Ice Age - Page 2

simon · 15-01-2006, 16:34

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Originally Posted by mez

good to have a bad winter .....i remember building an igloo in my front garden when i was young...in the 1940's-----1950's strewth were they bad but what great summers we had.

One word................................JEALOUS....... ........

SPUGGIE J · 15-01-2006, 18:25

Alls I want is some snow for sledging.

SPUGGIE J · 15-01-2006, 23:41

If I do not get snow soon I might be lifted for sledging well try to anyway down the dry ski slope at Polmont.

nsha · 16-01-2006, 09:16

Please send some of your cold weather to Queensland

SPUGGIE J · 16-01-2006, 12:32

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Originally Posted by nsha

Please send some of your cold weather to Queensland

You wold be popular if it got cold and wet on the Gold Coast and in Brisbane.

pendy · 16-01-2006, 14:29

Too soon yet to crow or moan. February is usually the worst month for snow, and it's a long time until Easter. I don't remember 1947 because I was only 11 months old at the time (precocious, yes, but not that precocious). I do remember 62/63, it was abysmal - month after month of freezing slush, no central heating in those days, huddling over a coal fire, ice on the INSIDE of the bedroom window. My elders and betters told me that 47 was worse, because coal was still on ration or not easily available, and people did freeze.

Acrylic-bob · 16-01-2006, 17:03

Actually, according to the Met Office, December was an average of 0.5 degrees colder than the average temperature for the same period over the last thirty years.

SPUGGIE J · 16-01-2006, 17:49

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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

Actually, according to the Met Office, December was an average of 0.5 degrees colder than the average temperature for the same period over the last thirty years.

So much for global warming. Maybe the Gulf Stream has lost a bit more umph and as it gets colder so will we. Global Warming = Ice Cap melt = More fresh water in the Gulf Stream conveyer belt = cooler Gulf stream = more cold weather for us.

The thermal undies industry must be having a boom time.

garinda · 16-01-2006, 17:58

I watched a programme on TV about Antartica. Apparently global warming is causing the ice to melt at the outer edges, but the south pole itself is actually becoming colder.

I don't know what it all means, but I bet we still don't get any ice in most of our drinks in England.

JohnW · 16-01-2006, 21:11

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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

Actually, according to the Met Office, December was an average of 0.5 degrees colder than the average temperature for the same period over the last thirty years.

Yes I think the fact that most people have central heating and far better insulated houses has made the 'comfort level' inside, misleading as to how cold it acually is outside. I too remember ice on the inside of the bedroom window almost every winter as a kid. Getting out of bed was bloody murderous it was so cold. We didn't even have an 'all night burner' in the fireplace so the house was virtually freezing first thing in the morning. Then, most people could only afford to have a coal fire in one room so that when you moved out of it you were almost frozen immediately. No-one wanted to leave the warm living room to go upstairs to a freezing cold bedroom. Bluddy 'ell it were 'ard when AB and me were kids!!!!

Margaret Pilkington · 17-01-2006, 14:47

And there was an absolute fight if you were told to go and get a bucket of coal from the coal place in the yard.
We didn't have the problem of the toilet freezing up......we were not posh enough to have a flush lavvie......we had a 'long drop'.......but again, you didn't go out to the lav unless you were dressed like Scott of the Antarctic