Thread: Cold weather

Originally Posted by disco gazza

Was just reading the latest posts on fullfatrr.
One of the subscribers lives in Alberta,Canada and has a L405 and was glad he bought a block heater for his beast (they apparently dont fit them to 405's anymore to cold climates, they say the oils are better lol)
Temp yesterday was -30c......
This morning was -37c.....
BRRRRRRRRRR. thats cold..

cheers
DG

I'm in Whistler, BC, skiing ATM. -30 in the village today and -50 up the top of the mountain! Too cold even for the lifts to run! Skiing at -18 yesterday was seriously cold....

I was travelling across Canada in the mid 80's and it was nice then,but that was in late spring.
Being a slim person I'd hate the cold winters that they have....
Not enough meat/fat on my bones......lol
cheers
DG

Originally Posted by disco gazza

Was just reading the latest posts on fullfatrr.
One of the subscribers lives in Alberta,Canada and has a L405 and was glad he bought a block heater for his beast (they apparently dont fit them to 405's anymore to cold climates, they say the oils are better lol)
Temp yesterday was -30c......
This morning was -37c.....
BRRRRRRRRRR. thats cold..

cheers
DG

Sub 30 was stopping trains and busses in Norway last week. "HOW DO YOU PREVENT DIESEL FUEL FROM GELLING?

You can drive a diesel vehicle, even in subzero conditions, as long as you use a fuel additive. Designed for diesel engines, a fuel additive lowers the fuel pour point (when freezing occurs) by as much as 40 degrees. It also disperses water and prevents gelling." Just a moment...

Diving in Canada in 1986 was shocking Hypothermia for all of us wet types from Australia who went in our Australian wet suits! Canadians, US, French and US divers were all in tracksuit pants and jumpers under their DRY suits. The Diving Officer in Charge of that will not be defamed

Once it goes below 10⁰C, it may as well be -100⁰C, it's too cold for sensible human habitation.

My brother spent a year in Antarctica, mostly working out on the ice, using diesel vehicles. They ran the engines on aviation turbine fuel (i.e. kerosine), and mostly only stopped the engine for oil changes. If the engine was stopped for more than half an hour or so, they used a heater that produced large quantities of hot air (using a small petrol engine that was designed to start in very low temperatures and a petrol burner), originally designed for preheating large aeroplane piston engines in Arctic conditions.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Once it goes below 10⁰C, it may as well be -100⁰C, it's too cold for sensible human habitation.

Recall the big Texas freeze and power outages?

Inbound again perhaps with "US energy firms prepare as extreme freeze could hit natgas supplies


Story by By Scott DiSavino
3h (Reuters) - U.S. power and natural gas companies were preparing on Friday for extreme cold over this Martin Luther King Day holiday weekend that is expected to cause record gas demand while also cutting supplies by freezing wells.

Lower gas supplies at a period of surging demand could test power systems in hard-hit areas. "

The forecaste is "The freeze is expected to move from the U.S. Pacific Northwest to the central and eastern parts of the country over the next few days." Costs already ", next-day power prices at the Mid Columbia hub in the Pacific Northwest soared to a 16-month high of around $850 per megawatt hour (MWh) over the past couple of days. That compares with averages of $81 in 2023 and $52 from 2018 to 2022."

Log fire might be needed

Originally Posted by JDNSW

My brother spent a year in Antarctica, mostly working out on the ice, using diesel vehicles. They ran the engines on aviation turbine fuel (i.e. kerosine), and mostly only stopped the engine for oil changes. If the engine was stopped for more than half an hour or so, they used a heater that produced large quantities of hot air (using a small petrol engine that was designed to start in very low temperatures and a petrol burner), originally designed for preheating large aeroplane piston engines in Arctic conditions.

Ahhh, thats why the Td5 was designed to run on kerosine!

Originally Posted by cjc_td5

I'm in Whistler, BC, skiing ATM. -30 in the village today and -50 up the top of the mountain! Too cold even for the lifts to run! Skiing at -18 yesterday was seriously cold....

Our neighbour across the road has his son in Whistler as a skying/snowboarding instructor at the moment.