Wednesday, 31 December 2025

Bloody Cold!!!

When i left for work this morning my phone said it was 1°C but felt like -4°C and it did because it was bloody freezing so after scraping my windshield so i didn't drive straight into a lamppost, off i went along the frosty streets.
To be honest, in the warmth of my car with the heater blasting, the frost covering everything did look very pretty although i doubt if the people i passed huddled up in long winter coats and scarfs wouldn't have appreciated it so much but the bad news for them is that the MET Office are saying you think this is cold, you ain't seen nothing yet.
A blast coming directly from the Arctic is due to sweep across the UK from New Years Day and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) have issued a Level 12 Cold Weather Warning Amber Alert for all of England's Health Providers from 31 December to 6 January meaning there is a 80% chance that the cold weather is likely to cause significant impacts across health and social care services, including  a rise in deaths and a likely increase in demand for health services.
Where i live on the South Coast, the MET Office website says it will be a daytime high of 2°C this weekend and a night-time low of -3°C and we are in the warmer part of the country, in Scotland it isn't expected to get above 0°C during the day and those are the normal temperatures, throw in the wind chill factor and there will be plenty of brass monkeys speaking in a high pitched voices.
Unfortunately, we are not getting any snow down here, the North of the UK is hogging all that but they did say they are 'not expecting snow' in the South which i took as meaning we are not definitely not getting any but if we don't, i'm sure i can have a go at making a Frostman instead.