Clear Skies Bring a Frost Tonight; Perth Discovers the Ice Scraper Is Exactly Where It Left It in March, Which Is Nowhere
Temperatures fall to around 0°C under clear skies. Car windscreens across the city brace themselves.
A frosty windscreen: Perth's Monday morning puzzle. Photo: Jayen466, “Frost pattern on windscreen 1”, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Tonight will be clear, with a touch of frost and temperatures falling to around zero, the Met Office says, meaning Perth will wake up on Monday to its first proper scrape of the season.
“I had an ice scraper,” said a woman from Scone. “I put it somewhere safe in March. That’s the problem. I always put it somewhere safe. I’ve never found anything I put somewhere safe.”
Perth drivers have a range of methods for dealing with a frozen windscreen. A Letham man uses a CD. “It’s a Simply Red album,” he said. “It’s the only use I’ve found for it.” A woman from Kinnoull uses a supermarket loyalty card, “because I’ve never used it for anything else.”
Experts warn against pouring boiling water on windscreens. Perth residents say they know, but it’s very satisfying.
The frost should clear quickly in Monday’s sunshine. The ice scraper will be found next July, in the glovebox, under a map of the Highlands from 1997.
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My ice scraper broke last winter. I’ve been using a CD. It’s a Daniel O’Donnell. Works a treat.
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