My nozzle is flashing again
It’s a lovely day today.
The sky is blue with ne’er a cloud in sight. It’s fucking cold but what the hell.
However the meeja is going into meltdown over a cold snap that is supposed to hit during the week. Banner headlines scream about “exceptionally cold weather” and the forecasters are having orgasms. The entire country is going to grind to a standstill and no one will be prepared. Certainly the “grinding to a halt” bit is true because you only have to whisper the word “snow” here and instantly all traffic drives at five miles an hour whether there is any precipitation of any kind or not.
Going on past performance, we may get a few flurries. It may even cover the ground but it’s not likely to hang around too long. This is a dose of cynicism based on a lot of wolf crying on the part of the Met service, so if I’m wrong then it’s all their fault. They should have learned by now not to shout out their coloured warnings so often. Idiots.
There’s only one problem.
It is going to get a drop colder, and there’s no denying that.
And I have just noticed that the little nozzle icon is flashing on my oil gauge.
Fuck!
I’m nearly out of oil.
So they’re saying that “exceptionally cold weather” is temperatures in the middle to high 30’s (F)? I know you folks tend to have higher temperatures during the winter overall than where I am but that’s not exactly arctic conditions. That is if “the village” you keep running down to from time to time is the one I’m looking at in Google Earth (needed to find “the village” so I could get a forecast for your area). Looks like it’s close to you anyway. Guess you have to have that fuel oil tank topped up, eh?
We were warned [in breathless tones] that temperatures could be up to ten degrees [C] below normal as the winds are coming straight from Siberia. They overlook that Siberia is a long fucking way away so I think that’s a bit of hype?
You would probably consider the coming week as mild!
Look out for a stocky fellow in a Hiace with a broken back light, he could probably get you oil at a fraction of the price.
Well I’m about 300 miles closer to the “Beast from the East” than you, and so far all we have got is a few flurries* and some hail. Whilst it certainly feels bloody nippy, the precipitation isn’t laying, so the real temperature is certainly not minus 10C. Having said that, if more than half an inch DOES lay everything will grind to a halt…
*I was about to hit the “Post Comment” button but see that there are now some decent size flakes falling – OMG, the end of the world is nigh!