Winter

[bellinghman]

It's definitely winter out there. The frost we had last night was spectacular - better than a snowfall - and it's still comfortably sub-zero. I'm just glad I'm not out driving in it, since part of the reason is that it's very slightly foggy too.

Comments

[timill]

It's perfectly reasonable out. Though I did have to find a can of de-icer spray for the car windows, since scraping was pretty ineffective. Let's hear it for heated windscreens!

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

And heated wing mirrors.

Though it is a bit odd standing nearby and watching two faint vapour trails rising from the wing mirrors, when the rest of the car is still solid frost.

[sparrowsion]

I broke my scraper clearing the windscreen this morning….

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Ah, I ran the engine for a few minutes first. Yes, that's not wonderfully fuel efficient (the manual advises starting the engine and moving off immediately when possible), but I'm not hugely happy about the content of some de-icers, and I'm trying to keep the nastier chemicals off the paintwork.

I'm going to give it its first clean one of these days. Silver certainly shows up the winter muck.

[sparrowsion]

I don't like using de-icers either, which is why I was scraping hard enough to break the scraper. And it's entirely possible, with my car, that if try and leave it running for a few minutes, it will have other ideas (in the name of fuel efficiency). Although first thing, it does seem happy to run the engine even while sat stationary (getting up to operating temperature?)