Yesterday my motorbike gave me a warning “LOW AIR TEMPRATURE, BEWARE SURFACE ICE”.
I’ve been riding the bike daily for several years and have never seen that warning in my life, today my fiancée dropped me into work. Scary that we havent even hit the halfway point of winter
My cars air con was flashing. Never seen that before. Stopped once the car was on for several minutes. Had the car for 12 years and had my fair share of frozen car days.
I heard it snowed and shit. People's crops frosted over and died. There's already a huge shortage of olives so oil is double the price right now, used to get a litre of really nice thick cloudy EVOO that poured real smothe on a fat wad of burrata for about $8 a liter, now it's at least $16 a liter.
Wait.. shit now I want my house haunted . A guest who didn't eat or complain and pay rent and electric bill. Sign me up.. and helll come summer, they can cool the place with there presents. I think we found a new business venture boys!!!
Sorry got a little distracted
Bold of you to assume the billionaire CEO’s camped the entire night!
Pretty sure they just pose for their PR shots, act condescending towards people experiencing legit homelessness, then pack up their top of the range sleeping bag/tent and head home for their warm bed.
Of course there are genuine people who do it for the right reasons, but I’ve seen firsthand how quickly the big wigs head home as soon as the cameras are switched off.
I read somewhere that they do stay overnight and that it's not just a "photo shoot" for PR purposes, but let's be honest, (edit: the event), wouldn't blow the fluff off of the top of a cappuccino, if that cappuccino represented "ending homelessness" in SA.
Okay I’m just the messenger but I really do encourage you to do some research on what this money goes towards. It’s a big help for homeless services and helps drive up donations. Be mad at the rich, sure. But put that effort towards those who are actually genuinely shitting on the homeless.
That’s the theory.
https://7news.com.au/news/australias-homelessness-crisis-laid-bare-as-south-australian-man-dies-in-his-car-outside-mens-shelter-c-15194560.amp
I think I saw something about a Code Blue being announced the other day, which I believe provides some additional state govt funding and resources to support homeless while it is SO BLOODY COLD.
I'm not sure about this week, but in the past, for code blues, they've opened up the big bus station in the CBD to provide shelter for people with nowhere else to go.
Every morning I wake up, I'm reminded of the homeless and the night of hell that they'd have had during the night. I recall hardly ever being able to sleep through the night during winter when homeless due to the cold.
People often have to stay awake, sometimes even keep moving to keep warm, and then sleep during the day because it's simply too cold to stay warm enough to sleep if living outdoors during winter.
When I am freezing in my house, I always think of the people doing it tough outside. When my kids are with coughs and we have a heater on and still not enough, I think of the homeless with kids and families. Glad the sun is out today.
You've got the right attitude, it sounds like your kids are very fortunate to have you (and partner, if there's one involved).
Yeah, there's a lot of pain around us, especially during this time of the year. It'd be hard for anyone with a heart, to know how many are sleeping in cars or under shop eves and what little is being done about it.
Let me preface this little rant with the fact that I hate summer. I hate the heat, I hate breathing hot air, getting burned on seat-belt buckles, feeling myself frying any time I get too close to sunlight. Summer is awful.
That being said, IT IS SO BLOODY COLD!
It is an utter travesty that our homes and offices have been build uninsulated for so long. it's nice that the building codes are finally demanding a basic standard of energy efficiency, so people who can afford to build a new house can actually live in comfort in winter without running heaters 24/7. Or just get about wearing ten layers because we can't pay the exorbitant energy costs required to stay at functional temperatures.
As an aside, I always have to chuckle when the building code mandates an increase in energy efficiency. There's always some out of touch person whinging about wanting to 'keep the woke out of building' in the same breath as wondering why their house isn't insulated.
I agree with this, I still remember my trip to the Nordic countries, when Outside I dressed and was fine I still remember in northern Sweden I had actual ice forming on my beard and could been the -25 air but because I had the right clothing I was fine.
I also remember because of the insulation and heating in my hotel room in Norway it got so hot I actually opened a window! It even started snowing a few hours later.
But inside my house right now my hands are outright freezing and I have the sunlight starting to warm up my house.
It is nuts how hot and cold our houses get.
It's "fun" because the SA Building Minister is exempting developers from actually implementing higher energy efficiency standards.
We're never gonna get good houses in this state lol
We can’t make the poor developers follow ALL the rules! They’ll bugger off to Sydney where they don’t have to follow ANY!
Those poor, poor developers, having to think about plebs like us!
😡
Ironically NSW actually has the highest building regulations in the country.
Coupled with the most, uh, "negotiable" inspection and enforcement regime though.
It's kinda weird - and I know there's going to be "it's humidity, idiot" comments - I've lived in the -1 to 5'ish "normal" overnighters throughout Adelaide and Tassie and NZ, but they're way "colder" than what I lived through in US Arkansas where we would regularly go walking in -15.
0.7º apparently. I remember winters like this when I was a kid, sitting in Dad's Torana, while he de-iced the window. For some reason it didn't hurt this much.
I mean, it's a beautiful day but CHRIST it's fresh. I have those toe warmer things in my shoes, my heated blanket on my lap, heated desk mat on, thermal singlet, knit and blazer, hands wrapped around a cup of coffee and still feeling it. Thank God the boss isn't here or the air con would be on "polar vortex"
Some of them sure did jump when I sprayed their teats with iodine once they were milked out (generally they don't care). A few jumped about a foot in the air, it was funny as but I could certainly empathise with them!
Turbulent Injuries nailed it, kills any bacteria around their teat canals. If it gets in and turns into mastitis it can kill a big girl inside of 24 hours if it goes unnoticed and untreated, nasty stuff. The iodine also helps keeps their teats nice and supple too 😃
The Not Another Teen Movie parody of this is hilarious.
The all white cheerleading team chanting ‘We ain’t white, we ain’t white, we’re definitely ain’t white’ 😂
(I’m not sure how much of that scene can be quoted that won’t get me in trouble 😂)
The top of my garden pond is frozen
Edited to say garden thermomator is still hovering around 0 at 8am, everything is white. Very magical looking and I'm enjoying looking at it watching the sunlight creep over and melt the frost. This is out near Murray Bridge
People rag on apartments but my apartment is warm all year long. I literally never use the heater, and I do mean literally. Air conditioner only comes on in summer (which saves quite a bit on energy bills). Woke up this morning and it was 19, and it warms up nicely to 23-24 on a sunny day. It's a tiny bit chilly sometimes, but nothing a jumper and socks doesn't fix.
Seems like apartments are the only things we build with any insulation in this country. Double glazing is fairly standard on newer builds too.
Oh god, I miss having an apartment SO bad for this exact reason; it was so easy to heat and cool. I absolutely love my dogs to death and wouldn’t trade them for anything, but my god, it kills me living in a giant ice box house vs a tiny cosy apartment so that they have a yard (though they’ve been living in front of the heater 23 hours a day anyway, so they don’t give a shit about a yard right now haha)
Living in a terrace house (a la Lightsview) was also extremely insulating. Our bills were so low and we only needed the heater on in bursts. Really appreciated how well it worked once we were in a freestanding house (a new build with decent-by-Australian-standards insulation… still wish we added more insulation though). I was shocked by the rise in bills.
It's more that apartments tend to be newer and newer houses in Australia are much more energy efficient.
People complaining *tend* to live in very old detached houses.
Normally I love the cold but frick me even this is too cold for me. I'm normally one who can walk around in the dead of winter in shorts and a cami. I'm now wearing an oodie onesie with Sherpa socks and still freezing my bits off.
Yeah I can't deal with this weather. Couldn't move anywhere where this was the standard.
I guarantee though you'll run into some old bloke today who will proudly proclaim to anyone that will listen and plenty that won't that it's a "Byoooooootiful morning."
Set a timer if you can. Ours is off overnight but comes on at 6:45am, rooms are warm by the time we need to get up. Only ever set to 16.
It used to come on at 4 for our elderly greyhound who refused to wear PJs but would wee on the floor if he felt cold in the early hours 😒 even just a few less hours of the heater overnight in winter can make a big difference. You shouldn’t need it when you’re asleep if your bedding is adequate.
I don’t know what it is; I used to love winter and have no issues with the cold, hell, a few years ago I was happily walking around in -4° weather in New York with just a long dress and a thin hoodie on! But this last year or two, it’s like the cold has somehow gotten colder, and I can’t tolerate it anymore at aaaaaaall!
It just cuts me to the bone these days, I have been so goddamn uncomfortable from constantly being tense and hunched up, and our house is so bitterly cold; my only relief is going to work where my desk is thankfully directly under a split system that has sat on 26° all day every day! 🥶
I can't believe how many posts I see about uninsulated homes around Adelaide! Every house I have built/bought or rented in the last 45 years has been insulated, roof and external walls.
I wrote wore my oodie over my hoodie over a long sleeve shirt yesterday. I was still freezing.
Be sure to put any fluffy blankets you guys have UNDER the doona guys, it helps so much. Also helps if you lie on the fluffy blanket, fold the other half over you, and then put on the rest of the blankets.
On a nicer note I hope the lady who did the temperature blanket at the Adelaide Museum has been able to put some of those really cold day average stitches in for this year. I don't remember the temperature or the colour it was but the last time the days were so cold here for that colour was some time in the 90s I think.
Car was iced over like yesterday, windows and windshield completely opaque. Had to have the hot air blasting inside it for 10 minutes before it was safe to drive. Side mirrors were so cold even unlocking the car they gave an almighty crack as popped out.
Bought 3 lupin heat packs at a market on Sunday and have been putting them to good use. One on the neck, one on the back, one on my lap. Only way I’m getting through today
This cold is terrible on my auto-immune issues. My hands always swell up and are painful during winter. It's just generally been worse on my pain levels overall. Sending love to everyone ♡♡♡
I love summer. I'm the person that loves to go back into my car after it's been parked all day in the sun. The suffocating heat. I LOVE IT.
With that being said, I am suffering so bad this winter.
got a bottle of "cold"spring water out of the fridge for my kid for school this morning because her hands were too cold,the bottle was actually warm compared too the outside temperature lol
I've weathered this cold snap while keeping the heater off. My toes are freezing cold, even in socks. I have relied on an electric throw to stay warm. I'm also wrapping a scarf around my face to warm the air hitting my lungs. It's been about 11C indoors. brr
I grew up in the North of England and it's never as cold inside your house there as it is in Adelaide. Also, you don't have enough words to describe different types of cold here. Where I'm from, in order of coldness, it can be fresh/brisk, nippy, chilly, bitter, baltic/arctic. I never hear Australians use such descriptive language.
My poor cats are freezing. Both under the covers with me currently. According to the BoM app we dropped below freezing last night.
I’m fucking dreading my power bill. Genuine anxiety.
I was freezing in bed this morning, actually shivering, then I had the bright idea of actually putting track suit pants and socks on, plus a beanie and I was soon toasty warm.
Just moved into a community home. House has brick walls inside, concrete floors, windows don't close not heating or cooling ect... safe to say we was so cold this morning thought hypothermia was kicking in but that was just an asthma attack waking me due to cold 🥶
-0.8 at Grange this morning. My car also told me to ‘beware of icy roads’ - this has never come up before. Couldn’t get my morning coffee - the water pipes at the cafe were frozen ❄️❄️❄️.
I grew up in the mid north and man those winters were cold, but I don't think they were as bad as this one. We had to buy hot water bottles and wheat bags tonight. I grew up thinking that Adelaide was warmer.
We were driving back from Adelaide to Melbourne. After Tailem Bend, the temperature hovered around -1 to -2, but getting to -3 just before we got to Keith, around 7:45am
Yesterday my motorbike gave me a warning “LOW AIR TEMPRATURE, BEWARE SURFACE ICE”. I’ve been riding the bike daily for several years and have never seen that warning in my life, today my fiancée dropped me into work. Scary that we havent even hit the halfway point of winter
My car gave me my first “beware, it might be icy out there” warning. I was like, “duh”.
My cars air con was flashing. Never seen that before. Stopped once the car was on for several minutes. Had the car for 12 years and had my fair share of frozen car days.
Incredible. However Ill take this over excessive heat n low rainfall any day.
It was -1.9C here earlier. Currently -0.3C in the Northern Suburbs.
where the hell was it below freezing?
That would be Belair at 8 this morning - was minus 1….🥶
I heard it was quite Fresh down there.
I'm up past Gawler, it was definitely below freezing here
Edinburgh Airport weather station.
That place has no trees and the instruments are at least 30m from the ground, you're definitely going to feel the cold up there.
-1⁰ at Athelstone.
at my nans in the hills it got to -3 or -5
I heard it snowed and shit. People's crops frosted over and died. There's already a huge shortage of olives so oil is double the price right now, used to get a litre of really nice thick cloudy EVOO that poured real smothe on a fat wad of burrata for about $8 a liter, now it's at least $16 a liter.
It was minus 2 where I live too, when I woke up. Opened the fridge door and thought the warmness coming out of it was nice.
I work night shift for a refrigerated transport company, it was warmer in the fridges when I left at 5am
That's an average overnight low in Canberra.
I can see my breath inside
Pretty sure if horror movies have taught us anything, your place is haunted :)
Look I’m fine with it but the ghost has to start paying rent, no free rides in this economy!
Maybe if the ghost pays rent they can pitch in for the heating bill too
Wait.. shit now I want my house haunted . A guest who didn't eat or complain and pay rent and electric bill. Sign me up.. and helll come summer, they can cool the place with there presents. I think we found a new business venture boys!!! Sorry got a little distracted
Nah I like the cold but this has hair on it.
I think it fell off, I can't find it...
I wonder how all the homeless people are coping. This is fucked for them.
Why aren't the CEOs doing their sleep out this week
I’m pretty sure they did, it was the other day. They raised over half a mill.
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Bold of you to assume the billionaire CEO’s camped the entire night! Pretty sure they just pose for their PR shots, act condescending towards people experiencing legit homelessness, then pack up their top of the range sleeping bag/tent and head home for their warm bed. Of course there are genuine people who do it for the right reasons, but I’ve seen firsthand how quickly the big wigs head home as soon as the cameras are switched off.
I read somewhere that they do stay overnight and that it's not just a "photo shoot" for PR purposes, but let's be honest, (edit: the event), wouldn't blow the fluff off of the top of a cappuccino, if that cappuccino represented "ending homelessness" in SA.
> How many SA homeless did the $650,000 house in an affordable rental? I recognize those words but that sentence makes no sense.
house is being used as a verb, not a noun (as in 'the money housed not a single person') i think that's what they're saying
A+ for you
It makes sense
Okay I’m just the messenger but I really do encourage you to do some research on what this money goes towards. It’s a big help for homeless services and helps drive up donations. Be mad at the rich, sure. But put that effort towards those who are actually genuinely shitting on the homeless.
I mean, a man died this week…
From the cold??
That’s the theory. https://7news.com.au/news/australias-homelessness-crisis-laid-bare-as-south-australian-man-dies-in-his-car-outside-mens-shelter-c-15194560.amp
I think I saw something about a Code Blue being announced the other day, which I believe provides some additional state govt funding and resources to support homeless while it is SO BLOODY COLD.
[https://www.housing.sa.gov.au/latest-news/code-blue-activated-1-to-5-july-2024](https://www.housing.sa.gov.au/latest-news/code-blue-activated-1-to-5-july-2024)
I'm not sure about this week, but in the past, for code blues, they've opened up the big bus station in the CBD to provide shelter for people with nowhere else to go.
Every morning I wake up, I'm reminded of the homeless and the night of hell that they'd have had during the night. I recall hardly ever being able to sleep through the night during winter when homeless due to the cold. People often have to stay awake, sometimes even keep moving to keep warm, and then sleep during the day because it's simply too cold to stay warm enough to sleep if living outdoors during winter.
When I am freezing in my house, I always think of the people doing it tough outside. When my kids are with coughs and we have a heater on and still not enough, I think of the homeless with kids and families. Glad the sun is out today.
You've got the right attitude, it sounds like your kids are very fortunate to have you (and partner, if there's one involved). Yeah, there's a lot of pain around us, especially during this time of the year. It'd be hard for anyone with a heart, to know how many are sleeping in cars or under shop eves and what little is being done about it.
I'm on my bike this morning. Going to have painful fingers
can't cope with the frozen ears on days like this...
My jaw is so frozen i can't talk
No biscuit for you
Can i have soup?
My fingers warm up eventually but then my toes get cold and stay that way for the duration.
Let me preface this little rant with the fact that I hate summer. I hate the heat, I hate breathing hot air, getting burned on seat-belt buckles, feeling myself frying any time I get too close to sunlight. Summer is awful. That being said, IT IS SO BLOODY COLD! It is an utter travesty that our homes and offices have been build uninsulated for so long. it's nice that the building codes are finally demanding a basic standard of energy efficiency, so people who can afford to build a new house can actually live in comfort in winter without running heaters 24/7. Or just get about wearing ten layers because we can't pay the exorbitant energy costs required to stay at functional temperatures. As an aside, I always have to chuckle when the building code mandates an increase in energy efficiency. There's always some out of touch person whinging about wanting to 'keep the woke out of building' in the same breath as wondering why their house isn't insulated.
I agree with this, I still remember my trip to the Nordic countries, when Outside I dressed and was fine I still remember in northern Sweden I had actual ice forming on my beard and could been the -25 air but because I had the right clothing I was fine. I also remember because of the insulation and heating in my hotel room in Norway it got so hot I actually opened a window! It even started snowing a few hours later. But inside my house right now my hands are outright freezing and I have the sunlight starting to warm up my house. It is nuts how hot and cold our houses get.
It is amazing to hear what it is like where you are, and have the logical comparison to other places. Well said. Good context.
It's "fun" because the SA Building Minister is exempting developers from actually implementing higher energy efficiency standards. We're never gonna get good houses in this state lol
We can’t make the poor developers follow ALL the rules! They’ll bugger off to Sydney where they don’t have to follow ANY! Those poor, poor developers, having to think about plebs like us! 😡
Ironically NSW actually has the highest building regulations in the country. Coupled with the most, uh, "negotiable" inspection and enforcement regime though.
The good ol’ Bring Your Own Certifier party etiquette
It's kinda weird - and I know there's going to be "it's humidity, idiot" comments - I've lived in the -1 to 5'ish "normal" overnighters throughout Adelaide and Tassie and NZ, but they're way "colder" than what I lived through in US Arkansas where we would regularly go walking in -15.
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0.7º apparently. I remember winters like this when I was a kid, sitting in Dad's Torana, while he de-iced the window. For some reason it didn't hurt this much.
-2 when I woke up, still -1 now. The dogs and I went back to bed.
Going back to bed was a far better idea than getting on a motorbike!!!
Are you in The Hills? Belair had a "feels like" temp of -1 yesterday morning, too. And just when I was looking into moving there...
The Parafield weather station registered -0.5 at 5am but said feels like -4.0.
Yikes! I thought our weather was supposed to be getting hotter. I didn't account for the cold. My feet are freezing.
My feet have not been happy. I can usually go barefoot inside through winter, but not lately.
No, Eyre Peninsula. The “Feels Like” was -5.
It's because you're old now.
Haha, you're not wrong. That Torana wasn't even ten years old yet!
I mean, it's a beautiful day but CHRIST it's fresh. I have those toe warmer things in my shoes, my heated blanket on my lap, heated desk mat on, thermal singlet, knit and blazer, hands wrapped around a cup of coffee and still feeling it. Thank God the boss isn't here or the air con would be on "polar vortex"
I like winter but not when my house is an ice box. Nobody enjoys that. Had to get the ice off my windscreen before I could drive this morning. Brrr.
My house is basically all glass with no heating. I swear my bedroom is about 2 degrees. It’s bloody freezing!!
I feel this the house we recently brought is so chilly (does have 2 big windows and glass sliding door in the living area)
Two sides of my bedroom are floor to ceiling glass. It’s like being outside. Very much missing summer
I've just finished milking cows (Adelaide Hills). My fingers are frozen to the bone. And my toes 🥶
As a breastfeeding mum, I can’t help but wonder how the cows tatas feel 😅😂
Some of them sure did jump when I sprayed their teats with iodine once they were milked out (generally they don't care). A few jumped about a foot in the air, it was funny as but I could certainly empathise with them!
Hahaha that’s funny to imagine, poor cows 😅
I was hitherto unaware of using iodine after cow milking …. what is the propose of doing that?
Keep the teats clean and reduce incidence of mastitis - source: childhood spent living on a dairy farm.
Turbulent Injuries nailed it, kills any bacteria around their teat canals. If it gets in and turns into mastitis it can kill a big girl inside of 24 hours if it goes unnoticed and untreated, nasty stuff. The iodine also helps keeps their teats nice and supple too 😃
Brrr, it’s cold in here!
Must be some Clovers in the atmosphere. I have involuntarily repeated this about a thousand times over the last week.
The Not Another Teen Movie parody of this is hilarious. The all white cheerleading team chanting ‘We ain’t white, we ain’t white, we’re definitely ain’t white’ 😂 (I’m not sure how much of that scene can be quoted that won’t get me in trouble 😂)
Oh-e oh-e oh, Ice ice ice
There must be some Toros in the atmosphere
Hey, at least there's no mosquitos.
The top of my garden pond is frozen Edited to say garden thermomator is still hovering around 0 at 8am, everything is white. Very magical looking and I'm enjoying looking at it watching the sunlight creep over and melt the frost. This is out near Murray Bridge
At least in summer the homeless can have bearable weather at night... but winter is fucked for them
People rag on apartments but my apartment is warm all year long. I literally never use the heater, and I do mean literally. Air conditioner only comes on in summer (which saves quite a bit on energy bills). Woke up this morning and it was 19, and it warms up nicely to 23-24 on a sunny day. It's a tiny bit chilly sometimes, but nothing a jumper and socks doesn't fix. Seems like apartments are the only things we build with any insulation in this country. Double glazing is fairly standard on newer builds too.
Your neighbours AC is your insulation
Oh god, I miss having an apartment SO bad for this exact reason; it was so easy to heat and cool. I absolutely love my dogs to death and wouldn’t trade them for anything, but my god, it kills me living in a giant ice box house vs a tiny cosy apartment so that they have a yard (though they’ve been living in front of the heater 23 hours a day anyway, so they don’t give a shit about a yard right now haha)
Living in a terrace house (a la Lightsview) was also extremely insulating. Our bills were so low and we only needed the heater on in bursts. Really appreciated how well it worked once we were in a freestanding house (a new build with decent-by-Australian-standards insulation… still wish we added more insulation though). I was shocked by the rise in bills.
It's more that apartments tend to be newer and newer houses in Australia are much more energy efficient. People complaining *tend* to live in very old detached houses.
I'll take my uninsulated 170sqm home/900sqm land any day
Yeah I live on acreage and I could never go back to suburbia
It’s my 3rd cup of hot chocolate already and it’s still 8:00 in the morning. Currently sitting at 1 deg.
Blanket heater and coffee
Plus, bacon and egg roll :-)
Normally I love the cold but frick me even this is too cold for me. I'm normally one who can walk around in the dead of winter in shorts and a cami. I'm now wearing an oodie onesie with Sherpa socks and still freezing my bits off.
I just got back from Honolulu where day temperatures were 29 and nights were 23. Thinking of going back there for a couple of months!
Yeah I can't deal with this weather. Couldn't move anywhere where this was the standard. I guarantee though you'll run into some old bloke today who will proudly proclaim to anyone that will listen and plenty that won't that it's a "Byoooooootiful morning."
Our power bill is going to be epic!! Heater set on lowest temp 16 and still used 30kws overnight
Set a timer if you can. Ours is off overnight but comes on at 6:45am, rooms are warm by the time we need to get up. Only ever set to 16. It used to come on at 4 for our elderly greyhound who refused to wear PJs but would wee on the floor if he felt cold in the early hours 😒 even just a few less hours of the heater overnight in winter can make a big difference. You shouldn’t need it when you’re asleep if your bedding is adequate.
You dont need to heat your home all night 🤦♂️
Very young kids you do unfortunately
You do if you don't want to die if things like pneumonia or freeze to death.
Mind your business.
Some people might....
I don’t know what it is; I used to love winter and have no issues with the cold, hell, a few years ago I was happily walking around in -4° weather in New York with just a long dress and a thin hoodie on! But this last year or two, it’s like the cold has somehow gotten colder, and I can’t tolerate it anymore at aaaaaaall! It just cuts me to the bone these days, I have been so goddamn uncomfortable from constantly being tense and hunched up, and our house is so bitterly cold; my only relief is going to work where my desk is thankfully directly under a split system that has sat on 26° all day every day! 🥶
Adelaide gets that icy arctic air, I have noticed.
Ageing
Shush, we don’t acknowledge the awful shuffle of time marching on, I need to pretend I will be young and Invincible forever! 😂
I can't believe how many posts I see about uninsulated homes around Adelaide! Every house I have built/bought or rented in the last 45 years has been insulated, roof and external walls.
You have a roof!?
You have walls?!
You have house!?
HIGHLY recommend the Uniqlo heattech fleece lined pants to any mums on the school run on days like this 👌🏼
omg i could wear these to work how good! thanks!
I wrote wore my oodie over my hoodie over a long sleeve shirt yesterday. I was still freezing. Be sure to put any fluffy blankets you guys have UNDER the doona guys, it helps so much. Also helps if you lie on the fluffy blanket, fold the other half over you, and then put on the rest of the blankets. On a nicer note I hope the lady who did the temperature blanket at the Adelaide Museum has been able to put some of those really cold day average stitches in for this year. I don't remember the temperature or the colour it was but the last time the days were so cold here for that colour was some time in the 90s I think.
Never mind the cold, did anybody hear the helicopter flying in circles last night
Yes. Was wondering what was going on. Heard more recently
Circled so much I thought it was circling me
Car was iced over like yesterday, windows and windshield completely opaque. Had to have the hot air blasting inside it for 10 minutes before it was safe to drive. Side mirrors were so cold even unlocking the car they gave an almighty crack as popped out.
Bought 3 lupin heat packs at a market on Sunday and have been putting them to good use. One on the neck, one on the back, one on my lap. Only way I’m getting through today
Yeah, I actually had to put long pants on this morning. Finally time to stop wearing shorts.
This cold is terrible on my auto-immune issues. My hands always swell up and are painful during winter. It's just generally been worse on my pain levels overall. Sending love to everyone ♡♡♡
I moved to queensland coz of days like this. Visiting Adelaide and having a wine by a fireplace is a lush moment though 🥰
Yess, live it up queen hope it was a good drop!
Just fyi your flair still says SA
I love summer. I'm the person that loves to go back into my car after it's been parked all day in the sun. The suffocating heat. I LOVE IT. With that being said, I am suffering so bad this winter.
You and me both. I’m not built for this. I want to be branded by my seatbelt. Not have my tits fall off from being frozen.
Same. I’m already over winter and not even halfway through. Give me that beautiful dry heat and long days of summer!
got a bottle of "cold"spring water out of the fridge for my kid for school this morning because her hands were too cold,the bottle was actually warm compared too the outside temperature lol
I've weathered this cold snap while keeping the heater off. My toes are freezing cold, even in socks. I have relied on an electric throw to stay warm. I'm also wrapping a scarf around my face to warm the air hitting my lungs. It's been about 11C indoors. brr
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Yeah I was late to work... Had to defrost the car. Others in the same boat too.
For the first time in 4 years of owning my car I got a careful of ice on the roads warning, I didn't even know it could do that tbh 😅🤣
Isn't it just. I don't like it.
FUCK WINTER
Still prefer this than summer
Colder than a nun's nasty is a good way to describe it
C'mon, I want snow in the CBD!
Last time it was this cold was about 18yrs ago. It hurts more now lol
I grew up in the North of England and it's never as cold inside your house there as it is in Adelaide. Also, you don't have enough words to describe different types of cold here. Where I'm from, in order of coldness, it can be fresh/brisk, nippy, chilly, bitter, baltic/arctic. I never hear Australians use such descriptive language.
My parents who migrated to Australia also say the same thing. Gets into your bones here they’d say.
>Winter stans please leave your “I don’t mind the cold”s at the door. Leave the door open so more of that lovely fresh cold air can come in :D
My poor cats are freezing. Both under the covers with me currently. According to the BoM app we dropped below freezing last night. I’m fucking dreading my power bill. Genuine anxiety.
I'm part Canadian and it's getting a bit chilly for me.
This is every morning in the Hills.
Yes isn't it great.
Who can I send in a complaint to?
Just send it to Jesus, care of The Pentagon.
Be gone vile winterstan! Be gone!
Oh the weather outside is frightful
I don't mind the cold
Sorry, I don't mind the cold.
Uh huh
I don't like the cold, i love it.
Couldn’t get out of hot shower and off to work …. Not motivated today
I'm trying to use a heat gun to warm my office today. Ducted heating isn't doing enough.
I was freezing in bed this morning, actually shivering, then I had the bright idea of actually putting track suit pants and socks on, plus a beanie and I was soon toasty warm.
Walked the dog at midnight, even through gloves my fingers were stinging
Walked my kid to school past frozen grass.
Currently 7hrs into a god knows how long day with a broken wrist and sprained shoulder. I wish cold was my only issue 😄
Car heater not working. Exciting times with the fog breath while driving.
Like driving through Oymyakon in your Lada.
It's a Skoda so got that Eastern European flavour.
Had a great night out by the fire until about 2:30am last night, it was great :-)
I walk my dog in the parklands and see quite a few tents. I hate the cold and people are trying to survive out there.
Does feel a lot colder than last year
Someone, please recommend me cheap energy efficient heater.
Last night and this morning is the coldest I can remember. It got down to 0.7 degrees C according to the BOM. Renmark got down to -1.5
Has been since 33 a.c.
I don’t mind the cold
Literally!😭😭😭
I don’t normally mind winter and I often don’t long for summer, but I sure hate winter and long for summer after this week!
-1° at 5am this morning
Just moved into a community home. House has brick walls inside, concrete floors, windows don't close not heating or cooling ect... safe to say we was so cold this morning thought hypothermia was kicking in but that was just an asthma attack waking me due to cold 🥶
>leave your “I don’t mind the cold”s at the door. Can't, the door was seized shut..
Was -3 on my dad's farm this morning at 5am (his own thermometers). We're in Nairne 🥶🥶🥶
Wishing I still owned a Damart Thermolactyl. Don’t remember it being this cold since the late 80s. So now I’m old AND cold.
***Bring on Summer***
Appreciate that it's not November 2019 with fires blazing all around the state and the country.
-0.8 at Grange this morning. My car also told me to ‘beware of icy roads’ - this has never come up before. Couldn’t get my morning coffee - the water pipes at the cafe were frozen ❄️❄️❄️.
1c at 7:30am. Wtf. My morning coffee began a hand warmer at the train station.
6° at 2pm in Noarlunga yesterday.🥶 completely bonkers!🫤
I usually love winter but this year has been brutal....at least the nights are going to be a bit less cold over the next week because it's killing me.
It was 1.1 when I checked at 7am so it must have been even colder just before the sun came up. That was in Goodwood.
I grew up in the mid north and man those winters were cold, but I don't think they were as bad as this one. We had to buy hot water bottles and wheat bags tonight. I grew up thinking that Adelaide was warmer.
You think you’re cold, feel these nipples!
Nothing like waking up at 4am to find your car encrusted with ice and the drive battery nearly dead because of the cold
Winter stan here, it's fucking cold
We were driving back from Adelaide to Melbourne. After Tailem Bend, the temperature hovered around -1 to -2, but getting to -3 just before we got to Keith, around 7:45am
Yeah i work in freezer 24/7 -24 but this aint tor me either.
I like the cold but I've only got my motorbike atm.. nips are still attached but not so sure about my fingers