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Hi, what's happening with the weather in the costas today? here in U.K. -16 c:frown:

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finally a time to focus on the one thing the Spanish can actually do well....the weather...swap a + for your - and you wouldn't be far off the temperature it will get to..partly cloudy looking along the coast towards Marbella with a gentle changeable breeze that appears to be coming from the south east at the moment...and this concludes the weather report from the western end of the CDS

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When I flew out of the UK last Monday it was Minus 12, Today here I am in Alhama de Murcia, the temperature is 8 degrees and quite a strong breeze (well pretty windy actually :o ) but compared to Britain it's positively summery... I had breakfast on the terrace...out of the wind.. It's paradise. :D:D

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Bloody glad I don't live where you do, here in the west I was out doing some early morning photography it was +5ºc and sunny at 8am. A cut and paste for the next few days here. In fact, as a keen photographer, I´d like some frosts, some snow even, it´s not something I get to shoot very often. The lowest temp predicted here next week is 4ºc.


10 February
Observed
High 5°C
Low 2°C
Precip. N/A

11 February
Forecast
Partly Cloudy
High 4°C
Low 1°C
Chance of Precip.
10%

12 February
Forecast
Partly Cloudy
High 7°C
Low 6°C
Chance of Precip.
10%

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:thumbup:knocking 20dg outside, cooler at night about 10

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A beautiful day here in inland Andalucia.

I'm sat inside with all the windows and doors open after having lunch out on the terrace, it was too hot for me to sit in the sun for very long.
The nights are going quite cool still at around 3c and a couple of nights down to zero.....but we are quite high up and very close to a mountain at the back of us.

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Thanks all, reinforced my determination to get out there ASAP

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Well I must have become very Spanish because it is bloody cold to me. Even in the sun the wind cuts to the bone. As for night time I have bought a pair of pj´s the first since I was ten years old. Would prefer UK though colder the house at least has central heating. My granddaughter was on skype earlier in a dress with no sleeves whilst I have thick jumpers on in the house.

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Never worn pj's either, apart from when I had to borrow some to go into hospital!;) Sat here now, just a shirt on, nothing on my feet, toasty! I think like you, there's some very cold Brits in Spain tonight, just they aren't as honest as you. I went out this morning early for a couple of hours, came home for some lunch, then my wife and I went out walking again for a few hours. Despite what some would have you believe here, life goes on without wall to wall sunshine, in fact I doubt many spend as much time outdoors as I do, enjoying the surrounding countryside. Bil used to be at the computer all day churning out over 40 posts telling me how brilliant the weather was outside. :rofl:

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Hi

For weather in Pago del Humo, Chiclana, Cádiz try www.chiclana-weather-station.org - but been cold here to

Davexf

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Just tell me when it is going to get better?

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Well I'm perishing inside the house, but to some extent it's our own choice as to what house we buy, what insulation/heating etc we retro-fit, how much we research the likely ambient temperature/humidity/wind speed, not to mention altitude.
With that caveat, I'd say the weather is still more pleasant because of the sun. We see it much more, and much more predictably, than in the UK even if every day isn't 42* and toasting sun.
And as has been said, by others too, I for one miss bil so :p

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It's been cold inside the house here too today, unusually we had the air-con running on heat all afternoon.
The sun has been shining and if you could find a spot out of the bitterly cold north east wind it was quite pleasant, but that wind is biting!

At the moment it's the tiled floors that feel the worst, I must get some sheepskin lined slippers for next winter as the cold is coming right through the ones I'm wearing.....but only a few weeks to go and it's going to be much warmer!

I miss Bil too, I wish they would let him come back

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We will never understand the Spanish & ViceVersa.
Yesterday because it was freezing inside the house (even wearing thick jumpers) we sat outside, and before long were stripped down to t- shirts in the warm sunshine on our terrace.
Our neighbour comes out all wrapped up in her well padded house-coat and scarf to hang her washing and tells us "we must be mad" I asked her "why? it's much warmer here than in the house" She went back in shaking her head and eventually we were forced back inside by the choking smoke from her chimney:rofl:

Why do the Spanish people insist on spending the winter freezing in the house and will not consider sitting outside until July? And then do nowt but complain that it's too hot, while we spend our time cooling off inside?

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A lot of times I feel colder in the house than outside. This is due to the poor construction of these houses with no insulation at all. You think that the govt tries to conserve energy by introducing solar & yet they allow builders to build such poor quality houses with NO insulation.

The weather in this part of Spain is cold enough to need good insulation houses to conserve energy.

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You cannot build a house without insulation any more.

The Spanish building regulation specify thermal insulation in all houses and have done so for the last 10 years. Our house has cavity walls with 4" of foam plus an air gap. The roof is also insulated.

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We have just had a new flat roof terrace put in and the builder put the thick insulation pads down first so I presume that even remedial work is affected by this law.

Rosemary

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Actually, based on average temperatures in Spain this week, its been colder in Spain than the UK!

It was -7c in the city of Granada in the daytime. A big chunk of inland has been between -10 to -20c at night.

Every winter there is a lot more snow in Spain than there is in the UK

Just goes to show that the Brits live in a tiny part of Spain that is sheltered by the Coasts

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living in Northern Granada Province, 20k N of the city.

its b****y Frio here at the moment,
nights to -4
days to be lucky to reach +15
but the UK will be lucky to get a 5 degree change night/day.

definitely not enough to warm a Spanish house filled with marble and ceramic wall & floor tiles. Even cold on the terrace in the sun at this moment.

Don't know about Fred's insulation, it doesnt feel as if any generated heat is being retained, just goes straight out of the walls and windows.
And very few Spanish houses have any form of heating so the electricity bill goes up and up, along with the weekly visit to replace the butane bottle.

look forward to the +45 we had out here last summer...............

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OMG, please don't make me feel any worse! We're going to Granada tomorrow for a couple of days (for San Valentin) and I'm looking out my warmest clothes to take. I don't think I will look the part for a romantic dinner muffled up in a fleece and scarf!:D

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Maybe you should say Andalucian or Granadan houses dont have heating or insulation.

Those I've stayed in, in the North of Spain during winter are perfectly warm and insulated

The ones down in the South and on the Med Coast are freezing though!

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In the CB North ...... and this morning my Swimming Pool was frozen :eek:

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now that is the downside of living the dream
:rofl:

last Saturday my UK home town was -13.5c

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Ummmmmmmmmmm well that is another regulation that has been ignored.

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What has happened to Bil?:confused:

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He got banned.....permanently! :(

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If you build a "legal" house it is impossible to ignore it and it has to be incorporated into the building project and costed into it so there is little point in not doing it.

People do not seem to realise how the regs have changed since the 90's.

When we built our house we had to supply concrete and steel samples for each stage of the build which were tested (at great expense) to ensure that the specification had been met.

Independent consulting engineers were involved all through the process and this was essential to get the mandatory 10 years garuantee on the house (again at great expense).

Then there was the mandatory geological survey with core samples drilled all over the site and of course the seismic risk analysis - I could go on!

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Why?

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He was banned for breaking the site rules.

Please can we leave it that - this is not the place to discuss moderator actions.

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I guess for being Bil...
I was in UK at the time so didn't see what went on...you can find him on Facebook.

:focus:
I'm freezing sat here, off to sit in front of the fire for a while, I'll be happy when I'm saying once again that it's too hot!

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I guess because of cold weather, humidity, rainfall, etc., is not so prevalent in Spain as it is in the UK, I think that not even in the colder areas of Spain

Therefore, it is understandable that the houses in UK necessarily are better insulated, of the same way that also I understand there is scoundrels builders save money by making lower-quality homes than could be

But is my opinion

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glad you said that...
went out with the dog at lunchtime and looked at the construction of some houses round here and
No Insulation.
Just a concrete pour shell and the usual thin terracotta bricks full of holes for the walls, one wall, nothing on the inside.

no wonder I am so cold in the house I have to go out for a walk to warm up

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The first three months after moving here four and a half years ago we lived in Mijitas Pueblo down on the coast, they were building a block of flats at the back of us and three villas at the front.....not one piece of insulation went into any of those buildings!

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You won't see the insulation going in. They usually spray PU foam onto the inside of the wall and then build another course of bricks or board in front of it.

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Ours was breeze block followed by poly insulation followed by ladrillos and screeded with cement on both sides.

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Believe me Fred....it didn't go in, not in any way shape or form! :ohmy:
Perhaps that's why to this day they are still unoccupied.

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For those of you with insulation, do you feel warmer & does it help to reduce heat loss?

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I'm not disputing that but they mainly use sprayed foam so it might be obvious that it has been used,

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It's impossible to say without comparing it to an identical house without insulation.

In theory it is bound to improve things but to what extent depends on the individual house.

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Well if the Gulf Stream was to switch off we would all be permanantly much colder even here in Spain, and if we could live at that temperature walk across from France to UK, just not sure if the Bay of Biscay would freeze over to allow a walk from Spain without going via France.