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Hi paulh - we are hearing a lot about the freezing weather in your parts. Are you all right?

TC, I hope you don't mind me "dropping in" ? As I ask the same question
once answered, I will un-sub your thread with Paul

Yes, the cold here is beastly. It was about 18 below zero Centigrade a few nights ago. Tonight it will only be 10 below zero. In Fahrenheit terms, it will be about 6 degrees. That doesn't convey how bitter the cold is, though I would never complain to a Midwesterner, who would talk about far colder winter temps.

This is January. I wear two shirts, a jacket, and a trench coat, along with two pairs of gloves, two hats, and a scarf.

Every day is two minutes longer than the one before. That means that since December 21st, the sun has risen 17 minutes earlier and set 17 minutes later. In time this will add up.

This afternoon I went to the movies to see "Walk With Dinosaurs." It was nice to see summer landscape, but later on there were scenes about dinopsaurs walking across ice and falling into a frozen lake.

You're quite welcome to stay, Prof. Thanks for the update, Paulh - I remember last year you had a lot of trouble, especially getting around to see your family. Hope they're OK, too.

Our temperatures are yoyoing but haven't seriously got below freezing yet. We are in a blessed corner of Europe on the Lower Rhine, and usually have 5 degrees C higher than even the local weather forecast predicts. Since Christmas, we have had one or two days of intense winter sunshine with beautiful sunrises and sunsets, which raises the spirits!

Thank you TCit's appreciated, as I don't like to "muscle" in on what could be a one to one conversation thread.

Britain is suffering storms/rain exceptional high tides from the west coast top to bottommuch flooding in the country. But! similar to you TC, here in my part of Yorkshire, we are in what it called "The Vale of York" a land depression and 90% of bad weather from west or east passes over us and we only get the tailenders of storms etc.

wear and take whatever steps are needed Paul, to keep warm and safe my friend

Please stay, Prof. Winter is a very isolating season. People huddle in their houses and wonder how others are doing. I make a point of doing out every day, but I can choose to venture forth during the warmest time of day. If I were still working, I'd have to travel when the boss wants me to.

of course I'll stay, I'm in good company you and TC
back in a sec

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-25598140

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-rain-fall-sodden-ground-today.html

some pictures of before and after mass tidal waves hit our west coast from top to down south

second link not working soz!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2534511/UK-weather-50ft-waves-hit-coast-1-6inches-rain-fall-sodden-ground-today.html

now it does ??

Yes, that link works.

It's interesting to see the Britain has had to import crazy American storm-followers. Don't you have enough crazies of your own?

we are world renown for being an island of eccentrics

of course, I'm the best

Maybe you should invite the Americans to stay, then. The more eccentrics you have, the better.

I wanna leave the bloody countryall standards are no longer existent manners/respect are just the main 2

There's room for you in the U.S., but the health service that you take for granted in the U.K. is wildly uneven here. If you have any special health needs, you're better off where you are. Unless you'd like to try Canada. I hope your French is in good shape.

nope to Canada and I'd only want to rename Americato New Yorkshire
I want somewhere off the beaten track as suchsay! The Azores

Don't they speak Portuguese in the the Azores?

not sure ? BUT! They'd soon change to Yorkshire lingo in a short time

Portuguese is the official language in the Azores. However, English is spoken in the Bahamas.