Today's Weather

We've had clear skies all day, so while it was good for the solar, not so good if you're out and about; it's currently, 6C, but it feels like 1C because of the wind. Air quality has been good today. Mrs C is impressed with the car; you can set it to warm up 5 minutes before she leaves for work, and it's toastie when she gets in; all the ice has cleared, and it has heated seats and steering wheel, so no more faffing about with the car cover. - @CynicCar cover? I've got a sheet of cardboard I put behind the windscreen wipers. It's very green as it was recycled from Ikea packaging.Our lemon of a Ford has heated seats and warming steering wheel. I only noticed it had the latter when I saw it on the menu in the display console. The problem with heated seats is that it almost feels like you've wet yourself. That kind of warm, spreading feeling. It only heats the bum position but it should do the back too. Then it'd be like a kind of heat pad for rusty bones and squeaking muscles. - @fluffy2560

I had a flash car with all the mod cons when I was based in Calgary, a Ford LTD station wagon that they had local-purchased for me, then stuck military plates on, which made me different to anybody else; the RCMP at the airport seemed to have great difficulty in comprehending why and how; almost as bad as they couldn't get their heads around that all UK military pilots flew without a licence, they were Sky Gods who operated with the permission of Her Majesty, who did not extend this largesse to her Canadian pilots.

Cynic, I think you should replace your fence with razor wire!!
Just kidding... - @Marilyn Tassy

Camp Cynic?

I was thinking when I came to Austria all that time ago, we had sh^t loads of snow, now in December we haven't had any, even in the upper group around here would have had some by now. Is this going to be the norm now, I wonder? It's 4°C today, and they say it's going to rain around 8pm.

Cynic, I think you should replace your fence with razor wire!!
Just kidding... - @Marilyn Tassy

Excellent idea !!!!

I was thinking when I came to Austria all that time ago, we had sh^t loads of snow, now in December we haven't had any, even in the upper group around here would have had some by now. Is this going to be the norm now, I wonder? It's 4°C today, and they say it's going to rain around 8pm. - @SimCityAT

My first winter out AT/HU way was really snowy.  That was back in 1994 when I drove back to the UK for Xmas. Between Vienna and Linz, the high ground was blizzard conditions. Driving was dreadful. It's high ground.  Then maybe like 1995 Xmas or so, it was really massive snow in HU, like 70cm or something. My car was an igloo. 

But you are right, the snow is way down and while temperatures have fallen, they are nothing like the days in say the early 2000s when -10C or lower was pretty common.

It's too obvious to say it but it's got to be global warming and climate change.

This is partially why I believe I need to store 5000 litres of rainwater under the ground.  I reckon we could have years where it's like really parched, no vegetables will grow and everything will be dry and shrivelled.  And that's just out the garden.  We'll also be like that inside, looking like desiccated raisins.   I begin to believe water availability will doom our world and could easily be the cause of future wars.