Now I Know How Noah Felt

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must surely be freezing in Oxfordshire too - have not these flooded streets now turned into a giant ice rink?

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

the flooded tubes have turned into giant popsicles!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

(Ed did not noticed when I turned the heating well up in order to dry my clothes on the radiator... provoking long discussion about the best way to dry clothes... we can have IL* chatter in real time!)

― kate, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Freezing in Brighton. At least I do not live on (or IN, as it often was) the Lewes flood plain any more.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 16:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

''must surely be freezing in Oxfordshire too - have not these flooded streets now turned into a giant ice rink?''

if that's true then grebt!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 22:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

-6 degrees in Oxfordshire, Brrrrrr.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 22:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

now that the railway line twixt Didcot & Oxford is no longer actually flooded, can we assume that any delays are being blamed on the "wrong type of ice"?

Our water feature isn't working this morning. Not sure whether it has frozen up or has just been switched off so it *doesn't* freeze up.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 08:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Breaking news on the Today programme this morning: exhaustive (and fascinating) experiments with two bird baths proved, live on air, that hot water DOES freeze faster than cold, so we shouldn't put it in our bird baths in the hope of warming our little feathered friends. World-shaking.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 09:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

bird bath + cold weather = bent beaks

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 10:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hot water freezes quicker than cold water becoz when it is hot more of it evaporates hence there is less water to freeze when the tempteratures equalize!

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't think that is not the reason, Pete. It is actually warm, not hot water, that freezes fastest. I followed this on the back page of the New Scientist for a while. I think the best reason I read was that cold water freezes too quickly on top, forming a cell that insulates the rest of the water.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Strike 'not' from the first sentence above, sense fans.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

there was also loads of stuff in new scientist about those weird spikes that water in saucers sometimes has when it freezes

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Has anyone heard that Australian guy on late night Radio 5 who answers questions on any scientific subject on the spot. He's brilliant, and has no links to far right politics that I know of!

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

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