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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 20:51:27 JST Charlie Stross

   A screenshot from Apple Weather on this iPad right now.

   No alt text because I cropped it: it simply reads:

   Edinburgh

   4 ℃ | Feels like -15 ℃

   I think I'm staying home today.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:23:53 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Graydon

     @graydon Luckily we're on the east side of the land mass and the incoming wind is from the west, so it's dropping a lot of the rain before it gets this far. However, we have slate roofs 10 metres up overlooking the pavement: hard hats are recommended!

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     Graydon (graydon@canada.masto.host)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:23:55 JST Graydon

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     @cstross A sound plan, especially as the implied wind speed is nigh-guaranteed to put precipitation right up one's nasal passages.

     (Just out of a couple-three days of extreme cold warnings hereabouts; the text included the observation that it hasn't been the cold in several years, please take this seriously, and I kept wanting to go "yeah, yeah, I remember what cold is like" at the hypothetical meteorologist who wrote the warning. I imagine it hits very different when you DON'T remember.)

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     Colin the Mathmo (colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 23:54:56 JST Colin the Mathmo

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     • Pozorvlak

     @cstross I would recommend it.

     There is a saying: There is no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing.

     But as my friend @pozorvlak says:

     "Sometimes the appropriate clothing is *building*".

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