European Winter

[T 24]

Some new snow and -17°C today...

[KiwiCol]

Great pic, lovely to look at, but I wouldn't want to live in it.  what ya get used to I suppose.

[froudy]

South Wales...UK

Cold damp, cloudy and generally feckin' miserable...Roll on Spring and Summer!!!!!

[KiwiCol]

No using the boat anytime soon either T24.  Looks like it's parked up for the winter as well.   Summer shared between boats n bikes?  sounds familiar . . .

[Kiwifruit]

I dont think T24 needs a boat to go fishing in winter Col. Just a post hole borer 

[Tony Nitrous]

My Mate is on a mine site in Mongolia.

He decided on his day off to go fishing. He likes fishing.
When they found somewhere that wasn't frozen over he had a go.
His line froze, his reel froze then his beer froze.

[grog]

39c at my house today. Not much chance of snow but worse is our lack of rain. Bushfire threat is huge.

[Tony Nitrous]

It was only in the low to mid 30's at work, but we had hundreds of cars to move, all sat in the sun all day. Everyone we jumped in was like an oven! The aircon only started to kick in by the time we were parking them up and jumping into another red hot car! After an hour I was soaked in sweat on off for a cold drink. Nice cars, OK job, but the heat makes it hard.

[grog]

compared to old days, amazed how many modern cars dpnt overheat. back in 80s , on a hot day as is now, every holden overheat, nissans blew head gaskets, most european cars suffered. air cooled vw were just hopeless. all the yank v8 were hopeless. better cooling, better coolant. amazing difference. most cars run around 100c these days, high pressure caps. v6 commodores run at 110. as a comparison, my 14 with a hard run in these nearly 40 temps, rarely gets to 90c. oil cooled suzuki sure is a winner in that department. diavel last week in same air temp was running at 107, has a readout on gauges. you should feel the heat it pumps out at lights, incredible, legs fry.

[Sweaty]

It has been between 35-41 in North west Sydney for about 3 weeks straight and it is draining the life out of me 😩😓 it's only dropping to a min of 23-25 through the night.
That snow does look beautiful but living in it would drive me nuts, so I better just stop moaning & suck it up 

[grog]

Sweaty, im sure sick of 26 nights. Same tonight.

[Irish in Oz]

I was sick of working in Oz summers that's why I give it away last summer, wearing PPE in 30 plus heat. I'm not minding the winter over here in the Emerald Isle. Started this little job today didn't even work up a sweat about 11 degrees C.

[Kiwifruit]

I get  the PPE comment Irish, We have roadworks going on down the road and the   traffic control or lollipop people are in workboots long pants long sleeves and a hardhat. No shade.......but thems the ruies.
Common sense not required.
Thursday both lots of traffic met in the middle of the road works.
Heatstroke maybe ??

interesting to see the difference in the climates of the two hemispheres.

[Tony Nitrous]

Yeah, my mate has 50 Traffic Control Utes and about 100 staff.
Standing in the shade is a big No-no.
It's seen as not being clearly visible even on the hottest day.


When I was working in the BP Refinery it was boots, fireproof long trousers, fireproof long sleeve shirts, wide brimmed hard hats, safety glasses and I had to carry gloves, this was in any weather.

In my current job I have to wear a long sleeve shirt and a wide brimmed hat all day, I still wear long trousers even though they aren't compulsory and shorts are OK, even over the last few weeks of heat.

They are a bit fussy about wearing the right safety clothes here and it does get inforced. One of my team wore footy shorts not work shorts, and I was seen without a hat on and we both got reprimanded for it ! Baseball caps are banned, only wide brimmed hats.

Big thing here is no belts, watches or rings.
No one gets away with that for long.

[BbigMmac]

Kind of jealous of the people with the warm weather actually. Holland is not really winter, bit of snow, bit of frost every now and then. Biggest problem is that when they think it`s going to freeze they start throwing salt on the roads. Imagine what it does to your bike? Winter riding is no go for me!