h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We had our first frost of the winter this morning. There was quite heavy frost on the cars, but nothing on the ground, so nothing to stop the girls cycling to school.

It was minus friggin' eight when we set out this morning!

You lucky thing! We've been having heavy frosts here for a few weeks now! Often hanging about until quite late in the day, in shaltered parts anyhow No snow yet thankfully

Same here - it's often been so heavy that it looks like snow, and once or twice it hasn't melted all day.

Yeah, us too. The nights I started talking about stars and whether it was a planet or not were two very badly frosty nights - with a frosty day in between because a lot of places didn't lose their frost. I had to go out in the motorhome one day (after scraping frost off the inside of the windscreen as well as the outside) - by the next day the road was still icy, the pavement was treacherous (there are perils to south facing gardens - it means the front of the house is bitter, bitter, bitter) and I refused to leave the house.

We've had a few really frosty nights (and mornings) too. Nothing as cold as minus eight though!

Lucky for some I'm on my second bottle of de-icer already.

Minus 8 is luxery I was deforsting the car in -11 yesterday morning

Yesterday was obviously just a one-off. We had no frost this morning. So that's a tally of 1 (one) frosty morning so far this winter.

Lil that was in celcius not farenheit.

But still mighty cold

Gnomon, yesterday I had forst on the car again at 4pm. Forget waiting for the next morning.

We had a second morning of frost yesterday, but none today. That's 2 so far this winter.

Come on, give us some good news. When does the evening start stretching again?

Saturday.

It's foggy here. I'ts almost never foggy.

That will be after Saturday

The evenings started getting longer again on the 12th of December.

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Yes, thanks for redirecting me there. That was a good conversation. The Entry on Wandering Noon was not quite so succinct as Woodpigeon's exegesis (post 20).

And Venus was beautifully placed in the sky this morning too. I imagine all the folk in Newgrange were happy too, with the bright morning we had.

The weather today down in Cork is blissfully balmy. Hard to believe that we have hit the mid-winter mark.

Bloody freezing in the Midlands, and my commute takes me across a lot of freshly laid tarmac at roadworks, most of it like glass this morning.

Zube