It ain't arf cold, Mum!

I have commented in a couple of recent posts about the lack of warmth overnight.  The past evening was the coldest yet.  I do not make this call based upon the official records but upon the fact that our water pipes froze lat night for the first time this year.  They also took 4 kettles of hot water to get them thawed.  (After 2 kettles on the pump inlet failed I went and gave the outlet at the tank a serve also!)

We have a thermometer on the verandah which reads 'warm' by about 5 degrees (due to the shelter and - presumably - some radation from the house) but gives a fair relative measure.  That was as low as I have seen it this year, and took a long while to show any increase in temperature,

Once the sun did rise things were generally quite attractive, so I went and took a few snaps of ice crystals on foliage.





The next day (30 July) started equally cold, and again our pipes were frozen.  Later in the day I spoke with a near neighbour who had recorded -10, rather than the wimpy -6.5 at the airport: he said it was only the second time in 10 years that his pipes had frozen.  The Creek had ice on it, as did the Joycea stalks beside it.

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Denis Wilson said…
I heard that Canberra got a -8*C. Never sure of those radio reports are accurate or wishful thinking. But your ice crystals are convincing.
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My winter flowers are now in full bloom. I put up some "pretties" to relieve the heaviness of yesterday's post.
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Cheers
Denis
29 July 2011 at 22:34:00 GMT+10
Flabmeister said…
Denis

-8 was what the ABC TV weather person said last night. I think that must have been about dawn as the on-line mininmum to about 6:30 was not quite that chilly.

Today (30/7) is just about as cold and I am waiting for the sun to rise so that I cn go a do another defrost!

Martin
30 July 2011 at 06:19:00 GMT+10
Denis Wilson said…
My old house (1936 vintage) in Reid had external pipes, which regularly froze.
Needed a total re-plumbing job, with pipes moved inside, and also "lagged".
But even that would be challenged by -8.
Those are heroic numbers in my book.
Cheers
Denis
30 July 2011 at 09:46:00 GMT+10
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