Room Temperature

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asterix

Comrade Member
Location
Limoges or York
About 12c at the moment. I was away for a week and the 70cm stone walls cooled down, it was 5c when I arrived. The 3kw paraffin heater should get it back to 14c or 15c this evening - luxury!

When I feel a bit chilly I just think of Shackleton. I never think of Scott or Oates.
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
The numbers that a lot of you are coming up with must mean that you are never comfortable strolling around in shorts and a tee-shirt on an average UK summer day then? (I'm not talking about the crap ones we've had the past 3 or 4 years.)
 

al78

Guru
Location
Horsham
The numbers that a lot of you are coming up with must mean that you are never comfortable strolling around in shorts and a tee-shirt on an average UK summer day then? (I'm not talking about the crap ones we've had the past 3 or 4 years.)

I think you will find the last three or four years are not far off what an average UK summer is (2007 excepted).

I don't wear shorts outside unless it gets above about 24C, I'll wander around in short sleeves from 20C upwards. Of course, whether it is sunny or cloudy and the wind speed makes a difference as to how warm I will feel outdoors, so the above temperatures can vary significantly.

During the hot July of 2006, I occasionally wore long, light coloured walking trousers and my legs felt cooler than when I was wearing shorts.
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
I think you will find the last three or four years are not far off what an average UK summer is (2007 excepted).
Wow - I just looked up the stats and you are right; in fact, those summers were slightly warmer than average! They certainly didn't feel like that to me.

All I know is that there were a lot of gloomy damp days up here in West Yorkshire so I ended up doing much less cycling than I normally would.
 

Baggy

Cake connoisseur
aha! now i understand... it's because wimmin are fat and have hormoans.
Ahem, "Women carry less fat and muscle mass than men, and so need a more efficient technique of protecting their core body temperature. "

Actually :thumbsup:

No idea what the temperature is here, the heating comes on for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. It's set for 20C, but as our house is draughtier than Satan's knickers takes about a day to get anywhere near that.

The coal fire is lit in the evening but that still doesn't get the whole room above about 18C. Nice and toasty when you're two feet away from it though!
 

Sleeping Menace

New Member
Location
UK
Ahem, "Women carry less fat and muscle mass than men, and so need a more efficient technique of protecting their core body temperature. "

Actually :thumbsup:

No idea what the temperature is here, the heating comes on for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. It's set for 20C, but as our house is draughtier than Satan's knickers takes about a day to get anywhere near that.

The coal fire is lit in the evening but that still doesn't get the whole room above about 18C. Nice and toasty when you're two feet away from it though!


Really, you learn new things in here every day.. I always thought women tended to have a higher % of body fat than men.. and.. I never knew Satan had draughty knickers...

Reading posts in here is like talking to The Oracle.... :smile:

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Cycle related blog entries, including a few 5 minute reviews:
http://anotherdooratthe.endoftheinternet.org/category/cycling/
 

Baggy

Cake connoisseur
Really, you learn new things in here every day.. I always thought women tended to have a higher % of body fat than men.. and.. I never knew Satan had draughty knickers...
Reading posts in here is like talking to The Oracle.... :smile:
It's a very educational place :ohmy:

I'm not entirely convinced by the whole fat thing, but that's what it said in the article.
 

Calum

Senior Member
Location
Leeds.
ColinJ, you're completely mad! (But I think we knew this already)

Heating in this gaff is on quite a lot and it never drops below 18, it's probably around 22 in here at the moment, but the heating's been on since about 9pm (just turned it off).
 

slowmotion

Quite dreadful
Location
lost somewhere
My calibrated food safety digital thermometer says it is 18.2C right now, but there is a howling draught coming in through the 1970s patio door.

[What really interests me is this.....how hot is the bath when you first climb in? I go for scalding.]
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
ColinJ, you're completely mad! (But I think we knew this already)
I didn't have the place quite this cold when I had money to spare!

I'm quite happy at the moment without any heating on, but I am wearing a long-sleeved base layer, a tee-shirt and a big jumper. Oh, and since I started balding, I wear a woolly hat indoors when it's cold! ;)

See ya on Monday Calum. BTW - I'm organising a last minute ride for tomorrow if you want to drag yourself away from your studies for that - check out the Goose Eye Grovel thread shortly!
 
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