I took my daughter to a nearby hill so she could sled with other children. No wind, but quite cold: -12 C.

I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but the worst experience for me with cold weather was in... Thailand! And it wasn't even in the cooler areas in the northern Thailand (Chiang Mai etc.), but in the "middle" of Thailand, closer to Cambodian border.

When I was there in January many years ago, the days were nice at +25 C or more (reminded me of Finnish summers in fact), but at nights it could go down to +12 C or so. The problem was that the temperature indoors was pretty much the same as outdoors at nights, with no heating, the wind pretty much blew freely through the cracks on the floors and windows etc., and the blankets in the motel were like thin towels. And naturally I only had T-shirts and shorts with me, so the nights were damn cold trying to sleep. I didn't even want to go to shower until noon or so when I knew it was relatively warm again.

At least here in Finland the temperature indoors always stays at about +24 C or so, no matter what temperature is there outdoors. The only thing you'll notice is that the air (indoors) tends to be much drier in the winter (which means I need to sometimes use some lotion on my delicate hands; I'm a professional hand model after all). Oh well, at least the laundry dries up much faster then...

Fuck!

They're back.

This time of year northern Michigan just flat out sucks to live in!

Do you rent those out? They look rather useful to get to people stuck in several meters-deep snow :D.

-5 C? In Finnland? I never would have imagend to think about holiday in finnland at this time
until now
Here in South Germany early morning -16 C
between the day -8 C.
But not much snow and beside yesterday not much wind.
BTW TinyE here we have also these in the backyard.

PS: Is the damn Attach Images once more broken? no new window opens...

I knew there had to be a reason for it, since it's the pretty much the only way they do it here, but it struck me as odd as .. well as I've said, but that makes sense. I never thought about it too much. Thanks for the enlightenment!

Currently -6°C and dropping, real feel around -17°C, N wind howling at16mph+. And still no snow.

It's actually rather annoying time here at the moment, the weather is all over the place. I think this week we have gone from +3C to -19C to -1C again. Earlier this week we didn't have snow at all yet, while now it's more than enough to mess with the traffic. At least the southern part of Finland where I live.

Also as timppu mentioned, I highly prefer a colder weather myself as it makes everything look much cleaner and more pleasant to the eyes. Not to mention that it's much worse to move outside in my opinion, as the snow is heavy and all packed up and has a more icy feel. When it's -10C forward it starts to be more powder-like which I highly prefer myself.

Bad news for Romania, Hungary and Serbia and maybe some of the adjacent areas in other countries, good news for the rest of Europe. Seems like the polar air front is going to loom over the 3 fore-mentioned counties until late Wednesday next week. The rest of Europe should see an improvements in temperatures starting with Monday.

As far as southern Romania is concerned, it seems like it's going to be even worse than I thought. School was canceled until Thursday in most counties and we've been warned to stay indoors unless we have urgent business elsewhere.

Daytime temperatures are going to get around -15 C, while night time temps will plummet down do -25 C. High winds, snow and blizzards will keep on with their mischief until Thursday morning.

A lot of roads are still closed down, people living in the country side, mostly the elderly, are still cut off from the world and buried under meters of wind-blown snow. A major highway to the seaside is still closed down with multiple people caught by the blizzard last night still stuck in gas-stations along the way.

Government officials are slowly getting a grip of the situation, but still mostly blaming each other for the poor way in which some things are handled. I swear these people will still be playing their stupid political games even 5 minutes before Armageddon strikes.

-30 С in Moscow today. Pretty cold, but not too bad. The holidays are still going, so you can just stay at home.

Lucky you, I guess :). С Рождество́м, btw!

To bad work is never cancelled, no matter the cold :). Well at least it's weekend so at least today and tomorrow I can stay inside.

Thank you!

In addition to what Zoltan said, placing heaters under the windows usually also helps prevent condensation - in properly isolated homes, especially in places where ventilation is no longer that great because everything is air-tight, all airborne vapor will tend to condensate on the coldest surface in the house - which is usually the glass pane of windows, especially when the outside air gets to extremely low temperatures. Having a heater in the area will keep the window sufficiently warm and dry in order to prevent condensation.

Otherwise, you may see waterfalls starting to form on your windows every time you enjoy a hot shower when there's -20 C outside :).