ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade Non-US Electrical Systems & Trades Freakin' cold!

We had 115 degrees F in Phoenix last July! The construction trades must have it rough in that weather (speaking from a cushy cubicle farm in an air conditioned office building) :-)

Today the srong winds picked up again and it was snowing madly, only getting the ground horribly wet. Ugly! But nice to watch from inside, as long as you don't look at the ground.

The problem is not the Winter, but the city and the dark. I'm in an office which has windows, but all of them look to walls, which are 4 stories high, so absolutely no sun comes in here.

That doesn't seem to help my bad mood. :~/

However I'm looking for a new job, and I hope my next place will be some more light.

I hate artificial light.

I feel sorry for you Gloria. I can understand that you want to work somewhere else.
Are you allowed to grow some plants at work?


Nothing beats sun and a blue sky.
Auckland 26°C and 46% RH.

The last few days have been cold (-5 to -3 C) but sunny and nice. Today temperatures went up to +4 and it was snowing madly in the morning. Then it turned to rain. Now it's raining. On Friday it's supposed to get cold again. I'd love to have some real snow again, like we had between Christmas and new year's eve. I even think it's fun to watch all car drivers go crazy at the first few flakes of snow... 2 or 3 years ago a parking car had to be towed because it stuck out into the road so badly it blocked the tram tracks... or at least I feared so, sitting in a tram anxious to be late... fire brigade arrived within less than 5 minutes, 4 guys got out and pushed the car aside, just using elbow grease...

Or when the tracks freeze up or get blocked by snow and trams go to weird destinations because the tracks won't switch any more...

I see on the BBC International forecast this morning that some parts of Russia are having temperatures of -26C.
I've only felt cold like that once in my life and I thought I was going to die.

Want to hear about cold... right now the town I live in has officialy shut down for the morning (we will know about the afternoon around 12 noon or so). We are dead smack in the middle of a blizzard. We are getting 10 to 15 cm of snow and the winds are gusting to 80 km/h.

Take a look at http://www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/city/pages/nu-21_metric_e.html

The other day it was -35 degrees celsius and -57 with the wind chill. My inspection jurisdiction is the Baffin Island and the high arctic regions of the Canadain Territory of Nunavut.

Welcome aboard Rick!


And I thought Nebraska was cold in January!

We had some frost here in East Anglia before Christmas, but nothing since. It's been typical British weather here since the New Year -- Cold, wet and miserable some days and then sunny and relatively mild on others (even hit 50 in some parts!).

Today it's been fairly sunny, but the night was below freezing, resulting in a thin ice cover on every horizontal surface - nice and slippery.

THis past weekend, we had some rain on saturday, which then turned into ice. The day & night was below 0 C.

There were deposits of ice on the ground.

This has been a weird winter so far.