How to defrost your windscreen very, very quickly
Superbly-named meteorologist Ken Weathers suggests a simple solution of rubbing alcohol and water from a spray bottle
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Your support makes all the difference.With between 10 and 20cm of snow forecast in northern parts of the UK over the coming days, here’s some useful information about how to defrost a car’s windscreen quickly.
Promising a “better way” to defrost a windscreen than using an ice scraper or a defroster, meteorologist Ken Weathers suggests a simple solution of rubbing alcohol and water from a spray bottle.
Mr Weathers says he mixes 1/3 of a cup of water with 2/3 of a cup rubbing alcohol to produce the defrosting spray.
He says it works because rubbing alcohol has a freezing point of -128°C.
The Met Office is urging people to prepare for “very difficult travelling conditions” over the next few days, with possible disruption to public transport and power supplies.
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