Author Topic: We Brits really are wimps! (Read 1809 times)

Toky · « **on:** January 31, 2012, 22:31:35 PM »

National headline news......temps will plummet to minus 6!!!! Big wow. It's the big talking point - the weather front coming in from Siberia. H-e-l-l-o it is winter after all. And while I'm having a moan.....I HATE the expression "cold snap"! What the hell is a cold snap? (come on all you budding comedians)
I'm away to look out my thermals.

happy_flyer · « **Reply #1 on:** January 31, 2012, 22:50:11 PM »

Well i'm just glad i'm not a brass monkey this week.
A cold snap is when you switch on the wipers to clear the screen and they refuse to move cos thier frozen in the last position.
Oh yes and i dont have to look out my thermals i know exactly where they are right now. lol

Toky · « **Reply #2 on:** January 31, 2012, 23:15:26 PM »

LOL, man up happy-flyer!!!
A bit of de-icer will sort it out.

Scunner · « **Reply #3 on:** January 31, 2012, 23:25:21 PM »

I can honestly say I have never experienced what I found when I went to my car early one morning last week. Ice - on the INSIDE of the windscreen!!

loz · « **Reply #4 on:** January 31, 2012, 23:26:12 PM »

I have just discovered what a cold snap is, it is when the temperature indicator in the car flashes at 3c, I take this to mean that it is cold? I would never have guessed otherwise :

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heather07 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 01, 2012, 07:29:38 AM »

quote:
Originally posted by Scunner

I can honestly say I have never experienced what I found when I went to my car early one morning last week. Ice - on the INSIDE of the windscreen!!

I get this at 5pm when I come out of work bot not in the morning.

My theory is that condensation gathers inside from sitting in the sun during the day. Or is that silly?

Toky · « **Reply #6 on:** February 01, 2012, 18:48:00 PM »

Despite the big freeze warning, we had a glorious sunny day in Glasgow today reachin +5degs. Almost summer temps LOL

Babadaq Bridge · « **Reply #7 on:** February 01, 2012, 20:07:53 PM »

When it's so cold that things snap off?

Highlander · « **Reply #8 on:** February 01, 2012, 22:20:42 PM »

Not as bad as last winter, yet. Minus nineteen near Grantown-On-Spey in December 2010.

Karennina · « **Reply #9 on:** February 02, 2012, 11:08:16 AM »

How about this then, hubby got in car this morning after finishing night shift, he had saved half a banana to eat on the way home from work but the banana had frozen solid in the car over night

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