How is the weather?

[71 dB]

I wish we would see some of that! So far the winter has been relatively warm in central Vermont. We're currently the coldest we've been in a couple of weeks, -6º C (22º F). But most of the last 10 to 14 days have been above freezing, with light rain and constant low fog. But even this cold is not enough to completely freeze the ground, at least not yet. On the trails there is still plenty of standing water with or even without ice covering the surface.

-6°C is nice actually. Snow isn't melting, but it isn't too cold either.

[71 dB]

Hope that your living accommodations are nice and warm dB!

There has been a change from district heating to geothermal in the building I live in and the it is now too cold for me unfortunately. Life sucks. I am so tired of everything. That's why I am not that active here. I am just waiting to die away and end this misery called life in the 2020's. I spend Christmas almost alone. Life has so little to offer. Youtube videos and Vaporwave music in Bandcamp. That's it.

[Madiel]

Massive thunderstorm to accompany Tubin's 8th symphony. That was interesting.

[pjme]

On the Belgo-Dutch border:

Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville;


Rain, rain, rain, endless grey skies, temperatures around 8-12 Celsius. Boring, quite sad and in some parts of Belgium and the Netherlands some flooding is expected.

[steve ridgway]

A lot of rain here too, large pools of water forming on the saturated ground.

[steve ridgway]

There has been a change from district heating to geothermal in the building I live in and the it is now too cold for me unfortunately. Life sucks. I am so tired of everything. That's why I am not that active here. I am just waiting to die away and end this misery called life in the 2020's. I spend Christmas almost alone. Life has so little to offer. Youtube videos and Vaporwave music in Bandcamp. That's it.

We keep our house about 19C most of the time and have adjusted to it, but Jan / Feb can be a bit depressing, I usually feel much better when the spring flowers come back.

[krummholz]

-6°C is nice actually. Snow isn't melting, but it isn't too cold either.

Perfect for hiking - as long as it stays that way. But they're forecasting more above freezing temps for later this week (2º C by Thursday), which will turn things muddy again.

[krummholz]

There has been a change from district heating to geothermal in the building I live in and the it is now too cold for me unfortunately. Life sucks. I am so tired of everything. That's why I am not that active here. I am just waiting to die away and end this misery called life in the 2020's. I spend Christmas almost alone. Life has so little to offer. Youtube videos and Vaporwave music in Bandcamp. That's it.

I'm sorry to hear that, Poju. Just how cold is it in your building? I would have thought geothermal heating would keep things nice and toasty, but maybe it's not very abundant in Finland?

Heat here is entirely electric since the alternative, propane, is even more expensive, prohibitively so as far as I'm concerned. I keep it around 22º C during the winter and see electric bills sometimes over $200 for a small studio apartment. Luckily that's only for the coldest months, and it might not even get that cold this winter. My last bill was only $82.

[Cato]

There has been a change from district heating to geothermal in the building I live in and the it is now too cold for me unfortunately. Life sucks. I am so tired of everything. That's why I am not that active here. I am just waiting to die away and end this misery called life in the 2020's. I spend Christmas almost alone. Life has so little to offer. Youtube videos and Vaporwave music in Bandcamp. That's it.

Oh my!  Stay with us! 

I would like to invite you to America, especially our small-town, rural section of Ohio! We have volunteered for various activities and visited unusual sites in the area.  We are surrounded - so to speak - by good-to-world-class symphony orchestras just a few hours away (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, Detroit, Indianapolis, Dayton, Columbus), along with two world-class Art Museums in Toledo and Detroit: Toledo's has a separate glass museum with artworks from ancient times to Dale Chihuly.

Allow me to offer you one of Bruckner's greatest works on a text from the Old Testament:

Best Wishes!

[pjme]

There has been a change from district heating to geothermal in the building I live in and the it is now too cold for me unfortunately. Life sucks. I am so tired of everything. That's why I am not that active here. I am just waiting to die away and end this misery called life in the 2020's. I spend Christmas almost alone. Life has so little to offer. Youtube videos and Vaporwave music in Bandcamp. That's it.

I try most of the day to accomodate/accept to 19 °C. Later in the evening I usually turn up the heating (gas) a bit. The house is well isolated.
Anyway, winter and early spring can indeed be quite depressing. Reading (and cooking...) helps. I started recently in Ivan Gontsjarov's letters about his unexpected participation in the 1852 tour of the world on the frigat Pallas. I'm only a few pages in and realise how wonderful it is to have a comfortable sofa!  And I finished a small collection of (funilly) cruel stories by Guy de Maupassant.
Tonight I'll experiment with vegan food Peasmaker! (Dutch only I think...)

[Cato]

I try most of the day to accomodate/accept to 19 °C. Later in the evening I usually turn up the heating (gas) a bit. The house is well isolated.
Anyway, winter and early spring can indeed be quite depressing. Reading (and cooking...) helps. I started recently in Ivan Gontsjarov's letters about his unexpected participation in the 1852 tour of the world on the frigat Pallas. I'm only a few pages in and realise how wonderful it is to have a comfortable sofa!  And I finished a small collection of (funilly) cruel stories by Guy de Maupassant.
Tonight I'll experiment with vegan food Peasmaker! (Dutch only I think...)

Is that the author of Oblomov, one of the greatest novels ever written?  "Goncharov" (a different transliteration) was and is one of my favorite writers, but I do not know the one you are reading, if we have the same author!

I will need to check that book!

[71 dB]

I'm sorry to hear that, Poju. Just how cold is it in your building?

my crappy thermometer shows 20°C, but I think it shows 1 Kelvin too much and the real reading is ~19°C. That's okay for some people, but it is certainly okay with me!   

I would have thought geothermal heating would keep things nice and toasty, but maybe it's not very abundant in Finland?

It is "abundant" everywhere, but the system has been tuned to lower temperature to save electricity. Before this the house was "overheated", but since I need higher room temperature (at least 22°C while 24-25°C is ideal) this was enough for me. The new system isn't.

Heat here is entirely electric since the alternative, propane, is even more expensive, prohibitively so as far as I'm concerned. I keep it around 22º C during the winter and see electric bills sometimes over $200 for a small studio apartment. Luckily that's only for the coldest months, and it might not even get that cold this winter. My last bill was only $82.

Heating costs are included in the rent. I don't have a clue how much heating is.

[pjme]

Is that the author of Oblomov, one of the greatest novels ever written?

yes - "Goncharov" (a different transliteration)  - that is the author. I use a quite old Dutch translation.
 I'm sure these letters have been translated into English.

[71 dB]

Oh my!  Stay with us! 

I would like to invite you to America, especially our small-town, rural section of Ohio! We have volunteered for various activities and visited unusual sites in the area.  We are surrounded - so to speak - by good-to-world-class symphony orchestras just a few hours away (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, Detroit, Indianapolis, Dayton, Columbus), along with two world-class Art Museums in Toledo and Detroit: Toledo's has a separate glass museum with artworks from ancient times to Dale Chihuly.

Allow me to offer you one of Bruckner's greatest works on a text from the Old Testament:

Best Wishes!

Thanks! I don't know Bruckner's works well and I certainly didn't know this work! It is nice.

[krummholz]

Before this the house was "overheated", but since I need higher room temperature (at least 22°C while 24-25°C is ideal) this was enough for me. The new system isn't.

IMO 19ºC is a perfect temperature for hiking without a jacket, but indoors when sedentary I would find it rather chilly as well. Like you I prefer a temperature around 24ºC, but keep it cooler to lower electric bills (my building is metered separately from my landlords' house). But if I had no control over the temperature and was forced to put up with < 20ºC temperatures in my living space I would be pretty unhappy too. Sorry you're in this situation.

[71 dB]

IMO 19ºC is a perfect temperature for hiking without a jacket, but indoors when sedentary I would find it rather chilly as well. Like you I prefer a temperature around 24ºC, but keep it cooler to lower electric bills (my building is metered separately from my landlords' house). But if I had no control over the temperature and was forced to put up with < 20ºC temperatures in my living space I would be pretty unhappy too. Sorry you're in this situation.

Yeah, +19°C is fine if I'm biking and the sun is shining (summer), but indoor without heavy physical activity it is quite chilly. I have would some clothing solutions that make the situation a little less catastrophic, but my physical state is bad, because my body is not used to this. Next Sunday the weather should warm up a little bit. I pray the rest of the winter is warmer. The Spring is so long away...

All my life indoor temperatures have been high enough. This is 2020's energy saving/Putin energy crisis crap. Everything sucks nowadays.

[steve ridgway]

The rain seems to have passed now. We sat outside this mill on the canal and had a Full English Breakfast  .

[Pohjolas Daughter]

The rain seems to have passed now. We sat outside this mill on the canal and had a Full English Breakfast  .

Courtesy of your barge boat?   

PD

[steve ridgway]

Courtesy of your barge boat?   

No, this is another canal and there's a cafe in the mill.

[71 dB]

-16°C (3°F) in Helsinki. In Enontekiö, the "arm" of Finland, in the North-west was measured -43.5°C (-46.3°F)