The Weather Thread.

[Mike Oxlong]

Yup. Nobody was expecting the start of a new Okinawan ski resort industry. Or even island-wide snow. Or even snow on the ground. But the first snow ever recorded was indeed recorded.


~ Tapatalking ~

There better be some change in the next omoiyari handout for sprinklers and heated roads.

[Wage Slave]

Nothing but sunshine here and a bit cold. The fact kerosene is only 46 Yen a litre means no significant discomfort even with poor insulation and primitive heaters.

[Russell]

Yup. Nobody was expecting the start of a new Okinawan ski resort industry. Or even island-wide snow. Or even snow on the ground. But the first snow ever recorded was indeed recorded.


~ Tapatalking ~

There better be some change in the next omoiyari handout for sprinklers and heated roads.

You never know with that climate change business.

It could be the beginning of a new trend...

[Coligny]

Nothing but sunshine here and a bit cold. The fact kerosene is only 46 Yen a litre means no significant discomfort even with poor insulation and primitive heaters.

REALLY ?

We are at 63/l here
And 86/l for diesel

[Yokohammer]

Kerosene is currently about 53 yen per liter here. 36 liters for less than 2000 yen is about as cheap as I've seen it.


~ Tapatalking ~

[Wage Slave]

Dropping like a stone round here. It was 46 Yen a litre on Sunday when I refilled at Solato. And was 49 the time before. Come to think of it we are quite close to a the major refinery but so is Mr C really. Yokkaichi.

[kurogane]

We got some graupel (some are claiming snow grains), but no snow in the proper sense. But when it gets down to a frigid six degress Centigrade the locals need something to celebrate. Mister Miyagi wants to believe..

Well, further south we got no snow and not even much rain but my Inner Arnold was freezing. I can't imagine what the locals were thinking. 8 degrees is pretty chilly around here and that wind was both fierce and chilly. But it will be 25 again in a few days

[Wage Slave]

25 eh? I wish. It will take another month and a half to achieve that here. Meanwhile it may have actually dropped a degree or two below zero last night and feels like it will do so again tonight. Not really hardship but as a Norwegian who lives inside the arctic circle tracking satellites said in response to me commenting on his being used to the cold - "I'm not used to it being cold inside."

Uncivilized really. The concrete slab built schools have pretty much no heating and everyone just suffers in silence on days like today.

[Mike Oxlong]

We got some graupel (some are claiming snow grains), but no snow in the proper sense. But when it gets down to a frigid six degress Centigrade the locals need something to celebrate. Mister Miyagi wants to believe..

Well, further south we got no snow and not even much rain but my Inner Arnold was freezing. I can't imagine what the locals were thinking. 8 degrees is pretty chilly around here and that wind was both fierce and chilly. But it will be 25 again in a few days

Yeah, the Okinawa Times published a photo today showing a bit of the snow grains resting momentarily on a tree before blowing away and melting. Looked more like plum blossoms to me, which are actually in bloom here as we type. Oku Village in the northernmost part of the island dropped to three point something or other. Second coldest temp recorded on Okinawa. Windchill definitely made it feel like it was close to zero last night. El Niño is one wild child, or ウーマクー in the local tongue.

[Takechanpoo]

here in northern Tama area, tokyo, in this morning my faucet didnt come out water because of the water pipes frozen. its a first experience since my childhood as long as i remember dimly. these days kotatsu is my desk!

[Grumpy Gramps]

Last night, we had the promised (for Nagoya) <2cm of snow, so I took my fur-noses for a longer walk than usual. But by now, most of the good stuff has vanished already. Bloody climate change

[Mike Oxlong]

Hit 19 in the northern part of the prefecture mid-afternoon, and it has hardly cooled down since then. Actually sunburned a bit taking tea by the sea. It's colder at night in summer on the high plains.

[Mike Oxlong]

22 degrees at 1 a.m. here on Okinawa Honto. Hot hot hot...

[Yokohammer]

Kerosene now down to 49 yen per liter up here.

Paid 1,764 yen for 36 liters this morning.
A year ago it was 2,700 yen for 36 liters.

[Coligny]

Fuck you guys, 62y/l this morning....

[Mike Oxlong]

Are you crazy? Who in the hell needs heating oil in 25 degree humid weather?

[Wage Slave]

Fuck you guys, 62y/l this morning....

It's gone up! 47 y/l this morning at Solato. Maybe you are going to a station with hot and cold running and cute attendants? 47y/l is very much self service.

[Takechanpoo]

the combination of kotatsu and air-con is firmly enough to get through j-winter except for the ones of tohoku and hokkaido region.
or northern european type of cold assimilation, fatter and bigger body, is not so tough against the cold? eh?

[Yokohammer]

Are you crazy? Who in the hell needs heating oil in 25 degree humid weather?

Braggart!


~ Tapatalking ~

[Yokohammer]

the combination of kotatsu and air-con is firmly enough to get through j-winter except for the ones of tohoku and hokkaido region.

That can work up here in Tohoku if you have a well insulated house with double windows, etc. But kerosene usually ends up being cheaper. Air conditioning is getting more efficient every year though, so maybe the costs will even out.


~ Tapatalking ~

[Coligny]

the combination of kotatsu and air-con is firmly enough to get through j-winter except for the ones of tohoku and hokkaido region.
or northern european type of cold assimilation, fatter and bigger body, is not so tough against the cold? eh?

Go fuck yourself stillbirth leftover.
Try the zoo maybe you'll be able to pork a monkey with matching DNA.

[Wage Slave]

the combination of kotatsu and air-con is firmly enough to get through j-winter except for the ones of tohoku and hokkaido region.
or northern european type of cold assimilation, fatter and bigger body, is not so tough against the cold? eh?

Although it's true we have colder and longer winters in Northern Europe we are just not used to it being cold inside buildings even when it is very cold outside. All very hard to imagine I know but there it is. Believe it or not, in the UK, if you allow the temperature in a school or workplace to fall below 16 degrees you have to send everyone home by law. I expect other European countries have similar regulations. Weird eh? Buildings that are properly insulated and heating systems that are powerful and economical enough to heat the entire premises. Near enough unheard of here.

[Russell]

the combination of kotatsu and air-con is firmly enough to get through j-winter except for the ones of tohoku and hokkaido region.
or northern european type of cold assimilation, fatter and bigger body, is not so tough against the cold? eh?

Go fuck yourself stillbirth leftover.
Try the zoo maybe you'll be able to pork a monkey with matching DNA.

Ahummm...

[wagyl]

Believe it or not, in the UK, if you allow the temperature in a school or workplace to fall below 16 degrees you have to send everyone home by law.

Turfing infants out on to the icy, wind-swept streets to struggle, alone, back to an empty house. I hope they have a key and can reach the lock.

Won't somebody think of the children!?!

[Wage Slave]

Believe it or not, in the UK, if you allow the temperature in a school or workplace to fall below 16 degrees you have to send everyone home by law.

Turfing infants out on to the icy, wind-swept streets to struggle, alone, back to an empty house. I hope they have a key and can reach the lock.

Won't somebody think of the children!?!

Annoyingly strict about that actually. Children have to be collected by a registered adult at the school gate, strapped into the back seat of a 4x4 and driven home. And that is one way Japan scores massively over the UK.

[legion]

here in northern Tama area, tokyo, in this morning my faucet didnt come out water because of the water pipes frozen. its a first experience since my childhood as long as i remember dimly. these days kotatsu is my desk!

hope your pipes don't burst

you find out when they thaw

[Grumpy Gramps]

in the UK, if you allow the temperature in a school or workplace to fall below 16 degrees you have to send everyone home by law.

Where I am from - in my school days though - we got heat holidays, when the temp went over 32 or 33°C in summer. Aircon was unheard of

Cold, though, was never a problem, as many city houses and surely the schools already had central heating back in the day. I remember well "helping" my granddad shoveling coal in winter feeling very important as a kindergarten-kiddie

[kurogane]

Children have to be collected by a registered adult at the school gate, strapped into the back seat of a 4x4 and driven home.

I never tired of smiling at the urban 4x4 s in the UK. At least in North America lots of places actually get snow.

[Coligny]

Children have to be collected by a registered adult at the school gate, strapped into the back seat of a 4x4 and driven home.

I never tired of smiling at the urban 4x4 s in the UK. At least in North America lots of places actually get snow.

First French civilian 4wd: Renault Koleos based on the Nissan XTrail : 2008
(The Renault Scenic and Kangoo Rx4 gets confused as soon as the mud is too wet, so mountain side shitholes are the land of the original Fiat Panda 4x4, the few weeks where Chrysler/Jeep belonged to Renault do not count)
First-ish English 4wd: Land Rover Series launched in 1948

So either the Britts have an extremly advanced sense of automotive fashion trends.
Or they really have biblical weather and road issues few times of the year.

[kurogane]

Wasn't the Land Rover designed as a military vehicle then crossed over? In The Colonies, parts of Scotland and on proper wild estates in England and Wales, sure, fair enough. I have walked along UK estate car tracks that would break anything less, and found them hard enough just to ramble along on foot. We're talking about a 2% vehicle adopted by poseurs and in most of green and pleasant England land they're window dressing for silly people. I don't know about France, but I have been keeping it real since 1996 and it would break my boycott to do so so I'll demure