Anyone feeling cold?
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Yeah, I read about this - apparently in Lapland where I'm going it's a very dry cold, so it's nothing like as bad as somewhere like say Ottawa or Alaska where it's much "wetter"
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-34 ºC snowmobiling over the top of a hill in Northern Finland some years back.
Still didn't feel as cold as March at Copehill Down.
Still didn't feel as cold as March at Copehill Down.
But where in the UK though? Maybe I have experienced under minus 10 then, I don't know.
But where in the UK though? Maybe I have experienced under minus 10 then, I don't know.
I was in Glencoe around that time, and it hit -12 which is the coldest I've ever felt in the UK
It was cold enough yesterday that today when I woke up I thought to myself I'm gunna wear layers. As soon as I stepped out of bed I was freezing and upon getting to my car the dash was showing -2.5. And my car was giving me grief also, it's double tap to unlock all doors and the boot, sometimes it doesn't initiate though and this morning was one of the days it didn't so I couldn't immediately get into the boot to put the screen protector away and couldn't open the rear door to get into my "car bits" bag to get my scraper and de-icer.
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Worst for me was -10 in Poland, wasn't too bad but I like the cold.
This has possibly been the most exciting thing I've read this week.
I'll supply my own anecdote about my car and my ice scraper. I drive a colleague to work most days. This morning I unlocked my car and she got in. I asked her to pass my scraper from the glove box, but I've got 2 in there; a basic £2 one and a fancy insulated mit one that you wear so you don't get cold hands. She passed me the poverty spec scraper and I got a cold hand. The end.
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The coldest I have been in the UK was 2010 if I remember right and we were below zero for a full month which went as low as -22 at night and -18 during the day.
Coldest I have ever been was one winter down the Falklands. I was based on a radar unit on top of a mountain and the radar coolant pipe burst so our two lucky engineer's, myself and a corporal, had to go outside and fix it. The problem was that it was -32 degrees C outside and a constant 60+ mph wind giving a windchill of something like -56 degrees C. The whole place was on lockdown due to the weather but the reason that we were all there was the radar so it had to be fixed. Even with several layers of gear, including arctic one piece suits the wind cut to the bone. They started us out on 10 minute intervals at a time but even that was too long so it was dropped to no more than five minutes at a time. Everytime we came it our bodies stung as they warmed up. We got the job done and got commendations for it but I never want to be in that situation ever again.
Coldest I have ever been was one winter down the Falklands. I was based on a radar unit on top of a mountain and the radar coolant pipe burst so our two lucky engineer's, myself and a corporal, had to go outside and fix it. The problem was that it was -32 degrees C outside and a constant 60+ mph wind giving a windchill of something like -56 degrees C. The whole place was on lockdown due to the weather but the reason that we were all there was the radar so it had to be fixed. Even with several layers of gear, including arctic one piece suits the wind cut to the bone. They started us out on 10 minute intervals at a time but even that was too long so it was dropped to no more than five minutes at a time. Everytime we came it our bodies stung as they warmed up. We got the job done and got commendations for it but I never want to be in that situation ever again.
The coldest temperature that I have experienced was -40 C/F, in northern British Columbia in Canada. Fine water droplets freeze almost instantly at that temperature, and it's fun to spray water in the air and seeing it fall back to earth as snow. 
OP, what widget/application do you have that gives you the current network transfer speed in the status bar? i.e. whatever is listing the speed as "1.06K/s" in your picture.
OP, what widget/application do you have that gives you the current network transfer speed in the status bar? i.e. whatever is listing the speed as "1.06K/s" in your picture.
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The coldest temperature that I have experienced was -40 C/F, in northern British Columbia in Canada. Fine water droplets freeze almost instantly at that temperature, and it's fun to spray water in the air and seeing it fall back to earth as snow.
OP, what widget/application do you have that gives you the current network transfer speed in the status bar? i.e. whatever is listing the speed as "1.06K/s" in your picture.
Was talking to some guy while on a plane a few years back who'd been working on airport renovations somewhere up that way in upto -40C IIRC he'd actually called it a day and come home early (was from the UK) as he wasn't used to it.
Not really
When was that?
It's a positively barmy -5 two hours south of you at the moment and I don't think we've hit -30 yet this winter. Back down to 20 below during the day in a few days!
Short periods, around -36 ish, but for entire days outside around -30, both in Finland a few years ago and to a lesser extent here.
The coldest I've been in was -33 centigrade in Whitehorse (Yukon Territory, Canada). Ridiculously cold and your eyelashes were freezing together in minutes. When I came back to the UK it was around 0 degrees (and had been snowing) and I felt too warm in a coat so wandered around in a t-shirt
Even weirder a few months later I was visiting a client site (food manufacturer) and they were giving me a tour of their site. I went into their walk-in industrial freezer and it was only -26... It was odd thinking the freezer was warmer than a place I've visited.
Even weirder a few months later I was visiting a client site (food manufacturer) and they were giving me a tour of their site. I went into their walk-in industrial freezer and it was only -26... It was odd thinking the freezer was warmer than a place I've visited.
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It's been -18c here all afternoon, was a few degrees colder this morning. Supposed to be -22c ish again tonight.