It's incredibly warm for November
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Funny this should be mentioned as the other day my wife commented that she remembered it being colder in November the last time she was here (15 years ago). We haven't had the heating on much at all except for an hour or two in the morning just to warm the bathroom for a shower and we've still got the summer blankies on the bed. So when does winter hit the south west?
Because people on the west coast of ireland are so Iyrish they turn the snow green?Still on a positive note the last I heard they're still forecasting a load of snow this year
@ Adze - I'm a little suspicious of that image, why is Ireland still green?
On the other point, papers like the Mail had headlines like Deepfreeze on the way, 6 weeks of snow. It just goes to show you the worth of papers and headlines like that and how they help out. The cost of the ink and the energy required to publish it, only illustrates the huge waist of recources. I begin to suspect there headlines about magic beans won't bear fruit either.
Seriously? It's already been colder than that here! However it still hasn't been enough to use the heat, and I don't expect that for weeks at least.
I've been wondering about that recently - I've gone a bit mad with budgeting, as we've moved house and now have gas central heating with a pre-payment meter. My entire adult life I've had solid fuel heating, so it's a bit of a shock with the gas, especially a prepayment as we move in over last winter and was horrified at the expense, as I've got to pay for what I'm using before/as I'm using it.
Since last year I've had new window put in as the old ones really weren't air tight, and my heating bill has reduced significantly since last year [I've put everything I buy/spend onto a spread sheet for the last year and a half so can see exactly what I'm spending on stuff] and I'm thinking it can't just be the windows. So now I've added an extra column next to my running gas costs to show the temperature outside [met] and the temperature at the boiler [thermometer] and a temperature at the living room [thermometer] to give me some indication of how hard the boilers working, so by next year I can compare it back to this year.
Still on a positive note the last I heard they're still forecasting a load of snow this year
@ Adze - I'm a little suspicious of that image, why is Ireland still green?
We got stung in 2008-2009... we'd just moved in and I noted the boiler was probably about 25 years old... looked around the house, couldn't find a thermostat. Anyway, didn't really think about it that much because as winter set in, we put the heating on, carried on as normal. First quarterly bill we received was over £1200!
That following summer had the wood burner installed and the following winter just used that for heating... gradually we've had wall insulation, roof insulation and a new boiler fitted... now its too warm!
Still... it does feel weird wandering around in a tshirt at this time of year!
It's lovely down this way too: 16ºC outside according to the forecast (usually pretty accurate) and 20.5ºC inside my room ... I'm in trousers and an almost wooly jumper and feel chilly! We've got the woodstove on too in the kitchen! Of course, I'm used to warm weather, not cold now ... by the end of the winter this'll be T-shirt weather!
We've got the woodstove on too in the kitchen! Of course, I'm used to warm weather, not cold now ... by the end of the winter this'll be T-shirt weather!Driving between sites at lunchtime today the outside temp registered as 16 degrees on the car's computer thingy display.
I've just had a look at the met weather archives for the weather station in Nairn [the closest to me] and apparently it's colder on average than last year - who'd've thought it?
I've just checked records for York (Weatheronline records, only go back to 2000 for York). 2000-1013, ave max temp 10C. For 2015, so far, ave max 13.3C
