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  • #32
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    Remember in March last year there was a mini heatwave? I remember going to the beach one day with friends and our kids and the weather was glorious! Not a long sleeve in sight!


  • #33
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    I can't remember the last time it rained.

    Sorry, I hope I haven't jinxed it!
    Poured here yesterday - and was really cold, no mildness like there usually is with rain.


  • #34
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    wolfpawnat wrote: »
    I am wearing two pairs of socks, one over the knee. thick pants, two t-shirts and a hoodie while under a duvet on the couch. My heating is not gone, but after having it one for near 7 hours over today and having it timed to come on a few times tonight, I cannot afford to keep it on continuously.

    God, this is like a contest. OK, I raise you one wooly cap, and a pair of fingerless gloves.

    :pac:


  • #35
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I'll raise you a heated throw (cheap heat 100w/h)


  • #36
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Seems like up here in the NW, we have had the best of the weather.

    I am sure I had the bbq going a good few times last April.


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  • #37
    RUSTEDCORE
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 514 ✭✭✭RUSTEDCORE


    Captain Chaos wrote: »
    We've just had the coldest March for 50 years and the coldest Easter Sunday since records began. Global Warming me hoop. Carbon tax scam, we should be lashing more carbon into the air and heat us the f up.

    They changed it to climate change

    colder winters
    hotter summers


    people need to stop being fannys and just put on a jumper
    and I dont care if theres no snow.....WOMENS! WEAR SKI OUTFITS DAMNIT


  • #38
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Poured here yesterday - and was really cold, no mildness like there usually is with rain.

    Ah Christ, I can handle one or the other, both the two, that is my personal version of hell.
    Fox_In_Socks wrote: »
    God, this is like a contest. OK, I raise you one wooly cap, and a pair of fingerless gloves.

    :pac:

    It's a high tog duvet. ;):pac:

    No seriously this is mad. It is the 1st of FúCKING April. People didn't refill their oil tanks because not one of us thought it would be this cold now. My heating bills are going to be through the roof. Airtricity are probably going to get a 6 month boner when I submit my next meter reading!


  • #39
    wolfpawnat
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    mike65 wrote: »
    I'll raise you a heated throw (cheap heat 100w/h)

    Well look at mister fancy pants and his heated blankets!!!!! :pac:


  • #40
    DanWall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 509 ✭✭✭DanWall


    Bought some spikes to fit onto my shoes 2 year ago and have not had to use them yet


  • #41
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    I'd say there won't be much of a baby boom in 9 month's time. Trying to coax anything out in this climate, even if you do have a special jumper for it, is difficult.:pac:


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  • #42
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,197 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    It is not even below Zero most of the day :confused:

    The Irish and the cold. :rolleyes:


  • #43
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    Fox_In_Socks wrote: »
    I'd say there won't be much of a baby boom in 9 month's time. Trying to coax anything out in this climate, even if you do have a special jumper for it, is difficult.:pac:

    I dare say there are lads out their whose bits have decided to go back north near their kidney's for warmth for the foreseeable future!
    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    It is not even below Zero most of the day :confused:

    The Irish and the cold. :rolleyes:

    It's not just how cold it is, it's that bloody freezing wind that is with it, I'd swear it would go through you for a short cut!!!


  • #44
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    It is not even below Zero most of the day :confused:
    Of course it's cold compared to what we're used to. And particularly for the time of year.


  • #45
    RUSTEDCORE
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 514 ✭✭✭RUSTEDCORE


    Madam_X wrote: »
    I'd agree with that if it's just a bit cool out there, but it is wintry cold at the moment - a jumper isn't enough.

    If you are cold you need a better house or improve the one you have

    If you have not the funds for such an expedition I suggest you stop wasting them on fossil fuels.


  • #46
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,197 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Of course it's cold compared to what we're used to. And particularly for the time of year.


    The average for this time of year is 4 to 6 deg.
    In the morning it is 1 deg, at midday it is 6 deg.
    Nothing amazing.

    It is cold - but nothing outside of norm. It is not even below zero. It is -12 in UK.


  • #47
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    RUSTEDCORE wrote: »
    If you are cold you need a better house or improve the one you have

    If you have not the funds for such an expedition I suggest you stop wasting them on fossil fuels.
    Meh, it is of course cold and even though I'm wearing a very warm jumper, I need to put on the heating also - 'tis no biggie, that's what most people are doing; nothing unusual or irrational there. And I'm not a person who whinges about the cold when it's dull and a bit breezy. My fellow Irish women who go on about the cold all the time no matter what time of year wreck my head too. But at the moment, no need to pretend it isn't cold, just for the sake of it. Was watching the forecast just there - Evelyn described it as extremely cold, particularly for the time of year. And it's gonna stay that way until the weekend... :(


  • #48
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    RUSTEDCORE wrote: »
    If you are cold you need a better house or improve the one you have

    If you have not the funds for such an expedition I suggest you stop wasting them on fossil fuels.

    Let me whisper that to my hypothetical 1 month old baby.......


  • #49
    RUSTEDCORE
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 514 ✭✭✭RUSTEDCORE


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Meh, it is of course cold and even though I'm wearing a very warm jumper, I need to put on the heating also - 'tis no biggie, that's what most people are doing; nothing unusual or irrational there. And I'm not a person who whinges about the cold when it's dull and a bit breezy. My fellow Irish women who go on about the cold all the time no matter what time of year wreck my head too. But at the moment, no need to pretend it isn't cold, just for the sake of it. Was watching the forecast just there - Evelyn described it as extremely cold, particularly for the time of year. And it's gonna stay that way until the weekend... :(

    I know not of this Evelyn you speak of but did she say that the farming parts of Ireland are colder than those of us legends within Dublinia?

    If not you need more insulation and higher glaze windows


  • #50
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    The average for this time of year is 4 to 6 deg.
    In the morning it is 1 deg, at midday it is 6 deg.
    Nothing amazing.

    It is cold - but nothing outside of norm.
    Nothing outside of the norm? Meteorologists would disagree with you. I know there are occasional days in March/early April that are as cold as this, but a stretch as prolonged is unusual. And snow? Hard frost? Pretty disingenuous to say that's the norm for late March/early April.


  • #51
    RUSTEDCORE
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 514 ✭✭✭RUSTEDCORE


    mikom wrote: »
    Let me whisper that to my hypothetical 1 month old baby.......

    this is a separate thread but... if you cannot provide for said hypothetical 1 month old baby you should not have 1


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  • #52
    FixdePitchmark
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    Madam_X wrote: »
    Nothing outside of the norm? Meteorologists would disagree with you. I know there are occasional days in March/early April that are as cold as this, but a stretch as prolonged is unusual. And snow? Hard frost? Pretty disingenuous to say that's the norm for late March/early April.

    But what has prolonged got to do with it. The feeling of cold has no history.

    If you are cold , you have the wrong clothes or the heating is not right in your house.


  • #53
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    This morning and last night at Dublin airport with wind chill, the real feel temperature was -2C. It's the cold easterly air that's freezing the place, our south westerly jet stream is over southern France instead of over northern France and southern Ireland where it should be.


  • #54
    mikom
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    RUSTEDCORE wrote: »
    this is a separate thread but... if you cannot provide for said hypothetical 1 month old baby you should not have 1

    Shall I let the child become a fossil?


  • #55
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    RUSTEDCORE wrote: »
    this is a separate thread but... if you cannot provide for said hypothetical 1 month old baby you should not have 1

    What the hell are you on about? Talk about insane assumptions here. Where did mikom say they could not afford their child? And this may shock you, but not all children are planned. Families budget, and in no families budget would you assume a freezing March and April as it is out of the norm. As was mentioned, coldest recorded March in 50 years.


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
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    Well I'll be damned, it is true.

    The members of After Hours really do argue over anything!


  • #57
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    But what has prolonged cold got to do got to do with it. The feeling of cold has no history is a second hand emotion.

    Tina Turner lyrics!


  • #58
    wolfpawnat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭wolfpawnat


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Well I'll be damned, it is true.

    The members of After Hours really do argue over anything!

    I swear, put a thread on about the length of time it takes paint to dry and there will be people arguing about it. Then some lunatic will come on with something completely irrational and think it makes sense. And the dole will make its way on too at some point! :pac: guaranteed.


  • #59
    RUSTEDCORE
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 514 ✭✭✭RUSTEDCORE


    Madam_X wrote: »
    He can, by putting on the heating, which you advised against.

    why complain about the cold or fuel/prices if one can provide heat?


  • #60
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    RUSTEDCORE wrote: »
    why complain about the cold or fuel/prices if one can provide heat?
    I didn't complain about fuel/prices.
    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Well I'll be damned, it is true.

    The members of After Hours really do argue over anything!
    It's the people saying "It's not cold, it's always like this at this time of year, typical Irish useless with the cold rabble rabble :rolleyes:" who are the argumentative ones... when there's snow and frost in parts of the country.


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  • #61
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,197 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    wolfpawnat wrote: »
    What the hell are you on about? Talk about insane assumptions here. Where did mikom say they could not afford their child? And this may shock you, but not all children are planned. Families budget, and in no families budget would you assume a freezing March and April as it is out of the norm. As was mentioned, coldest recorded March in 50 years.

    But that is not a great record - because March is not that cold - so if you are aiming to break a record target March. Again we are not below zero.

    Wind Chill is a percieved decrease - stay out of the wind. You will not go below the ambient. So man up and stop moaning - it is not below zero. We have plenty of records of sub zero.

    Heating and clothes - people work out in that all day.


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