It´s real winter over here

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It´s real winter over here

Post by housil » Fri Jan 09, 2009 2:48 pm

Our area is not famous for its winter.

Winter here means +2°C and rain... :cry:

Not this year, we have the coldest winter for the last 100years! :shock:

The coldest place was in east Germany (Leipzig) with ~-34°C yesterday.
Where I live, we are famous for wine, there are wine yards around our house, so we have -16°C "only".

As I had my last day "on call" today, someone else got the Audi Quattro and I could fetch my X3 out of the garage for some driving "lesson" :D :wink:

Next to the (airfield) runway "behind" our house
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Frozen river "Main"
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This is the right time for a sleeping bag test outside :mrgreen:
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Re: It´s real winter over here

Post by German_EPA » Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:01 pm

yes - its damn cold outside.

here at the donube (in bavaria ;)) its actually -15 degrees celsius outside - and falling. and this at 8 PM...

i heated up an entree outdise an hour ago - the heater (center) was hot and the steam in the top of the bag was frozen... :shock:
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Re: It´s real winter over here

Post by Garron » Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:20 pm

The Weather forcast said it was -2C in my area... its more like -5C.

Makes the some what thankful I'm not still in Germany.... I didnt take any heavy winter clothes with me just a light jacket and jumpers.

If it gets to those temps here in the UK the country will grind to a halt, the water was off for in my area for 2 days due to a 3/4 of a inch (2cm thich) cast iron water pipe froze and burst pumping water from the local resevior. Must have been very cold to freeze the water under that ammount of pumped pressure. (Estimate said about -17C as its around 1500ft above sea level or about 460 meters)

Luckily I have my Bundeswehr Parka, that should keep me quite warm.

I should really be looking at getting the East German Winter FDU... designed to handle the cold Eastern conditions.

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Re: It´s real winter over here

Post by ak70g2 » Fri Jan 09, 2009 4:16 pm

Is -10 here, at Danube's Mouths, and the damn Russians cut off the gas supplies. But I don't give a damn, 'cause I have a wood burning stove and a bottle of fine rum...
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Re: It´s real winter over here

Post by kman » Fri Jan 09, 2009 4:40 pm

Well it's 49F (9C) here today...kind of chilly but nothing compared to what you guys are going through!
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Re: It´s real winter over here

Post by george94 » Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:01 pm

It's supposed to about 4 inches here tomorrow :D . It's been about 38f or 3c
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Re: It´s real winter over here

Post by Big Galloot » Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:56 pm

I'm thinking this would be a bad time to talk about sleeping out on the beach last night.
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Re: It´s real winter over here

Post by dirtbag » Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:58 pm

I just don't know what you guys are whining about ! :roll:
It only got up to 65 F,18C here today ! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: It´s real winter over here

Post by housil » Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:40 pm

Garron wrote: Makes the some what thankful I'm not still in Germany.... I didnt take any heavy winter clothes with me just a light jacket and jumpers.
We have been in London at November 2006:

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We left Germany just with shirts and sun...

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and woke up one morning at -6°C and had to buy fleece socks, gloves, liners, sweat shirts... :oops:

Garron wrote: I should really be looking at getting the East German Winter FDU... designed to handle the cold Eastern conditions.

Gaz
I´ll keep an eye on it for you.
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Re: It´s real winter over here

Post by housil » Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:41 pm

Big Galloot wrote:I'm thinking this would be a bad time to talk about sleeping out on the beach last night.
Why :?:
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