Kilting in the cold

[cessna152towser]

Great pic. Thats what it was like here in Scotland a month ago but most of our snow has gone now.

[Pleater]

Our weather has been too cold for snow - the warm - relatively speaking - air holds the moisture required for snow, evaporated off the sea - by warmth, again. This morning, with parcels to get to the Post Office I wore a black wool plaid over my long (27inch) cotton kilt with the red/grey/black/white stripes. As there was no overnight frost (for a change) I wore it with a short sleeved top. The temperature was 3 degrees Centigrade, but a wool plaid is more than a match for that.

When we have cold, dry, still air over us the warm damp moving air is pushed to the South or North.

If the warm air is travelling with enough power to push the cold air back over the continent then our weather is briefly damp - maybe a hailstone shower, and then the temperature rises.

Only when things are more evenly balanced, and the warm air rises over the cold, is there snow. Snow is not actually a sign of cold, but of calm warm conditions somewhere 'down weather'.

I would have thought that some enterprising person would have been organising chilled freight trains of snow to ship off to the Winter Olympics.....

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Ancienne Alliance]

Hey ! Give all that snow back to the Canadians !

We also have plenty of snow in France this year... straight from Norway ! Skal !

BTW, you look great !


Best,

Robert

[Jack Daw]

Geoff, you're lucky in that it''s not likely to stay on the ground long enough to turn colors.

[dfmacliam]

I think all of the snow slid down to Texas... DFW (Dallas/Ft Worth) has a record snowfall of 12.5 inches... last time they seen snow like that was 1961...

[Jack Daw]

I think all of the snow slid down to Texas... DFW (Dallas/Ft Worth) has a record snowfall of 12.5 inches... last time they seen snow like that was 1961...

Yes, there's record snickering in Houston.

[cavscout]

I did the digging in trousers. A nice kilt and good kilt hose is a warmer outfit!

You are so right! Standing out at my sons soccer practice the other night with wind at 17 mph and temps feeling like low teens wearing blue jeans sucked. My body heat was being lost through the cotton jeans so quickly and the denim was being chilled so much it was like ice when it touched my skin. Loosing body heat by convection or conduction is bad enough but both at the same time really is not fun. It's all I can do not to laugh when people ask "aren't you cold" or state, "you have to be soooooo cold" while wearing a kilt. If they only had a clue about the functionality of a kilt and the heat retention properties of wool

[lethearen]

We just got somewhere around a foot of snow in Dallas over the past couple of days. But c'mon, it's mid-February, it should be practically summer already!

[jhockin]

the term "global warming" is a wee bit misleading - better to think in terms of "climate change" ( hotter summers, colder winters, more extremes of weather).
Meanwhile, here in "lotus land", within 40 miles of the *******! olympics (which my grandchildren, at least, will still be paying for), here is what it looks like in my backyard garden:


and in Vancouver, the cheery trees are blooming

[Teufel Hunden]

Back in high school, the first time I ever wore a kilt, it was 20º out. I salute you sir, on behalf of cold kilters everywhere.