The mercury is still hovering around zero, and with the modest breeze it feels several degrees colder than that. Out of the wind it isn't too bad, but up in the Downs there's precious little of anywhere that is 'out of the wind'. Hence another very short post. One shot from this morning, and another from tonight.
The early shot was taken at Falmer pond. Nothing more unusual than a duck in flight.
The late shot is the moon while was still relatively low in the sky earlier this evening.
And that really is that. The icy conditions are likely to remain for most of the week, and while we are fortunate to have avoided the snow that has plagued much of the rest of the country this time around, it is generally just very unpleasant outside. I spent about half an hour in the garden tonight and could hear plenty of fox calls, some quite close. It's too cold though to stay out there for extended periods, and with shy foxes 'quick' simply isn't in the lexicon. They can out-wait me every time.
Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.
ICU109
26 Mar 2013WELL, 37F here, big fat snow flakes just for a few minutes, but scary at first, melted before they hit the ground, whew. Had gone over to the Black River here in Port Huron other day, cold as Hades, took a few shots with my phone camera, hurray for me, I actually went out. Have to put them in a blog when I get them off camera phone. Not to good, but good enough for me, as I got in my car and went somewhere.
derWandersmann
26 Mar 2013We seem to be having about the same temps, Words … your zero degrees is our +32°. Our 0° is the temperature of ice in salt water "because nothing could possibly be colder than that", according to Fahrenheit, 'way back when.
Flying Red Fox Blog
27 Mar 2013Its so cold i feel sorry for the Sheep that dies in the hills around the country that was on the news last night. 🙁
SittingFox
27 Mar 2013Ah yes, the Moon – a rare sight in these parts now. There will be glaciers on the Downs before too much longer if things continue like this :smurf:
Words
27 Mar 2013Kathy, it's not so much that it's cold, but that it is persisting day after day this late into the year. Glad you managed to brave the elements and get outside. You need to after a while, I find.
Words
27 Mar 2013Adele, well I think my teachers were right all those years ago. The ice age is coming!
Words
27 Mar 2013Mark, it's a terrible time for animals, and in some parts of the country it's been almost impossible to get feed to them. 🙁
Words
27 Mar 2013dW, I tend to blog in centigrade, but Fahrenheit is what I grew up with and I always do a quick recalculation to see what the temperature is really doing, especially as it gets warmer. Didn't know where 0° Fahrenheit came from. Now I do know the reason for this
derWandersmann
28 Mar 2013I've heard rumours that Antarctica has annexed the South Downs.
Re Fahrenheit and Celsius, and all the metric measurements: I've heard rumours that the metric system was devised by French sans-culottes who couldn't do maths in their heads.
Words
29 Mar 2013dW, well they probably made some things more difficult by doing so, but a universal system makes sense from their philosophical and political standpoint. We're still pretty ambivalent here about 'having gone metric', and then only partially. Petrol is sold in litres, but we measure distance in miles, and the cost in £ per gallon.
gdare
29 Mar 2013Full moon :up: It was sunny and sort of warm here for last few days now and we can for sure say that spring has come in Vancouver. Magnolias are on bloom. But it is amazing to see in the news that they were having a snow in some parts of Europe :faint: Weird…
Words
31 Mar 2013Darko, it's still really cold here. We even had a few (and I mean just a few) flakes of snow today. I've barely been outside.
gdare
2 Apr 2013Everything in bloom here today. I mean it, everything….
Words
3 Apr 2013I'm jealous! It's still snowing here 🙁
gdare
4 Apr 2013:faint: