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Spring has sprunged

Arkitect said:
I know exactly what you mean…

I live in Georgian central… AKA Bath.

The sash windows are lovely, and when opened they really feel huge. The way you can adjust them for air circulation and so on is excellent in summer. Winters however bring problems with the insulation — or at least, the lack of.

In the mornings when we open the shutters the condensation runs rivers down the panes.

Nothing to do but grin and bear it. Still, it all comes from living in a building dating to 1788. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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I hadn't really lived until coming downstairs one morning in February about 20 years ago to find a more than stiff breeze blowing through the kitchen, from a window in which a pane had departed from the sashing and mullions sometime after I went to bed. It was 10 below 0ºF outside and the furnace was obediently minding the thermostat three rooms away, and so valiantly trying but in all futility to make it stay 55º in there.

Visions of empty gas tanks came to mind... You've never seen anyone rekindle a kitchen woodstove so fast, I am pretty sure. After that it was a hunt for some tarp plastic to cut up and sling over that whole kitchen window in several layers, and then a wait for the vaunted February thaw to permit resetting the pane of glass. Now I regularly reglaze and repaint those weather-facing windows, and put in enough glazing points before applying the caulk to qualify me as obsessed. So far haven't replaced them because I love the old wavy glass. And yeah, I keep stacks of tarp plastic and tape in the cupboards... especially since no longer use the woodstove!
 
Must be Spring - it snowed here in SW Ohio overnight, was quite White when I woke up at 7am, and was already gone by lunchtime.
 
lizkat said:
I hadn't really lived until coming downstairs one morning in February about 20 years ago to find a more than stiff breeze blowing through the kitchen, from a window in which a pane had departed from the sashing and mullions sometime after I went to bed. It was 10 below 0ºF outside and the furnace was obediently minding the thermostat three rooms away, and so valiantly trying but in all futility to make it stay 55º in there.

Visions of empty gas tanks came to mind... You've never seen anyone rekindle a kitchen woodstove so fast, I am pretty sure. After that it was a hunt for some tarp plastic to cut up and sling over that whole kitchen window in several layers, and then a wait for the vaunted February thaw to permit resetting the pane of glass. Now I regularly reglaze and repaint those weather-facing windows, and put in enough glazing points before applying the caulk to qualify me as obsessed. So far haven't replaced them because I love the old wavy glass. And yeah, I keep stacks of tarp plastic and tape in the cupboards... especially since no longer use the woodstove!
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One thing I am grateful for living in Britain, is it rarely gets as cold as North America. Those winters are frightening! 🙂
 
theSeb said:
Day light saving time is back from tomorrow. Happy days and long evenings.
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We got there ahead of y'all but spring weather sure didn't come with it. So we have been enjoying (?) an unimpeded view of rain and snow later into the evenings, even now.... with 13 hours of snowfall forecast starting late tonight... hence my annoyed profile banner, which one can hope is temporary. But yes, daylight saving time is great, I wish the USA would keep it all year round. I'm willing to put up with lingering darkness in the mornings of late winter; hell by then we're so used to living in the dark it scarcely matters.
 
lizkat said:
We got there ahead of y'all but spring weather sure didn't come with it. So we have been enjoying (?) an unimpeded view of rain and snow later into the evenings, even now.... with 13 hours of snowfall forecast starting late tonight... hence my annoyed profile banner, which one can hope is temporary. But yes, daylight saving time is great, I wish the USA would keep it all year round. I'm willing to put up with lingering darkness in the mornings of late winter; hell by then we're so used to living in the dark it scarcely matters.
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It was 19 C (66 F) today over here. People were walking around in shorts and t-shirts. Bear in mind that average March temps for the area are 10 C high (day) and 4 C low (night)
 
Real feel in L.A. is going to be sunny and a high of 80 degrees today. I think I can live with that. ☀️😎
 
theSeb said:
It was 19 C (66 F) today over here. People were walking around in shorts and t-shirts. Bear in mind that average March temps for the area are 10 C high (day) and 4 C low (night)
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And in other news, a big piece of the ice shelf in eastern Antarctica has fallen into the sea shortly after a freakish warm spell. It's not actually the part of Antarctica that scientists had thought most vulnerable to this behavior. So it's fairly alarming.

apnews.com

Ice shelf collapses in previously stable East Antarctica

Scientists are concerned because an ice shelf the size of New York City collapsed in East Antarctica, an area that had long been thought to be stable.
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“The Glenzer Conger ice shelf presumably had been there for thousands of years and it’s not ever going to be there again,” said University of Minnesota ice scientist Peter Neff.

The issue isn’t the amount of ice lost in this collapse, Neff and Walker said. That is negligible. It’s more about the where it happened.
Neff said he worries that previous assumptions about East Antarctica’s stability may not be correct. And that’s important because if the water frozen in East Antarctica melted — and that’s a millennia-long process if not longer — it would raise seas across the globe more than 160 feet (50 meters). It’s more than five times the ice in the more vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet, where scientists have concentrated much of their research.
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^^^ Wow! Yeah we'll make an exception for the visuals. 😍

Here we ended up w/ four inches of fresh snow, forecast of 11ºF tonight, but 60ºF and a threat of thunderstorms for Thursday, go figure.

I guess that means Spring is tomorrow, then Summer begins Thursday. Pretty fast segue through a season.

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And now a forecast of snow for the weekend. Apparently not an April fool's joke, either.

I was silly enough to have stuff like mushrooms, broccoli and summer squash on my shopping list for next week, figuring a nice segue into spring with some of that squash in a sauté. The store is likely to have those veggie all right, but I'm going to be more in the mood for some hearty soups again for awhile. I did get some eggplant in my last round of shopping, so might make eggplant parmesan instead of an intended caponata.​

Anyway it's starting to looks like last year's lingering winter and cold spring were not an anomaly, maybe start of a trend. Spring has not only not fully sprung here, it seems to be beating a hasty retreat.
 
lizkat said:
And now a forecast of snow for the weekend. Apparently not an April fool's joke, either.

I was silly enough to have stuff like mushrooms, broccoli and summer squash on my shopping list for next week, figuring a nice segue into spring with some of that squash in a sauté. The store is likely to have those veggie all right, but I'm going to be more in the mood for some hearty soups again for awhile. I did get some eggplant in my last round of shopping, so might make eggplant parmesan instead of an intended caponata.​

Anyway it's starting to looks like last year's lingering winter and cold spring were not an anomaly, maybe start of a trend. Spring has not only not fully sprung here, it seems to be beating a hasty retreat.
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These days Spring seems to sprung here in Greater Cincinnati when we get 8 consecutive days of above freezing temperatures. After that it's anyone's bet if we'll then leap into 70s+ or drop back down to another deep freeze before then jumping into the mid 80s and high humidity.

Our next chance for snow is apparently Saturday. Because Midwest.
 
Well, the freeze didn't do too much damage. I suspect we'll loose the flowers on the tree this week as the leaves start growing.

This sort of tree, a Callery Pear, is exceedingly common in Cincinnati - so much so it's been classified as invasive and about to be made illegal to sell next year.

Shame because the appearance of the flowers are a great start to Spring!

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Our daffodils still aren’t anywhere near blooming yet. 😒

I have no pictures to share. Everything still looks dead here.
 
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