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Any one beat -9 C
« on: December 23, 2010, 05:21:27 AM »
Up early this morning at 6 to take mother in law to Manchester airport temp from car thermometer - 12 C,

pic shows yard thermometer at -9 to knock it off the castle you must post pic

I know you Geordies will tell me that,s warm.  :)



When we got back we had a real panic on our hands central heating packed up the condensing outlet tube from boiler was frozen solid it took a couple of kettle full of water to free it, we know have heat.  :D

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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2010, 05:38:21 AM »
Are we allowed to post 'how hot it is here' posts?
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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2010, 06:14:03 AM »
Can't beat those temps Stew! Was only -4 at 7-00 this morning.  ::)

BUT! to cheer up everyone in the UK...... There's still another 7 days of this to come!  :bang:

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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2010, 06:20:39 AM »
I guess mine will be the same Stew, as we only live less than a mile apart.

To stop your outlet freezing up again, fit a larger bore pipe. My mate Tel, a couple of hundred yards from yourself, had the same problem as you last week. No problems now.


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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2010, 07:16:49 AM »
Best I can do is a -5 a couple of days ago.  Must check more often.

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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2010, 09:10:39 AM »
It was around -15C a week or two ago, but it's been hovering right around -5C for the past week.

Being in the US, I had to look at the thermometer to convert the units!
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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2010, 09:19:44 AM »
Hey Roger,

Did you add in the "wind chill" factor? Which makes it feel like, much colder than it realy is.

Some of them Britt's ought to try living in Alaska were it can get to -70 F. Now that's cold.

I'm sure some of our Canadian memebers can chime in here with low temps in there part of the woods.

Global warming, Bah hum bug, Were having a mini Ice Age here.  ::)

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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #7 on: December 23, 2010, 09:42:41 AM »
Hey Stew,  What do you measure the temperature with when it REALLY gets cold?

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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #8 on: December 23, 2010, 09:49:13 AM »
Hey Stew,  What do you measure the temperature with when it REALLY gets cold?

hi 75

That thermometers out of a dairy can't have mercury around food stuff, I sure hope it don't get any colder where I'll need another thermometer.


 
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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #9 on: December 23, 2010, 12:21:53 PM »
Just to lower the tone a little.

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What do you measure the temperature with when it REALLY gets cold?

Most male humans have a built in thermometer.

Stand outside in the nude, the colder it gets, the shorter it becomes.


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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #10 on: December 23, 2010, 12:55:02 PM »
Just to lower the tone a little.

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What do you measure the temperature with when it REALLY gets cold?

Most male humans have a built in thermometer.

Stand outside in the nude, the colder it gets, the shorter it becomes.

Bogs


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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #11 on: December 24, 2010, 05:12:09 AM »
pic shows yard thermometer at -9 to knock it off the castle you must post pic

Does this count?




Taken on my way home from (attempted) work this morning. Brrrrrrrrrrrr


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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #12 on: December 24, 2010, 05:44:15 AM »
Minus 17 here the other day - Nottingham.
It was minus 9 in the morning and minus 8 in the afternoon.

Mercury dropped that low in the thermometer it trapped a rat on the floor.

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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #13 on: December 24, 2010, 05:45:14 AM »
Lowest I've seen here on Merseyside was -238oC.... but that was after my home-made thermometer got wet & started reading all over the shop. I think the record high was in the region of 400oC...

Lowest real temp I've seen is -11, in the previous cold snap, an -10 the other day in Cheshire. No photo evidence of either, I'm afraid...
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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #14 on: December 24, 2010, 05:50:23 AM »
Still Tshirt weather up here  :coffee:


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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #15 on: December 24, 2010, 05:54:57 AM »
Still Tshirt weather up here  :coffee:


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Only because you have tee shirts made out of Winceyette tarpaulins.

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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #16 on: December 24, 2010, 06:08:17 AM »
I bet the Lassies are aboot the toon in skimpy skirts and crop tops Rob (that thought as warmed me up), and the Lads will be up at St James's bare Chested watching the match.

I rekon Tim's pic as nocked mine off the castle. Brrrrrrr,

Went out last night when it was just above freezing and it actually felt warm.


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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #17 on: December 24, 2010, 06:17:33 AM »
I bet the Lassies are aboot the toon in skimpy skirts and crop tops Rob (that thought as warmed me up), and the Lads will be up at St James's bare Chested watching the match.



Stew

Oh yes Stew   :D  ,, i dont think Geordie lasses own coats/jumpers   :ddb: :ddb: :ddb: :ddb: great stuff  :D  soon takes your mined of the weather  :med:


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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #18 on: December 24, 2010, 11:58:42 PM »
Hey Stew,  What do you measure the temperature with when it REALLY gets cold?

I seem to remember reading somewhere that whiskey freezes at -40ēc...does that help?

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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #19 on: December 25, 2010, 12:58:06 AM »
Merry Xmas all, we started today very cold -13 at John Lennon airport.

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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #20 on: December 25, 2010, 03:24:07 AM »
Merry Christmas to you and yours Peter!  :thumbup:

It's -5 under my carport at the mo....  ::)

Turkey's in the oven. We've not argued, yet....... All's well here!  :D

Hope yours is the same.....  :wave:

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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #21 on: December 25, 2010, 04:15:43 AM »
Hey Stew,  What do you measure the temperature with when it REALLY gets cold?

I seem to remember reading somewhere that whiskey freezes at -40ēc...does that help?

Andrew


I don´t think "normal" whiskey (37% alcohol, usually) will take anything like that. In the case of Russian vodka, which is standardized to 40% ethanol by volume (same as  80 proof), the freezing point is  -26.95° C or -16.51° F.
Pure ethanol - freezing point -114 degrees celcius (-114 °C). 75% ethanol (there´s Polish vodka with that percentage!) will freeze at about  -50 degrees C.  -40ēC would mean a 50-55% solution of ethanol - is there any whiskey that strong? (BTW. The temperature and percentage do not have a linear dependence).
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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #22 on: December 25, 2010, 04:42:42 AM »
I've just been out with the dog for a good run, well he ran, I rode.

The temp is down to about 1/2" long. Frost was forming on my fur hat.


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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #23 on: December 25, 2010, 05:58:26 AM »
Bogs , Did you have raindeer pulling you.  :lol:

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Re: Any one beat -9 C
« Reply #24 on: December 25, 2010, 07:10:27 AM »
Merry Xmas all, we started today very cold -13 at John Lennon airport.

Peter   :jaw:

Probably not as cold as John Lennon is ?  :doh:

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