Automatic watering vs Canberra chill

[LewisM]

Watering FAIL!

Heck, it was only -4° out where I live this morning...

Last photo was in our yard at 8am - it was still -1° and in the shadow.

[Octane]

You live at Costco? $14 pizzas every day!

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[FlashDrive]

:cold::cold::cold: :cold::cold::cold:

[LewisM]

Cn you tell that by my gut or the photo details? :P

[clive milne]

aka, "Spanner Weather"

[Wavytone]

When I lived there (1967-79) it was usual to have frosts from early April. By May they would be daily and -4 was not uncommon, could be -6. Garden pipes could freeze and split - it was usual to leave them with a very low flow (dripping) to prevent that.

[billdan]

I remember living in Canberra well, having to get a bucket of warm water to melt the ice on the windscreen each morning, before going to work.

Letting the car sit and idle before getting in, so as the heater/demister had warmed up first.

[sil]

I feel sorry for the birds, got a bird bath and the silvereyes are out there for hours trying to bathe on a piece of ice :(

[julianh72]

A few years ago, we were on a driving holiday through central Europe in the middle of winter. We were surprised at the number of people we saw walking out of their apartments in the morning, carrying what we took to be a steaming hot mug of tea or coffee. We were even more mystified when we saw them pouring it out over their car's door locks.

And then one night, our rental car's door locks froze up, and we worked out what was going on!

It just took a little bit of heat on the outside of the door lock to defrost the lock so you could open the door, and the locks wouldn't freeze again during the day, but would freeze up every night, for weeks on end.

I imagine BMWs and Mercedes come with heated door locks these days? :question: (Not something I have to worry about much in Brisbane!)

We once also made the huge mistake of using a cup of mildly warm water to try defrost the outside of the windscreen - it froze instantly on contact into a sheet of ice a couple of mm thick! From then on, we stuck with the tried and true method of scraping the frost off using a credit card.