Winter 2022/23 - It's too cold :(

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Minusorange said:
Looks like winter is finished :( Still those wishing warmer weather will get to enjoy all the wind & rain that will come with it
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I dunno it flipped quite suddenly towards favouring milder - the setup generally is quite complex I don't think a particular outcome is nailed on and I still err towards colder intrusions between the milder patches.
 
Rroff said:
I dunno it flipped quite suddenly towards favouring milder - the setup generally is quite complex I don't think a particular outcome is nailed on and I still err towards colder intrusions between the milder patches.
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The models all seem to conflict what is going to happen, basically a coin flip
 
Minusorange said:
The models all seem to conflict what is going to happen, basically a coin flip
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Many of the experienced weather people like Judah linked above were saying mild right up until a few days before the signals became strong for this cold snap, definitely don't think mild from here on out is a certainty. IMO the coming definite milder patch is biasing the longer range towards mild more than is going to be the case.

Despite the milder outcomes there is a fairly persistent feature in all runs currently where milder air is mostly held away west/south west of us - while that continues to appear IMO colder outcomes when they show up are more likely to happen.
 
Makes me laugh all the people posting pics on twitter under #energybills of their smart meters showing £20 daily gas usage but say they've had their heating on low constantly 24 hours. Why have heating on when you're asleep or out at work. I put mine on as needed and not spent more than £3 a day on gas in the last week
 
rumple9 said:
Makes me laugh all the people posting pics on twitter under #energybills of their smart meters showing £20 daily gas usage but say they've had their heating on low constantly 24 hours. Why have heating on when you're asleep or out at work. I put mine on as needed and not spent more than £3 a day on gas in the last week
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People have put there's on "as needed" as well in most cases. Some people leave it on low overnight because otherwise the house gets down so low that it takes too long/more energy to get it back up to liveable temps, which they might want for the morning before leaving the house.

Some older people need it on overnight.

I'm not laughing.
 
rumple9 said:
Makes me laugh all the people posting pics on twitter under #energybills of their smart meters showing £20 daily gas usage but say they've had their heating on low constantly 24 hours. Why have heating on when you're asleep or out at work. I put mine on as needed and not spent more than £3 a day on gas in the last week
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Not really a laughing matter that people are cold and have no choice but to pay for it.
 
rumple9 said:
Makes me laugh all the people posting pics on twitter under #energybills of their smart meters showing £20 daily gas usage but say they've had their heating on low constantly 24 hours. Why have heating on when you're asleep or out at work. I put mine on as needed and not spent more than £3 a day on gas in the last week
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£3 a day during a cold spell in winter, you are the anomaly here.
 
200sols said:
£3 a day during a cold spell in winter, you are the anomaly here.
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As a single person in a well insulated home working 9-10hrs a day (when the house isn't heated) I'm also spending about the same, so there are folks like us out there as opposed to more normal folks like my "married with kid + dog" mate whose spending £25+ a day on heating.
 
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Very icy here, got to have your wits about you whilst walking with 4 bags of shopping. 2 minor slides oops a daisy was muttered with a few choice expletives.
 
I don't £3 is particularly unrealistic or anomalous at all but maybe that's because we're electric only and don't heat the whole house when we're not in the rooms.

There are two halogen heaters in this household and when it's cold enough inside (probably when it gets to < 5c outside) they start getting used to warm the rooms that are in use. I've just plugged one into an electricity usage meter (shows 390 watts on the standard setting) and, looking at UKPower's Running Cost Calculator and assuming both heaters are on for 8 hours a day (they're not usually both on that long) and factoring in the current energy price cap (34p), it works out at just over £2 a day.

We do also have a single calor gas fire that probably has the bottle replaced every couple of years which, if memory serves, cost about £60 last year.
 
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Warmer today, frost last night up to 10PM, only -1C, by midnight it was up to +1C.
Rain and 4C here now at 12.30PM.
 
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