What's the temperature where you are???

Cold here - at least it’s not snowing

(FYI this is Celsius)
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Had to warm the truck up this morning.
 
-8 С (17,6 F)
And a lot of snow. In general, in the first days of April there was no snow here at all, it all melted and even the first flowers began to bloom (usually this plant is called coltsfoot, small yellow flowers, and the young leaves of this plant are sometimes used here to brew tea, which helps with coughs), but then some frost of -8 C began and snow fell heavily. So much so that I need some time to dig out the driveways, and tractors and graders, which are usually used in winter, are driving to clean the roads.

Drivers found themselves in a strange situation. At first, many of them, tired of screeching on the asphalt with studded tires, ruining it (in addition, studded tires on dry asphalt brake worse than simple rubber ones used in the summer), decided to change the wheels to summer ones. And they did.My father decided not to change for now, and so he drove on dry asphalt on studded tires, because the traffic police do not yet impose fines for studded tires (our "winter" has not yet officially ended). In addition, we rarely go anywhere further than the nearest grocery store.And then suddenly a lot of snow fell and frost began. In this situation, studded tires became very appropriate. And those drivers who had previously rushed and put on summer tires without metal studs found themselves in a very difficult and even dangerous situation. In Moscow, one of the drivers, driving in the snow on summer tires, lost control, flew onto the sidewalk and went down the stairs into the underground passage of the metro (!!!).

Fortunately, there were no random passers-by there on this stair at the time, and the driver and passenger remained alive, although they were taken to hospital with bruises.

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In order to pull out the remains of the car, it had to be sawed into pieces, because it was absolutely impossible to drag it back up the stairs in one piece.
In general, according to eyewitnesses, this could only be seen in some movie - first, a car crashes down the stairs into the subway, then the remains of the door of the car, completely wrecked, open with a screech and the driver gets out. But the passenger had to be pulled out by the Ministry of Emergency Situations workers (but he also did not die).

In general, drivers began to change the wheels back to winter ones.

Otherwise, the weather is good and it looks like this
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Overcast

48°F
9°C

Humidity 79%

Until I started incubating eggs and being focused on the environment in the coop I never thought about humidity much. It does explain why the drier has to work overtime though.

I never thought much about humidity either until I lived where it gets down to 1%.

When you hang up clothes to dry outside, the first ones you put up are dry by the time you've finished hanging up the last of a load. It takes literally only a few minutes. If the desert is good at anything it's drying stuff out. :cool:

À propos of nothing, here's a picture of a local coatimundi from two days ago (not my photo). Cute fellow. Doesn't have to do any laundry.

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Overcast

48°F
9°C

Humidity 79%

Until I started incubating eggs and being focused on the environment in the coop I never thought about humidity much. It does explain why the drier has to work overtime though.
The most important thing here is to take the eggs in time so that they do not cool down too much. Because too cold an egg (especially if the temperature has fallen below zero Celsius, i.e. below the freezing point of water) is useless for incubation. I am now trying to incubate goose eggs and I have to constantly catch the moment so that the eggs do not cool down, so that I can take them directly warm, recently laid by the goose. Because if they cool down, the only thing that can be done with them is to bake an apple pie "Charlotte" with them (when the eggs are mixed with sugar and flour and this dough is poured onto apple slices).
 

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