What is the weather like in Poland where you are now?

Erzurum is very high city (1870 meters from sea level) it always has lower average than Poland in temperature, but yes luckily there is very warm winter in Poland this year.

It was minus 20 this morning here in Podlasie; about minus 14 now. I've got the car covered with old carpets as we're expecting another cold one tonight and I have to leave for work at six tomorrow. The cat refuses to stay out for more than two minutes. I heard it's much less cold in the West of the country. Anyone?

Warsaw was -15C in the morning today and is now at -10,5C. Nasty, but I still remember -26C a few years ago (at night) :-)

In central Warsaw (i.e. the bit which is usually a couple of degrees warmer than the outskirts) it was -14.9 this morning. I hear talk that it's supposed to be as low as -30 next week but am less than entirely convinced by such forecasts.

That was the worst winter for forty years. I got up in the night to put fuel on the fire and it was 32 below outside the window!

They forecast approx. -30C for Podlasie and Lubelskie for this coming Thursday, we might be a notch above that in Warsaw from what I hear.

-29,5°C in January 2006 in Warsaw!! I still feel it..

It was harsh indeed Teflcat. But I kind of think the worst winters are such when it freezes your (and mine) ass off at -10C for about 1 to 2 months straight, with little or no breaks. Luckily have not had those recently. But let's wait and see.... I just hope that spell will be broken soon.

One of mine was sleeping last night with her head wedged inside the radiator.

That winter I was shovelling snow out front. Later I discovered that my Maglite had dropped out of my pocket. I didn't find it until the spring, at the bottom of our pond, where it had been for about three months. It worked without even a change of batteries. The best thing to have ever come out of California. (Hungarian invetor, I think. Maybe Polish!) I wrote and thanked Maglite for their great product and they sent me another one. Cool firm.

don't know about the next week but it looks like it's gonna be snowing on the weekend - (if it's gonna be snowing it's not gonna be so cold)

Poor puss! Did you read about those people complaining that the powers that be in their block had limited the heating to 18c? That's ok for adults but for families with littluns it's too low, especially now. What's the usual temp. in flats?

24 oC

I live in a 16 storey appt. block and the temperature easily reaches 27 when I shut all the windows with radiators at max, even at this temperature. Historically (from what I remember) even the old commie buildings have been well heated at least in the past 15-20 years. In communist times however it would be a problem due to lack of coal (imagine that in a coal producing country). Oh, and they would switch off energy for like 2 hrs per day as well back then!

Ok, time to open the window a little :-)

One of the others was sleeping on top of a radiator.


Indeed an excellent product. Croatian inventor I think. I keep a couple in the flat and a six D cell version in the car (results in the same solutions as a baseball bat but far few questions about it, and it helps you see after dark).


Mine is usually about that.

Before my (tiny) sister-in-law got married she attended a self-defence class for women run by a good-hearted copper. He told the women to keep a six D cell Maglite under the bed for the same reason you imply.

On a high up shelf near the front door is also a place where it can be handy to keep a torch capable of illuminating things which are quite a long way away.

I want more snow - come on, weekend, come on

I noticed it's minus 15 and getting colder now. Where I am, it's plus 20 and getting hotter. 35 degrees difference. Interesting when I return home next week and step out of the airport into the freezing cold.The danger when it's so cold is that everyone's indoors with no ventilation breathing the cold virus everywhere.

the virus of cold gets killed in the freezing air - cold is much more ubiquitous in cold and damp periods

That's true. there are two schools of thought about disease transmission in cold weather. To wrap up like Nanook of the North to avoid getting a chill or to avoid confined, sealed spaces full of coughing people. I do both.

why do people do this?? it does absolutely nothing but look completely ridiculous.

cold weather is not to be feared- it does a body good. Polish people seem to be scared of the cold and dress their children in 6 layers so they sweat and then get sick from being too hot and sitting in their own sweat.

Last week I changed planes in Calgary- it was -35. Now that is cold. -20 is not too bad if you dress for it.

it prevents ice buildup on your windscreen and other window panes - to scratch your windscreen, rear view mirrors etc is not the nicest way to start a day when it's -20 at six o'clock

If I didn't do this, I wouldn't be able to get the damn door open. If you want to buy me a heated garage, I'd be very grateful.

perhaps where I come from scraping off windows in the winter is the norm. same with warming up your car for 10 minutes while scraping windows. I also think that my standard Canadian winter weather of -35 will not change the amount of ice on a windshield no matter what you put on it.

I guess I don't mind scraping off the windows and then getting into a warm car. makes me Canadian, I suppose.

But what if you can't get into the car?

My fuel cap froze last winter...that was a rather ridiculous situation :( -20c in Poznan, low on fuel and a frozen fuel cap. Bah was the only word I could utter.

Quick way to avoid is spray WD-40 round your trims, the better way is to rub vaseline on them.

You must be regular at ' militaria' on Tamka !


This is exactly what was recommended to us, by the Gorals.


Vaseline Petroleum Jelly or cooking spray, on the foot pads of cats and dogs is a good protection, when they are out in extreme cold, they can suffer from frost bite.

Minus 29C at 0600 this morning. Minus 26 now in Podlasie.

So you are glad the Mrs bought you thermals for xmas lol

On a serious note, this polish company do some good inexpensive outdoor clothing
fjordnansen.com.pl/site