The last few days have been really cold (OK, not as cold as the UK has been for the last fortnight), it's been around -2c at night. The days have been incredibly windy and coming from the north so they've had a real cold edge, so much so I went to the market on Saturday and bought cold weather stuff - thick tights for under my trousers, woolly hat and big scarf.
As it started to get dark yesterday it started to snow....
and snow.......
and snow!
The forecast had said snow was likely above 800m and we live at 1085m. I can be so precise because we live at the summit of our hill which has a road sign declaring the summit point - 1085m!
We have been leaving the heating on all night and 24/7 heating goes through our little gas bottles at an alarming rate. The people where we change our bottles are becoming our new best friends. While we wait for our big tank we have no choice but to use the small bottles but where they have been lasting about a week, at the moment they are barely lasting into day 5. We have a system of 4 bottles, 2 on/2 off. This means when 2 run out we switch them over to the other 2 and can then disconnect the empties and take them to exchange for full ones.
By the time we went to bed it had stopped snowing but was incredibly cold. I didn't think we would have anymore snow as the sky was clear and I could see stars - not a snow cloud around.
What I didn't expect was to get up this morning and find...............
....... it had more or less all gone!
Overnight the temperature had risen from -2c to +4c!
I can only assume it was the wind direction that had changed. As we drove into town to change yet more bottles there was a few traces of snow still hanging on to the north facing slopes of the mountain but they would soon be gone.
By mid-afternoon we were seeing sunshine and +10c.
In the sun the thermometer was showing +20c.
The forecast shows the next 2 weeks are mild, daytime temperatures around 14-16c! The snow is only expected at heights above 2,000m, well above us.
Bizarre!
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