The official 2024/2025 snowmageddon disappointment thread

[Bob_Defly]

BBQ weather here. (Ontario)

[geeks]

Bob_Defly said:

BBQ weather here. (Ontario)

sigh!

[jimmyjimjim]

It hit 22c earlier this week in Colorado, so it should come as no surprise that we have snow forecast from later today until Friday, and temps down to -20c.

[Puggit]

Do I'm sat in a park on a conference call. It's 7 degrees and blue sky. Warm, lovely sun.

Everyone is in thick coats and woolly hats. I'm in a thin jumper with sleeves rolled up.

(Madrid)

Edited by Puggit on Tuesday 11th February 09:31

[BossHogg]

It's 4 degrees and Baltic in west Cumbria, I'm sat in my living room dressed like Nanuk of the north, I have gas engineers in replacing my gas supply as it was condemned last week during an annual inspection, I've got no hot water, cooking facilities or central heating. I'm huddled around an oil filled radiator trying to stave off hypothermia!

[fttm]

Saskatchewan -37C tomorrow night , not including wind chill . Humbug

[jimmyjimjim]

-12.5c and snowing, not counting wind chill. Quite a pleasant walk along the river side.

Fortunately just a dusting of snow for the morning commute, but it's meant to pick up heavily for the afternoon.

[Rayny]

BossHogg said:

It's 4 degrees and Baltic in west Cumbria, I'm sat in my living room dressed like Nanuk of the north, I have gas engineers in replacing my gas supply as it was condemned last week during an annual inspection, I've got no hot water, cooking facilities or central heating. I'm huddled around an oil filled radiator trying to stave off hypothermia!

I can sympathise with you - I was in a similar position following a gas leak one Sunday back in February 1985 - On the Monday I had to take a couple of hours off work to visit the gas showroom in our local town so that I could arrange credit for the purchase, delivery, and installation of the cheapest gas cooker available.
Hope all goes well for you.

[BossHogg]

Rayny said:

I can sympathise with you - I was in a similar position following a gas leak one Sunday back in February 1985 - On the Monday I had to take a couple of hours off work to visit the gas showroom in our local town so that I could arrange credit for the purchase, delivery, and installation of the cheapest gas cooker available.
Hope all goes well for you.

They've managed to get the pipes fitted to the gas fire/back boiler, and round the side of the house and into the kitchen. They're coming back tomorrow to connect it all up and service the system before turning everything back on. They wanted to rip up all the carpets and floorboards for the new supply, told them no chance, gas meter is outside, run pipes round outside of house to cause minimum disruption and damage inside house.

[Timothy Bucktu]

BossHogg said:

It's 4 degrees and Baltic in west Cumbria, I'm sat in my living room dressed like Nanuk of the north, I have gas engineers in replacing my gas supply as it was condemned last week during an annual inspection, I've got no hot water, cooking facilities or central heating. I'm huddled around an oil filled radiator trying to stave off hypothermia!

This is the problem with modern boilers. They're a single point of failure. With older systems like mine you can just switch on the Immersion heater to continue getting hot water. Cooking can be done on a camping stove (always keep spare gas) and heating from portable heaters.
But it's the lack of hot water redundancy that's the real issue for me.

[Mont Blanc]

Timothy Bucktu said:

BossHogg said:

It's 4 degrees and Baltic in west Cumbria, I'm sat in my living room dressed like Nanuk of the north, I have gas engineers in replacing my gas supply as it was condemned last week during an annual inspection, I've got no hot water, cooking facilities or central heating. I'm huddled around an oil filled radiator trying to stave off hypothermia!

This is the problem with modern boilers. They're a single point of failure. With older systems like mine you can just switch on the Immersion heater to continue getting hot water. Cooking can be done on a camping stove (always keep spare gas) and heating from portable heaters.
But it's the lack of hot water redundancy that's the real issue for me.

Lack of hot water redundancy isn't a modern boiler issue. It's a 'Combi boiler' issue. My heating install is less than 3 years old and it's a system boiler with insulated hot water cylinder, and therefore an immersion heater (if needed). My parents replaced their entire heating system 5 years ago and also went for a system/cylinder arrangement.

Combi boilers aren't a modern invention, and have been around since the 60's, and well used in many other countries since then, but due to our regulations about connecting a boiler directly to the water supply, they didn't start to become widely available to consumers until the mid 80's.

In the late 90's, it became a frenzy of people binning their system boilers and cylinders, and buying Combi boilers, attracted by the opportunity to rip out their large space-consuming and inefficient cylinders, get rid of a load of pipework, and even relocate their new Combi boiler somewhere else in the house where it wouldn't be visible. There were also promises of energy efficiency gains over their old system.

These days, many people are no longer opting for a Combi, and are choosing a system boiler with insulated cylinder. The new cylinders are so efficient that they lose only about £20-30 a year in heat, and you have to bear in mind that the leaked heat is entering your home anyway and contributing to the heating. Other advantages are as you say, having an immersion heater, plus having a lot more available hot water for baths and showers rather than the limited flow that some Combi's can supply.

IMO Combi's are only suitable for small properties where space does not allow you to install a suitable insulated cylinder. But thats just my opinion.

Anyway, I shall end my thread derail there

[BossHogg]

We don't have an immersion heater, the tank is for hot water storage only, we have a back boiler, heated by the central heating, the housing association keep pushing a combi on us, but we refuse while the system is working, the only thing wrong was the supply, which is now nearly finished getting replaced.

[ChocolateFrog]

The weather we've had this week has to be the worst weather possible this side of extreme weather.

RAL 7016 and freezing drizzle.

The UKs offer to immigrants must be bloody amazing because why would pick this.

[UTH]

ChocolateFrog said:

The weather we've had this week has to be the worst weather possible this side of extreme weather.

RAL 7016 and freezing drizzle.

The UKs offer to immigrants must be bloody amazing because why would pick this.

Yup, this is such a crappy time of year. It feels like we SHOULD be on the cusp of it all getting much nicer, yet at the same time it feels like this will drag on forever.

[adccl8z]

Energy companies must be loving this for their profits. We used 50% more gas (heating and hw) in Jan than Dec.
Really miss a bit of sunshine to warm up the south facing side of the house. What a difference that makes. To one's general mood as well. TUI website was timing out last night when I was browsing

[Mont Blanc]

UTH said:

Yup, this is such a crappy time of year. It feels like we SHOULD be on the cusp of it all getting much nicer, yet at the same time it feels like this will drag on forever.

It is dreadful. Worst time of the year. An awful time where you are simply wasting time hanging around waiting for summer to begin whilst being annoyed by the grey and drizzle.

At least in October/November/December there are plenty of things happening to distract everyone from the dark nights. Halloween, Fireworks, the run up to Christmas, Christmas shopping, Christmas lights everywhere, people in a good mood, the Christmas break, New Year etc etc.

But now? Nothing.

[UTH]

Mont Blanc said:

UTH said:

Yup, this is such a crappy time of year. It feels like we SHOULD be on the cusp of it all getting much nicer, yet at the same time it feels like this will drag on forever.

It is dreadful. Worst time of the year. An awful time where you are simply wasting time hanging around waiting for summer to begin whilst being annoyed by the grey and drizzle.

At least in October/November/December there are plenty of things happening to distract everyone from the dark nights. Halloween, Fireworks, the run up to Christmas, Christmas shopping, Christmas lights everywhere, people in a good mood, the Christmas break, New Year etc etc.

But now? Nothing.

Yep, the pre-Jan months are some of the most fun times of the whole year, then immediately dropping into the two most tedious months, guaranteed.
Not sure I've ever looked back on Jan and Feb and thought "gosh I had fun then!"

[jimmyjimjim]

Was looking forward to a day WFH, but it only put down about 20mm. So I had to come in. On the plus side, didn't see anyone else on my riverside walk (-17c)

[popeyewhite]

Mont Blanc said:

It is dreadful. Worst time of the year. An awful time where you are simply wasting time hanging around waiting for summer to begin whilst being annoyed by the grey and drizzle.

You may have forgotten but last summer was grey and drizzle. Not summer at all. At least this is what you'd call winter, it's hardly been above 4c since Christmas here.

[UTH]

popeyewhite said:

Mont Blanc said:

It is dreadful. Worst time of the year. An awful time where you are simply wasting time hanging around waiting for summer to begin whilst being annoyed by the grey and drizzle.

You may have forgotten but last summer was grey and drizzle. Not summer at all. At least this is what you'd call winter, it's hardly been above 4c since Christmas here.

All I remember of last year is nearly screaming at the fact heating was required in June. But of course it's all out of our control, but of course I will be talking about the weather probably every day until October.