The Lemonfool my pic of the day thread

[Itsallaguess]

Early-morning powder....

https://i.redd.it/0536s6durtg01.jpg

Left-click to enlarge the photo...

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

[swill453]

In Norway, apparently. Originally called "skiing into morning light".

Scott.

[Itsallaguess]

Henningsvær Football Stadion, Norway -

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-he6yXW0AEq1ct.jpg

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@68.15169 ... a=!3m1!1e3

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

[AleisterCrowley]

Did you make it into work then ?!
My meetings were converted to Lync sessions, which is nice. Still in my dressing gown.

[AleisterCrowley]

Bit of a light covering of snow here, but worse expected tomorrow so I'm heading to Sainsbury's for emergency stocks later!

[JMN2]

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Although the car says minus 2 and the wind chill is supposed to be -10, it doesn't actually feel all that cold.

If the air is very dry it doesn't feel cold. I walked to the shop at 10am and it was -4 and really felt like -12. I am in a bottom of a small valley which has its own micro-climate, always 2 degrees cooler and frost when there is none 20m higher on top of a steep short hill.

[UncleEbenezer]

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Although the car says minus 2 and the wind chill is supposed to be -10, it doesn't actually feel all that cold.

If the air is very dry it doesn't feel cold. I walked to the shop at 10am and it was -4 and really felt like -12. I am in a bottom of a small valley which has its own micro-climate, always 2 degrees cooler and frost when there is none 20m higher on top of a steep short hill.

Being dry helps: humidity makes both heat and cold feel much worse.

But I think that's mostly just an instance of a wider phenomenon: as warm-blooded animals we can regulate our body temperature. In favourable circumstances, we should feel reasonably comfortable in a wide range of temperatures, including the full range of what we experience here in Blighty.

Dryness contributes to those favourable circumstances, but is by no means the biggest factor. If you live in a typical UK house, you've probably experienced occasions when you feel cold indoors despite the temperature being pretty warm. Then you open the window, let in much colder air, but actually stop feeling cold because the fresh air helps circulation that was being partially shut down by stuffiness.

As for "wind chill", that's a load of ******. My one-time colleague who had previously worked some years in Antarctica was particularly scathing about it.

[edit] Damn, mistook this for the "beast from the east" thread!

[JMN2]

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As for "wind chill", that's a load of ******. My one-time colleague who had previously worked some years in Antarctica was particularly scathing about it.

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I did my national service on a fort (The Rock we used to call it) at Baltic Sea and the wind chill factor was very real, no doubt about that....

[Clitheroekid]

Some good pics of the ice formations round Lake Geneva - https://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevois ... y/26281453

[bungeejumper]

I did my national service on a fort (The Rock we used to call it) at Baltic Sea and the wind chill factor was very real, no doubt about that....

Having spent a couple of abnormally cold winters in Berlin, where the January winds would come straight across from the Russian steppes at 50 mph, sometimes for a week or more, I'd have to agree with JMN2 that wind chill factors are not to be so lightly dismissed. As Napoleon's troops discovered when their rifles fell to bits. (Because the tin components turned into a powder allotrope in the cold - or at least, that's what my physics teacher told us.)

Anyway, back to the point. With the air temperature down to minus 20C and the wind chill taking it down to a probable minus 35C along any broad road that pointed due east, you couldn't walk a mile to the shops without needing to shelter at least once in a building for warmth. The cold would rip your face off if you weren't wearing heavy mufflers and headgear. Dammit, even the vegetarians in Berlin wore fur! (There was a ready supply of scruffy antique coats in the junk shops.) And how we envied the rich ones who could afford fur boots.....

That was, admittedly, a very cold spell even by the standards of the Polish border territories, but I found out to my cost that if you tried walking without wind protection you could develop deep, bleeding cracks around the sides of your nose where the skin had simply split. And even with full protection, you could feel the heatspots on your head where the cold was quite literally sucking all the energy out of your body through your face. "Freezer burns" were a reality, especially around the ears.

Antarctica? No thanks. I think somebody might have been having his leg pulled there. Either that, or his friend was Chuck Norris in person.

BJ

[swill453]

I'd have to agree with JMN2 that wind chill factors are not to so be lightly dismissed. As Napoleon's troops discovered when their rifles fell to bits. (Because the tin components turned into a powder allotrope in the cold - or at least, that's what my physics teacher told us.)

That's not a good example, as that's something that won't be affected by wind chill, which is to do with removing heat from a heat source like the human body.

Scott.

[Itsallaguess]

Now that's cold....

https://i.redd.it/i8azvvl7qai01.jpg

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

[bungeejumper]

I'd have to agree with JMN2 that wind chill factors are not to so be lightly dismissed. As Napoleon's troops discovered when their rifles fell to bits. (Because the tin components turned into a powder allotrope in the cold - or at least, that's what my physics teacher told us.)

That's not a good example, as that's something that won't be affected by wind chill, which is to do with removing heat from a heat source like the human body.

LOL, there's always one. Well played, fair point. Have a rec.

BJ

[bungeejumper]

A propos tin pest (thanks for the query Scott), howzabout this for a vid of the day?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUoVEmHuykM

BJ

[redsturgeon]

My Friday dog walk

[sg31]

Either you have a white dog or you forgot to take him with you.

Nice photo.

[redsturgeon]

Either you have a white dog or you forgot to take him with you.

Nice photo.

The dog is indeed white and is in the photo...it is wearing a dark coat and has brown ears.

John

[jfgw]

The dog is indeed white and is in the photo...it is wearing a dark coat and has brown ears.

Maybe this should be on Riddles and Brain Teasers.

Is it just to the left of the bridge, level in the picture with the top of the wooden railings that turn to the left, just above the stem of a plant sticking up and roughly the same distance from the top left corner of the railings and the people?

Julian F. G. W.

[redsturgeon]

The dog is indeed white and is in the photo...it is wearing a dark coat and has brown ears.

Maybe this should be on Riddles and Brain Teasers.

Is it just to the left of the bridge, level in the picture with the top of the wooden railings that turn to the left, just above the stem of a plant sticking up and roughly the same distance from the top left corner of the railings and the people?

Julian F. G. W.

Yes she is! Well done!

My next photo is a black cat in a coal cellar!

John

[AleisterCrowley]

St Cross?