What's the temperature where you are???

[5Australorpasaures]

55F at 9:30PM, !.5 " of rain and still coming down. Hooked the pup up to go out, got to the threshold, put the brakes on, looked at me as if to say "no way, Scooter"!

 

[Nomadicus]

52° and partly cloudy

 

[BDutch]

Temperatures in Celsius - Yesterday was 16°C and sunny. Expected a few more days with really nice weather in the Netherlands:

 

[Ponypoor]

Temperatures in Celsius - Yesterday was 16°C and sunny. Expected a few more days with really nice weather in the Netherlands:View attachment 4065590

I can only dream of such lovely weather! Still winter here

 

[Ponypoor]

01:20hrs.
South central Ontario Canada

+2C was very foggy earlier when I did chores.

2 more new weather alerts out, wintwr just keeps on hitting this year.

Ugh……

 

[Nym]

Wednesday 610p 66 higher than forecast
windy and chilly forecast 39 in the morning

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Your Saturday is looking very nice!

 

[Nomadicus]

43° and clear. It may still drop below 40° as forecast.

 

[Pasha838]

I need to chop up that ice dam on the roof first, I think the gutter I have there is fine, it’s just pulled free of the house.

The ice is my big worry. I have an idea - if I drill holes in a line I think I can fracture the ice along the line and get the ice down. They do this in quarries to cut rock.

I will give it a try, hopefully ot works.

As an option, you can try something like this with a hammer and a crowbar. First, hammer until cracks appear, and then use the crowbar to push it all apart and throw it down.

The main thing here is to be careful not to damage the roof itself or make a hole in it.

 

[Ponypoor]

As an option, you can try something like this with a hammer and a crowbar. First, hammer until cracks appear, and then use the crowbar to push it all apart and throw it down.

The main thing here is to be careful not to damage the roof itself or make a hole in it.

Yes very important not to do that! I am too old to be fixing roofs!

We had a warm spell and rain yesterday and it melted lots of it - yay!

I was thinking of drilling a line of holes in the ice then giving it a good whack with the hatchet. I tried the hammer and chisel and it didn’t work. Too thick. But if I put holes like they do in a gravel quarry to blast out the rock, I should be able to break it along the line of holes.

Worth a try…

 

[Pasha838]

That is usually how they install the wood stoves here also, and many use
Wood stoves in their workshops, There is an abundance of wood here for stoves. Almost everyone have a woodstove or fireplace in their homes also. Gets really chilly in the winter, and it helps with the cost of heating one’s home. Or workshop, shed or barn.

Yes the coldest part of the day is early morning - it was -20c this morning but warmed up to -9C fairly quickly with the sunshine.

You should post some photos of your goats! I would love to get goats I have friends that have them for meat, they are such smart creatures.

Here, fireplaces are most often just decoration, decoration. Fireplaces are good in a distinctly humid, even damp climate, and here the air is relatively dry, but cold (winters here are cold, somewhere in Yakutia it can be -60 C). But they do not feel very cold, because the air is not humid. Therefore, stoves with long chimneys are more often used here, something like this

That is, the hot gases after burning wood go a long way in the brick array before finally going outside. It is difficult to do this with a regular open fireplace - the smoke will go into the room, and not into the chimney. Although I have a fireplace in my house, and I built it myself, spending several months - from spring to late autumn. I finished the brick chimney in a hurry, because snow was already falling on my head. A little more - and frosts would have started and I would have had to postpone it all until next year.
True, now this fireplace is not used. But it stands as a decoration, the house is heated by a gas boiler with water batteries.
Be that as it may, when there was no electricity in the village (initially there was nothing here, even the road was far from everywhere), we often sat by this fireplace, it illuminated and warmed well. The fireplace itself, not counting the chimney, took 710 bricks measuring 210x120x65 mm. Well, I also covered it from the outside with some cheap tiles, the kind I found at the nearest construction market.

I apologize for the mess in the room - it can't be cured, I always have a mess. There is a wreath on the fireplace, which is usually hung for Christmas - I simply forgot and then was too lazy to take it down.
There is a soldering iron nearby, because I was re-soldering some water pipes, and a bag of manure (!) because I am preparing the soil for greenhouse seedlings.
On the topic of the topic (I am chatting a lot off-topic, of course), the temperature here fluctuates from -5 C to +5 C. Snow falls, covering everything, then quickly melts, but then falls again. The roads are slippery and we have to drive with some caution.