Hoo Boy!! Is It Cold

[snyprrr]

It's 17 outside... 54 in the actual house. In my room I sit with the 1000W heater between my legs as I type this, the cold seeping in from the window unit (as much as I've covered it in blankets).

There's a dusting of the white stuff outside, gray skies,... brrrrrr...

Don't tell me how nice it is where you are

[Karl Henning]

9° - 11° as I made my way to work this morning.

[mc ukrneal]

It's 17 outside... 54 in the actual house. In my room I sit with the 1000W heater between my legs as I type this, the cold seeping in from the window unit (as much as I've covered it in blankets).

There's a dusting of the white stuff outside, gray skies,... brrrrrr...

Don't tell me how nice it is where you are

Sounds like my room as a kid. There used to be this plastic sheet (like plastic wrap, just thicker) that was made to help keep the breeze from the window coming in. It worked well and wasn't too expensive (it worked with two plastic pieces that snapped together - one stuck to the wall or something like that). They must have something like that today. Some days I woke up, on particularly cold days, before the heating had kicked in, I could see my breath in the room and there was ice on the window. I remember we used to cover the outside of the A/C units with plastic too (though my room didn't have one), and that also helped. Think warm thoughts!

[Mirror Image]

Right now, it's 30°F with no cloud in the sky. Beautiful day. Oh sorry, you probably wanted me to post something miserable, didn't you?

[Jo498]

We had rather mean weather on the weekend with nights around 8-10 Celsius below freezing (in some regions more than 20 below at night) as well as some snow and later rain, therefore icy streets but it is back to around the freezing point now which is o.k. and normal for the season. Less than 60 F/16 C inside is not cozy, I admit. Most houses/flats in Germany are quite well isolated but in the freezing winter 2009/10 I lived in an apartment that was not (under the roof and bad old windows) and had ice sheets on the windows inside.

[Scion7]

In my room I sit with the 1000W heater between my legs as I

You kinky devil!

[Mirror Image]

We had rather mean weather on the weekend with nights around 8-10 Celsius below freezing (in some regions more than 20 below at night) as well as some snow and later rain, therefore icy streets but it is back to around the freezing point now which is o.k. and normal for the season. Less than 60 F/16 C inside is not cozy, I admit. Most houses/flats in Germany are quite well isolated but in the freezing winter 2009/10 I lived in an apartment that was not (under the roof and bad old windows) and had ice sheets on the windows inside.

Surely, you meant insulated?

[The new erato]

Oh sorry, you probably wanted me to post something miserable, didn't you?

No, we know you reserve those posts for the listening thread.

[Mirror Image]

No, we know you reserve those posts for the listening thread.

[The new erato]

I mean, Schnittke, Weinberg, Tubin etc, it's not exactly uplifting stuff.......

[Jo498]

Surely, you meant insulated?

yes, I tend to forget that you have two words for this in English, in German it is only one regardless of electric, thermal or spatial iso/insulation. I don't know where snyprr is living but needing an additional electric heater and still have the indoor temperature in the 50s F sounds to me as if the building was not prepared for temperatures below the freezing point.

[Scion7]

I mean, Schnittke, Weinberg, Tubin etc, it's not exactly uplifting stuff.......

I wouldn't put Weinberg in that category - he wrote some pretty spirited music!  :-)
Schnittke, if you can listen longer than ten minutes, definitely is for the "goodbye, cruel world" pre-OD'd party.

[vandermolen]

My daughter's in Kiev -18 with windchill factor feels like -30. She is confined to her apartment. Torrential rain in the UK (although nothing unusual about that) and snow forecast later in the week

[(poco) Sforzando]

It's 17 outside... 54 in the actual house. In my room I sit with the 1000W heater between my legs as I type this, the cold seeping in from the window unit (as much as I've covered it in blankets).

There's a dusting of the white stuff outside, gray skies,... brrrrrr...

Don't tell me how nice it is where you are

Why don't you turn the thermostat higher?

[Parsifal]

yes, I tend to forget that you have two words for this in English, in German it is only one regardless of electric, thermal or spatial iso/insulation. I don't know where snyprr is living but needing an additional electric heater and still have the indoor temperature in the 50s F sounds to me as if the building was not prepared for temperatures below the freezing point.

Sound's to me like snyprr didn't pay his utility bill.

[Andante]

It is so hot here I have to keep going to the Fridge for a cold one.

[Parsifal]

My daughter's in Kiev -18 with windchill factor feels like -30. She is confined to her apartment. Torrential rain in the UK (although nothing unusual about that) and snow forecast later in the week

Why is there wind chill in winter and heat index in the summer? Why don't I hear on an august day, "it is 36 degrees (97 F) but with wind chill it feels like 31 degrees (88 F)?"

[kishnevi]

Overnight lows where I live dove down into the mid-upper 40s for the last two nights.  I actually had to turn on the heat last night, and got a chance to wear my winter jacket.  For us, this is bone chilling cold

[Mirror Image]

I mean, Schnittke, Weinberg, Tubin etc, it's not exactly uplifting stuff.......

Ah, okay. Well, that's certainly true...lol.

[aleazk]

Hoo Boy!! Is It HOT

I'm in Sydney now with 80% of humidity, 35°C and a sunlight that feels like a nuclear blast around the corner.