London: How COLD Is It?
Jan 8th, 2009 | 06:37 AM
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London: How COLD Is It?
See the temp yesterday in London got down to 19 F - and today's e-mail Time Out London Readers' Poll asks the following Q:
Londoners' POLL
How cold are you?
A Colder than a bronze lion in Trafalgar Square
B Colder than a human statue on the South Bank
C Colder than the Northern Line on a Monday morning
OR Fodor's Readers answers
D?
Colder than what?
Londoners' POLL
How cold are you?
A Colder than a bronze lion in Trafalgar Square
B Colder than a human statue on the South Bank
C Colder than the Northern Line on a Monday morning
OR Fodor's Readers answers
D?
Colder than what?
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Jan 8th, 2009 | 07:37 AM
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Hardly. This being London, it has warmed up a bit today. Besides, I cycle to work, so I keep quite warm most of the time.
In the meantime, here are some nice pictures:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery...ture=341416524
In the meantime, here are some nice pictures:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery...ture=341416524
Jan 8th, 2009 | 08:10 AM
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"How COLD Is It?"
It isn't.
The coldest it's been anywhere in Britain so far this winter was round here, early yesterday morning, at -14 C. Which, by NY or Chicago standards, is practically summer. Even by the standards of our winters in the 1970s and 1980s, pretty balmy.
The three day old lambs were staggering round the fields, happy as Larry. The humans - who all had the feck to put an extra couple of cardigans on - were mostly just about as happy. Even the meeja - never as chuffed as when they've got something to moan about - couldn't get much beyond pretty photies. Couldn't find a single little old lady dying of hyperthermia, or a hospital closed because its heating wasn't working.
The only ones whining were people too young to remember real winters. Though one or two of the global warming mob must be thinking it possible they may be mistaken.
It isn't.
The coldest it's been anywhere in Britain so far this winter was round here, early yesterday morning, at -14 C. Which, by NY or Chicago standards, is practically summer. Even by the standards of our winters in the 1970s and 1980s, pretty balmy.
The three day old lambs were staggering round the fields, happy as Larry. The humans - who all had the feck to put an extra couple of cardigans on - were mostly just about as happy. Even the meeja - never as chuffed as when they've got something to moan about - couldn't get much beyond pretty photies. Couldn't find a single little old lady dying of hyperthermia, or a hospital closed because its heating wasn't working.
The only ones whining were people too young to remember real winters. Though one or two of the global warming mob must be thinking it possible they may be mistaken.
Jan 8th, 2009 | 08:28 AM
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The only ones whining were people too young to remember real winters>
So pipes are not bursting in poorer folk's residences?
when a similar cold cold snap hit my in-laws area in France a few years back many pipes were not prepared for that much chill.
How cold is it?
Colder enough that Flannerpooch was let into his Master's house at night - leaving the proverbial dog house.
So cold 'it was a three-dog night'
So pipes are not bursting in poorer folk's residences?
when a similar cold cold snap hit my in-laws area in France a few years back many pipes were not prepared for that much chill.
How cold is it?
Colder enough that Flannerpooch was let into his Master's house at night - leaving the proverbial dog house.
So cold 'it was a three-dog night'
Jan 8th, 2009 | 09:06 AM
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The Thames used to be much wider, shallower and slower.
Gradually London has encroached into it's territory - for instance The Strand actually means the beach and The Savoy used to have it's own pier.
All these encroachments have made the thames deeper and faster so less able to freeze.
The biggest encroachment was the building of the great sewer which runs under the Albert Embankment. This was built by Joseph Bazalgette. His great grandson is Peter Bazalgette who owns Endemol who are the TV company that produce big brother.
So Great Grandad pumped shite out of our homes....
Gradually London has encroached into it's territory - for instance The Strand actually means the beach and The Savoy used to have it's own pier.
All these encroachments have made the thames deeper and faster so less able to freeze.
The biggest encroachment was the building of the great sewer which runs under the Albert Embankment. This was built by Joseph Bazalgette. His great grandson is Peter Bazalgette who owns Endemol who are the TV company that produce big brother.
So Great Grandad pumped shite out of our homes....
Jan 8th, 2009 | 09:29 AM
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It was of course a great deal colder in the days of the Frost Fairs on the Thames.
England was emerging from the Little Ice Age just about as Dickens was writing Christmas Carol. And as Christina Rossetti ('In the Bleak Midwinter') was growing up.
Her definition of bleak was a great deal bleaker than ours.
The flannerpooch thinks this weather's wonderful, BTW, and a great deal nicer than those warmer wet, windy days when the temp's a few degrees above zero.
England was emerging from the Little Ice Age just about as Dickens was writing Christmas Carol. And as Christina Rossetti ('In the Bleak Midwinter') was growing up.
Her definition of bleak was a great deal bleaker than ours.
The flannerpooch thinks this weather's wonderful, BTW, and a great deal nicer than those warmer wet, windy days when the temp's a few degrees above zero.
