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garethw

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It's pretty cold out here in Northern France.... Everywhere is frozen over. I shot a shot clip of a lake near my home. The most amazing thing was the noise of the cracking ice, it can just be heard in the video.
Cheers
Gareth
[video=youtube;_FZH5fujad4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FZH5fujad4&t=6s[/video]
 
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mousey

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I was at a park over the weekend which has a small lake, this was mostly frozen over with a few open patches where the swans were. My kids, being kids, threw bits of wood onto the ice, the noise was amazing. They then got longer poles to bash the ice sheet with. Each strike produced noise like someone twanging a taught thick metal cable. I never knew ice would sound like that :)
 

Big G

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Aye, seems Europe are getting the low temps, which we usually get.

Been a very mild winter over here, season's are all to pot.
 

mousey

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I went a bit mental with budgeting over the last year or so as I moved into a new house with gas central heating which is new to me and cost more than I thought, as part of that I've recorded the tempreature on and off. Apparently the average temp for January [NE Scotland] is 5.5 degress [forgot where I found that.], last year it was 2.9 deg, this year 4.4 deg. So warmer than last year but still colder than 'average'
 

garethw

Settler
I went a bit mental with budgeting over the last year or so as I moved into a new house with gas central heating which is new to me and cost more than I thought, as part of that I've recorded the tempreature on and off. Apparently the average temp for January [NE Scotland] is 5.5 degress [forgot where I found that.], last year it was 2.9 deg, this year 4.4 deg. So warmer than last year but still colder than 'average'
Wow.. well since Christmas its been below zero at night, as low as -10 or -15°C.. and barely positive in the day.. perhaps 2 or 3 deg. Continental climate with easterlies coming in from Europe... Brrrrrrrrrr!!
 

Toddy

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….and I'm sitting in central Scotland, and so warm today that I'm wearing a short sleeved Summer blouse.
The central heating's only on for a few hours in the evening.

M
 

Big G

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….and I'm sitting in central Scotland, and so warm today that I'm wearing a short sleeved Summer blouse.
The central heating's only on for a few hours in the evening.

M

It's the same here in the N/east, Mary.

A few frosty nights, with mild day temps.

Mr Trump doesn't believe in climate change :rolleyes:
 

Toddy

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Aye. Indeed. :rolleyes:
It's nearly 10C here just now, near the end of January. It's night and it's like the clouds are a big thick duvet over the top of us.

M
 

Big G

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Aye. Indeed. :rolleyes:
It's nearly 10C here just now, near the end of January. It's night and it's like the clouds are a big thick duvet over the top of us.

M

We'll probs get a cold spell with heavy snow fall... in July :rolleyes:
 

Somellier

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Here in the High Peak, the temperature has struggled to get to 5º C with under 0º at night. This is just weather, not climate. In 2010 (I think) we had snow lying for 3 months!
 

Big G

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Here in the High Peak, the temperature has struggled to get to 5º C with under 0º at night. This is just weather, not climate. In 2010 (I think) we had snow lying for 3 months!

Aye i remember that winter well 2009/2010... The big freeze :hatscarf:

Country come to a stand still... the out let pipes for the central heating froze inside the house on Christmas day.. caused a massive flood inside the house :censored:
 

Big G

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I posted the photos on this thread, taken about this time of year, seven years ago :)
Now that's kind of what we expect, for at least part of the Winter.
ww.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51142

M

Mary, the link's not working!
 

Robson Valley

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Thanks for the thread, Toddy. Nice to see what your countryside looks like with a bit of whiteness.
Hoar frost certainly dresses up the trees.
We're in a spell of -10C nights and -2C days after a wild snowstorm which ended several weeks of close to -30C nights.
 

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