drive south of Kiruna. Stockholm is colder due to having no shelter from those Baltic icy blasts of wind. The archipelago and long sea channel up to the city is like a wind funnel. Funny though, when you lived there as long as I have then you get to know the way to walk around the city. Which streets and routes to take that give shelter from the wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 I don't understand this talk of cold weather in Scandinavia. A few days ago there was a news item of a heatwave at the North Pole, with temperatures at 1 C, 50 degrees above normal. Or is that just the usual BS from the Warmist zealots? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Having re-read the article (Daily Mail!) it also states that although there are no measuring instuments at the North Pole (!), 'experts' indicate the temperature 'may' have pushed past zero. BS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Just seen Inverurie on the telly - got some serious floods there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2tups Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 5 hours ago, eddie said: Just seen Inverurie on the telly - got some serious floods there. Drookit. But the sheep are all in high pasture, last Rest Centre just closed down and, please, no more rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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