Although it's only the beginning of November I notice the temperature is dropping rapidly. It seems to be very near the freezing point. Anyone have an explanation?
jdk

Hi there,

not specifically, but it's about the same here.

What I keep noticing is that the transition from warm to cold weather (or vice versa) is getting shorter and shorter over the past 20 to 30 years. Remember, when we were kids, there was a period called autumn with moderate temperatures, dropping slowly to the winter level over a time of, say, six to eight weeks. Same in spring.

Nowadays we're wearing summer clothes until late October, and then suddenly, within just a week or so, there's the first frost or even snow.

And I specifically remember January of 2009 which had a few days so mild that you could go out with just a T-shirt.

They're talking about global warming. The local effect of that seems to be that the weather is getting more extreme in many places.

[X] Doc CPU

I would call it freak weather -- it's around 8C here as I type and it has been similar the last few days or so at least. I think we may have had an unusually warm October though which may make it seem like the transition from summer to winter just happened but the current temperatures feel about right for this time of year as does the rain.

Thanks to both of you. So this freeze has nothing to do with Debian nor with Guy Fawkes. I noticed that all the bonfires and fireworks didn't prevent the freeze. Anyway it's reassuring to learn that Debian is not to blame.
Cheers,
jdk

I see now.
Perhaps fewer people downloading Debian is causing less power to be used thus making it colder?
Funnily enough though I haven't noticed a freeze of any other kind also -- I've had a truck load of Debian updates on my Sid system and a few on my Raspbian one also.

Over 100 for me the last couple of days until this morning and today...? Only 2, and one of them was opera-developer. I do an upgrade very morning at 8:00 (GMT) so it's easier to spot freezes in the offing.
jdk

The temperature has sky-rocketed in Debianville. Yesterday a complete freeze and today? 163 upgrades! Go figure. I don't know whether (weather?) to wear a parka or bermuda shorts tomorrow.
jdk

Plenty of upgrades on my Sid install lately, so it's quite "hot" here.

Yes, same here, I expected only a few updates but had 173 for my Sid install.
That will certainly make my electricity company happy and my ISP sad.

I'm not using Debian any more and the temperature seems pretty normal in these parts. If anything, it's warmer than it should be.

(When Sid went to SystemD, it borked my configuration.)

Yes, Sid I can understand. But my 163 were for Testing. Anyway we'll what Monday morning will bring.
jdk

Ok, 8:15 (GMT) 0 upgrades. Maybe now the long freeze begins.
jdk

Why can you understand for Sid. Sid practically stops when testing goes into freeze. Developers devote the vast majority of their time to testing when its in freeze. I think you'll find the freeze started later than planned and that is why the huge amount of updates come through.

Maybe because I was fooled by the Debian naming policy. Sid is always Sid so I (falsely) assumed that there was a constant stream (trickle?) of upgrades coming into Sid while Testing was frozen. If Sid is "Unstable" what happens when the freeze is over and suddenly 400 upgrades come flooding in? Things should be ... interesting for the first few weeks.
jdk

no it is not dropping

McMurdo Station is WARMING , it is SPRING TIME !!!!!!!