Bit of a milestone, this is the coldest I've ever experienced.


This morning in Basel-Landschaft

Thank you The Local Castro for this informative weather update. I wouldn't have noticed the cold front otherwise.

It is cold here too. We have 3 degrees now and it was 1 when we woke up! Winter arrived this week.

Oooooh, sunshine to go with the cold! I wish I'd been less lazy yesterday and got some laundry done instead of being "stuck" inside doing it on such a beautiful day!!

Reminds me of living on the outskirts of Chicago, always the coldest days were very bright n sunshiny with snow on the ground.

It's freezing!!! But at least the sun shines today. A friend is visiting me for the weekend as part of a trip to Europe - she comes from California, but she is originally Canadian, so I told her...CANADIAN CLOTHES!

It must be cold - I normally just wear a t-shirt in the house, and when I go out walking the dog, just put a jacket on over it. I'm almost at the point where I have to dig through the wardrobes to see if I possess such a thing as a jumper; and I'm having to wear gloves, too.

It's a winter wonderland, and yes crisp and cold. I'll have that sort of cold any day, 15C sunny, dry and crisp, is a million times better than -2 grey and damp.

Local record at La Brévince, little Siberia quite near to us, is -41.8 in 1987.

Come, come Odile. Your thermometer must be suffering from heat-stroke or something. . Either that or it is much warmer up your end of the country than it is around here. '15C sunny, dry and crisp' indeed?

Driving down into Lausanne today there was a fog over the lake and you couldn't see France on the other side. All I could see was blue water extending into the distance. For a moment I imagined I was driving down towards Bronte Beach.

Then I looked at the temp gauge at it said -12. Quite a shock for a Sydney girl.

A bit like smoke on the water, then.

Well.. at that fuel consumption rate you're doing your bit to warm things up

That tends to happen when it gets below 0 degrees C.

*ducking*

Seriously though... it is uncomfortably cold. Even my dogs are like, "wtf!"

You must be thinking Imperial, indeed 5mpg would be pretty tragic but my read out is 5.5l / 100km, which in stop/start traffic is very good

My car can achieve 4.0l / 100km (60mpg) which puts it up there with the Prius and walking.

4.0/100? Pfft. I recently read somewhere that cycling at 18mph on the flat is the equivalent of 160mpg.

Caveat: the list of caveats and assumptions are huge.

Bah, all you Eurotrash green folks are pathetic! Anything under 15l/ 100km is considered a hybrid in my book.

Its the wind that really bites... especially as its blowing all the ice/snow off the houses, trees... oh and my hat straight off my head into a big pile of snow

Obviously you didn't grow up in an area where -25 or -30 was a normal winter
douchebags

I concur.

A little wind and humidity just takes things to another level. The wind started during the night, this morning it was almost unbearable.

I remember growing up in Siberia we never worried about temperatures that were lower than -30, since that tended to be a dry and static cold. The danger zone is when you're in the 0 to -20 zone with wind chill.

-13 brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr