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Title: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 16 December, 2009, 11:19:20 am
In Reading. And even starting to settle. The grass was still frosted when it began.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 16 December, 2009, 11:20:14 am
Here too! Hope it lies, so minimac can use the sledge we got just in time for the big melt last year  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Paul D on 16 December, 2009, 11:23:33 am
Sunny as always here in Dorset. There's some rain & subzero temps forecast for late tonight though, so the commute is in the balance tomorrow. If only I'd succumbed to the tempatation to buy those studded tyres. ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Julian on 16 December, 2009, 11:24:12 am
Snow in west London :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 16 December, 2009, 11:30:05 am
drizzle in yorkshire! Hurra - oh  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Salvatore on 16 December, 2009, 11:30:17 am
Snowing here in N Hampshire.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 December, 2009, 11:31:12 am
Bloodnok: Never mind these naughty winds light to variable! What about some earthquakes in East Acton?
Seagoon: What about earthquakes in East Acton?
Bloodnok: What about...? I've been training at this school for six years to say "earthquakes in East Acton."
Seagoon: So what?
Bloodnok: Well, they never had one!
Seagoon: Ah, ah, yes! But at the slightest tremor, I'll write to the BBC!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 December, 2009, 11:32:21 am
Happiness for you all.  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Charlotte on 16 December, 2009, 11:35:54 am
It's snowing in West Ruislip an' all  :D

*little happy snow dance*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 16 December, 2009, 11:38:18 am
<nose pressed to window>

<waits expectantly>
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 16 December, 2009, 11:41:44 am
flurries here, not really settling. 

*doesn't fancy cycling in the sno*


Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MattH on 16 December, 2009, 11:51:20 am
Just small flakes here in Basingstoke, not settling.
I love cycling in the snow - as long as there are no cars around!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Charlotte on 16 December, 2009, 11:51:36 am
flurries here, not really settling. 

*doesn't fancy cycling in the sno*

I *love* cycling in the SNO  :smug:

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tim on 16 December, 2009, 11:52:37 am
I'm hoping for a repeat of February the 1st.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 16 December, 2009, 11:53:49 am
 :(
Drizzle in Brum
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 December, 2009, 12:03:09 pm
Dull and cold in Saarfend. No precipitation yet.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 16 December, 2009, 12:04:16 pm
<licking window>

<waits expectantly>

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 16 December, 2009, 12:06:36 pm
Snow in Suffolk.

 ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 16 December, 2009, 12:18:32 pm
In mid-Essex we have light snow.  Going out for a ride in a minute.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: matthew on 16 December, 2009, 12:24:08 pm
Snow in East Berks, I am glad I have the day as leave, though my second days gardening is on hold!!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 16 December, 2009, 12:30:04 pm
Oh dear, snow in the bottom right hand corner of Englandshire.  I do hope this isn't taken as a cue for the so-called BBC 'national' news to run one of their customary 'Whole Country At a Standstill' stories...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Julian on 16 December, 2009, 12:39:01 pm
I've just been for a 20 minute run round the park in the sno and am Considerably Chirpier than I've been for a while (work stress = teh suck = not much exercise = grumpy chubster of a Julian)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MattH on 16 December, 2009, 12:42:52 pm
I'm hoping for a repeat of February the 1st.

Yes, I had a fun ride that day :thumbsup: (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=14725.msg265229#msg265229)
It's now snowing more heavily at Basingstoke, but still small flakes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 16 December, 2009, 12:44:36 pm
Oh dear, snow in the bottom right hand corner of Englandshire.  I do hope this isn't taken as a cue for the so-called BBC 'national' news to run one of their customary 'Whole Country At a Standstill' stories...

I think BBC breakfast started that annual story this morning  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 16 December, 2009, 01:09:12 pm
only very light sleet here in Southampton
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TheLurker on 16 December, 2009, 01:21:33 pm
I don't give a frozen rat's arse whether it's 'pretty' or not.  It had just better not bloody well snow here.  High pressure narrow tyres, close clearance mudguards and snow are not a happy combination and I will be severely disgruntled if it interferes with the few cycling days I've got left before Xmas.  Grumble, mutter, chunter, grumble....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 16 December, 2009, 01:24:59 pm
Just brainfreeze rain here.  I wan' sno!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tom B on 16 December, 2009, 01:50:41 pm
Still raining at Old Trafford  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 December, 2009, 01:52:47 pm
Still raining at Old Trafford  :)

Have they gone in for bad light?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 16 December, 2009, 01:59:09 pm
Yay, it's snowing properly again after a break :D. Hurrah!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: JT on 16 December, 2009, 02:07:56 pm
Looked like it might snow about an hour ago but it's ended up as rain here in Cambridgeshire.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: kcass on 16 December, 2009, 02:41:50 pm
It's settling!  in west London
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 16 December, 2009, 02:47:27 pm
Turned into wintry drizzle here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 16 December, 2009, 02:58:43 pm
Finally got proper snow in Saaaarfend :thumbsup:

Not settling  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 December, 2009, 03:32:56 pm
(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/6773-2/Snapshot+2009-12-16+15-25-30.jpg)

Blimey!  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 16 December, 2009, 03:34:16 pm
What is 15-20cm in real money?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 December, 2009, 03:35:08 pm
What is 15-20cm in real money?

6 to 8 inches
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 16 December, 2009, 03:36:42 pm
What is 15-20cm in real money?

that would be approximately 0.15-0.2m. ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 16 December, 2009, 03:37:27 pm
There was no snow here, but with heavy rain and a temperature of -2 this morning, I thought it prudent to leave the bikes in the shed and play with the Turbo Trainer instead. Man it was slippy out there  :o :hand:

Foggy now, and very chilly. When I nipped outside to fill the log basket, I noticed how much ice and frost there still is in the ground.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: delthebike on 16 December, 2009, 03:40:50 pm
What is 15-20cm in real money?

that would be approximately 0.15-0.2m. ;D
The floor will get/is getting wet.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 December, 2009, 03:43:24 pm
Darkest Essex: drizzle.
Gatwick (earlier): SNO.
Cambridge (just now): No SNO.
Crystal Palace: Lots of SNO.

My spies are everywhere :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 16 December, 2009, 03:46:59 pm
What is 15-20cm in real money?

15-20 cms is the usual for a money shot.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TheLurker on 16 December, 2009, 03:59:06 pm
Well it made me laugh...

BBC NEWS | UK | Commuters braced for heavy snow (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk/8416010.stm)

"... but it's the first dump of the season and we seem to struggle on these occasions."

*sits back and waits for picolax jokes*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 16 December, 2009, 04:00:15 pm
(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/6773-2/Snapshot+2009-12-16+15-25-30.jpg)

Blimey!  :o

That's what BBC breakfast were forecasting this morning.  I'm guessing we'll get very little snow down here in costa-del-saarfend, coupled with severe traffic disruption and letters of complaint to the local paper that the council didn't grit.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 December, 2009, 04:07:28 pm
OK, time will tell, but those NE winds were exactly what we had in 1962-63 and 1987. In the latter case, Saarfend was the coldest place in the country for about a week, with 18 inches of snow lying.
(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/4792-2/IGLOO1+_1_.jpg)

That's Dez's head sticking out of the top of the igloo. That photo was taken about a week after the snow fell and we made the igloo out of compacted snow from the pavement outside.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 16 December, 2009, 04:12:20 pm
Global Warming will have consigned those kind of events to history I think. Maybe.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Charlotte on 16 December, 2009, 04:16:01 pm
Not if the Gulf Stream craps out on us.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 16 December, 2009, 04:23:52 pm
Not if the Gulf Stream craps out on us.
The mini ice age with harsh winters?

After last winter and seeing 6 or 7 inches of ice on the canal for the first time I can remember I think you may be on to something.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Charlotte on 16 December, 2009, 04:32:45 pm
If you compare UK temperatures with those on the other side of the pond at the same lattitude and wonder why we're not freezing our tits off, that'll be all the lovely Atlantic currents which have been bringing us warm water and good weather for centuries.

Problem is, the massive ice fields up near Greenland at the northern end of the Gulf Stream are melting and sending big ol' wodges of cold water into the ocean system and interrupting the flow of this rather useful Ocean Conveyor Belt.

Executive Summary:  We're fucked  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 16 December, 2009, 04:34:42 pm
Executive Summary:  We're fucked  :(

Cyclist's Summary; Surly Pugsley with spiked 4" tyres here we come!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 16 December, 2009, 04:38:01 pm
At least Nutty would stop complaining about the intense heat of early winter. :demon: ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 16 December, 2009, 04:40:05 pm
Looking forward to it.

At the moment our heatwave summers and rainy winters aren't very nice.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 16 December, 2009, 04:47:59 pm
If you compare UK temperatures with those on the other side of the pond at the same lattitude and wonder why we're not freezing our tits off, that'll be all the lovely Atlantic currents which have been bringing us warm water and good weather for centuries.

Problem is, the massive ice fields up near Greenland at the northern end of the Gulf Stream are melting and sending big ol' wodges of cold water into the ocean system and interrupting the flow of this rather useful Ocean Conveyor Belt.

Executive Summary:  We're fucked  :(
Depends on how far south it shifts. If we get 17th-18th century weather, we'll get by, albeit with much colder winters.  I'd invest in a ski lift in the Chilterns. ;)

Darkest Essex: drizzle.
Gatwick (earlier): SNO.
Cambridge (just now): No SNO.
Crystal Palace: Lots of SNO.

My spies are everywhere :D
Reading: drizzle with occasional cold slushy bits in it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: SteveC on 16 December, 2009, 04:49:17 pm
Atlantic drift going off will probably lead to 1962 type winters once in every 4 to 7 years (the models are not completely consistent).  How our modern car based economy would cope with this would be 'interesting' to watch.  Some things would be easier (far fewer houses have their fuel delivered in lorries these days) but the sheer length of commutes and the expectation that people can always drive to meetings and so on would make things rather more difficult.  (Mrs C has been to Cornwall, Gloucestershire and Bristol this week for example which would never have been considered for someone at her level in the organisation fifty years ago).

Steve
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: токамак on 16 December, 2009, 04:50:46 pm
Problem is, the massive ice fields up near Greenland at the northern end of the Gulf Stream are melting and sending big ol' wodges of cold water into the ocean system and interrupting the flow of this rather useful Ocean Conveyor Belt.

Thermohaline circulation. (http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/508.htm)

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is important because in the present climate it is responsible for a large portion of the heat transport from the tropics to higher latitudes, and it plays an important role in the oceanic uptake of CO2. Palaeo-oceanographic investigations suggest that aspects of longer-term climate change are associated with changes in the ocean's thermohaline circulation.


I don't think the climatic effects of this system on Europe are yet fully understood, but it's certainly an area of serious concern.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 16 December, 2009, 04:52:38 pm
Looking forward to it.

At the moment our heatwave summers and rainy winters aren't very nice.

Got any Norwegians in the familiy tree, Nutty?  :demon: ;)


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Cat insists on sleeping on your bed with you
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Green Bay Packers fans put on T-shirts

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Japanese cars don't start

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The Norwegians start drying their laundry indoors.

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You plan a two week hot bath
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Green Bay Packer Fans put on sweaters.

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Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 16 December, 2009, 05:06:08 pm
Quote
10°F -12°C 261K
Too cold to ski
Nonsense!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 16 December, 2009, 07:11:01 pm
Don't forget the whole new random factor: the ice-free Arctic water has created a new stable weather pattern called the Arctic Dipole, which alternates with the regular patterns.  It's likely to intensify or mutate; an autumn with a warm wet Arctic could throw a lot of weather our way.  Basically, all bets are off.  If all bets were on, we'd be on warmer, wetter winters and cooler, wetter summers.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 16 December, 2009, 07:19:32 pm
Oh no!

Snow in S.E. England. 
Rest of Great Britain cut off by snow in S.E. England.
 ::-)
How will we cope?
 ;D

Only pulling yer leg, chaps.  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Aidan on 16 December, 2009, 07:27:45 pm
Oh no!

Snow in S.E. England. 
Rest of Great Britain cut off by snow in S.E. England.
 ::-)
How will we cope?
 ;D

Only pulling yer leg, chaps.  ;)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 16 December, 2009, 07:38:18 pm
Not if the Gulf Stream craps out on us.

After one of the warmest, wettest November on record, it's hard to see the evidence that this is actually happening.

When we start having long cold spells, and start breaking low temperature records, I'll buy you a Tizer, doff my cap and say "You were right, and I was wrong."  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 16 December, 2009, 07:52:20 pm
Not if the Gulf Stream craps out on us.

After one of the warmest, wettest November on record, it's hard to see the evidence that this is actually happening.

When we start having long cold spells, and start breaking low temperature records, I'll buy you a Tizer, doff my cap and say "You were right, and I was wrong."  :)

I may be wrong here, but I don't think you're going to see any "evidence" before it happens.
The North Atlantic Conveyor either works, or it doesn't.
If it switches off, you're going to need as much body hair as possible.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 16 December, 2009, 08:36:20 pm
The North Atlantic Conveyor either works, or it doesn't.

It sunk didn't it?

Oh, that was on the South Atlantic.  :-[
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 December, 2009, 08:40:23 pm
It's pishing with rain up here the noo.
However the forecast is for frost and a bit of damp snow, so I've put my bike away for the rest of the week. The roads round Chez Pingu don't get gritted and I did enough falling off last winter to know I'd rather take the bus.

Yes, I know I am a woose.  :hand:

<thinks a bit too late: bollox, I forgot to grit the front steps......> :facepalm:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 16 December, 2009, 08:44:17 pm
The North Atlantic Conveyor either works, or it doesn't.

It sunk didn't it?

Oh, that was on the South Atlantic.  :-[
My Dad did some work on it. They built a new one after the original was sunk
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 16 December, 2009, 09:43:58 pm
It's likely to play merry hell with my cycling to work, since it's the psyclepath (never salted) or the dual carriageway (people buzz you because you "should" be on the psyclepath).

That's why I've been going out in the rain for weeks - that's better than just getting fat in the car.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 16 December, 2009, 10:31:53 pm
Oh no!

Snow in S.E. England.  
Rest of Great Britain cut off by snow in S.E. England.
 ::-)
How will we cope?
 ;D

Only pulling yer leg, chaps.  ;)

uh um.... (http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/studdedtires.asp)


I've always wanted to try a set of those...
Ah, yes. From before Nokia started making mobile phones, when its main businesses included paper products, tyres, wires & rubber macs.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Valiant on 16 December, 2009, 10:35:57 pm
I hated today. Too cold for normal people clothes, too hot for the proper winter cycling attire. I arrived at work overheated and sweating.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 16 December, 2009, 10:46:17 pm
Not if the Gulf Stream craps out on us.

After one of the warmest, wettest November on record, it's hard to see the evidence that this is actually happening.

When we start having long cold spells, and start breaking low temperature records, I'll buy you a Tizer, doff my cap and say "You were right, and I was wrong."  :)

I may be wrong here, but I don't think you're going to see any "evidence" before it happens.
The North Atlantic Conveyor either works, or it doesn't.
If it switches off, you're going to need as much body hair as possible.
According to this paper from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, past cooling events  appear to have taken years ("as short as a decade" counts as abrupt), & have varied immensely in severity & duration. The post-1300 "little ice age" was of a different order of magnitude than the Younger Dryas, or even the 8200 year event.
Abrupt Climate Change : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12455&tid=282&cid=9986)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrew_s on 17 December, 2009, 01:02:07 am
According to this paper from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, past cooling events  appear to have taken years ("as short as a decade" counts as abrupt), & have varied immensely in severity & duration. The post-1300 "little ice age" was of a different order of magnitude than the Younger Dryas, or even the 8200 year event.
Abrupt Climate Change : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12455&tid=282&cid=9986)
This report says the Younger Dryas started in about a year
Big Freeze: Earth Could Plunge into Sudden Ice Age | LiveScience (http://www.livescience.com/environment/091202-fast-ice-age.html)
(also in New Scientist a few weeks back)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 17 December, 2009, 01:20:02 am
It also says it was triggered by a freak event which happened all at once. Where are the conditions to kick that off now? The Greenland ice cap is melting, but unless a very large part of it melts in one great splash, rather than piecemeal summer by summer, we're not going to have a repeat.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 17 December, 2009, 06:40:00 am
Atlantic drift going off will probably lead to 1962 type winters once in every 4 to 7 years (the models are not completely consistent).  How our modern car based economy would cope with this would be 'interesting' to watch.  Some things would be easier (far fewer houses have their fuel delivered in lorries these days) but the sheer length of commutes and the expectation that people can always drive to meetings and so on would make things rather more difficult.  (Mrs C has been to Cornwall, Gloucestershire and Bristol this week for example which would never have been considered for someone at her level in the organisation fifty years ago).

Steve
You'll do what people have been doing for decades in some other parts of the world. Have different summer and winter tyres. And I don't mean either studs or chains, unless, perhaps, you live in the Scottish Highlands.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 17 December, 2009, 07:47:17 am
It also says it was triggered by a freak event which happened all at once.

Sudden Arctic sea ice melt could do it if (1) the whole thing went at once, which isn't unlikely for floating ice on water, it's a phase change kinda thang, and (2) the wind was blowing all those bergs into the Atlantic where the had a mighty melty dump - which is much less likely; odds are they'd piffle out en route and in situ.

Greenland ice sheet melt would do it and the current offers on the Copenhagen table are at the 'worst case' end of the scale, anticipating 4-7 degrees of warming, at which you'd get that melt easily.

Winter tyres?  Nokians are awesome.  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 17 December, 2009, 10:39:22 am
But will they still be able to make them once all the oil's gone?  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 17 December, 2009, 10:46:46 am
It's just started snowing here.  Only a quick flurry - but we're due heavy snow later today.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 17 December, 2009, 10:53:20 am
Bright sunshine now!  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 17 December, 2009, 10:56:36 am
We haz sno in Dundee!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 17 December, 2009, 11:17:53 am
My mum just outside Edinburgh says they have one inch and it's still falling

*hums 'Winter Wonderland' repeatedly, loudly enough to irritate work colleagues*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 17 December, 2009, 11:22:32 am
One of my work colleagues who lives in Regulator-land emailed to say it was snowing early this morning, so she decided not to come in.  Given the forecast for Londidium is quite a high risk of snow later today, that's probably wise.  It's a long walk back if the trains aren't running.

It is currently quite sunny out the window, which is much nicer than the greyness I cycled in through earlier.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 17 December, 2009, 11:24:22 am
Total Sunshine here!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 17 December, 2009, 11:29:30 am
Today's forecast is for Mr Blue Sky.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 17 December, 2009, 11:56:18 am
It also says it was triggered by a freak event which happened all at once.

Sudden Arctic sea ice melt could do it if (1) the whole thing went at once, which isn't unlikely for floating ice on water, it's a phase change kinda thang, and (2) the wind was blowing all those bergs into the Atlantic where the had a mighty melty dump - which is much less likely; odds are they'd piffle out en route and in situ.

Greenland ice sheet melt would do it and the current offers on the Copenhagen table are at the 'worst case' end of the scale, anticipating 4-7 degrees of warming, at which you'd get that melt easily.
It's the suddenness of the change in salinity which is reckoned to have caused the rapidity of the drop in temperature. Without that suddenness, caused by the freak event I referred to, the conveyor would reduce over years, according to the models. I questioned the likelihood of a large enough part of the Greenland ice cap melting in a single summer - and nothing you've said has caused me to re-think that.

Forget the sea ice. The Greenland ice cap contains much more ice, because although it's a smaller area, it's a thousand times (2.3km vs a few metres) thicker than sea ice. Also, it's 100% fresh water, while sea ice is frozen seawater, complete with some of its salt. It starts out at 30% of the salinity of seawater. Old ice has much less salt in it, but the increasing melting of ice each summer in recent years has reduced the proportion of old ice. Only 10% of spring ice cover is now more than 2 years old, down from 30% a decade ago. Allowing for reduced overall ice cover, 75% of the old ice has been lost in the last 20 years without switching off the conveyor. I doubt the last 25% would do it, however quickly it melted.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 December, 2009, 12:08:30 pm
If you compare UK temperatures with those on the other side of the pond at the same lattitude and wonder why we're not freezing our tits off, that'll be all the lovely Atlantic currents which have been bringing us warm water and good weather for centuries.

Problem is, the massive ice fields up near Greenland at the northern end of the Gulf Stream are melting and sending big ol' wodges of cold water into the ocean system and interrupting the flow of this rather useful Ocean Conveyor Belt.

Executive Summary:  We're fucked  :(

I don't mind a bit, or even a lot, of SNO, but if I had to change my commute to avoid being eaten by an Arctic Bear, I should be a tad put out ;)

Edit: Still bright and sunny in Harlow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 17 December, 2009, 12:32:31 pm
It's snowed hereabouts this morning:twice but melted almost as fast as it touched the ghround.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 17 December, 2009, 12:32:40 pm
OK, time will tell, but those NE winds were exactly what we had in 1962-63 and 1987. In the latter case, Saarfend was the coldest place in the country for about a week, with 18 inches of snow lying.
...

My plans for tonight are to put the motorbike away and find the MTB.  I have now booked tomorrow off work to go riding in it; the alarm will be set early so I can have the first ride in the rush hour.


ok, I can now guarantee that it will not snow  ;D.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 December, 2009, 12:53:27 pm
My sinister agent Sir Hugh of Hugh reports SNO in Cambridge.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 17 December, 2009, 01:42:16 pm
Here it comes in Londonton - WC2 has gone from blue skies to heavy grey cloud and snow in the space of 45 mins!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 17 December, 2009, 01:45:37 pm
It's givin' it large here with snow and it's very much settling too.

Local BBC is still saying some light rain showers.   ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PhilO on 17 December, 2009, 01:51:38 pm
You're all gits!  >:(

Here am I, living less than 10 miles from the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park, and even closer to some fine MTB trails, and what do I get? Drizzle, followed by a moderately fine day!  :facepalm:

Bah!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Greenbank on 17 December, 2009, 01:51:56 pm
Here it comes in Londonton - WC2 has gone from blue skies to heavy grey cloud and snow in the space of 45 mins!

It's passed though. It was dark and ugly for about 20 minutes in SE1 but now back to large bits of blue skies.

5-a-side (outside) tonight and then an 8 mile ride home. :) :) :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Julian on 17 December, 2009, 01:54:36 pm
Sno in NW10, I've just been out to get lunch.

And noticed as I passed my bike that my rear tyre is totally flat.  I thought it felt a bit flabby for the last mile here, it must be a slow one.  >:(

Still, at least I can mend it in the office where it's warm...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ray 6701 on 17 December, 2009, 01:57:20 pm
Just started snowing in Birmingham  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 17 December, 2009, 02:09:21 pm
Here it comes in Londonton - WC2 has gone from blue skies to heavy grey cloud and snow in the space of 45 mins!

...and back to sunny skies again!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ray 6701 on 17 December, 2009, 02:09:54 pm
That didn't last long  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jellied on 17 December, 2009, 02:29:14 pm
Snow in UB3 an hour ago. well i assume it was snow. it was horizontal

lots of people rushing into my office and gloating over how bad my cycle home would be.

now sunny again and quite looking forward to it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 17 December, 2009, 02:40:54 pm
Snow riding is fun!  The gloaters just lack adventurous spirit, bunch of sofa-bound marshmallows!

I has sno envies.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CommuteTooFar on 17 December, 2009, 02:56:37 pm
Only fun while it is fresh after is is compressed by cars it is like ice. 
Also lots of cars sliding about on it can make me very nervous.
Cars pass me and spray me with snow feels heavier than water.

No snow here, just getting cold so there will be ice tomorrow morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 17 December, 2009, 03:04:38 pm
Glad I took the walk up to the shop and left the bike.

It's already an ice-rink out there and the sun hasn't even set yet.  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TheLurker on 17 December, 2009, 03:04:50 pm
Bright sun here and has been since about 0830. Might risk the back road for the run home...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 17 December, 2009, 03:15:16 pm
Ms Weasel and I are going to set the clock for 6am and hope for deep sno in Richmond Park.

Day off booked for tomorrow? (check)
Sledges?  (check)
Tandem? (check)
Fleece lined boots? (check)

I already have tomorrow off as annual leave so snow if it happens will be a huge bonus.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 17 December, 2009, 03:15:34 pm
Falling quite steadily in south Embra but hardly settling at all
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: perpetual dan on 17 December, 2009, 03:19:56 pm
A short heavy snow fall in Brighton just now, leaving a very picturesque dusting on the roofs.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CommuteTooFar on 17 December, 2009, 03:43:41 pm
You're all gits!  >:(

Here am I, living less than 10 miles from the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park, and even closer to some fine MTB trails, and what do I get? Drizzle, followed by a moderately fine day!  :facepalm:

Bah!

I checked on Pen-y-Fan 6 Day Snow Forecast & Skiing Weather for 190 m - Snow-Forecast.com (http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Penyfan/6day/bot) and there will be a small amount of snow on Saturday night.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PhilO on 17 December, 2009, 03:50:53 pm
You're all gits!  >:(

Here am I, living less than 10 miles from the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park, and even closer to some fine MTB trails, and what do I get? Drizzle, followed by a moderately fine day!  :facepalm:

Bah!

I checked on Pen-y-Fan 6 Day Snow Forecast & Skiing Weather for 190 m - Snow-Forecast.com (http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Penyfan/6day/bot) and there will be a small amount of snow on Saturday night.


I'm hoping for a repeat of last February:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3447/3263658480_1390194b63_m.jpg)

 :thumbsup:

(ETA: That's actually Corn Du...)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 17 December, 2009, 03:57:36 pm
Blizzard conditions here at the moment.
If this keeps up, and with the forecast high winds over the peaks, the ride home will be fun!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 December, 2009, 03:58:57 pm
We had a two-minute blizzard in Harlow a couple of hours ago and then sweet FA.

Bah!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 17 December, 2009, 04:39:56 pm
Blizzard on the ride into town this afternoon, crossing the valley takes you over an elevated road way and bridge, it was blowing into a white out up there as the wind came razzing down, would have had to get off and push if I had not been wearing wrap around cycling glasses.

Riding in drifting snow showers is rather good as it makes one feel driven and determined for about ten minutes.

Then back to boring old reality when you reach the nice warm coffee shop.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 17 December, 2009, 05:57:28 pm
It's snowed again this afternoon,it's sticking & turning to ice
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: diapsaon0 on 17 December, 2009, 06:00:55 pm
Nothing yet in darkest Zummerzet  :'(

N
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: SteveC on 17 December, 2009, 07:13:33 pm
Nothing yet in darkest Zummerzet  :'(

N
I must be in 'not quite darkest Zummerzet' as we've had some.
Not enough to make a difference to anything, but the patio table looked as if it had been a bit near a very enthusiastic whitewasher
S
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 17 December, 2009, 07:14:11 pm
Oh my  :o.

It's going nuts outside now. Gusts of wind must be at last 50mph because we've lost at least one pantile already.

It's snowing very heavily, and there are already drifts forming in the lane.

Methinks Mrs S and #2 Son will be taking a snow day tomorrow  :D.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: RichForrest on 17 December, 2009, 07:28:06 pm
It's already an ice-rink out there and the sun hasn't even set yet.


Oh goody, I'm on the faired trike  :thumbsup:
Will be fun at about 23.00 when I leave  ;D ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 17 December, 2009, 07:37:56 pm
I'm in Bournemouth and there's nothing here yet. 

Tomorrow evening I have to drive back home to mid-Essex where apparently its banging down.  Good for them but I hope it doesn't stop me from getting back to the bosom of my wife family where undoubtedly a warm welcome will await me.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 17 December, 2009, 07:48:33 pm
It's all turned to sheet ice on the pavements. More misery for the elderly amongst others.
Bastard PITA.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 17 December, 2009, 07:55:12 pm
OK - now we've had a Thunderstorm. Everything but the... oh look, is that a kitchen sink flying by outside?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 17 December, 2009, 08:06:29 pm
It's already an ice-rink out there and the sun hasn't even set yet.


Oh goody, I'm on the faired trike  :thumbsup:
Will be fun at about 23.00 when I leave  ;D ;D

That's what I was saying back in February...



... until I rolled the Cheetah  :-[
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 17 December, 2009, 09:09:38 pm
It appears to have been snowing every so lightly in London.  There's a thin layer on the balcony outside of the lab, and the clean room air filtering system has shutdown (which it does when the air temperature drops below zero).

I think it's time to go home, and investigate exactly how slippery things are out there!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: dasmoth on 17 December, 2009, 09:26:08 pm
Snow finally hit Cambridge in earnest an hour or so back, and there's a pretty respectable dusting now.  Just off to investigate the state of the roads...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 17 December, 2009, 09:30:26 pm

I think it's time to go home, and investigate exactly how slippery things are out there!

Get going Tim.

The stuff which has fallen here (SE23) so far, doesn't look like its about to disappear.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 17 December, 2009, 09:37:21 pm
It's lying on the road here. Take care Tim. :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: diapsaon0 on 17 December, 2009, 09:44:30 pm
A few flakes tonight, but nothing more  :-\

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Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Polar Bear on 17 December, 2009, 09:51:45 pm
I want it to really throw it down overnight.   Then I'll be up nice and early, out with the camera taking piccies to sell to the local businesses for their 2010 chrimbo cards and web pages   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: FatBloke on 17 December, 2009, 10:03:13 pm
We got a blizzard here, with thunder and lightning!!  That's unusual.  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: peliroja on 17 December, 2009, 10:22:35 pm
Me and Woolly just went for a wander in the white stuff.  Nice and fresh.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 17 December, 2009, 10:22:45 pm
I was surprised that it actually was settling.  Was about to go for a walk but the thunderstorm has made me think I'll wait a bit.


I want it to really throw it down overnight.   Then I'll be up nice and early, out with the camera taking piccies to sell to the local businesses for their 2010 chrimbo cards and web pages  media to show the gridlock, mayhem, and solitary cyclist heading along unaffected  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: FatBloke on 17 December, 2009, 10:31:52 pm
I think we might lose power soon. The lights are flickering an awful lot and t
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 17 December, 2009, 11:04:41 pm
I've just had a very exciting ride back from tai chi (all of 3½ miles).

It's snowing very heavily with a strong NNE wind and there appear to be vestigial drifts. I rode home on the pavement because I couldn't stay upright on the road where the cars had compressed the snow.

When I reached Victoria Avenue, which at 10.30 p.m. is normally pretty well empty, I was greeted by gridlock because the 1 in 20ish slope up from the park is too much for the expensive Mercs. Massive queues in all directions. I was delighted to leave the all behind, after first having photographed them.

What was perhaps most impressive was how at two sets of lights I encountered, the presence of a little snow seems to make it perfectly OK for motorists to take absolutely no notice that the light they are going through is red. Not just turned red, has been red for many seconds.

I will post some spectacular pictures soon.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Charlotte on 17 December, 2009, 11:05:46 pm
The telly keeps going funny.  But the SNO' is easling off.

I was going to be riding home from Clapham to Ealing tonight, but I was on the Brommie and got as far as Hammersmith before it really started dumping it down.

So I got on the tube  :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: geraldc on 17 December, 2009, 11:10:49 pm
I've just tried various webcams to see what the weather is like near my dad's house. It seems that the fashion for webcams has died and most of them are offline. What a swizz!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Domestique on 17 December, 2009, 11:14:51 pm
I was thinking of grabbing camera and head out, but its warmer indoors

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I will post some spectacular pictures soon.

Is looking forward to this
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 17 December, 2009, 11:15:48 pm
Blimey! We are red on the Severe Weather Warning map! They reckon 15cm in the next 3 hours.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 17 December, 2009, 11:35:50 pm
The snow is settling a bit on roads with little traffic, ie residential, but the main roads are just wet.  There isn't much traffic, so what is out is expressing it's inner fuckwit and tanking it. :-\

For cycling, the wind seems to be a bigger issue than the snow, although so long as it was mostly behind me, it wasn't too big a problem, when I turned into it a bit, it was quite painful on my face.  It seems to be quite gusty, and it almost caught me out a few times.  It's more wintry showers than snow proper, so I suspect it'll mostly melt.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 17 December, 2009, 11:40:48 pm
Kept having light showers of snow here, didnt last long though.
Had a dusting, buts thats it. Nothing more has come.
Saturday night is when i want it to come. ILl be at my GFs, warm with her.
Tomorrow night and it will just be a bitch riding to hers.
Plus, if theres snow tomorrow i cant be doing with young kids throwing snow balls around on my walk to college ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Emily on 17 December, 2009, 11:45:04 pm
I'm scared now.  Dasmoth set off from Cambridge on his bike some time between 9.30 and 10 and he hasn't made it home yet.  There's lots of snow, the cars are being really careful not to skid and it's bloody windy too.

 :( :'( :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 17 December, 2009, 11:50:45 pm
We had some showers this afternoon, but nothing significant - until now. Snowing quite hard in Reading now, & settling. It was frosty before the snow began.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kathy on 18 December, 2009, 12:03:27 am
We got a blizzard here, with thunder and lightning!!  That's unusual.  :o

Cor. The author of Irregular Webcomic (who is an Australian and has never seen SNO) produced a comic strip in which there was snow and lightning and was roundly criticised and told that combination never happens! ::-)

Any good photos? I wanna see how well it compares to the Ozzie photoshop version.  :)

I'm scared now.  Dasmoth set off from Cambridge on his bike some time between 9.30 and 10 and he hasn't made it home yet.  There's lots of snow, the cars are being really careful not to skid and it's bloody windy too.

 :( :'( :(

Fingers crossed for him. If he;s anything like me, he's walking all the scary bits to be on the safe side.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2009, 12:05:39 am
(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/6802-2/DSC04435.JPG)

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Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: dasmoth on 18 December, 2009, 12:11:19 am
Discretion proved the better part of valor, and I ended up taking the train.   Got me back in the end, but at times I was wondering if walking might have been quicker.

But the roads aren't in good shape.  Take care out there.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2009, 12:12:11 am
There were at least 5 lightning strikes that I saw. The first wa while I was turning out of the Fairway into Eastwood Road. That was virtually overhead. A couple of minutes later there was another strike whose thunder reached me after a couple of seconds. There were at least 3 more flashes whose thunder I heard rumbling in the distance. There may have been some more, but I think there were some outages and the streetlights flickered. I wasn't sure what I was seeing at the end of the ride home.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 18 December, 2009, 12:43:32 am
That's been fun.  Just got in.

We've had 2.5 to 3 inches, drifting to 4 or 5 where really trapped (e.g. against the kerb).  It's stopped falling for the last hour and the residual groundheat is melting it from below.


Although I loved the quiet roads and heading through the woods, I couldn't resist heading for the main roads to see how the drivers were coping.

...
When I reached Victoria Avenue, which at 10.30 p.m. is normally pretty well empty, I was greeted by gridlock because the 1 in 20ish slope up from the park is too much for the expensive Mercs. Massive queues in all directions. I was delighted to leave the all behind, after first having photographed them.
...

Seen similar here.  Locals will know the hill from Rayleigh Weir up into Rayleigh.  That was too much for many cars, mostly the big posh ones - the drivers are relying on their technology and have forgotten how to drive?  Mostly just sitting there wheelspinning until slowly sliding sideways across the road.  Fortunately they didn't hit anything.  I wish I could say the same about the wreckage on the Rayleigh Weir underpass that has closed the A127.

What also amused me was the driver behaviour.  :-
 - When on a main road that has been gritted and had enough traffic to pound it in and turn it to slippery slush, drive at 10mph in a queue with big stopping distances.  Excellent - but why turn on the rear fog lights?  It's not even snowing!
 - When on a gritted road that has had little traffic, stick to 20mph even though the road is treacherously slippery thanks to the tyre tracks being compressed slush that is freezing because the grit hasn't been churned in yet.
 - When on a main dual carriageway with 50mph average speed cameras, slow to 30-35mph.


The road conditions and traction are identical on ALL those roads  ::-)  

 - When the wheels spin, just accelerate harder, then stop, put it in first gear, floor it again.   The only exception to this was the Somerfield lorry driver stuck on the hill out of Rayleigh, he was pulling away and getting 6 inches before spinning out, then rolling back 3 inches and trying again and getting another 6 inches forward.  Slow progress but he DID make it.
 - I also came across the first abandoned car; on a flat horizontal residential road that wasn't gritted but packed icy snow.


If it doesn't melt away overnight, then it's going to be mayhem in the rush hour  :thumbsup:   And when the frustrated drivers complain that "the roads haven't been gritted" (as we know they will) I know for certain that they have been - I've not only seen loads of gritters I even overtook one  ;D ;D ;D :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 18 December, 2009, 12:48:36 am
Question for wowbagger and all other Southenders. 

Have the cycle paths been gritted?   I raised this last year and as they're a cycling town they said they'd look at getting this onto the winter maintenance schedule.

I am betting this year will be like last year - untreated and will remain icier for longer than anywhere else.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: her_welshness on 18 December, 2009, 12:49:08 am
I did a late shift tonight, ending at 8p.m. As I was leaving Clapham the first few flakes were starting to appear. By West Dulwich it was turning solid and I was starting to worry so edged onto the off-road cycle path towards the Horniman Museum. The downhills of the A205 towards Forest Hill were indeed quite scary and I was glad that I had my cycling glasses on so I  could partially see. Thankfully Mr Welshness had ordered in pizza. George the cat is now sulking because he hates snow and it is really heavy here in SE13 land!

The A205 beckons once more tomorrow as it is very well gritted  :thumbsup:

SNOW!!!!!!!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2009, 12:55:37 am
Question for wowbagger and all other Southenders.  

Have the cycle paths been gritted?   I raised this last year and as they're a cycling town they said they'd look at getting this onto the winter maintenance schedule.

I am betting this year will be like last year - untreated and will remain icier for longer than anywhere else.

The only cyclepath I used today was at about 7.30 p.m. between Dawes Heath Road and Progress Road on the N side of the 127. It wasn't snowing then but it hadn't been gritted or salted. I was quite concerned using Dawes Heath Road, actually, and I should probably have stayed on the Eastwood Road as far as Progress Road.

The platform at Rayleigh Station was a sheet of ice and I would imagine that most untreated surfaces would be similar, in part at least.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Domestique on 18 December, 2009, 12:58:08 am
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Have the cycle paths been gritted?

No idea  :-\
We have just been riding around for the last hour or so. Was fun and I think I have seen three snowmen already.
What have I learnt tonight?
Bromptons are not the bike of choice for the snow :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 18 December, 2009, 01:00:33 am
Moves Domestique up one extra point in the Nutty Rankings.  (1.5 points if you're on the Brompton Tyres)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Domestique on 18 December, 2009, 01:01:58 am
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(1.5 points if you're on the Brompton Tyres)

 :smug:  :D :D :D

They did seem to grip the road better than a ford escort van that skidded into a parked car next to the Westcliff Hotel, at least I stayed upright, just   8)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 18 December, 2009, 01:11:23 am
I walked back from curry as the cars had compacted the slush into a hard layer. And I was on fixed. Saw a car hit a parked car then drive off. Didn't get the number but it was a dead end so I knocked on the door and they think it's the neighbours' car so we left a note. Hope we can identify the people who did it as it left a badly dented door and side panel.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 18 December, 2009, 01:12:18 am
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(1.5 points if you're on the Brompton Tyres)

 :smug:  :D :D :D

They did seem to grip the road better than a ford escort van that skidded into a parked car next to the Westcliff Hotel, at least I stayed upright, just   8)

It's +2 points if they're green belted Kevlar ones.

I've had them sideways for ages when off-roading  :smug:

I've also eaten tarmac a few times because when they let go they really do  >:( :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bobb on 18 December, 2009, 01:42:30 am
It took me about 20 minutes, but in the road I've just written in massive letters "WANKERS!" in the snow so all my neighbours can see it in the morning. The "!" was done in piss just for that personal touch  :P

It will probably be gone in a few hours at the current snowfall rate  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 18 December, 2009, 02:07:43 am
Appearing on YouTube in a few minutes,  bobb's neighbours post full frontal video of bobb pissing in the street.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2009, 02:24:12 am
Friday's severe weather warning for Essex has been downgraded to orange. That's a bit boring.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 18 December, 2009, 02:29:44 am
Snow melting in back garden.

Pile of winter cycling gear in preparation corner downgraded to usual kit.  Hat has been discarded.  Overshoes moved to "potential".
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 18 December, 2009, 06:26:33 am
I saw about four flakes on the way home last night.  Not a sausage overnight - I think it's stopping at Oxford.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: JT on 18 December, 2009, 06:41:34 am
There's been about 4 or 5 cm of snow overnight in Peterborough. And it's just started to snow again now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 18 December, 2009, 06:44:10 am
Stone me but there's even snow on the ground here on the South Coast this morning. Nothing more than the slightest dusting - more like a heavy frost to look, really. But, round here, even that's a mythical sight.

All you who have loads of snow are lucky, lucky bastards.

Re snow & lightening: it happened to me a couple of years back and was extremely bizarre. Never seen or heard anything like that before or since.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nicknack on 18 December, 2009, 07:13:07 am
A couple of inches of snow here in North Kent. No doubt the whole place will grind to a halt. Though I'm sure the kids will appreciate all the schools being closed. How on earth do the poor people of Scandinavia manage in winter? They must stay indoors all winter, I suppose.  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: delthebike on 18 December, 2009, 07:18:37 am
When I reached Victoria Avenue, which at 10.30 p.m. is normally pretty well empty, I was greeted by gridlock because the 1 in 20ish slope up from the park is too much
Just heard on the local radio, BBC Essex, that the junction is still blocked by cars and lorries unable to drive up the slope into Southend. There are lots of people driving along Fairfax to try other ways up. The roads from Fairfax are unlikely to have any grit on them and are mostly single lanes.  ::-)
This is the junction, Clicky (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=51.550965,0.703189&spn=0.007045,0.012445&z=16), just imagine it with about six inches of snow and still snowing. My back is better so I'm going out in a bit for a quick ride on the brommie and get some of those Nutty points.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 18 December, 2009, 07:28:51 am
There were some deep drifts in our lane, but the beet trucks have done a good job of clearing a path through. A car has got stuck in the lane the t'other side of the field.

The teens will be pining - there's no mobile signal!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 18 December, 2009, 07:30:18 am
Well blow me down with a feather  :o :o :o :o :o :o


Not only has it not melted overnight, more has fallen!   We're up to about 5 inches sitting on the ground  :smug:

Weather forecasters.  Why have you got it right this year when you have disappointed me year after year after year for so long?

Neighbours.  It's still falling.  Why are you already out there with shovels clearing your driveways and building mounds in the roads that will cause obstruction to cyclists and drivers?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2009, 07:36:00 am
I've just measured 6" - which is the most for some years.  8)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kathy on 18 December, 2009, 07:38:31 am
Well blow me down with a feather  :o :o :o :o :o :o


Not only has it not melted overnight, more has fallen!   We're up to about 5 inches sitting on the ground  :smug:

Alas, we've only got about an inch here.  :( Guess it makes up for last february when the situation was reversed.

All this week we've been driving because of my ear infection.  :( Looked at the weather today, and decided that we *have* to cycle (not only for the fun, but also to ensure we can get back home in case the roads on the heaths near work snarl up during the day). Only problem is, the MTBs (which would be most fun) have no lights, and we can't guarantee leaving before dusk.

So: road bike with slick tyres and a dynohub it is! :P
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nicknack on 18 December, 2009, 07:40:21 am
Yep, sure enough all the schools are closed cos no one can possibly leave the house with 2 inches of snow on the ground. And judging by the amount of traffic passing the house, ie. none, most work places will be shut too. Bet Bluewater will be heaving.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jakob on 18 December, 2009, 07:58:19 am
Snow is good!
Whistler Blackcomb - Snow Report  (http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/weather/snowreport/index.htm)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: diapsaon0 on 18 December, 2009, 08:17:29 am
Nothing here, unfortunately - I'm off across the edge of Exmoor this morning - (car, unfortunately) - might be something up on the top.
 
N
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Riggers on 18 December, 2009, 08:18:01 am
That's a big 6 inches in Brighton too. And still snowing!!!!!!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin109 on 18 December, 2009, 08:28:54 am
How on earth do the poor people of Scandinavia manage in winter? They must stay indoors all winter, I suppose.  ::-)

The Swedes don't do too badly.  The snow is expected; they generally have proper winter tyres and know how to drive on snow and ice.  And most minor roads and just gritted, not salted, so you don't get horrible slush.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 December, 2009, 08:43:28 am
Meh!  Rumours of SNOpocalypse appear to have been greatly exaggerated 'twixt E17 and exotic Harlow.  I had a much smoother run into work than usual, due to lack of traffic, and in our bit of the office there are only three people, excluding The Fabulous Mr Fox, who is supposed to be buying us all breakfast this morning >:( 

I can picture skiving gits all across the east of the BRITONS' England:

Quote from: Skiving Git

(Brrring Brrring.  Brrring Brrring)

Hello...  Mr My Boss...  No, sorry, I can't make it in today...  No, I can't even find my car...  Train...  What's that...  No, not here...  Hold on...  (Covers mouthpiece)  What's that noise, darling?  (Removes hand)  Wolves!  Timber wolves!  Timber wolves with chainsaws!  They're trying to get into the porch!  Aieee!  Can't...  Hold out... Much long (Click)

Nikki darling!  Have you still got those panties from our anniversary?

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kathy on 18 December, 2009, 08:47:28 am
Tim has declared himself poorly, so we shall have to drive.

<checks traffic news for our area>

Blimey! I've never seen the congestion this low! Either everyone's stayed at home, or all the reporting sites are broked.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 18 December, 2009, 08:48:39 am
... It's more wintry showers than snow proper, so I suspect it'll mostly melt.

So I was wrong, and it has settled overnight.  I guess the temperature must have dropped a little and the snow got a bit more serious overnight.

Now I've got to decide whether to risk the snow, or bugger around with the tram and disrupted tube lines.  It's not the snow which really worries me, it's the forecast of sub-zero temperatures this evening, which means that anything which is on the ground will freeze rock solid.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nicknack on 18 December, 2009, 08:49:11 am
Is Wogan still on these days? ICBA to check. Betcha he's saying something along the lines of, " Snow in December? That proves global warming is all baloney".

Sun's just come out. That's nice.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 18 December, 2009, 08:51:00 am
4" here, but it really takes more than 7" for me to be fully pleasured.

:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: delthebike on 18 December, 2009, 08:53:05 am
4" here, but it really takes more than 7" for me to be fully pleasured.
I've got 7" here which I can't take.    :'(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: perpetual dan on 18 December, 2009, 08:57:56 am
I'm off out with the kids to play in the snow  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 18 December, 2009, 09:14:32 am
I've just measured 6" - which is the most for some years.  8)

Pleased for you.  The cold weather can sometimes play havoc ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 18 December, 2009, 09:15:48 am
Is Wogan still on these days?

For a scant quarter of an hour more before he retires from the morning slot, yes! ;D

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wombat on 18 December, 2009, 09:45:45 am
... It's more wintry showers than snow proper, so I suspect it'll mostly melt.

So I was wrong, and it has settled overnight.  I guess the temperature must have dropped a little and the snow got a bit more serious overnight.

Now I've got to decide whether to risk the snow, or bugger around with the tram and disrupted tube lines.  It's not the snow which really worries me, it's the forecast of sub-zero temperatures this evening, which means that anything which is on the ground will freeze rock solid.

It seems to have already done that here.  A couple of inches of pretty fluffy snow on top of a sheet of hard slippery stuff...   bugger.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: dasmoth on 18 December, 2009, 10:30:11 am
How on earth do the poor people of Scandinavia manage in winter? They must stay indoors all winter, I suppose.  ::-)

The Swedes don't do too badly.  The snow is expected; they generally have proper winter tyres and know how to drive on snow and ice.  And most minor roads and just gritted, not salted, so you don't get horrible slush.

One thing that struck me when I was in Uppsala last winter way just how thick a layer of grit/salt had built up on the treated roads.  That has to play apart.  The snow this year has come unusually early, and follows a relatively warm November.  At least in the south-east, there was very little salt on the roads until the last couple of days.  If we'd had a few weeks of frosty mornings -- and a chance for the salt to build up a bit -- I'm sure the roads would have been in better shape last night.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Polar Bear on 18 December, 2009, 10:39:45 am
Ooo.   Just looked out of the window and it's snowing.  Not expected here in Rugby.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Charlotte on 18 December, 2009, 10:57:29 am
Bromptons are not the bike of choice for the snow :D

Innit.  I have to admit that that I was getting a wee bit jittery on mine last night.

I've just measured 6" - which is the most for some years.  8)

Sigged  :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 18 December, 2009, 11:13:03 am
Penny in the snow, Charlotte?  It'd make for some lovely Dickensian photos... though I'm not sure you could send the yoof of today off to buy a turkey...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Paul D on 18 December, 2009, 11:17:12 am
5 minutes of excitement (lickin' the window stuff in our office) then back to usual Dorset sunshine. *sigh* Will I ever get a reason to buy those studded tyres?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 18 December, 2009, 11:17:26 am
...It's not the snow which really worries me, it's the forecast of sub-zero temperatures this evening, which means that anything which is on the ground will freeze rock solid.
It seems to have already done that here.  A couple of inches of pretty fluffy snow on top of a sheet of hard slippery stuff...   bugger.

It wasn't too bad on the way in, mostly an issue around the first half a mile, on the quieter residential roads. They hadn't really had enough use to clear the snow, and had just compressed and squished it into a slippery slush.  Once I was past that most of the roads were clear, and past the first 6 miles, most of the snow in the Urban Heat Island of Central London had disappeared altogether.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Charlotte on 18 December, 2009, 11:18:12 am
Sadly, it's sunny and not at all snowy here in Ealing again.  But if we do get some more of the white stuff, I think I might just go for some penny pictures, Andy.

I could always give a teenage hoodie a tenner and tell him to go to Iceland on his BMX for me...

(http://www.iceland.co.uk/system/products/images/522.jpg?1258376707)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 18 December, 2009, 11:46:10 am
Had a fantastic ride.

Main roads were annoying because the drivers weren't anywhere near the kerb as they usually are, so I was struggling to get past on the centre line - which was frozen in places so kept throwing me off-line.

Absolutely fantastic was the sea wall between Leigh-on-sea and Benfleet.  I was the first person along there.  Fun slipping in the wet mud that was under the thick blanket of snow, and it was tiring after a while slogging through the snow.  But woo hoo!  Snow at last!


Going out again in a minute.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jethro on 18 December, 2009, 12:30:46 pm
No snow here in Wolverhampton.  Bloody cold though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 18 December, 2009, 12:45:04 pm
Still no snow in nottingham, but its bloody freezing out there!!!! Hopefully there wont be any
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 18 December, 2009, 12:47:33 pm
It continues to snow heavily on and off. It looks lovely out there (when viewed from in here :)).

Probably up to 12cm on the ground now, and it's really heaving it down at the moment  :thumbsup:. I rang Mrs S and suggested she take the afternoon off and get back home while she still can.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 18 December, 2009, 12:54:03 pm
Bright sunshine lighting up the snow here now :D. It's beautiful. Had an unscheduled trip to Sutton where it was much clearer.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 18 December, 2009, 01:17:44 pm
I don't think I'll be troubling the bikes in the shed today:

(http://www.ivytodd.com/images/snowy800.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 18 December, 2009, 02:15:11 pm
A few inches here, which has only melted where it's in direct sun on a dark background. Went for a walk in the cemetery this morning, & saw lots of muntjac tracks, but no deer. Apart from the lack of a base, it would have been good for skiing on. Fresh powder!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Domestique on 18 December, 2009, 03:34:10 pm
Quote
Innit.  I have to admit that that I was getting a wee bit jittery on mine last night.
What made it worse for me, seeing my other half plough through the snow on his 50 year old bike whilst I nearly went over every 5 meters.

Couple of pictures from last nights spin slide around the town

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2617/4194610097_3845a2eea4.jpg)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2736/4194620623_53d42e8391.jpg)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2594/4194700787_dff890c354.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: scott on 18 December, 2009, 03:35:49 pm
Over here:


Quote from: National Weather Service
Tonight: Snow. Low around 27. Calm wind becoming north between 8 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches possible.

Saturday: Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 31. North wind between 11 and 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 6 to 10 inches possible.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bobb on 18 December, 2009, 03:41:24 pm
How can a "Chance" be 100% ?!!

Edit: A friend of mine in Minnesota LOLd quite a bit when I told her we'd had a few inches of snow. Pathetic really when we have to measure snow fall in inches rather than feet!

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 18 December, 2009, 03:57:55 pm
Over here:


Quote from: National Weather Service
Tonight: Snow. Low around 27. Calm wind becoming north between 8 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches possible.

Saturday: Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 31. North wind between 11 and 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 6 to 10 inches possible.

Being Abroad is cheating.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: scott on 18 December, 2009, 04:13:30 pm
Being Abroad is cheating.

 ;D    But trust me, this is unusual for here.

Time for me to break out the fat-tired, lots-of-standover bike:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3061/3056940008_dea9cf6543.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 18 December, 2009, 05:13:53 pm
My daughter has reminded me that I promised a pre-Christmas sailing trip to the IoW and she's going to hold me to it.

Oh joy. I get cold in the cockpit while everyone else gets pissed below.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 18 December, 2009, 05:19:56 pm
Your daughter gets pissed?She will be aged 18+ then.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: scott on 18 December, 2009, 09:30:57 pm
[orchestra hit]

[deep narrator's voice] It has begun....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: redshift on 18 December, 2009, 09:37:27 pm
Being Abroad is cheating.

 ;D    But trust me, this is unusual for here.

Time for me to break out the fat-tired, lots-of-standover bike:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3061/3056940008_dea9cf6543.jpg)

Ooh, I think that's nearly as old as older than mine - a 1992 850 Antelope.  I don't have a pic of that at the moment, though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: scott on 18 December, 2009, 09:50:34 pm
Obviously it's way too small for me, but I wanted to build up something halfway between a mountain bike and a trials bike, just for playing around on. The tires are very sticky, and the seat can drop all the way down to avoid painful incidents.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 19 December, 2009, 07:56:13 am
Cycling rush hour in the snow


      YouTube
            - Cycle Rush hour in the snow, Utrecht (Netherlands)
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMv3OB6XHvQ&feature=player_embedded)

And yet they keep riding just like in Denmark. But here with less snow we are snowed in and come to a stand still.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 19 December, 2009, 07:59:49 am
More heavy snow overnight in Norfolk. Probably 20cm on the grass now. Looks ver perty on the trees.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 19 December, 2009, 08:02:15 am
Cycling rush hour in the snow


      YouTube
            - Cycle Rush hour in the snow, Utrecht (Netherlands)
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMv3OB6XHvQ&feature=player_embedded)

And yet they keep riding just like in Denmark. But here with less snow we are snowed in and come to a stand still.


That's amazing !  If only we could be like that here...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 December, 2009, 09:58:02 am
Our electricity went off at 1.05 p.m. yesterday. It's just returned.

We've had 19 hours in the 1950s - no central heating and we have no other heating in this house. The gas rings worked so we could cook and drink tea and we have a jump pack and inverter, which powered a 60w equivalent low-energy bulb for about 7 hours. Quite impressed with that.

We read until 10.30 p.m. when the jump pack ran out, so we went to bed then.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 19 December, 2009, 11:27:15 am
I love the picture...
   Copenhagen isn't only  place having climate problems… - The Scotsman
 (http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/Copenhagen-isn39t-only--place.5925317.jp)
 :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 19 December, 2009, 11:31:36 am
I love the picture...
   Copenhagen isn't only  place having climate problems… - The Scotsman
 (http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/Copenhagen-isn39t-only--place.5925317.jp)
 :)


I like the 'Home Guard' style warning poster further on down the article.

Who do you think you're kiddin' Mr Snowman, if you think ol' England's done (http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/getEdFrontImage.aspx?ImageID=449683)...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: dasmoth on 19 December, 2009, 11:40:48 am
But here with less snow we are snowed in and come to a stand still.

The snow in the video looks like a pretty light dusting to me.  Less than 2cm, certainly.  While it's true that any snow seems to cause a certain amount of disruption in southern England, on this occasion  many areas have had quite a bit more than that.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Greenbank on 19 December, 2009, 12:55:08 pm
Your daughter gets pissed?She will be aged 18+ then.

It's only illegal to buy alcohol when aged under 18*. It's not illegal to drink alcohol under 18 years old.

It's illegal to give a child under 5 any alcohol.

In-between parents can buy booze for their children and let them drink it (including in restaurants at licensee's discretion)

* Although at 16 you can buy beer, porter, cider or perry with a meal in a restaurant (and wine in Scotland) thanks to the Licensing Act of 1964.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 19 December, 2009, 02:00:05 pm
#2 Son and I made a snowman  :thumbsup:

(http://www.ivytodd.com/images/sm1.jpg)

And we made him something to stand on:

(click to show/hide)

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 December, 2009, 02:03:59 pm
Excellent! You should have put him in a Godzilla suit.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: scott on 19 December, 2009, 02:04:43 pm
Quote
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
417 AM EST SAT DEC 19 2009

VAZ021-025-026-036>039-050-056-WVZ054-191730-
/O.CON.KLWX.WS.W.0008.000000T0000Z-091220T1100Z/
HIGHLAND-AUGUSTA-ROCKINGHAM-NELSON-ALBEMARLE-GREENE-MADISON-
ORANGE-SPOTSYLVANIA-PENDLETON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...STAUNTON...WAYNESBORO...HARRISONBURG...
CHARLOTTESVILLE...FREDERICKSBURG
417 AM EST SAT DEC 19 2009


A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EST SUNDAY.

* PRECIPITATION TYPE...SNOW.

* ACCUMULATIONS...HEAVY SNOW WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF 14 TO 24 INCHES
  THROUGH TONIGHT.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 19 December, 2009, 02:07:55 pm
Crumbs. Hope you'll be ok Scott.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 19 December, 2009, 02:09:20 pm
#2 Son and I made a snowman  :thumbsup:





 ;D


Nice bit of conning, there, sir.  :thumbsup:

That's way up there with the DFS sale in the book of Con-Fu.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: scott on 19 December, 2009, 02:10:28 pm
Thansk, but we're fine--nowhere to go, and plenty of tea and food in the house.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 19 December, 2009, 02:11:30 pm
So long as you have tea :D.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 19 December, 2009, 02:30:08 pm
#2 Son and I made a snowman  :thumbsup:

Very nicely done  :) ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 19 December, 2009, 02:53:26 pm
Quote
... -PENDLETON- ...

How did Vicky get there? :o ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 19 December, 2009, 03:09:53 pm
Not much yet up here in the southern Pennines; less than 1/2" thus far.

We are forecast a few inches this evening, though.
Looking out, there have been a few preliminary flurries but nothing of significance is due until after dark, we are told....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 19 December, 2009, 06:28:25 pm
We're forecast to get it bigtime on Monday, which is also the day I really have to be in the office to run around the building like a headless chicken and get something signed off (which should have been done months ago, but we had it dropped on us 10 days ago).  On the other hand, if I phone up and find that one of two other people critical to the process don't make it in, it's sunk anyway and I can go sledging.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: dasmoth on 19 December, 2009, 07:01:22 pm
Not actually had much more today, but there's still plenty on the ground, and I finally got a chance to go play in it properly  :thumbsup:

(http://www.derkholm.net/snow5.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: scott on 19 December, 2009, 07:51:33 pm
Almost 24 hours of snow on our picnic table and back deck:

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4197491569_f39bf07097_o.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 19 December, 2009, 08:12:44 pm
That's not fair Scott, you live in a country that hasn't embraced global warming yet!  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adam on 19 December, 2009, 09:22:29 pm
Brrr - I wondered why the central heating wasn't on.  I've just found out the gas is out, as water has got into the gas mains in the village.  It's -3° outside at the moment, and falling.

And more snow is expected later on.  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 19 December, 2009, 10:42:15 pm
Time for hats. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: scott on 19 December, 2009, 10:59:14 pm
That's not fair Scott, you live in a country that hasn't embraced global warming yet!  ;)

Well, clearly it can't be warming, can it? I mean, it snowed!


 ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 20 December, 2009, 12:02:07 am
It's snowing again in Cambridge...


Lots of fresh snow on top of ice.  Lovely...  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 20 December, 2009, 12:03:36 am
Yes.  That's why I'm riding on studded tyres until further notice.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: IanDG on 20 December, 2009, 12:06:08 am
Snow in Stornoway
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 20 December, 2009, 12:06:30 am
We had one flake this afternoon.  That's been it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 20 December, 2009, 12:08:06 am
My street is an ice rink.  Well, it was.  Now it's an ice rink covered in snow.

Will be glad of the studded tyres meaning I can cycle into town instead of being stuck in traffic tomorrow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 20 December, 2009, 12:15:34 am
My street is an ice rink.  Well, it was.  Now it's an ice rink covered in snow.

Will be glad of the studded tyres meaning I can cycle into town instead of being stuck in traffic tomorrow.


Our local streets are solid ice as well.  There've been a few shunts into parked cars.

I went arse over tit coming home from shopping.  Luckily, I was so well wrapped up against the cold that I basically didn't feel anything.

Off the bike at the moment and likely to be until the ice goes...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2009, 09:59:22 am
Last night we had a couple of hours of sleety snow which froze over.Then we had a minor snow dump to hide all the sheet ice & this morning more snow. I decided not to ride to the village to get a newspaper & had confirmation that this was the wise decision as I went a-o-t walking back up the road ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 December, 2009, 10:07:41 am
I don't have winter tyres on my new bike.  My street is currently 2" of ice topped off with 3" of snow.  I admit it, I'm a chicken.  At the moment I am having to content myself with admiring the bike which is currently parked up in the front room rather than added to the stack in the dining room.  Youngest son has a tendency to stroke it as he walks past...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 December, 2009, 10:09:13 am
Youngest son has a tendency to stroke it as he walks past...

Thread makes a bid for NSFW...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 20 December, 2009, 10:17:11 am
Think there was abit an inch here that came last night.
When coming back from my GFs family xmas meal, it started to snow heavy. Got back to hers and it was starting to settle. Went out to go to the pub and it was getting deeper. Then when in the pub it started to snow heavy, but didnt last too long.
Still here this morning. Roads look fine though. But im being made to have a lift home later.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adam on 20 December, 2009, 10:21:17 am
Brrr - I wondered why the central heating wasn't on.  I've just found out the gas is out, as water has got into the gas mains in the village.  It's -3° outside at the moment, and falling.

And more snow is expected later on.  :-\

Well it only got to -5° overnight with just over another 1 cm of snow (on top of the previous 15 cm), and they think the gas won't be back on until Tuesday or Wednesday.  After 14 hours, the coldest it got inside was only 14°, and I think it's quite warm, but everyone else doesn't.  ::-)  

On the plus side, National Grid are handing out free electric heaters and camping gas hobs to everyone in the village.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 20 December, 2009, 10:40:04 am
It seems to have stayed below zero for the last couple of days, but not cold enough to stop stuff melting when driven over, so the main effect of the snow on Friday has been to leave us with sheets of solid ice on the non-Main roads. :-\

I quite like a bit of snow, so long as it either stays as fluffy snow, or disappears as dirty slush, which you can at least cycle through, albeit whilst getting covered in mucky gunge.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 20 December, 2009, 10:49:14 am
... Youngest son has a tendency to stroke it as he walks past...

I think he's ready to join us :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adam on 20 December, 2009, 10:49:50 am
Anyone know a place in the UK which has Marathon Winter tyres (700 x 35) in stock?

I've decided studs are this season's must have accessory.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 20 December, 2009, 11:04:47 am
LOL, I think you may have left it a bit late.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 20 December, 2009, 11:06:38 am
Panic buying has already all been panicked.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 20 December, 2009, 11:42:04 am
Andy Gates once posted this link ( I think it was he, and I think it was this link - damn my memory  ::-)):

Pop Rivet Ice Tires for Your Road Bike (http://www.instructables.com/id/Pop_Rivet_Ice_Tires_for_Your_Road_Bike/)

So, break out your rivet gun and get popping  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 20 December, 2009, 11:57:09 am
There was about an 3/4 inch of white stuff in Liverpool this morning,  kids were out throwing snowballs at each other.  Now it's all grey and slushy and is snowing granular little crystals, not sticking very well.

Got to go to the parents for lunch later, I may wimp out and take the train... :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrew Br on 20 December, 2009, 12:01:44 pm
Snowing on and off in South Manchester. Some of the showers are very heavy.
Five-a-side was cancelled because the pitches weren't fit and Helen is keeping tabs on the Sale Sharks/Harlequins game. Sale have had the pitch covered but they're asking for people to go down to sweep the snow off the covers.

I plan an off-road ride when she goes to the game. I'll take the camera  :thumbsup:

Edit- Sale won 'though I believe that the game was stopped near the end for the lines to be cleared during a white-out The guy on the radio suggested that they should also get an orange ball so that the players could see it  ;D

I'm expecting a very happy young lady to arrive home soon. I might let her take me to the pub to celebrate  ;)



Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rower40 on 20 December, 2009, 12:03:12 pm
It's snowing again in Cambridge...


Lots of fresh snow on top of ice.  Lovely...  :-\
I came back from Derby to Cambridge yesterday for the duration of the seasonal festiveness.   I had so much STUFF that I didn't have space for a bike, not even a Brommie.  A blessing in disguise, as I wouldn't want to ride anything with fewer than 3 wheels on this ice/snow combo.

Via the magic of the intertubes, I find that my brother and his family are stranded in Eurodisney, thanks to Eurostar waving the White Flag of Surrender. [/racial stereotype ahoy!]  I'm following the discussion of what went wrong on a Railway Staff forum.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 20 December, 2009, 12:04:32 pm
  ... After 14 hours, the coldest it got inside was only 14°, and I think it's quite warm, but everyone else doesn't.  ::-)  
...


HEATWAVE!!!!!!




It's snowed here again lightly overnight, for which I'm grateful because it now means there's traction on the road again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 20 December, 2009, 12:15:58 pm
Anyone know a place in the UK which has Marathon Winter tyres (700 x 35) in stock?

I've decided studs are this season's must have accessory.

I am inclined to agree.

So, studded tyres ...

1. Where do you get them from (26inch)?
2. The lanes round here are covered in thick sheet ice.  Could I cycle on them with studded tyres?
3. When the ice goes would I have to removed the tyres, i.e can you use them with there isn't ice around?  It would be useful to just leave them on all winter.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 20 December, 2009, 12:20:58 pm
OD - have you not seen this rather fine demonstration of studded tyres?


      YouTube
            - Boston Messengers Riding on Ice
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoSbyT6dO0U&feature=related)

There's a better quality version on the Brunelle website
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 20 December, 2009, 12:27:12 pm
We're lucky that the local council places large salt bins at key locations on the less major roads.  :thumbsup:

So like most years, when the weather is like this, I'll partly fill a bin bag and do my path as well as all the pensioners paths that are by me.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 20 December, 2009, 12:27:49 pm
OD - have you not seen this rather fine demonstration of studded tyres?


      YouTube
            - Boston Messengers Riding on Ice
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoSbyT6dO0U&feature=related)

There's a better quality version on the Brunelle website

That seals it.  If you can ride on a frozen river I think studded tyres will see me OK for Essex.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: delthebike on 20 December, 2009, 12:31:00 pm
That seals it.  If you can ride on a frozen river I think studded tyres will see me OK for Essex.
Hardly seems worth the effort. By the time you've sourced and fitted them it'll all be salty rivers of slush.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 20 December, 2009, 12:36:46 pm
True but I will be better preapred when the snow and ice comes again. 

Just been doing a bit of web research, apparently Schwalbe Snow Stud (26x1.9") tyres can be left on for normal winter usage and then deflated when it's icy.  Worth a thought.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 20 December, 2009, 12:41:44 pm
.........only 14°, and I think it's quite warm, but everyone else doesn't.  ::-)  


How is it that I can picture you sitting there in your shorts, while all around you shiverrrrrrrr ?  :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: delthebike on 20 December, 2009, 12:57:15 pm
.........only 14°, and I think it's quite warm, but everyone else doesn't.  ::-)  
How is it that I can picture you sitting there in your shorts, while all around you shiverrrrrrrr ?  :D
Because you're as scared as the rest of us!  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 20 December, 2009, 12:58:06 pm
Most discussions I've seen of Snow Tyres say that they'll be harder work to cycle on, even if the tyres aren't partially deflated, and you'll probably wear the studs down, or loose a few.  They'll also be noisy!

The studs are pretty hard, but you would be using them a lot, so eventually you use them up.  You may be better off getting a cheap pair of wheels, and fitting the tyres to them permanently.  Since you won't be doing as much mileage on those, the wheels themselves don't need to be able to be used for thousand upon thousands of miles, so a cheap and cheerful wheel is probably adequate.

They should also probably be kept somewhere dark, or covered, to minimise their exposure to UV during the sumer, when you won't be using them, and try and make them last for as many years as possible.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 20 December, 2009, 01:05:26 pm
That seals it.  If you can ride on a frozen river I think studded tyres will see me OK for Essex.

Yes, but they do fall off, several times in that video, and they're wearing padding.

I bet the guy in the Ice Yacht was a bit surprised when they went past!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Palinurus on 20 December, 2009, 01:07:41 pm
I've got a spare front wheel that I'm thinking of fitting a studded tyre to, then when required I can use it on the 'cross bike to get to work and stuff. Probably enough benefit of just having one on the front in SE England- I don't encounter much ice during the average winter.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 20 December, 2009, 01:17:13 pm
There's a DIY method using small machine screws and nuts - probably M4 - on a standard tyre.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 20 December, 2009, 03:53:03 pm
I just can't be bothered to get studded tyres down here in Essex.  We pretty much seem to have three road conditions.
1) Gritted and wet - any bike will do.
2) Snowy - MTB is great, as is any bike with decent tread.
3) Snow packed down to ice.  Really slippery.  But it's only a few yards so might as well either risk it or walk past on the pavement.

I often resort to the windcheetah to avoid falling off on the ice, but to be honest on a 9 mile commute home I'm on ice for 0.25 miles.  Just not worth the effort of doing anything special.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 20 December, 2009, 03:55:34 pm
  Just not worth the effort of doing anything special.

Same here. A few days off the bike is OK. It's not Minnesota.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 20 December, 2009, 04:07:36 pm
  Just not worth the effort of doing anything special.

Same here. A few days off the bike is OK. It's not Minnesota.

Well of course, as others reminded me upthread, if the Atlantic THC is compromised by the effects of GW, then it will get like Minnesota here ;).

Current medium range forecast suggests the cold is here to stay for a while. This would mean for me, probably ten days or more of snow covered/compact snow/icy lanes; which would make it worth having a set of studded tyres I could just swap to on one of the bikes for that time. The initial investment in money and time needs to be taken out of the equation really - once you've got them, you'll use them.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 20 December, 2009, 04:17:38 pm
...The initial investment in money and time needs to be taken out of the equation really - once you've got them, you'll use them.

As and when we do start getting the cold winters, that's when I intend to reconsider and get them.

If I buy them now then yes I will use them 'in case of ice' and I'll wear them out so that on the worst days when I ride 15 miles on wet tarmac and half a mile on compressed snow they won't work on that ice.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 20 December, 2009, 04:24:06 pm
The only studded tyres available in the UK seem to be Schwalbe Snow Studs and a pair of them will be about £60.  There's no point getting them now as may the time they arrive this lot of ice will have melted (probably).

I might see whether Santa delivers some Wiggle vouchers and then buy a pair as insurance.  Today has been very frustrating, the weather has been glorious but I couldn't get out cos of the ice.  It would have been a different story if I had studded tyres.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 20 December, 2009, 04:38:26 pm
You don't need a stud.

You need an extra wheel.  I have no very little* trouble on ice on the windcheetah  ;D






*I've had to amend that statement now, I rolled it last winter after one too energetic power slide  :-[
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 20 December, 2009, 05:33:35 pm
It's a bit late now to buy studded tyres, but what I keep on intending to do, is import some Nokian A10 in 700x32, from someone like Peter White Cycles (http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/studdedtires.asp).  They look to be a good tyre for commuting on, although the Marathon Winters also get a good writeup.  I'd need to put them on the Kaffenback, which is buggered with unrelated Freehub issues, which I don't currently have the time to deal with, and I should also probably get a second set of wheels to put them on, which I would need to build up.

Something to do in the summer.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 20 December, 2009, 07:09:22 pm
Well the last time I wanted to use the studded tyres, I tried riding on the road which was nearly ice free.  I gave up very quickly as it was a mixture of sections completely clear of ice and then you'd suddenly hit a patch which was hard compacted refrozen dirty slush.  It's dark so you can't see it coming.

Add to that cars doing 50mph, and there's a parallel cycle path which without studded tyres would be unusable, but is perfectly ridable (I did it tonight whilst towing a loaded trailer) and the advantage of studded tyres is clear, since I have the option of riding on the path rather than pushing the bike home for 5 miles.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 20 December, 2009, 07:26:59 pm
I love this.  :thumbsup:   Beeb News for everywhere else in the UK would doubtless be illustrating this story with pictures of snow-bound traffic jams.  BBC News - Scotland braced for further snow (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8423638.stm)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 20 December, 2009, 07:29:43 pm
I love this.  :thumbsup:   Beeb News for everywhere else in the UK would doubtless be illustrating this story with pictures of snow-bound traffic jams.  BBC News - Scotland braced for further snow (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8423638.stm)

I had to do a double-take.  :o ;D

I thought it was the Andrex puppy and it had ran out of toilet roll.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 20 December, 2009, 07:31:10 pm
Studded tyres and mudguards aren't really compatible; I have pretty big clearance but not for a 1.9" tyre with studs on top.

I don't know whether to drive in this week or risk it.  There are patches of black ice all over the village because the wind on Thursday didn't quite dry out the roads completely.  We also had ice pellets last night which have turned to sheet ice where cars have run over them.  99.9% of my route is salted though, because the bus uses it - it's literally just our 150' cul-de-sac that isn't.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 20 December, 2009, 07:33:06 pm
I love this.  :thumbsup:   Beeb News for everywhere else in the UK would doubtless be illustrating this story with pictures of snow-bound traffic jams.  BBC News - Scotland braced for further snow (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8423638.stm)

au contraire

BBC News - Met Office warns of further snow in Northern Ireland (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/northern_ireland_politics/8423094.stm)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 20 December, 2009, 07:37:41 pm
Studded tyres and mudguards aren't really compatible; I have pretty big clearance but not for a 1.9" tyre with studs on top.

I don't know whether to drive in this week or risk it.  There are patches of black ice all over the village because the wind on Thursday didn't quite dry out the roads completely.  We also had ice pellets last night which have turned to sheet ice where cars have run over them.  99.9% of my route is salted though, because the bus uses it - it's literally just our 150' cul-de-sac that isn't.

I've managed to make it work on my Galaxy with some fettling.  My rear mudguard has also now got cable ties holding the stays to the guard as the rivets have finally corroded away after 11 years.

I did think about removing the guards but I don't want to get covered in crap so I bodged it last night once I discovered the problem.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 20 December, 2009, 07:41:51 pm
I've managed to make it work on my Galaxy with some fettling.  My rear mudguard has also now got cable ties holding the stays to the guard as the rivets have finally corroded away after 11 years.

I predict a riot problem. When you ride it on snow, the gap betwixt tyre and guard will rapidly fill with snow/slush/ice filings and make irritating noises, and impair your progress.

I'm with RZ - you don't want guards.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 20 December, 2009, 07:54:04 pm
I've managed to make it work on my Galaxy with some fettling.  My rear mudguard has also now got cable ties holding the stays to the guard as the rivets have finally corroded away after 11 years.

I predict a riot problem. When you ride it on snow, the gap betwixt tyre and guard will rapidly fill with snow/slush/ice filings and make irritating noises, and impair your progress.

I'm with RZ - you don't want guards.

I've been out riding in mixed conditions today (including snow) and didn't find that it got clogged up.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Paul D on 20 December, 2009, 07:54:14 pm
I rode the MTB with 2.1" knobblies & no guards to work in the snow in Feb. The front wheel spray meant it was like someone continually pouring iced water down my overshoes. Later, when the snow turned to slush, the first quarter mile was enough to get the iced water feeling but from the back too. :hand:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 20 December, 2009, 08:04:15 pm
I predict a riot problem. When you ride it on snow, the gap betwixt tyre and guard will rapidly fill with snow/slush/ice filings and make irritating noises, and impair your progress.

...but not a problem with ice, which is the scenario where it would be useful for me at the moment.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 20 December, 2009, 08:38:17 pm
Have had a couple of more inches of the stuff this afternoon.
This meant that operation "fetching Mother out Law" was well and truly scuppered and was replaced by operation "swap to Marathon Winter tyres".
The latter operation has been deemed a success after a short test ride and the commute across the snow and ice to work tomorrow should proceed as normal.
FWIW, I have guards with the winter tyres - there is a large enough gap...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 20 December, 2009, 08:43:02 pm
<really_only_vaguely_on_topic_anecdote>

In the snowy winter of 1981, I drove up to Oxford to fetch Mrs S (to be, as she was then) home from Uni for Christmas. The M40 was under 8" of that "dry" kind of slush that's like Demerara sugar. When I got to the roundabout at the end of the M40 at Uxbridge (this was long before there was an M25 round there) I realised I couldn't steer round the roundabout - I just couldn't turn the steering wheel enough.

Close examination of the front wheels gave the answer. The entire void of the wheel arches of my car were full of impacted slush, and the front wheels literally couldn't turn.

</really_only_vaguely_on_topic_anecdote>
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 20 December, 2009, 08:54:21 pm

This meant that operation "fetching Mother out Law"

 :o :o :o  I must get my eyes tested. I misread that.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 20 December, 2009, 09:05:26 pm
BAD Dicky Mo!

(http://www.peeble.com/bleach.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 20 December, 2009, 09:08:26 pm
 ;D

As well as seen - there's now the McDonald's milkshake 'extra loud slurp the last dregs' noise too.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 20 December, 2009, 11:59:51 pm
I run 2+" knobblies on the MTB in the snow, with guards, and don't have a problem.  The only issue I've ever had is with the block filling with ice so that the gears jump.  Friday, in 4 to 6 inches of pure snow I had no problems at all - it seems to be the gritted roads that freeze the block up.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 21 December, 2009, 12:04:14 am
I'm having double thoughts about tomorrow's commute.  I've been out in the car. 

The main roads seem to just have just car width tram lines that are clear and everything else is still frozen.  Pulling away from a traffic light spun the wheel I'd placed on the non-clear line.  The last section of road I played on...  20mph and 4th gear, blip throttle and the traction control light came on as the car slid sideways.  Got to the drive and although at 5mph spun the steering fast... we went straight on.  (I would like to point out that these were my only two losses of traction, and were both intentional).


I'm now wondering whether
a) I shouldn't have been so dismissive of studded bicycle tyres earlier.
b) Is there a bridleway route the whole way to work?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: no1daughter on 21 December, 2009, 01:10:15 am
FYI, it's like Hoth out here.

Clicky. (http://www.tomscott.com/weather/starwars/)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 21 December, 2009, 07:04:27 am
A few inches here this morning - it's stunning  :thumbsup:

Just tried to drive to work - FAIL.  Wheels spinning and car going sideways trying to get up the hill out of the village.  The snowploughy grit truck has just been through apparently so it should be OK in an hour or so.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 December, 2009, 07:55:53 am
There's not much here, just treacherously icy pavements.

When I was growing up in Huddersfield, when it was snowy and the roads had been cleared, it was just normal for pedestrians to walk at the edges of the roads rather than trying to maintain balance on snow and ice. If you try that here motorists beep at you and try to persuade you you should be breaking your neck on the pavement instead.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: toekneep on 21 December, 2009, 08:00:43 am
Two inches of snow on the Fylde coast. Now that is unusual.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 21 December, 2009, 08:12:12 am
Still snow left here. Walked the rest of the way up my hill. Tried to clip in and the SPD-SL were having non of it. Banged both feet and got the right foot in. Glad i have toe straps aswell, tightened that one down and by the time id got into work id clipped in.
The bits where the cars have been driving is fine here. Middle sections on wider roads have a slush, and so do the cycle paths/lanes.
Got better as i got closer to town
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2009, 08:14:50 am
Two inches of snow on the Fylde coast. Now that is unusual.

Some time in the 1970s (probably 1972 I think  or maybe early 1973) a group of us had a snowball fight on Blackpool Beach.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 21 December, 2009, 08:27:38 am
Two inches of snow on the Fylde coast. Now that is unusual.

Some time in the 1970s (probably 1972 I think  or maybe early 1973) a group of us had a snowball fight on Blackpool Beach.

I did the same in the winter of 85/86 on Brighton Beach. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 21 December, 2009, 10:27:37 am
A few inches here this morning - it's stunning  :thumbsup:

Just tried to drive to work - FAIL.  Wheels spinning and car going sideways trying to get up the hill out of the village.  The snowploughy grit truck has just been through apparently so it should be OK in an hour or so.

Hmm

We have about 1 mm.

 :(

I'm tempted to get the MTB out and head over towards where Tewdric lives.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 21 December, 2009, 10:36:30 am
Roads here are all ice free having been thoroughly gritted.
I've seen 5 cyclists so far, all of them were riding on the footpaths which are still
mostly covered in sheet ice.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Charlotte on 21 December, 2009, 10:52:37 am
It's snowing again in NW London!  I'm quite hopeful that this will last all day and we can go sledging tomorrow  :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 21 December, 2009, 11:21:46 am
It's snowing again in NW London!  I'm quite hopeful that this will last all day and we can go sledging tomorrow  :D

Still nothing in E London.  :'(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 21 December, 2009, 11:28:18 am
It's snowing again in NW London!  I'm quite hopeful that this will last all day and we can go sledging tomorrow  :D

Still nothing in E London.  :'(

Nor SW London
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 21 December, 2009, 11:49:56 am
Roads here are all ice free having been thoroughly gritted.
I've seen 5 cyclists so far, all of them were riding on the footpaths which are still
mostly covered in sheet ice.

Where I've seen significant show (ice) still on the ground, it's mostly been on the pavement, there's no way I'd use any adjacent cycle paths on footpaths, the roads are far safer.  I hardly saw any cyclists when I was out earlier, but it was mid-morning, and there was relatively little traffic anyway.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Charlotte on 21 December, 2009, 11:54:52 am
It's snowing again in NW London!  I'm quite hopeful that this will last all day and we can go sledging tomorrow  :D

Still nothing in E London.  :'(

Nor SW London

Bugger.  Is schtopped  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 21 December, 2009, 11:56:45 am
I had one or two tail-gaters as I was riding well clear of the slush down the edge of the road.  I also got to overtake long queues of cars despite it already being after 10am, and got to ride like a loon across the snowy work car park since the Nokians were doing their thing.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 21 December, 2009, 12:25:54 pm
The roads here are entertaining. It must have snowed (just a bit) and then frozen hard, so they look fine but are pretty treacherous.  Hardly any cars on our lane today; I took the trike down to get the paper and that was great fun; the only problem I had was on the climb back up the minor raise out of the village. I stopped to look back at the view and couldn't get going again - the drive wheel was just spinning out.  I let a load of air out of the tyre, leant over to my left and tried to tack sideways - eventually it worked, but for a while I felt a bit like one of those beetles on its back with its legs waving in the air :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 21 December, 2009, 12:47:11 pm
Just seen a young bloke go past riding his MTB on the ice covered path.

He was doing one-handed while cradling a 2lt plastic bottle of booze (his baby).
His free hand was holding the handlebar and also the leash with his Staffie dog
running alongside like a good un.

Hoorah for plastic bottles!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2009, 12:50:32 pm
I've just returned from a walk in Hockley Woods. A thaw has set in and there was the constant noise of snow falling from trees onto solid frozen ground. I think the temperature is about 4°C.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 December, 2009, 12:50:46 pm
I iz jealous of all you peops who has had proper SNO >:(

Bah!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 21 December, 2009, 12:50:50 pm
Just seen a young bloke go past riding his MTB on the ice covered path.

He was doing one-handed while cradling a 2lt plastic bottle of booze (his baby).
His free hand was holding the handlebar and also the leash with his Staffie dog
running like a good un.

Hoorah for plastic bottles!  :thumbsup:

Skillz!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 21 December, 2009, 12:52:46 pm


Skillz!

 ;D

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 21 December, 2009, 12:57:01 pm
Just seen a young bloke go past riding his MTB on the ice covered path.

He was doing one-handed while cradling a 2lt plastic bottle of booze (his baby).
His free hand was holding the handlebar and also the leash with his Staffie dog
running like a good un.

Hoorah for plastic bottles!  :thumbsup:

Skillz!

Darwinism maybe
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 21 December, 2009, 01:08:54 pm
Snowing again here in Reading. Settling nicely on the ice & old snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mattc on 21 December, 2009, 01:30:41 pm
Snowing again here in Reading. Settling nicely on the ice & old snow.

I was just about to post that! It went up a notch a couple of minutes ago.

Funny how urban Reading has caught so much more than South Oxon this last week - Chilterns shadow, I guess.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Greenbank on 21 December, 2009, 01:37:51 pm
Rain in SW15 but I'm guessing it'll turn to snow later on as it gets colder.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Really Ancien on 21 December, 2009, 01:40:31 pm
Just been sledging on the earth bund which masks the Leyland Truck factory. Quite diverting really as we were able to train-spot and watch a couple of falcons being flown at the same time. Had a couple of days skiing at Yad Moss, Dave and Jill of the Alston Outdoor Centre send their regards to all the LELers.

Damon.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 21 December, 2009, 01:47:24 pm
There is a severe weather warning in place for SE, East of England, and E Midlands, due to the fact that it will turn to snow later and cause yet more havoc.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 21 December, 2009, 01:53:31 pm
 :'( We have snizzle  :'(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 21 December, 2009, 02:43:19 pm
Issing down in SW3. If this lot freezes later, it'll be grim.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 21 December, 2009, 02:44:57 pm
it's peeing down in Southampton too
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Riggers on 21 December, 2009, 02:47:05 pm
Had rain earlier in Brighton which has now turned to hail… which is not going away!!!!!! Oh Lord, please just make it all go away.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 21 December, 2009, 02:48:07 pm
it's peeing down in Southampton too
it's just turned to sleet big time
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2009, 02:49:00 pm
It is raining here, although not sufficiently to stop me from riding to the chemist's to get my methotrexate.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Riggers on 21 December, 2009, 02:50:23 pm
… or Sanatogen
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 21 December, 2009, 02:58:06 pm
The Met Office has issued a severe weather for the east of England.  We've all just had an e-mail from the head of HR saying that we are to leave as and when we see fit to ensure that we can get home.

I'm off in about 15 minutes...  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2009, 02:59:09 pm
… or Sanatogen

What's that then?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 21 December, 2009, 03:10:31 pm
If only it was 3-4c lower outside we could call this snow. Though better get your skates on going home tonight as I'm sure it will turn to ice here in SW6.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Julian on 21 December, 2009, 03:15:53 pm
Proper snow again here now.  I might finish my work and try to leave early...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 21 December, 2009, 03:27:37 pm
We haz teh DRIZZEL again.

Like Proust's madeleine dipped in tea, so a soggy memory comes back to me of growing up in Derby, in the lee of the Trent power stations, between 1971 and 1983.  

Tis said that, one day, in the great drought of 1976, the drizzle paused for a few moments.  Hard to believe, and I didn't witness it myself, but possible, I expect.




Looking at the temperature, I imagine that woolly is right, and that this rain is playing musical statues.  When the music stops, whatever is left on the road will form a nice smooth layer :-\  
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 21 December, 2009, 03:57:22 pm
Snowing again here in Reading. Settling nicely on the ice & old snow.

I was just about to post that! It went up a notch a couple of minutes ago.

Funny how urban Reading has caught so much more than South Oxon this last week - Chilterns shadow, I guess.
Probably. Still snowing steadily here, & it's quite thick in the garden, but it's much wetter than the light powdery stuff we got on Thursday night & Friday morning. Nice & icy later, I think.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 21 December, 2009, 03:59:50 pm
It is now snowing quite hard here. Whilst Superstoker and I were out earlier, they gritted the paths in our street. Not very well- blobs of grit down the middle, but better than nothing and probably as well since the snow is now lying on top of it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 21 December, 2009, 04:28:48 pm
It's finally snowing here!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 21 December, 2009, 04:30:07 pm
Snowing lotz here :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2009, 04:34:31 pm
Still raining heavily here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 21 December, 2009, 04:38:29 pm
and here :D

:D

(:D because I'm snug and warm at home)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 21 December, 2009, 04:38:46 pm
I realise that I am not really worried about the snow at all, but I think of the miles & miles of fuckwit drivers who haven't properly cleared their screens, who will be pulling out from side roads and overtaking too close as if it were a normal day. >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2009, 04:40:44 pm
The Met Office have upgraded their severe weather warning to "Be prepared".

I tend to think that anything that comes from the south-west will be rain before it gets here, which at the moment it is.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Valiant on 21 December, 2009, 04:41:12 pm
It's proper snowing here, at least an inch has settled.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 21 December, 2009, 04:41:56 pm
Proper snow here in SE23, over an inch in 30 minutes, and it's still coming down with vigour.

I was out on the Honda when that happened.  :o

I did not enjoy it and would like to nominate myself for this year's clenching award.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Charlotte on 21 December, 2009, 04:43:58 pm
Oh dear.  Am I going to be leaving a pinched ridge down the brow of my Brooks again this evening?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 21 December, 2009, 04:45:16 pm
Oh dear.  Am I going to be leaving a pinched ridge down the brow of my Brooks again this evening?

 :o ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 21 December, 2009, 04:46:33 pm
I nearly picked my bike up by the saddle, no hands,  this morning as I transitioned from a fast roundabout to a shared path with thick glassy ice.

I think we will all be doing a lot of clenching tonight...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulR on 21 December, 2009, 04:46:48 pm
Oh noes - I have a ride from WC2 to SE23 ahead of me, wearing shorts, no overshoes and just a thin merino top and a windproof endura jacket.  But I do have crimble lights adorning my frame and I suspect most of the roads will be wet rather than icy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 21 December, 2009, 04:46:54 pm
Oh dear.  Am I going to be leaving a pinched ridge down the brow of my Brooks again this evening?

Leather softened by over-application of Proofide? Or just extremely strong muscles, & a grip enhanced by fear?  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 21 December, 2009, 04:49:04 pm
& an impressive pelvic floor ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 21 December, 2009, 04:49:30 pm
loads of snow here in Southampton now, hope everybody gets home OK
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 21 December, 2009, 04:50:27 pm
Oh noes - I have a ride from WC2 to SE23 ahead of me, wearing shorts, no overshoes and just a thin merino top and a windproof endura jacket.  But I do have crimble lights adorning my frame and I suspect most of the roads will be wet rather than icy.

I think you may have to walk the last half mile or so - the main roads are OK.
Side roads and Sainsbury's car park - not so much.

EDIT - Shorts!!!  :o :o :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 21 December, 2009, 04:57:37 pm
Oh noes - I have a ride from WC2 to SE23 ahead of me, wearing shorts, no overshoes and just a thin merino top and a windproof endura jacket.
Had you heard the weather forecast in the last week? I haven't been out with fewer than 2 pairs of trousers (longs + altura winter jobbies) in over a week :o.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2009, 04:58:57 pm
I've kept my long johns on. Luvverly and warm!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Valiant on 21 December, 2009, 05:01:56 pm
To be fair I cycled in with a short sleeve jersey, pair of jeans anna hat. Thankfully I have a training jacket in my bag.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 21 December, 2009, 05:02:42 pm
People seeing me on my way to work this morning may be forgiven for thinking that I'd forgotten to get up.  I probably looked like I was wearing a double bed.  ;D  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulR on 21 December, 2009, 05:03:18 pm
EDIT - Shorts!!!  :o :o :o

Well, I had a busy weekend and didn't get round to putting my longs through the wash, so I thought I would chance it this morning.  It was fine actually - a bit of a burning sensation on the shins but nothing unpleasant.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 21 December, 2009, 05:04:54 pm
I just walked from M&S on South Kensington High Street to Imperial College, and in about the ten minutes that took, the paths had gone from wet and clear to 1/2" to 1" of snow. :o

Given this countries ability to deal with snow (at least in the South), I shall be leaving shortly, before Public Transport grinds to a halt (too much shopping today to use the bike).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 21 December, 2009, 05:08:17 pm
......and in about the ten minutes that took, the paths had gone from wet and clear to 1/2" to 1" of snow. :o


That was pretty much my experience between going into, and coming back out of the supermarket  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2009, 05:11:22 pm
It's stopped here. The rain has helped the traffic to break up the 2" thick sheet ice which covered our side-road (we are on a corner: the main road is one of Southend's east-west thoroughfares and has been clear since Friday a.m.).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 21 December, 2009, 05:13:42 pm
No rain here, freezing all day and not a cloud in the sky, it's going to be cold one again tonight.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 21 December, 2009, 05:39:52 pm
The snow seems to have switched back to drizzle, possibly wintry drizzle, so I guess little chance of us now being buried in snow drifts for a while.

I'm abandoning my dash for the tube, until the rush hour has passed (somewhat).  I hate travelling on the underground when it's packed, and even more so when I've got stacks of stuff to carry.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: HTFB on 21 December, 2009, 05:46:48 pm
Well, that was fun. It's taken me about an hour and a half to get from SE21 to SE13, right through the middle of the snow. Solid traffic, cars and vans getting stuck uphill, the usual joy. Maybe I could have ridden faster, but it was all very pretty.

By the time I reached Ladywell it was thawing rapidly: the warmest air we've had all week. Until it freezes again the roads should move more freely.

A roll of thunder came over from about Woolwich. I don't know what that was about.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rower40 on 21 December, 2009, 05:52:35 pm
No new snow here (Cambridge) but ridged ice/slush combo on all the shared-use paths.
Trumpington Road (main road south towards the Motorway) has been walking-pace traffic all afternoon.  I know because I walked out 2 miles, and was overtaking cars all the way.
At one driveway, a car was wheel-spinning and going nowhere.  So I helped push them out onto the main road.  Not the ideal advert for the all-weather capabilities of a Maserati.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 21 December, 2009, 05:52:43 pm
Poor weather means Sainsbury's have cancelled the delivery they were due to make here this afternoon. Today was the last delivery I could get before the festivities.
Our freezer is well-stocked but we won't be getting the little treats I had planned.
We'll have a real Bah Humbug Christmas.

HOORAY!

Christmas has been cancelled!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 21 December, 2009, 05:54:57 pm
Christmas has been cancelled!
Please tell me that it is official and forever.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 21 December, 2009, 06:09:02 pm

Please tell me that it is official and forever.

Move to somewhere where there are only radical Islamics.  But don't let on you're a Dane.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 21 December, 2009, 06:12:29 pm
's OK. My parents are Jewish and don't do Christmas. Mum was born in Copenhagen though...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 21 December, 2009, 06:20:44 pm
Move to somewhere where there are only radical Islamics.  But don't let on you're a Dane.
I'm not scared, when the "cartoon war" was on there was more damage to the Swiss embassies around the world than to the Danish ones and more Muslims killed by Muslims than Danes hurt, go figure.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: FatBloke on 21 December, 2009, 06:22:54 pm
S'melting!!

(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:Czi5SyzQ9VFq8M:http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/403281/2/istockphoto_403281-melting-snowman.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: her_welshness on 21 December, 2009, 06:24:32 pm
I am dreading the commute home from Clapham to SE13 land tonight and the cars are already at a standstill here  :(, I have thermal tights and trousers but not waterproofs. Am just going to plug the evil ipod in and just sing through the wet terrain.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 21 December, 2009, 06:31:42 pm
Riding home from work was fine. Roads were clear, then coming to the rads to get to my house the roads were covered in slush, then moved onto some white roads where the snow had been compacted down, but with bits still soft.
No problems. Braking with the legs on the fixed so i could feel what the back wheel was doing. Everything nice and steady. Not even any clenching done.

In the middle of town the bits of snow that had been left.had sort of melted had frozen leaving large sections of ice. Had my back wheel slip abit on this(was gradient going down) as i was braking.
 8)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Valiant on 21 December, 2009, 07:45:39 pm
I'm not worried about the snow, tis the chavs with compacted snowballs. Hence why I'll be going on with my dlock on my bars :demon:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 21 December, 2009, 07:46:52 pm
I'm not worried about the snow, tis the chavs with compacted snowballs. Hence why I'll be going on with my dlock on my bars :demon:

dlock = 1   compacted snowball = 0
 :demon:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: matthew on 21 December, 2009, 09:48:25 pm
It has snowed sufficiently to Log Jam Bracknell, the A30 and the M3 sufficiently that having provided child care to my two year old niece today we were unable to get her home again.

So we still have tears now and she can't sleep because it is not her special bed that Daddy made for her last week.

 :-\ Not sure how much sleep any of us will get tonight so I only hope the trains aren't running tomorrow, then I can't get to work.

Matthew
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 21 December, 2009, 10:14:04 pm
Hold on a minute, there's a serious side to all this:

Sprout shortage as snow ruins Christmas crop - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/6860100/Sprout-shortage-as-snow-ruins-Christmas-crop.html)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 21 December, 2009, 10:18:23 pm
That is bad news.  I love sprouts, and they work very well in Bubble and Squeak as well.  Nom nom nom.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/smilies/nomnomnom3.gif)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 21 December, 2009, 10:27:07 pm
Tonight was the first time ever that the weather defeated me on my commute home. Black ice just isn't worth it so I got off and walked much of the way. I was still faster than the cars  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 21 December, 2009, 10:36:42 pm
It's been sleet here. The nokians aren't so good in deep slush. Also, tosspot motorists: I'm riding on the road because that's where there isn't snow. Beeping your horn aggressively as you pass after being held up for several seconds won't change anything. As for the guy who overtook at the blind summit of coldhams lane bridge despite the clear glow of oncoming headlights: die slowly and alone.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Valiant on 21 December, 2009, 10:42:53 pm
Wish me luck, I'm going out in 23mm  ProRace2s lol
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: JJ on 21 December, 2009, 11:14:59 pm
As for the guy who overtook at the blind summit of coldhams lane bridge despite the clear glow of oncoming headlights: May you wander the Beehive Centre, wearing shorts and a string vest, for the rest of eternity.

FTFY
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2009, 11:22:21 pm
Still thawing here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: her_welshness on 21 December, 2009, 11:24:50 pm
Tonight was the first time ever that the weather defeated me on my commute home. Black ice just isn't worth it so I got off and walked much of the way. I was still faster than the cars  :thumbsup:

I left work at 8pm - I've just got back in  >:( The A205 was at a complete standstill so I decided to walk the 7 miles home. Thankfully at West Dulwich there was a train going to Bromley Saarth and then a connection to Catford. Mr Welshness picked me up from Catford. It was absolute carnage out there, with lots of abandoned motorbikes and cars. I am so f*cking glad to be home.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2009, 11:29:33 pm
Blimy, you poor thing! It's quite remarkable how pretty well all our roads in Saarfend have been cleared by the same weather front which has given London a really nasty dose.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 21 December, 2009, 11:30:55 pm
Colleague at work with the TT didn't pay enough attention when I said "severe weather warning" and he didn't leave until 7pm, and lives 40 miles away.  Aww.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Valiant on 22 December, 2009, 12:08:53 am
Got home safe, bit slippery.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 22 December, 2009, 12:50:44 am
You can tell that the SNO has hit London.

It's melting here, but the local news (London!!!  ???) has started showing the footage of wheelspinning cars with people pushing it, and commenting on severe traffic delays.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 22 December, 2009, 07:41:24 am
I'm really hoping that all this has cleared now.  I'm going to wait for the rush hour to pass, and then try and deliver the cat to his Holidays.

I've done this in the past by bike, but this cattery is a fair distance, and plonking him into a cat carrier for an hour and a half or more whilst getting sprayed with road crud would be a bit unfair, so the four wheeled motorised monster is coming out!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 December, 2009, 10:08:12 am
Ah balls, I cleared all the sno off the car last night (cos it's not moved since it started), and what did it do overnight? Dump about 3 inches, and it's tipping down again now.
I wonder if we'll make it to my mum's for xmas......
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 22 December, 2009, 10:12:11 am
A little bit of snow this morning, but we've got a big storm coming in over the Mersey.  A good lightning display.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrew Br on 22 December, 2009, 10:28:02 am
We had a few cm overnight in Manchester and it's snowing quite hard again now.
I don't think that I'll go out to play on the bike- there's not enough snow on the ice to provide traction.
A walk on the other hand............... :thumbsup:

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 22 December, 2009, 10:46:35 am
No more snow.  Last night's rain didn't melt it to anything more than slush.

It re-froze last night.


I fell off on the ice this morning  ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 22 December, 2009, 10:55:01 am
Hope you bounced OK :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 22 December, 2009, 11:34:31 am
Yeah.  I like don't mind falling on ice.  It's nice and slow, you slide for ages before stopping, you don't lose any skin.

Then you have to crawl along the road pushing the bike until you can get to somewhere grippy enough to stand up.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 22 December, 2009, 12:24:04 pm
Fair bit of snow here in Aberdeen today. I managed to cycle to work OK, but I think I'll be walking most of the way home. Mrs P has been sent home from work and it's taken over an hour to drive a couple of miles  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Greenbank on 22 December, 2009, 12:27:01 pm
Poor weather means Sainsbury's have cancelled the delivery they were due to make here this afternoon. Today was the last delivery I could get before the festivities.

They just phoned to cancel ours scheduled for this evening, including ours Christmas turkey. Oh well, might wander into town to see what I can pick up and do the rest of the shopping over the next couple of days.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 22 December, 2009, 12:32:20 pm
The Amazon Pixies are clearly made of sterner stuff. I ordered a bunch of stuff from Amazon yesterday - it arrived by 10am this morning. Though it has to be said, Santa's Elf driving the van was a miserable f*cker who complained continuously the whole time I was filling in delivery forms.

There was a bit of a thaw last night - it was pouring with rain at 1am when I had a sleepless attack - but it has frozen hard again now, so the lane is mess of frozen slush, frozen puddles, all on top of about 3" of compacted snow. Nice.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 December, 2009, 12:33:01 pm
Yeah.  I like don't mind falling on ice.  It's nice and slow, you slide for ages before stopping, you don't lose any skin.

Then you have to crawl along the road pushing the bike until you can get to somewhere grippy enough to stand up.

The last time I fell on ice it was mega-rapid. I think it must have been after the heavy fall of December 1981, at the junction of Royston Ave & Bournemouth Park Road.

I could see the ice ahead, or at least, some of it, and took it very gently but there wasn't even time to put a foot down. I landed on my left hip with a bang and nursed a large bruise for a couple of weeks afterwards.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: her_welshness on 22 December, 2009, 12:33:15 pm
I left later today because I could not be arsed to travel with the main car commuters. As I went down to the corridor to collect my bike this morning, the chain had completely rusted due to that morass of snow and ice that I ploughed it through last night. A quick squeeze of 'finishing line' and Bob's your uncle, it was good to go :thumbsup: The roads today were in good order which was a relief.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 December, 2009, 12:34:17 pm
Yeah.  I like don't mind falling on ice.  It's nice and slow, you slide for ages before stopping, you don't lose any skin.

Then you have to crawl along the road pushing the bike until you can get to somewhere grippy enough to stand up.

Unless you manage to land in such a way that your brand-new left crank gets bent to the extent that you can no longer pedal a full revolution because it fouls the chainstay, and you are five miles from home with a bruise the size and shape of Greater Manchester on your hip.

Welcome to Christmas Day, 1985-stylee >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 22 December, 2009, 12:37:25 pm
They just phoned to cancel ours scheduled for this evening, including ours Christmas turkey. ...

So that'll be a Corned Beef Roast for Christmas then? ;D

On the way back from the cattery delivery run, I popped into Sainsburys to grab a few items I needed and fill the car with petrol for the long run home tomorrow.  I gave up looking for a parking space almost immediately, and it took me ten minutes of queueing to get some petrol, so good luck with finding a Turkey or something in a similar vein.

I think Sainsburys is actually only closed for Christmas Day, so why do people seem to leave pushing a couple of trolleys worth of stuff to their cars. :-\

I'm going to walk back after lunch to get what I need.  I suspect the round trip walk will be faster than however long waiting for a parking space would have taken.

The snow on the paths and roads has gone to slushy rather than solid ice, which is good if a little mucky.  Even though we got snowed on again yesterday, I think the temperature has risen enough that the ice is melting (fingers crossed that this continues through to tomorrow).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 22 December, 2009, 01:05:16 pm
Well, we had torrential rain yesterday and then it was back to glorious south coast sunshine. No snow here. I'm still jealous.

However, we do have to drive up into the South Downs tomorrow to collect a turkey[1] so I'm hoping it's sunny up there as well.

[1] Hand raised by my daughter on the school farm. Hence the non-local food.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 December, 2009, 01:41:02 pm
It's a lovely sunny day here, and I've just checked our water tank: solar gain has increased the water temperature from 11.4°C in the bottom of the tank to 20°C and rising in the top.

Sadly, before the sun goes down, next door's chimney will cast a shadow over the PV cell that drives the pump, and that will be that. Even so, that amount of warmth makes a big dent in the amount of leccy needed for a 30° wash.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Valiant on 22 December, 2009, 01:50:19 pm
Amazing ride in today, clear roads, the lights turnt green as I approached, the sun was shining. Set a new PB! About 3 and a half minutes lol, pretty much just sprinted all the way :)

I'm happy with that.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 December, 2009, 01:55:56 pm
Mrs P has been sent home from work and it's taken over an hour to drive a couple of miles  ;D
I hasten to add that I scammed a lift, I wasn't driving. (I doubt I could have got the car out of the road even if I'd wanted to...)  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Greenbank on 22 December, 2009, 02:34:44 pm
They just phoned to cancel ours scheduled for this evening, including ours Christmas turkey. ...

So that'll be a Corned Beef Roast for Christmas then? ;D

Phoned up, complained and it's rescheduled for tomorrow afternoon (hopefully). Today was the last day of scheduled deliveries, they kept the next couple of days free as contingency (which is nice). The elderly and housebound are getting priority, but we're near the top of the list after them (for vairous reasons).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 22 December, 2009, 02:46:23 pm
Colleague at work with the TT didn't pay enough attention when I said "severe weather warning" and he didn't leave until 7pm, and lives 40 miles away.  Aww.

Schadenfreude time!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: scott on 22 December, 2009, 03:06:18 pm

Bike lane (n) 1. snow storage area

Sidewalk (n) 1. see BIKE LANE

I wish I had better pictures from this morning's ride to work, but where the snow was fun, I was too busy enjoying the ride. And where the snow *wasn't* fun, the car-travel lanes were clear and I had to keep pulling off onto plow banks (former bike lanes) to avoid causing massive traffic jams behind me.

(http://i48.tinypic.com/34ybbm1.jpg)


(http://i48.tinypic.com/2pshp1i.jpg)


(http://i49.tinypic.com/2f04rjc.jpg)


(http://i50.tinypic.com/2wc1pva.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adam on 22 December, 2009, 06:40:49 pm
Well on top of the gas being off since Saturday afternoon, the electricity went off at 8 pm yesterday.  ::-)

Good job I always keep loads of charged up batteries around - lots of light thanks to my Hopes.  :thumbsup:

I ended up getting the camping stove out.  Fortunately I'd put the immersion heater on some time before the power went off, so there was still hot water for everyone.  And then we had about another 14 cm of snow overnight, so this morning even though I couldn't get out on the bike (due to the roads looking like Scott's second picture above), I was kept nice & warm clearing snow off the pavement

Eventually we got gas & electricity back at around 11 am. 

I am very envious of those with a wood burning stove.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 22 December, 2009, 06:51:46 pm
I am very envious of those with a wood burning stove.

Well, they help to keep you warm for sure.

I have a boiler on mine which contributes to the thermal store - a 300ltr heat bank. However, there is a problem even with that set-up. The hot water is mains cold that is heated by passing it through a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger only works when there is electricity to power a pump to rotate hot water through it.

So I have to have a genny on the go when the power is out, in order to have hot water.

Nothing is perfect I guess - and my genny has got more chance of powering a 200W pump than it has a 2500W Immersion :).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 22 December, 2009, 09:21:28 pm
We have just enough to make the place look pretty...

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2586/4206796460_aca063a8ed_d.jpg)
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4206039415_eea8c72938_d.jpg)
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4055/4206040323_3d56c8477d_d.jpg)

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 22 December, 2009, 09:53:38 pm
They just phoned to cancel ours scheduled for this evening, including ours Christmas turkey. ...

So that'll be a Corned Beef Roast for Christmas then? ;D

Phoned up, complained and it's rescheduled for tomorrow afternoon (hopefully). Today was the last day of scheduled deliveries, they kept the next couple of days free as contingency (which is nice). The elderly and housebound are getting priority, but we're near the top of the list after them (for vairous reasons).

They have not contacted me. I am housebound. I don't think any other deliveries are available until next Monday

I might just transfer my custom elsewhere.  I am not impressed with the way they've handled this.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 22 December, 2009, 10:06:20 pm
I am very envious of those with a wood burning stove.
We just have open fireplaces in some rooms, courtesy of a builder in the 1880s. Mrs B is currently sitting in bed reading BBC Wildlife while some yew burns gently on the other side of the bedroom. I'll join her in a little while. ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 22 December, 2009, 10:32:51 pm
Well, we had torrential rain yesterday and then it was back to glorious south coast sunshine. No snow here. I'm still jealous.

Be careful what you wish for...

A Proper SNOpocalypse in Pompey would probably mean that for all points north of Portsdown Hill, it would be The End Of The World As We Know It, as you have to tunnel your way out of the front door.  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 23 December, 2009, 08:05:00 am
We have just enough to make the place look pretty...


We have considerably more now. I haven't seen this much snow in Edinburgh since the early 90s. We had a snowball fight in Princes St gardens.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: gordon taylor on 23 December, 2009, 08:13:46 am
We have no snow here in the Midlands, and haven't had any since 1cm last Friday.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

I waant snow!

Stamps feet....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 23 December, 2009, 09:09:58 am
Only a light dusting here (see rubbish phone photo below of one of our "treated" roads); 5 cm maximum in places with another dusting yesterday and apparently more predicted tonight.
Enough to make quite a few roads impassable to the normal moton in summer equipped car.....

(http://www.meiring.org.uk/pdm/photos/Image010.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 23 December, 2009, 09:41:50 am
None SNO here in that there london village.  The world may not be about to end after all, despite the Evening Standard's gloom.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 23 December, 2009, 09:44:11 am
Pieter, those tyres leave a surprisingly wide track.  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 23 December, 2009, 09:45:13 am
They spread out a bit when he's sat on the saddle. ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 23 December, 2009, 09:48:04 am
Pieter, those tyres leave a surprisingly wide track.  ;)
Clarion is only partly right.... its the special studs... They do slow you down a bit..
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: scott on 23 December, 2009, 03:51:38 pm
Pieter, those tyres leave a surprisingly wide track.  ;)
Clarion is only partly right.... its the special studs... They do slow you down a bit..

Clarion hasn't slowed down for special studs for years now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 23 December, 2009, 03:58:13 pm
Pieter, those tyres leave a surprisingly wide track.  ;)
Clarion is only partly right.... its the special studs... They do slow you down a bit..

Clarion hasn't slowed down for special studs for years now.

I've seen him dawdling round Soho....  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 23 December, 2009, 04:06:59 pm
Ah.  Yes.  You see, I can explain...

You won't tell Butterfly, will you...? :-\ ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 23 December, 2009, 05:12:00 pm
Compacted snow turned into ice on side roads & many pavements here, now turned slick by rain.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mattc on 23 December, 2009, 05:15:31 pm
... and Thunder. That's a new one.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 23 December, 2009, 05:20:48 pm
I dug out the old steel framed MTB.

The only bike I've got that has basic platform pedals.
On the few places that resembled an ice rink, I rode it like a hobby horse.
No problems.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 23 December, 2009, 05:23:25 pm
We have just enough to make the place look pretty...


We have considerably more now. I haven't seen this much snow in Edinburgh since the early 90s. We had a snowball fight in Princes St gardens.

I spoke too soon didn't I ?  My short commute this morning on several inches of fresh powder was quite interesting !  Its going to be even more interesting once its frozen tonight.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 23 December, 2009, 05:25:37 pm
... and Thunder. That's a new one.
Mrs B just commented on it.  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 23 December, 2009, 05:35:11 pm
... and Thunder. That's a new one.
Mrs B just commented on it.  ;D

Thundersnow is rare, but not unheard of. I've experienced it a couple of times before.

Thundersnow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundersnow)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: giropaul on 23 December, 2009, 06:30:41 pm
We have no snow here in the Midlands, and haven't had any since 1cm last Friday.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

I waant snow!

Stamps feet....

So it's your fault it's coming down here (near Abbots Bromley) now then is it?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: gordon taylor on 23 December, 2009, 06:35:17 pm
We have no snow here in the Midlands, and haven't had any since 1cm last Friday.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

I waant snow!

Stamps feet....

So it's your fault it's coming down here (near Abbots Bromley) now then is it?

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris N on 23 December, 2009, 06:36:47 pm
So it's your fault it's coming down here (near Abbots Bromley) now then is it?

It's only raining here (about 15 miles east). >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 December, 2009, 06:48:51 pm
... and Thunder. That's a new one.
Mrs B just commented on it.  ;D

Thundersnow is rare, but not unheard of. I've experienced it a couple of times before.

Thundersnow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundersnow)

As was reported earlier, we had a lot of that last Thursday evening.

I've just driven to Maidstone and back with a whole load of seasonal paraphernalia. On the way out, it was a very wintry scene indeed: on the approach to Bluebell Hill along the A2, the sun shone on a snow-covered hillside and it appeared to have a sheet of ice on top of the snow and was dazzlingly bright.

Shortly afterwards, the rain started and now the temperature is about 6°C. By morning, there'll be hardly any snow left in SE England.

Must put my slicks back on and go for a ride.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 23 December, 2009, 08:07:44 pm
Just started snowing heavy here.
Only cleared the patio and drive abit ago!!! Had it lovely aswell so mum wouldnt slip.
The fresh snow should be alright though, when it freezes ill just clear it again.
The pavements arent too bad though, still grippy enough. Side roads have been grippy enough aswell aslong as you take care, the snow has been compacted, but with a layer of fluffy-ish stuff that has been thrown up from car tyres/bits of grip.
So hopefully this new snow wont make any difference.
Got to go to Tesco tomorrow with mum to do a top up shop(theres 5 of us and we cant last a week) but shes normally fine in snow. Got to hope it isnt busy because her parking is hopeless, and shes quite a fidget and worryer if i jump in and do it ::-)

Any snow for xmas? Hmmmm who knows.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 23 December, 2009, 08:11:38 pm
Heavy snow here at present in the higher lying reaches of west Sheffield too at the moment - roads are being completely covered.
No summer tyres for the last commute of the year to work tomorrow...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 23 December, 2009, 08:21:36 pm
Got two buses stuck at the top of the road for some reason. One facing down the hill, after trying to turn it around. One stuck at the top of the hill. No idea why. Where the cars have been going the snow has melted and its just running down the road. So one side of the road is fine, the other half has lovely fresh snow. ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 23 December, 2009, 08:23:15 pm
We had a very productive lunchtime at work today.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/2009_12230019.jpg)

My colleague is from Kenya and this was her first ever snowman
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/2009_12230020.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/2009_12230021.jpg)

And admin made one too

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/2009_12230022.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 23 December, 2009, 08:33:06 pm
Im rather tempted to go around next door, and draw a large, erect penis on their patio.
I could even make one out of snow, and if i can get the angle correct, have a line of sperm ejaculating for it.

Oh the laugh that could be. It would get them back for when they came around in the middle of the night and put lots of plastic flowers in our garden.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PeteB99 on 23 December, 2009, 08:52:46 pm
Finally snowing here in Chester.

Fairly light but 0.5 degrees and falling on frozen roads so if it keeps up tomorrow could be interesting!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 23 December, 2009, 10:17:31 pm
Lots of snow in Liverpool  :)   it had all melted when I got home this evening but I've just looked outside and it's chucking it down.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 December, 2009, 10:27:28 pm
Almost tropical here in Saarfend. I've just been out for a short pootle to make sure the summer tyres are OK. Some of the side roads are still a bit dodgy, but it's thawing fast.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 23 December, 2009, 10:31:01 pm
None SNO here in that there london village.  The world may not be about to end after all, despite the Evening Standard's gloom.

There was still loads in Stanmore when we visited David Galle today.

It started pissing down wet sleet as we left so some SNO may melt.

Hope the wet doesn't freeze into sheet ice.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L Hedley on 23 December, 2009, 10:48:02 pm
we still have lots of snow in Durham, temp only risen to 2 degress today and only for a while!  We are forecast lots more tonight! YIPEE!!!!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 23 December, 2009, 10:57:37 pm
Almost tropical here in Saarfend. I've just been out for a short pootle to make sure the summer tyres are OK. Some of the side roads are still a bit dodgy, but it's thawing fast.

Excellent.

Puts shorts and fingerless gloves by the door ready for the commute.



ps, does that mean you don't want those studded tyres anymore?   O:-) ;) ;) ;) ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 December, 2009, 10:59:41 pm
Oh, I'm sure I'll want them when it snows again in ... oh, 2014 I reckon.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 23 December, 2009, 11:08:11 pm
I've just been out for a short pootle to make sure the summer tyres are OK

 ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 December, 2009, 12:08:22 am
We've had another good couple of inches this evening - and it's still falling.  It's very pretty and the boys will be pleased when they wake up and see it in the morning and we may even get a white christmas... but it does feel a little like the gods are conspiring to stop lily-livered me and the shiny new Valencia (with its very slick tyres) from going out and making friends.  Daft thing is I was very very close to ringing up the LBS on Friday and saying 'I'll collect it this evening - any chance you've got some appropriate size winter tyres in and can fit them today?' but never got a round tuit.  I've never ridden in snow before.  What are the chances of it all going 'orribly wrong if I do?  Cos I'm getting a bit impatient....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 24 December, 2009, 01:52:34 am
I've been out to post some post.  The rain has turned the compacted snow in my street into an ice rink.  Winter tyres for cycling to catch the train to Scotland tomorrow, I think.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 December, 2009, 08:28:36 am
I'm going to England by train today. Perhaps we'll pass each other on adjacent lines without knowing. *sigh*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 24 December, 2009, 09:05:38 am
There's loads of fresh snow here, and it's still falling.  I'm going to fit some knobbly tyres to my commuter and go for a play across the woods and fields :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 24 December, 2009, 09:48:12 am
Loads of snow here overnight. Going to ski.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 24 December, 2009, 10:26:20 am
I've been out to post some post.  The rain has turned the compacted snow in my street into an ice rink. 
Snap. We had enough rain yesterday to make it all slick, but not enough to wash it away. Now it's warm enough to make the ice wet, but not enough to melt it quickly. :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 December, 2009, 10:46:24 am
Hope you peeps on trains aren't going via Glasgow....

It's raining and cold here. It's starting to make a lovely ice rink of everything, grr.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 24 December, 2009, 10:55:27 am
We've had another good couple of inches this evening - and it's still falling.  It's very pretty and the boys will be pleased when they wake up and see it in the morning and we may even get a white christmas... but it does feel a little like the gods are conspiring to stop lily-livered me and the shiny new Valencia (with its very slick tyres) from going out and making friends.  Daft thing is I was very very close to ringing up the LBS on Friday and saying 'I'll collect it this evening - any chance you've got some appropriate size winter tyres in and can fit them today?' but never got a round tuit.  I've never ridden in snow before.  What are the chances of it all going 'orribly wrong if I do?  Cos I'm getting a bit impatient....

Snow is fine with narrow tyres. Arguably you are better off on roads with narrow tyres than with wide ones.

Ice isn't ok.

You'll be fine in York, just stay off all side roads and out of the gutter.

Budget for hosing off time when you get back, and oil the chain immediately - even new chains go rusty overnight in these conditions.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 24 December, 2009, 11:02:05 am
I'm going to England by train today. Perhaps we'll pass each other on adjacent lines without knowing. *sigh*

I'm going to be passing through Edinburgh (this train's going to Glasgow) so that's not unlikely.

*waves*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 24 December, 2009, 11:05:26 am
Hope you peeps on trains aren't going via Glasgow....

It's raining and cold here. It's starting to make a lovely ice rink of everything, grr.

Hour's wait in Glasgow between trains for me.  I'll try to avoid the temptation to leave Central Station then.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 24 December, 2009, 11:11:07 am
It rained last night which melted most of the remaining snow.

The only thing left now is the ice on the cycle paths. ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 24 December, 2009, 11:55:39 am
Apparently it's ver' snowy and icy at my parents' today.  Keeping the snow tyres on = wise move.  When I texted that I would cycle from the station, my sis responded with "Eep!"
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 24 December, 2009, 12:17:35 pm
So my train was cancelled at Edinburgh and I'm on the scotrail service to queen street then a slither to central station. Going to get my connection on time but I've lost my comfy 1st class seat.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 24 December, 2009, 01:02:15 pm
Not snow, but ice.  Lots and lots of ice.
Mrs. B was supposed to go to work today but she couldn't.
I couldn't even walk through our gate and the lane itself is a perfect sheet of ice.
I doubt if this phone shot will show it though.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/ice.jpg)

Hurrah!  We're completely cut off for Christmas.  Thank god I drove down yesterday.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 24 December, 2009, 02:09:22 pm
I'm on the final leg. Clear blue skies over Ayrshire, which looks like a winter wonderland. Then 2 miles cycling with snow topped Arran as the backdrop. Will be beatiful.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 December, 2009, 02:15:47 pm
So my train was cancelled at Edinburgh and I'm on the scotrail service to queen street then a slither to central station. Going to get my connection on time but I've lost my comfy 1st class seat.
That's what I meant by not going by Glasgow, cos the trains are all confused there. I'm on t'other side of the country.
And they just said on Snooze 24 that the snow is heading north out of Embra so no doubt we'll get caught in it on the way south, grr,
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 December, 2009, 02:18:44 pm
Not snow, but ice.  Lots and lots of ice.
Mrs. B was supposed to go to work today but she couldn't.
I couldn't even walk through our gate and the lane itself is a perfect sheet of ice.
I doubt if this phone shot will show it though.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/ice.jpg)

Hurrah!  We're completely cut off for Christmas.  Thank god I drove down yesterday.

That's most impressive, Basil! How far from Llandysul are you now?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 24 December, 2009, 02:23:38 pm
The surgery phoned and informed me they had now done my prescription that had been missing
from my usual one.
The receptionist enquired if I would be able to pick it up right now, as they close in a bit.
I replied "I'll try my best to."

So I had 22 minutes to do a smidgen over four miles to get there.

There were a few John Candy "Devil" moments.  :o

(http://i578.photobucket.com/albums/ss226/SgtBikeo/JohnCandy.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 24 December, 2009, 05:04:23 pm

That's most impressive, Basil! How far from Llandysul are you now?
'bout 4 miles.  Might as well be 400 though.
It's a good job it's crimble.  We've got loads of food and drink in.   :P
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2009, 10:03:31 pm
According to the Met Office, it's been a white Christmas in quite a few places from Nottingham northwards.

They reckon it will be sunny and much milder tomorrow here in Saarfend, which means I should get a few miles in.

However, they also reckon it will be raining hard at midnight and 7°C. Since it's cloudless and freezing hard at the moment, I'll believe that when it happens.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Torslanda on 25 December, 2009, 10:17:40 pm
It's now pissing down in Nth Manchester and it will be fun tomorrow getting the car out if it freezes overnight.

Oh well. Not back to work until Tuesday. it's gonna be a looooooonnnng weekend
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 27 December, 2009, 10:41:26 am
More snow for us this morning.  I'm getting bored with it now, once it stops its all very pretty etc but its stopping me from getting out on the bike !  Worse, it looks like the forecast for the rest of the week is more of the same.  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nightrider on 27 December, 2009, 10:58:05 am
Its thawing :)going for a short ride later.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 December, 2009, 11:22:59 am
We're now at the main roads are clear, but many side roads and pavements have compacted/thawed/refrozen/covered in a slick of meltwater grey yack everywhere stage.  Which means that I nearly went base over apex walking to the corner shop!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: gordon taylor on 27 December, 2009, 11:32:12 am
I'm surprised that we still have so much ice around because the last two nights here have been +3 or so.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 27 December, 2009, 01:02:05 pm
Aaaaannd now...it's torrential rain.

*Thinks of emigrating*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 December, 2009, 07:22:51 pm
So my train was cancelled at Edinburgh and I'm on the scotrail service to queen street then a slither to central station. Going to get my connection on time but I've lost my comfy 1st class seat.
My train from Edinburgh to Newcastle on Christmas Eve was half an hour late getting to Edinburgh because of a broken rail at South Gyle, so I missed my connection at Newcastle and had to wait for the next one. Coming back was problem-free though.

Lots of snow in Huddersfield.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 December, 2009, 08:07:32 pm
I see that the Met Office are contemplating another bout of snow in a few days.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 27 December, 2009, 08:10:34 pm
I see that the Met Office are contemplating another bout of snow in a few days.
Well they tell us what the weather will be like so I assume that they control it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 28 December, 2009, 05:26:13 pm
There's been a very hard frost here and although it's remained quite clear and bright
all day, it hasn't been able to shift the frost.
So, I'm on the road, it's nice 'n' quiet and I'm steadily going along on my MTB.
Up ahead riding on the footpath which runs alongside the road is a young chap on his bike.

In next to no time I'm alongside him and now very slowly getting ahead.
Very slowly - because he's seen me and now upped his pace.
I'm not racing, I'm far from in the mood for it, the icy conditions being one of them.
If he'd seen just how quickly I'd reeled him in, then I'm certain he wouldn't have been so eager  ::-)

The paths around here are an ice rink and Jack Frost wanted a piece of his ass.
I then heard a lot of different noises.
By the time I glanced around he was already slowly picking himself back up.


More snow forecast for tomorrow.  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 28 December, 2009, 09:34:50 pm
So my train was cancelled at Edinburgh and I'm on the scotrail service to queen street then a slither to central station. Going to get my connection on time but I've lost my comfy 1st class seat.
My train from Edinburgh to Newcastle on Christmas Eve was half an hour late getting to Edinburgh because of a broken rail at South Gyle, so I missed my connection at Newcastle and had to wait for the next one. Coming back was problem-free though.

Lots of snow in Huddersfield.

There was lots of whinging about public transport on the (standing room only) service to Glasgow.  But we got there, unlike many people driving recently who have been forced to abandon their cars.

By the time I head back south on Sunday it'll hopefully have got a bit more back to normal.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 December, 2009, 09:45:58 pm

So, I'm on the road, it's nice 'n' quiet and I'm steadily going along on my MTB.
Up ahead riding on the footpath which runs alongside the road is a young chap on his bike.


Was it a shared use, or an actual footpath?

I noticed several pavement cyclists round our way this week - on proper pavements, not shared use at all.  Insanity - the road was well-gritted and completey clear, not even a slush pile at the edge.  In broad daylight.  The pavement was coated in absolutely lethal hard-packed snow and ice, with a vicious slope on it too.  Not to mention the PEDESTRIANS.  But of course, the roads just aren't safe, are they?  :facepalm:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 28 December, 2009, 10:59:40 pm
Driving up to Edinburgh tonight. No snow, but a lot lying. Very cold - it dropped to -15 midway between Biggar and Edinburgh.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: IanDG on 28 December, 2009, 11:02:34 pm
Snowing again here tonight. The last lot is still covering the ground, all frozen and never melted because it didn't get warm enough.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 December, 2009, 07:57:56 am


There was lots of whinging about public transport on the (standing room only) service to Glasgow.  But we got there, unlike many people driving recently who have been forced to abandon their cars.

By the time I head back south on Sunday it'll hopefully have got a bit more back to normal.

Coming back north was fine, no problems at all. I forgot to say that on my way south, the Edinburgh train had no heating and no working toilets because of frozen pipes.  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 29 December, 2009, 12:42:44 pm

So, I'm on the road, it's nice 'n' quiet and I'm steadily going along on my MTB.
Up ahead riding on the footpath which runs alongside the road is a young chap on his bike.


Was it a shared use, or an actual footpath?



Just a normal footpath. No one bats an eyelid here regarding bikes on footpaths.
Even the cops on their MTB bikes prefer using the footpaths.
It's a very, very large estate that I live next to and the way the estate is laid out
means cycling on footpaths is the norm around here.



Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 29 December, 2009, 07:01:03 pm
The weather bods have just said we are about to get dumped on up here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 29 December, 2009, 07:13:04 pm
The weather bods have just said we are about to get dumped on up here.

It's about to rain untreated sewage?  :o

I bet you'd prefer several inches of snow instead.





I'll get my coat...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 29 December, 2009, 07:48:36 pm
The weather bods have just said we are about to get dumped on up here.

It's about to rain untreated sewage?  :o

I bet you'd prefer several inches of snow instead.





I'll get my coat...
Going by severn trents half arsed efforts of late it could do either.

Spot the broken water main is a little on the road game for me, it's terribly nice of them to provide ice rinks at road junctions.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2010, 08:35:01 am
I've awoken to another dusting and very icy roads. The snow only seems to have settled on the roofs and there's only about a quarter of an inch of it. I was hoping to go out with the CTC this morning to their traditional New Year lunch at the Viper (first stop on the YACF Essex Christmas do). I don't need to leave until 9.45. I'll see how it turns out: the sun is shining, which makes a nice change from last year.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tonycollinet on 01 January, 2010, 08:47:28 am
So what is wrong with BBC weather forecast?

BBC Homepage weather info for my postcode
(http://www.collinet.plus.com/photos/w1.PNG)


BBC Five day forecast for the same postcode:
(http://www.collinet.plus.com/photos/w2.PNG)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 January, 2010, 08:50:08 am
I seem to be missing something here... looks like the same info to me, just that the homepage forecast uses a picture to represent what's going to happen at 1800?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 01 January, 2010, 05:35:17 pm
I've awoken to another dusting and very icy roads. The snow only seems to have settled on the roofs and there's only about a quarter of an inch of it. I was hoping to go out with the CTC this morning to their traditional New Year lunch at the Viper (first stop on the YACF Essex Christmas do). I don't need to leave until 9.45. I'll see how it turns out: the sun is shining, which makes a nice change from last year.

Here in mid-Essex we had a light dusting of snow overnight as well. I had to collect the car from the pub so set off on my bike - 6 miles through quiet lanes. In places the surface was fine but where the roads were wet sheet ice had formed. I came off twice and have pulled a muscle under my left arm. Really hurts. Studded tyres are now on order.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 01 January, 2010, 08:18:29 pm
After a beautiful morning for a walk, we've been getting it big time for some hours now. 
Imprisoned again.  >:(  It's a mile and a half to the nearest gritted road.  (Well, it was gritted last week sometime)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 01 January, 2010, 09:15:52 pm
  >:(  It's a mile and a half to the nearest gritted road.  (Well, it was gritted last week sometime)

Hammer House of Horror type village of the damned. We don't loik strangers round 'ere.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 January, 2010, 09:17:54 pm
After a beautiful morning for a walk, we've been getting it big time for some hours now. 
Imprisoned again.  >:(  It's a mile and a half to the nearest gritted road.  (Well, it was gritted last week sometime)
Ice skates for next christmas then?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: matthew on 01 January, 2010, 10:55:51 pm
After a beautiful morning for a walk, we've been getting it big time for some hours now. 
Imprisoned again.  >:(  It's a mile and a half to the nearest gritted road.  (Well, it was gritted last week sometime)

That's a bit poor for Bournville  ;)

I hope you will be able to return to the city when you have to go back to work.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 01 January, 2010, 10:58:43 pm
 ;D ::-)
In Bournville, it's about 20 metres to the nearest gritted road.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 01 January, 2010, 11:11:01 pm
It's even snowed in Devon!  A nice dusting from a pretty shower, all settling on a hard two-day freeze.  Hope we get more!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 01 January, 2010, 11:13:40 pm
More here this evening.  Snow on top of boiler plate ice now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: teethgrinder on 02 January, 2010, 12:17:54 am
Enough of this Micky Mouse snow!
If it's going to snow and make cycling difficult or impossible, then it might as well do the job properly. I'm talking 6ft high snow drifts so that I can have a proper play in the snow. Not this rubbish where cycling is still difficult or impossible and I can't have a good play in the snow. >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrew Br on 02 January, 2010, 10:08:28 am
More snow in Manchester overnight- only about 2cm and it looks like it could change to rain at any moment.
I doubt that we'll be out on the bikes tomorrow  :(

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 02 January, 2010, 10:11:04 am
Cold - very cold - and sunny again here.  No question of road-riding.  I might go for a run or - if the ground is still frozed- go on the MTB later.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Gus on 02 January, 2010, 10:23:11 am

It's snowing here again, and the temperature have climbed to -3oC.
forecast for the next week: cold and snow
Who said the climate was getting warmer   :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Manotea on 02 January, 2010, 10:23:32 am
Frosty cold in London. Might go for a run in richmond park IICFMA.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 02 January, 2010, 10:37:31 am
No snow (we missed the last lot by 2 miles!!) but -3 here.  I'm supposed to be playing rugby against Caerleon later but there's a good chance it will be cancelled I guess.  Tackling and rucking on frozen ground isn't much fun!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 02 January, 2010, 02:58:23 pm
Cold - very cold - and sunny again here.  No question of road-riding.  I might go for a run or - if the ground is still frozed- go on the MTB later.

Geeez

I went running for about an hour - and it's plenty warm in the sun but the roads are just treacherous. I really struggled to stay upright when walking in 4 or 5 places on the lanes.  It seems to be a combination of run-off from he fields after the heavy rain of November and very, very low temperatures.

A couple of people in cars passed me with what i felt was not very much caution, considering the conditions.  I'd not take the car out today.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 02 January, 2010, 03:01:45 pm
It's been snowing solidly - and laying - for about an hour here in Darlington.  I'm hunkering down for the night.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 02 January, 2010, 03:06:43 pm
Near Richmond, SW London last night: cold, clear skies, bright full moon. 01:00 approx: a 2 to 3 minute hard and heavy hail shower from out of nowhere  ???
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 02 January, 2010, 03:21:31 pm
Snowing again here in Nottingham.
The ride home from work wasnt too bad though, roads were all pretty clear, just a few side roads that had slush on.
All the roads in town, and the pavements were all clear aswell so getting out from town was fine, just abit wet.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 02 January, 2010, 04:11:23 pm
It's even snowed in Devon! ...

Tell me about it.  Two weeks in the South-West with bugger all snow, and the evening before I left, it snows all over the car. :-\

Ah well, once I got ten or twenty miles up the motorway most evidence of it disappeared, and whilst London is cold, there's little snow or ice here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 02 January, 2010, 06:08:56 pm
As the sun was setting, the sky had that low cloud with the tell-tale pink tinge to it.  :(

Here it comes again.  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 02 January, 2010, 07:08:21 pm
Been snowing here for the last hour or so.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 02 January, 2010, 07:14:20 pm
Dropped about two or three inches here, looks like more tonight.

A quick pootle out revealed that Stoke On Trent city council had been caught with their trousers down and have completely failed to get any grit down on the main roads which will be completely frozen by morning, city wide.

Crossing the boundary into "The Borough" the roads mysteriously become well gritted and passable.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: gordon taylor on 02 January, 2010, 07:26:58 pm
We live just a few miles south of Stoke and still haven't had ANY SNOW AT ALL since one bloody cm ten days before Christmas.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH


I want snow. Why does everybody else have snow?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 January, 2010, 07:32:04 pm
Snow on top of ice again.  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 02 January, 2010, 07:33:24 pm
We live just a few miles south of Stoke and still haven't had ANY SNOW AT ALL since one bloody cm ten days before Christmas.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH


I want snow. Why does everybody else have snow?
I do a night time loop out past the old powerstation and I have found that the lumpy bits around Stone have their own micro-climate. You can actually feel the sharp temperature change as you get to around Barlaston. I think it may be the terrain, it always seems to be on the edge of two pressure fronts
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 02 January, 2010, 07:59:55 pm
I have 'snow' all over my lounge carpet; someone left a tissue in the washing...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 02 January, 2010, 11:43:44 pm

I want snow. Why does everybody else have snow?

I'm done with snow. My backside has been in contact with frozen water rather than the bicycle I intended it to stay on, 6 times in the last 3 weeks.

Come to Suffolk, take all the bloomin snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 02 January, 2010, 11:50:48 pm
We have had very little snow here(not far from Gordy) but what we have had has melted & frozen & then thawed,then frozen again.This has occurred several times leaving ice as serious safety threat for cyclists,peds & motorists.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 January, 2010, 12:47:33 am
A "severe weather warning" has been issued concerning the probablility of 1 - 3cm snow falling in Essex / Saarfend.

I don't call that especially severe.

Edit: temperature is +1°C.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 03 January, 2010, 01:46:31 am
A "severe weather warning" has been issued concerning the probablility of 1 - 3cm snow falling in Essex / Saarfend.

I don't call that especially severe.

Edit: temperature is +1°C.
Evacuate now while there is still time!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 January, 2010, 04:07:05 am
I went running for about an hour - and it's plenty warm in the sun but the roads are just treacherous. I really struggled to stay upright when walking in 4 or 5 places on the lanes. 

MV, put the gin down and step away 8)

Not even a frost here tonight chiz, money back plz.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 03 January, 2010, 09:39:44 am
Still frozen in from latest snowfall.  I attempted to ride the Sardar and am just back after giving up.  So now I need to walk ( :() to town for bread n milk.
I'm supposed to be leaving at 6ish tomorrow as hire car is due back in Brum at noon Monday.  We'll see how that goes then.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 03 January, 2010, 10:16:28 am
snowing again now
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Gus on 03 January, 2010, 10:19:14 am

No snow today, but it's freezing it 's -9oC now, not that that kept me from taking a ride  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 January, 2010, 10:52:49 am
No snow here. -2 when I looked at about 9.30.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 03 January, 2010, 10:59:38 am
Still frozen in from latest snowfall.  I attempted to ride the Sardar and am just back after giving up.  So now I need to walk ( :() to town for bread n milk.
I'm supposed to be leaving at 6ish tomorrow as hire car is due back in Brum at noon Monday.  We'll see how that goes then.

'Sdim ots - lot o bobl yn yr ardal yno 'da tractorau!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nicknack on 03 January, 2010, 11:45:41 am
Snowing here quite heavily. Poo.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Aidan on 03 January, 2010, 11:55:32 am
started snowing again here. Already very very icy, and I might have to review my travel plans for the week
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 03 January, 2010, 01:22:08 pm
Still frozen in from latest snowfall.  I attempted to ride the Sardar and am just back after giving up.  So now I need to walk ( :() to town for bread n milk.
I'm supposed to be leaving at 6ish tomorrow as hire car is due back in Brum at noon Monday.  We'll see how that goes then.

'Sdim ots - lot o bobl yn yr ardal yno 'da tractorau!

I’m embarrassed now, the really bad stuff is only near me.  (Talk about micro climates!)
I would only have had to push the bike half a mile or so to get to where it is (sort of) rideable.
Oh well, it was a lovely morning for a walk.  Thankfully I got a lift from local farmers for the last mile out and for the first three back, so what was going to be a 9 mile round trip hike turned out to be only 5 miles.
Sons have just left to retrace my steps.  They’re heading into town for their poker league.  I’ve told them I’ll be drinking [1] so not to bother ringing tonight for a lift back.

[1] Not necessarily true.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rower40 on 03 January, 2010, 01:44:54 pm
+1 for the Micro-climate idea.  Bright sunshine all morning here.

Just been out for 25 miles of (converted railway) + (smallish A road) + (converted canal towpath).  Frozen snow in places, wet&dirty puddles and splash in others.  Then black ice at one T-junction-onna-slope, so I had to allow the Windcheetah (*) to roll back, then nip up onto the pavement where the frozen snow had enough lumps-n-bumps to provide grip.

(*) No way was I going out on anything with 2 wheels or fewer.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 03 January, 2010, 02:09:49 pm
Just started in SW London
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: HTFB on 03 January, 2010, 02:13:04 pm
Just started in SW London
Bright sun in SE London though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Palinurus on 03 January, 2010, 02:28:51 pm
Just shoed up my one of my spare front wheels for the 'cross bike with a Schwalbe Snow Stud tyre. Not sure what sort of advantage it will offer with 100 studs but the crosser is pretty good in snow with regular tyres, just could do with a bit more bite in compressed snow and refrozen snow. Ice, in the absence of snow, is rarely an issue on my commute.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: FatBloke on 03 January, 2010, 02:51:51 pm
Clear blue sky* and snowing here!    ;D

*Out of the window I'm currently sat in front of.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 03 January, 2010, 03:00:15 pm
Clear blue sky and chilly - about -3 here. Lots of snow'n'ice though
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 03 January, 2010, 03:40:37 pm
As PaulF said, a little in SW London, but it's only retained where the sun hasn't shone, and seems to be the barest speckling of whiteness.  It's not enough to dissuade me from my commute tomorrow morning (unless a lot more happens overnight).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 January, 2010, 05:28:40 pm
Bloody cold here. Freezing hard whilst Mrs. Wow and I went to Waitrose around 3.30.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 03 January, 2010, 06:13:36 pm
It effing cold indeed but it's a dry cold with little wind.

Good riding weather as long as you stick to the gritted roads :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 03 January, 2010, 06:22:18 pm

No snow today, but it's freezing it 's -9oC now, not that that kept me from taking a ride  :)

Jeez, that's just the ambient temperature. Wonder what the chill-factor was when you're going along?
At least -20oC, perhaps?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 03 January, 2010, 06:24:42 pm
FriKKin' cold here at around 14:00 (last time we ventured out to $chmevanz in the Wharf).

Should be interesting at 06:15 tomorrow, when I'm due to accompany someone on her first fixed commute  :o eek!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 03 January, 2010, 06:28:54 pm
I was out on the fixed today, twas a bit wibbly on the odd side road.

The inner monologue was constant "steady...steady...don't touch the brake...steady...gonna make it"
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 03 January, 2010, 06:30:48 pm
I was out on the fixed today, twas a bit wibbly on the odd side road.

The inner monolouge was constant "steady...steady...don't touch the brake...steady"

I was out on my fixed MTB today, on serious ice.  Scary stuff.  It's ace being able to pedal with one leg while using the other to stay upright :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 03 January, 2010, 06:35:55 pm
After about 50 yards of slewing back and forth on solid lumpy ice and considering the possible certain death of a dip in the frozen canal I decided that the tow path route was not a wise move on bog standard 23mm ultrasports.

I did catch myself doing the one leg thing.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 03 January, 2010, 07:59:13 pm
There's an absolutely evil frost out there already. I'm dreading the morning.
Just noticed that the stars look extra twinkly, due to the conditions.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 03 January, 2010, 08:01:34 pm
Just seen the forecast and it looks like we're going to get a week of looooooow temperatures and possibly more snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 03 January, 2010, 08:10:54 pm
Just seen the forecast and it looks like we're going to get a week of looooooow temperatures and possibly more snow.
Now is the time to make that huge ice lolly using a broom handle and a 5 litre bucket of Vimto.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 January, 2010, 08:15:46 pm
Just seen the forecast and it looks like we're going to get a week of looooooow temperatures and possibly more snow.
Now is the time to make that huge ice lolly using a broom handle and a 5 litre bucket of Vimto.

You wouldn't want him to choke on his own Vimto.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wobbly John on 03 January, 2010, 09:26:40 pm
Went out with a group from the Retrobike forum (http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/), to ride the singletrack in Thetford Forest. Icy on the roads - some of the guys coming up the A14 saw 5 accidents in a mile!   ::-)

Thetford forest seems to be the only place in the area that had snow :o

(http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/files/thetford1_209.jpg)

22 riders on 90's and 00's MTBs in our group.  :smug:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adam on 03 January, 2010, 09:54:56 pm
On my commuter bike, I'm leaving my studded Marathon Winter Tyres on for the next few months I think.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 03 January, 2010, 11:44:13 pm
Having driven up north through -15 on Monday we drove back yesterday. We left Edinburgh before the 6 inches of snow was dumed on it - in some ways a shame  ;D

lovely deep drifts of snow, hillsides completely covered with the white stuff - none of that wimpy southern stuff where there is still dark coloured stuff showing.

The best bit? Coming through Carlops. Icicles for Africa! Every pitched roof house on the north side of the road had icicles. The biggest ones we saw were over 5 foot long. Brilliant!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 04 January, 2010, 01:43:39 am
Just driven home from the New Year break.  Light snow on M25 anti-clockwise at Clackett's, settling slightly on hard shoulder and outside lane thanks to lack of traffic.  Roads well gritted but I bet people will be saying that they weren't because the snow was landing  ::-)


I've just got two old bicycle tyres out of the garage and put a screw through one from the inside to check it was the right length...   Will purchase more screws tomorrow and have a go at making these homebrew ice tyres.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 04 January, 2010, 02:43:01 am
Have you primed your local A&E?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 04 January, 2010, 08:17:02 am
We seem to have had a very light dusting of snow overnight (in Croydon), which is still on the residential roads (mine anyway).  I doubt it'll have survived on the busier roads, and hopefully will have bugger all effect on the cycleability of the surface.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 January, 2010, 08:39:19 am
A dusting here. Will take dog for longish walk.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 04 January, 2010, 09:07:07 am
no snow, but it's only -5.6c in southampton
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 04 January, 2010, 09:28:41 am
Heathrow and Biggin Hill are reporting -4, whereas Gatwick is reporting a balmy -3.  It's a bit nippy out there, Talisker is avoiding going out, but to be fair, furry paws probably aren't that good at keeping the cold at bay.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 04 January, 2010, 10:13:37 am
No snow in Liverpool, but it was -5 last night.   A glorious sunny day and I'm stuck in the orifice on a conference call :-(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 04 January, 2010, 10:45:15 am
-3.4 overnight minimum just outside my house (& close enough to be affected by radiated heat) , but -5.9 up at Reading university ( dry bulb - Meteorology Department Weather Data Visualisation Page  (http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/Data/fieldsite/cgi-bin/graph_page.cgi?RL=0&Dat=1) )
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 04 January, 2010, 01:27:27 pm
Quote from: fboab's mum
No1Daughter should be on the train if we can get out of the valley. There's 8" and drifts.
It's grim deep up north.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 04 January, 2010, 01:57:36 pm
At 6:30 a.m. today the read-out in the car was showing -14  :o
That is the lowest temperature I've ever experienced other than in the USA

I had to get this out.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/ATT00007.jpg)

And then up the hill. (A lot steeper than it looks)  A lot more tractors had been along since this photo and crushed the lovely snow into an ice rink.
It took me three tries to get up then hill, reversing back further each time and taking a faster run up each time.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/ATT00004.jpg)

It was a balmy -9 by the time we got down to Carmarthen
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Post by: numbnuts on 04 January, 2010, 03:07:58 pm
Nice photos.......if you haven't got to go out
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Post by: Moloko on 04 January, 2010, 03:53:44 pm
Red Rum! Red Rum! Red Rum! Red Rum! Red Rum! Red Rum! Red Rum! Red Rum!
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Post by: Zoidburg on 04 January, 2010, 04:40:51 pm
You are the Care Taker Basil!
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Post by: Rich753 on 04 January, 2010, 04:43:55 pm
50cms of snow in my neighbours garden - and more forecast for tonight  ;D
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Post by: Jacomus on 04 January, 2010, 04:46:33 pm

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/ATT00007.jpg)


Ha! Your car's numberplate accurately expresses what it is thinking about the weather!

FN YKY = effin yukky
 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Post by: Wowbagger on 04 January, 2010, 05:11:59 pm
A small dusting this morning, but the (<¼") snow we had was not melted even by the midday sun.

This morning's walk from Leigh to Hadleigh Castle & back was a beauty.

(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/6880-1/DSC04487.JPG)

(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/6898-1/DSC04488.JPG)

(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/6886-1/DSC04489.JPG)

(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/6883-1/DSC04490.JPG)

(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/6889-1/DSC04491.JPG)

That's Hadleigh in the background, where the 2012 mountain biking will happen. The train is heading for Fenchurch Street.

(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/6895-1/DSC04492.JPG)

(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/6904-1/DSC04493.JPG)
The central heating exhaust at Hadleigh Salvation Army Farm.

(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/6901-2/DSC04494.JPG)
The small jellyfish-like object is a stalagmite of ice, dripping from the condensation of the boilers.

(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/6892-1/DSC04495.JPG)
Tea on the terrace in 3° of frost. That's ice on the table. It actually felt quite warm, wrapped up as we were in our thermals and sitting in the sun.
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Post by: woollypigs on 04 January, 2010, 05:18:42 pm
The temp dropped like a rock when the sun went down in the park I was training in today. One sec I couldn't see my breath the next I could and it was really brrrrrr
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Post by: toekneep on 04 January, 2010, 05:19:20 pm
We are due for more snow tonight. We had a ten minute light shower earlier and it covered the ground almost immediately. I don't think a single flake of it melted.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 January, 2010, 08:28:39 pm
Snow, just fup off!
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Post by: Basil on 04 January, 2010, 08:31:02 pm
Oi Sno.

Just bugger off to Gordy's, will ya.
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Post by: Andrew Br on 04 January, 2010, 10:05:44 pm
I got a surprise when I looked out of the window earlier- another 1-2cm has fallen.
Tomorrow won't be fun- all the pavements here are solid ice.

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Post by: Bledlow on 04 January, 2010, 10:14:03 pm
No snow here, & a mere -4 here in the inner city, but it's down to -8 up at Benson airfield - & dropping.
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Post by: IanDG on 04 January, 2010, 10:16:27 pm
More falling here tonight too.
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Post by: woollypigs on 04 January, 2010, 10:57:28 pm
Its proper winter weather here in the big smog so it is rather pointless that there ain't any snow falling.

Brrr and January normally meant snow when I grew up and please if you are going to snow let it be more than a little inch that melt in afternoon.
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 04 January, 2010, 10:58:44 pm
Supposed to snow in London tomorrow and Wednesday. With temps as they are I can't see it melting, if it does.
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Post by: border-rider on 04 January, 2010, 10:58:56 pm
No snow here, but it was -6.5 when we got home at 9:30 tonight, and I reckon it could end colder than this morning's -8
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 04 January, 2010, 11:36:28 pm
Has anyone heard the usual pearl of wisdom "it's to cold to snow" yet this year? People who say that should left out on the frozen moors in just their undercrackers.
 
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Post by: Zoidburg on 04 January, 2010, 11:37:01 pm
Has anyone heard the usual pearl of wisdom "it's to cold to snow" yet this year? People who say that should left out on the frozen moors in just their undercrackers.
 
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Post by: IanDG on 04 January, 2010, 11:41:20 pm
No snow here, but it was -6.5 when we got home at 9:30 tonight, and I reckon it could end colder than this morning's -8
.

Too cold to snow then?  ;D
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Post by: Wowbagger on 04 January, 2010, 11:54:26 pm
Has anyone heard the usual pearl of wisdom "it's to cold to snow" yet this year? People who say that should left out on the frozen moors in just their undercrackers.
 

The lowest temperature I ever recorded on my admittedly not brilliantly reliable Brannan maxi-mini thermometer was on 12th Jan 1987, -14°C at 7 p.m. We already had 8 inches or so lying at that time, but at 7 or soon after the temperature went up to -12 and a further 11 inches of snow fell.

Saarfend recorded the lowest temperatures throughout the UK for the rest of that week.
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Post by: nuttycyclist on 05 January, 2010, 12:03:25 am
I WANT MORE SNO  >:(
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Post by: Bledlow on 05 January, 2010, 12:08:58 am
Has anyone heard the usual pearl of wisdom "it's to cold to snow" yet this year? People who say that should left out on the frozen moors in just their undercrackers.
+1. I haven't heard it for years, but I remember once hearing it from someone who I knew had experience of snow falling at lower temperatures than that about which he said it.

Tosser.  >:(

Some crap tabloid I saw in a newsagents today had a headline claiming it was the coldest winter for 30 years. More tossers. I remember colder weather in a few winters in the 1980s, i.e. less than 30 years ago.
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Post by: Really Ancien on 05 January, 2010, 12:29:02 am
Has anyone heard the usual pearl of wisdom "it's to cold to snow" yet this year? People who say that should left out on the frozen moors in just their undercrackers.
 

Most snow in the UK is frontal. It falls when a warm front meets a cold front. So it generally means a warming from cold conditions, followed by heavy snow, turning to rain. The current Arctic conditions are rarer, giving rise to 'the wrong type of snow'. This type of snow is typified by a diamantine sparkle, and it behaves as a powder, it is outside most people's experience, we generally get snow with a high moisture content.

This effect is rare in the UK.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2615/4223154358_0c1173f227.jpg)

Damon.
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Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 05 January, 2010, 07:10:26 am
I see it's headline news again now that there's a forecast of more of it for SE England.
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Post by: gordon taylor on 05 January, 2010, 08:09:32 am
Oi Sno.

Just bugger off to Gordy's, will ya.

I can report (Tuesady am) we still have NO SNOW AT ALL, although the rest of the whole world seems to be buried in the stuff, according to the BBC.

We may have some forecast for tonight, but I bet it misses us again.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!
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Post by: border-rider on 05 January, 2010, 08:11:30 am
I can report (Tuesady am) we still have NO SNOW AT ALL, although the rest of the whole world seems to be buried in the stuff, according to the BBC.

None for us (again)

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Post by: andyoxon on 05 January, 2010, 08:11:37 am
I bet we'll be snow free here in Oxon...    :thumbsup:
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Post by: MSeries on 05 January, 2010, 08:28:14 am
Snowing here, 5cm in the last two hours and still snowing. If the roads were treated last night it's not done much good. My locale is very slow, I got a train to work today for the first time in 15 years, bus will be crawling down the hill. Train is much cheaper too. I'll try to get a photo when it gets light.
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Post by: MSeries on 05 January, 2010, 08:29:54 am
Has anyone heard the usual pearl of wisdom "it's to cold to snow" yet this year? People who say that should left out on the frozen moors in just their undercrackers.
 

Most snow in the UK is frontal. It falls when a warm front meets a cold front. So it generally means a warming from cold conditions, followed by heavy snow, turning to rain. The current Arctic conditions are rarer, giving rise to 'the wrong type of snow'. This type of snow is typified by a diamantine sparkle, and it behaves as a powder, it is outside most people's experience, we generally get snow with a high moisture content.


Was thinking that today as I walked to the station. It's really nice snow, like powder.
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Post by: spen666 on 05 January, 2010, 08:34:46 am
Has anyone heard the usual pearl of wisdom "it's to cold to snow" yet this year? People who say that should left out on the frozen moors in just their undercrackers.
 

Most snow in the UK is frontal. It falls when a warm front meets a cold front. So it generally means a warming from cold conditions, followed by heavy snow, turning to rain. The current Arctic conditions are rarer, giving rise to 'the wrong type of snow'. This type of snow is typified by a diamantine sparkle, and it behaves as a powder, it is outside most people's experience, we generally get snow with a high moisture content.




Was thinking that today as I walked to the station. It's really nice snow, like powder.

Tues morning - M Series confesses he likes a bit of the white powder

Tues afternoon - local police execute search warrant at his home?
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Post by: MSeries on 05 January, 2010, 08:45:42 am
was unable to see the 'white lines' today spen
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Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2010, 09:10:41 am
I WANT MORE SNO  >:(

I don't think you've got long to wait.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2010, 09:12:05 am
I see it's headline news again now that there's a forecast of more of it for SE England.

It's not been out of the news even though SE England has had none to speak of since before Christmas.

Bloody Scottish softies - a bit of bad weather and we never hear the last of it.  :P
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Post by: jogler on 05 January, 2010, 09:19:51 am
We have had a little snow fall overnight plus a staedy fall over the last hour giving approx. 0.5 cm cover.
The now hidden sheet ice will cause some problems for all road users.The council don't grit hereabouts
Just agreed with a client to cancel visits today to Congleton & Sandbach
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 January, 2010, 09:23:29 am
We just built a snowman :)
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Post by: MSeries on 05 January, 2010, 09:35:15 am

(http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/wr2op.jpg) (http://twitpic.com/wr2op)


The midnight bell on Twitpic (http://twitpic.com/wr2op)

The pub near my office a few minutes ago, that's the Wonderwood covered in snow, note the wooden cut out trees. They changed the trees for each season.

in the summer, before they built the Wonderwood

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3294/2688409309_2725882d7f.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mseries/2688409309/)
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Post by: Manotea on 05 January, 2010, 09:35:25 am
Its a white hell in London, a total whiteout (translation: had to wipe frost of car windows).

Ms Manotea the Elder is off to college today, a day early and hopefully before the snow forecast for tomorrow.
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Post by: oncemore on 05 January, 2010, 09:37:27 am
Just a very little more overnight. But the ice beneath makes anywhere other than main roads very nasty. Not even got the bike out this a.m.

Was difficult enough just walking to local shops yesterday - no attempts to treat pavements means older and/or less agile folk can't go out.
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Post by: Andrew Br on 05 January, 2010, 09:38:24 am
Lot's more here overnight.
Helen (in North Manchester- Whitefield appropriately) can't get in to work and a friend has just texted from the airport. She's not going to London today but she has got me the "duty-free" only bottle of Glenlivet Nadurra that I asked for  :thumbsup:

Some gratuitous "bike in the snow" pictures from earlier:-

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2709/4246892429_c5603d6c10_b.jpg)

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2523/4247665454_78c245f199_b.jpg)

They're staged- there's no way I'm going out on the bike today.

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Post by: Charlotte on 05 January, 2010, 09:40:43 am
Has anyone heard the usual pearl of wisdom "it's to cold to snow" yet this year? People who say that should left out on the frozen moors in just their undercrackers.
 

"Too cold to snow" is, as you say Not Quite Right.  But it's an understandable one because as it gets really cold, you often experience much less snow.  For instance, apparently Nashville* gets more snow in any given year than the south pole.  So it might be a little cruel to shove a chap out in the cold in nothing more than his underthings just for having a poor grasp of meteorological physics...

It's all to do with moisture levels.  To be precise; water vapour.  Snow starts to form in the atmosphere as water condenses into a tiny droplet. As more and more water vapor condenses onto its surface, the droplet grows. Cold air then freezes this water into an ice crystal.  The coldest weather is almost always associated with very high pressure and very dry air.  If there ain't much moisture, there can't be much snow.

At really chilly temperatures, the saturation vapor pressure is much lower than in slightly warmer areas.  The 'Dew-point' is defined as the temperature at which the air, when cooled, will just become saturated.  Or in other words, the relative humidity must rise to at least 100%. 

At this point, the water vapour ought to start to condense out as a liquid if the dew point is above freezing.   If the dew point is below freezing, it'll become tiny ice crystals.

But this doesn't always happen, and the relative humidity can actually exceed 100% (also known as supersaturation). The vapor can usually change phase only if there is something for it to cling onto.  Believe it or not, even up in the clouds there are enough tiny particles called nuclei, that do just this.  Neat, huh?

But, I hear you saying, "That's all very well but what are you ranting on about, woman!  Anyways, there's a whole shed load of snow at the South Pole!"

Yeah, but in Nashville, it melts every year, innit?

:D


*Like many of us, I was raised in Middle England, not in Nashville Tennessee...
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Post by: Tom B on 05 January, 2010, 09:40:55 am
A good 6" here in Manchester and still falling lightly. Recovering from a cold, I shall stay home from work again, tho if I felt 100% well the trip would be easier on foot than it would on yesterday's ice, if somewhat fraught on the bike
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Post by: Charlotte on 05 January, 2010, 09:41:21 am
Reading that back, I think I've had too much coffee this morning.
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 05 January, 2010, 09:46:31 am
*Like many of us, I was raised in Middle England, not in Nashville Tennessee...

I have seen your banjo.  Are you sure?
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Post by: clarion on 05 January, 2010, 09:54:03 am
...I think I've had too much coffee this morning.

I do not understand this statement.
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Post by: Charlotte on 05 January, 2010, 09:55:00 am
I have seen your banjo.  Are you sure?

If you'd have seen Phil and I hacking our way through "Duelling Banjos" on Sunday, you'd have been under no illusions of my wholly Britannic origins...
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Post by: clarion on 05 January, 2010, 09:56:56 am
The Devil went down to Georgia Middlesex...
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Post by: Really Ancien on 05 January, 2010, 10:22:49 am
One of the most marginal places for skiing is Alabama. They were out on Sunday. The presence of snow-making equipment indicates low temperatures but unreliable precipitation, there's a banjo soundtrack.

      YouTube
            - Cloudmont Ski Resort, Mentone, Alabama 2010
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiu770vVibE)

Damon.
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Post by: andygates on 05 January, 2010, 10:26:08 am
The Devil Went Down on Elgar...

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Post by: 1gear on 05 January, 2010, 10:40:58 am
Bit more snow here. Alot of side roads closed because they are ice and hills. So there are alot of people that cant drive anywhere because of the ice on the roads. Cant walk because of ice on the pavement.
Was a big thing on the local news on it.
My road is fine though so im still getting out on bike alright
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Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2010, 10:42:10 am
The Devil Went Down on Elgar...



Do they do that sort of thing in Cheltenham?
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Post by: Charlotte on 05 January, 2010, 11:22:38 am
Bit more snow here. Alot of side roads closed because they are ice and hills. So there are alot of people that cant drive anywhere because of the ice on the roads. Cant walk because of ice on the pavement.
Was a big thing on the local news on it.
My road is fine though so im still getting out on bike alright

It must be cold - your apostrophe key appears to have frozen solid again.
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Post by: clarion on 05 January, 2010, 11:24:11 am
Spacebar's struggling, too.
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Post by: Ray 6701 on 05 January, 2010, 11:31:25 am
We have finally had a good covering in Tamworth  :)
Let's see how long it lasts.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 05 January, 2010, 11:42:02 am
I am reliably informed that the snow is falling quite heavily in Birmingham now, as per the forecasts.   I'm wistfully peering out of my office window hoping for it to arrive, as promised, in the next half hour or so. 
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 January, 2010, 11:50:19 am
Still nothing in Harlow >:(  SEND SNO NOW!!
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Post by: Andrew Br on 05 January, 2010, 12:00:48 pm
Bit more snow here. Alot of side roads closed because they are ice and hills. So there are alot of people that cant drive anywhere because of the ice on the roads. Cant walk because of ice on the pavement.
Was a big thing on the local news on it.
My road is fine though so im still getting out on bike alright

It must be cold - your apostrophe key appears to have frozen solid again.

Harsh.
But fair.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 05 January, 2010, 12:03:42 pm
I WANT MORE SNO  >:(

I don't think you've got long to wait.

Oi Santa!   I've waited 12 hours!   Where's me friggin sno!?!?!
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Post by: Jaded on 05 January, 2010, 12:05:43 pm
Bit more snow here. Alot of side roads closed because they are ice and hills. So there are alot of people that cant drive anywhere because of the ice on the roads. Cant walk because of ice on the pavement.
Was a big thing on the local news on it.
My road is fine though so im still getting out on bike alright

It must be cold - your apostrophe key appears to have frozen solid again.

It may be lose because he has been using it to much.  ;)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2010, 12:07:27 pm
I WANT MORE SNO  >:(

I don't think you've got long to wait.

Oi Santa!   I've waited 12 hours!   Where's me friggin sno!?!?!

What do you want me to do? There's only a limited amount of white stuff in me sack! >:(
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Post by: nuttycyclist on 05 January, 2010, 12:33:22 pm
Damn you Wow. 

I have greasy burger sprayed right across my screen.
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Post by: Moloko on 05 January, 2010, 12:37:34 pm
BBC local up to date forecast: Light snow?   Ha-Ha! It's the way you tell 'em.   ;D


 >:(
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Post by: matthew on 05 January, 2010, 12:42:29 pm
I bet we'll be snow free here in Oxon...    :thumbsup:

If you win this I shall be annoyed. I am just cancelling a training course to run in Oxford tomorrow and Thursday because the forecast for Oxfordshire is 15-30cm with localised accumulations of >40cm and the people are travelling from Bristol, Exeter, Reading and Brighton.
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Post by: RainOrShine on 05 January, 2010, 12:45:31 pm
Wiltshire has just been upgraded to an "extreme weather warning" - up to 40cm!  :o
Must remember to take the laptop home this evening...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2010, 12:51:10 pm
That's really serious stuff.

They've now forecast heavy snow for 5 consecutive days for us. Bike ride Saturday anyone?  ;D
Wiltshire has just been upgraded to an "extreme weather warning" - up to 40cm!  :o
Must remember to take the laptop home this evening...
I'd set off now if I were you.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: RainOrShine on 05 January, 2010, 12:56:25 pm
I'd set off now if I were you.
Mw wife has just phoned to say the same thing - it is blizzarding at home at the moment.
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Post by: Jaded on 05 January, 2010, 01:03:35 pm
We've just had 0.25cm

Just getting the sledge out....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 05 January, 2010, 01:04:09 pm
Why do so many of you actually WANT snow?

It generates inconvenience & frustration apart from it's potential to contribute to injury
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 January, 2010, 01:04:57 pm
We've been sent home to work from home because the office boiler is broken.  ;D
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Post by: Riggers on 05 January, 2010, 01:06:58 pm
No snow in Brighton.


Back to the studio.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 05 January, 2010, 01:11:28 pm
I love snow. It makes everything go quiet and fresh and pure


<<<taken away by the nice men...
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Post by: numbnuts on 05 January, 2010, 01:11:40 pm
no snow in Southampton metcheck said snow at 3.00pm  :thumbsup: but I bet we won't get any
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Post by: border-rider on 05 January, 2010, 01:12:56 pm
Snowing a bit here, but not enough to get excited about.  i'm pleased i went for a ride before breakfast though :)

Waitrose just phoned to tell me there are roads blocked in the Forest of Dean.  I suppose it's very kind of them since Mrs MV works there...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 05 January, 2010, 01:16:18 pm
I could tell it was cold on Sunday night when I visited the loo in our lovely 300 year old pub. The loos are a long way form the log burners and are unheated so I was surrounded by a warm cloud of vapour from my own wee, Lovely.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 05 January, 2010, 01:16:26 pm
I love snow. It makes everything go quiet and fresh and pure


<<<taken away by the nice men...

Care to cycle past the local secondary schools at kicking out time?   ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 05 January, 2010, 01:20:10 pm
Why do so many of you actually WANT snow?

It generates inconvenience & frustration apart from it's potential to contribute to injury

I want snow so my Mummy can go sledging with her grandchildren.
(Mum had great fun with this the week before last. We think she used the sledge left by the previous occupants of the house, who moved out in 1968...)

Precious memories need experiences to make them.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 05 January, 2010, 01:27:43 pm
Why do so many of you actually WANT snow?

It generates inconvenience & frustration apart from it's potential to contribute to injury

It looks lovely.
It gets people out as a community sledging etc, instead of sitting indoors in front of BeastEnders or Holby Shitty.
It's great going out for a walk in the evening, light enough to see and tramp through the woods, silent and free from traffic noise (because the snow absorbs any noise there is).
It's unusual enough to be novel for a short while, until next winter.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 05 January, 2010, 01:29:02 pm
Why do so many of you actually WANT snow?

So I can go and play in it on my MTB, go running thought it in the woods etc.  And because at heart I'm still 8 years old.

Mrs MV, OTOH, hates it for just the reasons you suggest :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 05 January, 2010, 01:30:08 pm
Why do so many of you actually WANT snow?

It generates inconvenience & frustration apart from it's potential to contribute to injury
Its fun, its snow, it looks nice and it is winter !

Now if we just could teach the British how to girt, clear the roads/pavements/bicycle lanes and how to drive in the snow. It would be a easy, nice and friendly as in Scandinavia, Russia and other places where they have snow.

Copenhagenize.com  - The Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog: Snow Clearing (http://www.copenhagenize.com/2010/01/snow-clearing.html)

And in Holland http://www.youtube.com/v/ZMv3OB6XHvQ&hl=en_GB&fs=1&
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Post by: MSeries on 05 January, 2010, 01:32:42 pm
Still snowing here, not stopped since 0600
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Post by: pdm on 05 January, 2010, 01:39:22 pm
Couple of inches here in Chesterfield so far.... More in Sheffield...

My good wife set off 10 minutes after me to work this morning...

I got to work (15 miles) in under an hour.
She had to turn back home after 2 miles - the bus got stuck and she was unable to reach Sheffield centre due to sno and gridlock...

I like the snow - things go quiet, all the scars of human despoiling are covered. With the right clothing and kit, riding in the stuff is a pleasure, albeit a bit slower....
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Post by: Moloko on 05 January, 2010, 01:45:36 pm


I like the snow - things go quiet,

Damn right they do. It dumped over three-inches here in little over half-an-hour.

Airport runway temporarily closed.  Oh, the peace.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 05 January, 2010, 01:47:11 pm
no snow in Southampton metcheck said snow at 3.00pm  :thumbsup: but I bet we won't get any

Met office forecast for Hampshire is now 15-30cm with up to 40cm in places. Do enjoy!

Heading southwards thru the midlands - Rugby, Banbury have snow falls starting now. I'm keeping an eye out, luckily I live south of work (Bicester - Aylesbury). Last week I was lucky, only took me 2 1/2 hrs to get home, some took 5 1/2.  This time I'll be off at the first sign of snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Lycra Man on 05 January, 2010, 02:01:06 pm
No snow here in Leighton Buizzard, Bedfordshire. Due to arrive at 6.00pm, some have forecast, but the snow flakes don't carry watches, so how will they know?

Last snowfall it took me 2 hours to drive home to Waddesdon (between Aylesbury and Bicester) which is normally 30 minutes.

I'm waiting.........

Lycra Man
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: DuncanM on 05 January, 2010, 02:08:32 pm
I bet we'll be snow free here in Oxon...    :thumbsup:

If you win this I shall be annoyed. I am just cancelling a training course to run in Oxford tomorrow and Thursday because the forecast for Oxfordshire is 15-30cm with localised accumulations of >40cm and the people are travelling from Bristol, Exeter, Reading and Brighton.

It's already snowed in Oxford this lunchtime.  Snowing properly here in Cirencester now.  I think the bet's lost Andy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ray 6701 on 05 January, 2010, 02:09:17 pm
Heavy snow forecast for 15:00hrs today so they are sending us home from work at 14:30hrs  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 05 January, 2010, 02:11:22 pm
Just started to fall lightly in Bicester....

The guy from Beaconsfield is out the blocks already.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Paul D on 05 January, 2010, 02:12:50 pm
Lashing it down in Dorset with...rain! Bah! >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 05 January, 2010, 02:24:47 pm
Lashing it down in Dorset with...rain! Bah! >:(

Cut out the middle-man - straight to the flooding!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 05 January, 2010, 02:29:47 pm
It's snowing again here!!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 05 January, 2010, 02:30:40 pm
It's snowing again here!!

Still snowing here. 8.5 hours
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 05 January, 2010, 02:31:36 pm
It's snowing again here!!

stopped here, and the Sun's out.  We've had a trivial amount, just enough to make it really dicey when it freezes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 05 January, 2010, 02:32:07 pm
School has just been shut here, for my Lad. Daughter is on an inset day but we expect a closure tomorrow. Now just have to do a 'Let me explain' bit on  Mrs Jaded as to what 'essential' means for going to Manchester tomorrow.  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 05 January, 2010, 02:33:13 pm
Still sunny here.  No sno  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Paul D on 05 January, 2010, 02:39:38 pm
Just think how many pages this thread will extend to if there's no thaw until March. Will we ever get bored of the 'not snowing here' 'light dusting there' 'I want snow' posts? ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Flying_Monkey on 05 January, 2010, 02:41:45 pm
You guys are so cute.  ;D We have over a foot of snow here now and it will only be deepening until April...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 05 January, 2010, 03:02:05 pm
You guys are so cute.  ;D We have over a foot of snow here now and it will only be deepening until April...

s'funny, none of the Canadians I know have ever said anything like that. They says things like "Hey, that's pretty cold for you" and so on.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2010, 03:26:07 pm
THe lunch time weather forecast was pretty impressive "by tomorrow, there will be hardly a square foot of mainland Britain without snow."

40cm in central & southern England. Rather less here by the looks of it, but I've just been out to stock up on veg.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 05 January, 2010, 03:45:50 pm
44 pages of snow reports and 3 weeks of BBC weather horror stories - but, still, NO SNOW FOR US.

Last two days have been freezing (-5 freezing) and, this morning, I watched a darkening sky with great hope.

BUT IT'S JUST STARTED RAINING.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 05 January, 2010, 03:49:18 pm
About 2" of wet snow in Liverpool this morning, that melted but it started chucking it down at lunchtime.  Currently about 4" and we were told to go home from work early in case public transport shuts down  :)

Some chaos on the roads, several of the routes out of Liverpool (eastwards) are quite steep. Cars sliding all over the place and buses stuck.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 05 January, 2010, 03:51:24 pm
stopped here now. 9 and a quarter hours of snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: toekneep on 05 January, 2010, 03:52:58 pm
Five hours of snowing only amounted to 2" here. Not impressed.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 05 January, 2010, 04:21:13 pm
Oi Sno.

Just bugger off to Gordy's, will ya.

I can report (Tuesady am) we still have NO SNOW AT ALL, although the rest of the whole world seems to be buried in the stuff, according to the BBC.

We may have some forecast for tonight, but I bet it misses us again.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!
It snowed again here last night.

Mwuhahahaah!

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 05 January, 2010, 05:19:36 pm
Just got an update from Aalborg, Denmark.

1 metre snow fallen just today, that is just shy for 40 inches. The old man have already been out twice today to clear the entrance. If it continues like this there is talk about closing the local airport. People have still been to work and trains are running I'm sure.

(http://www.woollypigs.com/images/snow_in_gug.jpg)
Picture taken this afternoon out the front door.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 05 January, 2010, 06:05:26 pm
44 pages of snow reports and 3 weeks of BBC weather horror stories - but, still, NO SNOW FOR US.

Last two days have been freezing (-5 freezing) and, this morning, I watched a darkening sky with great hope.

BUT IT'S JUST STARTED RAINING.

Oh, oh. What's this? White stuff falling from the sky - and laying!

Mrs P is insisting I have some supper before I go ride my bike :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PeteB99 on 05 January, 2010, 06:08:27 pm
About 2" of wet snow in Liverpool this morning, that melted but it started chucking it down at lunchtime.  Currently about 4" and we were told to go home from work early in case public transport shuts down  :)

Some chaos on the roads, several of the routes out of Liverpool (eastwards) are quite steep. Cars sliding all over the place and buses stuck.

Clogging it down in Chester this afternoon. Roads are gridlocked in the centre.

Some interesting driving techniques  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 05 January, 2010, 06:21:35 pm
I have to drive my daughter to school in the Hampshire Alps (South Downs) tomorrow. If this keeps up, she may be at home with us longer than planned.

Her local webcam: Petersfield Cam (http://www.petersfieldcam.co.uk/)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2010, 06:24:53 pm
The Metoff Ice have changed their minds about our snow. Now expected to arrive at 3 a.m.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 05 January, 2010, 06:25:41 pm
Just got home.... Only 6" (measured with ruler by offspring #3) here in Uber Sheffield...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: docsquid on 05 January, 2010, 06:28:12 pm
Just a light dusting here.  The chickens didn't want to go out in it though!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 05 January, 2010, 06:31:18 pm
Bit more snow here. Alot of side roads closed because they are ice and hills. So there are alot of people that cant drive anywhere because of the ice on the roads. Cant walk because of ice on the pavement.
Was a big thing on the local news on it.
My road is fine though so im still getting out on bike alright

It must be cold - your apostrophe key appears to have frozen solid again.

Im on quite a few different forums, for a few different things.
Why is it that a few members on here have a problem with my spelling and typing?
Or, is it mainly because you have a problem with me personally?

If you dont have a problem with me personally, then either live with my spelling or dont read my posts. I couldnt give a toss either way.

Or do you just like to take the piss and comment on someone who has a problem with spelling and typing? I persoanlly dont see the problem with what ive wrote, so YOU or any other member just critising it wont help. I may not be the sharpest knife in your draw, but that doesnt just make it fine for you to comment on my typing. You get the jist of my post, and understand what i mean.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 05 January, 2010, 06:32:51 pm
The Metoff Ice have changed their minds about our snow. Now expected to arrive at 3 a.m.

The forecast for London has been shifting later and later, so rather than this evening, now it's probably going to be tomorrow morning.

Since I haven't left work yet, this suits me!

...of course from an earlier email, I know that I need to get to CityLink on the morrow to pick up a parcel.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 05 January, 2010, 06:55:24 pm
It stopped but is settled and freezing here now, and we're due another 6-8" overnight, which is interesting as I'm supposed to be working 2200-0700 in South Gloucestershire!


It's at times like these I wish I had a Land Rover!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 05 January, 2010, 07:08:51 pm
Chucking it down in Reading now. Mrs B is very relieved that she got home from work before it got too bad. Settling well, & a few cm deep already.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 05 January, 2010, 07:11:39 pm
I just poked my head out onto the balcony as I was locking up the lab, and it's started to snow very very finely.  You can't actually see it looking out the window, but I collected a few tiny snowflakes on my outstretched hand.

If you don't hear from me again, it'll have got heavier and I'll be stuck in a snowdrift between South Ken and Croydon. ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 05 January, 2010, 07:12:16 pm
Just got home.... Only 6" (measured with ruler by offspring #3) here in Uber Sheffield...

Does the school use inches?  ???
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 05 January, 2010, 07:22:16 pm
One of the neighbours & his son are making a snowman in the middle of the street. I told 'em there was no hurry, there'd be even more tomorrow, & he said "But I'll be at work tomorrow". I asked "Are you sure?". His wife laughed, & he replied, "Well, if I can get there".  ;D

If this keeps up Mrs. B will get the day off she's hoping for.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 05 January, 2010, 07:24:07 pm
WE HAZ SNO. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andyoxon on 05 January, 2010, 07:24:58 pm
ooer, it's snowing heavily here in Oxon and may do so all night. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 05 January, 2010, 07:28:36 pm
Well, it does appear to be snowing again in Pompey, so it'll be interesting to see how much actually falls overnight.

It was definitely a good move on my part to have got a fairly successful1 shopping trip to Chichester done today - I got back just as it started with the pre-snow rain showers.  :thumbsup:

1 Yesterday's ride highlighted some areas of my winter cycling wardrobe where further investment was required. Hence today's purchase of another Musto thermal base layer2, a Gore Windstopper skull cap and a pair of Specialized Defroster boots. There's no such thing as the wrong weather...

2 A garment that is veritably the dog's danglies. High zipped neck, toasty and non-whiffy, what's not to like?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Fab Foodie on 05 January, 2010, 07:31:03 pm
ooer, it's snowing heavily here in Oxon and may do so all night.  

Yep!  Just walked home, about 30 mins briskish walk and it was great, barely a car on the main road and whopping big flakes dancing under the sodium lights!
Magic!

Meant to be in Portbury tomorrow, early start... ho hum  :demon:
Russia next week  :-[ :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 05 January, 2010, 07:32:53 pm
The BIKE is ready.

One Dahon Speed TR folder. Two sets of lights fore and aft. Tyres slightly deflated.

By the door is cycling wear du jour: overtrousers & wellies.

So, do I go now while it's snowing or leave it till later and risk it stopping or, worse, raining?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Fab Foodie on 05 January, 2010, 07:34:29 pm
The BIKE is ready.

One Dahon Speed TR folder. Two sets of lights fore and aft. Tyres slightly deflated.

By the door is cycling wear du jour: overtrousers & wellies.

So, do I go now while it's snowing or leave it till later and risk it stopping or, worse, raining?

For safety reasons, I'd call the Police and ask them to deliver Pizza.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 05 January, 2010, 07:35:04 pm
Bit more snow here. Alot of side roads closed because they are ice and hills. So there are alot of people that cant drive anywhere because of the ice on the roads. Cant walk because of ice on the pavement.
Was a big thing on the local news on it.
My road is fine though so im still getting out on bike alright

It must be cold - your apostrophe key appears to have frozen solid again.

Im on quite a few different forums, for a few different things.
Why is it that a few members on here have a problem with my spelling and typing?
Or, is it mainly because you have a problem with me personally?

If you dont have a problem with me personally, then either live with my spelling or dont read my posts. I couldnt give a toss either way.

Or do you just like to take the piss and comment on someone who has a problem with spelling and typing? I persoanlly dont see the problem with what ive wrote, so YOU or any other member just critising it wont help. I may not be the sharpest knife in your draw, but that doesnt just make it fine for you to comment on my typing. You get the jist of my post, and understand what i mean.


Many of us went to schools where these things mattered a great deal. Some of your 'bad habits' were drummed out of us by the age of ten. At ten, we might have taken the '11+' exam to enter secondary school. Poor sentence structure, punctuation, grammar, spelling and usage would have caused us to FAIL and blighted our future.
When we see poor usage now, we cringe, either privately or publically.
Look at our profiles; some of us are old enough to be your parents.

The older generation is full of Grumpy Old Gits who grumble about poor educational standards of the youth of today. Either improve the standard of your English or accept the odd poke by the Old Fogeys...

I am known to have posted here and Elsewhere about poor English on, for example the BBC News website.

We don't like watching standards slip.

Helen, aged 51.57
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Julian on 05 January, 2010, 08:13:32 pm
I'm only 28 and I find crap spelling and grammar cringeworthy. 

"I persoanlly dont see the problem with what ive wrote"??

If you're using a computer, the chances are you have a spelling and grammar checker.  You might like to try it.  Otherwise you look ignorant - I'd have been ashamed to write that badly as an eight-year-old - as well as too lazy to use a spell check.  And that in turn means that people are less likely to take your opinions seriously.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 05 January, 2010, 08:20:36 pm
Bit more snow here. Alot of side roads closed because they are ice and hills. So there are alot of people that cant drive anywhere because of the ice on the roads. Cant walk because of ice on the pavement.
Was a big thing on the local news on it.
My road is fine though so im still getting out on bike alright

It must be cold - your apostrophe key appears to have frozen solid again.

Im on quite a few different forums, for a few different things.
Why is it that a few members on here have a problem with my spelling and typing?
Or, is it mainly because you have a problem with me personally?

If you dont have a problem with me personally, then either live with my spelling or dont read my posts. I couldnt give a toss either way.

Or do you just like to take the piss and comment on someone who has a problem with spelling and typing? I persoanlly dont see the problem with what ive wrote, so YOU or any other member just critising it wont help. I may not be the sharpest knife in your draw, but that doesnt just make it fine for you to comment on my typing. You get the jist of my post, and understand what i mean.


Many of us went to schools where these things mattered a great deal. Some of your 'bad habits' were drummed out of us by the age of ten. At ten, we might have taken the '11+' exam to enter secondary school. Poor sentence structure, punctuation, grammar, spelling and usage would have caused us to FAIL and blighted our future.
When we see poor usage now, we cringe, either privately or publically.
Look at our profiles; some of us are old enough to be your parents.

The older generation is full of Grumpy Old Gits who grumble about poor educational standards of the youth of today. Either improve the standard of your English or accept the odd poke by the Old Fogeys...

I am known to have posted here and Elsewhere about poor English on, for example the BBC News website.

We don't like watching standards slip.

Helen, aged 51.57

Nope, shit excuse if you ask me. Im on forums with people of a mixed age. NON have a poke at my grammer, spelling or punctuation or usage of words. It appears to only be cycling forums that have a poke. But, i also notice that they often dont poke and moan at some other peoples spelling or use of words or grammer or punctuation.
But then, on the other forums there are people with much worse grammer, spelling, punctuation and use of words dont have anything said, because the people accept that they probably arent that good with words. Aslong as they dont do everything in caps lock and use sentences that everyone can understand then its fine.
Obviously some people on here are either too picky or have some problems(worse then me and my spelling and use of words)

I am on the computer, but my computer is away at the moment so ive no spell checker on this one, and also i havent got one on my phone(you can tell if ive posted from my phone by the phone symbol)

Personally, if you dont want to take my opinion seriously because my grammer isnt as good as yours then fine.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 05 January, 2010, 08:26:48 pm
I dont find it ignorant at all either. My spelling, grammer, punctuation is how it.
If anything, i find YOU ignorant for commenting on it, and taking the piss out of it when you know nothing about me, and can understand what im writing perfectly, you just feel the need to comment on my lack of grammer and punctuation.
I take i you have never worked or been around someone with dyslexia, autism or any other problem which could mean that they have trouble with their writing/typing?
(And before you tell me its no excuse, its not for some people. Some people do fine when they have dyslexia, other struggle)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Phil on 05 January, 2010, 08:29:42 pm
Dyslexia makes you unable to conjugate common verbs?

I did not know that.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 05 January, 2010, 08:32:44 pm
Dyslexia makes you unable to conjugate common verbs?

I did not know that.

Sorry?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: teethgrinder on 05 January, 2010, 08:40:27 pm
Where do we draw the line if we're going to make a fuss about technical writing ability, or lack of?
I see mistakes and make a fair few myself.
I personally (35 year old misery guts) couldn't give a toss. It's nice to see things well written and sometimes much easier to understand what's being said. But as long as the idea comes across I don't worry. If I don't understand I can ask or ignore.
Are we going to have a minimum standard of education and a test before anyone can become a member of YACF?
I'd better start packing...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 January, 2010, 08:41:40 pm
To be honest, it's not just the spelling, grammar and punctuation, 1gear, it's the whole content of your posts.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 05 January, 2010, 08:43:12 pm
Where do we draw the line if we're going to make a fuss about technical writing ability, or lack of?
I see mistakes and make a fair few myself.
I personally (35 year old misery guts) couldn't give a toss. It's nice to see things well written and sometimes much easier to understand what's being said. But as long as the idea comes across I don't worry. If I don't understand I can ask or ignore.
Are we going to have a minimum standard of education and a test before anyone can become a member of YACF?
I'd better start packing...

It would appear so.
 ::-)
I wonder how many other people would go, or be allowed to stay in on special terms ::-)

As for kirst, dont read my posts then.
Id rather someone say it was the content of my posts thats the problem instead of moaning about my grammer.

Actually no, what am i saying, i couldnt care if you didnt like the content of my posts. Self moderate and dont read them dear.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 January, 2010, 08:44:44 pm
Will you stop calling people dear and love please? Well, actually, I'll let the other recipients of your patronising remarks speak for themselves. Please don't call me dear or love or any other term of endearment again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 05 January, 2010, 08:47:02 pm
Will you stop calling people dear and love please? Well, actually, I'll let the other recipients of your patronising remarks speak for themselves. Please don't call me dear or love or any other term of endearment again.

Sorry darling

 ;)

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Panoramix on 05 January, 2010, 08:51:47 pm
Where do we draw the line if we're going to make a fuss about technical writing ability, or lack of?
I see mistakes and make a fair few myself.
I personally (35 year old misery guts) couldn't give a toss. It's nice to see things well written and sometimes much easier to understand what's being said. But as long as the idea comes across I don't worry. If I don't understand I can ask or ignore.
Are we going to have a minimum standard of education and a test before anyone can become a member of YACF?
I'd better start packing...

English is not my native language and I make mistakes. Nevertheless people don't complain as they see that I make an effort. I don't think that 1gear tries very hard to spell properly whereas obviously you do your best. I skip most of his posts, I read yours. I can't see why we should all make an effort to decipher what he says. Soon I will be posting in French because I can't be bothered to write in English and ultimately YACF will be a Babel tower!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 05 January, 2010, 08:59:31 pm
Will you stop calling people dear and love please? Well, actually, I'll let the other recipients of your patronising remarks speak for themselves. Please don't call me dear or love or any other term of endearment again.

Sorry darling

 ;)



Being deliberately provocative is tiresome/ not big / or clever.

In time, the penny may drop, 1gear.

Nothing personal, you understand.
 :)

Can we go back to the "It's snowing!" bit, please  :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 05 January, 2010, 08:59:40 pm
I am crap at spelling.  It's not something that I can repair.  The computer age has made life easier for me, but it cannot fix my crapness at spelling.

Meanwhile, back to the snow.  :thumbsup:
Birmingham is deep in it.  Even major routes are covered. 
I've just had the most enjoyable ride home.  Obviously I had to take in a couple of Old Speckle Hens on the way - just to be sure that if I fell off, it wouldn't hurt.
When the snow is this bad, you're not going to come off unexpectedly - you're actually expecting to come off all the time and ride accordingly.
There's absolutely no traffic at all and on the couple of occasions I did become a heap of Basil, I lay there laughing and making a snow angel before getting up.  8)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 05 January, 2010, 08:59:54 pm
To a certain extent, posting something with glaring errors in it shows a lack of care and pride in what is produced. I suspect you would not go to a party with a stained shirt or shoes that didn't match. Why produce something which looks like rubbish?
We have ribbed some dyslexic posters but usually stop after a while and seldom complain about posters whose first language is not English.
Many of us write letters to newspapers and magazine articles on cycling matters. I'd like to think that some of my postings here aspire to a publishable standard.
I would take no pride in appearing inarticulate.

PS I have acted as proofreader for Arrivée, Audax UK's magazine. This is produced entirely by amateurs who work to professional standards. Howlers in magazines and books devalue the publication.
 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Phil on 05 January, 2010, 09:03:37 pm
Dyslexia makes you unable to conjugate common verbs?

I did not know that.

Sorry?

HTH (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_conjugation) :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 05 January, 2010, 09:06:46 pm
Pfft. Lighten up you lot. What's got at you tonight, something bad happen on Eastenders? ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 05 January, 2010, 09:09:53 pm
something bad happen on Eastenders? ;)

I like your style  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: GruB on 05 January, 2010, 09:10:13 pm
Whoa, I click on this thread hoping to see snow posts and all I see is a slanging match at 1gear.
I was not expecting that.
But now I have read the updates, I agree with Panoramix.  I can't post in French but I don't bother to read what 1gear types as it all appears to be drivel, poorly spelt drivel too  :o  :demon:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 05 January, 2010, 09:11:16 pm
To a certain extent, posting something with glaring errors in it shows a lack of care and pride in what is produced. I suspect you would not go to a party with a stained shirt or shoes that didn't match. Why produce something which looks like rubbish?
We have ribbed some dyslexic posters but usually stop after a while and seldom complain about posters whose first language is not English.
Many of us write letters to newspapers and magazine articles on cycling matters. I'd like to think that some of my postings here aspire to a publishable standard.
I would take no pride in appearing inarticulate.

PS I have acted as proofreader for Arrivée, Audax UK's magazine. This is produced entirely by amateurs who work to professional standards. Howlers in magazines and books devalue the publication.
 

 ??? ??? ???
WTF?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Julian on 05 January, 2010, 09:12:46 pm
Can we go back to the "It's snowing!" bit, please  :D


+1

Attention seeking little boys detract from the happy SNO thread.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 05 January, 2010, 09:13:07 pm
Snowing here now (at last) :)

It's a Good Thing that Waitrose made it through this evening.  We've got wood for the burner, oil for the AGA and a load of food :)

There are tiny kitty prints all round the back door...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 05 January, 2010, 09:13:36 pm
Dyslexia makes you unable to conjugate common verbs?

I did not know that.

Sorry?

HTH (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_conjugation) :)

I look at that, and i just see alot of words and non of them make much sence, nor do i have to power to sit down and really read it.
I still dont think that my writing is hard to understand. But never mind.

Will you stop calling people dear and love please? Well, actually, I'll let the other recipients of your patronising remarks speak for themselves. Please don't call me dear or love or any other term of endearment again.

Sorry darling

 ;)



Being deliberately provocative is tiresome/ not big / or clever.

In time, the penny may drop, 1gear.

Nothing personal, you understand.
 :)

Can we go back to the "It's snowing!" bit, please  :D


What are people hoping when they mention my spelling? I see that more as provocing me.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 05 January, 2010, 09:16:30 pm
Can we talk about snow, please? I've just got back home.

Sadly, I am too speechless with awe and cold fingered for the finely crafted prose that hellymedic would prefer to read.

Firstly; riding a bike. How the bloody hell do you do that? The folder was great because I could lower the seat and progress in quadruped style when needed but it lost points for twitchy steering and small wheels that chose their own direction of travel. I rode as far as the village (0.5miles) and pushed the rest.

Secondly; cars. Ho. Ho. Ho. They don't go well up hills on ice, do they? Met loads of drivers forced out of their natural element and experimenting with the pedestrian perversion. Not all of them were sharing the warm humour of a Blitz spirit. But most were.

Thirdly; snow. I've not seen snow like this since I was boy on the edges of the Fen. Beautiful big wet flakes of British snow. Trees and shrubs bent over. Amazing.

Finally; mistaken identity. Everyone I chatted to took me for a gritty all weather bike commuter.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 05 January, 2010, 09:16:46 pm
What are people hoping when they mention my spelling? I see that more as provocing me.

Let it go. Move on. Some people just like to give marks out of ten to others. I don't know why - perhaps it makes them feel better about themselves, who knows?

Now. Back to the SNO (Oh fuck it, I spelled it wrong).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MattH on 05 January, 2010, 09:17:02 pm
Back on topic, it's snowing heavily here and I've had to go out and clear it off the sat dish LNB a couple of times.

I left work just as it was starting to snow, the ride home only had one iffy road, which is a fairly steep downhill that is a dead end so gets no traffic to clear it (the dead end bit has a short cycle path leading into it, so it is a through route for bikes). The ride home took the normal amount of time - actually a bit faster than I do it some days.

The thing I'm kicking myself about is that this morning I swapped over from using my big pannier to my saddle bag, as I didn't need to carry a change of clothes into work. Of course, that meant I couldn't bring the laptop home, so working from home tomorrow won't be easy. I can access emails and teleconf, but unless I'm on a real company laptop the security stuff won't let me access email attachments, the document database or network drives  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 05 January, 2010, 09:18:40 pm

Firstly; riding a bike. How the bloody hell do you do that?

Fixed wheel, big soft tyres, short cranks ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 05 January, 2010, 09:19:29 pm
Hey MattH - it sounds like the kind of conditions where you nip out for a crafty 400...? ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: her_welshness on 05 January, 2010, 09:20:22 pm
Where do we draw the line if we're going to make a fuss about technical writing ability, or lack of?
I see mistakes and make a fair few myself.
I personally (35 year old misery guts) couldn't give a toss. It's nice to see things well written and sometimes much easier to understand what's being said. But as long as the idea comes across I don't worry. If I don't understand I can ask or ignore.
Are we going to have a minimum standard of education and a test before anyone can become a member of YACF?
I'd better start packing...

Yep I agree with this.

Actually Kirst, some of 1gear's writing has brought a breath of fresh air to this forum. I really hope that we don't make people feel small about what they have written.  :-[

I'll get my bonnet (In Cranford style).

(Oh and its not yet snowing in lovely Lewisham).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 05 January, 2010, 09:24:34 pm
SNOW!


(http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq48/Bledlow/IMG_0137.jpg)

Reading - 10 minutes ago.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MattH on 05 January, 2010, 09:27:25 pm
Hey MattH - it sounds like the kind of conditions where you nip out for a crafty 400...? ;)

I was thinking about digging out the MTB  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 05 January, 2010, 09:28:02 pm
Not falling in our corner of S London yet.  I hope it holds off till Butterfly gets home later... :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: her_welshness on 05 January, 2010, 09:32:33 pm
Not falling in our corner of S London yet.  I hope it holds off till Butterfly gets home later... :-\

I hope so too Clarion - I've heard that it won't be 3a.m. until the snow starts in south Lahndahn.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Polar Bear on 05 January, 2010, 09:33:42 pm
1gear,

Don't worry about your spelling etc.   Just think about your overall contribution.   You're welcome here so just enjoy yourself and treat everybody just as you'd hope to be treated yourself.    

There's nowt as queer as folk...   ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 05 January, 2010, 09:35:14 pm
^

+1

J
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 05 January, 2010, 09:36:48 pm
Light snow is falling in North-West London.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 05 January, 2010, 09:48:00 pm
The thing I'm kicking myself about is that this morning I swapped over from using my big pannier to my saddle bag, as I didn't need to carry a change of clothes into work. Of course, that meant I couldn't bring the laptop home, so working from home tomorrow won't be easy. I can access emails and teleconf, but unless I'm on a real company laptop the security stuff won't let me access email attachments, the document database or network drives  :(

Sadly, I have full access to WORK.

This means that I'll be working from home tomorrow and not having a skive like everyone else (who are less prepared for home working than me and will simply be unable to get in to the office).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Panoramix on 05 January, 2010, 09:52:38 pm
1gear, actually reading my post again it is a bit harsher than intended. I really wanted to say that if you make a small effort (spell checking + rereading) you will be OK and feel good about it!

Going back to snow, I am supposed to take the train from Bristol to Scunthorpe tomorrow, any idea of the odds that I reach my destination?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 05 January, 2010, 09:56:11 pm
Going back to snow, I am supposed to take the train from Bristol to Scunthorpe tomorrow, any idea of the odds that I reach my destination?
I reckon that if you press on regardless, you will reach Scunthorpe eventually (though I'm baffled that you would want to), but I will not give odds for you achieving it before the end of tomorrow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2010, 10:00:55 pm
Going back to snow, I am supposed to take the train from Bristol to Scunthorpe tomorrow, any idea of the odds that I reach my destination?
I reckon that if you press on regardless, you will reach Scunthorpe eventually (though I'm baffled that you would want to), but I will not give odds for you achieving it before the end of tomorrow.

At a guess, I'd suggest going north before you go east. I reckon all lines into Paddington & Waterloo will be inoperable tomorrow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 05 January, 2010, 10:03:52 pm
Going back to snow, I am supposed to take the train from Bristol to Scunthorpe tomorrow, any idea of the odds that I reach my destination?
I think you'll be OK. Be careful in Scunny though. While you are there, could you ask about the conditions on the back roads towards Thorne for us ?

It's only snow. We had 9 and half hours of it today and I got the train to work and back OK. No problem. Some East Coast Mainline trains to London were cancelled though. Down south they really shouldn't be closing main line stations
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 05 January, 2010, 10:07:27 pm
They're forecasting up to 40cm of snow in southern parts.  I reckon that's quite a lot.  It's more than I can remember ever experiencing when I lived in Scotland in the 70s-early 90s.  I was sent home from school in the 80s for much less snow than we've seen down here recently.


Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: her_welshness on 05 January, 2010, 10:09:13 pm
The snow has just started falling here in SE13 land. I am getting worried as I had booked my bike in for a service tomorrow, but Lewisham has been thoroughly gritted.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 05 January, 2010, 10:11:13 pm
They're forecasting up to 40cm of snow in southern parts.  I reckon that's quite a lot. 


It happened once in the 14 years we lived in West Berks, in about 95 I think.  I recall similar in Leeds in 81-2 and 92 or thereabouts.  

Mrs MV recalls being snowed in at a friend's farm in Monmouthshire for 6 days in 81-2
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 05 January, 2010, 10:12:58 pm
I have loved the cold snap. I have spoken to more commuting cyclists in the last few weeks, all in the spirit of 'we're all in it together', and 'isn't it fun/aren't we mad/freezing/walking our bikes', than I have all year.

I do hope it snows here tonight. We missed out on the last dump which was forecast but didn't happen, and I'm still desperate to plonk minimac on the sledge we bought last year just as the thaw came. I brought my work laptop home tonight just in case we're snowed in.  :thumbsup:

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

EDIT - IT'S SNOWING IN SW18! WHOOP WHOOP
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kathy on 05 January, 2010, 10:13:38 pm
SNO!

We haz about an inch of it so far. I don't think we're in the area due to get the full 16" but if it keeps going at this rate all night, tomorrow might be fun.

Which will be best for the commute tomorrow? The fat-tyred MTB which slides a lot in slush, or the Pompino with cyclocross tyres and horrendous toe overlap?  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 05 January, 2010, 10:15:34 pm
It is more rain here in SW6.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2010, 10:16:44 pm
Freezing hard here: ice all over the pavements with no tell-tale signs of wetness round the edges.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 05 January, 2010, 10:20:00 pm
Not a flake of snow to be seen here in Walford East London. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 05 January, 2010, 10:23:58 pm
Snowing and settling here in TW9.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Panoramix on 05 January, 2010, 10:32:44 pm
Going back to snow, I am supposed to take the train from Bristol to Scunthorpe tomorrow, any idea of the odds that I reach my destination?
I think you'll be OK. Be careful in Scunny though. While you are there, could you ask about the conditions on the back roads towards Thorne for us ?

It's only snow. We had 9 and half hours of it today and I got the train to work and back OK. No problem. Some East Coast Mainline trains to London were cancelled though. Down south they really shouldn't be closing main line stations

Thanks!

No snow in sight in Bath!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: peliroja on 05 January, 2010, 10:34:30 pm
Small fluttering in sw6.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Julian on 05 January, 2010, 10:35:01 pm
Coming down in lumps out in W13.  :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2010, 10:35:35 pm
Small fluttering in sw6.
Congratulations!  :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: peliroja on 05 January, 2010, 10:39:37 pm
I posted with you in mind, Wow. ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2010, 10:41:08 pm
I posted with you in mind, Wow. ;)

I swallowed that hook, line & sinker!  :-*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 05 January, 2010, 10:42:50 pm
There's 3" of snow deposited in Portsmouth, courtesy of the huge fluffy flakes earlier.  :D

On past form, that's as good as it'll ever get down here.  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: IanDG on 05 January, 2010, 10:49:15 pm
1gear,

Don't worry about your spelling etc.   Just think about your overall contribution.   You're welcome here so just enjoy yourself and treat everybody just as you'd hope to be treated yourself.    

There's nowt as queer as folk...   ;)

Spelling police    :o

We'll all be banned because we're not literary geniuses/genii  ??? next.

(edit: not referring to your goodself PB, I just can't be bovvered to read thro' the whole thread to find out who)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 05 January, 2010, 10:50:59 pm
It's stopped again  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 05 January, 2010, 10:53:03 pm
About 5 cm here but it's stopped, and it looks well above freezing from the way it's falling off things.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 05 January, 2010, 10:53:35 pm
The students at the end of the street have been busy -

(http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq48/Bledlow/IMG_0138.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 05 January, 2010, 10:55:58 pm

Spelling police    :o

We'll all be banned because we're not literary geniuses/genii  ??? next.

No way... I have cast the runes and looked into the used tealeaves... in May, Rogerzilla will have a rush of blood to the head and try an experimental ban on smilies...  :demon: :demon: :demon:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: IanDG on 05 January, 2010, 10:57:35 pm

Spelling police    :o

We'll all be banned because we're not literary geniuses/genii  ??? next.

No way... I have cast the runes and looked into the used tealeaves... in May, Rogerzilla will have a rush of blood to the head and try an experimental ban on smilies...  :demon: :demon: :demon:

 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Clare on 05 January, 2010, 10:58:35 pm
Norty Spesh , go and write "I will not pick that old scab" 100 times in teh sno.


 ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 05 January, 2010, 11:03:49 pm
There's 3" of snow deposited in Portsmouth, courtesy of the huge fluffy flakes earlier.  :D

On past form, that's as good as it'll ever get down here.  :(

You're so ungrateful.

This is the most snow I've seen here in 20 years.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Charlotte on 05 January, 2010, 11:05:20 pm
He's gonig to need to drink a lot of tea to do that, Claire  ::-)

I've got no problems with people whose grammar is poor because English isn't their first language.  Just the same as I'd be very tolerant of someone who genuinely has the sort of learning difficulties which makes seeing spelling mistakes hard for them.

In the absence of any good reason, I'm afraid that I tend to see poor spelling and punctuation as evidence that people don't give a shit.  Which is sad.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 05 January, 2010, 11:05:53 pm
About 5 cm here but it's stopped, and it looks well above freezing from the way it's falling off things.

0.3 here.

It's not falling off things here. I'm listening to the sound of branches snapping as I type.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ian H on 05 January, 2010, 11:12:31 pm
Met Office radar. (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Phil on 05 January, 2010, 11:13:51 pm
Finally! We have SNO in East London!

I live just round the corner from work so I probably don't get a skiving working from home day. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ghostrider on 05 January, 2010, 11:15:24 pm
He's gonig to need to drink a lot of tea to do that, Claire  ::-)

I've got no problems with people whose grammar is poor because English isn't their first language.  Just the same as I'd be very tolerant of someone who genuinely has the sort of learning difficulties which makes seeing spelling mistakes hard for them.

In the absence of any good reason, I'm afraid that I tend to see poor spelling and punctuation as evidence that people don't give a shit.  Which is sad.

Must have been the haste with which you posted ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 05 January, 2010, 11:15:49 pm
He's gonig to need to drink a lot of tea to do that, Claire  ::-)

I've got no problems with people whose grammar is poor because English isn't their first language.  Just the same as I'd be very tolerant of someone who genuinely has the sort of learning difficulties which makes seeing spelling mistakes hard for them.

In the absence of any good reason, I'm afraid that I tend to see poor spelling and punctuation as evidence that people don't give a shit.  Which is sad.

Two U's(Pe and Geography) and a B(photography)
You can make your mind up.
It was the exam that let me down in geography in pe, my physical side of pe was quite good.

You can make your own mind up from that. That was at AS.

You can take the piss out of that if you like aswell.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Fab Foodie on 05 January, 2010, 11:16:35 pm
There's 4 to 5 inches here in Abingdon.  Though I'm wary or reporting further in case I make a grammatical or spelling error  ::-)  Was a nice thread...  :-[
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Julian on 05 January, 2010, 11:20:49 pm
There's 4 to 5 inches here in Abingdon.  Though I'm wary or reporting further in case I make a grammatical or spelling error  ::-)  Was a nice thread...  :-[

(http://www.ivytodd.com/images/whistle.gif)







 :demon:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: RichForrest on 05 January, 2010, 11:33:42 pm
We're turning lorries back now that are heading down the A34, a lot of the runs are coming back due to the weather. Our Irlam depot isn't running at all today the Gateshead and Doncaster drivers are reporting 6"-10" up there.
Scottish one has managed to get down half way but it's fun all over.
I'm now waiting for the call from the other supervisor saying he won't make it in to let me go home at 6  ::-)

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 January, 2010, 11:36:55 pm
Snowing here now. Temperature about -1°C according to the thermometer I think is the most accurate.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andyoxon on 05 January, 2010, 11:38:18 pm
There's 4 to 5 inches here in Abingdon.

Hi FF, a group of us walked down to the Spread earlier for a couple of pints, now about 6 in. I reckon.  HAd a good snow ball fight on the way back.  Good places to sledge tomorrow? :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Fab Foodie on 05 January, 2010, 11:38:53 pm
There's 4 to 5 inches here in Abingdon.  Though I'm wary or reporting further in case I make a grammatical or spelling error  ::-)  Was a nice thread...  :-[

(http://www.ivytodd.com/images/whistle.gif)








 :demon:

Well there you go.  Your superiority proven.
Some people aren't very good at some things.  My spelling and grammar is not terribly good and my trypings even worse.
My daughter is a good artists, but has difficulties with spelling in particular, we've endured much anguish, time, cost and rows trying different things to help her, but it doesn't work, she's not lazy, she just doesn't get it and  it will work against her in the long run.  C'est la vie, we could keep flogging the dog, but there's little point.

So, unless there's a back-story here I'm not aware of, (beat me if I'm wrong), it appears as a relatively casual observer  that the spelling/grammar point has been clearly made and picking the scab again appears bullying.
I enjoy coming here, but reading through the thread reminds of the playground.  Sorry.  I found it an unpleasant sidewshow whilst I'm here for some R&R.
FF.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: RainOrShine on 05 January, 2010, 11:42:52 pm
Having chipped in back on page 41 about Wiltshire's "extreme warning", I am disappointed to report less than 1 cm so far this evening.  Actually, disappointed does not even come close.  I may even have to go to work tomorrow! :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Fab Foodie on 05 January, 2010, 11:46:36 pm
There's 4 to 5 inches here in Abingdon.

Hi FF, a group of us walked down to the Spread earlier for a couple of pints, now about 6 in. I reckon.  HAd a good snow ball fight on the way back.  Good places to sledge tomorrow? :)

Sounds great (though am on the wagon for 3 months... and obviously irritable  ::-)).  Sledging you say?  There's a cracking hill over Sunningwell way, halfway through the village close to the pond going up towards Boars Hill.  If you can get there (it's of course walkable) that might prove exciting!  Otherwise there's a small slope or two in Tilsley Park.

Enjoy!  I have to struggle into work, we've a deadline to get products to Munich by Monday, but I'm not expecting the dry-ice to arrive from Heathrow or DHL to collect or planes to be flying, but I'm making the products regardless!  God loves a trier (or is that tryer)!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 05 January, 2010, 11:47:32 pm
Snowing steadily here now.  No sign of Butterfly yet :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 05 January, 2010, 11:50:03 pm
Brent Borderlands have about 4cm snow. Buses are still running. 2010/1/5  23.45
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 05 January, 2010, 11:50:58 pm
I'd better look out the window - it wasn't snowing 30 mins ago.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 05 January, 2010, 11:52:15 pm
Massive flakes in SW6 if the weather man keep this up I think there will be some working from home tomorrow going on here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 05 January, 2010, 11:53:10 pm
<spellcheck off>

WTF is up with this thread tonight?  Let's ditch the slanging matches and go back to being excellent to one another.


As for SNO! I'm amazed, we've had half an inch in the last hour or so.  Still falling.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Panoramix on 06 January, 2010, 12:00:34 am
He's gonig to need to drink a lot of tea to do that, Claire  ::-)

I've got no problems with people whose grammar is poor because English isn't their first language.  Just the same as I'd be very tolerant of someone who genuinely has the sort of learning difficulties which makes seeing spelling mistakes hard for them.

In the absence of any good reason, I'm afraid that I tend to see poor spelling and punctuation as evidence that people don't give a shit.  Which is sad.

btw I don't mind being corrected... especially when I keep doing the same one again and again!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 06 January, 2010, 12:02:23 am
This snow reminds me off ...


      YouTube
            - The Fatal Glass of Beer 1
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgpHfQpYxl4&feature=related)

"... and it ain't a fit night out, for man nor beast!" W. C. Fields.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 January, 2010, 12:04:46 am
It seems to have stopped here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 06 January, 2010, 12:33:17 am
We've got nearly an inch now!


Should I go out for a walk now, or will it still be there in the morning?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 06 January, 2010, 12:40:17 am
Butterfly's home! :D

And the snow is steady.  We'll see how it is in the morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 06 January, 2010, 01:44:51 am
It's dumping hugely here now.

It looks like it's set in for most of the night and tomorrow, and then thursday and friday are going to be sunny.  I'm off work on rest days and it is going to be GLORIOUS!!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 06 January, 2010, 01:46:39 am
<gets out of bed and walks downstairs>
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 06 January, 2010, 01:56:49 am
Nope.  Had a good look.  It seems to have stopped after an inch.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 06 January, 2010, 02:12:01 am
I doubt if the snow will remain here long. Temperature at the end of the garden 0.7°C at 0200. Approx 5cm white stuff here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 06 January, 2010, 02:30:21 am
Actual proper snow for a change in Brum.

The students have build a snow penis on top of the Ka parked outside.  (I tried to take a photo for the CDC thread, but the camera just wasn't up to it.)

We're walking up the hill to the hospital tomorrow for Natalya to have her stitches out.  Hopefully it won't have had time to turn the pavement to icy death before then.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tourist Tony on 06 January, 2010, 03:14:39 am
about five inches here. Still snowing
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: gordon taylor on 06 January, 2010, 05:54:34 am
Gordy has snow.
About 1cm overnight.
I want my money back.

Grumpy........
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: kevinp on 06 January, 2010, 06:57:20 am
5 - 6 inches here in Tetbury, no work today  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: kevinp on 06 January, 2010, 06:57:42 am
5 - 6 inches here in Tetbury, no work today  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 06 January, 2010, 07:01:25 am
About 3 inches here so far and forecast to continue all day.  Local roads not ploughed or salted, since we are about 2 miles outside Swindon and they don't generally get to us.  I shall be staying at home.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 06 January, 2010, 07:21:07 am
First day of term for my two today.

Youngest starts in the morning and we'll walk as (a) it's only 0.5 miles and on foot is the only way to leave the house.

Eldest returns this evening and I'm not too sure if we;re even going to try even after a day's melting, gritting and ploughing - the M-way is closed nr the school so the minor roads leading to it are unlikely to be passable.

However, had texts from both schools saying they are fully open.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 06 January, 2010, 07:31:01 am
We've had about 4", maybe more. Up the road from Tetbury.  ;D

Daughter's school finally relented and decided it was closed. Son walked 5 miles home from school yesterday.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: perpetual dan on 06 January, 2010, 07:45:50 am
I've not been out yet, but there's enough snow to close school and nursery. I've got enough work brought home that my only problem will be finding time to do it. However, there is some path clearing and snowman making to do first. I wonder whether the grit bins got refilled yet, they were empty before the snow melted last time.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 06 January, 2010, 07:53:32 am
1gear,

Don't worry about your spelling etc.   Just think about your overall contribution.   You're welcome here so just enjoy yourself and treat everybody just as you'd hope to be treated yourself.    

There's nowt as queer as folk...
  ;)


Don't start with the poof jokes..... >:(






 ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: matthew on 06 January, 2010, 07:54:27 am
I bet we'll be snow free here in Oxon...    :thumbsup:

If you win this I shall be annoyed. I am just cancelling a training course to run in Oxford tomorrow and Thursday because the forecast for Oxfordshire is 15-30cm with localised accumulations of >40cm and the people are travelling from Bristol, Exeter, Reading and Brighton.

Vindicated, they closed the office we were going to use for the venue!!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 06 January, 2010, 07:55:27 am
No SNO here.... :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andyoxon on 06 January, 2010, 07:58:44 am
6" in Abingdon, both the minis schools are closed, and we're not able to get into work.  Snowmen and possibly sledge here we come.

8.20 Just started snowing again...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 06 January, 2010, 08:03:32 am
12.5 cm in our yard and still (gently) falling  !

It looks as if it went a bit further West than was forecast.

The dilemma now is MTB or run, run or MTB...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Charlotte on 06 January, 2010, 08:13:36 am
Meh.

A couple of scant centimeters in W13 and all the roads are clear.  The council even gritted the local ones last night.

So rather than get the MTB covered in nasty, I've left that in the SEEKRIT BUNKER with the rest of the zombie kit and ridden in as per usual on the fixietank.  Better lights on that, y'see.

The thing that's surprising me is just how quiet the roads are.  Maybe the kids haven't all gone back to school yet, but riding in at 0730, there was so little traffic - even as compared to Monday.

I reckon everyone's decided to work from home regardless.  The office is certainly much emptier than usual.

*wanders off in search of tea*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 06 January, 2010, 08:16:31 am
another inch or two last night
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 06 January, 2010, 08:18:12 am
We have had an overnight fall or about 20mm
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Russell on 06 January, 2010, 08:19:39 am
6-8" here and light snow falling. Will 'work from home' today.  Local schools closed so Mrs R at home as well.

There is nothing moving in our road and based on past snowy episodes the council will grit our road in about a weeks time!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Fab Foodie on 06 January, 2010, 08:20:39 am
6" in Abingdon, both the minis schools are closed, and we're not able to get into work.  Snowmen and possibly sledge here we come.

Isn't it beautiful?
The road is clearish, but the kids are off.  We could take the car to work, but we're gonna don boots, grab a camera and walk to work.  Have a great day!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 06 January, 2010, 08:21:32 am
At most an inch in Croydon.  Out the front the road and footway has a good layer, but looking at the back garden, it's barely settled, so there's not much.  The temperature is around zero according to the London airport reports, and I suspect, on limited experience, that the snow will get less the nearer to the centre I go, so I'm inclined to cycle into work.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MattH on 06 January, 2010, 08:21:43 am
About 7 inches here, but it is stll snowing. All the schools are closed, I'll be staying home (but may try to nip into the office on my MTB later).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: liam_whippet on 06 January, 2010, 08:30:33 am


No snow in sight in Bath!




btw I don't mind being corrected...

 ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mike on 06 January, 2010, 08:36:48 am
about 2mm here near cambridge but more forecast for today. Boo - we need several feet to get me out of tomorrows horrid meeting.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 06 January, 2010, 08:40:39 am
No snow overnight in Liverpool , but the roads and pavements are treacherous and all buses have been cancelled.

My usual 35 minute walk into the office took a bit longer than normal. At some times I was wishing I'd dug my trekking poles out.

Lots of people phoning in and saying they can't make it to work.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 06 January, 2010, 08:41:38 am
Driving back from Heathrow via Tooting last night, all the main roads after the A4 were clear - the South Circular ws completely clear, as was the road through Mitcham. The snow was only really laying on the road once I started up the hill in Carshalton. There has been very little extra snow here since I got back, so I should expect it to be perfectly rideable once I get down the hill. But my boss said stay at home this morning, so I did :smug:. I might go in later :), I want to have a ride.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 06 January, 2010, 08:44:55 am
The roads are in a right old mess here at least early on they were. Over night show has not melted and just been churned up by the light traffic. Saw two cyclists as I walked to the station, another in Leeds near my office. He was force to ride in the middle of the road on the least messed up part. Not for me.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 January, 2010, 08:48:28 am
No snow here. Temperature 0°C in garden, and I can hear a constant "drip drip drip" from various places.

The forecast is for us to get some today and since I'm supposed to be driving out at lunchtime, I might postpone that appointment.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 January, 2010, 08:49:25 am
Strictly Meh! in E17 this morning; about 2 cm in Harlot with more coming down all the time.  Most thing at work can be done from home, but someone has to do physical Stuffs with tapes of a morning.  This cannot be done until the day-end processing has completed.  Which it hasn't, because some cockwomble doesn't know the difference between an ISBN and a sack of porcupine poo.  I may be investigating the Travelodge over the road if this carries on.  Pants.  Big pants.  Big arsey pants >:(

P.S. MSeries, this is all your fault.  Every time we're supposed to meet up for a wintertime BEER there is SNO.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: delthebike on 06 January, 2010, 08:50:29 am
No snow here. Temperature 0°C in garden, and I can hear a constant "drip drip drip" from various places.
A mile away we've had ~2cm sometime in the night.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 06 January, 2010, 08:55:25 am
At most an inch in Croydon.  Out the front the road and footway has a good layer, but looking at the back garden, it's barely settled, so there's not much.  The temperature is around zero according to the London airport reports, and I suspect, on limited experience, that the snow will get less the nearer to the centre I go, so I'm inclined to cycle into work.

Shoulda made that decision.  Instead, I togged up so I could go stand on a station platform for an hour while occasional automated announcement told me lies about when the trains would come. ::-)

Changed, drinking coffee, getting ready to ride in.  Might take more than my usual hour... :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: toekneep on 06 January, 2010, 08:56:53 am
No more snow up in Lancashire but travel is not good. Just got home after an abortive attempt to travel to Mid Wales by train. Got as far as Preston where cancellations and late trains were the order of the day. Looks like another day of working from home - bored now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bikenerd on 06 January, 2010, 08:59:01 am
Loads of snow overnight just south of Oxford and it's snowing again this morning.

Probably more than 6 inches.  Possibly the most I've ever seen!  Until last night we hadn't had any in the current cold snap, either.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 06 January, 2010, 09:00:27 am
Just seen an email from a colleague who claims he had to spend the night in Bolton telephone exchange!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 06 January, 2010, 09:01:28 am
-10c this morning. Trees are all frosty, and now it's snowing again. Looks nice, as long as you don't have to get somewhere.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Thor on 06 January, 2010, 09:02:00 am
Plenty of snow here in Herts.  I drove in to the station and encountered rather slippery roads.  The train service is reduced to "emergency"  ::-) and it has started to slow quite heavily again.  So I decided to return home rather than face the horror of becoming stranded at work in London.  Where were the gritters?!  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andyoxon on 06 January, 2010, 09:05:46 am
6" in Abingdon, both the minis schools are closed, and we're not able to get into work.  Snowmen and possibly sledge here we come.

Isn't it beautiful?
The road is clearish, but the kids are off.  We could take the car to work, but we're gonna don boots, grab a camera and walk to work.  Have a great day!

The minis are now arguing about not 'messing' up the snow on the front lawn.  ::-) ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 January, 2010, 09:06:35 am
Someone in the car park has just understeered into the hedge.  Deep joy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: delthebike on 06 January, 2010, 09:06:53 am
Light snow falling in Southend, with the possible exception of the, mysterious, area around wowbagger's gaff. Large bodies generating their own electro magnetic field probably and causing localised weather phenomena.  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 January, 2010, 09:13:53 am
It's just started snowing here. As Del says, it's light snow. He's half a mile or so to the NW of me, so of course it arrives with him first.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulR on 06 January, 2010, 09:22:24 am
Easy ride into central London today -   bit of sno on the local roads for the first couple of minutes but then delightfully clear, very light traffic and only a couple of motorised muppets trying to kill cyclists.  I yelled "do a skid" at a fixenger who was coming out of a side road and riding on the pavement past SE23's very finest restaurant, the Babur Brasserie, the home of the monster meat thali.  He grinned.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 06 January, 2010, 09:26:40 am
An hour to do ten miles, crikey.  Much of the main road just compacted snow, lorries parked up rather than take the swoopy bits, all very exciting.  Four inches at home!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: GruB on 06 January, 2010, 09:45:21 am
After a dreadful nights sleep due to my shoulder, I am taking the opportunity to work from home and rest / recuperate.  Maybe tomorrow I will venture out in all this white stuff.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: groucho on 06 January, 2010, 09:48:05 am
4-5" in Penarth. Mrs g phoned her headteacher and was told her school was open. I drove her the 4 miles on untreated roads (great fun) giving a snow driving lesson. When we arrived the head decided the school was closed!  ::-)

Drove back home.

Walked in to the office passing a lollipop lady waiting let children across the road. She told me the local school was open cos it was not mentioned on the BBC Wales website, as closed. She had not used her lollipop stick at all to guide kids across the road.

The freeze tonight should be interesting.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 06 January, 2010, 09:52:47 am
Up to about 5" now and still coming down.  I have dug around the house three times since 8am.  The road will have to wait until it stops tonight.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: groucho on 06 January, 2010, 09:54:47 am
Wow! just spotted the first gritting lorry of the season in full operation, not just driving along flashing its lights.
Shame the main road is pretty much clear of snow.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Paul D on 06 January, 2010, 09:57:13 am
Well, aren't you all lucky. :P Here's what happened in Dorset:

Tues 1300 - heavy rain for 20 minutes. Temp up to about +5°C. All ice melted.

1600-1700 - rode home in the wet. Overheated it was so warm and I had all my snow clobber on.

Tues 2000 - no snow. Met Office website changed to 0300 Wed. BBC forecast is hampshire/wiltshire/devon all under 4ft but nothing for Dorset.

Wed 0600 - Still nothing. In fact, it was the first morning in 3 weeks the ice in our estate has thawed enough to ride the roads.

Wed 0830 - arrive at work after a damp ride in, probably the warmest of the week so far, no ice anywhere and definately no snow.


The Scilly isles has snow for pete's sake, but not costa del Weymouth. There's just not enough angry smilies in the world. >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mike on 06 January, 2010, 09:58:47 am
Lots of schools closed in Delhi, apparently...

The temp has dropped to 7 degrees and everyone is complaining :)  (thats +7, not -7)

Not many buildings have heating, I guess.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 06 January, 2010, 10:12:20 am
Snowing again here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 06 January, 2010, 10:12:53 am
It's started again here in the foothills :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 06 January, 2010, 11:04:15 am
Every school in the borough has been closed. Snow is just starting to come down again.
Postman has already been, for how it is out there, I'm impressed.
Nice one postie, for getting my Red Cross food parcel through.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 06 January, 2010, 11:07:00 am
There's a white blanket about 7cm deep on my lawn. Snow continues to fall but the road outside is all but clear, if slushy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 06 January, 2010, 11:07:49 am
about 2mm here near cambridge but more forecast for today. Boo - we need several feet to get me out of tomorrows horrid meeting.

I have a meeting in London tomorrow that I want to avoid.  I'm hoping we get enough snow to legitimately allow me to cancel it...  :demon:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 06 January, 2010, 11:47:01 am
<looks out of window>

The only snow that was on the lawn has now melted.


I WANTZ SNO!!!!  >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 06 January, 2010, 11:51:11 am
<looks out of window>

The only snow that was on the lawn has now melted.


I WANTZ SNO!!!!

Just the seven? Huh, you can't want it that much then.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 06 January, 2010, 11:57:16 am
I wantz it lotz.   But I'm rationing you :demon:  You know you can't have too many at a time.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 06 January, 2010, 12:00:31 pm

Neil Diamond: You don't bring me  >:(  anymore.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jules on 06 January, 2010, 12:12:15 pm
It's snowing in Twickenham. We now have 2mm of snow on the pavement (none on the road as it's gritted about 10 times a day)

Just waiting for the call from the schools to say they are closing due to adverse weather :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 06 January, 2010, 12:20:47 pm
I want either masses of snow so I can bank up the fire and finish off the mince pies after sledging; or for it to stop and warm up so I can ride my bike again. An inch of snow on sheets of ice is just RUBBISH.
Oooo as I type the flakes are getting bigger. Maybe masses is falling now :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 06 January, 2010, 12:24:36 pm
Quote from: Forger's Gazette Headline
It's Snow Chaos!  And They Still Claim It's Global Warming

In the face of such a deep & rounded understanding of the scientific evidence, what can you do that doesn't involve a shovel-based cognitive process realignment?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 06 January, 2010, 12:25:29 pm
I want either masses of snow so I can bank up the fire and finish off the mince pies after sledging;

You've just reminded me - we can do fried Christmas pudding after our sledging!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kathy on 06 January, 2010, 12:42:31 pm
We saw three snowploughs on our way to work this morning! All ploughing.  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 06 January, 2010, 12:44:58 pm
It's finally started snowing in Cambridge... and very pretty it is too.  I shall look forward to my cycle home later.  :thumbsup:

The Powers That Be have started discussing closing the building... so my fun may come a bit earlier...  :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 06 January, 2010, 12:45:38 pm
If you want to see what's coming, use the raintoday.co.uk radar - it's ace.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Clare on 06 January, 2010, 12:46:12 pm
Quote from: Forger's Gazette Headline
It's Snow Chaos!  And They Still Claim It's Global Warming

In the face of such a deep & rounded understanding of the scientific evidence, what can you do that doesn't involve a shovel-based cognitive process realignment?

Point and laugh?

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 06 January, 2010, 12:55:11 pm
Both schools decided to shut until Sunday so we have collected sprogs and, once dry, will make igloos.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 06 January, 2010, 01:08:53 pm
If you want to see what's coming, use the raintoday.co.uk radar - it's ace.

According to that it has snowed over Southend for the last hour.

Looking out of the window it hasn't snowed at all since 10:0
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 06 January, 2010, 01:10:09 pm
Snow?  Perfect conditions for promoting cycling (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/jan/06/tips-cycling-in-snow) :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: DuncanM on 06 January, 2010, 01:14:19 pm
It stopped snowing here (just east of Oxford) about an hour ago.  I stuck a tape measure in the snow outside the back door - only 6 inches. :(
That weather radar tool implies it should be snowing here right now.  The forecast was saying snow showers all day, so I guess we'll see if any more falls... 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 06 January, 2010, 01:16:40 pm
12.5 cm in our yard and still (gently) falling  !

It looks as if it went a bit further West than was forecast.

The dilemma now is MTB or run, run or MTB...

Same flumpy mega-dump here!  I'll get the mountainbike out a bit later but for now..

SKIING!!!


I've never seen shin-deep champagne powder in the Wye Valley before :^)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Fab Foodie on 06 January, 2010, 01:27:39 pm
An hour to do ten miles, crikey.  Much of the main road just compacted snow, lorries parked up rather than take the swoopy bits, all very exciting.  Four inches at home!

A377?  Deep joy, nearly met my maker there many times driving one of my Dad's numerous vans to and from the Duke of York (in them days was an OK place, now it's tumbleweed central by the looks).  Still, you've some great hills to slide down <envy mode>  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 06 January, 2010, 01:31:37 pm
We have lotsa snow here in Reading. About 15cm overnight (10 cm by 9pm), & light snow continuing ever since. I shovelled it off the garden path & a bit of pavement 90 minutes ago, & there's now a thin covering on the cleared bits. The A4 is clear (snow ploughed & gritted), but side roads aren't.

I'm putting some more pics in the gallery. Here's one to be going on with . ..
(http://i432.photobucket.com/albums/qq48/Bledlow/IMG_0141.jpg)

Mrs B's school is closed to day pupils today, but as they have some boarders, they want staff to come in if possible. It's 35 miles away, & the last bit is on country roads. Mrs B has been told by a colleague who was given a lift to work in a 4WD that they had to tow out a car (another colleague) stuck in the snow on the road leading to the school. Probably wisest not to try, eh?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 06 January, 2010, 01:34:09 pm
12.5 cm in our yard and still (gently) falling  !

Heh.

That was optimistic :)

Having just been out in it, it's about 20 cm.  Quite impressive...

I ploughed up into the woods on the MTB - following tractor tracks for most of the first part and then up into virgin snow.  It was really hard work on even quite modest climbs, and I  had two disc wheels made out of snow after a while.  Then the brakes froze up.

I had to walk some steeper bits, and got lost on some forestry tracks I run/ride nearly every day in the summer.

There's not much motorised traffic about, and some tyre tracks suddenly veering into the hedge in places...our lane is not drivable, and the drive has had nothing down it so we can't get our cars out if we wanted to.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: DuncanM on 06 January, 2010, 01:42:20 pm
It's started snowing here again now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Charlotte on 06 January, 2010, 01:44:06 pm
The office car park an hour or so ago when I went out to get some lunch:

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b187/vicechair/IMGP0812.jpg)

Snowing heavily now in South Ruislip  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 06 January, 2010, 01:55:58 pm
1metre of snow, some talk of about maybe closing the airport but didn't, just yesterday. Today still at school and at work etc in Denmark just as normal.

The little dusting we had here in London and two of the schools I should be at today and tomorrow are closed, tch  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: DuncanM on 06 January, 2010, 01:57:51 pm
The question is, is it worth making any effort to get the path/road/back garden cleared of snow?  They are forecasting that it'll freeze (-5) overight, and all day tomorrow, and then snow shower until Sunday (when it will snow properly again).
Clearing snow migh just make it all more icy.  On the other hand, the only sensible reason for going outside now is to clear snow, and I'm bored.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 06 January, 2010, 02:04:38 pm
One of the nearby offices are in the process of making a rather impressive snowman complete with top hat and cigar.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 06 January, 2010, 02:06:16 pm
The question is, is it worth making any effort to get the path/road/back garden cleared of snow?  They are forecasting that it'll freeze (-5) overight, and all day tomorrow, and then snow shower until Sunday (when it will snow properly again).
Clearing snow migh just make it all more icy.  On the other hand, the only sensible reason for going outside now is to clear snow, and I'm bored.

I've cleared ours, have weighed the dilemma as you did.

I reckon that if you leave it then where you've walked on it will compact and freeze hard to icyness anyway, and persist longer than if you clear it and it freezes.

But I agree, not a clear call.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 06 January, 2010, 02:08:29 pm
The question is, is it worth making any effort to get the path/road/back garden cleared of snow?  They are forecasting that it'll freeze (-5) overight, and all day tomorrow, and then snow shower until Sunday (when it will snow properly again).
Clearing snow migh just make it all more icy.  On the other hand, the only sensible reason for going outside now is to clear snow, and I'm bored.

I never clear the snow.  I like to go out walking in the evening and over the years have found that wearing proper shoes gives traction on everything other than the sheet ice where householders have cleared the pavement outside their propertie and it has re-frozen.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 06 January, 2010, 02:12:54 pm
I cleared my paths twice in the last few weeks in the hope that the sun would melt remaining snow and ice and dry the path up. It didn't and we were left with footprint shaped patches of ice until it snowed yesterday.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: DuncanM on 06 January, 2010, 02:20:37 pm
Maybe the answer is to take some old shoes and do what nutty did with his ice tyres.  Then, who cares whether it's icy or not? :)  Shame I don't have any waterproof socks. :( 
If I decide on this tactic, I must not walk around the house.  Or try to drive the car.  Maybe it's not such a good idea after all! :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 06 January, 2010, 02:22:55 pm
hob nail boots ?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Dinamo on 06 January, 2010, 02:24:07 pm
Just been given the night off, with full pay  ;D.
Company says roads are too dangerous  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: DuncanM on 06 January, 2010, 02:26:12 pm
hob nail boots ?
Exactly.  Except I don't have any.  So my idea is DIY hobnails. :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Frenchie on 06 January, 2010, 02:27:28 pm
The little dusting we had here in London and two of the schools I should be at today and tomorrow are closed, tch  ::-)

Local schools closed when... there is absolutely no problem commuting today around this part of Nottinghamshire!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tim on 06 January, 2010, 02:29:50 pm
A couple of people from the department have been out and made a snowman. Looks like good snow for it judging by the rate at which it came together.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 06 January, 2010, 02:32:24 pm
Schools are being closed because staff can't make it in.  In a lot of schools the staff travel from outside the catchment area, so whilst kids can get there teachers can't.

There used to be an arrangement where teachers would go to their nearest local school of the age range they were qualified for if they couldn't get to their own school.  This has had to be stopped due to teh requirement for every teacher to be CRB checked by every school...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 06 January, 2010, 02:35:35 pm
It's mainly because these days a lot of kids are bussed in and out, and the bus companies can't/won't guarantee the service if it snows.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Frenchie on 06 January, 2010, 02:37:26 pm
Great!  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 January, 2010, 02:37:36 pm
Schools are being closed because staff can't make it in.  In a lot of schools the staff travel from outside the catchment area, so whilst kids can get there teachers can't.

There used to be an arrangement where teachers would go to their nearest local school of the age range they were qualified for if they couldn't get to their own school.  This has had to be stopped due to teh requirement for every teacher to be CRB checked by every school...


That arrangement never existed whilst I was teaching - at least, certainly not in the schools I was teaching in.

There was, however, a comparable arrangement for civil servants who couldn't get to work. They were expected to report to their nearest CS office.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 06 January, 2010, 02:38:48 pm
The school run (on foot all the way, of course):

(http://1point8.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341e8d4453ef0120a7ac9e32970b-pi)

School was open with hot choc & coffee for brave parents & children. But, with only 20 pupils, called to say we could take them home if we wanted - once they'd finished snowball fights, snowmen competitions and igloos.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Fab Foodie on 06 January, 2010, 02:41:03 pm
The second wave seems to have started in Abingdon, good fallings here...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 06 January, 2010, 02:45:05 pm
Snow's been reasonably persistent, if light, and is now settling...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 06 January, 2010, 02:48:52 pm
It's finally snowing moderately in Southend.  Has been for the last 20 minutes.

Not settling though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 06 January, 2010, 02:49:24 pm
Our snow stopped about an hour ago but it had settled.  We now have clear blue skies again.


Please can we have some more snow?  I really want to get out of tomorrow's meeting...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: anth on 06 January, 2010, 03:07:42 pm
Could people down south send some of their snow up here? It's just we've not had very much.

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4247746916_5aa8392ac5.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 06 January, 2010, 03:18:20 pm
It's mainly because these days a lot of kids are bussed in and out, and the bus companies can't/won't guarantee the service if it snows.

Whilst that might be true in rural areas, here in Londonton, kids seldom travel more than two miles to the local State primary school and could make the journey on foot if there were the will. Staff live miles out, sometimes due to major differences in local property prices and have long commutes which aren't possible in deep SNO. S the schools close, often keeping parents off work.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 06 January, 2010, 03:26:57 pm
It was quite thick here and it is till going.

But I can still see the grass so not thick enough yet.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 06 January, 2010, 03:29:07 pm
...There was, however, a comparable arrangement for civil servants who couldn't get to work. They were expected to report to their nearest CS office.

When I was a civil servant, out department discontinued this arrangement since it was fairly pointless in most cases.  Most of the staff were specialised, and would have been of little use to other civil service departments.

Having said that, for most of my career there, I was less than a ten minute walk from work, so it was never an issue.


It was snowing moderately here in South Ken, but it's thinning out a bit now.  Assuming it stops, I'll probably wait until the traffic clears the small amount off of the roads, and then cycle home.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 06 January, 2010, 03:32:02 pm
...There was, however, a comparable arrangement for civil servants who couldn't get to work. They were expected to report to their nearest CS office.

When I was a civil servant, out department discontinued this arrangement since it was fairly pointless in most cases.  Most of the staff were specialised, and would have been of little use to other civil service departments.

Having said that, for most of my career there, I was less than a ten minute walk from work, so it was never an issue.


It was snowing moderately here in South Ken, but it's thinning out a bit now.  Assuming it stops, I'll probably wait until the traffic clears the small amount off of the roads, and then cycle home.

One of my former employers had the same arrangement.  I was highly specialised and thus no use at all in the offices nearest my house.

I looked forwards to a day that I could fail to go into one of those offices (no security clearance) then just sit there unable to work  ;D    It never happened though :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 06 January, 2010, 03:35:12 pm
Schools are being closed because staff can't make it in.  In a lot of schools the staff travel from outside the catchment area, so whilst kids can get there teachers can't.

There used to be an arrangement where teachers would go to their nearest local school of the age range they were qualified for if they couldn't get to their own school.  This has had to be stopped due to teh requirement for every teacher to be CRB checked by every school...


That arrangement never existed whilst I was teaching - at least, certainly not in the schools I was teaching in.

There was, however, a comparable arrangement for civil servants who couldn't get to work. They were expected to report to their nearest CS office.


It certainly existed in Essex when my parents were teaching (my mother mentioned it this morning) - but I can't actually ever recall it being needed...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jules on 06 January, 2010, 03:37:35 pm
It's mainly because these days a lot of kids are bussed in and out, and the bus companies can't/won't guarantee the service if it snows.

Whilst that might be true in rural areas, here in Londonton, kids seldom travel more than two miles to the local State primary school and could make the journey on foot if there were the will. Staff live miles out, sometimes due to major differences in local property prices and have long commutes which aren't possible in deep SNO. S the schools close, often keeping parents off work.

+1

My youngest's infant school has a catchment area that stretches about 350 metres from the door. None of the staff can afford to live anywhere near it
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 06 January, 2010, 03:46:26 pm
My (current) experience of schools is that they are open unless too few pupils turn up to make it worth it - and even then, they don't turn anyone away.

Children come from all over and it would look rather bad if a member of staff didn't turn up but a pupil from the same area did.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 06 January, 2010, 04:00:53 pm
It's mainly because these days a lot of kids are bussed in and out, and the bus companies can't/won't guarantee the service if it snows.

Whilst that might be true in rural areas, here in Londonton, kids seldom travel more than two miles to the local State primary school and could make the journey on foot if there were the will. Staff live miles out, sometimes due to major differences in local property prices and have long commutes which aren't possible in deep SNO. S the schools close, often keeping parents off work.

Also, once upon a time, if you were a teacher and couldn't get to your own school, you went to the nearest to help out. Now however, your CRB check is only valid for specific age groups at specifis schools...so you stay home and schools shut.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: IanDG on 06 January, 2010, 04:03:37 pm
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2758/4198445549_e4f9b10e7f.jpg)

Been like this since December 20th - unusual for this place as due to the proximity of the sea we usally don't get much snow.

Starting to get fed up with it all now, cancelled ferries resulting in depleted shelves of food in the super markets and people stuck on the mainland (or here) not able to get home, closed airports requiring helicopter deliveries of emergency blood stocks for transfusion............................

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: GruB on 06 January, 2010, 04:16:43 pm
Good job I avoided the canal today.  Would have been well tricky in places to know where the path ended and the water started, until it was too late that is.

(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e81/GruuB/P1040467.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 06 January, 2010, 04:31:26 pm
Reported on the Beeb that by lunchtime today Reading had had 27cm of snow. As it's not stopped snowing at all today, one should add a bit more to that, but only a little, because the snow's been pretty light.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 06 January, 2010, 04:34:43 pm
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2758/4198445549_e4f9b10e7f.jpg)

Been like this since December 20th

Don't worry windy, it will get light again in a few weeks.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 06 January, 2010, 04:36:33 pm
Don't confuse windy with alien concepts like 'light'.  He probably can't remember such a thing since he left the tropical paradise they call Staffordshire ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 06 January, 2010, 04:38:47 pm
it's still determinedly daylight here  - what a change in just a couple of weeks - but already -2.

They're forecasting -10, and combined with 7-8 inches of snow that could make tomorrow very interesting...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: IanDG on 06 January, 2010, 05:20:01 pm
Jaded -  ;D doh!!! I meant the snow not the darkness, though mid-day at mid winter is often darker than mid-night at mid summer, this year we have had some glorious sunny days, but the sun's so low it hasn't melted the white stuff

Clarion -  ;D I could be bathing in the River Sow at this moment
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 January, 2010, 05:31:21 pm
I'm really glad I didn't postpone tonight's session.

Set off from home at about 2.45 in light snow, which stopped before I reached the school (3 miles or so). A few snowballs being chucked by big kids whose school finishes at 3.

Part way through my session, the snow really came down hard, probably for about half an hour. My group was depleted in number and diminished throughout the hour as parents came for their little darlings. The school secretary came along and suggested that I finish early so that kids could be collected promptly, so I cut short by 15 minutes. Then I was expected to hang around for those parents who came at the normal time! >:( They could have had 15 minutes' extra chess.

The best bit was the journey home. Probably just over an inch had settled and my journey was along the gridlocked A13, so I just blazed down the middle between the opposing lanes of traffic. Very good indeed! I actually got home a few minutes earlier than I would normally have done.

I can hear the thrumming engines of queuing traffic just outside our window.

The snow seems to have stopped, but it's certainly more than doubled most people's journey time.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 06 January, 2010, 05:47:32 pm
Good job I avoided the canal today.  Would have been well tricky in places to know where the path ended and the water started, until it was too late that is.

(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e81/GruuB/P1040467.jpg)

You're a great copper.  :thumbsup:

But you're a shite cropper.  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 06 January, 2010, 06:11:24 pm
Aye. The Copper could'a croppered the crapper.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Frenchie on 06 January, 2010, 06:32:17 pm
It's mainly because these days a lot of kids are bussed in and out, and the bus companies can't/won't guarantee the service if it snows.

Whilst that might be true in rural areas, here in Londonton, kids seldom travel more than two miles to the local State primary school and could make the journey on foot if there were the will. Staff live miles out, sometimes due to major differences in local property prices and have long commutes which aren't possible in deep SNO. S the schools close, often keeping parents off work.

Also, once upon a time, if you were a teacher and couldn't get to your own school, you went to the nearest to help out. Now however, your CRB check is only valid for specific age groups at specifis schools...so you stay home and schools shut.

Crazy; in particular when, as was the case here today, the weather was not severe in most of the town and local region (the region closed 200 schools). Fortunately Baby G's place was open!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: her_welshness on 06 January, 2010, 06:41:45 pm
We closed the library at 3.30pm just to try and give staff the chance to get home early. After picking up my bike from its service, the roads appeared OK at first until just before New Cross it was absolute gridlock. So I got off the bike and walked. At New Cross itself there were three buses that had broken down and further down the road at the bus stop there was a lot of people waiting so I basically told them to walk as it would be a long time for them to wait, which I got thanked for :thumbsup: At Deptford traffic was at a standstill so I walked the rest of the way home. It took me 2 hours to get back and am worried how long its going to take my husband to get home as he does not finish work until 7.  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 06 January, 2010, 07:43:15 pm
He'll probably be no longer than usual.  I think the worst of the gridlock are the panic commuters rushing home early.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 06 January, 2010, 07:46:31 pm
The Journal Of Captain M. Zoidburg. Bsc. Ssc.

6th of January, day 17.

The winter storm has raged for almost two weeks now, making any headway proved futile and the expedition was forced to make camp just to survive this seemingly endless blizzard. Three days have passed since we were forced to eat the last of the huskies. Hope is beggining to fade among the men and thoughts have began to turn to the unthinkable, they have not spoken of it aloud but it is there for all to see in the empty gaze of homesick eyes. For now I have managed to bolster their spirits with thoughts of empire and family but it will be only a matter of days before the only choice remaining will be to eat the flesh of those who have perished or god forbid - the last remaining pot-noodle.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 January, 2010, 08:16:30 pm
Schools are being closed because staff can't make it in.  In a lot of schools the staff travel from outside the catchment area, so whilst kids can get there teachers can't.

There used to be an arrangement where teachers would go to their nearest local school of the age range they were qualified for if they couldn't get to their own school.  This has had to be stopped due to teh requirement for every teacher to be CRB checked by every school...

There was a similar arrangement in the NHS - staff who couldn't get to their own workplace were expected to go the nearest NHS facility and work there. I don't know if staff can still do that since the introduction of trusts as individual employers.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 06 January, 2010, 08:17:03 pm
Our village was on Points West (regional news magazine) for the sledging.  The slope (Rodway Hill) is now so polished that we only managed five runs tonight - it's almost impossible to walk up.  zOMG it's fast coming down though, and after all that practice in February we have the directional control sorted out to the extent that we managed to avoid both the suicidal Chihuahua and the strategically placed tree.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 January, 2010, 08:27:27 pm
Extract of the 5-day forecast, Southend-on-Sea:-

(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/6910-2/Snapshot+2010-01-06+20-22-21.jpg)
 :o :o :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mecwales on 06 January, 2010, 08:36:02 pm
(http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs237.snc3/22441_236802902310_516722310_3014034_6634083_n.jpg)

Needless to say, the planned drive from Wales back to uni didn't happen!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: peliroja on 06 January, 2010, 08:40:15 pm
Ooh, creamy snowdrifts!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 06 January, 2010, 08:41:14 pm
Absolutely stunning, mecwales! Essex had that sort of thing in 1962-63. Not quite so hilly though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mecwales on 06 January, 2010, 08:48:25 pm
It looks nice, but it isn't half starting to get annoying now!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 06 January, 2010, 08:52:39 pm
Whereabouts is that Mecwales?

I remember driving my Vauxhall down something similar to Ystradfellte in 1980-something.

We had considerable difficulty in getting it out again  :-[
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mecwales on 06 January, 2010, 08:58:19 pm
Mid Wales, nearish to a village called Trefeglwys (I guess that may or may not be of any use!) Friends living higher up have had considerably more - from the first snowfall around the 22nd it hasn't had a chance to melt properly and has just kept on accumulating.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MattH on 06 January, 2010, 09:00:22 pm
We've got around 9 inches here now. I didn't go in to work today, apparently about 5% of people made it in. An email from there this afternoon said that the car park can only be negotiated by 4x4s and there is nothing to clear it with, so not to bother coming in if a normal car was the only way to do it.
All our local schools are off again tomorrow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 06 January, 2010, 09:26:23 pm
Wye Valley Piste Report.

Snow conditions were excellent today, with some fabulous champagne powder off-piste to be found on many forest tracks and shaded hillsides.  New snow on an existing firm base in sheltered areas has led to a wonderful fast yet carvable surface, with widespread virgin snow giving much opportunity to experience the sheer joy of making fresh tracks.

Many shaded hillsides have been pisted throughout the day by tobogganers and there are good areas of deep compacted snow developing.  Given the good -8 freeze forecast overnight, combined with clear skies, on-piste conditions should be stunning in the morning.  

Beer prices locally are still reported to be 1/4 those of Val D'Isere.   :thumbsup:


WHAT AN AMAZING DAY!

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 06 January, 2010, 10:28:43 pm
Our village was on Points West (regional news magazine) for the sledging.

"Oi you fat bastard, bet you can't hit the bottom of the hill"

"Your missus is down there just waiting for me to slide in"

etc

?  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mercury on 06 January, 2010, 11:28:13 pm
Someone's made an igloo out of snowballs and put a candle in it.

(http://www.pjls16812.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/yacf/snow1.jpg)

I was so impressed, I made one too. Mine's the one on the right. Isn't Slough a wonderful place to live!!

(http://www.pjls16812.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/yacf/snow2.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ian H on 06 January, 2010, 11:49:02 pm
Walking home from town I saw a tractor towing a dung spreader coming uphill towards me and so moved into a gateway. It started to slide sideways, then came to a halt, wheels spinning. The driver decided to reverse a bit and slid the spreader across the lane into the hedge.Totally stuck. I wandered up to pass the time of day. Driver said he'd been up through once today without a problem. Said he might have got through the second time if he'd been more competent. He left the tractor across the lane, saying he was going to get a four-wheel drive to tow him out (seemingly unaware that what he was abandoning was a four-wheel drive).
"That'll be Graham; not the sharpest knife in the box", I was told at the pub.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Really Ancien on 07 January, 2010, 12:15:53 am
-11 Degrees Centigrade here at the moment, the joys of living in a frost hollow, it was 6 degrees warmer in Leyland.

Damon.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 07 January, 2010, 07:21:27 am
The Reading University weather station says -8.3. My garden thermometer says -4. Benson (S. Oxfordshire) weather station says -17.

We just dug the car out of the frozen snow. It took half an hour.

[Edit]Bloody hell! Just opened the curtains in this room & there was ice on the inside of the window! Melting fast now. Shows how much insulation nice thick curtains with lining provide.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 07 January, 2010, 08:00:55 am
Personal thermometers read -7°C in the summerhouse, -5.7°C in the observatory and -6.2°C in the mini greenhouse.
Cold for outer Londonton.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 07 January, 2010, 08:23:05 am
I thought it was supposed to be sunny today, but it's just started snowing again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: groucho on 07 January, 2010, 08:34:25 am
Clear blue skies in Penarth.

The council workman who diligently cleared the snow off the pavement on one side of the main street yesterday ( :thumbsup: ) has just started the futile task of hacking at the snow/ice on the pavement on the other side.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 07 January, 2010, 08:36:06 am
Clear blue skies here, and mind-buggeringly cold.  Once Mrs MV has finished messing about and has tried to go to work I'll go for a run.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 January, 2010, 08:58:20 am
About -5°C here and it's just started to snow. The weatherman at 8 o'clock talked about a depression approaching from the NE more rapidly than they had originally forecast. Up for 4" more snow in eastern England, allegedly.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 07 January, 2010, 09:08:54 am
-8.5 here and it dipped to -9.4 at 08:00, according to our local weather-nerd. Mostly a clear night so no new snow. Luckily there was a small gap in the curtains so I didn't have to get up to see it was clear, a shaft of moonlight crept its way round the room.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: perpetual dan on 07 January, 2010, 09:11:30 am
The Reading University weather station says -8.3. My garden thermometer says -4. Benson (S. Oxfordshire) weather station says -17.

Our garden thermometer is snowed over  ::-)
But after a nice clear night the doors were hard to open this morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 07 January, 2010, 09:15:54 am
The London airports are reporting around -6°C, which is a bit brisk, but since I won't be cycling to work, I doubt I'll need to wear all that much.  It's nice to see clear skies though.

There's no more snow forecast for a few days, but the temperatures aren't forecast to get above zero, so I suspect what we've got on the ground will hang around for a while, and get crunchier, and possibly slippery.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 January, 2010, 09:17:03 am
I think the weathermen have changed their minds Tim. Expect snow soon!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: groucho on 07 January, 2010, 09:19:14 am
Clear blue skies in Penarth.

The council workman who diligently cleared the snow off the pavement on one side of the main street yesterday ( :thumbsup: ) has just started the futile task of hacking at the snow/ice on the pavement on the other side.

....and he has given up!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 07 January, 2010, 09:25:53 am
-5 now and -5.7 low according to the weather nerd round here who is located within 10m of the sea.

I looked at our road and decided that I'd not try driving to work today. The picture below is what it was like yesterday evening. Imagine the road surface with 12 hours of -5 degrees. It's an ice rink.

(http://1point8.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341e8d4453ef012876b2e505970c-pi)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 07 January, 2010, 10:32:29 am
The roads to our village have been like that or worse since before Christmas bar new years eve when it thawed. By new years day it was back to snowed over.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 07 January, 2010, 10:49:08 am
It feels a bit surreal reading all of this. My commute this morning was a bit cold, and I had to avoid one or two slight patches of mucky slush, less than 1cm in depth.

Where is OUR snow??  >:( >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: peliroja on 07 January, 2010, 10:54:49 am
My commute (at 08:00) was pretty treacherous. Peterborough Road was thick ice, about 2-3 cm thick, I walked most of it, and there was a thin layer of ice all along the Embankment. The Long Haul Trucker was nice and stable, however.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 07 January, 2010, 10:57:27 am
-6.5 C in my garden this morning as I scooped the 'waste' from cat litter box. Too cold for me to ride to work still, not worth the risk. No more snow though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: HTFB on 07 January, 2010, 11:04:20 am
No thermometers here, but I couldn't clean the condensation off our bedroom windows this morning---instead, there was a coat of ice. On the inside.

Curse the landlord, the freeholder, the freeholder's heating engineers, the residents' association who've been holding up the major works, the landlord's builder, the landlord's builder's subcontractors, and the letting agent. Curse the lot of them.

ALSO, there's all this snow and it's got no architectural quality at all. A whole heath of snow and I can't make a decent snowball, let alone an igloo. Wah.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 07 January, 2010, 11:11:13 am
there was a thin layer of ice all along the Embankment

Crikey, whereabouts? It was clear when I was on it this morning, from Albert Bridge all the way to Embankment tube at about 8.30. Either that or I was blissfully unaware  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Frenchie on 07 January, 2010, 11:28:58 am
-5C here at about 9:00 today. Bright and sunny now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 January, 2010, 11:41:05 am
Ten minutes ago I was telling a cow-orker that the promised extra SNO here in Harlot was unlikely given the clear blue skies and bright sunshine.

It has now started to SNO again.  Make yer sodding mind up, willya?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 07 January, 2010, 04:26:57 pm
The Journal Of Captain M. Zoidburg. Bsc. Ssc.

7th of January, day 18.

Today Oates made the ultimate sacrifice.

His last words before he left the tent were "I am just popping to the off licence, I may be some time". I fear that his new trainers will be ruined which would be a right shame as his Reebok Classics are well nice.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 07 January, 2010, 04:30:22 pm
No thermometers here, but I couldn't clean the condensation off our bedroom windows this morning---instead, there was a coat of ice. On the inside.

-15 here last night.  Not only ice on the inside of the bedroom windows, but also the lounge

We have central heating, and were burning a very vigorous fire last night. Plus we have an Aga pumping out warm 24/7.

It was cold. So cold that the snow felt like dry powder and didn't make me wet when I ran through it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 07 January, 2010, 04:35:09 pm
I've just been skiing again!

(http://www.reb.co.uk/ski1.jpg)

(http://www.reb.co.uk/ski3.jpg)

(http://www.reb.co.uk/ski4.jpg)

(http://www.reb.co.uk/ski5.jpg)

 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 07 January, 2010, 04:36:36 pm
Shouldn't you be wearing a helmet, young man? ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 07 January, 2010, 04:39:43 pm
Shouldn't you be wearing a helmet, young man? ;)

He'll risk it for a Swisskit.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 07 January, 2010, 04:44:33 pm
Just saw this on the BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_enl_1262875012/html/1.stm) website:

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_enl_1262875012/img/1.jpg)

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 January, 2010, 04:46:16 pm
Shouldn't you be wearing a helmet, young man? ;)

And your only hi-viz are Charlotte's boots, which you seem to have nicked. :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 07 January, 2010, 04:47:46 pm
Just saw this on the BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_enl_1262875012/html/1.stm) website:

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_enl_1262875012/img/1.jpg)

 :thumbsup:
It's the ice age!

The gulf stream convection has packed in!

We are doooooomed!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 07 January, 2010, 04:48:13 pm
Mip
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andyoxon on 07 January, 2010, 05:04:43 pm
Mip

wdtm btw?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 07 January, 2010, 05:07:17 pm
Just a general expression of mild or sublimated alarm, once popular among roadies, possibly derived from a cult programme like H2G2 or Red Dwarf or summat.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 07 January, 2010, 05:08:13 pm
I've just been out sledging.   :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

No photos today, although the light at dusk was spectacular!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zipperhead on 07 January, 2010, 05:25:02 pm
there was a thin layer of ice all along the Embankment

Crikey, whereabouts? It was clear when I was on it this morning, from Albert Bridge all the way to Embankment tube at about 8.30. Either that or I was blissfully unaware  :-\

If you'd gone a little further along, by temple station was a big pile of ice in the road. Not all of it was due to nature though - it looked like the staff at the Walkabout club had just tipped all their surplus ice cubes into the road (quite a lot of them!).

I'm not sure what they expected to happen to them - perhaps they're Ozzies and have no previous experience of what happens to water at these temperatures.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 07 January, 2010, 05:53:37 pm
Just saw this on the BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_enl_1262875012/html/1.stm) website:

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_enl_1262875012/img/1.jpg)

 :thumbsup:

Wow!  That's amazing.

Do I see greenness still over Ireland?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 07 January, 2010, 05:56:33 pm
Blackadder: What YOU have discovered, if it has a name, is some... Green.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 07 January, 2010, 06:42:46 pm
Another 10 bob sledge runs, including some advanced stuff like a 3' wide path between the trees, where you can't really see where you're going in the dark and there is a big drop off to the left.  Fab.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 January, 2010, 06:48:34 pm
On that photo, isn't the Lizard still green?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 07 January, 2010, 06:52:03 pm
On that photo, isn't the Lizard still green?

Must be a touch of syphilis.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Manotea on 07 January, 2010, 06:53:36 pm
Looks like The Day After Tomorrow. Frozen Mastodons, anyone?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 January, 2010, 06:59:11 pm
(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47060000/jpg/_47060285_-7.jpg)

Taken from BBC Essex  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 07 January, 2010, 07:00:25 pm
(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47060000/jpg/_47060285_-7.jpg)

Taken from BBC Essex  ;D

Blimey MalVolio - that was a long lunchtime jog  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 07 January, 2010, 07:02:30 pm
(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47060000/jpg/_47060285_-7.jpg)

Taken from BBC Essex  ;D

I think his washing machine has broken.   ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: JonBuoy on 07 January, 2010, 07:42:00 pm
On that photo, isn't the Lizard still green?

Same satpic in better resolutions here:
Slightly better (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/index.php?subset=Europe_2_01.2010007.terra.2km)
Better still (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/index.php?subset=Europe_2_01.2010007.terra.1km)
Pretty impressive (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/index.php?subset=Europe_2_01.2010007.terra.500m)
Look you can see my house (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/index.php?subset=Europe_2_01.2010007.terra.250m)

***Warning large files and flaky connection***


Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: IanDG on 07 January, 2010, 07:45:30 pm
Just saw this on the BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_enl_1262875012/html/1.stm) website:

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_enl_1262875012/img/1.jpg)

 :thumbsup:

Wow!  That's amazing.

Do I see greenness still over Ireland?

I notice there's a cloud over here   ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 January, 2010, 07:46:10 pm
Portland Bill and Bournemouth appear not to have snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 07 January, 2010, 07:51:55 pm
Holyhead looks pretty inviting.

It's just getting there.  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 07 January, 2010, 08:05:59 pm
Here's the super-high-res version: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010007-0107/GreatBritain.A2010007.1150.250m.jpg
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 January, 2010, 08:10:13 pm
Surprisingly, quite a bit of the Cumbrian coast, the Mull of Kintyre and the Stranraer peninsula have no snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 07 January, 2010, 08:13:31 pm
Hey!
Gordy had sno    :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: gordon taylor on 07 January, 2010, 08:21:04 pm
Hey!
Gordy had sno    :thumbsup:

 :thumbsup: ;D

But I want more.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 January, 2010, 08:23:02 pm
Hey!
Gordy had sno    :thumbsup:

 :thumbsup: ;D

But I want more.

Mooore? That boy will be 'ung!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: eck on 07 January, 2010, 08:23:52 pm
Surprisingly, quite a bit of the Cumbrian coast, the Mull of Kintyre and the Stranraer peninsula have no snow.
The typical weather in Stranraer, from where Mrs eck hails, is wet 'n' windy.
But, surprisingly, they had more snow than we had, up here between Dundee and Aberdeen, just before Christmas.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 07 January, 2010, 08:28:58 pm
Just saw this on the BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_enl_1262875012/html/1.stm) website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_enl_1262875012/img/1.jpg

 :thumbsup:

Wow!  That's amazing.

Do I see greenness still over Ireland?

I notice there's a cloud over here   ;D

And here  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 07 January, 2010, 10:02:45 pm
On that photo, isn't the Lizard still green?

Same satpic in better resolutions here:
Slightly better (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/index.php?subset=Europe_2_01.2010007.terra.2km)
Better still (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/index.php?subset=Europe_2_01.2010007.terra.1km)
Pretty impressive (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/index.php?subset=Europe_2_01.2010007.terra.500m)
Look you can see my house (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/index.php?subset=Europe_2_01.2010007.terra.250m)

***Warning large files and flaky connection***

I haz a new desktop.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 07 January, 2010, 11:42:14 pm
On that photo, isn't the Lizard still green?

Same satpic in better resolutions here:
Slightly better (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/index.php?subset=Europe_2_01.2010007.terra.2km)
Better still (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/index.php?subset=Europe_2_01.2010007.terra.1km)
Pretty impressive (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/index.php?subset=Europe_2_01.2010007.terra.500m)
Look you can see my house (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/index.php?subset=Europe_2_01.2010007.terra.250m)

***Warning large files and lots of flaky bits***



Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 January, 2010, 08:01:25 am
I was waiting to give blood yesterday and the telly was on in the waiting room, on BBC News channel. The scrolling headlines said "Breaking News: UK in grip of big freeze."

We've had varying depths of snow here for nearly a month. I don't think it's breaking news anymore.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 08 January, 2010, 08:11:19 am
YAWM. Yet Another Wintry Morning.

Fresh snow overnight, more falling right now, and the temperature is -9. Oh joy.

Thankfully, I have THE FLU and have been confined to quarters. I can enjoy the wintry scenes from the sweaty fevered heat of my sick bed.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Frenchie on 08 January, 2010, 08:48:17 am
(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47060000/jpg/_47060285_-7.jpg)

Taken from BBC Essex  ;D

Nutters everywhere!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 08 January, 2010, 09:56:33 am
Not me.

I went to a different supermarket  :smug:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 08 January, 2010, 10:16:28 am
it's warm in southampton today -0.8
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 08 January, 2010, 10:20:37 am
(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47060000/jpg/_47060285_-7.jpg)

Taken from BBC Essex  ;D

Blimey MalVolio - that was a long lunchtime jog  ;D


Uncanny.  I don't shop at Tesco tho'
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ian H on 08 January, 2010, 10:37:36 am
East Devon just above my house.

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4256511390_4fb7484248_o.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 08 January, 2010, 10:49:28 am
East Devon just above my house.

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4256511390_4fb7484248_o.jpg)

Are you a Hobbit?!  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ian H on 08 January, 2010, 10:56:24 am

Are you a Hobbit?!  ;D

You wouldn't believe the difficulty I have finding cycling shoes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 08 January, 2010, 11:05:32 am
Shouldn't you be wearing a helmet, young man? ;)
Please, no, not that debate again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: fuzzy on 08 January, 2010, 11:08:27 am
------------~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Weather Alert~~~~~~~~~~~~----------------------

More SNO has just started to fall from the sky over South Buckinghamshire
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 08 January, 2010, 11:12:10 am
And the sunshine has gone away from Reading, & been replaced by 10/10 cloud.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 08 January, 2010, 11:15:59 am
Bright bright sunshine in SE1.  Hope it melts the ice on the side of the road that wasn't gritted :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 January, 2010, 12:22:47 pm
DayForecastOutcome
ThursdayBRITONS' Broadcasting Corporation says between 5-15 cm of SNONo SNO
FridayBRITONS' Broadcasting Corporation says no SNOSNO

Not enough to allow me to go home though chiz chiz.  Bored now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 08 January, 2010, 12:50:36 pm
Now snowing ever so gently...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: delthebike on 08 January, 2010, 02:24:30 pm
I have just been out to the shed/greenhouse to get a sack of spuds. While there I checked the min/max thermometer.

-18 to -2

Another snow shower has just started.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 08 January, 2010, 02:39:49 pm
Schools are being closed because staff can't make it in.  In a lot of schools the staff travel from outside the catchment area, so whilst kids can get there teachers can't.

There used to be an arrangement where teachers would go to their nearest local school of the age range they were qualified for if they couldn't get to their own school.  This has had to be stopped due to teh requirement for every teacher to be CRB checked by every school...

There was a similar arrangement in the NHS - staff who couldn't get to their own workplace were expected to go the nearest NHS facility and work there. I don't know if staff can still do that since the introduction of trusts as individual employers.

No longer technically possible thanks to CRB and ISA requirements on the individual employers...


...but that didn't stop a Minister in the Department suggesting, on Tuesday of this week, that staff who couldn't get to their own workplace were expected to go the nearest NHS facility  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 January, 2010, 02:54:29 pm
(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/6916-5/DSC04498.JPG)

Outside my front door.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 08 January, 2010, 02:56:42 pm
It's like that around here on the more minor roads.
Car engines revving freely away.  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 January, 2010, 02:57:54 pm
Actually, that was yesterday. We've had some more snow now and it's less glassy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 08 January, 2010, 03:05:53 pm
This is shit! I haven't seen the ice-cream man in ages.  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 08 January, 2010, 03:09:48 pm
This is shit! I haven't seen the ice-cream man in ages.  >:(


Would you like an ice-cream little boy...?   :demon:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 08 January, 2010, 03:12:43 pm
(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/6916-5/DSC04498.JPG)

Outside my front door.
As they say in show business "go break a leg" that road looks very dangerous
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 08 January, 2010, 03:14:58 pm
This is shit! I haven't seen the ice-cream man in ages.  >:(


Would you like an ice-cream little boy...?   :demon:

You are oh, so Mr Whippy AICMFP.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 08 January, 2010, 03:15:15 pm
...but that didn't stop a Minister in the Department suggesting, on Tuesday of this week, that staff who couldn't get to their own workplace were expected to go the nearest NHS facility  ::-)

Well, be sensible, you can't expect Ministers to know the law relevant to their departments. :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 08 January, 2010, 03:30:49 pm
This is shit! I haven't seen the ice-cream man in ages.  >:(


Would you like an ice-cream little boy...?   :demon:

'Childrennnn!' </Robert Helpmann> ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 January, 2010, 03:54:19 pm
There's a small quantity of white floating past the window but it might just be coming off the roof.  But my The Boss has gone out, so I'm outta here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 08 January, 2010, 03:57:01 pm
(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/6916-5/DSC04498.JPG)

Outside my front door.
As they say in show business "go break a leg" that road looks very dangerous

I think I might cycle home that way.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Aidan on 08 January, 2010, 03:57:35 pm
Its heaving it down again and has been for the last hour or so, no sign of easing off either. I reckon its goodbye to the goodbye Yorkshire pud on Sunday :'(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 08 January, 2010, 04:08:56 pm
(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/6916-5/DSC04498.JPG)

Outside my front door.
As they say in show business "go break a leg" that road looks very dangerous

I think I might cycle home that way.

Quickly Wow, draw the curtains, turn off the lights.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PhilO on 08 January, 2010, 04:21:50 pm
...that road looks very dangerous.

That road's perfectly safe...

Driving on it, on the other hand, would be lethal!  :demon:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 08 January, 2010, 04:49:28 pm
A positively tropical minus ten last night.

And today I saw two darwin award winners walking on the canal.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 08 January, 2010, 05:13:05 pm
Just been out for sledging session #4.  Apparently there has been at least one hospitalisation  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 January, 2010, 05:14:00 pm
(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/6916-5/DSC04498.JPG)

Outside my front door.
As they say in show business "go break a leg" that road looks very dangerous

I think I might cycle home that way.

If you haven't set off, Nutty, drop in for a beer.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 08 January, 2010, 05:31:54 pm
That road does look like a candidate for studded tyres  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: JonBuoy on 08 January, 2010, 05:38:19 pm
Just for a change I think that I would be tempted to cycle in the gutter or on the pavement (or not at all).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 January, 2010, 05:47:34 pm
I didn't dare tackle it when it was like that. Fortunately, I'm on a corner with a much busier road so it's a 10 yard walk to get onto tarmac.

This morning, some more snow had fallen so it was much easier again. Also, I don't think the temperature has been as high as 0°C today.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: JonBuoy on 08 January, 2010, 06:31:22 pm
A significant number of my usual Friday Night Bicycle Pub Crawl compatriots are wussing out tonight as they claim that the roads are too dangerous to cycle on.

They may be correct so I intend to use the bridleways.   ;D

They have been more ridable in the last couple of weeks than they were for the preceeding couple of months.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 08 January, 2010, 07:12:47 pm
Looks like you Southend folks might be in for a pasting this weekend.

It may also snow a lot.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 January, 2010, 07:14:44 pm
Well, I've still got 14 pints of Ringwood ale, almost 4 bottles of wine, a fair bit of sherry and port and some whisky.

We've even got some food in. Should be OK.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 08 January, 2010, 07:19:08 pm
Snowing here again
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 08 January, 2010, 07:23:36 pm
Well, I've still got 14 pints of Ringwood ale, almost 4 bottles of wine, a fair bit of sherry and port and some whisky.

We've even got some food in. Should be OK.

Yes, but what about Sunday?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 08 January, 2010, 07:27:34 pm
Well, I've still got 14 pints of Ringwood ale, almost 4 bottles of wine, a fair bit of sherry and port and some whisky.

We've even got some food in. Should be OK.

Yes, but what about Sunday?

Will he make it to Sunday?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: SteveC on 08 January, 2010, 07:37:06 pm
Well, I've still got 14 pints of Ringwood ale, almost 4 bottles of wine, a fair bit of sherry and port and some whisky.

We've even got some food in. Should be OK.

Yes, but what about Sunday?

Will he make it to Sunday?
Will he care?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: robbo6 on 08 January, 2010, 07:42:29 pm
Just got back from Barrow-in-Furness, about 1/4-1/2" lying on the grass, which is a lot for there, roads clear.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 08 January, 2010, 09:01:28 pm
A friend of mine came round to borrow my spade this lunchtime. He lives in a flat, & lacks the urge to hit people, so normally has no use for such a tool, but his car was snowed in. I went back with him to lend a hand, & half an hour later he was able to drive out of the car park. We dug his wheels out, & compacted enough snow to give him a track to the exit.

None of the cars in his section of car park had moved since the snow fell. It looked as if none were able to, without a bit of digging. Homebase has sold out of shovels (I was there this morning: it still had a few spades left, but very few, & going fast). B&Q is a very long walk - & I wouldn't be surprised if it's also sold out.  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 08 January, 2010, 09:45:40 pm
That road does look like a candidate for studded tyres  :o

I was cycling on stuff worse than that on Christmas Eve, in Cambridge.  I could barely stand on it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 January, 2010, 09:46:07 pm
My daughter told me today that Kent police were closing roads as a precautionary measure, including, apparently, all main roads into Canterbury.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 08 January, 2010, 10:33:48 pm
....
If you haven't set off, Nutty, drop in for a beer.

Thanks for the invite.  I left at 5pm precisely for a change, and as the snow was falling heavily at that point with huge flakes I meandered down to the seafront for a scenic ride.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 08 January, 2010, 11:05:26 pm
Powdery flakes have now become large, heavy flakes of snow oop here in the frozen north.  I might investigate the bridleways tomorrow - they're usually impassable cos the horses' hooves churn them up terribly, and cycling through a quagmire is no fun.  So some lanes which I wouldn't usually consider may be considered :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 08 January, 2010, 11:08:28 pm
still snowing here, not heavily
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 January, 2010, 12:48:39 am
Heavy snow in Saarfend.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 09 January, 2010, 12:53:00 am
OOooohhhhhh it's just starting here.  Looking forwards to the morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 09 January, 2010, 03:22:08 am
OOooohhhhhh it's just starting here.  Looking forwards to the morning.
As are the good people at accident and emergency.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 09 January, 2010, 07:56:18 am
Overheard in the pub:

"it was so slippery I couldn't stand up to cross the road - I had to give up and go back and get the car to get here".
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 09 January, 2010, 09:00:20 am
There were a few very large fluffy snow flakes when I got up, here in Croydon, but little since.  In some ways I'd like some fresh snow, it would be easier to walk on than the icy stuff.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: JonBuoy on 09 January, 2010, 09:53:32 am
A significant number of my usual Friday Night Bicycle Pub Crawl compatriots are wussing out tonight as they claim that the roads are too dangerous to cycle on.

They may be correct so I intend to use the bridleways.   ;D

They have been more ridable in the last couple of weeks than they were for the preceeding couple of months.


Only two others made it for a severely curtailed Friday night.

There was an inch of fluffy stuff over the frozen ground and the couple of miles of field edge bridleway were superb.  There was one spin-out when I lost the back wheel on a little connecting lane that had been compacted to ice then disguised with snow.  I ended up pointing at 90 degrees to my original direction, straddling my bike and giggling like a schoolgirl.  I had set off early which meant that I could nip up to the local woods for another couple of miles before my first pint.

We have had a little more snow overnight and there are still occasional flurries so I may have to go and play in daylight.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 09 January, 2010, 10:31:22 am
It seems the neighbour is having a washing machine delivered. At least, an attempted delivery anyway.
The two blokes have the machine on a porters trolley.
They've covered about ten metres on the footpath in the last five minutes.

It's almost like watching Laurel & Hardy in colour.  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 January, 2010, 12:21:38 pm
It snowed here quite lightly for about an hour and a half this morning, but it's stopped now and the sun is out.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 January, 2010, 12:27:18 pm
We had another inch or two overnight, contrasted to daughter in Maidstone who tells me they've now got "about a foot" lying. They've also got a pretty firm forecast of up to another 8 inches this afternoon / tomorrow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 09 January, 2010, 12:46:58 pm
We had a light dusting, but the roads haven't been salted overnight and driving is "interesting".  I went out to get screws for the tyres and had to take a bit of a run up at the slope leaving Wickes' car park.  Wheelspin in third gear if provoked.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 January, 2010, 12:57:51 pm
We are sitting in embra airport waiting for our flight which should have left at 0955 cos chambery airport is closed. Could be a long boring day...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 January, 2010, 01:06:14 pm
*waves to the Pingus*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 09 January, 2010, 02:10:21 pm
Overheard in the pub:

"it was so slippery I couldn't stand up to cross the road - I had to give up and go back and get the car to get here".


Well I got the bike out to cross the road to visit the neighbour.  I couldn't stand up to cross it  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Euan Uzami on 09 January, 2010, 03:13:29 pm
Bit more snow here. Alot of side roads closed because they are ice and hills. So there are alot of people that cant drive anywhere because of the ice on the roads. Cant walk because of ice on the pavement.
Was a big thing on the local news on it.
My road is fine though so im still getting out on bike alright

It must be cold - your apostrophe key appears to have frozen solid again.

Im on quite a few different forums, for a few different things.
Why is it that a few members on here have a problem with my spelling and typing?
Or, is it mainly because you have a problem with me personally?

If you dont have a problem with me personally, then either live with my spelling or dont read my posts. I couldnt give a toss either way.

Or do you just like to take the piss and comment on someone who has a problem with spelling and typing? I persoanlly dont see the problem with what ive wrote, so YOU or any other member just critising it wont help. I may not be the sharpest knife in your draw, but that doesnt just make it fine for you to comment on my typing. You get the jist of my post, and understand what i mean.


Many of us went to schools where these things mattered a great deal. Some of your 'bad habits' were drummed out of us by the age of ten. At ten, we might have taken the '11+' exam to enter secondary school. Poor sentence structure, punctuation, grammar, spelling and usage would have caused us to FAIL and blighted our future.
When we see poor usage now, we cringe, either privately or publically.
Look at our profiles; some of us are old enough to be your parents.

The older generation is full of Grumpy Old Gits who grumble about poor educational standards of the youth of today. Either improve the standard of your English or accept the odd poke by the Old Fogeys...

I am known to have posted here and Elsewhere about poor English on, for example the BBC News website.

We don't like watching standards slip.

Helen, aged 51.57

comma after 'for example'.  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Euan Uzami on 09 January, 2010, 03:32:33 pm
He's gonig to need to drink a lot of tea to do that, Claire  ::-)

I've got no problems with people whose grammar is poor because English isn't their first language.  Just the same as I'd be very tolerant of someone who genuinely has the sort of learning difficulties which makes seeing spelling mistakes hard for them.

In the absence of any good reason, I'm afraid that I tend to see poor spelling and punctuation as evidence that people don't give a shit.  Which is sad.

It's not though, some people genuinely don't know the rules. They just plump for trying to remember where they've seen each specific word written before.
My boss, a company director I might add, asked me to proof read an email: some of the apostrophes were in the right place, and some of the words that shouldn't have them didn't, but still contained phrases like "affecting the companys ability to produce CD's and DVD's".
I corrected it all, and he looked at me curiously, and said "so when DO you have an apostrophe and when not, then?", henceforth I explained that you DO have one when it's possessive (with the exception of "its"), and you DON'T have one for plurals. He appeared impressed but bemused to learn that there was actually a rule and that you didn't actually have to remember all the specific instances to get them right.
People know that they go on some words but not on others, but it's a bit of a stab in the dark as to which.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 09 January, 2010, 03:43:27 pm
Ladies and Gentlemen, whilst I understand the strong feelings that some people have over the merits or not of accurate spelling and grammar in forums and similar, can we please keep it in the correct place.  A distinct thread in The Pub or even Politics and Other Big Issues to discuss such would be a better idea, rather than confusing the discussion in a thread about the current meteorological conditions.  Thank you.


There's some more fairly fine snow in Croydon, although what's been there for the last few days is still fluffy in places.  Unfortunately, a lot of it is quiet hard, icy, and somewhat lethal to walk on.

There doesn't seem to be a great deal more snow forecast for London, the majority looks like it's going to fall east of here again, so hard luck Wow et al.

It is still a bit chilly though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 January, 2010, 03:46:09 pm
We have had a fair bit fall this afternoon, and East Street, which is one of the main thoroughfares, has snow lying on it. There's a lot more forecast and the Met Office have upgraded their severe weather warning to orange for Essex & Southend.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hatler on 09 January, 2010, 03:49:35 pm
I'm getting really peed off here in sunny SW20. Since the dump last week we've had virtually nothing. Most depressing.

SiL in Kent is officially snowed in apparently. Down a steep farm track and they've had 6" today.

Grrrrr.  Boo hisss.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Polar Bear on 09 January, 2010, 03:51:33 pm
We've had a couple of half-hearted attempts this morning.   The forecast is for cloudy days and snow falling for much of the next two days.   
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 January, 2010, 03:55:57 pm
I'm getting really peed off here in sunny SW20. Since the dump last week we've had virtually nothing. Most depressing.

SiL in Kent is officially snowed in apparently. Down a steep farm track and they've had 6" today.

Grrrrr.  Boo hisss.

When one of the earlier falls arrived, I texted my son in Helsinki to say that his sister, in Maidstone, was snowed in. He reported this to the assembled company who were firstly surprised that Southern England should have snow, and then derisive that a mere 6" should be described as "snowed in".
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 09 January, 2010, 04:00:10 pm
It's sleeting in Stockwell and feels really rather cold. Just got in from pottering about on the bike round main roads (that are all clear)

Edit: 'Tis proper snow now.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 09 January, 2010, 04:12:38 pm
I'm getting really peed off here in sunny SW20. Since the dump last week we've had virtually nothing. Most depressing.

SiL in Kent is officially snowed in apparently. Down a steep farm track and they've had 6" today.

Grrrrr.  Boo hisss.

Look outside now! :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 09 January, 2010, 06:19:27 pm
After 20 attempts, a glass of port and two glasses of wine, Miss Z and I managed the Black Run in the dark tonight  :thumbsup:  It's a 3' wide path with trees on one side and a cold stream on the other, a tight bend and a small uphill section so you have to carry enough speed through the bend to get over the "hump" and onto the final whoop-de-whoops.  1/8 mile in all, and we done it perfect apart from a bit of powder snow in the face.

Gmaps Pedometer (http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3401693)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 09 January, 2010, 07:09:43 pm
We had some luvli sno for our wander back from Sutton.  But it seems to have lost interest now...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 09 January, 2010, 07:21:41 pm
<2010>
Something's going to happen. Something wonderful
</2010>

A THAW!!  :thumbsup:

Temperature has hopped up to +1 after being -2 all day, it's raining steadily, and there's a sound in the garden I haven't heard for a week. Dripping. Huzzah!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 09 January, 2010, 07:25:26 pm
Still just below zero here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 09 January, 2010, 08:32:57 pm
-4C here at the moment with occasional snow flurries....
Looks like the winter tyres may be needed on the road for a 4th week next week. Over 600km on them so far this winter...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 09 January, 2010, 09:03:00 pm
4 inches overnight here in the frozen north. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 09 January, 2010, 09:58:48 pm
if it weren't frozen would it be more than 4"  :demon:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 09 January, 2010, 10:05:24 pm
if it weren't frozen would it be more than 4"  :demon:

Did I say four inches?  I really meant two feet.

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2759/4260685412_c1e8d3b251.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 09 January, 2010, 10:10:12 pm
I see, you actually meant TWENTY four inches ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 09 January, 2010, 11:28:42 pm
Snow's been lovely all day in Southend.  And we had pre-bought tickets to Avatar  :-\

Other than the really gritted roads, all roads have a layer of snow on them.  The previously iced roads are now ice with snow on top, but mostly that lovely white ice.

I've been out for a ride this evening, really good fun.  That road the other day that had had 7 accidents in it is now closed.  I ignored the signs and rode it anyway.  The downhill section, iced road with an inch of snow on the top, I got a good 15+mph  :smug:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 January, 2010, 07:58:14 am
We are back at embra airport again hoping to make it to chambery today :-S
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Sigurd Mudtracker on 10 January, 2010, 08:31:54 am
Nearly two feet of snow here (as measured against the back door to the garage).  Depth would have been more impressive if the lower layers haven't been compressed into a solid block.  No snow yesterday, but the temp did fall to -11ºC last night.

All this in the NE of Scotland...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 January, 2010, 10:03:39 am
Temperature 0°C here today in slushy Saarfend. There's been a slow thaw overnight, there's been less snow than was forecast and I don't think the wind was as strong either.

Is this the beginning of the end of this cold spell, AKA The Great Freeze of 2009-2010?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 January, 2010, 10:18:46 am
We've been told that due to ongoing weather in chambery the earliest we are likely to be boarding is 12 - that's if it gets better :-(. We'd have been better staying at home, at least we'd be getting some skiing!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 10 January, 2010, 11:36:06 am
No snow in Reading, & it's turning slushy now.

And the gutter's fallen off at the back of the house. It had been ripped loose at one end when the neighbour's gutter broke, & has now broken off. :( Ah well, she's got someone coming to have a look at hers. He can fix mine when he does hers.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 10 January, 2010, 11:57:59 am
Yes, I've just been out, and along the same footways as I was walking on yesterday, and what was rock solid, sheets of solid ice yesterday, is very slushy and crunchy and well on its way to becoming water again.

The last forecast I looked at had the temperatures around London up just above zero, day and night, for the next week or so, so presumably that means most of the snow and ice will disappear in the next few days, unless the forecast changes, again.

Having said that, on my way back home, there was a brief flurry of very fine snow, just enough to lightly cover the front of my coat, but not enough to settle on the ground.

On the plus side, if this happens, my studded tyres are sure to arrive very soon. :-\ ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 10 January, 2010, 12:09:24 pm
We've had light snow for several hours now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 10 January, 2010, 12:39:13 pm
Oh, FFS. Even more now.

And I've never moaned that it's "too" hot in the summer, it just ain't fair.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clifftaylor on 10 January, 2010, 12:55:13 pm
We're up to a toasty 1C here in Derby - the snow on the ground is thinning quite quickly, which I assume is 'cos it's mostly been nice dry flakes rather than the usual fat soggy stuff.
And good riddance says I  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 10 January, 2010, 03:21:51 pm
The last forecast I looked at had the temperatures around London up just above zero, day and night, for the next week or so, so presumably that means most of the snow and ice will disappear in the next few days, unless the forecast changes, again.
Here, the forecast is for +2 to +3 C peaks, & -2 to -3 lows. Melt a bit & gets very slippery, freeze into a glassy sheet: repeat.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 10 January, 2010, 03:25:14 pm
Lots of sno on the ground still here, but the temperature is above freezing.  The sink in the bathroom is now draining; the pipe outside has been frozen all week :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 January, 2010, 03:36:53 pm
[wicked witch of the east (coast)] It's melting, it's melting![/wicked witch of the east (coast)]
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 10 January, 2010, 03:53:36 pm
No snow in Reading, & it's turning slushy now.

And the gutter's fallen off at the back of the house. It had been ripped loose at one end when the neighbour's gutter broke, & has now broken off. :( Ah well, she's got someone coming to have a look at hers. He can fix mine when he does hers.

Steeply pitched roof?  It's a common problem.  You need those little snow fences along the edge of the tiles to hold it in place.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 January, 2010, 06:57:53 pm
We are back at embra airport again hoping to make it to chambery today :-S
On another forum I use someone is complaining they're stuck at Chambery airport trying to get back to Scotland! And she says that even if you do get there, they'll probably just put you in the hotel nearest the airport because of all the big snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PeteB99 on 10 January, 2010, 08:36:17 pm
We are back at embra airport again hoping to make it to chambery today :-S
On another forum I use someone is complaining they're stuck at Chambery airport trying to get back to Scotland! And she says that even if you do get there, they'll probably just put you in the hotel nearest the airport because of all the big snow.

Had a text from my cousin who was flying from Southampton to Chambery this morning  -  He's actually ended up in Milan - at some point tonight a coach is going to try to get them the rest of  the way. I don't know what the state of the alpine passes are but I wouldn't fancy it myself
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ian H on 10 January, 2010, 10:53:16 pm
Last time I went to Chambery, I rode there.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 10 January, 2010, 11:43:25 pm
Snowing again here.
Its been snowing/raining abit for most of the day. Mainly bits of rain.
I want alot more snow, don't fancy getting up early to go to college.
Ill probably have to clear the patio and drive again though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 11 January, 2010, 06:51:54 am
Surprisingly, given that things seemed to be melting yesterday, we seem to have had another dump of snow last night in Croydon.  I'm not sure exactly how much, but looking out the window, enough to replace the layer of snow on the car, which had almost gone yesterday evening.  Probably only an inch or two at most.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 11 January, 2010, 07:15:05 am
It snowed again in E. London, and I am not pleased.  I'm back at work today and was going to cycling in but I'm not keen on dealing with ice, etc.  I'll try again tomorrow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulR on 11 January, 2010, 07:41:26 am
Pants.  I'd de-crudded and de-rusted my bike yesterday afternoon after its recent adventures in London's famous snowdrifts.  Now my younger son's school announces it remains partly closed due to lack of crud and rust-forming substances, so I'm stuck (working) at home.  But given how wet the roads were last night, I'm not altogether sorry not to be out skating on my 23mm slicks.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 11 January, 2010, 07:45:43 am
Day eight.

Still no ridey bikey.

 >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 11 January, 2010, 08:40:47 am
Inch or two where I live, snowing as I yomped to the station. Rain in Leeds.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 January, 2010, 09:08:31 am
Just grey miserableness here. 0°C, allegedly. Dog sick in night. I stood in it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: delthebike on 11 January, 2010, 09:11:54 am
Just grey miserableness here. 0°C, allegedly. Dog sick in night. I stood in it.
Strange way to keep your toes warm!  ;)
I've been out to the chiropractor and the roads are generally OK, just compacted snow/ice on the quieter junctions. Pavements are OK too, dry slush mostly, but compacted snow/ice in places. I took a walking pole out and used it to good effect.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 11 January, 2010, 09:14:16 am
About an inch of snow in Stockwell but the main roads between there and work in Stockwell were clear, prob cos they are busy and mostly bus routes, so I rode in, watching for any rogue icy patches. The hybrid feels like a new bike after its service  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Aidan on 11 January, 2010, 09:22:05 am
+2.5 degrees and wet horrible rain here. Should clear the snow if it keeps up all day though :thumbsup:  Shame I'm laid low with tonsilitis  :( :( :( :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 11 January, 2010, 10:23:52 am
A balmy 3.5 deg yesterday and 2.5 overnight did not shift the ice. I've brought the MTB to work, to ride home, but stuff falling from the sky is settling and stuff left on the ground is not going. Half the lanes are still ice covered.
When is it going to end?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 11 January, 2010, 10:37:22 am
Another 2" here last night. 200 feet lower down towards Sheffield town, there has been almost none.
Our road is thus almost impassible to motons but the main road 800 yards away and 80 feet lower is OKish...
Still -1C here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 January, 2010, 01:17:03 pm
It snowed again in E. London, and I am not pleased.

In my bit of E. London it did too, but not enough to generate any form of excitement.

Bah >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Charlotte on 11 January, 2010, 02:15:27 pm
I now haz spiky SNO tyres.

It will never SNO again  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adam on 11 January, 2010, 02:22:29 pm
About another 2 cms (or just under an inch in old money) yesterday evening.  This, coupled with the fact that it was just above freezing this morning, had the downside that our road, which was previously solid ice, is now a thick slush/icy mix.  This makes it harder to cycle on, using the Marathon Winter tyres. 

I think I might need to get a third set of tyres with massive knobblies on, to cope with the thick loose stuff.  Or another bike..............
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 11 January, 2010, 09:22:15 pm
I now haz spiky SNO tyres.

It will never SNO again  :(

My purchase of a small sledge just as last February's thaw came is the reason that Sw18 appears to have missed this so called 'cold snap' that other parts of the country have apparently suffered.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 11 January, 2010, 09:42:37 pm
Likewise, I've just got my studded tyres as well, so now we know the snow in London will be gone by the morning!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Sigurd Mudtracker on 11 January, 2010, 10:00:19 pm
-11ºC most of yesterday, it's warmed up now and running around 0ºC.  Out walking the dogs I saw signs of a potential Great Melt.  But there's still feet of the stuff, the ground is covered everywhere, and I doubt it will disappear quickly.  But by next weekend would be nice - apart from a brief and unsuccessful trial on the trike I haven't been out cycling since mid December.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 12 January, 2010, 01:06:49 am
The White Witch has been banished to the wardrode and the Pevensies are returning to the land of Spare Oom.


I am planning on giving the DIY tyres my legs a rest tomorrow and taking Frankenfixie.  Wednesday will be car service day so it's a car + Brompton commute.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 12 January, 2010, 12:45:07 pm
Lots of grass shoots now starting to appear through the snow.
Time for spring, time for spring I say...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cyclops on 12 January, 2010, 04:42:52 pm
Scotland's entrants (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8454242.stm) in this winter's Darwin awards. Luckily the Union Canal isn't deep - I've taken people canoeing there a few times and my advice to them if they fall out is to stand up and they should find their heads above water.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 12 January, 2010, 04:44:28 pm
Well the thaw lasted all of a day, freezing again now and looking like more snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Greenbank on 12 January, 2010, 04:47:30 pm
Scotland's entrants (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8454242.stm) in this winter's Darwin awards.

*pet peeve*

If they survived (or didn't make themselves sterile during the stunt) then they're just fuckwits, not Darwin Award candidates.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Paul D on 12 January, 2010, 04:48:31 pm
The snow in Dorset is coming down as an unusual, liquid-based variant, not previously seen this decade. Nice stiff Northerly to ride into once soaked. Great.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 12 January, 2010, 04:49:29 pm
Hmm.  Looks like we have that sort of sno here, too (Londinium SE1).  Hey-ho.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 12 January, 2010, 06:02:17 pm
Oh no!  Not again.

I've just looked at Will It Rain.  There's a hell of a lot of stuff heading my way.

Oi.  You lot in the SW.  Is it wet stuff or white stuff?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 12 January, 2010, 06:03:39 pm
Blizzarding a mix of both.  Heavy wet SNO here right now, settling and heatsucky.  It's taken out my satellite dish!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 12 January, 2010, 06:06:13 pm
Blizzarding a mix of both.  Heavy wet SNO here right now, settling and heatsucky.  It's taken out my satellite dish!

Bugger.
I've had enough now.  I've done winter.
I want crocuses and daffodils.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: gordon taylor on 12 January, 2010, 07:42:23 pm
Our 2cm of snow has all but disappeared, but whatever slush is left on the lanes is lethal. I've abandoned my dog walk tonight after just 200m because I couldn't keep my footing. It looks like wallpaper paste. If it is still there in the morning, I might be back on studded tyres.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: unipaul on 12 January, 2010, 08:16:13 pm
Rather blizzard like here on the edges of Dartmoor. Wet stuff but drifting - could be quite nasty in places I think.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 12 January, 2010, 08:27:41 pm
Haldon Hill is on the news again.   ::-)

Sleet now in Creddy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 12 January, 2010, 09:16:33 pm
Haldon Hill is on the news again.   ::-)

You've got to wonder how Smokey Joe survived there for so many years, given that whenever the snow falls it grinds to a halt.

I guess it's just the steepness of the hill that makes it a bit of a bugger when the conditions are less than perfect.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Panoramix on 12 January, 2010, 11:03:03 pm
Here in Bristol we have sleet that has turned the snow left into a horrible sticky slush.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 12 January, 2010, 11:47:18 pm
Our 2cm of snow has all but disappeared, but whatever slush is left on the lanes is lethal. I've abandoned my dog walk tonight after just 200m because I couldn't keep my footing. It looks like wallpaper paste. If it is still there in the morning, I might be back on studded tyres.



Though I complained about studs not being up to slush I have to say they're much better than trainers on a thin layer since the tyres cut through it. Shoes with flat-ish soles just slip.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 13 January, 2010, 12:05:32 am
Haldon Hill is on the news again.   ::-)

Sleet now in Creddy.

When I saw that I said to Mrs Nutty "I bet my mate Andy is cycling past the stranded motorists and laughing."

I hope you didn't let me down  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: GruB on 13 January, 2010, 05:17:18 am
We have had 2 inches in the night.   ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 13 January, 2010, 06:41:55 am
It was very windy last night, but the snow (only about half an inch atm) really came when the wind had dropped.

It's forecast to keep going all day though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Gandalf on 13 January, 2010, 06:49:08 am
Woke up to find that all the melted snow has been topped up overnight, this is really peeing me off now, enough is enough FFS!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 13 January, 2010, 07:12:31 am
Inch and a bit here in London, I wonder if the school I'm going to today is open.

And more important if we get more snow tonight and tomorrow because I'm flying to Denmark in the am.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: geoff on 13 January, 2010, 07:16:43 am
An inch here near Oxford. Can't work out if it's still snowing because it's too murky outside! On the up-side we have fox footprints down the front path to our house.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: perpetual dan on 13 January, 2010, 07:29:17 am
Yesterday we used the car (with only a little slideyness) on the normal routes, the buses were more or less back to normal and the family Dan all went to school and work.
Now we've had about 5cm of really wet snow (I went out in my PJs to clear a path to the bushes for the cat). Schools are closed again and the snowman we made on the first day is only just peeking out. The temperature isn't that low (just warm enough for snow?  ;)  ) so I fear this will just turn to a lot more slush and fail to be any fun at all.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 13 January, 2010, 07:56:59 am
Oh FFS, winter.  You've made your point.
Now, nob off, will you.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 13 January, 2010, 07:58:55 am
Yes, like others, probably an inch or so overnight in Croydon, rather irritating since it'll probably just melt and add to the slushy muck which was there yesterday evening. :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: oncemore on 13 January, 2010, 08:31:23 am
Worse! Very fine drizzle that is freezing as it "lands". All ready to go for my daily pedal but it's just too icy. Damn. Might as well have stayed in bed.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 13 January, 2010, 08:36:37 am
Snow in E London and the City.  And I wimped out again and took the Tube.  :'( 

OTOH, it does look pretty out there.  Must take a trip up to the top floor for a clearer view and take some pics.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 13 January, 2010, 08:37:27 am
I was toying with fitting the snow tyres and cycling in it, but it needs some buggering about with the cassette and possibly brakes and mudguards as well, and I don't have that much time this morning, I need to be in a meeting, so I think I'll have to leave it, and use the Tram and Tube. :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Riggers on 13 January, 2010, 08:38:16 am
Dumped again here in Brighton, and it's still cascading down like fine white ash.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 13 January, 2010, 09:06:11 am
we have snow in southampton about 2 inches
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 13 January, 2010, 09:08:09 am
Worse! Very fine drizzle that is freezing as it "lands". All ready to go for my daily pedal but it's just too icy. Damn. Might as well have stayed in bed.
Like that here. Roads not gritted.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 January, 2010, 09:12:13 am
0°C here and a very light snow has just started. It is settling - just - but I don't suppose it will amount to much.

I have commuting at 11.30ish and 2.45ish.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 13 January, 2010, 09:19:07 am
Snow in E London and the City.  And I wimped out again and took the Tube.  :'( 


Hang on a minute. You wimped out and I cycled? Are we in some weird alternative universe?

The roads were skoggy, but I took it easy and rode in the bits that buses and cars had cleared, and eschewed my usual little cycle-only shortcuts through Bloomsbury etc, and all was well.

Apart from the fact that I was wearing denim rainlegs, but you can't have everything...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 13 January, 2010, 09:28:03 am

Apart from the fact that I was wearing denim rainlegs, but you can't have everything...


Weren't you a bit cold?  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Paul D on 13 January, 2010, 09:39:00 am
About 2 inch in North Dorset (home) but nearer the coast (work) just wet. Marathon Winter studs are on the MTB which were no better than the knobblies in the snow tbh, but without 'guards it's like someone pouring iced water down my overshoes for an hour. More purchasing to be done - some 26" 'guards - I hope the winter hangs around long enough for me to get my moneys worth out of all this specialist kit.

I'm racing up the yACF Bikejournal table though, so I guess you Larndoners are having it rough. ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 January, 2010, 09:45:12 am
I think London has not had much snow, and what it's had has melted much faster than elsewhere.

It's the southern home counties which have suffered, plus, of course, the North of England, which starts with Suffolk.

Saarfend hasn't had it so bad. A couple of significant falls but it has mostly gone now.

I would imagine that today's south-westerlies are the first stage in sweeping the cold air away.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Snakehips on 13 January, 2010, 09:46:28 am
.............. so I guess you Larndoners are having it rough. ;)
We haven't been badly hit round these parts , about an inch I'd say , less than last time but still enough to bring the rail system to its knees.

Snake

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Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Julian on 13 January, 2010, 09:51:46 am
Oh, bless.

The main roads have been gritted (grut?  gritten?) but not the little residential ones, and this morning as I wandered from the tube to the Salt Mines, I came across a little group of sad looking pikeys trying to move their pikeywagon, which was comprehensively stuck (with one wheel on the pavement).  Being a helpful sort ;D I joined the little group of spectators to give helpful advice.

I don't know why people find it so peculiar that the short girl in the sparkly hat and snoflake mittens would be the one who knows third gear will work better than first.

:D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 January, 2010, 09:54:07 am
Oh, bless.

The main roads have been gritted (grut?  gritten?) but not the little residential ones, and this morning as I wandered from the tube to the Salt Mines, I came across a little group of sad looking pikeys trying to move their pikeywagon, which was comprehensively stuck (with one wheel on the pavement).  Being a helpful sort ;D I joined the little group of spectators to give helpful advice.

I don't know why people find it so peculiar that the short girl in the sparkly hat and snoflake mittens would be the one who knows third gear will work better than first.

:D

You see what happens when you change your name? They didn't recognise you! You see, Teh Liz iz always right!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 13 January, 2010, 09:56:52 am
Not much sno here, but difficult to get through.  Motor traffic gridlocked.  Taxi unable to get up the hill to get Superstoker to school.  We walked/freewheeled down to town in the hope that the roads were better.  Riding on the snow was fine, but roads travelled by any sort of number ofvehicles had a nasty uneven layer of ice.  Not sure if anything was gritted really.

I nearly bottled it completely when a car lost traction behind me and I had images of being flatternd.  

But the choice, as explained by Butterfly was 'Do we go home & have a cup of tea, or carry on and find out how far we get before we fall over?'  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 13 January, 2010, 10:11:08 am
We had another couple of inches I guess, I managed to drive to work, but the 24 miles took 1 1/2 hrs. Now there appears to be a queue from Bicester all the way back to Aylesbury, so I'll have to sit it out for a while at work, but intend to leave around 2pm to make sure I get home in daylight if possible.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adam on 13 January, 2010, 10:43:42 am
About another 1-2 cm in Luton overnight, although it's still falling.  However, that was just enough to cover over the slush, meaning the studs on the tyres gripped perfectly. 

It was really nice to cycle 3 miles down the middle of the A1081 from Luton, passing all the gridlocked cars.  Another cyclist had obviously had the same idea a bit earlier, but they must have been on normal tyres (or drunk), as their tracks were very wobbly.  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: groucho on 13 January, 2010, 10:47:47 am
2-3" here in Penarth, all very slushy wet stuff. Most local schools closed much to Mrs g's delight.

Everybody is making an effort to get to work evidenced by number of cars and footprints on the pavement on the way to work.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 13 January, 2010, 10:48:57 am
At work, I suggested that as people had effectively had Wed, Thur and Fri off work that it wasn't unreasonable to request volunteers to come in with shovels and clear the car parks over the weekend so we could get back to normal asap.

My suggestion wasn't acted on - am I really unreasonable?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: kevinp on 13 January, 2010, 10:49:45 am
We had between 2-4 inches last night, the roads had just about cleared, now they are covered again and its still snowing.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bikenerd on 13 January, 2010, 10:54:35 am
It's chaos in and around Oxford.  We had about 2 or 3 inches overnight and it has continued to snow all morning.
All bus services are suspended!  Mrs Nerd attempted to drive to work and had to abandon her car about a mile from home due to the road conditions and the queues of traffic.  She returned 45 minutes after setting off.
Luckily I can work from home!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Polar Bear on 13 January, 2010, 10:56:02 am
At work, I suggested that as people had effectively had Wed, Thur and Fri off work that it wasn't unreasonable to request volunteers to come in with shovels and clear the car parks over the weekend so we could get back to normal asap.

My suggestion wasn't acted on - am I really unreasonable?

We all have a differing take on reasonableness.  
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 13 January, 2010, 11:02:17 am
The inch or so snow here was easy enough to get through this am I made good time 45min for 9 or so miles.

The office had forgotten to tell me that the course was not going ahead today. But 18 miles of fun in the snow :)

But if Gatwick is close tomorrow am I'm going to get rather annoyed. They can't have gotten more than 5in down there over night and it was closed this am.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 13 January, 2010, 11:02:23 am
We've had another good 4", with more in drifty bits, and it's still snowing and freezing in the valley.  The M48 Severn Bridge is closed too.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tim on 13 January, 2010, 11:12:36 am
Country lanes and chains FTW. Here endeth the traffic report.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Charlotte on 13 January, 2010, 11:14:26 am
You used your car's SNO chains in deepest Surrey?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 13 January, 2010, 11:16:28 am
On the regional weather site it states: light rain.   ???

There is now a new 3" blanket of snow and it's still snowing.

Shirley it's time for them now to ditch the picking weather names out of a hat method
and invest in some real weather instruments.  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 13 January, 2010, 11:24:01 am
Shirley it's time for them now to ditch the picking weather names out of a hat method
and invest in some real weather instruments.  ;D

Or at the very least, a window  ::-).  After all, if they can't tell what the weather is now, how the hell can they know what it will be tomorrow?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hatler on 13 January, 2010, 11:27:13 am
My first go in the snow today. Great fun. Only hairy moment was going down Coombe Hill. Surface there was icy whereas everywhere else was slush or fresh snow that the skinny tyres cut through without problem. The roads were clear yesterday so I was pretty confident that the new stuff wasn't hiding any icy patches.

Only moron-moment was the charming lady in a car who pulled a Uie (?) in front of me (so that she ended up going the same way as me). She was on the phone and it was a worrying second or two whilst I slowed down. I pulled alongside her and suggested (very politely) that she might want to stop using the phone. She woud her window down and exclaimed "Just f*ck off before I run you down you c*nt."

"But you just tried that madam." Is what I wished I had said, instead I simply pushed her wing mirror back. This prompted her to gun the engine and hurl herslef fowards to the back of the traffic jam 20 yards away.

I then took great delight in continuing to request that she put her phone down and clicking her windscreen wipers back so that they were left flailing fresh air.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 13 January, 2010, 11:29:37 am
Silly moo.  Saw a few of them this morning. >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 13 January, 2010, 11:30:46 am
Shirley it's time for them now to ditch the picking weather names out of a hat method
and invest in some real weather instruments.  ;D

Or at the very least, a window  ::-).  
;D

I'll bet you're not too far from the truth.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 13 January, 2010, 11:39:35 am
About 5cm here in Reading. It's stopped now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 13 January, 2010, 11:41:52 am
It has started snowing again in Cambridge.   :thumbsup:

We've been in a bit of a bubble for the lsat week or so and missed the worst of it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tim on 13 January, 2010, 11:49:08 am
You used your car's SNO chains in deepest Surrey?
Since I passed the bug I had last week to Kathy the car was a better bet than cycling.

The main roads around the town were jammed, the motorway was featured on the radio travel news, so set off on the country roads. Got up the first hill having ditched the traction control but didn't have an opportunity to get a run up at the second steeper one due to a car descending*. So spent a while applying the chains. Had to clear the way ahead by pushing some other cars** who were spinning merrily to themselves, but with chains on the roads presented no further challenges.

<still haven't had a chance to try out the new tyre I put on the back of the 'cheetah***>

*Last week in the SNO a car had been abandonned at the bottom of that bit on the verge by the side of the road. When the SNO melted a bit the car promptly slumped into the field which is below the level of the road coming to rest on its side. This morning there was another car resting against it in similar repose. Just here (http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.275463,-0.282675&spn=0.000446,0.001676&t=h&z=19), yup that gentle right-hander was the problem.

**Ignored the RWD merc who after a bit of trying managed to get himself back to the correct side of the road, albeit without making any progress in his intended direction.

***Went into LBS and requested the best traction they could sell me.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 January, 2010, 11:49:41 am
No change since 9 a.m. It does seem to be trying to settle on some surfaces and not others.

I have decided to postpone my lunch time teaching apptmt..
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Charlotte on 13 January, 2010, 11:54:31 am
<still haven't had a chance to try out the new tyre I put on the back of the 'cheetah***>

Now that's going to be a whole lot of TEH FUNNAY  :thumbsup:

We've just had an email from corp comms:

Quote
Team, 

In view of the continuing snowfall, there is a likelihood that traffic conditions will deteriorate progressively during the afternoon and evening.

You are advised to leave the office today at a time which gives you a reasonable probability of reaching home before darkness and freezing conditions fall.

Bless 'em  :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: GruB on 13 January, 2010, 11:55:45 am
With all this snow and rain coming, next thing will be floods.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Riggers on 13 January, 2010, 11:56:45 am
Not flooding here yet in Brighton.

Just thought I'd get in first on this one!  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Greenbank on 13 January, 2010, 11:57:02 am
Fun on the trains this morning. Electrical fault (20 minute wait at Queenstown Road while they tried to restart power to the rear 4 coaches) followed by no free platforms at Waterloo (45 minute wait yards outside the station) meant my train journey into work took 90 minutes instead of the usual 18.

Think I'll have lunch, pack up the laptop and go home early to avoid a similar debacle on the way back.

Very very tempted to cycle in this morning, wish I had now...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 January, 2010, 11:57:45 am
None overnight in Harlot - mine was the only motorcar with SNO on it when I arrived this morning.  It's been coming down steadily since about 08:30 but doesn't seem to be settling very well.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 13 January, 2010, 12:00:27 pm
Not flooding here yet in Brighton.

Just thought I'd get in first on this one!  ;D ;D ;D

You ought to see what the Bishop of Carlisle is saying about the rest of the country.  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wascally Weasel on 13 January, 2010, 12:01:02 pm
I hadn’t seen the forecast (not that it would have mattered) so wasn’t expecting more snow today – I was going to switch back to my road bike today but a glance out of the window first thing changed my mind.

So still on the MTB with fat knobblies I made my way in via Richmond Park, past vehicles that were wheelspinning in what appeared to be slush (the park was closed to motor traffic again this morning)– I was able to enjoy the fresh snow in the middle of the park and on the Tamsin Trail before it gets rutted and icy.

Vehicles were nose to tail on the other side of the Park, almost all the way from Roehampton Gate to the Upper Richmond Road - I used the cycle track for a change and made reasonable time.  After that it was just slush on the roads, apart from a few side roads, the Wandle delta and Battersea Park.

Took quite a bit longer than normal but was lots of fun.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tim on 13 January, 2010, 12:01:06 pm
<still haven't had a chance to try out the new tyre I put on the back of the 'cheetah***>

Now that's going to be a whole lot of TEH FUNNAY  :thumbsup:

We've just had an email from corp comms:

Riding it on Friday (on tyres with barely more tread than slicks) was a real problem getting to work (uphill) - muchly not teh fannay.

Two problems - not enough weight over the back wheel and an almost slick tyre means that it is very difficult to apply any meaningful impetus. It's wider than the wheel routes cut into the lanes, so at least one wheel was in the mush meaning it dug in muchly grinding me to a halt.

Coming home (downhill) on Friday was a different matter - games played included when do I jam the brakes on to come to rest at the next <pick landmark of choice>, if I jam the brakes on whilst riding in the middle of the road will the camber draw me to the left hand verge or the right hand verge...

I'm hoping that the knobbly bastard will allow sufficient drive power to get me up hills despite the best efforts of the trike to dig in.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 13 January, 2010, 12:03:12 pm
Quite a lot came down here last night, and it is still snowing.  Probably 4 inches.  We're just on the edge of it, and the Forest has it badly.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ian H on 13 January, 2010, 12:06:39 pm
Rain here. Patchy white in the fields.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 13 January, 2010, 12:20:54 pm
It's fair bucketing down with Big Sno now.  I'm glad I got out for my run earlier :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 13 January, 2010, 12:25:02 pm
We've had 4" lovely and white and cold.

A devlivery man still managed to deliver a box of hard disks and software though, so I'm not bored.  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 13 January, 2010, 12:29:55 pm
...
I'm hoping that the knobbly bastard will allow sufficient drive power to get me up hills despite the best efforts of the trike to dig in.

I had a cycle cross tyre on the back of mine last winter.  It does give power up the hill, but the slicks on the front wheels do not allow for any stoppage.  No tyres gave grip when travelling sideways on ice at 25mph.

I also beached it on the ice outside the house mid donut.  Couldn't get sufficient grip to climb the camber of the road.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 13 January, 2010, 12:31:24 pm
My road  (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4271566906_79735d3f9e_o.jpg)in Forest Hill SE London, taken a few minutes ago.

To be fair, busier roads a quarter of a mile distant are clear and rideable - although the overnight forecast of -4°C is likely to change that.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulR on 13 January, 2010, 12:35:56 pm
My road  (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4271566906_79735d3f9e_o.jpg)in Forest Hill SE London, taken a few minutes ago.

Oh look, there's my bedroom...  :o

When I headed off this morning, it was a pristine blanket of snow.  There were only two other sets of footprints up the road.  One set belonged to my daughter.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ian H on 13 January, 2010, 12:38:18 pm
...I also beached it on the ice outside the house mid donut...

You are, dear sir, a big kid.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 13 January, 2010, 12:39:44 pm
A good 6" and still dumping SNO here!

I'm taking a day's leave.  
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: gordon taylor on 13 January, 2010, 12:40:24 pm
We had a little bit of snow overnight and the roads were as slippy as hell this morning. I was in first (smug) on studded tyres and the rest of the staff drifted in over the next two hours. Stafford was gridlocked following a couple of bumps at crucial junctions.

We have a contingency prepared so we gather the children in the hall and send them off when a teacher is in and ready. Lesson one started about 15 mnutes late and the day has progressed smoothly since then. All our children (500) are local and walk or cycle to school so they're pretty much all here.

Unfortunately the posh high school in town has shut (again  ::-) ) so our kids are indignant and grumpy. Ha! I've just improved the mood of one group with an hour of trigonometry too.

And the head of science split his trousers whilst snowballing at break. Ha Ha!

I love this job.  ;D ;D ;D



Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 13 January, 2010, 12:42:46 pm
It's snowing here.  Very small flakes.  The first time I've actually been out cycling when it's actually been snowing, this winter.  I've not been cycling much because my car is in the garage (and I've continually been promised the part will arrive tomorrow.  Finally I've decided to not believe them, and have cycled in, which means it'll be fixed today).  I took snow tyres, not expecting ice or snow, but there's still frozen snow in some places on the cycle paths.  Then it started snowing as I left the physio.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 13 January, 2010, 12:52:58 pm
Is today the wrong day to have used the Brompton?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 13 January, 2010, 01:30:36 pm
Is today the wrong day to have used the Brompton?

You don't so much dance with the Devil, more so, do the jive with him.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tim on 13 January, 2010, 01:50:54 pm
Is today the wrong day to have used the Brompton?
Was this time last week the wrong day to take the tandem?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 January, 2010, 01:56:41 pm
Coming down properly here now.  Yay!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 13 January, 2010, 01:59:08 pm
No SNO in the City.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 13 January, 2010, 02:01:37 pm
No SNO in the City.

But is there sex...?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 January, 2010, 02:02:19 pm
No SNO in the City.

But is there sex...?

There's sex in Essex.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hatler on 13 January, 2010, 02:02:55 pm
I was about to say, when people provide a weather report please can they mention where they are.

Thanks all !!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 13 January, 2010, 02:04:23 pm
I'm here.

We now have no weather.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 13 January, 2010, 02:06:11 pm
I was about to say, when people provide a weather report please can they mention where they are.

Thanks all !!
I usually remember. Some people have locations in their profiles.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CommuteTooFar on 13 January, 2010, 02:21:35 pm
I reckon a little over 20cm fell in Radyr, Cardiff last night 

In the snow last night I had one of my favourite events.  As I turned around the corner into  Drysgol Road a 1 in 11 I had to pass a BMW (rear wheel drive) failing to go further.  Of course I with my excessive weight positioned over my drive wheel pedaled straight up the hill with only the occasional wheel slip.

This morning was more tricky.  The snow started relatively early yesterday so many cars passed over the roads creating ruts that were then covered over by later snow.  Riding through the snow was very awkward this morning with random bumps and the front wheel being deflected unexpectedly.  I still managed to arrive at the station on time though. To catch an express commuter train. The train was unable to take its usual route into Cardiff so used  the other route leaving disconcerted commuters watch me whizz straight past their platform. When I arrived in Bridgend I chickened out riding down Court Road which looked slippy at that time. I mounted on Nolton Street and rode the few miles to work.  

I arrived at the office to discover that I was first to arrive. Unfortunately I am not a key holder so had to wait 40 minutes before someone else arrived. The car travelers seemed to have a much trickier journey than me.  
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 13 January, 2010, 02:23:35 pm
I was about to say, when people provide a weather report please can they mention where they are.

Thanks all !!

I'm a few miles Northwest-ish of where Tewdric is.  Hope that helps ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 13 January, 2010, 02:24:11 pm
Snow falling now in Chesterfield. Not settling yet but will do if it continues at this rate...

Casualty has been closed and a "Major Incident" declared at the hospital.

The ambulance service apparently has 60+ outstanding emergency calls.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 13 January, 2010, 03:00:41 pm
It was snowing this morning at 0600 when I got up & has continued all day long with increasing persitence(sp).
It is becoming increasingly difficult for vehicles to travel on the side roads that I can see from the office & soon they will be unusable.The only thing keeping the primary road open is the traffic carving tracks in the snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 13 January, 2010, 03:05:07 pm
We've just had a snow plough go through my village  :) still haven't seen any grit as yet, the pavements are very bad to walk on still
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 13 January, 2010, 03:14:49 pm
Amazingly clear now. Hope it continues like this, so I can get in easily tomorrow.

- Sutton, Surrey
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 13 January, 2010, 03:17:37 pm
drizzing again, I suppose it'll freeze tonight again and make the roads even wess. There is no grit in this town, only major routes now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: DuncanM on 13 January, 2010, 03:19:33 pm
It stopped about 11, but it's just started again now.  There has been some melting as sheltered areas (eg under tables) that had a light covering of snow earlier, are now free of snow.

Location - Oxford.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 13 January, 2010, 03:21:02 pm
I love it - it's so British. 78 pages of talking about the weather ;D.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 13 January, 2010, 03:24:12 pm
Oh. It's just started again here in Surrey :D.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Charlotte on 13 January, 2010, 03:25:44 pm
Been stopped since about 2pm in sunny South Ruislip.  Looking quite thick out there though.  I may just leg it home before it gets dark and starts up again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bikenerd on 13 January, 2010, 03:32:13 pm
The bus I should have caught to work this morning:
(http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/resources/images/1160508/?type=display)

Sideways is the new forward.
Maybe now the council will plow and grit the road? (Wishful thinking...)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 13 January, 2010, 03:32:28 pm
BUT will you be RAIN-legging auntie C.  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Greenbank on 13 January, 2010, 03:46:35 pm
90 minutes to get home by train.

In the 45 minutes I waited in Waterloo station only 4 trains left. The evening commute is going to be utter hell. Ho ho ho!

Lots of trains, but few drivers.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rower40 on 13 January, 2010, 03:51:59 pm
Derby: Very light snow-fall continually since 9am.  Difficult to tell if it's settling, as the land around was white-covered anyway.  It's just started getting a teensy bit heavier.

To the 'cheetah owners out there; do you have any form of rear mudguard?  I'm getting bored scrubbing the mud-stains off the left-hand side of my coat's collar.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 January, 2010, 03:54:46 pm
Stopped now in Harlot and even when it was coming down properly, it couldn't be arsed to settle.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: DuncanM on 13 January, 2010, 03:54:58 pm
Stopped again in Oxford.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tim on 13 January, 2010, 03:56:45 pm
To the 'cheetah owners out there; do you have any form of rear mudguard?  I'm getting bored scrubbing the mud-stains off the left-hand side of my coat's collar.
I hang a bag off the top of the seat which gives me a bit of cover (but not much). I reckon I get more stained by the spray off the front wheels than from the rear coming back over my head.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 13 January, 2010, 03:57:00 pm
...
To the 'cheetah owners out there; do you have any form of rear mudguard?  I'm getting bored scrubbing the mud-stains off the left-hand side of my coat's collar.

No mudguard.   Which is one reason the 'cheetah is in the garage and not being ridden.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 13 January, 2010, 03:57:53 pm
Can we either have some serious snow or have it melt?  I can't be doing with half-hearted flakes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tim on 13 January, 2010, 03:59:20 pm
...
To the 'cheetah owners out there; do you have any form of rear mudguard?  I'm getting bored scrubbing the mud-stains off the left-hand side of my coat's collar.

No mudguard.   Which is one reason the 'cheetah is in the garage and not being ridden.
I thought you had mudguards front and then pannier rack with rack-top bag at the rear to give you quite a lot of shelter.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: DuncanM on 13 January, 2010, 04:09:27 pm
Started again (in Oxford).  I wish it would make its bloodly mind up.
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Post by: nuttycyclist on 13 January, 2010, 04:16:19 pm
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To the 'cheetah owners out there; do you have any form of rear mudguard?  I'm getting bored scrubbing the mud-stains off the left-hand side of my coat's collar.

No mudguard.   Which is one reason the 'cheetah is in the garage and not being ridden.
I thought you had mudguards front and then pannier rack with rack-top bag at the rear to give you quite a lot of shelter.

The Cheetah rack sits alongside the rear wheel, not over it.

Yes I have front guards, but the road grime still sprays up over both elbows.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 13 January, 2010, 04:20:45 pm
I was about to say, when people provide a weather report please can they mention where they are.

Thanks all !!

I'm a few miles Northwest-ish of where Tewdric is.  Hope that helps ;)

And I'm a few miles south-east of Mal Volio!
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Post by: Zoidburg on 13 January, 2010, 05:11:59 pm
Two more inches of sno over night.

I have just seen a gang of kids heading toward the nearest hill with an inflatable dingy, which is inspired in it's speed, weight and lunacy once fully loaded.

 :thumbsup:
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Post by: robbo6 on 13 January, 2010, 05:16:47 pm
The snow equivalent of light drizzle here in S. Cumbria. Just enough to make everything cold and damp.
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Post by: recumbentim on 13 January, 2010, 05:53:35 pm
Loads of snow at Glenshee Ski Center yesterday and today.
If I cant cycle I will just have to ski?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 13 January, 2010, 06:15:35 pm
You don't so much dance with the Devil, more so, do the jive with him.

Now that's just begging to be used as a signature line.  ;D

There was only a light overnight sprinkling of SNO in the wretched hive of scum and villainy that is Mos Eisley Pompey, which has done little to improve the random traction situation. It's been sleety (or a word that sounds similar) today. I just hope that by the time I'm back on shift on Sunday night, it's thawed a bit more, or dumped a decent amount of SNO.   :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 13 January, 2010, 07:11:45 pm
I loved this photo from the BBC...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_enl_1263402837/html/1.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/uk_enl_1263402837/html/1.stm)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 13 January, 2010, 07:14:49 pm
I haven't had a bin collection for a while, and I'm not sure why, since we I'm not all that far from Croydon centre.  Even my bin is full, and it's only me and the cat.  Some of the neighbours bins are starting to disappear under uncollected bags.  If we're not getting our rubbish collected, then I can't imagine who is. :-\
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Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 13 January, 2010, 07:15:16 pm
I loved this photo from the BBC...

Brilliant !  ;D
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Post by: mercury on 14 January, 2010, 12:55:33 am
I bought metal spikes for golf shoes yesterday. They are brilliant. Great match for a mountain bike with trail tyres.

Cycled through 1-2 inches of fresh snow from Slough to Langley, up to Chalfont St Peter and back again. The spikes make easy work walking through the snow. And they stop foot slip on flat pedals. Not so good on tarmac. Spent the day doing the opposite of everyone else - jumping from one patch of snow to another.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adrian on 14 January, 2010, 07:29:25 am
We have rain. This could be the start of the end.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: cometworm on 14 January, 2010, 07:35:26 am
Yup. It's back to the 9 months of shitty grey this country usually calls fall-winter-spring.

I need to move somewhere else. 
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Post by: Wowbagger on 14 January, 2010, 07:50:33 am
Pissing down here. The snow and slush seems to have gone, leaving behind a large pile of rubbish sacks.
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Post by: woollypigs on 14 January, 2010, 07:56:35 am
Phew it is rain and we are due to board in 30min
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 14 January, 2010, 08:22:47 am
It's warm and raining.

It's only January so, "this may not be the beginning of the end but it may at least be the end of the beginning" (half remembered quote).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 January, 2010, 08:32:13 am
It's warm and raining.

It's only January so, "this may not be the beginning of the end but it may at least be the end of the beginning" (half remembered quote).

"We will fight them... in the ditches...."
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 14 January, 2010, 08:33:31 am
no bin collections for us for the last two weeks, they are out on the road, I suspect the lazy buggers daren't drive their big lorry on the untreated road in our Close, they are on the main roads. Time to ring the council again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 January, 2010, 08:35:28 am
I suspect that it's more to do with trying to keep your feet on untreated pavements when wielding several rubbish sacks in each hand. Elfansafety, innit. Frankly, I don't blame them.

Now, if the Caahncil had employed the same blokes with shovels to clear the pavements instead of shifting rubbish...
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Post by: Charlotte on 14 January, 2010, 09:08:31 am
Raining in South Ruislip and washing the snow away.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 January, 2010, 11:00:39 am
Horrid rain in NE Londonton and Harlot.

Bah!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 14 January, 2010, 11:01:56 am
no weather here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: groucho on 14 January, 2010, 11:05:37 am
Plenty of grit left lying on the pavements amongst the dwindling slush in Penarth.

Is anybody gonna collect it for the February cold snap?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PhilO on 14 January, 2010, 11:23:00 am
Yup. It's back to the 9 months of shitty grey this country usually calls fall-winter-spring.

I thought in this country we called it Autumn-winter-spring?  :demon:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 14 January, 2010, 11:35:55 am
There's nothing wrong with a proper English word like Fall.  No idea when the UK started going all Latinate and using words like Autumn.  ::-)

 :P
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 14 January, 2010, 11:37:51 am
It's misty here, with a lot of sno still on the ground, but it's thawing.  Too soggy to run, too slushy to ride.

We had a gritter come through in the early hours.  Most unexpected - that's the first one.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ian H on 14 January, 2010, 11:49:42 am
There's nothing wrong with a proper English word like Fall.  No idea when the UK started going all Latinate and using words like Autumn.  ::-)

 :P


Fall is still current in, for instance, Dorset.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: urban_biker on 14 January, 2010, 11:55:25 am
It's warm and raining.

It's only January so, "this may not be the beginning of the end but it may at least be the end of the beginning" (half remembered quote).

"We will fight them... in the ditches...."

"And on the cycle paths"

"We shall never surrender"


 ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: robbo6 on 14 January, 2010, 01:45:37 pm
A bit more snow overnight in S Cumbria, about 2 barleycorns lying. But I did see a council bod with a leaf-blower clearing the pavements ahead of the rubbish collectors' visit.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 14 January, 2010, 01:45:47 pm
There's nothing wrong with a proper English word like Fall.  No idea when the UK started going all Latinate and using words like Autumn.  ::-)

Apparently Harvest is the older usage, and terms like August and Fall are modern inventions, one becoming more popular in the North American continent, and the other in the British Isles.

South Ken has bugger all snow, but it hasn't had much anyway for quite a while.

Croydon was less white than it has been for a while when I left this morning, but it looked like it would take a while for the fairly light drizzle to have much of an impact.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 14 January, 2010, 01:54:10 pm
"You've Got A Friend" really relies on the term "fall".
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 14 January, 2010, 01:57:19 pm
'Winter, Spring, Summer or Autumn
All you gotta do is, er, well, um...' ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Greenbank on 14 January, 2010, 02:43:29 pm
Winter, Spring, Summer or Autumn
All you gotta do is call 'em
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: alexb on 14 January, 2010, 03:39:33 pm
Well, despite the snow falling pretty thick and fast on Wednesday, the binmen turned up and collected our rubbish, recycling and kitchen waste pretty much on time! I was impressed. There were no trains however, so I spent a day working from home.

Today, riding in was fine up until Clapham Common where a thin cleared trail in the slush got thinner and thinner and thinner as I approached the little jiggle at the end of the cycle path where it goes left and then right on a slight downhill slope. I approached this at absolute tippy-toes speed, thinking to myself "I'm such a wuss!". Cleared it safely, stopped at the junction, heard a metallic crash and turned around to see another cyclist sliding towards me on his arse. So I guess the caution was merited.

I'll be glad when all this slippery stuff has gone. I have no real trouble riding in the rain.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 14 January, 2010, 03:54:36 pm
It's been quite a nice day in Southampton 3c and all main roads clear of ice/snow, our car park is still covered in slushy ice so may be back on the bike over the weekend
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 14 January, 2010, 03:55:37 pm
It has done nothing but rain here in Cambridge...


Normal winter service has resumed!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 14 January, 2010, 04:36:02 pm
"You've Got A Friend" really relies on the term "fall".

Yebbut Carol Klein's American, isn't she?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 14 January, 2010, 04:42:21 pm
I'm pretty dischuffed with the refuse collectors/ cooncil since we had a dodgy service for 11  weeks while they were on strike
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Post by: border-rider on 14 January, 2010, 04:48:37 pm
ah, that's fair enough.  Badly handled by your Council, that one.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 14 January, 2010, 05:06:12 pm
ah, that's fair enough.  Badly handled by your Council, that one.
The unions made a meal of it too. The workers ended up accepting something that was offered a month prior which at that point was rejected.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 14 January, 2010, 05:07:49 pm
Bin collections are always interesting. It's about the only visible service that the middle class feel they receive in return for their couple of thousand pounds every year. Of course, that's not accurate but it's certainly how people feel.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: DuncanM on 14 January, 2010, 05:08:31 pm
We've not had our bins collected for a couple of weeks.  Then again, the post didn't turn up for a week either.  And I've not been to work in that time (working from home). So I accept that sno has screwed everything requiring transport up, and hope that as the sno goes it'll all go back to normal...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 14 January, 2010, 05:11:41 pm
Landed in Aalborg airport where there is still around 2 feet of snow and
by magic the airport is still open. The local habor and fjord is frozen over, which I saw from the plane. A bit weird to see snow where water normal is.  
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 14 January, 2010, 05:12:13 pm
Bin collections are always interesting. It's about the only visible service that the middle class feel they receive in return for their couple of thousand pounds every year. Of course, that's not accurate but it's certainly how people feel.
I am inclined to agree with you. There are many services that alot of people don't use either because they don't know they exist or because they are not entitled to them or because they don't want them. And many that people don't realise that council tax pays for.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 14 January, 2010, 05:21:36 pm
One hell of a thick fog here. A real "owl" and "hole" one.
Airport is nice and quiet.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bikenerd on 14 January, 2010, 05:44:35 pm
In Oxford, the bin men who couldn't collect waste from streets where the road was iced up were reassigned to clear the pavements in the city centre.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 January, 2010, 06:37:25 pm
We did make it to chambery on sun afternoon, felt sorry for those trying to get home who were being put up in the local uni dorms tho. Snowed all day here yesterday in val which was nice. Pretty windy today. I was hoping that the sno would have gone at home by sat but i guess not :-(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 14 January, 2010, 06:43:59 pm
Melty melty here.  After four days braving a 50mph (i.e. 70mph because Swindon has no speed cameras any more)  three-lane dual carriageway because the psyclepath is deep snow, I have decided my nine lives are all but used up this week and shall drive tomorrow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 14 January, 2010, 07:17:20 pm
Melty melty here.  After four days braving a 50mph (i.e. 70mph because Swindon has no speed cameras any more)  three-lane dual carriageway because the psyclepath is deep snow, I have decided my nine lives are all but used up this week and shall drive tomorrow.

That's gonna piss-off the 'cycling jersey thief' no end.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 14 January, 2010, 07:40:46 pm
Well it's thawed ever so slightly and then frozen again.

As I discovered on a steep ungritted side road this evening, low speed, front wheel just went straight out from under me on what turned out to be a huge sheet of lurking black ice.

In a strange twist of ninja/jedi/zen master freakery I somehow managed to get the right leg over the bars as the bike went down and then land on my feet and slide for about ten meters down the hill, coming to stop by crouching down and sticking my leg into the slide.

I was so chuffed with myself that I was rather disapointed that only one passer by saw me do it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 14 January, 2010, 07:53:00 pm
Any CCTV covering  the location.Try the Highway's place in Regent street,Hanley...duck ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 14 January, 2010, 07:55:40 pm
Twas foggy May Bank sadly. :(

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Post by: Jurek on 14 January, 2010, 07:58:27 pm
I somehow managed to get the right leg over the bars as the bike went down and then land on my feet and slide for about ten meters down the hill, coming to stop by crouching down and sticking my leg into the slide.

I was so chuffed with myself that I was rather disapointed that only one passer by saw me do it.

Crouching cyclist hidden passer by.
 ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adrian on 14 January, 2010, 08:22:49 pm
The binmen came today but didn't empty our bin. Should I feel that I have been discriminated against?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: perpetual dan on 14 January, 2010, 08:25:56 pm
Interestingly varied road conditions today. The main roads were wet but basically clear. Some streets, like ours, have had tyre tracks at least cut in the snow by the people that live there. (Can I count digging snow for a couple of hours at a time as cross training?) In streets with a high density of 4 wheel drivers (that's who I'm blaming - they never showed up with a shovel in our street, despite creating the compacted icy bits we were digging) this hasn't happened. However these tracks don't leave much usable road for passing. I ended up on a hill on icy slush and had to get the spade out to make progress.
For the time I was stuck and then while walking Miss Dan the Younger up the hill the car failed on the bin people were parked at the end of the next road. No sign of the men and woman so I assume they were walking up the roads they couldn't drive to collect, although they couldn't get close last week. I'm hoping they get to us tomorrow.
In a similar vein, I phoned the butcher before going at the start of the week - they are on a steep side road - to ask if he had anything to sell me. Of course, he says, we're a professional organisation - not like the supermarkets!   :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 14 January, 2010, 08:27:23 pm
Some of you know where I live. It is less than 100m from a Trunk Road. I think tomorrow will be the first time I can get the car back up from its temporary parking space in town to the house. Loads of other people have the same MO, all the lay-bys and similar have been filled with cars for the last 10 days.

I'm lucky, I work from home. Mrs J is less lucky, she has had to put up with being with me for 9 days.  ;D

We've had our bins emptied, but we aren't on a gritting route. I usually shop in town and town has had every thing we need, so it's been wrap up and walk. We've had snowball fights and we've sledged.

In the last few years of my life I've come to treasure these inconveniences. Kids laughing, neighbours looking out for each other, communities discovering that the supermarket delivery lorry is not omnipotent.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 14 January, 2010, 08:29:43 pm
Some of you know where I live. It is less than 100m from a Trunk Road. I think tomorrow will be the first time I can get the car back up from its temporary parking space in town to the house.
100 metres?  You could have dug that out.  I did.  Lazy git  :P
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 14 January, 2010, 08:30:14 pm
Back to bins.

It was recycle bin day today so I put that one out.

But the snow seems to have buggered the timetable and it appears that both bins were emptied. That meant that the bin men (who apparently could be arsed) trekked up my drive to find my landfill bin to make sure that I wouldn't miss out on the unscheduled emptying.

Top marks to my binmen. Or gender neutral bin operatives.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 14 January, 2010, 08:30:23 pm
The binmen came today but didn't empty our bin. Should I feel that I have been discriminated against?

You, specifically, have been singled out, it would seem.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 14 January, 2010, 08:31:26 pm
Some of you know where I live. It is less than 100m from a Trunk Road. I think tomorrow will be the first time I can get the car back up from its temporary parking space in town to the house.
100 metres?  You could have dug that out.  I did.  Lazy git  :P

OK. Cup of tea on offer here next time. OK?  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 14 January, 2010, 08:31:57 pm
The binmen came today but didn't empty our bin. Should I feel that I have been discriminated against?
Yes - for association with Jogler ;). They know you know.
 ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 14 January, 2010, 08:33:18 pm
Twas foggy May Bank sadly. :(



Regent St is where the secret(ooops,it's not now is it :demon:) CCTV monitoring faclity is.
If you were "seen" it will be recorded.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 15 January, 2010, 07:16:30 am
Everyone else in the city has been able to go about their normal business for over a week now.  I wonder if that means that we'll get our bin emptied today ?

Edit - and before anyone pitches in with the argument that they've been busying driving gritting lorries, no that's not the reason at all, its because over half of them walked out last week on the grounds that they didn't want to work in the nasty weather !  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wombat on 15 January, 2010, 07:53:18 am
Bin collections are always interesting. It's about the only visible service that the middle class feel they receive in return for their couple of thousand pounds every year. Of course, that's not accurate but it's certainly how people feel.
I am inclined to agree with you. There are many services that alot of people don't use either because they don't know they exist or because they are not entitled to them or because they don't want them. And many that people don't realise that council tax pays for.

You have it right, but many folk (grumpy old me included) get cheesed off at the amount spent on services that we are not entitled to, or because we have put some effort into life, do not require.  We do not use schools, childcare, social services, and a host of other things.  we make very moderate use of refuse colelction services, so when Havant bloody council repeatedly screw it up yet again, out of sheer bloodymindedness by the bin-men, we get cheesed off.  The number of times the bin truck has been recalled to empty our bin, and replace it in the right place, I have lost count of.  We have been on "special measures" for a couple of years, and still they can't manage it...  and don't start me on gritting.  I think they have the chart the wrong way up, they only grit when it is NOT necessary...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 15 January, 2010, 07:56:14 am
Trouble is, that's the way a modern society works.

"You don't pay Road Tax!"
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 January, 2010, 08:44:25 am


Edit - and before anyone pitches in with the argument that they've been busying driving gritting lorries, no that's not the reason at all, its because over half of them walked out last week on the grounds that they didn't want to work in the nasty weather !  >:(
And I think some of their reasons for that were justified - it's dangerous. But I do recognise that a lot of it was more about general unhappiness at the way they're being treated by the council, modernising pay, threats of privatisation and redundancies. We all got an email yesterday telling us the council is seeking to impose unpaid leave, shorter working weeks (with non-working days not being paid) and probably redundancies. We're all a bit unhappy and unsettled just now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 15 January, 2010, 11:14:47 am
Back OT

It's raining here now, and all the sno is melting (someone left the cake out in the rain)

Big Cat has gone out of the house for the first time for about 2 weeks - which is a relief.  He came and shouted at me when he came back in - very pleased with himself :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 15 January, 2010, 11:33:41 am
Rain has cleared the roads, but there is now a bit of flooding here and there.
Rain has turned the compressed ice on the paths into PTFE.  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 15 January, 2010, 12:26:34 pm
We're all a bit unhappy and unsettled just now.

Oh well, that's alright then.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 15 January, 2010, 01:13:13 pm
Looks like the snow has just about all gone from the wretched hive of scum and villainy that is Mos Eisley Portsmouth. Or at least the bits of it I travel through to get to work. I reckon that I can put the slicks and road mudguard back on the commuter hack this weekend.

Although judging by the amount of coarse sand/grit laid down in some places, I may need knobbly tyres until the next rain shower washes it all away.  ;D

Actually, the past week or so has once again proved that timing is the very essence of all comedy:

04/01/10 - go for a bike ride, temporarily lose feeling in my toes.

05/01/10 - purchase Defroster boots in Chichester, get back to the wretched hive of scum and villainy that is Mos Eisley Portsmouth a couple of hours ahead of the SNOpocalypse...

06/01/10 - local military surplus shop has run out of entrenching tools.

13/01/10 - a fresh delivery of entrenching tools has arrived. Invest in one as against future SNOpocalypses.*

15/01/10 - SNO largely gone.

Not that I'm saying the arrival and departure of the SNO has anything to do with me, oh no...  ;)


Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 15 January, 2010, 01:17:18 pm
SNO all gone from Southend  :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(



Do we have any long range forecasts for Jan/Feb?   When can I expect the next lot?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 15 January, 2010, 01:22:16 pm
Is it time to buy NOS studded tyres cheap yet ?

;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ian H on 15 January, 2010, 02:35:32 pm

Do we have any long range forecasts for Jan/Feb?   When can I expect the next lot?

January 2015.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 15 January, 2010, 02:56:45 pm
Do we have any long range forecasts for Jan/Feb?   When can I expect the next lot?

Don't worry.

Jan/Feb will be back next year.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 15 January, 2010, 03:06:14 pm
We have had an extensive thaw over the last 12 hours with several hours of varying precipitation(heard that  word on the radio this morning :) ) this morning &  much of the snow has dissipated.There is still a great deal of ice underfoot but this too is now noticeably diminishing.
The thaw appears to be too rapid  for some of the drains hereabouts to cope with & two parts of the primary road to & thru' the village have begun to flood.The stream has also swollen to look more like a river again.
I imagine flooding could be the next weather issue with which those living in vulnerable & affected areas are troubled with.
Butterfly remarked upthread ref the extent (page 83 IIRC)  to which we are able to rabbit-on about the weather.I think the topic will require many more pages before it comment on the current spell is exhausted ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 15 January, 2010, 03:11:38 pm
SNO all gone from Southend  :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

There's still a big pile on Priory Park. Beginning to turn a bit yellow, though...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 15 January, 2010, 03:12:27 pm
I imagine flooding could be the next weather issue with which those living in vulnerable & affected areas are troubled with.

I would agree.  We have very heavy rain forecast for tomorrow, and the ground is more than waterlogged already.  It's going to run-off like crazy.  I think flooding is to be expected...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 15 January, 2010, 03:12:42 pm
Beginning to turn a bit yellow, though...

it's the Huskies, you know...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 15 January, 2010, 04:21:35 pm
And our bin has been emptied !  Yay !  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 January, 2010, 06:22:27 pm
And I spent an hour clearing compacted ice from the front of the office, sweeping up melt water and laying grit, so that people could get in and out without breaking their necks.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jane on 15 January, 2010, 06:43:37 pm
There's still a big pile on Priory Park. Beginning to turn a bit yellow, though...
Honestly, Wow, couldn't you wait till you got home.

I have put the Roughstuff (big tyres, like riding along in armchair) away, and am back on the little skinny, whippet Holdsworth SS now, as nothing snowy left to speak of in SE London.  A few teeny weensy bits of horrid slushy stuff which I have to wheel the Holdsworth through, after attempting a ride through on it once and experiencing that WHEEEEEE! feeling as the wheels decided they might attempt to part company with the rest of the bike.  I have no idea how I managed to remain on it and keep cycling- Practice I guess- A few days ago I got  a round of applause from the guys in a traffic jammed car behind me, when the snow was coming down heavy, as I managed a beautiful long skid in the snow and perfect recovery, momentary hold,  and carry on as though nothing had happened.   They hadn't seen the practice runs on previous days when I and the bike ended up several yards apart, both prone. All I can say is- it's a good job the below zero temperature on those occasions meant I was wearing many layers of protective clothing.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 15 January, 2010, 08:15:26 pm
Beginning to turn a bit yellow, though...

it's the Huskies, you know...
Dreamed I was an eskimo . . .
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 15 January, 2010, 08:21:31 pm
Dreamed I was an eskimo . . .

Frozen wind began to blow... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmVvgo1wxh4)

Snow cones and sprinkles, anyone?  :demon:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jakob on 15 January, 2010, 11:37:52 pm
70cm at Whistler the last 24hours. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Looks like I'll finally get a powder day tomorrow, woot!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 16 January, 2010, 01:25:36 pm
The heavy rain has now managed to wash the remaining snow away.  :thumbsup:

It's a truly mighty Thor.

Not "thaw" as the speed at which it has happened, is more god like.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clifftaylor on 16 January, 2010, 01:37:37 pm
The heavy rain has now managed to wash the remaining snow away.  :thumbsup:

Indeed it has. I've just been out to the garage, and found a number of "bicycles" - what are these machines used for??
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 16 January, 2010, 01:40:45 pm
The heavy rain has now managed to wash the remaining snow away.  :thumbsup:

Indeed it has. I've just been out to the garage, and found a number of "bicycles" - what are these machines used for??

I'm also going to use my bike in a bit.  :smug:

It's been so long... I fear for my bum getting a little tender on the saddle.  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 January, 2010, 01:42:06 pm
The heavy rain has now managed to wash the remaining snow away.  :thumbsup:

Indeed it has. I've just been out to the garage, and found a number of "bicycles" - what are these machines used for??

They are designed for donating to Worthy Causes. O:-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ray 6701 on 16 January, 2010, 01:54:10 pm
The forecast looks good for Tamworth and surrounding area tomorrow.  Sunshine, max 7 c & a light south westerley.  I'm looking foward to getting out and seeing just how bad my legs are  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 16 January, 2010, 03:57:41 pm
I've just purchased a shovel and two bags of sharp sand, so that I'm ready for the next SNOpocalypse.

That should completely hex any chances of it snowing until next winter, then.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ray 6701 on 16 January, 2010, 04:00:40 pm
I've just purchased a shovel and two bags of sharp sand, so that I'm ready for the next SNOpocalypse.

That should completely hex any chances of it snowing until next winter, then.

That's bloody good of you old chap  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Marj on 16 January, 2010, 05:29:57 pm
Just like to add that We have NO snow  :demon:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 16 January, 2010, 05:41:06 pm
I imagine flooding could be the next weather issue with which those living in vulnerable & affected areas are troubled with.

I would agree.  We have very heavy rain forecast for tomorrow, and the ground is more than waterlogged already.  It's going to run-off like crazy.  I think flooding is to be expected...

No kidding

Our little stream is about 100 m wide and the middle of the village has a new lake of quite startling proportions.  The land I was running on 3 days ago is under a good metre of water...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrew Br on 16 January, 2010, 06:08:29 pm

No kidding

Our little stream is about 100 m wide and the middle of the village has a new lake of quite startling proportions.  The land I was running on 3 days ago is under a good metre of water...

DIY triathlon on your doorstep then.
All you need now is a bike.
I can lend you one if you don't your own  ;)

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 16 January, 2010, 06:30:24 pm
OK, thanks.  Most of  mine have either too few gears or too many wheels for Tri ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrew Br on 16 January, 2010, 11:54:48 pm
OK, thanks.  Most of  mine have either too few gears or too many wheels for Tri ;)

So, analysing that, you have a Chopper and a tricycle.
Are you 10 years old ?

 ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 17 January, 2010, 09:58:13 am

I'd almost forgot that it actually got that dark outside.
That snow really did make the nights seem almost like day.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clifftaylor on 17 January, 2010, 10:08:26 am
And now the sun is in the sky like some kind of huge yellow, er, thing.  :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CommuteTooFar on 18 January, 2010, 12:28:31 pm
Some people think this Winter may be part of a pattern.

Europe to experience decades of artic winters?  (http://pistehors.com/news/ski/comments/0978-europe-to-experience-decades-of-artic-winters/)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 18 January, 2010, 12:33:25 pm

So, analysing that, you have a Chopper and a tricycle.

No, no Chopper.  A multitude of fixed, one SS and two trikes tho' ;)

Quote
Are you 10 years old ?

I believe so, yes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 January, 2010, 01:31:39 pm
Next door to work is a motorcycle training centre.  This morning I saw a motorbike there for the first time in a month!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hatler on 18 January, 2010, 09:40:19 pm
What we need more than anything is a decent downpour to clear the gritty crap off the roads. My bike looks like its been round a wet speedway track.

Yuk.

Clean those brakes people, or lose your rims !
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 18 January, 2010, 09:43:07 pm
What we need more than anything is a decent downpour to clear the gritty crap off the roads.

You obv. don't live in South Wales ;)

We have a layer of mud washed out of the fields, branches, stones, assorted detritus and some residual underwater bits after Saturday's floods.

But not much evidence of salt left :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 18 January, 2010, 10:41:11 pm
Clean those brakes people, or lose your rims !
Nah, fixed innit, leg braking.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 18 January, 2010, 11:17:48 pm
What we need more than anything is a decent downpour to clear the gritty crap off the roads.

You obv. don't live in South Wales ;)

We have a layer of mud washed out of the fields, branches, stones, assorted detritus and some residual underwater bits after Saturday's floods.

But not much evidence of salt left :)

We haz ROKS , TREEZ and HUGE PUGGLES
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 18 January, 2010, 11:41:46 pm
Just back from Denmark where there is around 2' of snow at my old folks place and around 3-4" in CPH.

It is the first time in 16" years that they have had so much snow for so long, mid December until now. And the first white xmas where it have been over 90% of the country covered on the 24th of Dec. for a long time.

And more snow is due.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 19 January, 2010, 12:21:43 am
And are the locals complaining about the snow?   Have the council gritted all roads and footpaths so that they're completely snow free?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 19 January, 2010, 12:31:11 am
Nope they just get on with it. Will post a picture in the am from me old folks cul-de-sac.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 19 January, 2010, 12:37:58 am
Exactly the answer I was expecting  ;D ;D ;D :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I think I want to move to Denmark.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 19 January, 2010, 01:15:45 pm
My Kahtoola Micro Spikes have finally arrived.  I've now guaranteed absolutely zero snow & ice in Liverpool for the rest of the winter !
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 19 January, 2010, 01:28:36 pm
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_I2koBEIwO7s/S1MPQWHbiQI/AAAAAAAAH0g/AXLkolaaqlE/s400/dsc02417.jpg)
That was 2-3 feet deep start of Jan. Now around 5-10cm hard packed snow. It my folks road come cul-de-sac they got around 250m out to the main road which is clear. Most and main bicycle lanes have been cleared.

Yet no one was late to work.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kathy on 19 January, 2010, 04:12:21 pm
Mor SNO due heer tomorrow! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 19 January, 2010, 04:16:34 pm
I don't have my fingers crossed.  I'm expecting a non-event.

The weather forecasts have all been "snow on Wednesday", but no real details as to time/location.  Also, those that do give details have said "one or two centimetres".  That, falling on the warmer ground of the last few days, ain't gonna settle.



I think it's the same as back last Feb.  We got a bad dumping, the country ground to a halt, the meeja are now going mad about it and forecasting doom and gloom.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 19 January, 2010, 05:07:11 pm
Big Sno forecast for the high ground here

I was just up on the edge of the Beacons, taking a chance for a ride whilst the roads are clear, and it felt decidedly snow-in-the-offing as I was coming down.  It got colder during the day; I started at 9 with track mitts, and by 1 pm I was breaking out the gloves & woolly hat.

I suspect we'll just get rain here though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 19 January, 2010, 05:42:19 pm
It looks like most of the snow is going to hit the western side of the country, there seems like little forecast for the east, so London and elsewhere (eg Southend!) should largely avoid it.

On the other hand, should we get a dump, and the inevitable ice-ification of that snow by cars driving on it, I may yet get to try out the studded tyres this year!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 January, 2010, 08:52:30 pm
No, it's coming from the west. Forecast to be light rain at 4°C here tomorrow, although the higher bits of Wales will probably have a fair fall. It won't last though, with heavier rain and higher temperatures forecast for Thursday.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 19 January, 2010, 08:57:28 pm
yep.

That's why I went on my ride over one of the higher bits of Wales today :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 19 January, 2010, 09:10:08 pm
Just spoken to Mrs. B on the phone.  The first band has passed over down there.

Rain.  Not Sno.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 19 January, 2010, 09:30:11 pm
Hmm. The BBC local wild guess forecast says that there will be heavy snow here tomorrow. We'll see.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 20 January, 2010, 09:05:08 am
It's just turned from rain to sno here, but it's only sticking on the grass.

The Forest has been hit a bit harder, with few cm on the roads and most of the towns not easily passable
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 20 January, 2010, 10:20:26 am
4-6 inches up on top here, only 1-2 inches in the valleys. A bit slushy, but traffic hell.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 20 January, 2010, 10:21:45 am
Dry here :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 20 January, 2010, 11:58:01 am
It's still dry here as well, which is quite surprising, since I looked at the Rain Radar this morning, realised the rain was about to hit, and didn't rush, since I assumed I wasn't going to be able to avoid it whatever I did.  Even now, several hours later nothing has yet to happen to South Kensington, although it does look like the rain on the radar is slowly edging into the vicinity of London.

I imagine this same band of weather is rain or snow, depending on the ambient temperature when it drops.  If it does become snow here, hopefully it'll stay snow-like, so I can cycle home before I have to deal with ice.  Ice on the ground, and my bike not equipped with it's studded tyres would be annoying!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Panoramix on 20 January, 2010, 01:08:57 pm
It was snowing this morning in Bristol, big flakes but not holding on the wet ground.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 20 January, 2010, 01:59:14 pm
It's been raining for several hours in Birmingham.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 20 January, 2010, 02:03:11 pm
On and off rain in the City.  Hope it's in 'off' mode at quitting time.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 20 January, 2010, 04:21:24 pm
We've had nowt...no rain or snow
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 20 January, 2010, 06:30:52 pm
Rain in Reading. Cold rain. There were some sludgy bits in it first thing this morning, & then it was just rain. Sometimes it has stopped for several successive seconds, but mostly it has just fluctuated in intensity. :(

A dank dark drizzly & chilly day.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 20 January, 2010, 11:35:02 pm
TWENTY FIVE MINUTES LEFT.

COME ON YOU BASTARD WEATHER FORECASTERS, WHERE IS THE SNOW?  I'M STILL ON HIGH ALERT AS YOU TOLD ME IT'D BE CHAOS AND MAYHEM.




We haven't even had rain FFS.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 29 January, 2010, 11:18:53 am
* idly looks out of window whilst on phone *

Arse!

Snowing in Norfolk  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 January, 2010, 11:42:15 am
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4312986863_9bf6e02085.jpg)

GRR!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 29 January, 2010, 12:16:56 pm

Very Picasso.


Thank gawd that's not here. Phewww!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 29 January, 2010, 12:20:21 pm
Snowing on and off all morning here. Not laying at all though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 January, 2010, 12:24:30 pm
We've just had a rain shower here. It's cold.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 January, 2010, 12:49:16 pm
Very Picasso.
???
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 29 January, 2010, 12:50:52 pm
yeah bring it on lets have a proper winter for once, more snow please !!!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 29 January, 2010, 12:51:37 pm
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4312986863_9bf6e02085.jpg)

GRR!

The great thing about cycling in these conditions is that the motons are far less aggressive than usual  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 29 January, 2010, 12:52:40 pm
Very Picasso.
???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasso%27s_Blue_Period
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 29 January, 2010, 01:25:03 pm
Sleet in Suffolk but I don't care as I'm (like a swallow) just about to leave for warmer climes...

I believe it is a balmy 3 degrees over there just now.   ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 29 January, 2010, 01:45:41 pm
Very cold here now and I can see over to the North York Moors (in between snow showers) and snow has laid there. Sunny here now though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 29 January, 2010, 02:17:13 pm
Sun has now popped out.  :thumbsup:

It's gloriously bright and windy here. Perfect drying weather.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Salvatore on 29 January, 2010, 02:57:43 pm
20 minutes ago I set off for a walk through the fields. From my south-facing front door it looked gloriously sunny. As soon as I saw the big black clouds being blown from the north I scurried back indoors. There's now sleet falling. Heavily.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 29 January, 2010, 04:44:47 pm
On my way back from Cardiff I went through a light snowstorm, a field-whitening hail storm and a full-on blizzard.

Then the sun came out.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 29 January, 2010, 04:51:08 pm
Apparently we did have a little snow in South Ken sometime this afternoon.  Our technician goes out onto our balcony for a fag break every so often, and noticed it.  It was clearly not quite in the blizzard category. ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 29 January, 2010, 07:27:25 pm
Set of from home at 1430 in 6 degrees and sunlight. Arrived at my daughter's school at 1530 in 1 degree and loads of wet snow. Got back home to 6 degrees and sun again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 29 January, 2010, 07:33:50 pm
Set of from home at 1430 in 6 degrees and sunlight. Arrived at my daughter's school at 1530 in 1 degree and loads of wet snow. Got back home to 6 degrees and sun again.

Must be very localised, as there has been a complete lack of SNO south of the A27.

That's normal service resumed then...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 29 January, 2010, 07:38:42 pm
Indeed, I was way up north - my daughter's school is in the Downs not far from Petersfield.

Once I was back south of the Portsdown Hill, Wickham line, it was back to the usual warm microclimate.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 30 January, 2010, 01:10:29 am
Pathetic snow in Bournville.  Not very impressive at all.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 30 January, 2010, 07:46:19 am
A thin layer in Croydon, until the cars wear it away from the roads.

It looks quite pretty, but Talisker isn't impressed, which I guess is understandable!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 30 January, 2010, 12:30:38 pm
Enough snow to keep me indoors so far ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bobb on 30 January, 2010, 12:46:19 pm
Clear blue sky here in Chelmsford. As it's snowd London way, does that mean I'm going to get wet when I go out in a bit?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 01 February, 2010, 09:57:19 am
Another "wafer thin" dusting of snow in Croydon overnight.  I imagine it'll last as long as the snow did on Saturday, ie not very long since the sun is out.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 01 February, 2010, 09:59:21 am
Not so much snow as sleet a few miles west, but pretty icy for the first few km, with patches of it all the way to Clapham.  Pretty much OK after that, but it wasn't the easiest of rides.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 01 February, 2010, 10:48:10 am
Aiiieeeeee!

100 pages will be doable at this feckin' rate. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 01 February, 2010, 11:01:02 am
I fell off on black ice this morning.  I didn't have the winter tyres on.  :facepalm:

I had only just gone a few 100 yards from home.  Decided it was too dodgy to continue so went home and got taxi.

Driver told me about a 5-car pile up on my normal route to work, and there were two cars in the hedge on airport way.  He also said an HGV had gone "over" a car at Milton Rd/Gilbert Rd and he didn't think the occupant of the car had survived.

Cambridge is a grit free zone, it seems.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 01 February, 2010, 12:21:25 pm
We woke up to a thin layer of fresh snow this morning. Mostly gone now, just patches left in the shade, & it's beautiful out. The sheets I hung on the line (while standing in snow) at 10 am are dry, & have that fresh outdoor dried smell. Lovely.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 February, 2010, 01:06:37 pm
I had a very frosty walk round Hockley Woods with the dog.

When we returned to the car, the sun shining on the driver's door had made it hot.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 01 February, 2010, 02:05:16 pm
I had snow for the first 2/3 of a mile or so, but after that it was snow free, including most of the Commons, since they were generally in sunshine.  The snow seemed thin enough that the cars didn't compact it into a hard uncycleable layer, but not so thin that it disappeared immediately.

There were some icy patches near where the Tooting Bec Common cycle path joins up with Cavendish Road, but they were easily avoided, and bugger all further in towards central London.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 01 February, 2010, 04:16:32 pm
I fell off on black ice this morning.  I didn't have the winter tyres on.  :facepalm:

I had only just gone a few 100 yards from home.  Decided it was too dodgy to continue so went home and got taxi.

Driver told me about a 5-car pile up on my normal route to work, and there were two cars in the hedge on airport way.  He also said an HGV had gone "over" a car at Milton Rd/Gilbert Rd and he didn't think the occupant of the car had survived.

Cambridge is a grit free zone, it seems.


If you look at the Cambridge Evening News web-site, all the drivers are blaming the crashes on a lack of grit...


..nothing to do with them driving too fast and too close for the road conditions of course ...  ;)


... unlike the loons on my commute in this morning.  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 01 February, 2010, 04:23:12 pm
The grip levels were such that well under 10mph was too fast, in my case.  Of course, to end up in a hedge off Airport Way requires a lot more than that.  One of the cars in the hedge was a Boxter.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 02 February, 2010, 02:18:05 pm
Snow flurries on the way home last evening - we still have quite a lot of snow on the Peaks unmelted since the first onslaught. Makes for some chilly rides home on occasion.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rich753 on 02 February, 2010, 02:41:10 pm
3-4 cms here (Scot borders) this morning - made for a very pleasant trail run at lunchtime.  Heavy snow forecast for tomorrow evening  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrew Br on 03 February, 2010, 03:20:28 pm
Snowing quite hard in South Manchester.
I don't think that it will cause any problems- 5-a-side should still be on.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 03 February, 2010, 03:29:39 pm
Heavy snow just starting in Chesterfield now (15h30)
Lets hope everybody panics and goes home early...  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 03 February, 2010, 03:36:14 pm
Looking at the weather radar, forecasts, and warnings, it looks like London is just on the edge of this weather, so there's a slight risk we may get some snow, but I reckon it'll be too warm, and by the time it hits us, it'll just be good'ol UK drizzle. :-\

It doesn't look like I'm going to need my (still brand new) studded tyres yet.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: toekneep on 03 February, 2010, 03:39:11 pm
Been trying quite hard here on the Fylde for about an hour but it isn't sticking. Wrong kind of snow I think.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: toekneep on 03 February, 2010, 04:14:29 pm
Scratch that. The snow has now got it's act together big time and building up nicely.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 February, 2010, 05:34:38 pm
There was the tiniest flurry here at lunchtime, but the temperature was far too high for it to have done anything even if it had bothered to precipitate properly.

It's not warm, but it's mild enough for me to dispense with a fleece: it's just a Nightvision over my jumper. Just a hint of drizzle in the air.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 February, 2010, 09:33:56 pm
We have got snow.  And, hiding underneath it, lots and lots of ice.  I chickened out of riding this am :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 03 February, 2010, 09:37:41 pm
Heavy snow all the way home over the Peaks. Not on snow tyres so a bit slow - 1h40 for the 20 miles. Faster than the (very few) crawling cagers, though... Lovely ride home in the dead quiet glowing white landscape.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 03 February, 2010, 09:41:00 pm
It kept on doing big flakes earlier today, but the rain pwned it. Phewww!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pedaldog. on 03 February, 2010, 10:10:22 pm
Managed an hour or so of the (Allegedly!) white stuff up in  Kendal this afternoon.  Back to Lancaster and there's no more than wet and slushy rain.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrew Br on 03 February, 2010, 11:54:31 pm
Snowing quite hard in South Manchester.
I don't think that it will cause any problems- 5-a-side should still be on.



Wrong.
Powerleague rang me to cancel.
I thought they were being too cautious but, when I slipped my way to the pub (there still had to be a post-match analysis bonding session), I realised that they'd got it right.
Bummer though:- I wanted the exercise.

The snow has now stopped and what remains will be gone by morning.



Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 04 February, 2010, 08:07:23 am
Unfortunately it hasn't gone here in York, just turned to ice. 

Worst time of the year, mid Jan to mid Feb IMO.  My last good bike ride was 31st December :(  Other than that just shopping and utility journeys.  A nasty cold bug didn't help.

At least you get noticeably more daylight near March and even a hint that Spring is a possibility. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Sigurd Mudtracker on 04 February, 2010, 07:49:02 pm
More than plenty here still - I think that means 7 weeks continuous coverage.  Was in Keith (the town!) today - roads covered with an inch or two.  Good news is it's now appreciably warmer and it might just melt...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 08 February, 2010, 08:17:33 am
Hooray - Snowing again in Norfolk. Not settling.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 08 February, 2010, 08:29:33 am
Snowing in Suffolk. On me. On my bike. Big fat cold wet flakes sticking to my tights.
I is not a happy bunny.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: dasmoth on 08 February, 2010, 08:40:06 am
Snow in North Herts too, while I drink my coffee and see if my tyre deflates again.  Not settling, and the ground seems warm enough that it probably won't unless we get a really heavy flurry.

While I'm generally a big advocate of SNO, I'm starting to feel that it's interfered with enough of my attempts to get a long ride in this year...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 08 February, 2010, 09:34:20 am
It's sort of attempting to snow in Croyon, what is generally called something like wintery showers.  It's drizzle with mixed in flakes every so often.

It's not really cold enough to settle, or evidently to actually snow properly.

I should have expected it.  Yesterday I swapped over my tyres for a new pair.  I could have as easily fitted the studded ones, but didn't because it wasn't snowing, or even threatening to be that cold.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 08 February, 2010, 09:56:00 am
We haz sno!

Well, it wouldn't even qualify as half-hearted, tbh.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 08 February, 2010, 09:58:54 am
It's snowing(ish) in Cambridge.  The ride in was interesting.

Unfortuantely, the ground is too wet for it to settle...  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 08 February, 2010, 10:49:51 am
Just counted tree rather big snow flakes while in NW6, London. We can't call that snowing even by English standard or can we ?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 08 February, 2010, 10:51:33 am
Just counted tree rather big snow flakes while in NW6, London. We can't call that snowing even by English standard or can we ?

No, "tree" snowflakes would be Irish snow.

Three snowflakes in London is a blizzard.

HTH
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 08 February, 2010, 11:08:01 am
Just counted tree rather big snow flakes while in NW6, London. We can't call that snowing even by English standard or can we ?

"Traffic Chaos in UK" headlines tonight, then.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 08 February, 2010, 11:39:58 am
Snow flurries here in Reading.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 February, 2010, 12:17:24 pm
Cold rain here in Saarfend, with an occasional snowflake in the general moistness.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 08 February, 2010, 12:22:00 pm
Some heavier bursts have left a slushy haze over the grass a few times this morning, but it soon melts when it eases off. Chucking it down at the mo.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tourist Tony on 08 February, 2010, 12:23:36 pm
Snowing lightly here
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 08 February, 2010, 12:25:00 pm
Drizzle in the City.  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 February, 2010, 12:34:19 pm
SNO with varying degrees of conviction all morning in Harlot, but not settling chiz.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Manotea on 08 February, 2010, 01:25:22 pm
Blizzard conditions in W4.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 08 February, 2010, 04:07:14 pm
Bloody cold here (3 degrees or less) and a stiff north easterly, I think.

I've just put the heating on as I can't fit another jumper or coat around me.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: citoyen on 08 February, 2010, 04:11:33 pm
Left the house in the middle of a slushy-sleety-haily blizzard this morning. Apparently, it's been snowing on and off all day in East Kent, but not too cold despite the same stiff nor'easterly that Pancho mentions. Oh joy.

My snow tyres that I ordered a few weeks ago still haven't arrived. I mean, it's obvious, isn't it - we wouldn't be getting more snow if they'd turned up by now, would we?

d.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 08 February, 2010, 04:19:28 pm
Falling heavily in SW London but not settling
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Greenbank on 08 February, 2010, 04:27:16 pm
#uksnow Map 2.0 - UK Snow Twitter Mashup (http://uksnow.benmarsh.co.uk/) is still better than this thread....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 February, 2010, 10:13:51 pm
It snowed on me all the way to work this morning.  Didn't settle, but I did have to stop to do my coat up and put my gloves on.  And had mildly chilly feet by the time I got there.  If it carries on like this I might have to resort to socks again!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 09 February, 2010, 12:10:17 am
Rather less than a centimetre of SNO has settled here, 200 metres from the North West Frontier of the London Postal Region.
My Danish mother returns from Foreign Climes tomorrow and will be underwhelmed.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 09 February, 2010, 12:13:52 am
Rather less than a centimetre of SNO has settled here, 200 metres from the North West

Well - well done on getting some on the ground at least. Despite 5 hours of falling snow (sometimes heavy) today, it managed to produce precisely none on the ground. Now that's just lazy, I think...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 09 February, 2010, 03:34:26 am
I got lightly snowed on most of the way home, but it's not settling at all, and in places the ground was basically dry!  It's above zero, about 1°C, so that's not really surprising.

Interestingly some parked cars seems to provide a better platform for snow than others, and were quite white.  It could have been that some cars were warmer from when they were running, but by this time, most cars should have cold down to the ambient, so I guess it's just different "stickiness" and textures of some paints.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 09 February, 2010, 09:31:08 am
White out.
And settling :(
The tracks across the farm have changed colour in 5 minutes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 February, 2010, 09:32:18 am
Bright sunny morning here. Just waiting for fboab's blizzard.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 09 February, 2010, 09:44:44 am
And now bright bright sun. Snow headed to you then wow...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 February, 2010, 11:07:17 pm
We had a flurry but nothing settled.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: delthebike on 10 February, 2010, 08:13:55 am
Now it's settling! As if it hasn't snew enough this year another heavy fall.

edit: in the time it took to post the above it's dropped down to a light fall.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 10 February, 2010, 09:21:23 am
The snow was needles in my eyes on the commute this morning. That really hard pellet-like stuff that rolls along the ground. Ouch.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 February, 2010, 10:26:45 am
Twenty minute blizzard just after eight this morning.  Gone now though chiz.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: delthebike on 10 February, 2010, 10:33:32 am
Quite chilly out, just back from shopping, slushy in the sun and still a light covering in the shady parts.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: delthebike on 10 February, 2010, 03:25:03 pm
Bit of a blizzard in Southend ATM.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: vorsprung on 10 February, 2010, 03:27:33 pm
Snow in taunton
And sun
And a blue sky without a cloud in sight

All at the same time
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 10 February, 2010, 03:29:46 pm
There was a white out for about 10 minutes on the way into work this morning - and, of course, the idiot drivers decided to go faster...

We then have had a morning of glorious sunshire.

It's now snowing again and more snow is forecast for this evening and tonight.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 10 February, 2010, 03:30:04 pm
We just had a heavy shower of something that looked a lot like popcorn. Then it snowed. A lot. It's now white outside - but the sun is doing its thing now, and zapping it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: delthebike on 10 February, 2010, 03:33:05 pm
Blue skies again and light snow now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 10 February, 2010, 03:46:27 pm
Sunny with a Baltic*) wind today, I'm glad that I have tail wind home.

*) Baltic, is the way my co-worker descriped todays conditions.   
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 February, 2010, 03:56:58 pm
It's changing its mind every two minutes in Harlot...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 10 February, 2010, 04:17:04 pm
Lovely sunny clear day, then further on I rode into a blizzard for a few miles and back out again.
No glasses. Red eyes, very red eyes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 10 February, 2010, 05:42:59 pm
It's snowing in South Ken, but only lightly, and not settling.

The Met Office does have a Flash Warning for "Heavy Snow & Widespread Icy Roads" covering pretty much the Eastern half of England.

I shall have to watch out the window fairly carefully this evening and leave rapidly if it looks like it's settling significantly.  I'll also have to leave early if it looks like I'll need the studded tyres on the morrow, since it'll take a bit of faffing around to swap tyres over, and I'd rather not be starting doing that midnight!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 10 February, 2010, 07:44:22 pm
We in Reading have a thin covering which isn't melting. The sky has now cleared, & the temperature is dropping.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 10 February, 2010, 07:53:42 pm
it is clear here and -1C

It it snows it will stick.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 10 February, 2010, 09:36:49 pm

Snow managed to settle, although only a thin veneer.
It's clear and it's already getting icy. Loads of gritting lorries out and about.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nightrider on 10 February, 2010, 10:00:11 pm
-2 here snow showers,starting to settle ,this is getting boring now.Roll on spring time.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 10 February, 2010, 10:56:56 pm
I just looked outside, and luckily we haven't had a inch of snow whilst I was concentrating on work in the lab!  It feels a little chilly on the balcony, but Gatwick and Heathrow weather just says that it's 0°C, so barely freezing.

I don't expect any significant problems with ice on the commute home (famous last words!)

I wonder if we'll get any snow over night?  My guess is probably a thin layer overnight at most, which will melt once daylight hits it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 February, 2010, 12:04:00 am
So much snow out here - and far enough down the priority list, being about 1km from the surfaced road - that the snow plough can't cope. They had to send out a digger instead. Also not helped by the fact that the bloke who drives the snow plough died.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Oaky on 11 February, 2010, 12:11:04 am
yum yum --- a wee bit of snow on icy roads --- wonderful (for my first outing of the Marathon Winter studded tyres that is  :demon:)

These tyres are scary.  I will have to revisit the old "Winter Tyres" thread now just to see what you need to do to come a cropper with these beasts - they're scarily solid on ice / ice+fresh snow/car polished/compacted fresh SNO etc. where fellow non-studded cyclists were either walking or slipping/sliding downhill!  (e.g. ISTR from that thread that deep slush isn't good)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 11 February, 2010, 01:39:13 am
Studs only really help with "solid" stuff, ie ice or compacted snow.  For anything which is mobile, ie fresh snow or slush stuff, you want something with grip ie traditional treaded tyres.  You can get heavily treaded tyres with studs as well, which are useful in environments with a mixture of conditions or cold enough that the snow stays more mobile than it tends to in the UK.

I didn't really see much on the way home.  On Clapham Common there had obviously been a bit of snow, but helpfully the wind had blown it to one side of the cycle path.  Around Tooting Bec there had been more, and the geography of the area reduces the amount of wind, so there were patches.  The glint of shinyness in the front light often doesn't tell you if there is just the barest hint of ice, or significant patches, so around there I was somewhat circumspect with my speed, and took it carefully.

A few miles from home it did start snowing with a little bit more effort, and it was just about sticking to the roads when I got to Croydon.  Whether there will be anything more significant overnight I doubt.  The weather radar doesn't show much coming this way, and it's moving slow enough that even if there is anything significant coming this way from the continent, if it's not on the radar, it won't hit for quite a time (ie until tomorrow morning).

At the moment I certainly can't be bothered with the faff of swapping over tyres.  The forecast doesn't suggest will have anything worse than the occasional wintry showers for the next few days, it's just forecasting it to be too warm for anything to last around here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: peliroja on 11 February, 2010, 09:05:53 am
Thick snow in zurich when I left. Our plane was de-iced most efficiently. Airport running on time, no issues.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: citoyen on 11 February, 2010, 01:41:12 pm
Snowed heavily overnight in East Kent and I woke up this morning to a whiteout. Thought it was going to be a nightmare getting to work, but it wasn't - the three miles to the station was the hardest part, but one or two cancellations notwithstanding, the trains seemed to be running more or less OK, and by the time we reached Chatham, it was as if we'd moved into a totally different climate system - not a flake of snow to be seen.

d.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 11 February, 2010, 05:06:01 pm
Did a little ride through South Oxfordshire today. Dusting of snow everywhere, including in shady places on the roads, & ice in some places. Had to take a bit of care. After lunch, there was still snow in the shade.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 February, 2010, 05:30:13 pm
Severe weather warnings have been issued for Tuesday 16th, for almost everywhere (or so it seems to me). Early days, but at least the schools are already closed.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 14 February, 2010, 09:24:07 pm
Severe weather warnings have been issued for Tuesday 16th, for almost everywhere (or so it seems to me). Early days, but at least the schools are already closed.

I've just been looking at the weather predictions.  :(

100 pages here we come.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 14 February, 2010, 09:28:35 pm
It's been warning about snow on Tuesday since last week, so this isn't really all that new.  How much it stays around remains to be seen, the forecast isn't all that cold.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 16 February, 2010, 08:49:06 am
It's heaving down with rain in sw18. No snow = good.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 16 February, 2010, 10:51:42 am
Just had a snow flurry in Aberdeen, not lying, though. Saw some cars with snow on the roof on my commute this morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 16 February, 2010, 12:02:51 pm
Will this thread still be running in july?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 February, 2010, 04:04:56 pm
Possibly. I'm thinking of organising a WARTY to the Ross Ice Shelf.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: citoyen on 16 February, 2010, 05:22:58 pm
I heard on the radio this morning that Folkestone races were off today because of snow, but all we had on the North Kent coast was heavy rain. Still bloomin' cold out there though.

d.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hatler on 17 February, 2010, 07:52:17 am
Monday evening we drove down to Dover and passed through some very heavy snow that was settling around about Folkestone. Hills were white.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 17 February, 2010, 07:40:03 pm
Gentle snow all the way home this evening. The moors and peaks were a winter wonderland (though shrouded in FOG - or was it low cloud? - most of the way), the roads were almost clear and not slippy.
Still snowing at the moment.
Dead good ride home...  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 18 February, 2010, 10:03:48 am
Heavy sno here at Cribbs Causeway, Bristol. We may get snoweded in the Apple Store.  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 18 February, 2010, 10:14:31 am
Just checking XCWeather and it looks like I will be battling against SNO on my way home tomorrow :( Not good :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: citoyen on 18 February, 2010, 11:54:33 am
We may get snoweded in the Apple Store.

You wish!

d.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 18 February, 2010, 11:55:47 am
heavy snow here, and roads closed in the Forest

The gritters were out last night, so the council obviously expected it more than I did :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Polar Bear on 18 February, 2010, 01:54:21 pm
Snowed briefly this morning, but now it's hammering down and beginning to settle.

Didn't it snow this time last year too?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 18 February, 2010, 02:06:14 pm
Gritters were out last night, but heavy rain has washed all the grit away. Hmm . . .
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 18 February, 2010, 06:40:35 pm

Lots of rain earlier and then the snow started.  >:(

It's settled. I thought it wouldn't, but it's coming down with a vengeance.
A blanket of it now completely covers everything apart from the main roads where
the rush hour traffic has prevented it from settling thus far.

Arrgghhhh!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 18 February, 2010, 06:41:41 pm
Torrential rain followed by merely heavy rain.  I quite like riding in heavy rain  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 19 February, 2010, 12:35:26 am
5.5 hours to get from Gloucestershire to Peterborough.

It's a record!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 19 February, 2010, 01:47:28 am
Oh goody more severe weather warnings.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mike on 19 February, 2010, 02:15:40 am
25 degrees of cloudless sunshine for the last week here. 

Am liking Chile.  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ed_o_brain on 19 February, 2010, 05:31:36 am
I woke up to an ample snow covering here. Snow bike to be deployed this morning!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 19 February, 2010, 05:11:56 pm
It's been snowing really hard for the last hour here in St Andrews. Big splooshy flakes - it's about an inch deep already. Hope it doesn't affect weekend travel plans. Although there are worse things than being stranded in a multi star spa resort, even if it is with your bosses. :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 19 February, 2010, 05:37:21 pm
The sun has been doing its thing all day.   :thumbsup:

And the Mighty Thaw has been summoned.

A gritting lorry passed alongside me. I thought I'd disturbed a wasps nest.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 19 February, 2010, 05:49:48 pm
25 degrees of cloudless sunshine for the last week here. 

Am liking Chile.  :)
Donde? Santiago?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: peliroja on 19 February, 2010, 09:08:56 pm
It's been snowing really hard for the last hour here in St Andrews. Big splooshy flakes - it's about an inch deep already. Hope it doesn't affect weekend travel plans. Although there are worse things than being stranded in a multi star spa resort, even if it is with your bosses. :)
Say hi to lovely St Andrews from me! I wonder if Mecwales is about?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 19 February, 2010, 09:11:26 pm
It's been snowing really hard for the last hour here in St Andrews. Big splooshy flakes - it's about an inch deep already. Hope it doesn't affect weekend travel plans. Although there are worse things than being stranded in a multi star spa resort, even if it is with your bosses. :)
Say hi to lovely St Andrews from me! I wonder if Mecwales is about?

When are you travelling back south? I'm on the train tomorrow heading for london, and if you are on teh same one I could give you Clarion's sprockets.

..d
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 19 February, 2010, 09:18:08 pm
Sadly not. On the train on Sunday. I have to come back soon, I'd forgotten how much I liked the people here. :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 19 February, 2010, 09:40:13 pm
Sadly not. On the train on Sunday. I have to come back soon, I'd forgotten how much I liked the people here. :)

I wouldn't trust them that far south. Head north over the Tay and meet some really friendly folk.  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 19 February, 2010, 09:47:16 pm
I know - they were the reason I went to Dundee uni (briefly). :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: RJ on 19 February, 2010, 09:47:55 pm
Sadly not. On the train on Sunday. I have to come back soon, I'd forgotten how much I liked the people here. :)

I wouldn't trust them that far south. Head north over the Tay and meet some really friendly folk.  ;D

Oi!  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 19 February, 2010, 11:02:37 pm
More snow? In Devon? I say, there'll be people trapped on Haldon Hill again... ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: longers on 21 February, 2010, 07:54:08 am
I've woken to a couple of inches of snow. It's still falling in Oldham but seems to be slowing up.

I had arranged a nice loop round over Cragg Vale with a couple of friends for this morning but I've just cancelled it*. Will go for a walk instead.

* we did a great ride over Holme Moss after more snow than this a couple of years ago but I am much more of a chicken nowadays.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 21 February, 2010, 08:48:14 am
3 inches and still snowing heavily....
More forecast most days this coming week as well (depending on who you believe!)
The "Ice Bike" may get some outings after all this week, it seems...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 21 February, 2010, 09:40:18 am
Snow in Peterboroughshire. Enough to cover the ground again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 February, 2010, 09:42:39 am
Dez tells me that Mitch Benn (who he? Ed.) claims that a foot of snow has fallen in Liverpool.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MSeries on 21 February, 2010, 09:45:47 am
ABout three inches here so far. It was just staring when I went out at ten to six.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wobbly John on 21 February, 2010, 09:49:15 am
About an inch here in Ely-shire, but wet & very sticky. I was hoping it would be as nice as yesterday was, and I would be able to get some miles in on the bike.  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 21 February, 2010, 10:05:43 am
Yay - thundersnow in mid-Norfolk  :thumbsup:.

A slushy inch here too - and more falling. And I have to drive down to that London today  >:(.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 21 February, 2010, 10:05:54 am
Dez tells me that Mitch Benn (who he? Ed.) claims that a foot of snow has fallen in Liverpool.

A foot!   I bet he lies to his girlfriend as well!   Looking out of my window it's less that 2".
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 February, 2010, 10:08:30 am
Perhaps he was measuring horizontally?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: oncemore on 21 February, 2010, 10:56:16 am
A fair few inches overnight and was still coming down when I should have been off for a ride. Discretion won so I went for a walk. Slowly melting now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 21 February, 2010, 12:46:17 pm
About 7.5cm overnight hereabouts.It's starting to thaw now 'cause the sun is bright & it is actually a pleasant day providing you stay out of the shade.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 21 February, 2010, 12:57:18 pm
Me folks just send me this, they have had snow constantly since December over there (not heard off) pretty much snow 2-3 times a week. The 2nd Jan. they got really dumped on which haven't melted but only been added too.

(http://www.woollypigs.com/images/sne-aalborg.jpg)

The pile behind the car is just over 3m.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 21 February, 2010, 01:14:43 pm
A couple of inches in the night (Oooer!)
The sun is giving it a right hiding, but the forecast is for more light snow today,
and for more heavy* snow on Monday and Tuesday.


*Not Woolly heavy though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 21 February, 2010, 01:39:10 pm
It's been snowing for about 3 hours here in the north east. I'm glad I went out for a ride yesterday!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 21 February, 2010, 05:14:58 pm
Update: 38 farms have their roofs collapse because of the snow in the local area. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 21 February, 2010, 05:34:54 pm
I took a snow ball off the balcony rail last night and popped it in the freezer.

I will save it and throw it as some one on the hottest day of the year.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 21 February, 2010, 05:54:43 pm
Sorry mate that never works, the snowball will turn into a icy thing just that the things that you need to defrost your freezer of now and again, what ever that is called.

I have tried many times and failed to have a snowball ever a few months later.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 21 February, 2010, 08:01:17 pm
Yay - thundersnow in mid-Norfolk  :thumbsup:.

A slushy inch here too - and more falling. And I have to drive down to that London today  >:(.

Wierd.
No snow in Suffolk, no snow in Thetford, but Watton northwards haz slush even on the roads.

That'd be that microclimate thingymajiggy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 22 February, 2010, 06:42:51 am
It's snowing here in Cambridge.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 22 February, 2010, 10:07:16 am
We have falling, but not lying, snow in Gloucs
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 22 February, 2010, 10:37:00 am
We have 2" and it's still falling.
Children are home from school, again.

I'm so fed up of this now...

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 February, 2010, 11:36:02 am
Been falling with various degrees of conviction for about four hours in Harlot, but after a brief attempt at settling it seems to have given up the struggle.

Not fair, I wanted to go home early.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 22 February, 2010, 11:52:15 am

It'll soon be St. David's Day. Snow cachau bant.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Morrisette on 22 February, 2010, 01:30:16 pm

I'm so fed up of this now...



+1,000
Feels like I've been cold forever  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Really Ancien on 22 February, 2010, 01:40:10 pm
Yad Moss, England's premier ski resort has started to attract a new clientele, East European workers in search of a snow fix. I met Alex yesterday, a Russian/Greek from Moscow who had come up from Whiston on Merseyside for the weekend. It must make a change for them to mix with people enjoying the winter and reassure them that Britain is not entirely populated by nesh whingers (from their perspective obviously).

Damon.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 23 February, 2010, 02:09:01 pm
Oh FFS!!!!!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 February, 2010, 02:15:54 pm
Although it hasn't snowed here for a week or two, it has remained cold and remarkably wet.

This is not a good time for the gas valve on the central heating boiler to give up the ghost, as it did last Thursday, and with no sign of a replacement yet. Mrs. Wow has been baking more than usual. 4 pies yesterday. Cake this afternoon...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 23 February, 2010, 04:30:26 pm
It's starting to pick up outside to beyond a flurry.

100mm for elevated areas is expected according to the beeb.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rower40 on 23 February, 2010, 04:30:48 pm
Sleet and wetness, but not sticking, with outdoor temperature 2 deg C here in Derby.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 23 February, 2010, 09:47:19 pm
nesh whingers

Cracking expression - and the first time I've heard "nesh" outside of the valleys!  I use it a lot :-)

We had a good dump here today - the top road to Monmouth was impassable bu tthe valley was OK.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 23 February, 2010, 09:59:08 pm
Another blizzard here this evening - looked like a snowman when I got home after 20 miles home in it. Good fun!
Some of it should melt tomorrow before the next lot tomorrow evening (allegedly)  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 23 February, 2010, 10:06:44 pm
Oh FFS!!!!!

OK.  I retract that somewhat.  Although it has snowed most of the afternoon and evening in Brum, it hasn't settled.

But still.  ENOUGH ALREADY!
 >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 24 February, 2010, 02:46:41 pm
It seems my home town is #1.  Not sure if I should be  :) or  :(.

America's Worst Winter Weather Cities - Yahoo! Real Estate (http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/americas-worst-winter-weather-cities)

Puts most British 'winter' into perspective.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 24 February, 2010, 02:50:08 pm
Bugger  >:(

It's not snowing

I believed the forecast and cancelled my midweek ride this week.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 24 February, 2010, 03:30:57 pm
Bugger  >:(



I believed the forecast .

I did a similar thing in arranging to work today.This morning's weather allowed me to believe that it was a reasonable decision.This afternoon it's not cold,the sun is shining brightly & the roads have dried out but my work is unfinished thus preventing a change of mind.
Bl**dy frustrating innit? :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 24 February, 2010, 07:02:38 pm
It is

To be fair, it was foul yesterday and showing no signs of getting better. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 25 February, 2010, 09:15:33 pm
not snowing here

*gratuitous post to try and get to 100 pages*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 25 February, 2010, 09:16:55 pm
Fog/snow/rain.

I wish it would make it's mind up out there.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 25 February, 2010, 09:17:30 pm
not snowing here

*gratuitous post to try and get to 100 pages*

We still haven't hit 100 pages?   ::-)

Rain was so bad this afternoon I was considering taking up boat building.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 25 February, 2010, 09:18:18 pm
Hang on.

*Kicks the forum*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 25 February, 2010, 09:18:53 pm
I will try kicking it harder.

*Kicks again*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 25 February, 2010, 09:19:11 pm
It's almost there.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 25 February, 2010, 09:19:35 pm
It's stuck.

I think it may need some type of lube.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: geoff on 25 February, 2010, 09:20:49 pm
still no sno here either yet
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 25 February, 2010, 09:21:14 pm
Are we nearly there yet??
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: geoff on 25 February, 2010, 09:22:08 pm
<Andy Murray>
Come on!

</Andy Murray>
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 25 February, 2010, 09:22:21 pm
One final push

*Uuuuughghghghghgh*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 25 February, 2010, 09:22:25 pm
I almost drowned on the way home.

*whistle*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 25 February, 2010, 09:23:07 pm
Whoop whoop!

100 pages of BRITISH WEATHER. Marvellous.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 25 February, 2010, 09:23:49 pm
My kids used to say that as we travelled to Cornwall for holidays.It started before we were out of Stoke with 325 miles left to travel ::-)

Are we nearly there yet??
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 25 February, 2010, 09:25:13 pm
My kids used to say that as we travelled to Cornwall for holidays.It started before we were out of Stoke with 325 miles left to travel ::-)

Are we nearly there yet??
Followed by the return journey.

"Do we have to go back?"
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 25 February, 2010, 09:30:05 pm
There's no snow hereabouts now;it's all melted.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 25 February, 2010, 09:31:50 pm
Contrary to the thread title,it's not snowing
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 25 February, 2010, 09:40:30 pm
Despite the doom & gloom (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8536970.stm) elsewhere, we've only had rain today in Aberdeen. However, there's been lots of ice floating down the river Dee.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 25 February, 2010, 09:42:14 pm
I almost drowned on the way home.

*whistle*

Hellfire, if that much water had been frozen, I'd've been buried.  As it was, I was wondering if I might have to deploy the 007-style submarine gadget on my bike by the time I reached Carshalton.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 February, 2010, 09:50:16 pm
Snow in Suffolk.

 ;D
We have 2" and it's still falling.
Children are home from school, again.

I'm so fed up of this now...



What a difference 2 months makes. O:-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 26 February, 2010, 01:08:32 pm
Bloody wimmen, they're so fickle.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 February, 2010, 01:10:29 pm
Bloody wimmen, they're so fickle.


Sorry, couldn't resist.  :-*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 26 February, 2010, 01:12:21 pm
Bloody wimmen, they're so fickle.



La donna è mobile.   ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 26 February, 2010, 01:20:46 pm
Today was the very first day since before Christmas that I have had NO SNOW lying anywhere along my commute at all!
4 minutes faster too.
Commuted 602km on studded winter tyres this winter....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: HTFB on 26 February, 2010, 10:01:33 pm
Bloody wimmen, they're so fickle.



La donna è mobile.   ;D
"My girlfriend's got an iPhone"
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 27 February, 2010, 11:30:39 am
I don't BELIEVE it!

Its snowing here AGAIN!   ;)

Big flaky sticky stuff too....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moloko on 27 February, 2010, 02:41:17 pm
And the sun became black as sackcloth of her*...


God, it's gone so very dark outside.  :(


*Cilla's Revelashuns.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 10 March, 2010, 02:40:43 am
I warnts some warmth and the only white thing I want to see in future is the head on a pint
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Frenchie on 10 March, 2010, 07:58:55 am
60 cm in the South of France; chaos in Barcelona...  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 10 March, 2010, 01:12:50 pm
60 cm in the South of France; chaos in Barcelona...  :o
Just think - skiers in the Pyrenees could find themselves unable to go home. They'll just have to keep skiing.

I feel for them.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 10 March, 2010, 01:27:33 pm
That raw NE wind is a bastard today; and when I popped round to the PO at lunchtime, there were a few small flurries flying about in it. Will this winter never end FFS?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 10 March, 2010, 01:43:06 pm
Gatwick is reading something like 15-20mph NE wind and Heathrow a little lower at 10-15mph NE wind, but both are increasing, and it felt worse than that, which may have just been the gusts, which are currently anything up to twice those figures.

It should be easy on the way home. :thumbsup:

I think (famous last words) that snow should now be a thing of the past for London.  We haven't had much snow anyway (and none for weeks), and it's unlikely that we'll have much this late in the season, it'll be too mild for it now.  I think I can safely but the snow tyres away, unused, until next winter.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 10 March, 2010, 02:18:43 pm
Jan 5th 2010, phoned sister up North, said "you can keep that white stuff, we don't have much down here" 20 hrs and over 40 cm of the stuff later leaning out of trike at 04-00 pushing with arm as had lost traction again I thought "why don't I keep my gob shut"
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jakob on 10 March, 2010, 08:49:12 pm
We're finally getting snow again on the local mountains (now that the Olympics are finished!).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 March, 2010, 10:15:13 pm
...it'll be too mild for it now.  I think I can safely but the snow tyres away, unused, until next winter.

I have only ever experienced one White Christmas (1970).

I have lost count of the number of times I have woken up on Easter Sunday to several inches of snow. All of this in Essex.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 11 March, 2010, 08:33:14 am
No snow but some nice mist and fog...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 14 March, 2010, 10:07:56 pm
Today, for the very first day since before Christmas, I did NOT pass any piles of snow going over the southern Peaks....
All has now melted - Spring is a-coming in at last, it seems.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 14 March, 2010, 10:09:29 pm
Well it's still snowing in Warsaw.  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 19 April, 2010, 11:23:27 am
It snowed on my commute this morning  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 19 April, 2010, 11:24:54 am
That wasn't snow.  It was ash.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 19 April, 2010, 11:59:36 am
It seems a worthwhile exercise to post on this thread, since I just took delivery of a set of 26" Marathon Winters, to go on the Snow Bike (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/blog/index.php?entry=entry100419-105606).  Oddly enough, it's easier to find stock of these now than it was a few months back. ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 April, 2010, 01:40:41 pm
No, it was definitely snow!
Thankfully it's rain now :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 19 April, 2010, 02:02:58 pm
And hail  :demon:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 29 August, 2010, 08:47:59 pm
OK...OK... it's not snowing. It's August Bank Holiday Sunday  :hand:.

But.

It hailed so much in an earlier storm (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-11126311), it certainly looked like it.

Looking at the rainfall radar, and the weather map, there's not a lot of difference between today, and that day in December 2009 when we had 10" of snow.  Oh dear   :facepalm:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 29 August, 2010, 08:59:46 pm
Stop getting me excited, I was about to get the snow bike out, and I haven't even finished equipping it yet (the rack is up the road in the Post Office until I can pick it up next week).

;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adam on 29 August, 2010, 09:03:02 pm
Yesterday, I pumped the snow tyres up on my spare set of wheels, so I'm all set.

Bring it on.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 29 August, 2010, 09:13:41 pm
Damn you.   I've been stuck indoors all day on various jobs, so when I saw this thread I jumped up with excitement and ran outdoors in my shorts and bare feet.

Where's my SNO?
Title: Snow
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 August, 2010, 10:02:17 pm
It's fecking cold here in Mildenhall.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 29 August, 2010, 11:04:26 pm
My feet, and the luxurious 10 minutes I just spent with the hand drier confirm it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jakob on 30 August, 2010, 02:41:11 am
Yeah, starting to get prices for winter tyres now and looking at which snowboard to get for this season.
It's supposedly a La Niña year, which should (!) bring lots of snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 30 August, 2010, 08:11:17 am
... It's supposedly a La Niña year, which should (!) bring lots of snow.

Unlike last year, when it only inspired 100 pages of posts!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 01 September, 2010, 08:41:13 pm
Apparently it really was snowing up north at the weekend...BBC News - Summer snowfall in Cairngorms (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-11155131)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 20 October, 2010, 09:15:31 pm
I believe that I saw my first snow topped mountains of the season today, albeit from quite a distance - I was on a flight returning to Embra this afternoon and the Grampians were looking distinctly white.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 20 October, 2010, 11:08:45 pm
It snowed in Aberdeen this morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 21 October, 2010, 07:56:12 am
Snowed in Whitby and Scarborough  yesterday morning. A lorry jackknifed on it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 October, 2010, 09:48:31 am
NOOOOOooooooooooo!!!!  I don't want snow yet because I'm too chicken to ride my bike in snow :(  I'd like 2, maybe 3 days of it, sometime in Decmeber please.  Enough fior igloos and snowballing, and then it all to go away again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 21 October, 2010, 10:37:31 am
Well, this year the British Isles have beaten snowy Poland in the first-snow race. Snow was predicted for October, but none has fallen - well, maybe in the mountains, but you expect that at almost 2,000m, and I'm not even sure it's snowed there.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 21 October, 2010, 10:39:51 am
I think we may get another cold winter. There's a log burner in my hall waiting to be installed next week and a big pile of wood in the garden waiting to be burned.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: HTFB on 21 October, 2010, 10:44:40 am
...and today is the day for the annual heating draindown. Brrr.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Zoidburg on 21 October, 2010, 11:55:28 am
I got the Alpkit down jacket out today.

It's not very George Michael out there at the minute.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MattH on 21 October, 2010, 03:51:36 pm
Just had my first snowflakes of the year land on my head.
I am in Helsinki, however (at least for the next 90 minutes).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 21 October, 2010, 04:04:13 pm
Very unlike the pattern of weather last year, when we had no frost and unseasonal high temperatures into mid-December.
It's too s*dding warm (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=27357.0)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jakob on 21 October, 2010, 07:06:17 pm
Hopefully less than a month before the snow starts settling on the mountains.
It's a La Niña winter, which should give us lots of snow this year!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: HTFB on 21 October, 2010, 09:33:09 pm
...and today is the day for the annual heating draindown. Brrr.
What's more, though they said it wouldn't happen, of course all the radiators got filled with air. So after they left I went around bleeding them. Except for the one in the bedroom, whose bleeding bleeding valve is too worn to turn, I now discover. Of course our former-neighbour-and-new-landlord hadn't asked for this valve to be replaced---and of course the next time it can be done will be in a year's time.

Arsebiscuits.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 22 October, 2010, 12:01:43 am
We got snow today here in Slovakia, while in the UK friends in Chesham tell me that it was -5°C last night there, backed up by a Bucks Free Press (http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/8467769.Chesham_Britain_s_coldest_place/) report. Brrr!

I'm especially keen on katabatic weather events, as many of you will know. Chesham is significant for the railway embankment which prevents cold air drainage, making it consistently the coldest observed place in Southern England. Well a bit of it anyway. Apart from the bit where they take the readings it's fairly normal.
Chesham coldest place in Britain last night (From Bucks Free Press) (http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/4027081.Chesham_coldest_place_in_Britain_last_night/)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jakob on 20 November, 2010, 09:07:39 am
It's now snowing heavily here and 10-15cm are expected overnight.
My wife is supposed to go to raku/pottery workshop early tomorrow, but since that's in a slightly inaccessible area it means that I will have to drive. (I was planning to get winter tyres next week and mainly for mountain use, not mainland driving!).
 Anyways. Snow here means more snow on the mountains and that's a very good thing.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 25 November, 2010, 12:07:09 am
Uh oh 

BBC News - UK weather forecast for snow and prolonged cold spell (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11827592)

And I've not got round to fitting the snow tyres yet.


Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 25 November, 2010, 12:22:38 am
Uh oh 

BBC News - UK weather forecast for snow and prolonged cold spell (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11827592)

And I've not got round to fitting the snow tyres yet.




Don't panic. We're under an amber warning here - and it's just raining. Meh.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 25 November, 2010, 12:36:28 am
Uh oh 

BBC News - UK weather forecast for snow and prolonged cold spell (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11827592)

And I've not got round to fitting the snow tyres yet.




The weather warning says heavy snow. The forecast says different. Meh.

At least there's grit out tonight (I'm not long home from riding on it) so my entire commute route is gritted. Except maybe not the steep cycle path at the bridge. So a good excuse to ride on the road and get some aggro.

Don't panic. We're under an amber warning here - and it's just raining. Meh.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 November, 2010, 01:03:49 am
There's some of that white stuff falling from the sky here.  It's not staying around long though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: HTFB on 25 November, 2010, 09:04:34 am
katabatic
That's where you paint the cat in molten wax before dipping it into the dye, yes?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 25 November, 2010, 11:22:38 am
Mrs Nutty phoned me from Leeds this morning to say it was snowing at the hotel.

I asked her to bring some home for me.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MattH on 25 November, 2010, 05:28:55 pm
Just got back from a couple of days in Helsinki. Lots of snow, solidly sub-zero temperatures.
That's me acclimatised, so the ride up to York for the AUK AGM will be quite mild  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 25 November, 2010, 06:48:54 pm
There was snow on the high ground( The Roaches, Axe Edge & The  Mermaid ) between Leek & Buxton today.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 25 November, 2010, 11:02:56 pm
I have put snow tyres on the Galaxy's wheels.

There's no snow. :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 25 November, 2010, 11:03:37 pm
That was a bit silly then  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 25 November, 2010, 11:10:17 pm
That was a bit silly then  ;D

Well I could take 'em off. Or I could commute on the pompino like normal.

Better than last year. I fell off on black ice because I didn't have snow tyres on. For the winter, one bike will be snow bike.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 25 November, 2010, 11:15:40 pm
No snow here, but the ice patch outside the village hasn't thawed.  I nearly went A-o-T at about 5 pm on there.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 26 November, 2010, 08:45:42 am
ISTR you should put some miles into your studded tyres before the sno.

If Wiggle don't pull their finger out, I should have the summer to do this at my leisure before next winter... >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 26 November, 2010, 09:07:42 am
We should have started a new thread; "It's snowing 2010/11" or this thread is going to become unmanageable in coming years.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 November, 2010, 10:12:33 am
It's proper snowing here now. Looks v pretty, still a PITA though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 26 November, 2010, 10:16:32 am
We should have started a new thread; "It's snowing 2010/11" or this thread is going to become unmanageable in coming years.

BY 7010 AD it will probably consist of December 10th - snowing, December 11th snowing, December 12th snowing ,.. August 3rd still snowing and so on for about 20,000 years. Will get a tad tedious.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 26 November, 2010, 10:20:55 am
But on the plus side we should have Clarion's review of his studded tyres.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pedaldog. on 26 November, 2010, 11:06:52 am
Thing about the Morecambe bay area is that you get to see the pretty snow across the mud in the Lake District but it doesn't come here for fear of turning into a lighter coloured Mud.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 26 November, 2010, 11:13:55 am
But on the plus side we should have Clarion's review of his studded tyres.

AD7010?  You have more faith in Wiggle than I ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 26 November, 2010, 11:16:54 am
<sigh>

Turned the TV goggle box on for the news earlier.   Snow!   Chaos!    Schools closed!  with the reporter and headteacher standing in an area of a light dusting.



HTFU!!!!!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: JohnP on 26 November, 2010, 11:18:20 am
20 miles north of Marble Arch and I've just walked to newsagent - tee shirt, trekkies, light shoes.

Got back frozen to the core.  How I got to 65 I'll never know.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Morrisette on 26 November, 2010, 01:20:23 pm
Bah. First week since early July that I haven't done the big commute at all.

Ice. Just sod off already!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Dinamo on 26 November, 2010, 04:20:55 pm
Just started snowing here at Portbury Dock on the southern edge of Bristol, its not pitching yet though !
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 26 November, 2010, 04:27:56 pm
Been snowing here since mid-morning,  sticking in places.  Could be an interesting ride this evening :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Dinamo on 26 November, 2010, 04:55:25 pm
its not pitching yet though !
........it is now !
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Phil21 on 26 November, 2010, 04:58:55 pm
Just started snowing here at Portbury Dock on the southern edge of Bristol, its not pitching yet though !

If any of you use iGoogle as your browser home page, it is possible to get a Met Office gadget on there, I have mine set to show the rainfall radar. The big blob over your location is then rather obvious  ;D  It has come down from Wales.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 26 November, 2010, 06:19:51 pm
The #uksnow Map (http://uksnowmap.com/) is interesting.  It's uses Crowd Sourcing and Twitter to build up a map based on people's reports.  It seems to work.

(Not currently helped by a lot of people using the hashtag #uksnow, who've obviously never heard of the website, so haven't included a postcode area or n/10. :-\)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: her_welshness on 26 November, 2010, 06:29:50 pm
Apparently this weather is just a prelude to the blizzards that have been predicted for Tuesday and Wednesday next week.  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ScumOfTheRoad on 26 November, 2010, 06:38:27 pm
The #uksnow Map (http://uksnowmap.com/) is interesting.  It's uses Crowd Sourcing and Twitter to build up a map based on people's reports.  It seems to work.


Tim, as you are a scientist, its worth debating the validity of crowdsourcing in this situation.
Surely there will be a whole lot of really serious snow missed out on maps like that  - as virtually no-one lives in vast tracts of the Highlands for instance? Conversely, if there are a few flakes in London then that part of the map will be dense with reports.

I'm prepared to be proved wrong here - just trying to provoke a sensible debate.


ps. before anyone chimes in that people DO live in the Highlands - of course they do. But settlements are in the glens, not high up on the Rannoch Moor or the Cairngorms, and there are big sporting estates.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 26 November, 2010, 06:48:09 pm
The #uksnow Map (http://uksnowmap.com/) is interesting.  It's uses Crowd Sourcing and Twitter to build up a map based on people's reports.  It seems to work.

Tim, as you are a scientist, its worth debating the validity of crowdsourcing in this situation.
Surely there will be a whole lot of really serious snow missed out on maps like that  - as virtually no-one lives in vast tracts of the Highlands for instance? Conversely, if there are a few flakes in London then that part of the map will be dense with reports.

I'm prepared to be proved wrong here - just trying to provoke a sensible debate.

I totally agree with you, and it clearly shouldn't be used for any rigorous measurement of the conditions.  In an ideal world, you could normalise the data to a degree using population density maps, but I suspect that would need a much greater number of tweets to have a chance of working

On the whole though, it does give some additional idea of the snow currently falling.  Maps like the one Wendy linked to are not always freely available, and I suspect the radars aren't necessarily easily capable of distinguishing between snow and rain (or possibly don't even detect snow).

It's just another source of data, and like any source, has to be used with some degree of care.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 26 November, 2010, 07:22:57 pm
Fans of exotic sources of weather data may be interested in this:

http://clueless.aaisp.net.uk/stormtrack.cgi (http://clueless.aaisp.net.uk/stormtrack.cgi)

Storm tracking by ADSL connections falling over.  Not much to look at now, and the same population density issue applies, but it does get a bit interesting when there's some proper Weather moving across the country.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feline on 26 November, 2010, 07:31:31 pm
Fans of exotic sources of weather data may be interested in this:

http://clueless.aaisp.net.uk/stormtrack.cgi (http://clueless.aaisp.net.uk/stormtrack.cgi)

Storm tracking by ADSL connections falling over.  Not much to look at now, and the same population density issue applies, but it does get a bit interesting when there's some proper Weather moving across the country.

Awesome, another website to add to my 'useful geeky sites' folder  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 November, 2010, 10:51:45 pm
<sigh>

Turned the TV goggle box on for the news earlier.   Snow!   Chaos!    Schools closed!  with the reporter and headteacher standing in an area of a light dusting.



HTFU!!!!!
Are you still in shorts and short sleeves?

(This is a question related to your hatred of being too hot, not a really sad perv question about what you're wearing).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: daimountaingoat on 26 November, 2010, 11:11:11 pm
Damn it thanks to snow unable to get out 2 morro morning for trek over Brecon Beacons
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 November, 2010, 11:56:51 pm
Very snowy in York.  The question is, do I nick Dearly_Beloved's bike with studded tyres to go to the station to meet boab, or do I hoof it?  Decisions, decisions.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: iddu on 27 November, 2010, 12:11:19 am
Very snowy in York.
Ah - so it could be fun coming home then...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 27 November, 2010, 12:17:21 am
boab is coming to york?

I don't think studded tyres guarantee non-slipping . . .
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: gordon taylor on 27 November, 2010, 05:22:59 am
There's snow in lowland Staffordshire this morning.
That's a pleasant surprise.  :thumbsup:

Expect me to fall off while dicking around on my "I am invincible" studded tyres a bit later.   ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Gus on 27 November, 2010, 07:11:56 am

6" snow over night here and still snowing, it's time to do trick and have fun in the snow, no long distances today  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: BrianI on 27 November, 2010, 08:06:07 am
Snowed in Dunfermline overnight!  Doesn't look too deep so I might head out for a gentle pootle  on my tourer along the cycle path towards alloa.    :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Domestique on 27 November, 2010, 08:41:06 am
Nothing here  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 27 November, 2010, 09:09:06 am
About an Inch up here in the dizzy heights of West Sheffield....
Time to break out the snow bicycle for the first time since February...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 27 November, 2010, 09:19:58 am
It has snowed! 

Just a dusting at tthe moment - we're expecting more later.

I'm going to go for a spin on Regina  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bottlemasher on 27 November, 2010, 09:29:48 am
It's been snowing all night

and still it's coming down in Norwich

now my garden looks good  (snow covers all)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 27 November, 2010, 09:39:33 am
It has snowed! 

Just a dusting at tthe moment - we're expecting more later.

I'm going to go for a spin on Regina  :thumbsup:

Oooh! Hope my David's going to be OK; he's at Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy today and cycling there from the station. He's on my old tourer (dissuaded him from taking the Brompton.)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 27 November, 2010, 09:45:40 am
It has snowed! 

Just a dusting at tthe moment - we're expecting more later.

I'm going to go for a spin on Regina  :thumbsup:

Oooh! Hope my David's going to be OK; he's at Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy today and cycling there from the station. He's on my old tourer (dissuaded him from taking the Brompton.)

Main roads seem to be OK...

It is a light dusting rather than a heavy layer.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 27 November, 2010, 10:14:49 am
More sno here, in (now) sunny North Yorkshire.  Rumours that penguins and polar bears are migrating here might not be that far off the mark (ready for the ride on 11th Dec)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 27 November, 2010, 10:24:58 am
It has snowed! 

Just a dusting at tthe moment - we're expecting more later.

I'm going to go for a spin on Regina  :thumbsup:

Oooh! Hope my David's going to be OK; he's at Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy today and cycling there from the station. He's on my old tourer (dissuaded him from taking the Brompton.)

Thanks. He's probably awheel right now.
He'll text me if there's a problem, I suppose.

Main roads seem to be OK...

It is a light dusting rather than a heavy layer.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 27 November, 2010, 10:26:53 am
It has snowed! 

Just a dusting at tthe moment - we're expecting more later.

I'm going to go for a spin on Regina  :thumbsup:

Oooh! Hope my David's going to be OK; he's at Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy today and cycling there from the station. He's on my old tourer (dissuaded him from taking the Brompton.)

Thanks. He's probably awheel right now.
He'll text me if there's a problem, I suppose.

Main roads seem to be OK...

It is a light dusting rather than a heavy layer.

Bah!  The sun's out and it's all melting....  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulR on 27 November, 2010, 10:28:12 am
a minimal dusting is descending on Forest Hill...

...or it might just be dandruff from the parakeets.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 27 November, 2010, 10:58:06 am
SNO all gone...  :'(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: noisycrank on 27 November, 2010, 11:00:34 am
about eight inches and it went all night  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 27 November, 2010, 11:06:15 am
Been snowing here since mid-morning,  sticking in places.  Could be an interesting ride this evening :)

as it proved. 1 1/2 hours to do 12 miles   :o

There was about 1 cm or so of snow, but it (and the water on the roads) had frozen hard.   Very precarious progress was made on the downhills.  The coaster brake was very useful indeed, though.  Marathon Plusses are awful on ice.

One very nasty moment when a driver overcooked it on a lane near our house, lost control and came careering down the road unable to slow down.  I had to dive into the hedge.

Excited cats today though.  They keep coming in to tell us about it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 27 November, 2010, 11:08:53 am
Excited cats today though.  They keep coming in to tell us about it.
:D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: noisycrank on 27 November, 2010, 11:22:38 am
I live just off the Snow Roads route. Could be interesting this weekend.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 27 November, 2010, 11:27:26 am
A few flakes blowing around in Reading a little while ago. Blue sky now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: eck on 27 November, 2010, 11:29:39 am
I live just off the Snow Roads route. Could be interesting this weekend.
Do you want to email me an entry for the Snow Roads perm*?  :thumbsup:
Whereabouts are you, btw?


*"Somebody" actually did the ride in November two or three years ago.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 27 November, 2010, 12:38:56 pm
Blimy.  We were snowed in on Friday! 
Now the problem is ice on our hill out.
Neighbour had a go and spun and crashed. 
I've made it to the shops in Llandysul.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nutkin on 27 November, 2010, 01:24:17 pm
No snow in London.  >:(  >:(


I want SNOW!  >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: toekneep on 27 November, 2010, 01:32:15 pm
Not a cloud in the sky here on the Fylde. Off for a short, but I suspect, chilly ride in a little while.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 November, 2010, 01:34:42 pm
No snow in London.  >:(  >:(


I want SNOW!  >:( >:( >:(

I understand that there's a fair bit in Norfolk. ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nutkin on 27 November, 2010, 01:42:23 pm
No snow in London.  >:(  >:(


I want SNOW!  >:( >:( >:(

I understand that there's a fair bit in Norfolk. ;)

Ankle deep, I have been told.  >:(          >:( >:(

We did have some snow Wednesday night / Thursday morning, but it was just an icing-sugar coating and didn't last long.  >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 27 November, 2010, 01:44:58 pm
We appear to have had some snow overnight here in Birmingham.  Temperature is still failing to get above zero, so all things being equal, I'm glad the Tunnel Ride has been cancelled.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 27 November, 2010, 01:49:56 pm
We woke up to snow in NW London.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nutkin on 27 November, 2010, 01:53:45 pm
We woke up to snow in NW London.


Well come on then, don't be greedy - send it over!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 27 November, 2010, 01:56:30 pm
We woke up to snow in NW London.


Well come on then, don't be greedy - send it over!

I can't imagine he's got much to send; he's maybe 8 miles from here and I have none.
There was a thick frost here earlier.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 27 November, 2010, 02:00:25 pm
Approx. 2.5cm fell here overnight
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 27 November, 2010, 02:01:22 pm
Only left in the shadows and potplants now. Sorry.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 27 November, 2010, 02:57:27 pm
Shall I just quote my previous posts from every previous winter?

Quote
No snow here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 27 November, 2010, 04:45:25 pm
It's been snowing here for three days.  It's about four inches deep in the back garden now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ashaman42 on 27 November, 2010, 05:19:58 pm
A few cm in Eastbourne today, was quite heavy at one point. Stopped a while ago so not sure if it's melted off the roads or not.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 27 November, 2010, 07:39:37 pm
Had to go to the post office depot to get a parcel this morning.... Had to play dodgems with all the motons sliding all over the place on the glassy smooth layer of packer snow....  :facepalm: I was the only one with proper traction!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feline on 27 November, 2010, 07:44:17 pm
Drove to work this morning, the main (gritted) road I would have taken has been closed for a few days because of road road works. This means I had to take the 'diversion', a more remote route over a steep hill, naively I assumed the council would have gritted this, since it is now carrying >500% its normal traffic levels and it a road 2 cars cannot even pass in places. How wrong was I! the road was a death trap, if I didn't have ABS in the car i would probably have inserted it into a dry stone wall and it is only luck nothing was coming the other way as I crawled at 2 mph for several miles.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 27 November, 2010, 07:49:20 pm
Shall I just quote my previous posts from every previous winter?

Quote
No snow here.

Oh one day you'll get it - I remember getting stuck in snow in Pompey in, oh, 1990  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 27 November, 2010, 07:51:06 pm
Drove to work this morning, the main (gritted) road I would have taken has been closed for a few days because of road road works. This means I had to take the 'diversion', a more remote route over a steep hill, naively I assumed the council would have gritted this, since it is now carrying >500% its normal traffic levels and it a road 2 cars cannot even pass in places. How wrong was I! the road was a death trap, if I didn't have ABS in the car i would probably have inserted it into a dry stone wall and it is only luck nothing was coming the other way as I crawled at 2 mph for several miles.

It's probably because of ABS that you nearly did!  It's rubbish in snow/ice conditions. Wish I could switch mine off, like I do the "traction control" aka anti-wheelspin sofware.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ray 6701 on 27 November, 2010, 08:39:00 pm
Just a little snow for us today, the ground was too hard for planting trees, so we cut one down & chopped it up  :thumbsup:

It was rotten at the base & had to come down before it fell down :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hatler on 27 November, 2010, 09:12:54 pm
I have single handedly ensured that there will be no significant snow in the South East this Winter.

Following the dump two years ago we spent the next month explaining to the minis that they will never see snow like that in their childhood again, and no, we're not buying a sledge.

Cue last Winter. We gave in and tried to order sledges, but by the time anyone had one in stock the snow had gone.

I took delivery of two this morning. Ergo, no snow until the children are hulking great teenagers and wouldn't want to be seen dead with us.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 28 November, 2010, 08:34:17 am
Ours sledge broke due to overuse last year. Haven't got a new one yet. Chances of getting one now nill. Our Tesco delivery cried off yesterday due to snow and them deciding they couldn't get up here. I drove to the nearest shops instead for supplies, it wasn't that bad.  Snowing for three days and still haven't been gritted though. I have to fly to Germany today, it might be interesting getting out this afternoon. It was -10 last night !
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 28 November, 2010, 09:58:32 am
-7degrees here an hour ago.

No snow though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Domestique on 28 November, 2010, 10:05:12 am
No snow here, again  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 28 November, 2010, 10:12:38 am
We're getting loads at the moment.  About 6 inches so far, and plenty still falling.  I think I'll be working from home tomorrow.

Updated 12.30 - seems to have peaked at about 10 inches, now thawing rapidly.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 28 November, 2010, 01:11:18 pm
A nearby Old Wife tells me:

"If there's ice in November, that will bear a duck,
there will be nothing after but sludge and muck."

By which I think she means, such cold in November is often followed by a mild winter. Well, the ducks in Gt Massingham (Norfolk) were most definitely standing on the ice this morning.

Clever lot, those old wives. Here's hoping...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 28 November, 2010, 02:31:04 pm
Shall I just quote my previous posts from every previous winter?

Quote
No snow here.
That's what you get for living so close to the equator down there in the deep south 8)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 28 November, 2010, 02:33:42 pm
It shows no sign of stopping here in Toytown.  So we'll need to dig the car out so I can go to work tonight, and then I'll be riding home in the morning. I'm glad I got those winter tyres.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 28 November, 2010, 02:39:08 pm
Well, the ducks in Gt Massingham (Norfolk) were most definitely standing on the ice this morning.
And in Reading.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 28 November, 2010, 02:45:22 pm
I have put snow tyres on the Galaxy's wheels.

There's no snow. :(


Still no snow. Monday and Tuesday look like fun, though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Greenbank on 28 November, 2010, 02:48:36 pm
Next Friday is looking chilly.

"Feels like -12oC at 3pm" in SW15.

Time to get the hackbike (still has the Marathon Winter studded tyres on from last year) out of the shed. :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 28 November, 2010, 02:51:14 pm
Time to get the hackbike (still has the Marathon Winter studded tyres on from last year) out of the shed. :)

How did you find those tyres if you had to ride on normal road surfaces? I might invest.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 28 November, 2010, 02:54:56 pm
If it got that cold in SW15, it would probably be a record braking low for London.

Where did it come from, the Met Office, or one of the other sites like XCWeather or Metcheck?  I'd be more tempted to believe a number from the Met Office, rather than the others who are generally doing something like interpolating data from a much coarser model, and probably not accounting for things like the Urban Heat Island effect of London (which will be pretty significant).

If it does look like it's going to get that cold, closer to the time, I had better get my studded tyres on the commuter, since ice (and probably snow) is going to be certain.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Greenbank on 28 November, 2010, 03:01:28 pm
Time to get the hackbike (still has the Marathon Winter studded tyres on from last year) out of the shed. :)

How did you find those tyres if you had to ride on normal road surfaces? I might invest.

Fine, you're supposed to wear them in on normal roads for 50km before real use so I commuted on them for a couple of days. Only added a few minutes to my 26 minute commute.

Pumped up to the top end of the recommended pressure the studs don't really make contact with the road on the straight (you'll definitely notice them when cornering though), just a gentle hum. When it snows, or there's ice, you can let the tyres down a bit to make them much more effective.

They're not something you'd use all year round though. Just when there's a threat of ice/snow.

My problem is limited storage. I have only have one bike in use at a time, swapping over bikes takes a considerable time faffing in the shed/bike-locker with big locks in the garden in the dark, etc. So I want to limit the number of times I swap.

Next week is a easy decision though, it's going to be hitting -10oC air temp some days. Plenty of chance of ice on corners...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Greenbank on 28 November, 2010, 03:07:40 pm
If it got that cold in SW15, it would probably be a record braking low for London.

Metcheck's "feels like" includes wind chill. Air temp is suggested to be just -3.

BBC's forecast doesn't quite go to Friday yet, but Thursday night is -3 and the (current) predictions are that the temp will drop significantly over Thursday night. It'll be interesting to see what the BBC predicts once their 5 day forecast goes into Friday.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 28 November, 2010, 03:08:36 pm
Fine

Thanks Greenbank. Are they complete barstewards to get on and off?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 28 November, 2010, 03:09:13 pm
It shows no sign of stopping here in Toytown.  So we'll need to dig the car out so I can go to work tonight, and then I'll be riding home in the morning. I'm glad I got those winter tyres.

We must be under the same cloud here in Darlo.  It's snowing fiercely - we've had more than an inch in an hour and a half.

Off-road route to work tomorrow :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 November, 2010, 03:13:55 pm
Loads more of it falling in York too.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Dez on 28 November, 2010, 03:14:21 pm
Where are all the photos then?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 28 November, 2010, 03:14:35 pm
If it got that cold in SW15, it would probably be a record braking low for London.
Metcheck's "feels like" includes wind chill. Air temp is suggested to be just -3.

Ah right, I didn't catch that.  There seems to be some quite strong winds predicted next week, so I guess that can generate a quite significant additional wind chill effect.

I've got the numbers somewhere for wind chill (Bicycling Science has a graph iirc).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Greenbank on 28 November, 2010, 03:28:33 pm
And, yes, we are starting to hit record lows:-

BBC News - Temperature drops to record -17C November low in Powys (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11856728)

(Powys is a long way from SW15 though...)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Greenbank on 28 November, 2010, 03:29:35 pm
Fine

Thanks Greenbank. Are they complete barstewards to get on and off?

Can't remember any trouble, but then it was 2 years ago I moved mine over.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 28 November, 2010, 03:30:59 pm
My Schwalbe winter tyres weren't too bad to fit.  Stiff enough that you wouldn't want a Visit in this weather, though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 November, 2010, 03:33:50 pm
And, yes, we are starting to hit record lows:-

BBC News - Temperature drops to record -17C November low in Powys (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11856728)

(Powys is a long way from SW15 though...)

Quote
That made Wales colder than Greenland

But who would have won at rugby?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Gattopardo on 28 November, 2010, 03:34:09 pm
And, yes, we are starting to hit record lows:-

BBC News - Temperature drops to record -17C November low in Powys (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11856728)

(Powys is a long way from SW15 though...)

Who care its not London now where else matters :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 28 November, 2010, 03:57:43 pm
Shall I just quote my previous posts from every previous winter?

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No snow here.

Oh one day you'll get it - I remember getting stuck in snow in Pompey in, oh, 1990  ;)

There was a very light sprinkling in Mos Eisley Pompey at lunchtime today, as though someone had dusted the place with icing sugar.

Couldn't believe the amount of salt laid down outside Waitrose in Southsea - they must have been expecting another SNOpocalypse!  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 28 November, 2010, 04:02:52 pm
Couldn't believe the amount of salt laid down outside Waitrose in Southsea - they must have been expecting another SNOpocalypse!  :o

I noticed a bit of half arsed sprinkling of salt around some of the footways in Croydon last weekend, but it looked like it was more optimistic thinking than actually useful.  What looked like a trowels worth of salt chucked about once every 6 feet or more didn't seem to be a practical effort, and it'll probably all be gone by next week when any snow and ice may actually hit!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 28 November, 2010, 04:05:04 pm
Where are all the photos then?

Here you go.

(http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/lindagordinho/novembersnow002.jpg)

Taken through the window.  I'm not going out there.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 28 November, 2010, 05:48:16 pm
Bloody hell!  It was cold this morning. (In West Wales)
I made a run for it today, instead of tomorrow, while the pack ice on our hill allowed me to escape.  Thought I'd better get up to Brum before a whole lot more of it comes down and I end up marooned again.
I was worried 'cos I'd not set the heating in Brum to come on if the temp went below 0 degrees.

Bugger me, this house is freezing too.   Think I'll whack the heating on and bugger off to (see sig).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nutkin on 28 November, 2010, 05:52:15 pm
Still




no






snow







 >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 28 November, 2010, 05:53:03 pm
-8C outside at the moment...

Only about 1/2" of snow so far though...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 28 November, 2010, 06:09:10 pm
Our road this afternoon

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/5215095446_aeca4fcc44.jpg)

The corner is going to be fun tomorrow morning...

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5126/5215095982_614ab3ba23.jpg)

And this is how our patio was looking

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/5215094060_a437cf2928.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: noggy on 28 November, 2010, 06:12:31 pm
15 inches of the white stuff here (NE Scotchland)

seriously debating taking the bus to work tomorrow :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 November, 2010, 06:36:03 pm
15 inches???!!!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 November, 2010, 06:36:32 pm
15 inches???!!!

I think he means snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: noggy on 28 November, 2010, 06:48:34 pm
15 inches???!!!

aye Mrs P watch the Bridge of Don tomorrow! ;)

as measured on the bike shed this morning
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 28 November, 2010, 07:05:32 pm
15 inches of the white stuff here (NE Scotchland)

seriously debating taking the bus to work tomorrow :-\

And what is the Scotch bus snow threshold exactly? Is 15 inches considered "a dusting" or "barely more than a frost"?

Just asking, because in the SE, buses are stopped City Wide for 1/30th of that depth  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 28 November, 2010, 07:20:13 pm
The busses were intermittent but sort of running in Dundee. We have had about 8 inches today. The busses were not running when I left the hospital to catch a bus so I walked the 2 miles home. And was passed by two busses en route.

My son (wee Alan) is currently stuch in Lochearnhead. He is on a weekend camp with the Boys' Brigade and now won't get home till Monday. Not that he will miss any lessons as all the Dundee schools are off tomorrow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 November, 2010, 07:23:37 pm
First snow of the year:

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/5204530757_8e66feba78.jpg)

Here's the same view yesterday:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/5215351000_b8f61b0acd.jpg)

And some photos from when we went waxwing hunting yesterday (but didn't see any, boo)
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4083/5214742593_ac4260ea34.jpg)

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4127/5215349728_a320b2284d.jpg)

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5081/5214754395_658b292dcb_z.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 November, 2010, 07:27:20 pm
It snowed quite a lot last night, but most of it melted today so I don't think we've got a net gain in snow depth since these photos were taken.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 28 November, 2010, 07:30:09 pm
Couldn't believe the amount of salt laid down outside Waitrose in Southsea - they must have been expecting another SNOpocalypse!  :o

Noticed something similar in our village. The roads and pavements were so thick with salt that I thought it'd been snowing. Probably because this is the first year anyone has round here has actually bothered stockpiling grit and as they've got it they want to try it.

Not a flake here yet this winter.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 28 November, 2010, 07:52:42 pm
Not a flake in Liverpool yet  :(    I've just got home after riding back from my parents. Brrrrr..... the thermometer thingy says it's below freezing on my balcony, 4 floors up.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CAMRAMan on 28 November, 2010, 08:28:22 pm
Just a dusting in Warwick, but -8.4C in our back garden last night!

Good job I dug the winter duvet out earlier in the evening.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 28 November, 2010, 08:33:29 pm
We haz NO SNO
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 28 November, 2010, 11:24:16 pm
Couldn't believe the amount of salt laid down outside Waitrose in Southsea - they must have been expecting another SNOpocalypse!  :o

Noticed something similar in our village. The roads and pavements were so thick with salt that I thought it'd been snowing. Probably because this is the first year anyone has round here has actually bothered stockpiling grit and as they've got it they want to try it.

Not a flake here yet this winter.

Salt is only any good for heavy frosts or very slight snowfalls. More than a half inch and it will be diluted and lost when the road is ploughed.

Still falling here - about 9" so far.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feline on 29 November, 2010, 12:33:46 am
Still some snow in the hills round us, but the roads are pretty clear.

My kids went up there while I was at work yesterday looking for snow deep enough to have a snow ball fight or sledge in.
I should probably post this in the how many layers thread ... Natalie went up there in shorts and tights LMAO

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/CIMG3362.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 29 November, 2010, 12:46:44 am
s' apparently very hard to predict how far inland the snow will come when it's convective showers. So we might be ok or we might not.

I think I'll commute on snow tyres tomorrow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 29 November, 2010, 12:50:20 am
So.  As Monday will be a non-working day for me, I'll get up late, see how you lot got on, and make my decisions early Tuesday morning.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 29 November, 2010, 12:58:32 am
Last year when we had snow, I cycled home on it with no problems, since it was fresh snow.  The next day the cars had had a chance to flatten the snow into a solid icy layer that was impossible to cycle on.

So, I reckon I'll be able to cycle home in the snow one day, and switch over to the studded tyres before cycling again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 29 November, 2010, 01:01:20 am
Last year when we had snow, I cycled home on it with no problems, since it was fresh snow.  The next day the cars had had a chance to flatten the snow into a solid icy layer that was impossible to cycle on.

So, I reckon I'll be able to cycle home in the snow one day, and switch over to the studded tyres before cycling again.

I got studded tyres after that didn't work.  2003?  They'd already flattened it to ice by the time I set off.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: kyuss on 29 November, 2010, 01:49:18 am
It started snowing again at 9pm and still hasn't stopped yet. Judging by the table in the garden and the fact the recycling bins have now totally disappeared there's at least 1ft, likely more. The trees look pretty though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: kyuss on 29 November, 2010, 04:23:04 am
Still hasn't stopped. Not sure how bad it is in town (Edinburgh) but on the outskirts here in Bilston/Loanhead it's getting pretty serious. I don't think I've ever seen snow so deep. If it wasn't so dark I'd take some pics. It's fairly impressive.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 29 November, 2010, 07:06:46 am
Still hasn't stopped. Not sure how bad it is in town (Edinburgh) but on the outskirts here in Bilston/Loanhead it's getting pretty serious. I don't think I've ever seen snow so deep. If it wasn't so dark I'd take some pics. It's fairly impressive.

This is my 16th winter in Embra and I've never seen anything like it.  Well over a foot here in Colinton.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 29 November, 2010, 07:48:20 am
Still bugger all(ish) here in Cambridge.  :(

There was a very short flurry overnight/early this morning - but the skies are now clearing...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: newtoncap on 29 November, 2010, 08:02:57 am
We've had more snow overnight in County Durham - I'm meant to be driving down to York today and then Lincoln and back on Wednesday but i'm not sure I want to risk it. 

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 29 November, 2010, 08:18:30 am
Aye, it's 'orrible in Darlo.  It's just started snowing again.  Luckily I've several (mainly) traffic-free routes to work.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hulver on 29 November, 2010, 08:24:27 am
Snowing in Sheffield. Comes in dribs and drabs. There is a flurry for a bit, then nothing, then some more. The sky is very grey though, looks like there is a lot more to come.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: valkyrie on 29 November, 2010, 09:12:24 am
For the first time ever I'm snowed in today and can't get to work. Tried at 7am this morning but couldn't even get the car out of the drive. About 8" of fresh snow on a base of compacted icy snow = no traction at all. Looks lovely now! West Lothian seems to be one of the worst hit places in Scotland - all schools closed etc.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 29 November, 2010, 09:17:38 am
We've had no snow in Lancashire, but it was -7 at midnight. I'm supposed to be planting trees in Blackpool tomorrow.
Spare a thought for everyone trying to organise schoolgroups to plant in ground like iron, it's National Tree Week all week.

Update, it's just started snowing a bit here. Yad Moss had its first day skiing of the season yesterday.
Snow Report (http://www.yadmoss.co.uk/snow-and-weather-report)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 November, 2010, 09:25:07 am
15 inches???!!!

aye Mrs P watch the Bridge of Don tomorrow! ;)

as measured on the bike shed this morning

More like 1.5" in the Bridge of Don this morning.....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 29 November, 2010, 09:37:58 am
Another inch or so overnight. I think the council have looked at the weather forecast and decided that everyone should stay at home. I am at work but the Uni is officially closed.

Will fit the winter tyres when I get home.

..d
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 29 November, 2010, 09:41:50 am
Yay! :thumbsup:

It snowed for about ½ an hour as I was coming into work.

Boo!  :'(

It's stopped snowing and the sun is out melting the snow.

I want proper snow so that I can have some real fun on Regina, who has been kitted out with some knobblies...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: RJ on 29 November, 2010, 10:12:39 am
Still hasn't stopped. Not sure how bad it is in town (Edinburgh) but on the outskirts here in Bilston/Loanhead it's getting pretty serious. I don't think I've ever seen snow so deep. If it wasn't so dark I'd take some pics. It's fairly impressive.

This is my 16th winter in Embra and I've never seen anything like it.  Well over a foot here in Colinton.
Schools are off and our office move is taking longer than planned so I've been instructed to work from home anyway.

Just started snowing again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 29 November, 2010, 10:20:03 am
Aye, it's 'orrible in Darlo.  It's just started snowing again.  Luckily I've several (mainly) traffic-free routes to work.

Lucky you.  I just got home from my night shift.  I've had more abuse this morning than in my whole life.  I've no idea why, no-one was going anywhere fast today.  I walked some of it, it was just too scary. 

Maybe they thought cycling looked too easy and they should make it a bit harder for me?

 >:(

I actually think one person thought he was being helpful, by telling me I was going to be run over.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 November, 2010, 10:20:27 am
We had a flurry around 8 a.m. but the sun's out again now.

The Met Office can't make their minds up: there's an orange severe weather warning for all the British east-coast counties, which warns us of 2 - 5cm, but the detailed forecast for today in Southend forecasts clear skies until this evening.

Doesn't make much sense to me.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: JohnP on 29 November, 2010, 10:35:27 am
Still no snow here in Herts.

Norwegian forecast for Southend shows a wet few days coming up TinyURL.com - shorten that long URL into a tiny URL (http://preview.tinyurl.com/38xkhkv ) but sleet and snow for Welwyn TinyURL.com - shorten that long URL into a tiny URL (http://preview.tinyurl.com/266o3d3).

The laurels at the end of the garden have stopped waving around - looks like a riding window is opening up.  May only manage under 10 miles but ...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 29 November, 2010, 10:45:36 am
We had a flurry around 8 a.m. but the sun's out again now.

The Met Office can't make their minds up: there's an orange severe weather warning for all the British east-coast counties, which warns us of 2 - 5cm, but the detailed forecast for today in Southend forecasts clear skies until this evening.

Doesn't make much sense to me.
It's highly variable. Leeds has about 2" of snow, York has 6". My kids tell me Malton had about a foot, but not any good for making snowballs with.

And, Linda, that's really crap. I've seen people driving like that, they are stark raving bonkers. Ice, less space on the road, but they still push through just as if they have a divine right.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 29 November, 2010, 11:25:06 am
Just had another dumping of snow here in Norfolk. Looks lovely  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andyoxon on 29 November, 2010, 11:27:03 am
Vale of the White Horse (Oxon) still snow free.  May have some tomorrow - early hours apparently.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 29 November, 2010, 11:32:44 am
Ordanance Survey van pulled out in front of me as I came along the hard-packed snow on my snow tyres at 12mph.

If you're not capable of doing more than 5mph why are you pulling out in front of a vehicle capable of 2.5x the speed?

Mostly the roads were clear, though.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 29 November, 2010, 11:37:53 am
It seems to be snowing due to relief and convection effects inland with more generalised falls on the coast. In York on Friday night it snowed more than in the surrounding areas. The warm air rising from the city caused the snowfall. There is very little air movement so there is not as much snow as you might expect over the hills. I'd be expecting to see the most snow at the head of East coast valleys where the progressive narrowing causes cloud to form. In flat areas inland there's nothing to make it snow. It will change if the wind gets up.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 29 November, 2010, 11:41:27 am
The same picture but 20 hours later after a further night of snowfall. 

(http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/lindagordinho/novembersnow.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 November, 2010, 11:51:13 am
Tiniest dusting on the windscreen this morning but nothing since.  Want SNO >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tom_e on 29 November, 2010, 12:42:25 pm
Good heavy stuff with big flakes stinging my eyes on the way in this morning (must dig out the ski goggles).  Unfortunately it only lasted for 15 minutes, and is now slowly melting off everywhere.

Dear Santa,
    More SNOW please!
ta,
Tom
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 29 November, 2010, 01:10:34 pm
Snowy ere. (http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/DSC00138.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: arabella on 29 November, 2010, 01:13:04 pm
and here, pah, thought I'd got away from it.
Road was filled with motorised boxes gettiing in my way this morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 November, 2010, 01:14:08 pm
We haven't had any snow to speak of, and I'm already fed up with the bloody stuff! ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: GrahamG on 29 November, 2010, 01:30:21 pm
Same here, not conducive to the winter miles (I hate main road slogging).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cyclops on 29 November, 2010, 02:50:42 pm
It's been snowing here on and off since Saturday.

I decided against cycling to work due to the fact most lorries and buses on the roads seemed to be spending a lot of their time sliding sideways. So I walked into town past bus drivers trying to dig their buses out from bus stops with a shovel and had a lovely waltzer ride in a bus to work. The snow I had to shovel off our path at work was about 24 inches deep in places which provided a more thorough workout than a bike ride would have.

On Saturday I was waiting to cross the road at a pelican crossing and a bus was about 30 metres away doing about 15mph maximum. He was completely unable to stop for the red light and slid right through the crossing. Luckily I resisted the temptation to step off the pavement when the green man came on.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 29 November, 2010, 03:29:26 pm
Aye, it's 'orrible in Darlo.  It's just started snowing again.  Luckily I've several (mainly) traffic-free routes to work.

Lucky you.  I just got home from my night shift.  I've had more abuse this morning than in my whole life.  I've no idea why, no-one was going anywhere fast today.  I walked some of it, it was just too scary. 

Maybe they thought cycling looked too easy and they should make it a bit harder for me?

 >:(

I actually think one person thought he was being helpful, by telling me I was going to be run over.

 >:(

Pack of mongrels.

It wasn;t quite the perfect winter wonderland in Darlo - at one point I was riding behind a car going about 5 mph, and in front of another car, the driver of which was seriously over-revving his engine, and I wondered if I might be the meat in the sandwich.  He eventually overtook us both, only for me to go past two minutes later in the queue for the lights ::-)

South Park was stunning, though.  Being the first to cycle in 7 or 8 inches of new snow certainly warmed me up.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 29 November, 2010, 05:12:38 pm
Still snowing.

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4133/5217877537_a3cb7d1b70_z.jpg)

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5010/5218453330_7705cc57b5_z.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 29 November, 2010, 05:36:00 pm
According to the NHS Weather Report, we're supposed to be getting up to a couple of inches of snow overnight, with more to follow tomorrow.  :thumbsup:

The west of the region (the west of Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire) should miss most of it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 29 November, 2010, 05:39:39 pm
Got to go to Datchett tomorrow.  Luckily I'd already planned to go by train, not car.  Having just been out (in the car :() I'm abandoning plans to ride to/from the station.  I'll do it at the Slough end, on the Brommie, but there are entertaining amounts of random ice on the lanes here.  It'd have meant leaving home v early, and it was about -10 this morning too.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 29 November, 2010, 05:46:55 pm
Are marathon winters not available in 16"? :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: citoyen on 29 November, 2010, 05:52:08 pm
Are marathon winters not available in 16"? :)

No, they aren't.  :(

d.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 29 November, 2010, 05:52:35 pm
This was the sight that greeted us this morning
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5165/5217915831_3296b3dba4.jpg)

And the front, after I'd cleared a path (again) !
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4086/5217914561_b5ec1419d3.jpg)

This afternoon, I walked down to the village.  Two branches from this tree had been brought down this morning, the first fell harmlessly across the road but the second, mid morning, smashed a parked car.
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/5218526896_e8148d9d46.jpg)

Further down the road...
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4091/5218521494_d851e4a141.jpg)

And in the village proper, a work party of (not very happy) squaddies from - I think - 3 Rifles had been deployed for a spot of community 'volunteering'
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5042/5217936047_7b2957e247.jpg)

An old boy in the doctor's surgery was saying it was the worst snow they'd had in the village since 1947.

As I got home, it started snowing again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 November, 2010, 06:02:03 pm
I walked the 3 miles to work today, in 8" of snow. I saw this

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Edinburgh/snowytree.jpg)

and I was overtaken by a man on skis.


Coming home tonight I saw a unicyclist.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 29 November, 2010, 06:31:51 pm
I didn't get to Germany yesterday. Set off with four hours to spare for the hours drive to the airport. Was OK until I got to York ring road where a blizzard hit and it took one and a half hours to get to the Harrogate turn off. OK again if very slow through the blizzard to Green Hammerton whereupon I hit stationary traffic and queued for over three hours to cross the A1 and get as far as Knaresborough was hoping the plane had been delayed. The after five hours total travel time and still not passed Harrogate they announced on the radio that the airport was shut. Gave up and came home. Which only took an hour as the traffic was lighter in the other direction letting the snow ploughs and gritters do their work. York bypass was also clear by the time I got to it. The police had closed several roads including the York to Scarborough one and the Driffield to Malton one (50 cars stuck in teh snow).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 29 November, 2010, 07:05:31 pm
Charterhall, the light in that first photo is amazing :D It almost looks like a studio 8)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: gordon taylor on 29 November, 2010, 07:18:34 pm
My BiL/SiL spent last night with 600 other people in a community centre somewhere in Perth. They were trying to drive back to Glasgow having visited their newborn grandson in Aberdeen.

Mother and baby are fine, thanks.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 29 November, 2010, 07:20:34 pm
Charterhall, the light in that first photo is amazing :D It almost looks like a studio 8)

I'm sure I've seen that birdtablelamppost in a film recently?

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 November, 2010, 08:10:03 pm
Had a bit of a moment here (http://www.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wellington+Road,+Aberdeen&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=13.365941,39.418945&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wellington+Rd,+Aberdeen,+United+Kingdom&ll=57.136444,-2.096258&spn=0.000754,0.002406&z=19&layer=c&cbll=57.136444,-2.096258&panoid=jSDjdpi5q_QOlmwsk9kDTw&cbp=12,285.18,,0,5) when the car I was a passenger in failed to stop approaching the RAB. To avoid the car sitting first in the queue in the left hand lane the driver dived on to the pavement and ended up parked right alongside the car 1st in the queue, without touching anything else fortunately.
Even more fortunately there were no peds on the pavement.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 November, 2010, 09:04:05 pm
Just got this msg from Mybruvva:
Quote
the bastards at work sent the office staff home at 3:00 "on safety grounds" but didn't send any of us home. What a bunch of wankers.
nice
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: noisycrank on 29 November, 2010, 09:31:17 pm
Bit snowy here gravestone affro

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5088/5218396137_0467ea6a1b.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 November, 2010, 10:42:48 pm
We've had almost a cm of snow here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 29 November, 2010, 11:21:34 pm
same here;

I've a horrible feeling it's the Wrong Kind  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 29 November, 2010, 11:23:53 pm
Sleet and a headwind on the cards for me in the morning :( I really hope it is not so.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 30 November, 2010, 12:23:15 am
I had a lovely ride home. Snow tyres meant I went to play on the cycle path rather than my usual road route. I passed a few miserable looking cyclists pushing their bikes home in the not very deep snow. It was lovely; I reacquainted myself with the handling and experimented a few times with trying to lose rear wheel traction standing on the pedals. It can be done, but you don't completely lose traction as the studs dig in once the wheel starts to slip, I think. And if you stay sat down there is loads of traction, and going up steep slopes was easy.

Great fun, and snow tyres turn riding in snow from a chore to a giggle.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 30 November, 2010, 01:38:24 am
Hooray - the snow has turned to rain, and the remaining snow on the ground is melting  :thumbsup:.

So that's a 1/10 for trying to the Met Office then, who were predicting snomageddon here...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 November, 2010, 01:38:51 am
I must have done something terrible in a previous life, though possibly not as terrible as this gentleman:

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2495/3936651938_e2248582ab_z.jpg?zz=1)

as we currently hav not only no SNO here in NE Londonton but not even an icy-windscreen-stylee frost.

If there is still none tomorow morning I shall be Cross.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 30 November, 2010, 02:23:41 am
Definite traces of Jesus' dandruff (http://xkcd.com/826/) falling in Brum...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: gordon taylor on 30 November, 2010, 05:45:51 am
Pfff.

Less than an inch here. The midlands were geared up for the apocalypse after last night's forecast.

 >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jane on 30 November, 2010, 06:09:24 am
It is snowing in London today.  Fine stuff- not settling on the main roads but a little covering on the back streets.  Hmmm.  The Roughstuff still has no gear cables, brake pads or handlebar tape.  Main road commute should be Ok on the SS.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 30 November, 2010, 07:24:28 am
Snowing again when I woke up.  I'm just off to try and battle through it to get to the office (walking).  I might be gone some time.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 30 November, 2010, 07:26:39 am
I don't care that it's not much.

There is snow on the ground and I'm taking Regina to work... :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 30 November, 2010, 07:27:01 am


Pack of mongrels.

It wasn;t quite the perfect winter wonderland in Darlo - at one point I was riding behind a car going about 5 mph, and in front of another car, the driver of which was seriously over-revving his engine, and I wondered if I might be the meat in the sandwich.  He eventually overtook us both, only for me to go past two minutes later in the queue for the lights ::-)

South Park was stunning, though.  Being the first to cycle in 7 or 8 inches of new snow certainly warmed me up.

Yeah, gotta love the 'engine just behind my right ear' experience, combined with the 'might come off at any minute' for maximum edge of the saddle excitement.  And the special fun of seeing cars slide down the road 'cos there's no traction, knowing that the driver behind you has left no stopping distance.

I might go for a walk by the river today to remind myself that snow is a good thing, in the right place.

Only a very thin new layer this morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 30 November, 2010, 07:29:58 am
Sno in S Bucks and Herts today, M25 clear.

Slid across the car park (main routes are clear, but slippery once you get off them!)

Wonder how long it is before I call it a day and head back to the flat?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 30 November, 2010, 07:32:43 am
A fresh dump overnight.It will be interesting to see if we can get off the Close onto the main road which is passable .
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 30 November, 2010, 07:34:12 am
knowing that the driver behind you has left no stopping distance.

I might go for a walk by the river today to remind myself that snow is a good thing, in the right place.

Only a very thin new layer this morning.

It's warmed up (1.3) and melting in York - but due to drop to -3 and more snow this arvo. So guess what that means? Snow on top of ice.

Working from home today - plumber hopefully coming in to fix boiler, which I want to make sure happens.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 30 November, 2010, 07:40:31 am
Not much overnight in Brum.
I'm taking the train, but that's because I feel crap, not 'cos of sno.  Honest.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 30 November, 2010, 07:43:18 am
knowing that the driver behind you has left no stopping distance.

I might go for a walk by the river today to remind myself that snow is a good thing, in the right place.

Only a very thin new layer this morning.

It's warmed up (1.3) and melting in York - but due to drop to -3 and more snow this arvo. So guess what that means? Snow on top of ice.

Working from home today - plumber hopefully coming in to fix boiler, which I want to make sure happens.
Tell him to come by mountain bike!   :D
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Post by: Jaded on 30 November, 2010, 07:44:25 am
We have quite a dusting. Yay! (it has warmed up considerably too)

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Post by: PaulF on 30 November, 2010, 08:04:31 am
Dusting here in Wimbledon too.
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Post by: Cyclops on 30 November, 2010, 08:12:32 am
And yet more snow. As it isn't warm enough to thaw it's getting deeper each day.

Last night whilst I was waiting to catch the bus home we had snow and lightning :o - never seen that before.
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Post by: matthew on 30 November, 2010, 08:14:34 am
Dusting in East Berks, all roads except the residential cul-de-sac clear.

want more snow but please to be letting me get home from work first!!
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Post by: delthebike on 30 November, 2010, 08:17:53 am
About three, slushy, inches and a light sleet falling at almost-but-not-quite-dawn o'clock today.

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_45o2t790K90/TPSzFGUTmqI/AAAAAAAAGGU/5p3H5xLuZi4/s640/pb303536.jpg)

Very wet snow and I don't think it'll last two days!

edit: BICBW as it is now a heavy snow shower!  ::-)
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Post by: MattH on 30 November, 2010, 08:40:57 am
Very light dusting here - but it is now snowing again (small, wet flakes).

Unfortunately I need to drive into London today  :(
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Post by: Jaded on 30 November, 2010, 08:42:49 am

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2495/3936651938_e2248582ab_z.jpg?zz=1)

That is a most extraordinary mirror, most magical!
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Post by: eck on 30 November, 2010, 09:08:51 am
And yet more snow. As it isn't warm enough to thaw it's getting deeper each day.

Last night whilst I was waiting to catch the bus home we had snow and lightning :o - never seen that before.
Yes, we've had that up here the past couple of nights. Wierd.
The first time I experienced that was on the Easter Arrow a couple of years ago, riding with Mr & Mrs Megajoules, McNasty and otherdave. It was in the middle of the night, on the plateau after the slither up Sutton Bank. Terrifying. But I don't like to talk about it.  :-X
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Post by: JohnP on 30 November, 2010, 09:11:02 am
In excess of 2 mm of snow on the cars this morning here in WGC.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 30 November, 2010, 09:12:28 am
It's snowing here this morning, which is not surprising since we live about half a mile from Del, who has already reported snow in his neck of the woods.

It looks as though the temperature is above freezing though. However, snow tyres onto the bike today I think.

More to come on Thurs then warmer on Saturday, according to the Met Office.
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Post by: bobb on 30 November, 2010, 09:31:15 am
When I turned the radio on this morning I was really scared by what I heard. I thought world war three had started somewhere in mid Essex. Imagine my relief when all the fuss was about a couple of inches of snow....  ::-)
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Post by: andygates on 30 November, 2010, 09:33:42 am
Devon really isn't trying.  Not like the refrozen slush-gutters of granny-spinning DETH on the M8 yesterday morning...
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Post by: Tom B on 30 November, 2010, 09:42:05 am
First snow in Manchester, up to 1/2" in places  :)
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Post by: LEE on 30 November, 2010, 09:44:40 am
When I turned the radio on this morning I was really scared by what I heard. I thought world war three had started somewhere in mid Essex. Imagine my relief when all the fuss was about a couple of inches of snow....  ::-)

It's bloody stupid isn't it.

Snow is weather, it should be part of the weather bulletin.  For some reason snow, in Winter, is the main news item.

I'm sick of seeing some shivering reporter stood in a street, covered with a light dusting of snow, talking as if some Martian invasion was taking place.

"Here is the main story, it's Snowing in November.  Now here is the weather.....It's November, it's cold and it's snowing a bit...now over to your regional news....it's cold and looks like it may snow soon...now here's the local weather....it's snowing...now back to London for the main news story....it's November, it's cold and it's Snowing....Don't miss tonight's Panorama where we investigate why it always seems to get cold and snowy around this time of year, scientists seem to agree that it may be linked to Winter"

Someone tell me if it's snowing in August and I'll be surprised

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Post by: Charlotte on 30 November, 2010, 10:55:59 am
Out of my office window in North West London a little earlier this morning:

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b187/vicechair/14f4a53a.jpg)

It's going in fits and starts now, but there's still plenty of scope for settling...
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Post by: Chris S on 30 November, 2010, 11:06:38 am
It's newsworthy because people expect to be able to go about their lives no matter what. We've lost our connection with the outside world, and think it's our god-given right to live like it was a benign day in June, all year round.

When nature intervenes, we feel violated. We look for someone to blame - "Why weren't the roads gritted? You knew this was going to happen a week ago!".

We've lost the ability to adapt to the environment we find ourselves in. It's sad. A bit pitiful really.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 November, 2010, 11:10:48 am


Someone tell me if it's snowing in August and I'll be surprised



There was a hotly disputed report in the 1970s some time when John Arlott reported that snow had stopped play in a June match at Ilkeston, Derbyshire.

I do recall a very amusing day in May, circa 1966, when my dad decided to mow the lawn. It started snowing very hard but, having begun, he wouldn't stop. The rest of the family watched with great mirth from the warmth of the front room.

This was 18th May and has become one of those frequently told family tales. The date was easy for us to remember because it was my sister's birthday.
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Post by: bobb on 30 November, 2010, 11:22:10 am
It was supposed to be at Buxton wasn't it?
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Post by: Wowbagger on 30 November, 2010, 11:33:53 am
It was supposed to be at Buxton wasn't it?
Quote
Famously, snow stopped play at a county cricket match between Derbyshire and Lancashire in Buxton, where snow reached an inch deep. Snow also delayed play between Essex and Kent at Colchester, accompanied by midday temperatures of 2oC (36oF), and John Arlott reported snow at a cricket match at Lord's.

is taken from http://www.buxtoncc.org/Snow%20Stopped%20Play.doc .

Perhaps there were two incidents? The main reason it sticks in my mind was that Arlott was called a liar by someone else who was there and the whole thing dragged on in the Grauniad for quite some time. The quote I've found certainly confirms that snow stopped play in Buxton, but if Arlott was reporting snow at Lords he couldn't have been in Derbyshire. Unless, of course, he was reporting a match from the comfort of the saloon bar and simply forgot where he was. He was the Grauniad's wine correspondent as well as writing on cricket.

Oh well, such is ancient history.
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Post by: border-rider on 30 November, 2010, 11:39:09 am
I can remember a fair snow fall on the Great Orme at Llandudno one June in the late 70s. 
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Post by: bobb on 30 November, 2010, 11:40:26 am
I've heard the story a million times and its never the same! The only consistent parts are Derbyshire, Lancashire, Clive Lloyd and Dickie Bird. Other than that it may or may not have happened anywhere in the world!
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Post by: Chris S on 30 November, 2010, 11:48:42 am
#2 son has a snow day, which is interesting since it rained last night and a lot of what little snow there was, melted.

This country's gone fucking crazy...  :facepalm:
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Post by: border-rider on 30 November, 2010, 11:49:34 am
Just enough snow here to deter much distance being put from the cat flap :)

(http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/bosphorus/kittyprints.jpg)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 30 November, 2010, 11:53:46 am
I have fitted my Schwalbe Snow tyres and will be using them for a commute in a few minutes.

I have postponed my after-school session today. The forecast is bad and even if the school doesn't close, and extra hour involving going home in the dark is not what parents will want.
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Post by: border-rider on 30 November, 2010, 11:56:25 am
I was supposed to be going to Slough today, by train.  I got up and decided it was a bad idea. I might have got stuck there- or even Swindon   :o
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Post by: eck on 30 November, 2010, 11:58:36 am
Just enough snow here to deter much distance being put from the cat flap :)

Our street yesterday
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5285/5220767430_b4abb54cbb.jpg)

And what Mia The Cat thinks of the snow
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4083/5220767490_770f131a42.jpg)
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Post by: Bledlow on 30 November, 2010, 12:04:19 pm
Reading's getting it at last. There was a thin layer on the ground this morning, & it's snowing again now.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 November, 2010, 12:06:27 pm
I've given up on the spiked tyres. I was walking, pushing the bike to get on to the (completely clear) main road off our estate and fell while crossing a side road which had been completely polished to sheet ice. I then landed on the bike, whimpered a bit and then tried to push it back home, which was interesting as the wheel doesn't turn very well anymore. Bike and arse are a bit bent.

Yes, I know I'm a disgrace to cycling kind, but I don't care anymore. I've got my little snow boots fitted with my yaktrax (http://www.yaktrax.co.uk) so at least I can stay upright now.
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Post by: jogler on 30 November, 2010, 12:15:33 pm
I can remember a fair snow fall on the Great Orme at Llandudno one June in the late 70s. 

I remember that too.My son was amazed to have snow on his birthday :)
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Post by: clarion on 30 November, 2010, 12:18:18 pm
Just hearing various bods on the radio talking about how 'brutal' this weather is. >:(

It's just weather!  Of the sort we can expect in winter.  Moderately unusual for November, but not out of the ordinary at all.
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Post by: Dez on 30 November, 2010, 12:20:19 pm
I like that my weather forecast now has snow settling on it  :D

(http://dez.yacf.net/snowforecast.png)
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Post by: Regulator on 30 November, 2010, 12:23:01 pm
Just hearing various bods on the radio talking about how 'brutal' this weather is. >:(

It's just weather!  Of the sort we can expect in winter.  Moderately unusual for November, but not out of the ordinary at all.

To be fair, some of the temperatures recorded recently have been record lows.  And over the next few days it will get worse as the easterly winds pick up.

I went out earlier and the temperature dropped a couple of degrees in half an hour as the wind chill kicked in.
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Post by: Dez on 30 November, 2010, 12:37:15 pm
The penguins at Edinburgh Zoo (http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/EZPenguinCam.html) look happy!
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Post by: clarion on 30 November, 2010, 12:49:58 pm
My buff, hat & gloves are warm on the radiator.  My socks are still not dry on the top of the boiler (I hope the heating engineer doesn't turn up right now :-\ ).

I'm actually looking forward to getting out there again later.
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Post by: LindaG on 30 November, 2010, 01:03:38 pm
I've given up on the spiked tyres. I was walking, pushing the bike to get on to the (completely clear) main road off our estate and fell while crossing a side road which had been completely polished to sheet ice. I then landed on the bike, whimpered a bit and then tried to push it back home, which was interesting as the wheel doesn't turn very well anymore. Bike and arse are a bit bent.

Yes, I know I'm a disgrace to cycling kind, but I don't care anymore. I've got my little snow boots fitted with my yaktrax (http://www.yaktrax.co.uk) so at least I can stay upright now.

Once the white stuff has gone those tyres will be much more useful.  Now I've got the bike home I'm walking everywhere.  It is much safer than driving or riding.  I walked past someone sliding down the road in his car just now - sideways  :facepalm: 
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Post by: Bledlow on 30 November, 2010, 01:04:38 pm
I can remember a fair snow fall on the Great Orme at Llandudno one June in the late 70s. 
Snowed in the Chilterns one early June night in the 1970s. I saw it from my bedroom window - the hills a few miles away glowing white in the dawn light.

Bloody freezing, it was.
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Post by: Phil21 on 30 November, 2010, 01:06:56 pm
A light dusting in Maidenhead, mostly melted now.
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Post by: David Martin on 30 November, 2010, 01:13:30 pm
I've given up on the spiked tyres. I was walking, pushing the bike to get on to the (completely clear) main road off our estate and fell while crossing a side road which had been completely polished to sheet ice. I then landed on the bike, whimpered a bit and then tried to push it back home, which was interesting as the wheel doesn't turn very well anymore. Bike and arse are a bit bent.

Yes, I know I'm a disgrace to cycling kind, but I don't care anymore. I've got my little snow boots fitted with my yaktrax (http://www.yaktrax.co.uk) so at least I can stay upright now.

That is a shame. It is often safer riding the bike than pushing it.

I was on my way to work one winter and that involved a short but steep climb here Google Maps (http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=59.923362,10.697414&spn=0.000475,0.001088&t=h&z=20)
You cross a bridge and go up a steep slope. The slope was covered with 'boilerplate' ice.

I got most of the way up before losing my nerve. Put my foot down and then ended up sliding back to the bottom of the hill with the bike on top of me. It would have been better to just keep going.

Anyway, much sympathy and grab some extra hot chocolate.

..d
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Post by: Panoramix on 30 November, 2010, 01:19:13 pm
We had a slight dusting in Bristol. It is melting now!
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Post by: perpetual dan on 30 November, 2010, 01:33:15 pm
Mildly scenic in Brighton today. The snow came off the car easier than the frost the last few days (but still I saw someone pouring hot water on their windscreen). Misses Dan were very excited at the possibility of a snow day and making snow gruffalo, but somehow everyone seems to be struggling in. I gave my students a quick talk on how to know when campus is closed.

I'm wishing I'd ordered the snow tyres earlier, but I don't think I'll be really needing them today.

Mrs Pingu: I hope bike and arse are soon mended.
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Post by: Clandy on 30 November, 2010, 01:34:08 pm
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Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 November, 2010, 01:39:27 pm
I can remember a fair snow fall on the Great Orme at Llandudno one June in the late 70s. 

In June 1975 Timo Makinen threw a big strop at the Ford mechanics because they didn't have SNO tyres available for the Scottish Rally.

Natch the Diana Express has a front page headline dissing "Global Warming" today, because they are worthless ignorant snivelling fuckpigs.
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Post by: hellymedic on 30 November, 2010, 01:45:31 pm
We has London SNO. Thin and half-hearted with little chance of settling seriously.
Outside temperature around 1°C.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 30 November, 2010, 01:49:00 pm
Just hearing various bods on the radio talking about how 'brutal' this weather is. >:(

It's just weather!  Of the sort we can expect in winter.  Moderately unusual for November, but not out of the ordinary at all.

It's exceptional for November. This sort of weather in mid-to-late December is moderately unusual.

What I want to find out, but don't know how, is whether there's any warm water at all coming to our shores from the Caribbean. If there isn't, and that situation endures, then this sort of weather could become normal for November.
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Post by: Ian H on 30 November, 2010, 01:49:52 pm
PeterM and I rode past light dustings of snow on the way to the AUK agm at York last Thursday and Friday. But the main impression of the ride was that it was blood-freezingly cold.  The snow fell overnight while we were there. We took the train home to King's Cross, the snow diminishing as went south. Across London was fine if rather cold. On Monday I rode to Reading to collect my car and return to Devon. Salisbury Plain was -1 and patchy white. East Devon is mostly green, though the roads are hard frozen. Currently I'm in a remote rural office and keeping a weather-eye on the snow flurries at the window.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 30 November, 2010, 01:52:48 pm
Natch the Diana Express has a front page headline dissing "Global Warming" today, because they are worthless ignorant snivelling fuckpigs.

I can sympathise with their confusion, here's a Guardian article from 2004.

Quote
"Unfortunately, it's just getting too hot for the Scottish ski industry," said David Viner, of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. "It is very vulnerable to climate change; the resorts have always been marginal in terms of snow and, as the rate of climate change increases, it is hard to see a long-term future."

Adam Watson, from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Banchory, Aberdeenshire, believes the industry has no more than 20 years left.

Global warming forces sale of Scottish winter sports resorts | UK news | The Guardian  (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/feb/14/climatechange.scotland)

I prefer not to characterise any group as 'worthless ignorant snivelling fuckpigs', because they can't both be wrong. surely?

Thursday looks to be the best bet for skiing at Yad Moss, a bit windy, but the weekend seems to be forecast misty.
Snow Report (http://www.yadmoss.co.uk/snow-and-weather-report)

 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 30 November, 2010, 01:54:24 pm
Don't like it and don't want it, not much in North Oxfordshire but anyone wants it bring your own bucket.
                                                         ;D
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Post by: TimO on 30 November, 2010, 01:59:40 pm
It was snowing quite heavily, and had settled quite a thick layer in Croydon when I left.  I only had a couple of iffy moments on some totally fresh thick snow, but otherwise made much faster progress than the cars which I went past were making.

In South Kensington it's snowing on and off, but not settling.  There was essentially very little snow from Clapham Common onwards, I guess the Thames flood plain is just that little bit warmer, enough to stop snow from settling.
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Post by: Yorkshireman on 30 November, 2010, 02:00:00 pm
In our little bit of Lincolnshire we're having alternate showers of big fluffy flakes, fine dusty stuff and 'bright' intervals. It's cold but not freezing - yet ...
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h270/Yorkshireman1/Snow/2010_1130Snow0001.jpg)

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Post by: Salvatore on 30 November, 2010, 02:00:27 pm
Plenty in North Lincolnshire this morning

(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff320/jspooner99/IMG_2267.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 November, 2010, 02:03:19 pm
Natch the Diana Express has a front page headline dissing "Global Warming" today, because they are worthless ignorant snivelling fuckpigs.

I can sympathise with their confusion, here's a Guardian article from 2004.

Quote
"Unfortunately, it's just getting too hot for the Scottish ski industry," said David Viner, of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. "It is very vulnerable to climate change; the resorts have always been marginal in terms of snow and, as the rate of climate change increases, it is hard to see a long-term future."

Adam Watson, from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Banchory, Aberdeenshire, believes the industry has no more than 20 years left.

Global warming forces sale of Scottish winter sports resorts | UK news | The Guardian  (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/feb/14/climatechange.scotland)

I prefer not to characterise any group as 'worthless ignorant snivelling fuckpigs', because they can't both be wrong. surely?

Thursday looks to be the best bet for skiing at Yad Moss, a bit windy, but the weekend seems to be forecast misty.
Snow Report (http://www.yadmoss.co.uk/snow-and-weather-report)

 

But David Viner could well be right: the general increase in air temperature whilst the Atlantic Conveyor works would indeed make circumstances favourable for skiing in Scotland less likely.

However, if the Atlantic Conveyor has stopped (or at least, has stopped coming as far as our shores) then that would indeed make cold, snowy weather much more likely. If that's happened, then it's proved scientists right because they said that was what would happen.

The only problem is use of language. Global warming is accurate insofar that the average temperature of the planet is indeed increasing, but it does give ammunition to the WISFs when local conditions buck the trend.

Climate change is better in some ways, but then the WISFs tell us that the climate is always changing. So it is, but previously it hasn't been down to the activities of humans.

The fact remains that January this year was the warmest ever recorded globally, whereas of course it was bloody cold here. Apparently 2010 is currently rivalling 1998 as the warmest year ever recorded.
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 30 November, 2010, 02:14:44 pm
The fact remains that January this year was the warmest ever recorded globally, whereas of course it was bloody cold here. Apparently 2010 is currently rivalling 1998 as the warmest year ever recorded.

Agreed yeah, but journalists are generalists at best, serving the readers as best they can. One moment the Guardian is citing the closure of Ski resorts as linked to global warming, the next the Express is saying that cold weather disproves global warming. it's as well to look at who the papers are preaching to. Climate has become politicised, and some would extend that politicisation to Weather.
We'll be burning witches eventually if we go down that route, it might take the chill off I suppose.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 30 November, 2010, 02:20:36 pm
Much of our vegetation benefits from cold spells, which tends to point to episodes such as the present one as normal. The question has to be whether the run of warm winters were the aberration.
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Hereford/Worcs | Warm winters 'ruin' currant crop (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/6139068.stm)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 November, 2010, 02:36:49 pm
The fact remains that January this year was the warmest ever recorded globally, whereas of course it was bloody cold here. Apparently 2010 is currently rivalling 1998 as the warmest year ever recorded.

Agreed yeah, but journalists are generalists at best, serving the readers as best they can. One moment the Guardian is citing the closure of Ski resorts as linked to global warming, the next the Express is saying that cold weather disproves global warming. it's as well to look at who the papers are preaching to. Climate has become politicised, and some would extend that politicisation to Weather.
We'll be burning witches eventually if we go down that route, it might take the chill off I suppose.

The difference is that the scientist in 2004 was making that statement in the light of the knowledge at the time. The vast majority of scientists' predictions relating to climate change have come true far more quickly than they expected them to, but we've only got hindsight to tell us that.

The D. Express is ignoring all scientific knowledge and is therefore just wrong.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rower40 on 30 November, 2010, 02:44:16 pm
Friday night - 3 inches fell.  Very little thawed between then and now.
Last night - another inch or so - covering up all the footprints etc.
All day today there's been a few sprinkles, then every now and again a huge splurge.

Enough to make me resort to using the bus.  The Windcheetah isn't very practical as a commute - I end up getting really filthy on the gritted roads and melted puddles, and the front wheels dump mud onto the rear panniers.

(Can you take your POBI-discussion of Global Warming elsewhere? I want to read about everyone's weather experiences!  ;) )
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 November, 2010, 02:49:40 pm
Back on topic.

We've got between 2 and 3 inches lying now, I reckon, and that would have been twice as much if the temperature had actually been below freezing.

I put my snow tyres on and commuted, but it was the wrong sort of snow. They work best when it's freezing and the snow is compacted. It's slush with lumps of ice in at the moment and I had a couple of dodgy moments.

However, they were not so dodgy as one which befell a large articulated lorry attempting to turn from our road. My attention was drawn by the loud revving of a large diesel engine. The wheels were spinning impressively, whether he tried to go forward or back, and for quite some time all he succeeded in doing was moving sideways and I was contemplating evacuating something.

Eventually he got a grip and moved off.

Our front room is still standing.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 November, 2010, 03:04:51 pm
We has London SNO. Thin and half-hearted with little chance of settling seriously.
Outside temperature around 1°C.

I had an e-mail from TWFKAML about half an hour ago - she reports up to 6" in Crystal Palace park.  They've got their own weather system up there though.

Coming down with a bit more conviction in Harlot now but not settling worth a damn.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 30 November, 2010, 03:13:16 pm
We has SNO in Mos Eisley Pompey, but it's a mere sprinkling that won't last long, chiz.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 30 November, 2010, 03:20:44 pm
No snow in Poland till yesterday, which is unusually late in the year. Now so deep the Cudzos are cut off!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 30 November, 2010, 03:39:12 pm
No snow in Blackpool, but a biting wind. The schoolkids, who were supposed to come and plant a few trees, cried off.
It's been too cold for the Roundup to take effect where we sprayed off to prevent competition three weeks ago, so we don't know where to plant most of the trees, but we could plant a hedge.
So I sorted through 3,000 trees in a crate to find the 300 Hawthorn, only to discover they'd only sent 90, so turnover for two people and a 50 mile roundtrip = £45. Alba Trees' ears must have been turning blue, much like mine and Steve's.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: E.C. Ryder on 30 November, 2010, 03:46:07 pm
Been snowing on and off all day in South Ockendon.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 30 November, 2010, 03:52:42 pm
Glad that Blackpool is snow free ..... we are due to visit son&heir on Saturday.He lives near Bispham IIRC.
No snow = might take a bike with me
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 30 November, 2010, 04:01:26 pm
Glad that Blackpool is snow free ..... we are due to visit son&heir on Saturday.He lives near Bispham IIRC.
No snow = might take a bike with me

You could probably still cobble together a 200 on the main roads round here. But there are snow showers forecast tonight and tomorrow morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 30 November, 2010, 04:11:58 pm
First outing for the sno tyres since February... Fell over once  :-[

Overtook most of the motons on the 15 miles (even on the A61 dual carriageway) to work but it was quite hard going giving a good workout.

Looks like I may have to take the same shorter direct way home - the roads over the Peaks will be very slow going having about 8 inches plus.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kathy on 30 November, 2010, 04:29:26 pm
We've had about 4" here (Surrey Downs), and it's caused chaos. Trains cancelled, roads gridlocked, and lots of commuters discovering that the little country lane they use to cut three minutes off their journey isn't such a smart idea if you have no clue about how to drive in the snow.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tim on 30 November, 2010, 04:32:09 pm
We've had about 4" here (Surrey Downs), and it's caused chaos. Trains cancelled, roads gridlocked, and lots of commuters discovering that the little country lane they use to cut three minutes off their journey isn't such a smart idea if you have no clue about how to drive in the snow.  :facepalm:
We can't have had four inches yet, surely?

And the queue of cars trying to escape the office car park moves once every five minutes or so.

There are three cyclists in my corner of the office and we've given up all attempts at pretending not to be too smug.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: her_welshness on 30 November, 2010, 04:33:58 pm
Ah its bloody well started snowing again here in Clapham, with a vengeance - you were supposed to stop at 2p.m.  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 30 November, 2010, 04:42:01 pm
It's not stopped in SE1, though it has been half-hearted much of the day, with occasional bursts of energy.

I understand it's been making more of an effort back home.

*gulp*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kathy on 30 November, 2010, 04:47:56 pm
We've had about 4" here (Surrey Downs), and it's caused chaos. Trains cancelled, roads gridlocked, and lots of commuters discovering that the little country lane they use to cut three minutes off their journey isn't such a smart idea if you have no clue about how to drive in the snow.  :facepalm:
We can't have had four inches yet, surely?

We have at this end of the building - but then I *am* further north than you.  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 30 November, 2010, 05:20:17 pm
Traffic is flowing freely here.
There's no snow visible on the carriageway, just a thin dusting on the roofs, but I can see light,fine, frozen precipitation is occurring.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 November, 2010, 05:40:18 pm
We've got about a foot now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 30 November, 2010, 05:56:11 pm
Just been down to the village on the mountain bike with knobblies :D. That was FUN! The A232 was moving slowly, but there were 3 stranded buses. The alternative route was nose to tail in both directions for it's entire length and barely crawling at all. I rode down the middle :smug:. I wouldn't want to try to drive anywhere this evening.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ray 6701 on 30 November, 2010, 06:00:33 pm
Snowing a little for most of the day in Tamworth & there's a couple of inches outside now.  Metcheck says it will be snowing all day tomorrow so it's looking good for a walk & some photos on Thursday :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 30 November, 2010, 06:47:48 pm
Mrs C has just been outside with a tape measure.  18 inches.  Getting tiresome now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: gordon taylor on 30 November, 2010, 07:56:31 pm
Tell her to come inside with her tape measure now.

 ::-) ;) ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 November, 2010, 08:01:20 pm
We are forecast to get a -9 on Friday night / Saturday morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Polar Bear on 30 November, 2010, 08:04:05 pm
Tell her to come inside with her tape measure now.

 ::-) ;) ;D

She'll have cold hands...    :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nutkin on 30 November, 2010, 08:20:01 pm
YES!!! WE HAZ SNO!!!!   :thumbsup:


Well, sort of.  :-\


Walked to the station in fluffy white stuff about 2 1/2 inches deep with more big fluffy flakes falling from the sky. Lots of snow all the way into work. Get to work station - nothing. Not one flake.

Lots falling throughout the day, but nothing settled.


Get home and back to the land of snow. Although most of it has been compacted to ice now as they don't clear anything other than the bits of pavement with shops on. But we seem to have more than areas close by.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 30 November, 2010, 08:40:36 pm
There's a bus across the road parked up and won't be moving.
2 cars with damage from the bus
All because he thought he knew better then an older bus driver and couldn't wait for me to get some sand under his wheels to help him about.
I hope he gets the sack. Ill be writing a letter of complaint tomorrow as I hope others do.
I did help out a fit young girl though whose car was stuck sideways across the road
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 30 November, 2010, 09:43:22 pm
Bwwwaaaahahahahahahaaaa!

I love the combination of 24 Hour News and thick people.

News 24: "How long does it normally take you to drive to work?"
Thick Bloke: "15 minutes"
News 24: "How long did it take you today?"
Thick Bloke "An hour and a half"
News 24: "Why was that?"
Thick Bloke: "There was a lot of snow, and a jack-knifed lorry and stuff."

Fuck me, son - get off your lardy arse and fucking WALK!1
LOL! May oi larf.

------
1 Or cycle. Assumes enough intelligence to use appropriate equipment.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 30 November, 2010, 09:47:26 pm
I wished I'd left the bike at home today  :(

got to work OK; it didn't settle in London and I was togged up to the 9s when I left home on sno covered roads to the station;

the journey home was less enjoyable; Clapham Junction had seen about 2 trains south in as many hours; when the trains eventually crawled in it was a case of 10 sardines off 15 on, for about an hour and anybody with a bike no matter how foldable was liable to get set alight by the crowd for warmth. Tried jumping the stopping trains to Croydon to no avail either. Finally decided that if the one and only train to my station was full I was going to cycle to East Croydon. Lo and behold I got on  :). At EC 50% off the train got off to be replaced by another 60% back on. Lost my potential seat in the melee; plus having to stand in 8" of sno with bike at each platform to let everyone off. Finally when it looked like I might get a seat away from the icy blast near the door they decided to terminate the train and kicked us out on the platform to wait for the next one 15 min later (fair enough it was the only train they could actually run back up to London)

Everyone was in Dunkirk mood; wonder how many days that will last  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 November, 2010, 10:04:24 pm
The Tunnocks lorry! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11873781)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: eck on 30 November, 2010, 10:07:14 pm
The Tunnocks lorry! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11873781)
:hand:
Relax Kirst, I think it's a toy lorry.  :facepalm:
Our Caramel Wafers will get through.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: RJ on 30 November, 2010, 10:07:26 pm
School off again today.  Built a snow sauropod, to go next to the tyranosaurus; read (aloud) more of The Hobbit ...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 30 November, 2010, 10:12:52 pm
I wished I'd left the bike at home today  :(

got to work OK; it didn't settle in London and I was togged up to the 9s when I left home on sno covered roads to the station;

the journey home was less enjoyable; Clapham Junction had seen about 2 trains south in as many hours; when the trains eventually crawled in it was a case of 10 sardines off 15 on, for about an hour and anybody with a bike no matter how foldable was liable to get set alight by the crowd for warmth. Tried jumping the stopping trains to Croydon to no avail either. Finally decided that if the one and only train to my station was full I was going to cycle to East Croydon. Lo and behold I got on  :). At EC 50% off the train got off to be replaced by another 60% back on. Lost my potential seat in the melee; plus having to stand in 8" of sno with bike at each platform to let everyone off. Finally when it looked like I might get a seat away from the icy blast near the door they decided to terminate the train and kicked us out on the platform to wait for the next one 15 min later (fair enough it was the only train they could actually run back up to London)

Everyone was in Dunkirk mood; wonder how many days that will last  :-\

Martin, that sounds wincingly pants.
My plan is to run the gauntlet between mine and ECR tomorrow am.
Can't say it's something I'm looking forward to.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 30 November, 2010, 10:36:18 pm
We are forecast to get a -9 on Friday night / Saturday morning.

The Norwegians think it will be raining early Saturday.
Weekend forecast for Southend-on-Sea in England (United Kingdom) – yr.no (http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Southend-on-Sea/weekend.html)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 30 November, 2010, 10:37:11 pm
My plan is to run the gauntlet between mine and ECR tomorrow am.
Can't say it's something I'm looking forward to.

the 8" looks like it's now arriving at home too,

I shall have a trudge to the station tomorrow; I don't expect to see anything in the platform though, I suspect tonight's token gesture train service was just to disperse an otherwise angry mob!


All the time I lived in W London we had virtually no snow when N S and E did;

a Cow Orker explained that this was due to the warm air in the Thames basin caused by the London Clays rather than the Chalk surrounding it; does this sound like bolleaux?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adrian on 30 November, 2010, 10:45:59 pm
My plan is to run the gauntlet between mine and ECR tomorrow am.
Can't say it's something I'm looking forward to.

the 8" looks like it's now arriving at home too,

I shall have a trudge to the station tomorrow; I don't expect to see anything in the platform though, I suspect tonight's token gesture train service was just to disperse an otherwise angry mob!

I suspect that, after the cars have carved some ruts that have frozen solid overnight, I shall be stood on a platform a few stops north of you peering forlornly south.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jakob on 30 November, 2010, 10:58:28 pm
Local mountain got 70cm overnight, but wont open for night-riding until next week :(.
Was sorely tempted to call in sick today.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 30 November, 2010, 11:17:19 pm
Heh

Waitrose delivery tonight - completely unprepared, managed to get stuck at the end of our drive,  unable to get back up the hill.  A road blockage brought out the neighbours and it became a social event, with grit being ferried from down the road.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: itsbruce on 30 November, 2010, 11:29:36 pm
The Tunnocks lorry! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11873781)

I hope it was full of their "tea cakes".  Every last one, along with the secret recipe.  Lost forever.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cyclops on 30 November, 2010, 11:40:18 pm
The Tunnocks lorry! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11873781)

I hope it was full of their "tea cakes".  Every last one, along with the secret recipe.  Lost forever.

Can I interest you in one of these (http://www.thecyclejersey.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=48)?  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tim Hall on 30 November, 2010, 11:43:47 pm
I suspect that, after the cars have carved some ruts that have frozen solid overnight, I shall be stood on a platform a few stops north of you peering forlornly south.

IRTA "peeing". It's yer age you know.

In other news: I've replaced a spoke in The Boy's cast off bike and fitted it with Nokian Spikey tyres. I'm all set for a ride in tomorrow. It had better keep snowing tonight , or there will be trouble. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: kyuss on 01 December, 2010, 04:16:01 am
I think I'm going to invest in some proper snow boots and gaiters tomorrow. I didn't even know such a thing as 'snow boots' for men existed outside of Canada (Uggs don't count, they're for gurls, and fashion victim gurls at that). The boots that did me proud last year are just not up to the job at the moment, not nearly warm or waterproof enough. Even if it stops snowing, the temperatures mean what's already fallen will be around for a few weeks yet, and since the pavements out here are rarely used and never cleared, it's worth the small investment.

Took me an hour and a half to walk to the shops this afternoon, a journey that normally takes 15-20 minutes, and everything below my knees was soaked to the bone and freezing cold within 100 yards of leaving the house. I still haven't regained the feeling in my toes and have now discovered some rather painful muscles in my buttox that I never knew existed, just from trying to wade through it.

Currently 18 inches in the back garden, taken as an average from the path, the lawn (a whopping 22 inches!), the picnic table and the shed roof.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 01 December, 2010, 07:13:20 am
I think I'm going to invest in some proper snow boots and gaiters tomorrow.

Cross country skis would be more fun  :thumbsup:

Mind you don't go making any snappy decisions about gators.  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 01 December, 2010, 07:25:05 am
Tesco's are doing gaiters for £7.50 per pair....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: SandyV on 01 December, 2010, 07:37:44 am
Mind you don't go making any snappy decisions about gators.  ;D

 ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 December, 2010, 07:47:46 am
:hand:
Relax Kirst, I think it's a toy lorry.  :facepalm:
Our Caramel Wafers will get through.
Do you promise?  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 01 December, 2010, 08:07:07 am
Uggs are not for girls apparently.
There's a guy at work with 2 pairs. One pair for around the house the other pair for outside.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mike on 01 December, 2010, 08:24:07 am
minus 5 outside, am working from home with my slippers on.  Cats are very confused.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 December, 2010, 08:42:22 am
I really need to take the recycling out to the collection bins but the thought of having to carry it across a street of over a foot of snow plus slushy tracks is defeating me.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cyclops on 01 December, 2010, 09:18:41 am
Is it ever going to stop snowing?

The council are doing a grand job trying to keep the roads clear but unfortunately all the snow they've cleared is now about 3 feet deep on the pavements. So all the pedestrians are now walking on the roads as the pavements are almost impassable.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 01 December, 2010, 09:44:54 am
Snow on the pavements? Just what I wanted this morning.

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5050/5223392036_a9e8eab59e_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/5223392036/)
Ski to the lab (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/5223392036/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 01 December, 2010, 10:19:05 am
Roads not too bad here, around my GF apparently are pretty bad so I'm staying in.
Luckily I'm not at work except for friday and sunday because I've had to use up holiday so I've not had to mess about with the traffic on the way home.
Good thickness of snow here though
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 01 December, 2010, 10:32:07 am
travelling on the train from East Croydon to Clapham Junction is like travelling in a time machine that zips you forward 2 months; not a flake here in W6, and of course when you tell them you have 6-8" at home they think you are lying;

the gritting hasn't worked well either, for those who think it's the solution to everything; the A25 and A23 are still hard packed snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 01 December, 2010, 11:10:17 am
Last night, I had a two part commute home, separated by the very kind Alexb showing me how to build my S3X wheel.  I did some bits, but he did the clever stuff.

I rode up along Streatham Hill.  Standing traffic from before Brixton.  It was OK till I got to Streatham itself, where the gaps were limited, especially for anyone with a 700c rim strapped across the saddlebag :-\

I just got off & walked long sections.  It was insane.  With lots of futile horn honking.

Alex's road was a bit dicey, but rideable.

When I left, later, it was colder and still snowing, but the motorists were driving slowly and carefully, which was a pleasant surprise.

It was lovely, if slow, making my way through the dark, suspicious of every shiny bit of road, and grateful for the Cyo.  I was most happy about the lack of motor vehicles breathing down my neck.

Across the Common was cooooold, but the roads were still clear, and, other than the odd bit of lumpy ice, I had a pretty easy ride till I got close to home.  I almost lost it a couple of times on the approaches, but I was being very careful as I didn't want to risk damaging the brand new wheel.  When I got to our street, it was unridable, at least on fixed without ice tyres, so I got off & walked that last bit.  Every crevice of the bike had snow packed into it.

And it was still snowing.

This morning, I woke up, keen for it to be a Snow Day for me, but I guessed that wasn't going to work.  After lots of faffing, and packing a pannier with boots, fleece etc, I set off.  No traction on the road up to the station.

It wasn't just for the schadenfreude, though there was plenty of that, as there was a packed platform, busy bus stops, and people standing on the bridge waiting to see which would come first.  I also wanted to check out the prospects for a bailout further on.  Slim, but possible.

Down into town, I felt like i was at the seaside, with the salt spray in my face.  But it did mean that most of the roads were clear enough to ride, and the fierce headwind became my main concern.

By the time I got to Wandsworth, there was very little evidence of yesterday's heavy fall, and, arriving in SE1, it was almost as if the snow hadn't happened.

Blizzard over for now.

I still wouldn't have minded if Wiggle had managed to deliver my Winter tyres... ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 December, 2010, 11:11:35 am
Is it ever going to stop snowing?

Stop SNOing?  It hasn't started here ???

Yesterday I go home and watch BBC London News. It's the SNOpocalypse; traffic chaos and protesting Penniless Student Oaves pelting the polis with SNOballs1. TFWKAML reports 6" of SNO in Crystal Palace. When I look out my window so many sights to see, er, enough SNO in the side road to leave wheel tracks.  Just.  Main road clear.

Arise this morning, watch BBC London News. It's SNOmageddon; four hundred lorries are stuck on the M25, Airwick Gatport is closed, trains are stranded in Kent and the passengers have already resorted to cannibalism. Look out of the window. No change from last night except that the side road has turned into a skating rink. Journey to work better than usual because people are staying at home to avoid being stuck in the non-existent SNO. Much more of this and I'll start believing the Apollo 11 conspiracy theorists too (are there any Apollo 12 conspiracy theorists?).

1 - OK, this is not technically true, but should be.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 01 December, 2010, 11:14:36 am
still no snow down here in the sunny south  8)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 01 December, 2010, 11:16:05 am
Is it ever going to stop snowing?

Stop SNOing?  It hasn't started here ???

Yesterday I go home and watch BBC London News. It's the SNOpocalypse; traffic chaos and protesting Penniless Student Oaves pelting the polis with SNOballs1.

1 - OK, this is not technically true, but should be.

Oh, I like this idea. I have image of police losing it and joining in, one massive massive snowball fight between police and students.

It's sno apocalypse in Leeds and York.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 01 December, 2010, 11:17:27 am
Still no snow in America's Mid-west.   >:(

On the other hand, if this rain keeps up we may need to invest in a boat.
 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 December, 2010, 11:19:01 am
Yesterday I go home and watch BBC London News. It's the SNOpocalypse; traffic chaos and protesting Penniless Student Oaves pelting the polis with SNOballs1.

1 - OK, this is not technically true, but should be.

Oh, I like this idea. I have image of police losing it and joining in, one massive massive snowball fight between police and students.

They had a SNOball fight turn into a riot in Leipzig yesterday: clicky (http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,732088,00.html).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 01 December, 2010, 11:27:53 am
Mama & Papa boab have 2 feet, and no post since last Thursday. The 3 mile over the hill walk to the shop has lost it's charm.
So mum sent me this link.
Seattle Snowpocalypse (http://www.dutchbikeco.com/_blog/Dutch_Bike_Co_Weblog/post/Seattle_Snowpocalypse/)

No. What is this, some kind of conspiracy to get me out on the ice? No.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Greenbank on 01 December, 2010, 11:33:39 am
Seattle Snowpocalypse (http://www.dutchbikeco.com/_blog/Dutch_Bike_Co_Weblog/post/Seattle_Snowpocalypse/)

Awesome, if you're prepared to leg brake.....

Disc brakes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 December, 2010, 11:46:30 am
Seen on Traffic Scotland this morning - some peeps having a nice walk along the empty M-way north of the Forth Road bridge
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4133/5223556002_8e9ecfe3c6.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Manotea on 01 December, 2010, 11:48:41 am
Ok, I admit it. Right now a pompino fitted with snow tyres seems a very attractive proposition.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 01 December, 2010, 11:49:53 am
Ok, I admit it. Right now a pompino fitted with snow tyres seems a very attractive proposition.

Not as attractive as my wood burner and a nice hot cuppa. Stuff going outside!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Phil21 on 01 December, 2010, 11:52:30 am
It could be colder.

BBC News - How do you survive in the coldest place on Earth? (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11875131)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 01 December, 2010, 12:06:24 pm
What is this, some kind of conspiracy to get me out on the ice?

Um... :-[

*rumbled*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 01 December, 2010, 12:23:54 pm
Ok, I admit it. Right now a pompino fitted with snow tyres seems a very attractive proposition.

Not as attractive as my wood burner and a nice hot cuppa. Stuff going outside!

My snowy commute remains pure dead brilliant.

Anyway I thought you said it'd thawed.  It's thawed and then refroze into lethal stuff hasn't it.  Snow tyres ftw!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tim on 01 December, 2010, 12:24:30 pm
Ok, I admit it. Right now a pompino fitted with snow tyres seems a very attractive proposition.
Kathy will probably disagree - she had hers out yesterday, and I ended up wheeling it beside me while I rode and she jogged for a few sections. She took the mountain bike today, I resorted to three wheels (which was fun on some suitable patches of road).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 01 December, 2010, 12:27:22 pm
I'm not enamoured with the idea of riding fixed in these conditions, tbh.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 01 December, 2010, 12:28:33 pm
Ok, I admit it. Right now a pompino fitted with snow tyres seems a very attractive proposition.

Not as attractive as my wood burner and a nice hot cuppa. Stuff going outside!

My snowy commute remains pure dead brilliant.

Anyway I thought you said it'd thawed.  It's thawed and then refroze into lethal stuff hasn't it.  Snow tyres ftw!


It's patchy. There are stretches of clean tarmac, then you turn a corner and find a nice glassy mirror of ice and snow waiting for you to break your collar bone on. Bollocks to that.

Anyway - there's a sub-zero gale blowing, which hurts.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 December, 2010, 12:31:48 pm
Dez has just told me that the Met Office's website says that Shoeburyness recorded Britain's highest precipitation in the past 24 hours at 13.4 mm. I suppose that, had it been freezing yesterday morning when most of it fell, that would have translated into about 7".

It's about -2 in our garden at the moment and has been snowing all morning, in a blowy, microflakey kind of way.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 01 December, 2010, 12:32:10 pm
I have that glassy stuff on my commute.  It's my street.

The great thing about snow tyres is they're such hard work you're only going to hit 15mph on the flat anyway.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 01 December, 2010, 12:35:58 pm
I'm also a soft southern jesse, don't forget  :D.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 01 December, 2010, 12:41:54 pm
I'm also a soft southern jesse, don't forget  :D.
I used to be a hardy Northerner. Then I got older.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 01 December, 2010, 12:49:25 pm
I'm also a soft southern jesse, don't forget  :D.
I used to be a hardy Northerner. Then I got older.

I'm much more hardy than I used to be.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 December, 2010, 12:54:01 pm
I'm also a soft southern jesse, don't forget  :D.
I used to be a hardy Northerner. Then I got older.

I'm much more hardy than I used to be.


Thomas, Keir or Brian?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 01 December, 2010, 01:10:29 pm
All the time I lived in W London we had virtually no snow when N S and E did;

a Cow Orker explained that this was due to the warm air in the Thames basin caused by the London Clays rather than the Chalk surrounding it; does this sound like bolleaux?
Yes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 01 December, 2010, 01:15:20 pm
All the time I lived in W London we had virtually no snow when N S and E did;

a Cow Orker explained that this was due to the warm air in the Thames basin caused by the London Clays rather than the Chalk surrounding it; does this sound like bolleaux?
Yes.

OK; so how come there is 0 in W6 and 15cm 5 miles S?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 01 December, 2010, 01:17:19 pm
All the time I lived in W London we had virtually no snow when N S and E did;

a Cow Orker explained that this was due to the warm air in the Thames basin caused by the London Clays rather than the Chalk surrounding it; does this sound like bolleaux?
Yes.

OK; so how come there is 0 in W6 and 15cm 5 miles S?

The rain radar shows a massive gap encompassing suffolk and norfolk where there is no snow falling.  Same yesterday.  It's a far larger effect than london.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 01 December, 2010, 01:21:21 pm
Google Maps with Traffic turned on is an interesting way to see where the snow is (around London):

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/GoogleMaps_Traffic_20101201.jpg)

Yesterday evening it was even clearer, with most of the southern and eastern parts of the M25 damned near stationary.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 01 December, 2010, 01:22:33 pm
Happy-happy, joy-joy!  It's finally snowing here, and not melting as it hits the ground.  :thumbsup:

My family may have a different opinion.
 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Clandy on 01 December, 2010, 01:23:11 pm
Southerners evoke blitz spirit to defy horrific centimetre thick blanket of snow | NewsBiscuit (http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/12/01/southerners-evoke-blitz-spirit-to-defy-horrific-centimetre-thick-blanket-of-snow/)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 01 December, 2010, 01:41:01 pm
Google Maps with Traffic turned on is an interesting way to see where the snow is (around London):

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/GoogleMaps_Traffic_20101201.jpg)

Yesterday evening it was even clearer, with most of the southern and eastern parts of the M25 damned near stationary.

So better than normal then?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 01 December, 2010, 01:49:52 pm
Actually, normal for 1345 on a Wednesday is:

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/GoogleMaps_Traffic_Wed1345.jpg)

So surprisingly it is worse than normal!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kathy on 01 December, 2010, 02:38:26 pm
All the time I lived in W London we had virtually no snow when N S and E did;

a Cow Orker explained that this was due to the warm air in the Thames basin caused by the London Clays rather than the Chalk surrounding it; does this sound like bolleaux?
Yes.

OK; so how come there is 0 in W6 and 15cm 5 miles S?

Probably because the high ground on the Surrey Downs south of London coupled with the prevailing wind does something terribly meteorological. But that would have been explained in Geography, which I didn't do.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 01 December, 2010, 02:41:47 pm
Wouldn't the heat from London heat up the air and cause meteorological things ?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 01 December, 2010, 02:42:56 pm
Yep. Something like that. Snow coming from the east has to get over the great heat source of the urban sprawl, & snow from any other direction has to get over high (not very, but enough) land.


BTW, what is this snow of which you lot speak? Here in Reading the ground is cold & hard, there is ice on the lake at the university, but snow? Nope!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Yorkshireman on 01 December, 2010, 03:08:44 pm
Yep. Something like that. Snow coming from the east has to get over the great heat source of the urban sprawl, & snow from any other direction has to get over high (not very, but enough) land.


BTW, what is this snow of which you lot speak? Here in Reading the ground is cold & hard, there is ice on the lake at the university, but snow? Nope!

I've got some here (9") if you want to call in and collect a bit - no charge 

(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h270/Yorkshireman1/Snow/2010_1201Sky0001.jpg)
 ;)

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 01 December, 2010, 03:29:47 pm
NW Londonton has up to an inch of compacted ice on footways and nothing much on the roads.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 01 December, 2010, 03:35:58 pm
Am I the first person to spot a grit thief, btw?  There was one filling up a carrier bag from the bin at the roundabout by Carshalton College.  I shouted 'Thief!', but didn't stick around to discuss it.

I think I also saw someone in a truck nicking some from the E&C roundabout layby.  Audacious if they were.  They may have been delivering some, but I don't think so.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 01 December, 2010, 03:45:02 pm
In a rare act of forward thinking we bought two bags of rock salt from B&Q at the weekend.  I have sprinkled some on the garden path today and am very impressed - ice gone!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adam on 01 December, 2010, 03:54:37 pm
Softie!

In Luton, by Tuesday morning we'd had about 3 cm, so I spent about an hour first thing clearing the snow from our drive, and also some of the elderly neighbour's drives and a clear strip on about 50 metres of pavement down to the shops. 

Today, due to the slight thaw during the day and a bit of sun, means it's all completely clear and bone dry so you can walk in safety, whilst the other side of the road is an ice rink.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adrian on 01 December, 2010, 05:57:18 pm
.  It was insane.  With lots of futile horn honking.


I nearly asked one honker yesterday what need there was for gritter lories if he felt he could clear the road with a plaintive peep. Being a kindly person I decided not to.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 December, 2010, 06:35:09 pm
Some of my colleagues were allowed to not work today on the grounds that they had driven in but couldn't find anywhere to park because of the numbers of abandoned cars on the streets.  ::-)

Schools are closed, teachers get the days off, they're not asked to make the time up.

Those of us who have gone in, arrived late or left early, but have gone to work and worked, get an email saying our commitment is appreciated and we'll have to make up the time we've missed.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 01 December, 2010, 07:03:04 pm
Be good if people reporting snow etc could either give the county or nearest town (understand not giving exact location) would give a better picture.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: perpetual dan on 01 December, 2010, 07:45:03 pm
We have a light covering with some icy bits and light but steady fall today in Brighton. Our road was slidey in the car this morning. School closed at lunchtime and I'm not expecting it to be open tomorrow. I didn't get to go out on the bike, but Mrs Dan reported that everyone was very considerate this morning.

All the travel web sites I tried today just seemed to be reporting M and A roads, no B roads. I'm sure they used to tell me about all roads.

MV - the delivery van sounds like a ready made larder for the snowpocalypse to me. Well planned.
Clarion - with you on waiting for snow types from wiggle.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: E.C. Ryder on 01 December, 2010, 07:52:51 pm
The Met Office have a severe weather warning (heavy snow) for tonight and tomorrow in Southend and Thurrock, and looking out of my window they are right as its just started to snow in South Ockendon.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 01 December, 2010, 08:34:56 pm
just started throwing it down again here (under the Gatport Airwick flightpath); having barely thawed since last night.

I'm delighted; last time this happened I was pondering how to get home from horsepiddle; and then pondering how to get up the GP to have my insides pushed back into my abdomen (or else Kleenexed up) every day  :hand:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 01 December, 2010, 08:47:59 pm
just started throwing it down again here (under the Gatport Airwick flightpath); having barely thawed since last night.

I'm delighted; last time this happened I was pondering how to get home from horsepiddle; and then pondering how to get up the GP to have my insides pushed back into my abdomen (or else Kleenexed up) every day  :hand:

Thinking about it still makes me wince, M.
Enjoy this snowfall more than you did the last  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: itsbruce on 01 December, 2010, 08:49:51 pm

I'm much more hardy than I used to be.


Thomas, Keir or Brian?

Oliver.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 01 December, 2010, 08:56:36 pm
Enjoy this snowfall more than you did the last  :)

will do thanks; very impressed with the trains today; they've been sending those Network Rail snow / leaf - hoovers / scarers up and down all day  :thumbsup:

don't think my son's driving that to college tomorrow...

(http://www.fotothing.com/photos/115/115118dab2cc1f58af6f6d23cbda81eb.jpg?ts=1291236812)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 01 December, 2010, 09:25:26 pm
Be good if people reporting snow etc could either give the county or nearest town (understand not giving exact location) would give a better picture.

V light snow on and off, all day long.

County: Cuyahoga
Town: Seven Hills

HTH :)
 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: RW on 01 December, 2010, 09:39:45 pm
It's snowing like buggery in Horsham.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 01 December, 2010, 10:01:21 pm
It's only snowing lightly in Croydon at the moment, but it's just enough to cover up where people had cleared the footpath, so you can't tell if it was clear or icy.  This makes for a very interesting time walking along. :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tim Hall on 01 December, 2010, 10:28:21 pm
It's snowing like buggery in Horsham.

Likewise in Crawley. Funny that. Quick dash to Mr Tesco's Emporium of Food and Electrical Consumer Desireables. In the 20 minutes I was there, my tyre tracks were more or less obliterated.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tim Hall on 01 December, 2010, 10:31:45 pm
Enjoy this snowfall more than you did the last  :)

will do thanks; very impressed with the trains today; they've been sending those Network Rail snow / leaf - hoovers / scarers up and down all day  :thumbsup:

don't think my son's driving that to college tomorrow...

(http://www.fotothing.com/photos/115/115118dab2cc1f58af6f6d23cbda81eb.jpg?ts=1291236812)

Last time I saw that view, I had to enlist the help of a passing cyclist to push my car up the slope.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Manotea on 01 December, 2010, 10:42:27 pm
Just a dusting in W4 but I've put the car on the road and facing in the right direction for the morning...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: perpetual dan on 01 December, 2010, 10:46:51 pm
Chucking it down, thick and fluffy, kids sledging down the street, I've finally remembered to turn the outside tap stopcock off.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Panoramix on 01 December, 2010, 10:52:16 pm
Bristol is free from ice and snow  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 01 December, 2010, 11:01:23 pm
Last time I saw that view, I had to enlist the help of a passing cyclist to push my car up the slope.

Last time I saw that view, I had to enlist the help of a passing cyclist to drive my borked body up the slope  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LEE on 01 December, 2010, 11:06:49 pm
It's finally arrived in Andover, NW Hampshire.

Not big and fluffy, rather small flakes but lots of them and being blown around quite hard by a stiff wind.

(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u249/freddered/snow.jpg?t=1291244782)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: her_welshness on 01 December, 2010, 11:17:28 pm
OMG it has started snowing with a vengeance here in SE13 land, tomorrow will be interesting. My husband is getting up in a few hours to drive to Coventry.  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adrian on 01 December, 2010, 11:26:29 pm
OMG it has started snowing with a vengeance here in SE13 land, tomorrow will be interesting. My husband is getting up in a few hours to drive to Coventry.  :-\

Have you put a shovel, a thermos, a blanket, walking boots, and a good coat in the car for him?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 01 December, 2010, 11:30:42 pm
Woodstock, only 5cm of sticky mudguard clogging stuff Monday night, just enough to lay and freeze in my village, roll on Summer.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: noisycrank on 01 December, 2010, 11:34:22 pm
Snow roads perm anyone?
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5290/5224495445_6bc315b538.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 02 December, 2010, 12:14:10 am
Now that is a gorgeous photo, but why did you take it at rush hour?  ;D

Out tonight taking pics for the infamous calendar. There is a lot of snow (thigh deep) on the top of Balgay Hill. That did make life entertaining despite the rather frigid weather.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 02 December, 2010, 12:19:22 am
I was very impressed by the dedication of the BBC in sending a reporter to Altnaharra. I was disappointed when he didn't use my favourite word: Katabatic.
LEL - Cold Nights. (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=20409.0)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: itsbruce on 02 December, 2010, 12:20:14 am
It's laying it down out there again, in London.  Going to be interesting in the morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jane on 02 December, 2010, 05:52:59 am
It's laying it down out there again, in London.  Going to be interesting in the morning.
Just back from walking pooch- (NSTN's. I am dogsitting) Blythe Hill covered in about 3 inches of fresh snow and still snowing. Only me. dog and a fox out. London silent is a strange, slightly menacing experience- feels like you're on the set of some apocalyptic film. Brockley Rise had not been resalted or gritted (maybe the council weren't expecting snow?!!?) So a good few inches of dirty, slippery,horrid slush- much worse than snow for riding.  I'm hping the A2 will be clear and I can get to work without upending myself.  
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 02 December, 2010, 06:29:23 am
At last, about 3" down here in mid Devon!  *skip*  *dawn fettle*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 02 December, 2010, 06:39:01 am
Snow in Pompey!

Email from office saying "don't bother coming in"!

Rah!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 02 December, 2010, 06:54:44 am
It's snowing(ish) in Cambridge.

I have to go down to London for a CTC meeting...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 02 December, 2010, 07:18:30 am
Not much going on in Brum.  Although it fluttered down more or less constantly yesterday, it's not really amounted to anything.
Ice, even on major routes, is dreadful.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 02 December, 2010, 07:39:05 am
Lights just flickered - meaning weight of snow is dragging the cables down. We may disappear from the 'net at any moment.

But we are prepared to survive the snopocalypse. We finished winterising the larder last weekend and now have supplies of food and candles to last weeks.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 02 December, 2010, 07:56:58 am
Probably another 8 inches of snow in Croydon, on top of the 8 inches which were already there.  I'm wondering whether to have a quick cycle to the GPs to drop off a prescription request, as a test to how cycle-able the outside world is?  It could be "interesting" with all the frozen ice and ruts hidden under the fresh snow. :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 02 December, 2010, 07:59:02 am
no trains to work  :-\

where did I leave the car?

(http://www.fotothing.com/photos/9ee/9eefa1b80cdf4a90deb9f5140a42dc3d.jpg?ts=1291276662)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: urban_biker on 02 December, 2010, 08:17:12 am
This is when I loath beinga able to work from home. Kids are off; everyone else gets to play but I am trapped by the laptop working with USAians. Plus there is a lack of understanding when I'm on a conference call with shouting children in the background.  Bahhrghh
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 02 December, 2010, 08:30:17 am
Thick snow coming down. Hill isn't looking good. I don't think I'll be going anywhere again today.
Brother scraped his car before he went to work for when he gets home. You can't tell he did that now!!!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 02 December, 2010, 08:31:18 am
This is when I loath beinga able to work from home. Kids are off; everyone else gets to play but I am trapped by the laptop working with USAians. Plus there is a lack of understanding when I'm on a conference call with shouting children in the background.  Bahhrghh

Just tell them it's "Bring your kids to work day" at the office. USAians love that shit.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 02 December, 2010, 08:34:02 am
Oh, and the heating isn't working right!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 02 December, 2010, 08:53:02 am
expect to see an announcment on the Trust website about how we are planning to make up the time we have to take off..

I've seen two vehicles moving down our road so far; a Land Rover and a yoof onna BMX in its tracks.

Son #1 spent a profitable evening on Tuesday in his mate's LR with a tow rope
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Fi on 02 December, 2010, 09:03:41 am
Just spent an amusing twenty minutes watching the two automatic, rear wheel drive mercedes owners trying to get their cars onto the road, failing and trying to get them back on their drives. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hatler on 02 December, 2010, 09:06:10 am
We've got four 200 buses stuck at the top of Durham Road (SW20) where it turns a sharp right onto Cottenham Park Road. Roads are pretty tricky. Not many people out. School's on a half day. Last night I encountered sheet ice on a back road. I was mid-dismount when the bike disappeared from under me. I had problems standing up.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 02 December, 2010, 10:13:47 am
This was todays commute.

    YouTube
        - Snowy commute
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmVH8rsXp_Y)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 02 December, 2010, 10:28:11 am
This was todays commute.

    YouTube
        - Snowy commute
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmVH8rsXp_Y)

Well done on staying upright!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 December, 2010, 10:29:57 am
Snowing heavily here and expected to last all day.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Panoramix on 02 December, 2010, 10:31:44 am
We just had a light dusting in Bristol.

This was todays commute.

    YouTube
        - Snowy commute
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmVH8rsXp_Y)

You are remarkably in control, out of interest, which tyres do you use?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 02 December, 2010, 10:38:44 am
6 inches last night  :o (you should be so lucky)  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 02 December, 2010, 10:42:20 am
Just spent an amusing twenty minutes watching the two automatic, rear wheel drive mercedes owners trying to get their cars onto the road, failing and trying to get them back on their drives. 

They are horrible in snow without proper snow tyres on. Had one leant to me once when my car was stolen. Very scary in the snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 December, 2010, 10:47:39 am
It tried a bit harder in E17 last night but not hard enough to cause any transport difficulty chiz.  The only promble encountered was when some berk in the car park at jbex decided he was dissatisfied with the perfectly adequate positioning of his motor-car and decided to reverse into my path just as I was turning the corner.  ABS does not work at that low a speed but fortunately he managed to move forwards again before my motor-car had a chance to embed itself in his nearside rear door.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 02 December, 2010, 10:51:20 am
The Tram to Wimbledon, and then the District Line onwards seems to be working fine. Apparently the trains into Victoria Station from East Croydon weren't running earlier. The trams rarely seem to have problems in this sort of weather, I guess the lighter weight and overhead power makes then more reliable in these conditions.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 02 December, 2010, 10:52:26 am
We just had a light dusting in Bristol.

This was todays commute.

    YouTube
        - Snowy commute
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmVH8rsXp_Y)

You are remarkably in control, out of interest, which tyres do you use?

That was a light dusting, the only remotely interesting bit was the end of the side road where there were a few ruts.

The tyres are Nokian Haakkepecantspellitaa W106 running at about 30PSI so dog slow and draggy where it is clear.

There was only an inch of snow on teh front garden path (though the two steps were entertaining) but it was touch icy underneath.

..d
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: oncemore on 02 December, 2010, 10:59:18 am
So it is!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 02 December, 2010, 11:26:06 am
... The tyres are Nokian Haakkepecantspellitaa ...

I'm glad it's not just me then!  I have to type "Hakkap..." into Google, and then cut and paste it's suggestions (which I'm assuming is correct!).

Did you know that Hakkapeliitta is a term for a Finnish light cavalryman?  It seems an odd choice for the name of a tyre.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: JohnP on 02 December, 2010, 11:47:28 am
Yet another 5mm of snow overnight here in Hertfordshire.  Just been to the local council tip where the guys have decorated the handrails with tinsel AND A MONEY COLLECTION POT.  I think they need do a bit more than just point to bin 4 to get a tip from me.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 02 December, 2010, 11:53:28 am
View out the lab window.
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5128/5226261182_e1c102e0f1_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/5226261182/)
Life Sciences Car Park (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/5226261182/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: 1gear on 02 December, 2010, 12:11:08 pm
Snow still coming down here
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 02 December, 2010, 12:18:49 pm
We've had about 30 flakes today.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hulver on 02 December, 2010, 12:23:53 pm
Pretty much non stop here, SE Sheffield.

It varies from very fine stuff, to massive downfalls of fat flakes. The main road is getting worse again, and most of the cars are completely snowed in now. There's a few hardy souls walking about in it, but the families that were having fun in the street have disappeared, it's just too horrible for that now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Thing2 on 02 December, 2010, 12:25:48 pm
The Tram to Wimbledon, and then the District Line onwards seems to be working fine. Apparently the trains into Victoria Station from East Croydon weren't running earlier. The trams rarely seem to have problems in this sort of weather, I guess the lighter weight and overhead power makes then more reliable in these conditions.

I was quite surprised how well the trams are running this week. I can get to East Croydon on the tram without too much bother (in fact coming back yesterday afternoon was the quickest I've ever managed by public transport). It's the croydon to gatwick bit which is causing me a problem. So today, I'm at home catching up with the reading/reviewing which I never get chance to do at work. I do hope the trains are running tomorrow, they seem to be running some services between East Croydon & London Bridge/Victoria now at least.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: JohnP on 02 December, 2010, 01:10:40 pm
Heard an amazing comment on tv news yesterday; a commuter expressed displeasure at trains being delayed and said "don't know why they have so much trouble - the underground seems to be coping".

In fairness, I missed where she was, possibly a station shared with over- and under-ground services?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Panoramix on 02 December, 2010, 01:20:11 pm
We've had about 30 flakes today.


Glad to see that we are at least 2 not subject to this collective hallucination of Siberian weather!

 ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 02 December, 2010, 01:30:04 pm
Snowing in Southampton meaning my flights are cancelled and I am going nowhere this weekend.
<-- Not happy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 02 December, 2010, 01:40:07 pm
We just had a light dusting in Bristol.

This was todays commute.

    YouTube
        - Snowy commute
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmVH8rsXp_Y)

You are remarkably in control, out of interest, which tyres do you use?

That was a light dusting, the only remotely interesting bit was the end of the side road where there were a few ruts.

The tyres are Nokian Haakkepecantspellitaa W106 running at about 30PSI so dog slow and draggy where it is clear.

There was only an inch of snow on teh front garden path (though the two steps were entertaining) but it was touch icy underneath.

..d

I pumped mine up to 65psi.  Not checked for a few days though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wombat on 02 December, 2010, 01:45:06 pm
Snowing in Southampton meaning my flights are cancelled and I am going nowhere this weekend.
<-- Not happy.

Well it rarely snows properly in Southampton.  I work there, and in the past when I've struggled in through the snow and ice to get to work, as I arrive in the septic city, I find its clear of snow.  Not this time... I emailed in to say "no chance" to be informed by one who can walk to work, that it was just as bad there.  I'm not walking 4 miles to see if there is going to be a train running in the next hour or two, as there are no buses, and our little street is rather snowed up.

Mind you, Southampton airport isn't in Southampton...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 02 December, 2010, 02:05:06 pm
This is the snow in my back garden, in Croydon, just before I left for work earlier:

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/SnowDec2010/BackGardenSnow_Dec2010_Thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/SnowDec2010/BackGardenSnow_Dec2010.jpg)

... and the view out of an upstairs window, looking along the street.

(http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/SnowDec2010/RoadSnow_Dec2010_Thumb480.jpg) (http://jakal.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/SnowDec2010/RoadSnow_Dec2010.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 02 December, 2010, 02:11:05 pm
We just had a light dusting in Bristol.

This was todays commute.

    YouTube
        - Snowy commute
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmVH8rsXp_Y)

You are remarkably in control, out of interest, which tyres do you use?

That was a light dusting, the only remotely interesting bit was the end of the side road where there were a few ruts.

The tyres are Nokian Haakkepecantspellitaa W106 running at about 30PSI so dog slow and draggy where it is clear.

There was only an inch of snow on teh front garden path (though the two steps were entertaining) but it was touch icy underneath.

..d

I pumped mine up to 65psi.  Not checked for a few days though.


65 is great untill you hit bumps and ridges of ice, or deep consolidated snow. Then the low pressure gives more control. The rest of the time it just sucks energy though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 02 December, 2010, 02:13:25 pm
We've had about 30 flakes today.


we had a bit of a flurry this morning and the sky is leaden, but there's no great difficulty in getting to the pub out and about
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 02 December, 2010, 02:14:36 pm
Few flakes here in Toronto as I walked in today, nothing like London's snowpocalypse
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Dez on 02 December, 2010, 04:14:10 pm
This is our back garden in Southend:
(https://sucs.org/~dez/gallery/d/4371-2/DSC06115.jpg) (https://sucs.org/~dez/gallery/v/Nature/Weather/snow201011/DSC06115.jpg.html)
And here's the car, which gives you a better sense of how much snow there is:
(https://sucs.org/~dez/gallery/d/4367-2/DSC06116.jpg) (https://sucs.org/~dez/gallery/v/Nature/Weather/snow201011/DSC06116.jpg.html)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wendy on 02 December, 2010, 04:23:37 pm
It seems like nearly 2ft here in Biggin Hill.  Been out all day with miniMikey sledging.  I suppose that makes a worthy alternative to speedskating training I was supposed to do tonight, but have cancelled.   ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ScumOfTheRoad on 02 December, 2010, 04:37:24 pm
Is Wafflycat still on here? We need an update to this story:
 Hugh Muir's diary | Politics | The Guardian  (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/dec/02/hugh-muir-diary)

Because it's cold indeed, and it's slippery, and in such conditions anything could happen. "Snow on Dereham shop roof could fall on shoppers," warned the Eastern Daily Press.


ps. that page in the Guardian (for me at least) carries an advert from the MoD - Become and Army Officer
What? Are they allowing army officers to have beards these days, and are combat sandles on general issue?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 02 December, 2010, 04:58:30 pm
The armed forces have advertised in the Guardian for a long time, as it is generally the best newspaper for sourcing graduates.

Interestingly, 'Lord' Ashcroft's effort this Parliamentary session seems to have amounted to trying to get the Govt to move all civil service advertising away from the Guardian.  Coincidentally, this campaign started round about the same time as the paper published more research into his financial affairs and tax evasion.

Bit unfair, mind, since the Guardian's espousal of the Lib dems probably helped the Tories into power...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 02 December, 2010, 05:23:28 pm
In the Post Office earlier today, I saw a notice saying that the Special Delivery service is not currently guaranteed. The beginning of the end for the last working part of the PO?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 02 December, 2010, 05:28:21 pm
In the Post Office earlier today, I saw a notice saying that the Special Delivery service is not currently guaranteed. The beginning of the end for the last working part of the PO?

No, from time to time they've previously suspended the guarantee on Special Delivery.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 December, 2010, 05:31:14 pm
In the Post Office earlier today, I saw a notice saying that the Special Delivery service is not currently guaranteed. The beginning of the end for the last working part of the PO?

No, from time to time they've previously suspended the guarantee on Special Delivery.

It didn't work for me when I paid the Saturday delivery premium in July this year. They didn't make any attempt to deliver the package until the Monday.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 02 December, 2010, 06:31:13 pm
(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01775/0212-MATT_1775957a.gif)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nicknack on 02 December, 2010, 06:35:29 pm
I went down to the station to see if I could get a train to Gillingham this afternoon to see my mum who is in hospital there. Apparently I'd just missed the only one they'd had in about 3 hours and, if I cared to wait, there might be another one along sometime today, but they couldn't guarantee I'd get one to come back on. I went home.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 02 December, 2010, 06:45:43 pm
In the Post Office earlier today, I saw a notice saying that the Special Delivery service is not currently guaranteed. The beginning of the end for the last working part of the PO?

No, from time to time they've previously suspended the guarantee on Special Delivery.

It didn't work for me when I paid the Saturday delivery premium in July this year. They didn't make any attempt to deliver the package until the Monday.

Was the Monday a July one?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 02 December, 2010, 07:16:56 pm
Well we had a compleyely hassle free trip from Stoke Mandeville to Marylebone and back today  :smug:

And central Londonton was virtually empty to boot!  Excellent day out, and a nice lunch at Tibits on Herron Street just off Piccadilly, a veggie "pay by weight" place.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rower40 on 02 December, 2010, 07:18:22 pm
Ch4 News: temperatures in the Scottish highlands tonight are expected to drop to Minus Twenty Celsius.

Worth putting up with Jon Snow's tie for that information.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: her_welshness on 02 December, 2010, 07:46:34 pm
Gah its started snowing again in Lewisham - when is the assault of Caradhras going to end  ???
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 December, 2010, 08:55:35 pm
In the Post Office earlier today, I saw a notice saying that the Special Delivery service is not currently guaranteed. The beginning of the end for the last working part of the PO?

No, from time to time they've previously suspended the guarantee on Special Delivery.

It didn't work for me when I paid the Saturday delivery premium in July this year. They didn't make any attempt to deliver the package until the Monday.

Was the Monday a July one?

It was 1st August.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 03 December, 2010, 12:08:59 am
We haz trains tomorrow!

 they are however 10km away; with no car / buses and a very snowy completely uncyclable ex-railway line to walk along;

"I may be some time"
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 03 December, 2010, 07:13:04 am
(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01775/0212-MATT_1775957a.gif)
;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 03 December, 2010, 07:30:51 am
I just heard on the radio that it was -17 in Sherriff Hutton about 5 miles from us last night. That's cold even for North Yorkshire.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 December, 2010, 08:11:41 am
Ch4 News: temperatures in the Scottish highlands tonight are expected to drop to Minus Twenty Celsius.

Well, that's just stupid. There's no need for that kind of cold. That sort of temperature belongs on Pluto, not here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 03 December, 2010, 09:04:10 am
I just heard on the radio that it was -17 in Sherriff Hutton about 5 miles from us last night. That's cold even for North Yorkshire.

I dunno.  I've had some pretty frosty receptions from landowners ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: RJ on 03 December, 2010, 09:21:32 am
-9degC outside the kitchen window at 5.45 this morning ...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: itsbruce on 03 December, 2010, 10:04:54 am
I was unable to have a shower, this morning, as semi-frozen water pipes had reduced the flow to a trickle.  Had to wash out of the bathroom sink.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 03 December, 2010, 10:20:13 am
It's fine here - still just a cm or so, with the roads a bit icy in places but nothing troublesome.  Mrs MV is having no difficulty getting out to go to work, and the trickiest part is the turn out of our drive and up the hill.

Despite that, our postpeople seem to have been eaten by snow leopards - nothing for about a week, and there's a load of stuff that I know was sent last week.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 03 December, 2010, 11:05:43 am
Ch4 News: temperatures in the Scottish highlands tonight are expected to drop to Minus Twenty Celsius.

Well, that's just stupid. There's no need for that kind of cold. That sort of temperature belongs on Pluto, not here.

So there is no coincidence that the coldest place in Scotland sounds like someone sneezing then?

..d
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 03 December, 2010, 11:12:30 am
I am probably the only person  in my town to have got to work by public transport this morning (there being no trains or buses) by walking 10km along the Worth Way to Three Bridges (which was very crunchy and cold)

I met one cyclist coming the other way, in my club of course  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Greenbank on 03 December, 2010, 11:40:38 am
Working from home yesterday and today, lucky as SWT stopped running trains at various points yesterday, but fine today.

Just spent 45 minutes clearing the steps up to our front door, that should make it easier for Mrs GB and buggy.

Luckily the council have gritted the pavements so I was able to snaffle a bit of salt for the stairs to keep them clear.

Body lovely and warm but hands got cold.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hatler on 03 December, 2010, 11:45:08 am
I am working from home today (as I did yesterday). I cycled the first three days this week but the roads round us were just silly yesterday. There were four buses stuck at the top of the hill.

I'm lucky. I can easily work from home (in fact I work better here 'cos I don't get subjected to mindless witterings and interruptions all day long).

First thing this morning I cleared the pavement of the half inch of ice from outside the front of the house. Hoping it inspires our neighbours to do likewise. (Forlorn hope I suspect.) No sign of any gritting on the pavements at all.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 December, 2010, 11:45:32 am
I've just taken the dog to the park.

It's freezing hard and the results of the past 3 days' falls is that we have a fairly uniform 10" lying.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 03 December, 2010, 11:48:47 am
I've just taken the dog to the park.

It's freezing hard and the results of the past 3 days' falls is that we have a fairly uniform 10" lying.

That is some turd.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 December, 2010, 11:55:21 am
I've just taken the dog to the park.

It's freezing hard and the results of the past 3 days' falls is that we have a fairly uniform 10" lying.

That is some turd.

Furthermore, I've just checked the Met Office website and they've upgraded our Severe Weather Warning for Saturday form yellow to orange, and introduced a new one for Sunday, at yellow.

Will the drains be able to cope?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 03 December, 2010, 12:19:56 pm
I've just taken the dog to the park.

It's freezing hard and the results of the past 3 days' falls is that we have a fairly uniform 10" lying.

That is some turd.
Seriously, that is one of the worst things about the Polish winter. When the snow melts it reveals four or so months' worth of dog turds which have been preserved by the frost.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 03 December, 2010, 12:23:59 pm
I've just taken the dog to the park.

It's freezing hard and the results of the past 3 days' falls is that we have a fairly uniform 10" lying.

That is some turd.
Seriously, that is one of the worst things about the Polish winter. When the snow melts it reveals four or so months' worth of dog turds which have been preserved by the frost.

I remember that from Denmark too, don't eat the yellow and brown snow :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 03 December, 2010, 12:38:27 pm
I just heard on the radio that it was -17 in Sherriff Hutton about 5 miles from us last night. That's cold even for North Yorkshire.

I dunno.  I've had some pretty frosty receptions from landowners ;)

RAF Leeming has reported -17.9, apparently the coldest temp since records began there in 1945.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: citoyen on 03 December, 2010, 12:49:29 pm
Despite that, our postpeople seem to have been eaten by snow leopards - nothing for about a week, and there's a load of stuff that I know was sent last week.

I was surprised to pass our postie this morning as I was on my way to the station. Not only was I not expecting him to be out today, he was earlier than usual!

Fingers crossed my Sealskinz socks arrive soon. Even if the snow goes away, I'm not expecting it to warm up any time soon.

d.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Salvatore on 03 December, 2010, 12:54:56 pm
-12.4° C at Scampton at 8 am this morning, but it didn't feel that warm when I went for a walk in the lanes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 December, 2010, 12:56:44 pm
We had a packaged delivered by van just as I was taking the dog out around 11 a.m.

Sometimes I manage to get out of bed and unlock the door in time on hearing the doorbell ring, but since this driver normally arrives between 7 and 7.30 and sticks a card through the door, we have to collect at the sorting office.

"What time do you call this?" I demanded, "I was up at 7 o'clock expecting you to turn up!"

He laughed uproariously.

Oh, such urban banter! Such urbane wit!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 03 December, 2010, 02:10:02 pm
Last night big boss started a conversation with me that concluded that 'the roads are fine' but everyone else concluded that 'you can leave early'. I did wonder how come I was the last to leave at 5-15.
Currently debating if it's worth rescheduling my flights for 2 weeks time. I just don't see any sign of a thaw :-( where do you get a medium range forecast from?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 03 December, 2010, 02:29:43 pm
Last night big boss started a conversation with me that concluded that 'the roads are fine' but everyone else concluded that 'you can leave early'. I did wonder how come I was the last to leave at 5-15.
Currently debating if it's worth rescheduling my flights for 2 weeks time. I just don't see any sign of a thaw :-( where do you get a medium range forecast from?

Here: UK weather forecast - Met Office (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_forecast_weather.html)

Tabs with forecasts out to 30 days.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Marco Stefano on 03 December, 2010, 03:04:11 pm
Nothing fallen here in Ely since Monday's 1-2 inches. Icy on side roads & pavements that get no sun, otherwise bone dry and clear. Same in P'boro' where I was yesterday, plus all of the cross-fen roads.

Weird looking at all the chaos on the news when it's just bloody cold & dry here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wendy on 03 December, 2010, 03:05:41 pm
I wouldn't place any credence in a medium range forecast whatsoever.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 03 December, 2010, 03:33:01 pm
I wouldn't place any credence in a medium range forecast whatsoever.

Neither would I. But hey, the lady asked.  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 03 December, 2010, 04:38:22 pm
Further light dusting last night and this morning but lovely sunshine all day today.

-9C this morning. 6 out of the 15 miles into work on slippery surfaces this morning was a car park, even the A61 dual carriageway - no problem with Marathon Winters and better than 1/2 the time taken by cars.

Its now 4:30 and all my work colleagues have swanned off home early (again) "because the roads are bad" leaving me to hold the fort because I have no problems cycling home!  :facepalm: bah! humbug! (At least they turned up to work today!)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 03 December, 2010, 04:42:21 pm
Look! Look! LOOK!

Penzance: Currently +6C and RAINing. Mmmm... warmth. Come on in and thaw us out.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 December, 2010, 04:45:38 pm
I've just taken the dog to the park.

It's freezing hard and the results of the past 3 days' falls is that we have a fairly uniform 10" lying.


That is some turd.
Seriously, that is one of the worst things about the Polish winter. When the snow melts it reveals four or so months' worth of dog turds which have been preserved by the frost.
Ewwwh!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 03 December, 2010, 04:46:42 pm
Weird weather. If the thaw comes as promised, it will be the same number of degrees above freezing at midnight tonight as it was degrees below freezing at midday today.

I like a bit of snow but as I have to drive into the Hampshire Alps tomorrow, a bit of rain would be most welcome.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 03 December, 2010, 04:51:51 pm
Weird weather. If the thaw comes as promised, it will be the same number of degrees above freezing at midnight tonight as it was degrees below freezing at midday today.
I remember taking the dog for a walk one night in December 1981 & noticing that it was remarkably warm, & there was liquid water (the first I'd seen outdoors for a while) about. Having been -enough to cause my nose hairs to prickle during daylight hours, a warm west wind was melting everything about 11 pm.

The dog was a bit pissed off. She greatly preferred snow to slush.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 03 December, 2010, 05:24:15 pm
I just heard on the radio that it was -17 in Sherriff Hutton about 5 miles from us last night. That's cold even for North Yorkshire.

Good thing we are not using the C&CC site atm then ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kathy on 03 December, 2010, 08:32:34 pm

Its now 4:30 and all my work colleagues have swanned off home early (again) "because the roads are bad" leaving me to hold the fort because I have no problems cycling home!  :facepalm: bah! humbug! (At least they turned up to work today!)

Yeah, we had that too - despite us having driven in for the last two days!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: oncemore on 03 December, 2010, 09:40:41 pm
Nil melt here today - and now it's falling again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 December, 2010, 09:46:16 pm
It's melting here! Hurrah! Even at this hour the icicles are dripping.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Panoramix on 03 December, 2010, 09:51:14 pm
It is raining in Bristol
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 03 December, 2010, 09:57:12 pm
The forecast over the weekend is relatively mild, mostly above freezing, so a lot of the ice and snow is likely to melt.  Next week seems to be back below zero though, so I suspect all the half melted slush will then freeze back into a suitably lethal ice layer. :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 03 December, 2010, 10:10:19 pm
Snowball war has broken out on our street.  Unfortunately, while our upstairs window provides an excellent sniping position, we're taking heavy fire, and don't dare open it to collect the meagre half a snowball's worth of snow accumulated on the sill.

There's a guy out there wearing shorts, throwing snowballs with the arm that isn't in plaster.  Hardcore!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 03 December, 2010, 10:13:42 pm
It's melting here! Hurrah! Even at this hour the icicles are dripping.

they were doing that here at -12oC this morning; it's more a sign of poor loft insulation

(he says with a Sword of Damocles hanging off the corner of the house; fortunately pointing into a dense hedge)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 03 December, 2010, 10:19:58 pm
We've got 2" just now. Hopefully more to come, else we aren't able to believe the nambies from Kent.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 03 December, 2010, 10:20:19 pm
Snowball war has broken out on our street.  Unfortunately, while our upstairs window provides an excellent sniping position, we're taking heavy fire, and don't dare open it to collect the meagre half a snowball's worth of snow accumulated on the sill.

There's a guy out there wearing shorts, throwing snowballs with the arm that isn't in plaster.  Hardcore!

Take advantage of the week points, aim for the legs... ;D

We've had a very light dusting in Liverpool,  it's currently -1,  roads are clear but some pavements are treacherous.

My Kahtoola MicroSpikes are as yet unused...(2 mile walk to work, downhill on pavements that were not cleared last year)

(http://www.facewest.co.uk/pp/Kahtoola/AW10/Kahtoola-MicroSpikes/Kahtoola-MicroSpikes.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 December, 2010, 10:50:25 pm
Not fair! They look loads better than my yaktrax, one of which I've already lost  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rower40 on 03 December, 2010, 10:55:55 pm
We've had a very light dusting in Liverpool,  it's currently -1,  roads are clear but some pavements are treacherous.

My Kahtoola MicroSpikes are as yet unused...(2 mile walk to work, downhill on pavements that were not cleared last year)

(http://www.facewest.co.uk/pp/Kahtoola/AW10/Kahtoola-MicroSpikes/Kahtoola-MicroSpikes.jpg)
Normal footwear for Liverpool?
[Runs away. Hides.]
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 03 December, 2010, 11:12:49 pm
We've had a very light dusting in Liverpool,  it's currently -1,  roads are clear but some pavements are treacherous.

My Kahtoola MicroSpikes are as yet unused...(2 mile walk to work, downhill on pavements that were not cleared last year)

(http://www.facewest.co.uk/pp/Kahtoola/AW10/Kahtoola-MicroSpikes/Kahtoola-MicroSpikes.jpg)
Normal footwear for Liverpool?
[Runs away. Hides.]

Chases, finds, catches, throws to ground & jumps up & down on whilst chanting "calm down, calm down"    Oops, forgot I was wearing spikes....    fetches ice axe for a humane dispatch...  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 03 December, 2010, 11:16:22 pm
Agh ! five hours of shift to go and thick white stuff coming down, don't like it,  :hand:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 03 December, 2010, 11:22:59 pm
I had this weekend penciled in as "possible camping trip".... :(   
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LEE on 03 December, 2010, 11:24:41 pm
It's strange to see the temperature go from -4.6C to -0.8C from 7pm to 11pm.  Sort of counter-intuitive.

It's raining here in Hampshire now and the forecst is for the temperature to keep rising all night.






Good!

Edit.  In the time it took to type that it went from -0.8C to -0.7C

Edit -0.4C  (this is a heck of a heat wave)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 03 December, 2010, 11:35:31 pm
Still snowing in Brum, but less cold.
Come on rain.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 04 December, 2010, 08:01:23 am
The mild temperatures and drizzle seem to have eroded some of the snow overnight in Croydon, although there's still a fair bit around.  The forecasts have the above zero temperatures around until sometime tomorrow, at which point it'll dive back below freezing, and whatever is left will become suitably lethal. :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 04 December, 2010, 08:04:32 am
It's all melting here...  :'(

And it'll all freeze overnight tonight I bet.  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CAMRAMan on 04 December, 2010, 10:09:30 am
We've had next to bugger all snow here in Warwick, but I saw the BBC Midlands local news show last night & they had photos taken of the region and Rugby, <10 miles away, was awash with the stuff! Not fair!!!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 04 December, 2010, 11:00:45 am
We've had next to bugger all snow here in Warwick

That's good, Mrs Zoom is on her way up to the castle for a girlie Xmas market weekend having managed to escape The Frozen South last night.

Some antisocial git has put the contents of their front garden flower bed all over the road a few doors up  >:(

Nor sure whether to move the car to a clearer road about a mile away before the slushy ridge down the middle of the road freezes and becomes a front (whatever that plasticcy bit under the bumper is called) and sump removal tool  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CAMRAMan on 04 December, 2010, 12:00:16 pm
We've had next to bugger all snow here in Warwick
That's good, Mrs Zoom is on her way up to the castle for a girlie Xmas market weekend having managed to escape The Frozen South last night.

About 4.5C here now and still flake-free. If you're in touch with Mrs Zoom & depending on her tastes, I'm sure she'll find the Rose & Crown in the centre very decent. The Lazy Cow, a sort of upmarket steakhouse, is new & untried.  There is a tapas bar on the High Street that looks decent. It's called Catalan. Being a touristy town there are no end of eateries, but I tend not to eat out here that often.

In the (unlikely) event she's into real ale, The Oak on Coten End and The Wild Boar in Lakin Road are decent too, with the latter being more decorated, for want of a better word. They're both within 5 mins walk of each other and close to the station.

Oh, and Marc Almond is on at The Assembly in Leamington - 3 miles away - tomorrow!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: itsbruce on 04 December, 2010, 12:06:21 pm
Oh, and Marc Almond is on at The Assembly in Leamington - 3 miles away - tomorrow!

The opening bars of "Tainted Love" have to be the scene-setting sound of the Eighties (pun intended). 

In other news, I have running water again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 December, 2010, 12:17:11 pm
The penguins are enjoying the snow. (http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/EZPenguinCam.html)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CAMRAMan on 04 December, 2010, 12:25:07 pm
Too camp for you? Well, next Saturday they've got Les McKeown's Bay City Rollers live (just) on stage! Did out yer tartan scarves.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CAMRAMan on 04 December, 2010, 12:26:43 pm
The penguins are enjoying the snow. (http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/EZPenguinCam.html)

They all look a bit blase about it to me...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 04 December, 2010, 12:29:45 pm
The penguins are enjoying the snow. (http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/EZPenguinCam.html)
yeah jumping for joy I see, or rather just standing there.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Manotea on 04 December, 2010, 12:37:16 pm
Too camp for you? Well, next Saturday they've got Les McKeown's Bay City Rollers live (just) on stage! Did out yer tartan scarves.

The horror! Too ghastly to even think about. Noooo, tooooo laaaaaa...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 04 December, 2010, 01:00:07 pm
Après moi le froid, le déluge.


With apologies to Louis XV.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 04 December, 2010, 01:01:23 pm
A bit of a thaw today. I can see the tarmac on the roads in and around the village for the first time in a week (our lane is still snow and ice though).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 04 December, 2010, 01:19:15 pm
It's much warmer here in Londonton today, about 4-5C. Snow's mostly melted. Nice to see cops caught bike thieves 'despite the snow'...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11918587 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11918587)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Fi on 04 December, 2010, 01:22:54 pm
Thaw here too, but the road and pavements on our short side street were like an ice rink this morning.  Much worse than when the snow was lying.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 04 December, 2010, 01:25:40 pm
It's only going to be a brief respite here it seems as they are predicting -8 for tomorrow night.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 04 December, 2010, 01:54:26 pm
The penguins are enjoying the snow. (http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/EZPenguinCam.html)

Never mind the penguins - its a webcam on Mercedes and Walker up in Kincraig that I want to see.  I've having to make do with stills on Flickr Flickr: Highland Wildlife Park (http://www.flickr.com/groups/962018@N20/)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 04 December, 2010, 02:49:26 pm
We've had next to bugger all snow here in Warwick
That's good, Mrs Zoom is on her way up to the castle for a girlie Xmas market weekend having managed to escape The Frozen South last night.

About 4.5C here now and still flake-free. If you're in touch with Mrs Zoom & depending on her tastes, I'm sure she'll find the Rose & Crown in the centre very decent. The Lazy Cow, a sort of upmarket steakhouse, is new & untried.  There is a tapas bar on the High Street that looks decent. It's called Catalan. Being a touristy town there are no end of eateries, but I tend not to eat out here that often.

In the (unlikely) event she's into real ale,

she is occasionally as it happens  :) however it's an organised coach trip so she'll be enduring the M40 to somewhere nice and Christmassy like Bromsgrove Travelodge as we speak before being decanted at Worcester for more tat tomorrow
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mattc on 04 December, 2010, 03:03:59 pm
i think I need new specs:
If you're in touch with Mrs Zoom & depending on her tastes, I'm sure she'll find the Rose & Crown in the centre very decent. The Lazy Cow

 :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 04 December, 2010, 03:07:52 pm
i think I need new specs:
If you're in touch with Mrs Zoom & depending on her tastes, I'm sure she'll find the Rose & Crown in the centre very decent. The Lazy Cow.

 :o

  This is getting dangerous, where me helmet
                                                      :P
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 04 December, 2010, 03:40:51 pm
3C and damp'n'drizzly in Liverpool.    If it freezes overnight it'll be lovely & slippy  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 04 December, 2010, 04:03:28 pm
I've just taken the dog to the park.

It's freezing hard and the results of the past 3 days' falls is that we have a fairly uniform 10" lying.

That is some turd.
Seriously, that is one of the worst things about the Polish winter. When the snow melts it reveals four or so months' worth of dog turds which have been preserved by the frost.

There's a Scouting Badge in that, I think

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/log_book.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 04 December, 2010, 07:48:19 pm
she'll be enduring the M40 to somewhere nice and Christmassy like Bromsgrove Travelodge

I was wrong; Brum Airport Holiday Inn!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CAMRAMan on 05 December, 2010, 12:39:59 pm
If that's the one I'm thinking of, it's right by the entrance to the old airport (now a freight air terminal) and alledgedly something of an art deco classic.

Right in the middle of nowhere though!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rower40 on 05 December, 2010, 12:40:38 pm
The only reason that any tarmac is visible on my street is because the water gushing out of the burst water main has washed it away in one thin rivulet ending at the gutter outside my driveway.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 05 December, 2010, 02:45:06 pm
There very little snow left on the main roads, and even the residential roads and footpaths have been reduced to a mixture of clear bits, and slushy areas.

The occasional patch of icy bit can catch you by surprise when walking, and once the temperature drops below zero again (forecast for later today), what's left is going to be "Interesting" to walk on.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 05 December, 2010, 03:54:19 pm
Mostly gone from my roof. I know this because in the early hours of Saturday morning there was a sound like someone yanking a heavy quilt off off the roof, followed by an almighty crash as all the accumulated snow avalanched to the ground.

I'd have preferred it if the avalanche hadn't removed my gutter, smashed the patio table, and shattered the lid of the big plastic storage thing that houses the lawnmower and other items of garden paraphernalia.

This is my punishment for being a skinflint and not leaving the heating running night and day to melt the stuff.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 05 December, 2010, 03:57:00 pm
In places where snow is a several-month presence, people go up on the roofs and clear the snow off with shovels, having first taped off an appropriate area of pavement to prevent accidentally creating snow-bypassers. But you might not have a long enough ladder to do that.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 05 December, 2010, 04:43:40 pm
I've just been for a quick spin round our normal training loop.  I didn't have to get far before finding that the unsalted roads are still verrrry icy.  It may not have been terribly smart to go up hills caked with ice equipped with a fixed shod with smooth and, truth be told, slightly over-worn, tyres.  But it was fun.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 05 December, 2010, 05:11:10 pm
In places where snow is a several-month presence, people go up on the roofs and clear the snow off with shovels, having first taped off an appropriate area of pavement to prevent accidentally creating snow-bypassers. But you might not have a long enough ladder to do that.

Alas I live in a three storey house, so it's not easy to see what's up there (short of getting a train to Beckenham Junction and peering out of the window when it passes by on the embankment) and I didn't think it was that bad. And no, far too high for any ladder I have or want to have.

I was quite shocked to find, when discussing it with a few neighbours, that everyone seems to leave their central heating on 24/7. Which probably explains why I have a large collections of sweaters but no gutter.

Fortunately, it didn't squoosh the cats. I'll go wrestle our insurers who I am sure have some kind of inevitable small print that excludes gutters, snow, Saturday mornings, etc.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 05 December, 2010, 05:22:47 pm
I'll go wrestle our insurers who I am sure have some kind of inevitable small print that excludes gutters, snow, Saturday mornings, etc.

My insurers seem to have small print that excludes CLAIMS.  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 05 December, 2010, 05:35:39 pm
I am going to bed, with a bottle of Whiskey, I am going to stay there til Spring
    Any experience like you have had is enough to make one feel like this

   
Mostly gone from my roof. I know this because in the early hours of Saturday morning there was a sound like someone yanking a heavy quilt off off the roof, followed by an almighty crash as all the accumulated snow avalanched to the ground.

I'd have preferred it if the avalanche hadn't removed my gutter, smashed the patio table, and shattered the lid of the big plastic storage thing that houses the lawnmower and other items of garden paraphernalia.

This is my punishment for being a skinflint and not leaving the heating running night and day to melt the stuff.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 05 December, 2010, 05:50:21 pm
In places where snow is a several-month presence, people go up on the roofs and clear the snow off with shovels, having first taped off an appropriate area of pavement to prevent accidentally creating snow-bypassers. But you might not have a long enough ladder to do that.

Alas I live in a three storey house, so it's not easy to see what's up there (short of getting a train to Beckenham Junction and peering out of the window when it passes by on the embankment) and I didn't think it was that bad. And no, far too high for any ladder I have or want to have.

I was quite shocked to find, when discussing it with a few neighbours, that everyone seems to leave their central heating on 24/7. Which probably explains why I have a large collections of sweaters but no gutter.

Fortunately, it didn't squoosh the cats. I'll go wrestle our insurers who I am sure have some kind of inevitable small print that excludes gutters, snow, Saturday mornings, etc.

Scottish Widows may be understanding...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11922246 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11922246)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 05 December, 2010, 07:37:12 pm
Mostly gone from my roof. I know this because in the early hours of Saturday morning there was a sound like someone yanking a heavy quilt off off the roof, followed by an almighty crash as all the accumulated snow avalanched to the ground.

I'd have preferred it if the avalanche hadn't removed my gutter, smashed the patio table, and shattered the lid of the big plastic storage thing that houses the lawnmower and other items of garden paraphernalia.

This is my punishment for being a skinflint and not leaving the heating running night and day to melt the stuff.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to workout hte effect of gravity (though I am led to believe they are rather good at it) nor that lots of snow will weigh more than a several of kilograms and such densely packed ice that it has become would do considerable damage.

It also wouldn't surprise me if your insurer decided that you had plenty of time to move said items out of harms way once aware that there was snow on the roof.

Bummer really.

We are just breeding reasonably impressive icicles front and rear. I'm hoping the guttering doesn't give way.

..d
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 05 December, 2010, 07:54:40 pm
I'll go wrestle our insurers who I am sure have some kind of inevitable small print that excludes gutters, snow, Saturday mornings, etc.

My insurers seem to have small print that excludes CLAIMS.  ::-)

This is why I don't have insurance.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 December, 2010, 07:56:39 pm
This is my punishment for being a skinflint and not leaving the heating running night and day to melt the stuff.
Or for being sensible enough to have decent insulation.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 05 December, 2010, 09:49:18 pm
Mostly gone from my roof. I know this because in the early hours of Saturday morning there was a sound like someone yanking a heavy quilt off off the roof, followed by an almighty crash as all the accumulated snow avalanched to the ground.

I'd have preferred it if the avalanche hadn't removed my gutter, smashed the patio table, and shattered the lid of the big plastic storage thing that houses the lawnmower and other items of garden paraphernalia.

This is my punishment for being a skinflint and not leaving the heating running night and day to melt the stuff.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to workout hte effect of gravity (though I am led to believe they are rather good at it) nor that lots of snow will weigh more than a several of kilograms and such densely packed ice that it has become would do considerable damage.

It also wouldn't surprise me if your insurer decided that you had plenty of time to move said items out of harms way once aware that there was snow on the roof.

Bummer really.

We are just breeding reasonably impressive icicles front and rear. I'm hoping the guttering doesn't give way.

..d

Yes, but a rocket scientist would undoubtedly cobble together some kind of rocket, launch it into orbit, deploy a satellite and receive photometric telemetry of the build up of snow on his roof. Then he'd run back out to the shed, build a second rocket, launch that, and deploy another satellite with a large IR laser that he'd use to melt the snow and ice off the roof. Before, of course, holding the world to ransom while laughing evilly.

I am not a rocket scientist, of course, just an ex-biochemist. Stuff that happens on my roof may as well be on Mars. It's not like I can much about it, unless I climb up there, and I'm not a registered grown-up that can left unsupervised with a ladder.

Of course, you are probably right, they will reject my claim on the basis that I could have built a jetpack and flown up there to check.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 05 December, 2010, 09:56:06 pm
You keep your patio table on the roof?

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 05 December, 2010, 10:03:16 pm
You keep your patio table on the roof?



Don't we all? Keeping them on the patio is so passe.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 05 December, 2010, 10:23:35 pm
Yes, but a rocket scientist would undoubtedly cobble together some kind of rocket, launch it into orbit, deploy a satellite and receive photometric telemetry of the build up of snow on his roof. Then he'd run back out to the shed, build a second rocket, launch that, and deploy another satellite with a large IR laser that he'd use to melt the snow and ice off the roof. Before, of course, holding the world to ransom while laughing evilly. ...

You called?

No I wouldn't, I'm a bit short of the several million quid a cheap launch would cost, plus I'm pretty sure the council wouldn't give me planning permission.

I could train Talisker to go up on the roof and poke the snow with a stick, but he's only been outside the house once for about ten minutes since Tuesday. :-\  Really not up to the standard of Blofeld's moggy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 05 December, 2010, 10:50:50 pm
Lots of the white stuff still lying around in the Peaks...
Wandered though Baslow this evening..... -11C and freezing fog. Brrr!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Panoramix on 05 December, 2010, 10:52:29 pm


It doesn't take a rocket scientist to workout hte effect of gravity (though I am led to believe they are rather good at it) nor that lots of snow will weigh more than a several of kilograms and such densely packed ice that it has become would do considerable damage.


And an engineer will tell you between 1 and 3 kN/m3 which although not rocket science is a pretty useful fact to design a roof!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 06 December, 2010, 04:05:12 am
Some serious snowfall around the border of Cuyahoga and Medina counties.  Unfortunately I was on the road at the time.  Last week I drove through a downpour, tonight through a blizzard.  Can't say either was fun, though things look prettier after a blizzard.
 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Aidan on 06 December, 2010, 08:40:29 am
No more snow overnight here, and talking to people round the country this morning it seems limited to Scotland.

It is -12 here at the moment though :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 06 December, 2010, 09:20:44 am
Seems to be pretty much melting round here.  It looks v. icy, but I've not been out.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 06 December, 2010, 09:24:16 am
-4 here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 06 December, 2010, 09:36:06 am
And its -10 here this morning. -17 at Topcliffe !
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hulver on 06 December, 2010, 10:19:42 am
No new snow, but it was -15 here this morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 06 December, 2010, 10:21:39 am
Light snow here for the school rush. Even more idiots than normal who don't clear their windscreens.

..d
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cyclops on 06 December, 2010, 10:25:18 am
Absolutely tipping it down here and the roads have a good few inches of fresh snow already. The pavements were so treacherous this morning I may stroll down to the bus stop in my crampons.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CAMRAMan on 06 December, 2010, 12:11:35 pm
Make sure you keep the little string out of the snow...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 06 December, 2010, 12:51:50 pm
Absolutely tipping it down here and the roads have a good few inches of fresh snow already. The pavements were so treacherous this morning I may stroll down to the bus stop in my crampons.

You might have trouble with the return journey, I've just read that they've suspended all services for the moment.  Hopefully they'll be able to resume later this afternoon.  But its still falling steadily just now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 06 December, 2010, 02:03:45 pm
-3 here.  I just rode home from the hardware shop and got an ice cream headache.  Ow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 06 December, 2010, 03:09:11 pm
-3 here.  I just rode home from the hardware shop and got an ice cream headache.  Ow.

I wish our Hardware Shop sold ice creams...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 December, 2010, 03:23:44 pm
Had an early meeting to represent someone in a disciplinary. Got the result we wanted. Got bus into office - took 90 minutes. Arrived just in time for lunch, then got sent home because the snow was getting heavier and the buses had all been suspended. We had fun walking home. There were eight of us set off together and Brooke has just got her engagement ring - the precious - and trudging through the deep snow we were like the Fellowship of the Ring. We managed to avoid the Bingham orcs. Excellent day!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 06 December, 2010, 04:47:35 pm
Sounds like absolute chaos out there.  From the BBC website - The Forth Road Bridge has been closed southbound because of a lorry jack-knifing... Edinburgh city centre is gridlocked as is the city bypass... The M8 is closed in both directions due to a jack-knifed lorry at Harthill...It is also gridlocked on the M8 through the centre of Glasgow, causing jams throughout the city...In Lanarkshire, the M73, M74 and A725 are at a standstill...The M8 was badly hit by snow..The M80 is closed southbound near Striling, with queuing traffic and long delays at M9 junction 9, Bannockburn, because of snow.

And I believe the Embra buses are still suspended, its difficult to tell as their website doesn't seem to be responding.

My sympathies to anyone trying to make it home just now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: BrianI on 06 December, 2010, 05:00:56 pm
Hopefully Dunfermline / west fife buses will be running tomorrow! 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: fin on 06 December, 2010, 05:04:04 pm
I had a day's leave and so thankfully avoided my commute into Edinburgh and the chaos being reported there for the best part of the day.
Instead, I did my good Samaritan thing and dug out one of my neighbours who managed to get her car sideways across our narrow street.

The snow in Dunfermline has stopped, but it's now very foggy.

Roll on Spring.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: fin on 06 December, 2010, 05:07:49 pm
And I believe the Embra buses are still suspended, its difficult to tell as their website doesn't seem to be responding.

"Buses are currently re-entering service. Please bear with us as buses start to appear back on their respective routes." reported 1 hr ago on http://twitter.com/on_lothianbuses
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: citoyen on 06 December, 2010, 05:10:02 pm
Nearly all the snow was washed away from east Kent in the space of a couple of hours on Saturday afternoon, but I was surprised to see that most of west Kent was still under a thick white blanket as my train passed through the Medway area this morning. I don't think any of it is freshly fallen though.

d.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adrian on 06 December, 2010, 06:18:55 pm
Nearly all the snow was washed away from east Kent in the space of a couple of hours on Saturday afternoon, but I was surprised to see that most of west Kent was still under a thick white blanket as my train passed through the Medway area this morning. I don't think any of it is freshly fallen though.

d.


Similarly with Brighton, but yesterday evening there was still snow sitting on the ground the other side of the South Downs. |
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 06 December, 2010, 06:55:37 pm
I know is has been snowing in Belfast as Mrs Jaded is stuck there waiting for her flight back to Bristol. Could be cancelled, apparently.  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 06 December, 2010, 07:50:57 pm
And now it is cancelled.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: itsbruce on 06 December, 2010, 07:56:47 pm
How many more times is the weather going to change, this Winter?  It's most deadly at the interface between one state and the next, very often.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: valkyrie on 06 December, 2010, 08:03:44 pm
On of my team left his house in Crieff at 7am this morning to go to Glasgow airport for a flight to France. He phoned me at 11am to say he was stuck on the M80, no traffic moving at all. I think he's still there now :o

I was working in Leven in Fife today and the drive home to Bo'ness was actually pretty easy until South Queensferry. The road from there along to Bo'ness was in terrible condition, really dodgy mix of very hard frozen snow and ice. I don't think I'll be going out tomorrow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: JohnP on 06 December, 2010, 08:04:29 pm
I wish you lot would stop boasting about your snow.  Here in central Hertfordshire we have had a single session of less than 15mm.  I did manage a walk around the lakes at Stanborough the next day and it was rather attractive and the lakes were totally frozen over.  BUT THAT WAS IT.  I can't even blag a snow-day off work as I retired in August.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 06 December, 2010, 08:09:26 pm
And now it is cancelled.

and yet, as she queues at Belfast to get booked onto tomorrow morning's flight and get a hotel for tonight, the easyjet site shows the cancelled flight as 'on time'.  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 06 December, 2010, 08:26:26 pm
And now it is cancelled.

             Pub then

                                ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: oncemore on 06 December, 2010, 10:18:59 pm
No more snow but ice remains and I think that this is as cold as I can ever remember in England. And no sign of warming.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 06 December, 2010, 10:39:48 pm
Just got in (from something vaguely cycle related). -7.5C on the car thermometer. Navigating round the hyoooge alpine massifs of snow in the Tesco carpark ice rink.

And it has now been cold enough, long enough to feel warm.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 06 December, 2010, 10:46:53 pm
Just got in (from something vaguely cycle related). -7.5C on the car thermometer.

This pic

(http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/bosphorus/pubpino1.jpg)

was taken at about 3:30 this afternoon.  I doubt it got above -5 all day here...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: daimountaingoat on 06 December, 2010, 10:54:55 pm
Just had a lift from work in my mates car and temperature was reading -10c had to scrape ice from inside the car
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 06 December, 2010, 11:02:57 pm
-15 marks the coldest ever temperature I've ever ridden in.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 06 December, 2010, 11:05:56 pm
Hanging the washing outside on the line was a mistake, even it was sunny today.

When I took it off the line, it was all stiff and glittery.   :facepalm:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 06 December, 2010, 11:19:44 pm
I just turned a tap on,  no water...... luckily I've got my Zombocalypse supply of bottle stuff, but I don't think I'll be having a shower tomorrow  >:(

-3.5 on my balcony, 4 floors up.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 07 December, 2010, 12:05:44 am
Hanging the washing outside on the line was a mistake, even it was sunny today.

When I took it off the line, it was all stiff and glittery.   :facepalm:

Presumably you are now out clubbing?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 07 December, 2010, 12:12:41 am
Hanging the washing outside on the line was a mistake, even it was sunny today.

When I took it off the line, it was all stiff and glittery.   :facepalm:

Presumably you are now out clubbing?

Nah, it was the bedding - and toga parties are more of a student thing anyway.  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: kyuss on 07 December, 2010, 03:29:53 am
Bought some snowboard trousers at the weekend. They're lime green, but I don't care, they're toasty warm, waterproof and cheap. If the snow boots I've ordered online turn up before the weekend I'm going to be the happiest guy in the world.

-12c at the moment.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 07 December, 2010, 08:22:47 am
-9 last night was the minimum. The trees are all covered in frost, there was a freezing fog.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 07 December, 2010, 09:03:19 am
And here

-10 just now, but a beautiful day

(http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/bosphorus/cold_day1.jpg)

That freezing fog has left rime on all the trees

(http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/bosphorus/cold_day2.jpg)

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 07 December, 2010, 09:31:39 am
The freezing fog was so severe here last night that it looks as though it snowed.

Beautiful to look at - but the roads are treacherous.  And the idiots are out in force...  >:(

Currently -6o outside.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 07 December, 2010, 09:33:37 am
We watched it snow through the windows last night at work.  A half inch dusting on the car this morning.  And I had to get the shovel out of the boot to get it to a decent safe parking spot when I got home  :-[

Really sick of the snow now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Morrisette on 07 December, 2010, 09:44:14 am
The freezing fog was so sever here last night that it lloks as though it snowed.

Beautiful to look at - but the roads are treacherous.  And the idiots are out in force...  >:(

Currently -6o outside.

Ohhhhh yes they are.

Does look beautiful today though. Station bike covered in inch-thick hoar [spell that carefully] frost.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: citoyen on 07 December, 2010, 10:05:11 am
This pic

I like your chain guard. What is it? Looking at the state of my chain this morning, I think I need one.

d.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 07 December, 2010, 10:45:06 am

I like your chain guard. What is it?


The info is here

Members' bikes (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=17.msg793010#msg793010)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 December, 2010, 11:25:24 am
I wish you lot would stop boasting about your snow.  Here in central Hertfordshire we have had a single session of less than 15mm.  I did manage a walk around the lakes at Stanborough the next day and it was rather attractive and the lakes were totally frozen over.  BUT THAT WAS IT.  I can't even blag a snow-day off work as I retired in August.

+1, apart from the retirement bit.  People in Romford were moaning that the roads hadn't been gritted; in 've 'stow there was no need for the roads to be gritted  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 07 December, 2010, 02:46:17 pm
rime this morning

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/rime.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 07 December, 2010, 07:19:32 pm
The freezing fog was so severe here last night that it looks as though it snowed.

Beautiful to look at - but the roads are treacherous.  And the idiots are out in force...  >:(

Currently -6o outside.

Yup.  Classic close overtake against oncoming traffic to beat me to the back of the queue at the Sainsburys roundabout this morning.  Moron.  I told him as much.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: JonBuoy on 07 December, 2010, 07:43:53 pm
rime this morning


was everywhere forming
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mattc on 07 December, 2010, 07:44:25 pm
The so-called "Didcot" Power Station in Sutton Courtenay caused a modest dump of snow all over Milton Trading Estate last night. Nowhere else in the area has had snow for days.

Meanwhile ...
Last night a plucky cycling club committee member walked a couple of k down unlit bridleways to the pub hosting the December meeting. Except he forgot the level crossing was closed during December. Luckily pedestrian access was allowed, so one of the night watchmen came over to open the barricades. Sadly their padlock key snapped in the lock  :facepalm:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 07 December, 2010, 09:13:07 pm
- 6 when I left to trike to work, good job I'm not a brass monkey   :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rower40 on 07 December, 2010, 09:18:01 pm
Am I going to die come down with lurgi?

The water supply has been cut off because of a burst main.  I have scraped up a large quantity of surface snow from the garden, and have thawed it, boiled it, and used it to make Lemsip.

Is that safe?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 07 December, 2010, 09:19:50 pm
That's fine.  You can't tell the difference between lemsip snow and yellow snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 07 December, 2010, 09:49:31 pm
That's fine.  You can't tell the difference between lemsip snow and yellow snow.

    The difference is subtle but one will not be so good for you

                                              :P
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 07 December, 2010, 10:08:53 pm
First snow for a few days this evening  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 07 December, 2010, 10:42:01 pm
On the approach to Heathrow this morning the frost-covered countryside looked quite pretty.  The only evidence of snow in East London are the piles of salt/grit on the pavements.

Back across the pond, the snow continues to fall rather heavily.
 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 07 December, 2010, 10:49:34 pm
On the approach to Heathrow this morning the frost-covered countryside looked quite pretty.  The only evidence of snow in East London are the piles of salt/grit on the pavements.

Back across the pond, the snow continues to fall rather heavily.
 

Yeah, but when do you ever get to Kensington?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 07 December, 2010, 10:58:06 pm
The so-called "Didcot" Power Station in Sutton Courtenay caused a modest dump of snow all over Milton Trading Estate last night. Nowhere else in the area has had snow for days.

yes a Cow Orker told me about this phenomenon..  (ISTR seeing this on trees near the old one at Hayes too)

Plant has power to make it snow (From Oxford Mail) (http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/4658740.Plant_has_power_to_make_it_snow/)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 09 December, 2010, 06:14:40 am
Not your usual day out in Northumberland. - The Hub (http://www.trithehub.com/video/video/show?id=2372339%3AVideo%3A14475)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 09 December, 2010, 07:02:20 am
Priceless  :thumbsup:  BBC News - DIY avalanche: Dunfermline men cause home snowslide (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11954988)


(PS) Meanwhile, in Embra, they're sending for the army.  (Cue images of Trumpton and Pippin Fort  :)). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11946220  I hope they have the collecting tins out for Help for Heroes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 09 December, 2010, 08:11:52 am
Chuffing cold here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 09 December, 2010, 08:13:14 am
We have had another overnight dollop
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 December, 2010, 08:46:58 am


(PS) Meanwhile, in Embra, they're sending for the army.  (Cue images of Trumpton and Pippin Fort  :)). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11946220  I hope they have the collecting tins out for Help for Heroes.
Hello? Is that Captain Snort? Can you come please? We need you.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 09 December, 2010, 10:33:01 am
We have had another overnight dollop
But has it snowed?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 09 December, 2010, 10:38:10 am
Not your usual day out in Northumberland. - The Hub (http://www.trithehub.com/video/video/show?id=2372339%3AVideo%3A14475)

That's excellent!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mattc on 09 December, 2010, 10:51:17 am
Priceless  :thumbsup:  BBC News - DIY avalanche: Dunfermline men cause home snowslide (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11954988)

Nice one.
I liked this one too: BBC News - Lucky escape from snow 'avalanche' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11922246)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 09 December, 2010, 11:49:30 am
We have had another overnight dollop
But has it snowed?

yes,that as well :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 09 December, 2010, 11:50:21 am
Sunny & warm here :)

No more sno, and the icicles are melting
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 December, 2010, 12:19:03 pm


(PS) Meanwhile, in Embra, they're sending for the army.  (Cue images of Trumpton and Pippin Fort  :)). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11946220  I hope they have the collecting tins out for Help for Heroes.
Hello? Is that Captain Snort? Can you come please? We need you.

Someone get a message through to Captain Snort
That they’d better start assembling the boys from the fort
And keep Mrs Honeyman right out of sight
‘Cos there’s gonna be a riot down in Trumpton tonight
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 09 December, 2010, 12:22:13 pm
"Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb

Let it happen bass player…

Time flies by when you’re a driver of a train
Speeding out of Trumpton with a cargo of cocaine
I get high when I’m the pilot of a plane
Touching down in Camberwick I’m stoned out of my brain

Under bridges, over bridges, to our destination
Careful with that spliff Eugene, it causes condensation

Every Saturday I get the Chigley skins
And they always smash my windows ‘cos the home side always wins
Yeah, time flies by when you’re a driver of a train
Gonna get me syringes out and crank up once again"



:)

Happy childhood memories...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 09 December, 2010, 01:02:00 pm
There are ice floes on the Wye in Tintern today - locals are saying it's the first time it's frozen since 1984.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 09 December, 2010, 01:03:15 pm
It's damn cold down there - it was 2 degrees colder at Tintern Abbey at 11 pm last night than it was here, and we're a lot higher.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 09 December, 2010, 05:51:19 pm


(PS) Meanwhile, in Embra, they're sending for the army.  (Cue images of Trumpton and Pippin Fort  :)). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11946220  I hope they have the collecting tins out for Help for Heroes.
Hello? Is that Captain Snort? Can you come please? We need you.

Someone get a message through to Captain Snort
That they’d better start assembling the boys from the fort
And keep Mrs Honeyman right out of sight
‘Cos there’s gonna be a riot down in Trumpton Westminster tonight

Do you hate Nerys Hughes as well ?  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 December, 2010, 06:59:06 pm
My office building has a glass-roofed corridor running the length of the building. The front door is at one end of it and the back door is at the other. There are no other ways in and out of the building.

Today we heard a strange noise and thought "oh, maybe a load of snow just fell off" so went to look to see if the glass roof was clear. It was clear of snow but we noticed severe cracks in every pane of glass. We don't know how long the cracks have been there. They might have been there all week and we just hadn't noticed.

So we had to evacuate the building, we've scattered across the city to anywhere that has space for us and we don't know how long it'll take to make it safe for us to go back in. Annoyingly, all the Secret Santa stuff and a couple of tubs of mini cakes were left behind.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 December, 2010, 07:26:12 pm
Ooo sounds expensive!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 December, 2010, 08:35:55 pm
We rent the building and I doubt the owner wants to pay for repairs, so it'll probably just get chipboarded.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 09 December, 2010, 11:12:58 pm
Snowball war has broken out on our street.  Unfortunately, while our upstairs window provides an excellent sniping position, we're taking heavy fire, and don't dare open it to collect the meagre half a snowball's worth of snow accumulated on the sill.

There's a guy out there wearing shorts, throwing snowballs with the arm that isn't in plaster.  Hardcore!

Take advantage of the week points, aim for the legs... ;D

We've had a very light dusting in Liverpool,  it's currently -1,  roads are clear but some pavements are treacherous.

My Kahtoola MicroSpikes are as yet unused...(2 mile walk to work, downhill on pavements that were not cleared last year)

(http://www.facewest.co.uk/pp/Kahtoola/AW10/Kahtoola-MicroSpikes/Kahtoola-MicroSpikes.jpg)

What little snow & ice there was here has gone.  My Dad went AOT last week, twisted his ankle & grazed his elbow, so I've ordered spiky shoe things for him, my mother & sister.

Mrs Pingu's & mine  are reviewed here Yaktrax vs Microspikes (http://www.outdoorsmagic.com/gear-blog/microspikes-v-yaktrax/7675.html)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 December, 2010, 11:16:42 pm
Mrs. Wow and I went to our tai chi class in the car. V. disappointing.

The thermometer in the garden said +2°C. The car's outside thermometer said +3°C. There was a freshly frozen puddle in the road outside our front door, which was most definitely liquid before sunset.

The cycle path we would have used still has a fair bit of ice on it. I think we made the right decision.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 09 December, 2010, 11:31:06 pm
Lots of dripping here today, and a couple of snow-slips off the roof.  It's thawing.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 December, 2010, 11:42:53 pm
Drip drip drip this afternoon in York.  Temperature dropped again as I was riding home from the Bike Rescue but it's nowhere near as cold as it has been.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 10 December, 2010, 11:40:30 am
A lot of the ice has gone from the paths and roads in my part of Croydon, but there's still a fair bit around.  Certainly there's enough to slip on if you're not careful about where you walk.  I reckon in another day or two it'll mostly go, especially if there are any more sunny periods to help bump the temperature up a bit more.

I did pump the studded tyres on the snow bike back up to "normal" pressure.  The front was 30psi, and the rear was 40psi, but I've put them both back up to 80psi (I need to check more carefully on the sidewalls to see what the maximum allowed is).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 December, 2010, 01:24:53 pm
Well, the snow (and the guttering) just came down from next door's roof.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 10 December, 2010, 01:25:48 pm
could be worse...could be my guttering ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 10 December, 2010, 02:08:48 pm
I've lost one gutter already this year, along with the neighbours on both sides. Don't fancy it again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 10 December, 2010, 02:14:21 pm
A fantastic warm sunny day here :)

I cycled to Monmouth and back and the roads (even the lanes) are just about all ice-free now.  No snow at all; it's like a spring day.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: daimountaingoat on 10 December, 2010, 02:18:48 pm
Dull dampish day up in the South Wales/ Merthyr valley snow and ice are clearing but in some parts sidestreets are still icy under foot. I,m hoping weather is going to improve over the weekend as my cycling club have their annual holly run on sunday  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CAMRAMan on 10 December, 2010, 02:44:27 pm
I've lost one gutter already this year, along with the neighbours on both sides.

What happened? I have visions of the neighbours sliding off down a hill sitting in the guttering ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 10 December, 2010, 03:00:59 pm
Possibly he had cast iron guttering and the neighbours were round carol singing?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 10 December, 2010, 05:56:37 pm
Nah. I were just being linguistically sloppy.

The old cast iron gutter belonging to the neighbour on one side fell, taking down half of mine, which was attached to it, & loosening the rest. The gutter belonging to the neighbour on the other side fell a few days later along with the rest of mine.

Lotsa snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 10 December, 2010, 09:41:48 pm
Thawing nicely here.  Just in time for tomorrow's ride  ::-) 

We've lost some soffitt board, due to the trapped starling's nest defrosting.  What a mess.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rower40 on 11 December, 2010, 11:32:23 am
And....  breathe.

Snow all gone.  Phew.  It melted very quickly on Thursday night, all day Friday, with only a few slabs of ice left now.

Just in time for the delivery of my new tyres for the trike.

And another thing - where's my Alfine Day 01?  I ordered it over two weeks ago.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wendy on 11 December, 2010, 05:05:48 pm
And....  breathe.

Snow all gone.  Phew.  It melted very quickly on Thursday night, all day Friday, with only a few slabs of ice left now.

Just in time for the delivery of my new tyres for the trike.

And another thing - where's my Alfine Day 01?  I ordered it over two weeks ago.

Not yet here in Biggin Hill.  There are still piles of snow, and a distinct extra chill in the air as you get up the hill.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 11 December, 2010, 08:06:10 pm
I cleared the 4" of ice from the pavement outside my house, wide enough so that a pram could fit along. Then some joker in a snowplough decided that 18" boulders of ice were just what is needed to make the  pavement even more pedestrian friendly, leaving the whole lot pssabl only by a particularly expert chamois.

And the grit bin over the road and round the corner is now empty (so I reported it on the cooncil  web site.)

The ice melt that was flowing back into the house past the gutters has now ceased.

..d
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 11 December, 2010, 10:46:44 pm
And....  breathe.

Snow all gone.  Phew.  It melted very quickly on Thursday night, all day Friday, with only a few slabs of ice left now.

Just in time for the delivery of my new tyres for the trike.

And another thing - where's my Alfine Day 01?  I ordered it over two weeks ago.

Not yet here in Biggin Hill.  There are still piles of snow, and a distinct extra chill in the air as you get up the hill.


Here in balmy Brent, not really far away, it's been 7-8°C today and there's been no snow for several days...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 December, 2010, 10:55:30 pm
I was surprised how many times I came across compacted snow / ice / slush on my ride home today, given that the temperature has been above freezing now for several days.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 12 December, 2010, 01:30:29 am
Weather man on the radio has just told me that it's all going to happen again on Thursday.  Bugger.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrew Br on 12 December, 2010, 09:13:04 am
It's currently -3oC in South Manchester when it was supposed to be above freezing.
We're on a group ride in an hour so it could be carnage if there is any ice.
This lot can cycle into each other on a summer's day..........................

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Aidan on 12 December, 2010, 09:35:22 am
is hovering around freezing here with still a lot of uncleared frozen water. It melted a little yesterday  then overnight the meltwater froze on top of the compacted snow: its horribly slippy.  im sticking to completely cleared roads today but if yesterdays anything to go by the christmas frenzy is in full frenz  so roads will be busy 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 12 December, 2010, 09:39:55 am
Time to buy those cross country skis I've always wanted...
   Scotland's arctic conditions may last for a bit longer - about a decade - Scotland on Sunday
 (http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland/Scotland39s-arctic-conditions-may-last.6657929.jp)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bobb on 12 December, 2010, 02:07:37 pm
An old fuck buddy friend has just apologised for being late online. But she wasn't really bothered with having to clear 3 feet of snow. And there's several more coming. (St. P MN)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 12 December, 2010, 11:23:19 pm
Checks thermometer in garden: -1
Checks weather: Drizzling

Now that's going to be fun in the morning  :facepalm:.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 13 December, 2010, 07:33:39 am
Freezing fog this morning.  :(

*Prepares for the utter f*ckwits who will be on the road this morning*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 December, 2010, 10:34:02 am
Somewhere between a thin crust of ice and drifts up to about 80cm here on the Eastern Wall of Europe. We had a nice sledge ride to a relative's yesterday, about a mile each way, though it was impossible to pull a personned sledge over the lumps where the wild boar had been digging for food. We also proved that it is possible for an enthusiastic 6 year old to pull his daddy on a sledge on level ground - with just a little help!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 13 December, 2010, 01:21:19 pm
Somewhere between a thin crust of ice and drifts up to about 80cm here on the Eastern Wall of Europe. We had a nice sledge ride to a relative's yesterday, about a mile each way, though it was impossible to pull a personned sledge over the lumps where the wild boar had been digging for food. We also proved that it is possible for an enthusiastic 6 year old to pull his daddy on a sledge on level ground - with just a little help!

          I have been told a whip helps

                                       :demon:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feline on 13 December, 2010, 01:37:49 pm
It's currently nearly 8C here, and yet there is still some frost on parts of my lawn. They are forecasting -10C for Saturday night, I am starting to be glad I am working this weekend so had no chance of riding the bike anyway.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 13 December, 2010, 02:11:14 pm
Lovely and sunny in North Oxfordshire, went out on trike (to dentist) and went base over apex on the thin layer of ice on our front path
                                                :P
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 13 December, 2010, 03:58:19 pm
An old fuck buddy friend has just apologised for being late online. But she wasn't really bothered with having to clear 3 feet of snow. And there's several more coming. (St. P MN)

Indeed.

BBC News - Moment when Metrodome roof collapses after snow deluge (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11984704)

Amazing scenes. I watched Vikings vs Green Bay play there in the 80s. Nice place. When I was there, it was -9c and pouring with rain  :o.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 13 December, 2010, 07:34:20 pm
BBC News - Moment when Metrodome roof collapses after snow deluge (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11984704)

Amazing scenes. I watched Vikings vs Green Bay play there in the 80s. Nice place. When I was there, it was -9c and pouring with rain  :o.

That's pretty benign, plenty of buildings have collapsed entirely due to unusually heavy snow loading on their roofs.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 13 December, 2010, 07:52:49 pm
BBC News - Moment when Metrodome roof collapses after snow deluge (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11984704)

Amazing scenes. I watched Vikings vs Green Bay play there in the 80s. Nice place. When I was there, it was -9c and pouring with rain  :o.

That's pretty benign, plenty of buildings have collapsed entirely due to unusually heavy snow loading on their roofs.

True. Most building collapses happen due to wet, cloying snow which is heavy. Minneapolis doesn't usually get snow like that - it gets the "wrong kind" - the fluffy, dry snow, which shouldn't be a problem to the Metrodome.

The inflatable roof only worked because of positive air pressure within. When you go into the arena, you have to go through double air-tight doors, and boy do your ears pop.

I guess the weight of snow was too much even for that.
 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feline on 13 December, 2010, 08:07:47 pm
Temperatures here are plummeting by the minute, it was 8C at midday and now -3.2C and falling rapidly, plus freezing fog.
Cheddar reservoir is actually frozen today, my dog ran around on the ice while I nearly had kittens expecting her to fall through. I have never seen it freeze before.

I was going to go out on the bike with a friend tomorrow but am now having second thoughts  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feline on 13 December, 2010, 08:43:09 pm
-14°C in Poprad. Tomorrow it is due to reach a high of -7°C.

Silly me volunteered weeks ago to help at tomorrow's Christmas party for parents and children which is being held in the school playground. Still, -7°C will feel warm compared with the -25°C we had a fortnight ago.

Who would actually choose to attend an outdoor party when it's -7C ???  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 13 December, 2010, 09:37:37 pm
Feels weird reading about the freeze everywhere, when it was +3C on the way home tonight in balmy central London and I was sweatily cursing my buff, winter gloves, earwarmers, windstopper etc...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 14 December, 2010, 12:07:55 pm
-14°C in Poprad. Tomorrow it is due to reach a high of -7°C.

Silly me volunteered weeks ago to help at tomorrow's Christmas party for parents and children which is being held in the school playground. Still, -7°C will feel warm compared with the -25°C we had a fortnight ago.

Who would actually choose to attend an outdoor party when it's -7C ???  :o
It's OK if you're properly dressed. I've drunk at an outdoors bar in similar temperatures when there was an indoor bar next door. I (like the many other customers outdoors) was wearing ski gear, & it was uncomfortably hot (at least 15C!) indoors. Besides, they banned dancing on the furniture in ski boots indoors.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2010, 01:48:16 pm
I read somewhere, and I'm sure my son's girlfriend can confirm it, that in Finnish schools there's no such thing as indoor play. They've all got suitable clothing for whatever the weather, even if it's -20°C at break time, so out they go.

Son Graham was telling us on Sunday that his GF gets very intolerant of the British panic every time it snows a bit.

<deep voice with gutteral Finnish accent>

"What do they mean they've been "cut off"? They've not been cut off. You're not cut off until you have to stand on a chair to look out of the window!"

</dvwgfa>
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 14 December, 2010, 01:58:22 pm
I read somewhere, and I'm sure my son's girlfriend can confirm it, that in Finnish schools there's no such thing as indoor play. They've all got suitable clothing for whatever the weather, even if it's -20°C at break time, so out they go.

:)

In mild winters, when I'm hankering after some snow, I sometimes idly browse through the Finnish Traffic camera network (http://alk.tiehallinto.fi/alk/english/frames/kelikamerat-frame.html) images.

It was remiss of me not to grab a screen image when once I spied a lonely cyclist on one of the Lapland cameras; the temperature on the page showing it to be a balmy -28c.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 14 December, 2010, 03:28:27 pm
"What do they mean they've been "cut off"? They've not been cut off. You're not cut off until you have to stand on a chair to look out of the window!"
My parents in law have had snow completely blocking windows (they were in a single-storey house then) and door. That doesn't happen nowadays though, you just don't get the same heavy snowfalls. We had a month or so of very low temperatures (between -20 and -30) five years ago, but not with such dramatic snow.

Here it's about -1 (at a guess) today and snowing gently. Tomorrow -10 is predicted. Many kids are going to school by sledge, and our bee-keeping neighbour has got his horse-drawn sleigh out. He seems to be the only one in the neighbourhood with such practical winter transport nowadays - they were common in rural areas till the early 90s and the Polish Highway Code still includes a regulation that they have to have bells fitted, the type that jingle all the time as in the song.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Manotea on 14 December, 2010, 03:30:35 pm
I read somewhere, and I'm sure my son's girlfriend can confirm it, that in Finnish schools there's no such thing as indoor play. They've all got suitable clothing for whatever the weather, even if it's -20°C at break time, so out they go.

Son Graham was telling us on Sunday that his GF gets very intolerant of the British panic every time it snows a bit.

<deep voice with gutteral Finnish accent>

"What do they mean they've been "cut off"? They've not been cut off. You're not cut off until you have to stand on a chair to look out of the window!"

</dvwgfa>

She's been in my daughters bedroom then....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 14 December, 2010, 04:34:35 pm
Snowing here in Toronto now - they've also issued severe weather warnings!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: vorsprung on 14 December, 2010, 08:11:23 pm
There's very light snow, like snow drizzle here in Devon right now.
I guess the weather hasn't read the script of no snow until thursday/friday
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Lycra Man on 14 December, 2010, 11:34:22 pm
No snow here in Buckinghamshire (at the moment), but that's OK, because I cycled home from work, so I have to cycle to work tomorrow morning.

Lycra Man
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 15 December, 2010, 12:07:30 am
-14°C in Poprad. Tomorrow it is due to reach a high of -7°C.

Silly me volunteered weeks ago to help at tomorrow's Christmas party for parents and children which is being held in the school playground. Still, -7°C will feel warm compared with the -25°C we had a fortnight ago.

Who would actually choose to attend an outdoor party when it's -7C ???  :o

Only if the dress code doesn't stop me wearing my shorts and t-shirt.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 15 December, 2010, 01:22:39 am
<sigh>

Turned the TV goggle box on for the news earlier.   Snow!   Chaos!    Schools closed!  with the reporter and headteacher standing in an area of a light dusting.



HTFU!!!!!
Are you still in shorts and short sleeves?

(This is a question related to your hatred of being too hot, not a really sad perv question about what you're wearing).

We had about 16 inches of snow in the last batch.    I did wear a coat for a couple of days.  It has now melted though.

I haven't worn the coat for the last week, and even though the car dash said "0C" tonight I still left the coat on the back seat when we went walking.

I am in t-shirt at the moment.    And although I am indoors please be assured that the heating went off at 22:00.
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Post by: SandyV on 15 December, 2010, 10:42:41 am
35 and steamy here today. Hail storms not far away tonight. I think snow would be preferable.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 15 December, 2010, 10:46:58 am
Forecast heavy snow and back to sub zero temperatures on Saturday here in Rugby   :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 15 December, 2010, 12:50:47 pm
Despite the thaw there is still snow lying on the high ground,on south facing slopes even,between Leek,Buxton & Ashbourne
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Post by: L CC on 15 December, 2010, 01:39:44 pm
The weather precipitation forecast for my ride on Saturday is "40% chance Frozen Mix".
What's frozen mix then? I hope it's not seafood medley, that would be painful.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 15 December, 2010, 01:42:18 pm
35 and steamy here today. Hail storms not far away tonight. I think snow would be preferable.

Have you been affected by the floods, Sandy?
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Post by: jogler on 15 December, 2010, 01:43:41 pm
Frozen mix?
ears frozen
toes frozen
fingers frozen.
Is that not the usual mix?
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Post by: Andrij on 15 December, 2010, 06:12:51 pm
Think you have problems with ice?

WKYC.com | Cleveland, OH | Water, winds encase Lake Erie lighthouse in ice (http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=164226&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ClevelandHeadlinesFromWkyccom+%28Cleveland-area+News+from+WKYC.COM%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo%3Fbctid%3D710985383001)
 
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Post by: woollypigs on 15 December, 2010, 06:16:02 pm
Now that is cool :)
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Post by: Wendy on 15 December, 2010, 06:39:51 pm
Woooooow!!!  More than cool, too cool in fact.   ;D
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Post by: kyuss on 15 December, 2010, 06:44:51 pm
Think you have problems with ice?

WKYC.com | Cleveland, OH | Water, winds encase Lake Erie lighthouse in ice (http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=164226&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ClevelandHeadlinesFromWkyccom+%28Cleveland-area+News+from+WKYC.COM%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo%3Fbctid%3D710985383001)
 

That's cool. Reminds me of the photos of the storm at Lake Geneva (http://www.pbase.com/scherrer/january_2005_ice_storm) a few years ago.
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Post by: SandyV on 15 December, 2010, 08:24:00 pm
MrC - not directly affected. Just lots of roads cut and road surfaces wrecked. Much short term patching underway. Took me 9 hours to drive from Tamworth to Brisbane instead of 6.5. Diverted via Toowoomba as landslides closed Cunninghams Gap
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 15 December, 2010, 08:28:57 pm
It was -15 at 9 o'clock this morning and had risen to -10 by 2:30 when I got home with Little Cudzo on the sledge. Foggy all day, which coupled with the sheer whiteness of all surfaces made it quite difficult to distinguish deep snow from shallow.
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 15 December, 2010, 08:37:35 pm
The weather precipitation forecast for my ride on Saturday is "40% chance Frozen Mix".
What's frozen mix then? I hope it's not seafood medley, that would be painful.

It's a Mash Up of 'Cold as Ice' by Foreigner.

    YouTube
        - Foreigner - Cold As Ice
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UdXbMyo1rU)
and 'Ice Ice Baby' by Vanilla Ice.

    YouTube
      - Broadcast Yourself.
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE)

There's a 40% chance of it becoming the earworm that blights your ride.

The weather precipitates the memory.
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Post by: clarion on 15 December, 2010, 08:41:27 pm
Hah!  My earworm this evening was this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBlbPw7WAqM), but I had to be careful about singing it out loud when i was overtaking people ;D
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Post by: Adrian on 15 December, 2010, 08:43:21 pm
Hah!  My earworm this evening was this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBlbPw7WAqM), but I had to be careful about singing it out loud when i was overtaking people ;D

This deserves a separate thread for earworms.
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Post by: clarion on 15 December, 2010, 08:58:42 pm
There is one, but I wanted to defy the evil infiltrations of the previous post ;)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 December, 2010, 09:05:29 pm
Today I bought a spade. At the weekend, I intend to go clear the ice from Rankeillor Street. I don't live on Rankeillor Street, but not one of the selfish fuckers who does has made any attempt to clear it, and it's my route to the bus stop.
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Post by: Wendy on 15 December, 2010, 09:07:56 pm
Blimey what took you so long?  I've been waiting for someone to get a move on and sort that out.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 15 December, 2010, 09:10:42 pm
 Latest news, comment and reviews from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk  (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2010/dec/15/weather-big-freeze-1962-pictures#/?picture=369779574&index=15)

Some pictures from, allegedly, 1962. The main snowfall occurred on the night of 30th December so I'd venture to suggest that the bulk of those pictures were taken in 1963.

I recall the Grauniad publishing one of someone driving an Austin 7 across the Thames ice but sadly they haven't included that. My 8-year-old's brain recalls it as being in central London but clearly it couldn't have been as it's tidal there. OK - there were ice floes at Herne Bay and Southend but there's no way that the Thames could have frozen over because the water level rises and falls so much in the city.

The ice-covered grass reminds me of a radio programme I listened to a few years ago, about the 1962-63 winter. They had interviewed the wife of a Northumbrian shepherd who had been out looking after his flock. He was much later home than usual, but eventually when he arrived he was close to death, she reckoned: he too had been caught in a heavy rainstorm that preceded the snow and it froze to his oilskins on impact. He was covered head to foot in ice when he arrived back.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 15 December, 2010, 09:13:10 pm
Blimey what took you so long?  I've been waiting for someone to get a move on and sort that out.
Homebase were out of spades.
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Post by: nicknack on 15 December, 2010, 09:25:35 pm
Latest news, comment and reviews from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk  (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2010/dec/15/weather-big-freeze-1962-pictures#/?picture=369779574&index=15)

Some pictures from, allegedly, 1962. The main snowfall occurred on the night of 30th December so I'd venture to suggest that the bulk of those pictures were taken in 1963.

I remember my Dad driving me down to the seaside to look at the ice on the sea. I guess it was probably Sheerness. Someone must have been clearing the roads then.
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Post by: LindaG on 15 December, 2010, 09:28:44 pm
My Grandad commuted the twelve miles to and from work throughout the winter of 1946-47.  The roads were clear because they dispatched POWs to clear them.

There was still snow on the verges in June.

This was in Surrey, riding between Cobham and Leatherhead.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 15 December, 2010, 09:30:13 pm
Our road was blocked for about half a mile by snowdrifts the depth of the hedge height (about 4' mostly). There were three cars buries up to their roofs and they stayed there for a good 3 weeks until a snow plough deigned to come along and clear the road.
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Post by: Butterfly on 15 December, 2010, 09:34:52 pm
My Dad lived in Caterham on the Hill in Surrey in 1947. He remembers them sending a snowplough along all the roads then taking the snow from the sides and putting on the common. He said the snow took months to melt from the common, by which time it was completely black. He also said they didn't miss a day of school, which is probably the upside (or downside, depending on your point of view!) of teachers living locally.
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Post by: Basil on 15 December, 2010, 09:38:13 pm
I remember 62/63 quite well.  I was 13.
I remember the piles of snow where people had cleared paths were still around at easter.
There was one huge one that I would cycle past on my school commute from our village to the town that lasted for ever.  I can't remember exactly how long, but it was at least late april early may.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 15 December, 2010, 09:41:03 pm
My Grandad commuted the twelve miles to and from work throughout the winter of 1946-47.  The roads were clear because they dispatched POWs to clear them.

There was still snow on the verges in June.

This was in Surrey, riding between Cobham and Leatherhead.

My dad always maintained that '47 was a harder winter than '62-63.

"Boyo, there was a train stuck at Bargoed for a month!" he would say. The records tell us that '47 was snowier, but 62-63 was the colder by far. The main falls in '47 were in Feb, according to my dad, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_1946–1947_in_the_United_Kingdom says that 5th March 1947 brought one of the most vicious blizzards of the 20th century and the wettest March for 30 years.

Blimey!
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Post by: David Martin on 15 December, 2010, 09:49:01 pm

"Boyo, there was a train stuck at Bargoed for a month!"

In 1947 there was a train stuck in a snowdrift at Dronley for a week. When they finally dug it out, the locals had pinched all the coal.

..d
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Post by: E.C. Ryder on 15 December, 2010, 10:02:35 pm
I remember the winter of 1962/63 well as I was just a young lad of 13, it started snowing on Boxing Day. But unfortunately after the Christmas holidays we had to go back to school whether the heater was on or not, many a time we had to sit in class with overcoats on!
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 15 December, 2010, 11:04:59 pm
I forgot to mention earlier how clean the air feels when it's cold and dry. It's lovely.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 December, 2010, 07:26:02 am
We haz sno again. Bah.
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Post by: Bledlow on 16 December, 2010, 10:46:58 am
I have one or two memories of 62-3. I was very young, & had to be towed around on a sledge because the snow was too deep for me to walk through.
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Post by: border-rider on 16 December, 2010, 10:50:34 am
I was born that winter.  My mother had to be dug out of the house to get to the local nursing home.

The old boys at Newbury RC told me that they cycled down the Kennet & Avon canal to Devizes on one Sunday run that winter.  And not on the towpath  :o
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Post by: Basil on 16 December, 2010, 11:13:21 am
Been watching it heading this way on Will It Rain?

It's just arrived in Brum.  And it's rain.  Hurrah!  Not even sleety rain.  Just pouring rain.  :thumbsup:

That should freeze nicely tonight.  :(
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Post by: Pingu on 16 December, 2010, 12:03:34 pm
We haz sno again. Bah.

We haz horizontal sno. Cycling home might be tricky tonight  :-\
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 December, 2010, 12:06:58 pm
I've just got back from a beautiful forest walk through snow with no other human prints. I am now able to distinguish deer from boar prints.  :) And the sun is shining for the first time in a week.  8)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 December, 2010, 12:34:49 pm
There's a set of really nasty severe weather warnings stretching into the foreseeable future, starting with loads of icy roads this evening and snow over the next few days.

In a week's time, though, the solstice will be a thing of the past and summer will be coming. :D
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 December, 2010, 12:36:40 pm
#@! me! Wowbagger's just said something cheerful!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 December, 2010, 12:37:44 pm
#@! me! Wowbagger's just said something cheerful!

It was a lie.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 December, 2010, 12:38:49 pm
Ah, that's better, normal service is resumed!  ;)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 December, 2010, 12:41:26 pm
Ah, that's better, normal service is resumed!  ;)

Have you watched "Money as Debt" and listened to the Nicole Foss leture by any chance? They're terribly depressing.

Sometimes I think I ought to change my YACF name to Marvin.
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Post by: toekneep on 16 December, 2010, 12:44:34 pm
First flakes of snow falling here on the Fylde. (Lancashire coast).
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 December, 2010, 12:44:57 pm
Ah, that's better, normal service is resumed!  ;)

Have you watched "Money as Debt" and listened to the Nicle Foss leture by any chance? They're terribly depressing.

Sometimes I think I ought to change my YACF name to Marvin.
Is that the link you provided in the "Where did the money go?" thread?

I haven't got around to that yet - been out this morning, and now have to go and collect Little Cudzo from school. So I have a cheerful afternoon to look forward to, but shall try to get around to some serious depressing stuff this evening.
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Post by: Mobbsy on 16 December, 2010, 12:45:32 pm
Started to sleet in Leeds, proper snow forecast for later
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 December, 2010, 12:47:40 pm
Ah, that's better, normal service is resumed!  ;)

Have you watched "Money as Debt" and listened to the Nicle Foss leture by any chance? They're terribly depressing.

Sometimes I think I ought to change my YACF name to Marvin.
But I have another reason to be downcast now. Polish weather at this time of year usually is like English weather, just a couple of days later, a few degrees colder and substantially drier.
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Post by: numbnuts on 16 December, 2010, 12:55:57 pm
We've got rain
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Post by: tiermat on 16 December, 2010, 12:57:47 pm
Cold enough to snow in Hatfield, but only spitting with rain.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 December, 2010, 01:02:11 pm
Ah, that's better, normal service is resumed!  ;)

Have you watched "Money as Debt" and listened to the Nicle Foss leture by any chance? They're terribly depressing.

Sometimes I think I ought to change my YACF name to Marvin.
Is that the link you provided in the "Where did the money go?" thread?

I haven't got around to that yet - been out this morning, and now have to go and collect Little Cudzo from school. So I have a cheerful afternoon to look forward to, but shall try to get around to some serious depressing stuff this evening.

Yes, that's right. About 50 minutes for Money as debt, well over an hour for the lecture.
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Post by: Morrisette on 16 December, 2010, 01:39:02 pm
"Boyo, there was a train stuck at Bargoed for a month!"

Mr M is from Bargoed. It's always cold up there (when it's not pi$$ing with rain of course)!

Hey we could be related  :o
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 December, 2010, 01:44:32 pm
"Boyo, there was a train stuck at Bargoed for a month!"

Mr M is from Bargoed. It's always cold up there (when it's not pi$$ing with rain of course)!

Hey we could be related  :o

I'm sure we are! It doesn't take that many generations back to encompass the entire human race.

What are you buying me for Christmas?  :D
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Post by: Ray 6701 on 16 December, 2010, 01:56:46 pm
it's been hailing for the past 20 minutes here in not so sunny Tamworth.
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Post by: jogler on 16 December, 2010, 01:58:44 pm
Not far from Tamworth(10km west of Uttoxeter) we have enjoyed similar weather
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Post by: eck on 16 December, 2010, 02:00:22 pm
Glorious sunshine here in Kirriemuir.
And I'm stuck inside, decorating FFS. What's that all about, then?  ???
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Post by: pdm on 16 December, 2010, 03:06:00 pm
Heavy snow again here this afternoon... Temperature dropping too.
May have interesting times on the way home this evening once it all freezes solid. :)
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Post by: Chris S on 16 December, 2010, 03:33:06 pm
Rain turned to snow as I was getting the log delivery into the shed. Light covering now and snowing hard.
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Post by: Kim on 16 December, 2010, 03:36:16 pm
It's just arrived in Brum.  And it's rain.  Hurrah!  Not even sleety rain.  Just pouring rain.  :thumbsup:

That should freeze nicely tonight.  :(

It turned to snow for a little while there, but normal service has now been resumed.
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Post by: Andrij on 16 December, 2010, 03:36:24 pm
Think you have problems with ice?

WKYC.com | Cleveland, OH | Water, winds encase Lake Erie lighthouse in ice (http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=164226&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ClevelandHeadlinesFromWkyccom+%28Cleveland-area+News+from+WKYC.COM%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo%3Fbctid%3D710985383001)
 

Now with video!  BBC News - Ohio lighthouse covered in ice after US arctic blast  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12006012)
 
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Post by: Greenbank on 16 December, 2010, 03:39:52 pm
Er, it's the same video as in the original WKYC link...
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Post by: Jaded on 16 December, 2010, 03:51:09 pm
We've had hail.
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Post by: Andrij on 16 December, 2010, 03:57:12 pm
Er, it's the same video as in the original WKYC link...

Oops.  I didn't see the video on the WKYC link.  Probably down to running NoScript or some such on my browser.  All I got was the pictures.

I'm not having a good day. :(
 
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Post by: Adam on 16 December, 2010, 04:02:14 pm
Aw - have a hot toddy.
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Post by: Pingu on 16 December, 2010, 04:22:56 pm
Managed to get home OK, walked about a third of the route as it was quicker than being on the road.
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Post by: jogler on 16 December, 2010, 04:48:32 pm
Aw - have a hot toddy.

or a hot totty?
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Post by: tiermat on 16 December, 2010, 05:03:25 pm
It has started in S.Bucks. Gert big flakes, dunno if it will lay though, as it seems very wet...
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Post by: Andrij on 16 December, 2010, 05:03:30 pm
Aw - have a hot toddy.

or a hot totty?

My 'quiet December' has become a nightmare, so I'll take both, please.  ;D
 
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Post by: itsbruce on 16 December, 2010, 05:04:51 pm
Tis now snowing in North London.
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Post by: Charlotte on 16 December, 2010, 05:20:20 pm
North west London coming on line now.  Egads, these are Large Lumps.
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Post by: Quisling on 16 December, 2010, 05:22:23 pm
Gah! I need to go shopping with the trailer tonight too. On the tandem with MiniQ.
That'll be exciting with SPDs
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Post by: Riggers on 16 December, 2010, 05:24:02 pm
Has only been a tad wet in Brighton.
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Post by: Greenbank on 16 December, 2010, 05:26:29 pm
About to go play 5-a-side in SE1. Dry so far, let's hope the all-weather pitches haven't frozen...
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Post by: Wendy on 16 December, 2010, 05:30:51 pm
Snow here in Biggin Hill!!!!
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Post by: Riggers on 16 December, 2010, 05:32:12 pm
Chocks Away!
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Post by: border-rider on 16 December, 2010, 05:34:00 pm
Started off slightly damp here, then cleared just after lunch to be a sunny afternoon.  Cold, but no snow.
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Post by: simonp on 16 December, 2010, 05:44:49 pm
5-a-side Christmas curry tonight.  Last year, we sat in the curry house and watched the world grind to a halt outside.  By the time we left, conditions were lethal and I walked home.  Much amusement was had by the fact that I'd rolled up my jeans for riding fixed.  I kept them rolled up for the hour walk home.  I wasn't cold.

This year, I saw the forecast and as a result I cycled to work (via a physio appointment) on the snow tyres.  It was just starting to sleet at 3.15pm when I cycled over to the barber's for my haircut, and it had turned to proper snow by the time I left.  People driving like idiots, then.  It's been snowing steadily since, and the temperature has fallen from 6.4 to -0.8 (it dropped 4 deg C in half an hour around 1pm) so I think it'll settle once the ground temperature drops a bit.  Snow tyres will be worth it, since I won't be riding home from the curry til 11pm or so.

Last night was the work Christmas Party.  Free taxis provided, so I insisted on cycling in the rain out into the countryside (about 9 miles from my house) to Chilford Hall.  They were very accommodating, allowing me to put my bike behind a bar in an unused function room and then showing me to the disabled loos so I could change.  Most of my colleagues thought I was mad, but it meant I got to leave when I got bored rather than when the allotted taxi was due to turn up (the spread between earliest and latest taxi was huge).  It was damp, but not really properly raining on the way out, and the rain had stopped on the way back.  Temperature in Cambridge didn't drop below 3 so no risk of ice, I rode there and back on the Pompino, about 35 minutes each way.  I had my suit in a bag folded and bungeed to the top of my pannier + rack, which kept it secure and dry.  I was better dressed than most once I'd changed. :)
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Post by: her_welshness on 16 December, 2010, 06:02:15 pm
Its snowing in lovely Lewisham, the cat is looking distinctly unimpressed.
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Post by: Jurek on 16 December, 2010, 06:11:40 pm
the cat is looking distinctly unimpressed.

He's not alone in that.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 December, 2010, 06:31:04 pm
Ah, that's better, normal service is resumed!  ;)

Have you watched "Money as Debt" and listened to the Nicle Foss leture by any chance? They're terribly depressing.

Sometimes I think I ought to change my YACF name to Marvin.
Is that the link you provided in the "Where did the money go?" thread?

I haven't got around to that yet - been out this morning, and now have to go and collect Little Cudzo from school. So I have a cheerful afternoon to look forward to, but shall try to get around to some serious depressing stuff this evening.

Yes, that's right. About 50 minutes for Money as debt, well over an hour for the lecture.
Listened to the lecture, not sure where you got this Money As Debt thing - that's another mp3 is it?

Not currently snowing here. About 25cm where not cleared, -8 at midday, sunny. Good winter weather.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 16 December, 2010, 06:42:43 pm
Has only been a tad wet in Brighton.

Snow on the hill here now.
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Post by: Andrij on 16 December, 2010, 07:09:26 pm
Fluffy stuff falling from the sky in Newham.
 
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 December, 2010, 07:10:38 pm
Snowing here again too. The lane had almost cleared of ice ....
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Post by: Charlotte on 16 December, 2010, 07:16:35 pm
It was only a flurry in UB6, it would seem.
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Post by: L CC on 16 December, 2010, 07:27:31 pm
Snow in Suffolk, lying in the clearing.

My rescheduled trip is tomorrow, can I have a report from Southampton way please?

You don't want to be around if it's cancelled again... 
*stamps foot, petulant pout*
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Post by: pdm on 16 December, 2010, 07:37:12 pm
IN the south Penines, the snow stopped about 4pm and the sky cleared - cue sharp temperature drop. When I left work, the roads were glistening with crystal ice.
Took the scenic route home - very few vehicles , glorious whitescape in a half moon.
Passed the local gritter imbedded in a dry stone wall at the top of Froggat... Bunch of peoples standing around in the howling northerly scratching their heads.
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Post by: Aidan on 16 December, 2010, 07:55:01 pm
Its snowed on wet here  and now the temperatures dropped well below zero so its all frozon. Just been to pick stepdaughter up from work and even the high street is like a skating rink. 
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Post by: Basil on 16 December, 2010, 08:02:23 pm
OMG.  I just popped over the road.  The temperature has plummeted in the couple of hours since I rode home.  The road I live on is an ice rink.

Be very careful tomorrow morning.
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Post by: Feline on 16 December, 2010, 08:32:31 pm
OMG.  I just popped over the road.  The temperature has plummeted in the couple of hours since I rode home.  The road I live on is an ice rink.

Be very careful tomorrow morning.

+1, it rained here heavily most of the day effectively removing any salt from the road. Now temps are falling fast on already-wet roads. it's gunna be dodgy in the morning!
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Post by: Kim on 16 December, 2010, 08:35:15 pm
OMG.  I just popped over the road.  The temperature has plummeted in the couple of hours since I rode home.  The road I live on is an ice rink.

I just put the bin out and came to the same conclusion.  Am wearing my standard issue well-worn Doc Martens (famed for their complete lack of grip) and nearly had an arse-over-tit moment on the pavement outside.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 December, 2010, 08:36:29 pm
Getting well covered already. I'm throughly scunnered with this weather.
No apologies for crapness of photo, or for the dirty window for that matter.

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5047/5266503913_b21bc94ee6.jpg)
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Post by: clarion on 16 December, 2010, 09:39:24 pm
Nowt like that round here, though it's been snowing since before 6pm.  Not really settling, but I expect a drop in temperature overnight will change that.
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Post by: Butterfly on 16 December, 2010, 09:41:19 pm
Driving back from Sussex this evening I passed some fairly blizzardy bits. Mostly it wasn't laying, but it was on the hill near Caterham and in some of the higher places. A lot of people weren't modifying their driving so I expect there'll be some accidents. The accident I witnessed was due to some numpty not understanding the concept of roundabouts, not the the weather though. ::-)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 December, 2010, 11:40:33 pm
North west London coming on line now.  Egads, these are Large Lumps.

And very becoming they are as well if I may say so.
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Post by: Jaded on 17 December, 2010, 12:21:01 am
-4 here with clear skies.

Was slippy walking back from the pub though.
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Post by: hellymedic on 17 December, 2010, 12:44:50 am
-3 here with clear skies.
Partner imaging Orion Nebula...
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Post by: Jaded on 17 December, 2010, 12:52:22 am
We always get clear skies AFTER the great meteorites.  >:(
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Post by: simonp on 17 December, 2010, 12:59:08 am
Snow was very disappointing - though there was slush on the cycle bridge, so the snow tyres were not a dead loss on the way to pub/curry.  On the way home after midnight, there were lots of icy puddles and once I was off main roads and onto the estate streets it was very icy.
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Post by: Regulator on 17 December, 2010, 07:21:38 am
Lots of ice out there at the moment.  Just logged on to CAMS.  The ambulance service and A&E are stretched...
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Post by: Pingu on 17 December, 2010, 10:56:12 am
Walked into town & got the free bus to work. Saw a car going sideways down one street but it didn't hit anything. Driver obviously not too bright as he floored it afterwards with the entirely predictable wheel spinning & not much progress occurring  ::-)

Not much traffic about, but plenty of lazy gits peering through semi-covered windscreens with lights on but barely visible due to being covered in SNO.
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Post by: Bledlow on 17 December, 2010, 11:05:10 am
I remember taking a driving lesson in the late 1970s & encountering a sheet of ice on a corner. The instructor said "Don't brake!" very urgently, then when we'd got far enough round (mostly moving sideways) said "Gently give it some gas - gently!".

Never forgotten that, largely because I spent much of it looking out of the side window at a parked car we were sliding towards - me first. Didn't get there, luckily.
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Post by: rafletcher on 17 December, 2010, 11:17:35 am
I remember taking a driving lesson in the late 1970s & encountering a sheet of ice on a corner. The instructor said "Don't brake!" very urgently, then when we'd got far enough round (mostly moving sideways) said "Gently give it some gas - gently!".

Never forgotten that, largely because I spent much of it looking out of the side window at a parked car we were sliding towards - me first. Didn't get there, luckily.

My test was scheduled for Jan 1984 (I think) in Glasgow. It had been a terrible winter - water mains frozen in the street in the neighboring close, and some poor souls had their external waste pipes freeze  :sick:

The day arrived with many roads covered in snow and ice - but my instructor turned up. The test was off, but he took me to residential street where we practiced emergency stops and skid control  8)  It was great fun being sideways across the road - rather than facing the wrong way if I hadn't countersteered.  ;D
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Post by: rafletcher on 17 December, 2010, 11:23:40 am
Bucks/Northants lovely and clear and freezing. Commute this am was fine - roads dry and gritted.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 17 December, 2010, 11:25:23 am
-2°C here at the moment. I've been to the doc's and the chemist's. Very cold!
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Post by: border-rider on 17 December, 2010, 11:26:31 am
It snowed a tad here this morning but it's sunny again now and all disappearing fast.  Fabulous day, though.  I must go for a run in a bit :)
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Post by: her_welshness on 17 December, 2010, 11:34:00 am
Got a very snowed in image of Swansea and the Mumbles from my mother this morning. They went to bed last night and there was no snow. They've woken up this morning to 5 inches of snow. They are snowed in but have provisions.
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Post by: hatler on 17 December, 2010, 11:34:32 am
It's just started in SW20. Not lots, but more than a dusting.
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Post by: simonp on 17 December, 2010, 11:35:29 am
Snow tyres this morning again: worth it this time, lots of ice, especially on the cycle path across Coldhams Common.
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Post by: PaulR on 17 December, 2010, 11:35:50 am
-3 here with clear skies.
Partner imaging Orion Nebula...

I keep meaning to get out with my new ED scope to do this but am driven indoors by (a) the cold (b) moonlight (c) clouds (d) the temptation of a glass of wine (e) the increasingly orange tinge in the sky and the lack of LP filter on my camera (f) the knowledge that I'll have to get up early the next morning and (g) the effort involved in getting decent polar alignment as I lack a suitable roll-off roof and have to set up afresh every time I want to observe.

And the planets have been rubbish lately - all wobbly and shimmery.

hey ho
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Post by: JStone on 17 December, 2010, 11:36:58 am
Lying in BS7 sickbed full of cold, watching fluffy snowflakes drift past the window. I'm told it was -4 this morning.
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Post by: Greenbank on 17 December, 2010, 11:42:33 am
Just started in SE1. Woo!
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Post by: Andrij on 17 December, 2010, 11:43:50 am
And in the City, but quite light.
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Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 17 December, 2010, 11:45:52 am
Getting heavier in Euston.

It's ok though, I have my beeyooteeful 'denim' rainlegs with me for the journey home  ::-)
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Post by: Andrij on 17 December, 2010, 11:47:36 am
Getting heavier in Euston.

It's ok though, I have my beeyooteeful 'denim' rainlegs with me for the journey home  ::-)

Though you paint an interesting picture, with the low temperatures you may wish to consider some additional clothing.


IGMC
 
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Post by: her_welshness on 17 December, 2010, 11:48:25 am
Its snowing in SE13, but rather unenthusiastically.
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Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 17 December, 2010, 11:49:59 am
Getting heavier in Euston.

It's ok though, I have my beeyooteeful 'denim' rainlegs with me for the journey home  ::-)

Though you paint an interesting picture, with the low temperatures you may wish to consider some additional clothing.


IGMC
 

It'd reduce the amount of SMIDSYs though, wouldn't it?
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Post by: Greenbank on 17 December, 2010, 11:51:50 am
Just started in SE1. Woo!

Started very light, now much heavier and settling.
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Post by: Andrij on 17 December, 2010, 11:53:41 am
Getting heavier in Euston.

It's ok though, I have my beeyooteeful 'denim' rainlegs with me for the journey home  ::-)

Though you paint an interesting picture, with the low temperatures you may wish to consider some additional clothing.

IGMC
 

It'd reduce the amount of SMIDSYs though, wouldn't it?

While probably increasing the number of crashes around you!



Snow getting heavy here in the City.
 
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Post by: her_welshness on 17 December, 2010, 12:06:28 pm
Woooo, its coming down heavy here now in SE13!
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Post by: Quisling on 17 December, 2010, 12:09:54 pm
Plenty falling here (S Oxon/Bucks Borders)
Looks like I won't be taking MiniQ to her piano lesson on the tandem this afternoon.
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Post by: rower40 on 17 December, 2010, 12:11:49 pm
Derby.  Blue sky.  Bright sunshine.  A little snow (1cm or less) still lying on the garden from a brief flurry yesterday evening.

You can keep all your snow down south.
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Post by: citoyen on 17 December, 2010, 12:14:48 pm
Intermittent heavy/light snow in SE1. Already hearing reports of trains being cancelled. Journey home is going to be no fun at all.

d.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 December, 2010, 12:36:30 pm
I had all morning in which I could have gone to Sainsbury's but instead decided to wait until this arvo.  About an hour of SNO in E17; seems to have stopped now but the side road is nicely covered.
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Post by: numbnuts on 17 December, 2010, 12:39:14 pm
here in Southampton we have sun  8)
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Post by: LindaG on 17 December, 2010, 12:40:37 pm
Sunny in Toytown as well, but oh boy it's cold.  Last night's dusting of snow is still visible on the grassy bits, bit the pavements are covered in invisible ice. 
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Post by: Bledlow on 17 December, 2010, 12:44:06 pm
Just started here in Reading, after a sunny spell.
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Post by: woollypigs on 17 December, 2010, 01:03:54 pm
Must have snowed here in SW6 as it is a bit white outside.
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Post by: rafletcher on 17 December, 2010, 01:09:47 pm
Been a bit at home (south Bucks), enough for our lane to have two tyre tracks down it apparently, but sunny again now. Still nothing here in Corby.
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Post by: PhilO on 17 December, 2010, 01:12:31 pm
Clear blue sky and falling snow here in South Wales! Beat that!  :thumbsup:

Basically, sunshine and showers... :-\
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Post by: Bledlow on 17 December, 2010, 01:14:55 pm
Same here!

Snow stopped, sun came out, snow's now started again.
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 17 December, 2010, 02:02:18 pm
Warwick got a very quick 1cm earlier today, but it's sunny now.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 17 December, 2010, 02:39:01 pm
A flurry just now in Brighton, which I guess must be icy grains rather than soft and fluffy as it is making pretty patterns on the tarmac as it blows about.
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Post by: vorsprung on 17 December, 2010, 02:45:44 pm
had some reasonably heavy snow around lunchtime but it's stopped now
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Post by: Riggers on 17 December, 2010, 02:51:42 pm
A flurry just now in Brighton, which I guess must be icy grains rather than soft and fluffy as it is making pretty patterns on the tarmac as it blows about.


Not in my part of Brighton it isn't.
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Post by: hellymedic on 17 December, 2010, 02:55:38 pm
-3 here with clear skies.
Partner imaging Orion Nebula...

-2 now. Snow earlier; skies clear now.
Partner imaging the Sun.

Robin visting our mini-greenhouse earlier looked most festive with SNO covered background.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 17 December, 2010, 03:28:40 pm
A flurry just now in Brighton, which I guess must be icy grains rather than soft and fluffy as it is making pretty patterns on the tarmac as it blows about.

Not in my part of Brighton it isn't.

It stopped for a bit, but is tipping it down now. I can see the end of the street but not much further and it is settling on the road. I do live up one of our bigger hills though.
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Post by: Feline on 17 December, 2010, 03:41:14 pm
It has been snowing here on an off all morning and we have about 6 inches of fresh snow settled. It's -0.2C at what is probably the warmest time of day.

The schools were closed at lunch time and the kids sent home. Props to my 16 year old son for cycling to school today (personally I wouldn't have dared!) , he told me it was a bit dodgy on the roads but the cycle path was OK because was fresh snow and not ice.

The bad news is I am working night shifts for the next 3 nights and so have to brave the roads later. I am taking my dogs to work with me just in case I cannot get home tomorrow!
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Post by: Bledlow on 17 December, 2010, 04:57:28 pm
I think we've had less than 6 mm so far, & it's melted where the sun shone on tarmac, slate, etc. through it. Freezing now.
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Post by: toekneep on 17 December, 2010, 05:00:07 pm
Hmm, I think it might be serious this time. Could be a whole new world to wake up to tomorrow. Glad we did all the shopping today.
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Post by: Wendy on 17 December, 2010, 05:03:40 pm
Just been out for a little ride on my partner's MTB!!  Lovely!
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Post by: Pingu on 17 December, 2010, 05:41:19 pm
Got sent home early again today, so had a couple of drinks in Brewdog before going home  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Chris S on 17 December, 2010, 05:49:54 pm
It's bracing out there this evening. Once again, forgot to get the milk in this morning - so that's six pints of completely solid milk thawing out in the kitchen :).

I don't see any need to go outside these walls for the next few days. At least, not until the wine runs out.
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Post by: simonp on 17 December, 2010, 05:56:20 pm
It's bracing out there this evening. Once again, forgot to get the milk in this morning - so that's six pints of completely solid milk thawing out in the kitchen :).

I don't see any need to go outside these walls for the next few days. At least, not until the wine runs out.

How strong's the roof?  :demon:

I plans to visit the gym this evening.
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Post by: LindaG on 17 December, 2010, 06:11:07 pm
Crikey.  Nor'n Ireland has been coloured in RED by the Met office.  Must be bad eh?
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Post by: simonp on 17 December, 2010, 06:14:48 pm
Crikey.  Nor'n Ireland has been coloured in RED by the Met office.  Must be bad eh?

Further very heavy snow is likely giving additional accumulations of 10-20 cm in many places.

Widespread disruption of transport networks is likely and only essential travel should be undertaken.

I'm still going to the gym, though, since it's not in NI.
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Post by: numbnuts on 17 December, 2010, 06:35:28 pm
in the south we've been told we may get 10 inches  :o
most would be happy with 6  ;D
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 17 December, 2010, 07:06:06 pm
 :-X :-X :-X  :-X :-X :-X :-X :sick:
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Post by: rafletcher on 17 December, 2010, 07:36:43 pm
Hmmm, forecast temps of -8 to -10 in beds/bucks area  on sunday / monday :(
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Post by: Quint on 17 December, 2010, 08:49:56 pm
light flurries of snow and minus 5 Woodstock to Oxford this evening on the way to work, bugger this where is Summer    :o
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Post by: andrewc on 17 December, 2010, 09:01:33 pm
We had a dry sunny day in Liverpool.  At about 7 o'clock my Mum (4 miles away) said they were having heavy snow.  Looked out of the window & it was perfectly clear.   Had a shower, looked out again and it's tipping the stuff down, about 2" on my sheltered balcony.

I'm supposed to be up at daft o'clock tomorrow for a train to London !  Hope the West Coast line is OK !
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Post by: hellymedic on 17 December, 2010, 09:18:41 pm
It's minus eight in this part of Middlesex but there is no precipitation.
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Post by: cycleman on 17 December, 2010, 09:57:05 pm
we have had a 1cm snow this morning here in slough . un gritted roads are nice and icy an the new spiked tyre on the antrotech is great :thumbsup:
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Post by: border-rider on 17 December, 2010, 10:06:56 pm
about 1/2 cm here but it's very, very cold & sparkly out

Forecast is for a shedload by tomorrow.  Just a bit further West there's been more snow than they've seen in almost 30 years.  Maybe we'll get it, maybe we won't.
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Post by: Deano on 17 December, 2010, 10:08:48 pm
Lots of flurries of large wet flakes here in Darlo yesterday, but it completely failed to lay. 

It's just cold, crisp and sunny.  Proper winter :)
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Post by: tonyh on 18 December, 2010, 06:46:52 am

Bradford on Avon. 3-ish inches.
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Post by: L CC on 18 December, 2010, 07:58:56 am
En Bretagne, il neige ici. 3cm in half an hour.
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Post by: toekneep on 18 December, 2010, 07:59:39 am
Fylde coast: 10 inches. Never seen snow this deep up here before.
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Post by: vorsprung on 18 December, 2010, 08:13:06 am
3" Devon Somerset border

I cleared the drive and Mrs V is attempting the 5 mile journey to work- by VW not bike
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Post by: mattc on 18 December, 2010, 08:22:59 am
It's about -2, and now chucking it down.

Too cold to snow, eh?
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Post by: jogler on 18 December, 2010, 08:23:32 am
Fylde coast: 10 inches. Never seen snow this deep up here before.

 :o :o
almost as much snow as sand
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Post by: Jaded on 18 December, 2010, 08:25:25 am
Just arriving in Kemble. (by train ;) )

We've had about 3 inches here. We're off to London, to go skating.  ;D
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Post by: urban_biker on 18 December, 2010, 08:31:30 am
Denmead is snowbound this morning. There is a big cloud heading swirling towards London as I type.
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Post by: jogler on 18 December, 2010, 08:46:31 am
We had avery light skittering overnight.In the last 20 mins it's making a serious attempt at keeping us indoors.
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Post by: Chris S on 18 December, 2010, 09:03:00 am
No more snow in Norfolk. But lots of ice. And it's -8.
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Post by: GruB on 18 December, 2010, 09:11:53 am
We've had 2 inches or more in Pewsey.  Road is under snow.
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Post by: Jaded on 18 December, 2010, 09:20:19 am
Snowing heavily in  Reading.
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Post by: Panoramix on 18 December, 2010, 09:25:03 am
About 1.5 inch in east Bristol. There must be snow everywhere by now!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2010, 09:25:59 am
I think we might have had a dusting in the night, although it might just be a heavy frost.
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Post by: LindaG on 18 December, 2010, 09:30:57 am
No snow here.

Apart from the stuff from last time that's still frozen onto the road in big ruts.
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Post by: Regulator on 18 December, 2010, 09:32:11 am
Spoke to Mum and Salisbury has had heavy snow.  It's supposedly heading our way - but the Beeb has us having no more snow for the next week.

Once I've finished tidying up, I shall venture outside and head into the city to get Jon's Christmas pressie.
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Post by: mattc on 18 December, 2010, 09:36:57 am
Snowing heavily in  Reading.

It's pretty iffy out there. You should stay on the train all day and provide us with nationwide weather updates.
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Post by: Jaded on 18 December, 2010, 09:38:18 am
Not too bad in West Drayton.   ;D
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Post by: Andrij on 18 December, 2010, 09:42:58 am
Hardly any snow in East London, and now it's a balmy -2.
 
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Post by: GruB on 18 December, 2010, 09:45:49 am
We are about to walk into Pewsey with the dog.
We are taking a rucksack and bringing supplies back.
I need meds and have some new moisturiser waiting for me at the chemist as well.
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Post by: Chris S on 18 December, 2010, 09:47:48 am
...have some new moisturiser waiting for me at the chemist as well.

"Only travel if it's really necessary."

Yup - I think that counts.
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Post by: Feline on 18 December, 2010, 10:26:42 am
Just got back from work in Bristol. Unfortunately I have to be back there for 6pm and roads out this way are bad. Total grittage failure on the A38 near here, sheet ice covered with impacted snow. Average moving speed 5 mph.
I have about 8 inches of snow at home.
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Post by: numbnuts on 18 December, 2010, 10:29:19 am
We had some snow here (Southampton) we were promised 10 inches but only got 3
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Post by: Feline on 18 December, 2010, 10:41:08 am
My street:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/Snow2010004.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/Snow2010002.jpg)

garden:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/Snow2010006.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/Snow2010005.jpg)

Mad creatures:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/Snow2010011.jpg)
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Post by: Pingu on 18 December, 2010, 10:44:37 am
Denmead is snowbound this morning. There is a big cloud heading swirling towards London as I type.

<voiceover type=burton>

London! Carrie! I hadn't dreamed there could be snow for Carrie & her father, so many miles away.

</voiceover>
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Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 18 December, 2010, 10:58:03 am
We've just had a good flurry in SW8 that has covered the ground; the dog is laying outside in it looking delighted.
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Post by: Kathy on 18 December, 2010, 11:04:08 am
Denmead is snowbound this morning. There is a big cloud heading swirling towards London as I type.

<voiceover type=burton>

London! Carrie! I hadn't dreamed there could be snow for Carrie & her father, so many miles away.

</voiceover>

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Leatherhead: woke up to heavy snow. Looks like it's ankle-deep already judging by the pedestrians walking by. We had half an inch or so yesterday which turned to black ice up on the Downs (the drive home last night was interesting: I found myself taking a road I hadn't originally intended when I hit a patch of ice on the junction and the safest way to recover control involved a rapid compromise of navigation).
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Post by: her_welshness on 18 December, 2010, 11:08:11 am
Its coming down heavy now in saarth-east London, I think its in for the day now.
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Post by: border-rider on 18 December, 2010, 11:17:26 am
About an inch here, but it's sunny and warm.  The sky's a bit ominous though...
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Post by: Bledlow on 18 December, 2010, 11:18:22 am
Reading: light dusting overnight, then started seriously about 8.30. Several cm now, & still falling.

The bird feeder is being mobbed.
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Post by: andyoxon on 18 December, 2010, 11:37:24 am
We have about 5" now...  South of Oxford
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Post by: hatler on 18 December, 2010, 11:37:49 am
3" and dumping. SW20.
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Post by: peliroja on 18 December, 2010, 11:41:41 am
Really thick here. And the snow's quite deep, too.
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Post by: delthebike on 18 December, 2010, 11:47:04 am
Really thick here. And the snow's quite deep, too.
You shouldn't call yourself that!  :P
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Post by: Jules on 18 December, 2010, 11:54:39 am
3" here in Twickenham - and only been snowing to 2 hours. Ver' Pretty
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Post by: Jaded on 18 December, 2010, 11:57:18 am
Snowing heavily at the natural history museum!
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Post by: robgul on 18 December, 2010, 12:08:40 pm
We were supposed to have been on the Santa Special steam train with my gandson at Toddington in Gloucestershire .... cancelled, although that seems a poor show as the main man has a sleigh and reindeer ..  journey from Stratford-upon-Avon (snowing steadily for the past 3 hours) would have been interesting.

Rob
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Post by: Domestique on 18 December, 2010, 12:11:01 pm
nothing here  :(
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Post by: andygates on 18 December, 2010, 12:12:22 pm
The war memorial thinks it's an alpine church

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5042/5270430545_46dfa8699c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/andygates/5270430545/)
Crediton war memorial (http://www.flickr.com/photos/andygates/5270430545/) by andygates (http://www.flickr.com/people/andygates/), on Flickr

The green is all plumfy

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5090/5271027240_7b419261df.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/andygates/5271027240/)
Snow cushions (http://www.flickr.com/photos/andygates/5271027240/) by andygates (http://www.flickr.com/people/andygates/), on Flickr

Too deep for silly footprints

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5083/5271033330_68d750693b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/andygates/5271033330/)
Gallumphing through the snow (http://www.flickr.com/photos/andygates/5271033330/) by andygates (http://www.flickr.com/people/andygates/), on Flickr
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2010, 12:13:26 pm
Just glum grey cloud here. Mind you, since we are within the proverbial gnat's crotchet of Domestique's dulce domum, that's hardly surprising.
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Post by: LEE on 18 December, 2010, 12:33:03 pm
This morning on my way to collect my car in Longparish (I left it in pub carpark last night and didn't really check the forecast for my usual Saturday morning collection ride).

The good news is that I rode my MTB for the first time in several years and I got to ride on traffic-free lanes on the most beautiful crisp and crunchy snow.  There was loads of traction until I finally arrived at a main road where it was all compacted slush. 

(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u249/freddered/ride%20photos/Snow1small.jpg?t=1292675462)

(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u249/freddered/ride%20photos/snow2small.jpg?t=1292675507)

The downside is that I booted the "Whale-Tail" off my bike when I swung my leg over and broke the bracket.  My arse got wet and cold.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 18 December, 2010, 12:35:26 pm
I'm in Tate Modern, looking out over the river. it's chucking it down  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: perpetual dan on 18 December, 2010, 12:49:04 pm
It chucked it down this morning, while Mrs Dan was at the shops, but got back OK. Nice and sunny now, but no buses up here so the last of the presents will have to wait. I hope it clears before the evening, I'm supposed to be meeting mates to drink the Harvey's Christmas Ale.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Panoramix on 18 December, 2010, 12:53:41 pm
About 1.5 inch in east Bristol. There must be snow everywhere by now!

Snowman making resulted in no much snow left in the garden. Girls happy though!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nicknack on 18 December, 2010, 12:54:10 pm
It's throwing it down in Sittingbourne too. Which is a bit crap cos I've got to go up to Gillingham hospital shortly and my mate tells me that the Medway towns are awful at the mo. I'll have to try the train - if they can be bothered to run.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: delthebike on 18 December, 2010, 12:58:50 pm
Started about 15 minutes ago in SoS and is pretty heavy now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Polar Bear on 18 December, 2010, 12:59:31 pm
Similar in Rugby.  Looks like it's gonna hang around for a while.    8)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rdaviesb on 18 December, 2010, 01:03:12 pm
Several inches on the ground in Preston, and it'll be there for a while, judging by the the 5 day weather forecast.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2010, 01:14:54 pm
Started about 15 minutes ago in SoS and is pretty heavy now.

I can confirm this.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Domestique on 18 December, 2010, 01:16:36 pm
Started about 15 minutes ago in SoS and is pretty heavy now.

I can confirm this.

Seconded  ;D

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5167/5271216690_83181a7bbc.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Dez on 18 December, 2010, 01:20:13 pm
Started about 15 minutes ago in SoS and is pretty heavy now.

I can confirm this.

Seconded  ;D

Thirded:

(http://dez.yacf.net/snow20101218.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 18 December, 2010, 01:24:11 pm
Temperature recordings at Northolt have shot up from minus nine to zero Celsius.
There's about 4" snow outside.
Brent Cross Temple of Mammon has closed due to snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rower40 on 18 December, 2010, 01:27:56 pm
Do my eyes deceive me? Does Southend have a blue plaque?

Still no SNO in Derby, thank $DEITY.  Other than the light dusting on the grass from 3 days ago.  Roads, Paths, Pavements, Driveways - all clear.  For now.

On behalf of the East Midlands, I'd like to thank those areas closer to the sea for copping more than their fair share of moisture-laden cold air, and protecting the industrial heartland (and the nearby home of Real Ale) from the disruption that everyone else is getting.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: delthebike on 18 December, 2010, 01:36:12 pm
Do my eyes deceive me? Does Southend have a blue plaque?
It says "Wowbagger lives nearby".

Our new Negative Dalmation!
(http://www.delthebike.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/pc183848s.jpg)

Traded for a Stealth GSD.
(http://www.delthebike.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/pc183853s.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Dez on 18 December, 2010, 01:45:56 pm
Do my eyes deceive me? Does Southend have a blue plaque?

Yes, they do. That's the background of the old Royal Naval Association logo, which has been removed.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 18 December, 2010, 01:49:18 pm
Gorgeous and sunny in Darlo.  I'm off for a ride ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 18 December, 2010, 02:10:45 pm
Well we now have 6" in the last 2 hours here near Aylesbury. Glad I shopped last night!  Not sure about getting to work in Corby Monday tho - 64 miles. And if I don't I get no pay  :(  A bugger after 6 months unemployed!

And we've gone RED on the met office site!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 18 December, 2010, 02:13:28 pm
My cleaning lady is due to return to eastern Poland by coach, for a three week break, this weekend.
I hope her journey goes well.
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Post by: andygates on 18 December, 2010, 02:14:33 pm
(http://www.delthebike.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/pc183853s.jpg)
Bugger me, that's an enormous doggage!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 December, 2010, 03:21:41 pm
Very chilly, but no sno in York either.  Littly has just gone out (on the back of the bike) to the park with his dad.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2010, 03:30:29 pm
Stopped now. About 2" lying, I think.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 18 December, 2010, 03:46:40 pm
Last night in the pub, I glimpsed a local paper.  An article suggested that Brum would largely miss out on today's predicted snomagedon.

So,  when I got up this morning it was snowing, and had obviously been doing so for some time.  It is still snowing and has not stopped at any time during the day at all.
Even the main road at the end of my road is becoming rapidly impassable with the sno build up. 
It's coming up to 4 o'clock now and the light is beginning to fade.  If this carries on much longer into Sunday, the Birmingham Monday commute will be interesting.

The snow on the pavement outside my house is quite deep just now and it's quite fun to walk in.  But after freezing tonight it's going to be hell.

'er in Wales (Mrs B) has been marooned since Friday morning.
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Post by: Regulator on 18 December, 2010, 03:54:22 pm
So much for the BBC weather forecast...

It's coming down in Cambridge.   The snow is fine but it's settling.
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Post by: jogler on 18 December, 2010, 03:57:15 pm



The snow on the pavement outside my house is quite deep just now and it's quite fun to walk in.  But after freezing tonight it's going to be hell.

'er in Wales (Mrs B) has been marooned since Friday morning.

If you can't be riding you can at least be reading about it ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wendy on 18 December, 2010, 04:06:21 pm
Just been out for a ride here in Biggin Hill, 2 hours worth.  Awesome!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 18 December, 2010, 04:19:53 pm
Just been sledging on the bund around the Leyland Truck Factory. The trains on the West Coast Mainline are trailing plumes of dry snow. It looked quite spectacular when a Pendolino came past at speed.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 18 December, 2010, 04:20:48 pm
If this carries on much longer into Sunday, the Birmingham Monday commute will be interesting.


It's stopped.  ::-)

And a quick check on Will It Rain would suggest that that's it.  Good.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 18 December, 2010, 05:08:02 pm
...and the slush has started to freeze.  Tomorrow morning will be hilarious.  I believe I shall sleep through it. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Phil21 on 18 December, 2010, 05:43:25 pm
Just cleared the path of snow, about 6" lying here. It's stopped now, nothing further forecast.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 December, 2010, 05:52:24 pm
It started snowing here about quarter to three as I was walking through the forest. Lots of animal tracks everywhere - deer, boar, hare, fox - but the only moving ones I saw were a woodpecker and one deer. And the only sign of human presence my own footprints from Thursday, which was good!

At 7:30 this morning it was full daylight, but the sun was still a bleary red disc only half over the horizon. How can it be full day when the sun hasn't fully risen?
My cleaning lady is due to return to eastern Poland by coach, for a three week break, this weekend.
I hope her journey goes well.
I've done many coach journeys on that route in similar weather. It will go well. The only problems I ever had were in August, when the a/c broke down on the way out, and the entire coach on the way back, leaving us stranded on a bit of "post-German" (ie built when it was part of Germany in the 30s and not touched since) autobahn for about three hours.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 18 December, 2010, 06:05:34 pm
(http://www.delthebike.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/pc183853s.jpg)

I'm sure you can get something for the dandruff  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 18 December, 2010, 06:36:21 pm
Mr R is due to fly back from Goa today.  Still no sign of him or any news from him.  Hopefully he's stuck somewhere nice...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 18 December, 2010, 06:49:50 pm
So I let it snow for a while then that was my cue to get off my lazy ass, stop watching Stargate repeats recorded back in August by the Electric Monk and head out to Staples for some printer paper. I have rain legs, snow tyres, lobster gloves, and a rapha winter hat. Had to keep on clearing the snow from the front light.

While I was there I decided I liked it so much I have been to Boots and Waterstones right in town. Coffee and a blueberry muffin before heading back, and then off to the gym. :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 18 December, 2010, 06:59:09 pm
Mr R is due to fly back from Goa today.  Still no sign of him or any news from him.  Hopefully he's stuck somewhere nice...

You are a very understanding partner.  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 18 December, 2010, 07:16:05 pm
I can now update you on the weather. In Reading and Didcot it is dark.

I think it will be in Swindon too. We were nearly stuck in London, trains being cancelled all over the place. Our cancelled train was reinstated and we are now speeding towards snowmageddon. Apparently you are advised not to go to The Cotswolds, which is a shame for us. The snow socks may have their first outing in anger!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 18 December, 2010, 07:43:13 pm
Thank god I live in the driest region of the country. This translates to snow in winter as much as rain the rest of the time. Clear skies here - and just a dusting on the ground.

I might venture west to The Fens tomorrow, and catch some fen skating. Looks like fun.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: itsbruce on 18 December, 2010, 07:44:21 pm
Have been riding around in South London.  Minor roads are a challenge but even the major ones aren't that clear.  Is fun, but I may well have to go into the office tomorrow (Maida Vale area).  That'll need a clear head.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mattc on 18 December, 2010, 07:46:22 pm
I can now update you on the weather. In Reading and Didcot it is dark.
Excellent, always appreciated.

Actually it's a lot less dark than normal, what with all the ambient light being reflected off the white stuff. Sort of pre-dawn look. You could certainly cycle without lights.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2010, 08:39:47 pm
I'm going to buy a weather station on Monday. I want Rockall, but it's not for sale.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 18 December, 2010, 08:45:54 pm
I'm going to buy a weather station on Monday. I want Rockall, but it's not for sale.

Get one of these

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q4bpKr0_4BI/S5PsDPI0TcI/AAAAAAAAAB4/1g7M1wRLU-g/s320/redneck+weather+rope.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 19 December, 2010, 03:50:07 am
My weather widget says it's -15C at Birmingham airport.

My temperature sensor says it's -8.1C a few inches from my naff single-glazed window.

There is still the best part of 6 inches of snow outside.

And it's nearly 4am.

This is all beyond silly and well into The Day After Tomorrow territory.  With luck I won't end up fighting off wolves, but barakta has handily forgotten to take her spork with her to That London, so at least I'll have a weapon.


I'm going to bed now.  If there's a power cut, hopefully the UPS alarm will wake me before I freeze to death...   :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 19 December, 2010, 04:45:50 am
Snowing a fair bit now outside the ward windows.  Not as much as the other week though.

It's lying.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: perpetual dan on 19 December, 2010, 10:35:56 am
I walked to the pub last night, as buses weren't running. The first bit was lovely. Down the hill into town was very slippy. I was ready for a nice pint or three of old once I got there and removed a few layers. I cheated and took a cab past the slippy bit on the way home.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 19 December, 2010, 11:20:29 am
And it's nearly 4am.
Go to bed! Get some sleep or you'll never have the strength to fight off the polar zombies!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 19 December, 2010, 11:24:15 am
Last night I went to the Crescent Theatre to see a show in which #1 son is working.
Very impressed with London Midland who managed to keep a sporadic, non-timetabled service running on the cross city line all evening.  Good effort.  :thumbsup:
The theatre is just off Broad Street, which for non-locals, is the area of Brum where the yoof spend their time staggering about in their dressless evening straps, throwing up and crying in the gutter.
As I walked towards Broad Street after the show I was thinking to myself, "Surely it will look different tonight".
Wrong.  It must have been below minus ten, yet there they all were, staggering through freezing snow drifts on 5 inch heels and not a lot else.  A whole street of goose bumps that I could have struck a match on.
I commented on another thread that the Brummies seem to think trainers are the best thing to wear in these conditions.  I'd like to now add the alternative winter dress code of basque and suspenders to this observation.  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 19 December, 2010, 11:24:50 am
a tad under -10 here last night.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 19 December, 2010, 11:25:22 am
I commented on another thread that the Brummies seem to think trainers are the best thing to wear in these conditions.  I'd like to now add the alternative winter dress code of basque and suspenders to this observation.  :o

We need photos of you in this get-up.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 19 December, 2010, 11:30:06 am
Mr R's finally made contact.  His flight has been cancelled again.  He's due to be in work tomorrow and has had to phone in absent.

It looks as though the earliest he may get a flight is tomorrow afternoon.  This means he'll be spending another night stranded....








...at a 5* hotel on a beach in Goa.   Some gits get all the luck!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 19 December, 2010, 11:33:16 am

We need photos of you in this get-up.

Oh.  Did you not get the last set?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 19 December, 2010, 11:55:01 am
Mr R's finally made contact.  His flight has been cancelled again.  He's due to be in work tomorrow and has had to phone in absent.

It looks as though the earliest he may get a flight is tomorrow afternoon.  This means he'll be spending another night stranded....








...at a 5* hotel on a beach in Goa.   Some gits get all the luck!
If it's snowing in Goa, the weather really is serious!

Bottle of fenny, please!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 December, 2010, 01:00:21 pm
I see that fecking Clarkson got stuck in the snow yesterday and had to abandon his Suburu 18 miles from home.

 White Christmas odds plummet – and Santa fails to fly | UK news | guardian.co.uk  (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/18/uk-weather-white-christmas-odds), final bullet point.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 19 December, 2010, 01:07:20 pm
Winnie looks like a Banksy remix there! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 19 December, 2010, 01:17:59 pm
Minus 7 0n way home Sat morning, front mech froze coming out of North Oxford as did the left brake on the trike, went to bed thinking that's not bad and woke up to 2 foot of snow.
                                                   :'(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 19 December, 2010, 02:21:13 pm
I'm going to bed now.  If there's a power cut, hopefully the UPS alarm will wake me before I freeze to death...   :-\
Hot water bottles! My Boots one was still nice & warm 10 hours after being filled. Primark sell 'em much cheaper, but I suspect there's a qualitative difference.

Mrs B & I have one each, to avoid fights.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 19 December, 2010, 02:27:00 pm
We bought a memory foam mattress last winter. We were told we MUST NOT USE HOT WATER BOTTLES with memory foam.
We now have five lonely hot water bottles, including a lovely Winnie-the-Pooh bottle and cover from Boots.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MattH on 19 December, 2010, 02:45:11 pm
Just saw this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11875885) about school closures on the BBC website.

The amusing thing is that the photo is of the primary school in our village - one of the three schools in Hampshire that didn't close due to snow a couple of weeks ago!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 19 December, 2010, 02:48:04 pm
I'm going to bed now.  If there's a power cut, hopefully the UPS alarm will wake me before I freeze to death...   :-\
Hot water bottles! My Boots one was still nice & warm 10 hours after being filled. Primark sell 'em much cheaper, but I suspect there's a qualitative difference.

Mrs B & I have one each, to avoid fights.
She hasn't posted since - it may be too late :o - She might be an icicle!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 19 December, 2010, 03:10:20 pm
Rumours of my iciculation are greatly exaggerated.  I just went to bed and slept solidly for 11 hours, without so much as getting up for the loo.  I don't think I've done that since that night in Llanberis.

The power stayed on, which meant the computer did whatever was necessary heating-wise to keep the temperature in the bedroom above 16C (the temperature previously determined to be warm enough not to exacerbate any low-level asthmatic nastiness I may be suffering from).  I also had two duvets, an electric blanket and - as barakta's away in That London - the use of both hot water bottles (one for each foot!  Luxury!).

We also have a memory foam mattress, which doesn't appear to have exploded or anything through hot water bottle use yet...

The snow situation is much the same as it was last night, only presumably icier.  No sign of polar zombies, but I'm a reasonably safe distance from Broad Street.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Dez on 19 December, 2010, 03:20:48 pm
Winnie looks like a Banksy remix there! :thumbsup:

(http://dez.yacf.net/Churchill.png)
(Wall (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solna_Brick_wall_vilt_forband.jpg) courtesy of Xauxa (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Xauxa))
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mattc on 19 December, 2010, 07:07:45 pm
The power stayed on, which meant the computer did whatever was necessary heating-wise to keep the temperature in the bedroom above 16C (the temperature previously determined to be warm enough not to exacerbate any low-level asthmatic nastiness I may be suffering from). 

Do you realise that many of your posts read like the opening paragraph of near-future SF novels? [read the above in the voice of Harrison Ford]
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 19 December, 2010, 07:18:23 pm
Epic Win(ston). :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 19 December, 2010, 07:34:53 pm
Do you realise that many of your posts read like the opening paragraph of near-future SF novels? [read the above in the voice of Harrison Ford]

Really? Cor...  8)


Though it's not entirely surprising, this *is* 2010.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 19 December, 2010, 07:41:29 pm
Lots of train cancellations on the board at Euston, including my direct train to Liverpool. Had to get a Manchester bound one and change at Crewe, in first class for once as no one is checking tickets.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Dinamo on 19 December, 2010, 07:44:07 pm
Temperature didn't get above minus 3 today in NE Bristol ( according to garden thermometer )
Snow that fell yesterday morning has now frozen solid  :-\
Temp. presently minus 5.5 !  More snow forecast for tomorrow !
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 19 December, 2010, 08:19:53 pm
Though it's not entirely surprising, this *is* 2010.

Yay!  I live in Teh Future (TM). :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 19 December, 2010, 08:26:27 pm
Do you realise that many of your posts read like the opening paragraph of near-future SF novels? [read the above in the voice of Harrison Ford]

Really? Cor...  8)
Cyberpunk is now as quaint as zeppelins.  OMGfuture!

*looks up into falling snow*

The sky above Crediton is the colour of television tuned to a dead channel...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 19 December, 2010, 08:40:20 pm
Just got home. My walk to work tomorrow may see the Microspikes used for the first time.  Flat is 10C, it's -2.5c outside and the waters off (again)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 19 December, 2010, 08:45:57 pm
Do you realise that many of your posts read like the opening paragraph of near-future SF novels? [read the above in the voice of Harrison Ford]

Really? Cor...  8)


Though it's not entirely surprising, this *is* 2010.

The year we're supposed to make contact via the monolith orbiting Jupiter?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Greenbank on 19 December, 2010, 10:06:14 pm
Do you realise that many of your posts read like the opening paragraph of near-future SF novels? [read the above in the voice of Harrison Ford]

Really? Cor...  8)


Though it's not entirely surprising, this *is* 2010.

The year we're supposed to make contact via the monolith orbiting Jupiter?


ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 19 December, 2010, 11:38:47 pm
On Saturday it snowed enough that it took me eight and a half hours to drive the two hundred miles from Croydon to Exeter. Apparently it's forecast to snow tomorrow morning in time for me to attempt the return journey. :-\ :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 December, 2010, 11:40:41 pm
Apparently when my son arrived in Helsinki last week, he was greeted with -20°C. A little later on it was a balmy -5 but chucking it down with snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 19 December, 2010, 11:50:17 pm
Do you realise that many of your posts read like the opening paragraph of near-future SF novels? [read the above in the voice of Harrison Ford]

Really? Cor...  8)


Though it's not entirely surprising, this *is* 2010.

The year we're supposed to make contact via the monolith orbiting Jupiter?


ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE

Heathrow. Except Heathrow, surely?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andyoxon on 20 December, 2010, 12:48:18 am
-12C now, south of Oxford. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 20 December, 2010, 02:31:49 am
I see that fecking Clarkson got stuck in the snow yesterday and had to abandon his Suburu 18 miles from home.

 White Christmas odds plummet – and Santa fails to fly | UK news | guardian.co.uk  (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/18/uk-weather-white-christmas-odds), final bullet point.

From his comments, I share his pain.
Quote
"I would have been fine," he insisted. "But everyone around me had got stuck so it was impossible to get round them."


I too abandoned my car (legally parked in a sideroad) in Saturday's inch and a half Southend dusting and made an alternative journey home.  I cycled back later once the gridlock had subsided to collect the car.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 20 December, 2010, 06:28:42 am
My gods, it's coming down so hard it's hissing. And there's no wind, just the sound of a million flakes a second landing on yesterday's hard freeze.

Plucky Cyclist time!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andyoxon on 20 December, 2010, 08:07:17 am
Yikes, it's still -12C here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 20 December, 2010, 08:30:16 am
Well I gave it best this morning, -14C in Aylesbury Vale, and roads not gritted, so I U-turned after 5 miles. Hope bosses don't think I'm an ureliable contractor with my 60+ mile commute  :-\  But, when I got home, no cold water - a frozen stop-cock in our outside cupboard, so was able to defrost that at least.  Extra insulation and bubble-wrap added.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andygates on 20 December, 2010, 08:47:44 am
Plucky Fail here, have had to revert to working from the local site.  I don't have slidey-stuff skill, and it's deep enough that the stuff my bike grips is sliding on the stuff underneath it.  Full on people-in-the-streets stuff.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 20 December, 2010, 09:02:59 am
I made it in to work.  From a department of 23 people, 4 have made it in.

I'm now responsible for all ambulance divert requests and hospital escalation requests...  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 20 December, 2010, 09:04:00 am
about -11 last night, and -5 now. Even though it is cloudy.


I made it in to work.  From a department of 23 people, 4 have made it in.

I'm now responsible for all ambulance divert requests and hospital escalation requests...  :-\

Better get off the forum sharpish then!!  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 December, 2010, 09:09:05 am
No snow here overnight but -7°C when I let the dog out about 20 minutes ago.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 20 December, 2010, 09:11:02 am
Our sister sites in Croydon & St Albans are empty as no one can get in. My site in Liverpool has been evacuated due to flooding on the 7th floor. 3 fire engines here at the moment.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 20 December, 2010, 09:13:40 am
Very, very cold here but no new snow since Friday night, and even our little lane is clear

But we're forecast a mega-dump for later this morning.  Mrs MV has gone to work; it  may be some time before I see her again  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: toekneep on 20 December, 2010, 09:13:50 am
Our sister sites in Croydon & St Albans are empty as no one can get in. My site in Liverpool has been evacuated due to flooding on the 7th floor. 3 fire engines here at the moment.

The combination of lots of water and current temperatures could be interesting.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 20 December, 2010, 09:14:10 am
about -11 last night, and -5 now. Even though it is cloudy.


I made it in to work.  From a department of 23 people, 4 have made it in.

I'm now responsible for all ambulance divert requests and hospital escalation requests...  :-\

Better get off the forum sharpish then!!  ;D

Yay!  One of my colleagues has arrived.  I've handed the ambulance and hospital escalations over to her...  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 20 December, 2010, 09:17:51 am
I hope the heater is working in the car. It was probably about -16C at the time when Mrs B was passing through Benson on her way to work, having bottomed out around -17C (the 7am reading from the Met Office). Only went down to -9.3C in Reading according to the university weather station*, & only -7 just outside my back door.

*I do like it when people put their weather stations online.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mattc on 20 December, 2010, 09:22:45 am
Yikes, it's still -12C here.
Down here too, Andy. We're near Benson-ish, so that -16c looks spot-on.

Oddly, last night's forecast said -4, 5-ish. So in pure numbers, that is an epically wrong forecast!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Dinamo on 20 December, 2010, 09:23:38 am
Minus 9 last night.
Snowing here in Bristol now  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 20 December, 2010, 09:24:47 am
about -11 last night, and -5 now. Even though it is cloudy.


I made it in to work.  From a department of 23 people, 4 have made it in.

I'm now responsible for all ambulance divert requests and hospital escalation requests...  :-\

Better get off the forum sharpish then!!  ;D

Yay!  One of my colleagues has arrived.  I've handed the ambulance and hospital escalations over to her...  ;D

Normal service resumed.  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 20 December, 2010, 09:27:51 am
Mrs J was supposed to be flying up to Edinburgh today for work, and to collect her mother to come back for Christmas. We decided to cancel: none of us were happy with the thought of an 85 year old stuck at an airport for ages, or worse, stuck in a car. We think this will be the first Christmas on our own since the year I was out of work, 20 years ago.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2010, 10:14:12 am
the year I was out of work, 20 years ago.

Coincidently so was I at that time
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 20 December, 2010, 10:17:38 am
Very, very cold here but no new snow since Friday night, and even our little lane is clear

But we're forecast a mega-dump for later this morning.  Mrs MV has gone to work; it  may be some time before I see her again  :(

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Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wombat on 20 December, 2010, 10:20:21 am
the year I was out of work, 20 years ago.

Coincidently so was I at that time

And me!  (and I will be again, at the end of March)  Is it an unreasonable observation to make that both times I have been made redundant, the conservatives have been in power?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 20 December, 2010, 10:24:08 am
All the times I have taken redundancy have been under a Labour Govt.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 20 December, 2010, 10:27:13 am
No snow here, rain and sleet washed it away yesterday.
Disappointingly Southampton Airport is open too, so I have to come home.
The drive back to Suffolk looks to be bloody awful.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2010, 10:28:09 am
the year I was out of work, 20 years ago.

Coincidently so was I at that time

And me!  (and I will be again, at the end of March)  Is it an unreasonable observation to make that both times I have been made redundant, the conservatives have been in power?


Ifn the absence of new works I fear the same fate
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feline on 20 December, 2010, 10:32:10 am
Just got back from Bristol after a 3rd night shift. Took about 90 minutes to drive what would have been 40 mins normally. There is a blizzard here at the moment. Some bits of road are very scary out there.
I am supposed to be on call tonight from home (for a practice 14 miles away) but I suspect for the pittance they are paying me it will not be worth the risk trying to get there if I did get called out. Going to phone them in a bit and suggest they put their closest vet with a suitable or practice-owned vehicle on call instead. If they ask me to go and stay there overnight then I am going to demand at least the minimum wage instead of £40 for 15 hours!!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 20 December, 2010, 10:44:05 am
My daughter drove from Stoke to Bristol on Saturday afternoon & back on Sunday afternoon.
My son drove from Oxford to Blackpool on Friday night & did the return journey last night.
I'm amazed they had no difficulties
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feline on 20 December, 2010, 10:47:38 am
My daughter drove from Stoke to Bristol on Saturday afternoon & back on Sunday afternoon.
My son drove from Oxford to Blackpool on Friday night & did the return journey last night.
I'm amazed they had no difficulties

The roads here were much better on saturday and sunday day time than they were on friday night or now. The traction control on my car just got a real workout trying to keep control on some of the ice, and that was on the main A38 driving at about 7 mph!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 20 December, 2010, 10:51:26 am
at 7mph you are probably better turning the traction control off and driving in second or even third.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 20 December, 2010, 11:10:24 am
We had to walk to the cricket club quiz last night, alongside the West Coast Mainline. We saw a Pendolino crawl past at 15mph. It was absolutely packed, and every table was stacked up with Christmas presents. We could feel the waves of misery emanating from it as it ambled past with a feeble yellow arcing from the pantograph.
The rest of our walk was quite pleasant as the distribution depots and disused foundries looked quite magical in the moonlight.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Morrisette on 20 December, 2010, 11:13:38 am
Trip to and from South Wales on the weekend - roads were fine up to Newport when the Welsh must have run out of grit. Onwards up the valley was 'interesting' but the little old Corsa did good, even getting up the steep icy hill outside Mr M's parents house. I've never heard the engine make that noise before though! Had to dig it out with our 'snow removal device' (yep, it's a spade) to come back, but once we'd done that it was fine. Saw -7.5 on the thermometer in the car as we went past Birmingham at 3pm. I can't believe our crappy old car is the best thing on the road, but maybe it is!!

Contrast that with my nice four mile walk to work pushing my bike through Cambridge this morning as there isn't a grain of salt on any of the main roads. Must be too cold for council workers  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 20 December, 2010, 11:16:41 am
We checked the temperature before we left at 7pm last night, -13. by midnight it was up to -10, as cloud came in, it fell back to -12 this morning,
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 20 December, 2010, 11:24:19 am
Quote
7pm last night, -13
:o bloody hell that cold
it was a warm -6 in Southampton early this morning, new we have sleet and 0c
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rower40 on 20 December, 2010, 11:31:14 am
Contrast that with my nice four mile walk to work pushing my bike through Cambridge this morning as there isn't a grain of salt on any of the main roads. Must be too cold for council workers  ::-)
Thanks for the update; I was hoping to use Brompton & Train to get from (my_house) Derby to (Mums_house) Cambridge sometime in the next few days, and I didn't know what the snow situation was there.  I may leave the Brompton in Derby (where there's no snow at all), and use boots instead.  It's only about 20 mins walk from Cambridge station to Mums_house.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feline on 20 December, 2010, 11:33:56 am
This is a pic of the A38 between Bristol and Axbridge about an hour ago taken through my windscreen. The stuff that looks like grit is actually compacted ice now.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/old020.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CAMRAMan on 20 December, 2010, 11:40:00 am
-13C on Saturday night and "only" -12.1C in our garden last night in Warwick. It's a dank day here and hovering at -7C just before noon, so I don't expect any dramatic rise in temperature today...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 20 December, 2010, 11:43:35 am
Snowing now. Yay!!!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 20 December, 2010, 11:53:42 am
(http://i.imgur.com/FVeFL.png)
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Post by: Morrisette on 20 December, 2010, 11:56:29 am
Contrast that with my nice four mile walk to work pushing my bike through Cambridge this morning as there isn't a grain of salt on any of the main roads. Must be too cold for council workers  ::-)
Thanks for the update; I was hoping to use Brompton & Train to get from (my_house) Derby to (Mums_house) Cambridge sometime in the next few days, and I didn't know what the snow situation was there.  I may leave the Brompton in Derby (where there's no snow at all), and use boots instead.  It's only about 20 mins walk from Cambridge station to Mums_house.

No problem....the snow may melt of course, then you will wish you had a bike with you!
Some people were riding, but I didn't feel safe with half frozen brakes on top the icy roads...it is possible to ride though. I am v. paranoid about falling onto ice. There was definitely no salt or grit down on any of the roads I used (Hills Road, St Andrews Street, Castle Hill, Histon Road)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 20 December, 2010, 12:04:05 pm
 I am v. paranoid about falling onto ice. There was definitely no salt or grit down on any of the roads

            Not Paranoia, tis common sense
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kathy on 20 December, 2010, 12:12:23 pm
Falling onto ice isn't so bad - there's less friction, so you don't get that sensation of suddenly stopping - you just slide to a halt. Plus, far less chance of ripping clothing. But falling onto snow is nicer - it cushions the landing a bit.

<---- Highly experienced at falling off!  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: geoff on 20 December, 2010, 12:16:20 pm
Snowing at Oxford station now...local (RAF Benson) temperature's risen from a chilly -13 to -12 then up to -9
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Post by: Quint on 20 December, 2010, 12:17:13 pm
Are you train spotting, are there any  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 December, 2010, 12:19:47 pm
York is still chilly, and there was a very impressive layer of frost everywhere when I put the bins out at dark o'clock this morning, but still not actually snowing.  Dearly_Beloved is getting a bit twitchy about our planned big trip (Barrow, Brighton, Hertford) though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 20 December, 2010, 12:47:56 pm
The temperature in Wandsworth climbed up to the dizzy heights of 3 degrees at about 11.30 this morning, but it has now dropped back to 2o despite the sun being out.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 20 December, 2010, 12:52:09 pm
We have been told that all staff must leave in time for their journies to be completed during daylight.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: matthew on 20 December, 2010, 12:52:52 pm
Snow showers in Frimley now, not really stopping at any point but just pulsing in intensity. Getting home could be interesting if my driver (Dad)  ;) delays leaving his office too long.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 20 December, 2010, 12:56:04 pm
Snowing in Reading now. We had a little shower of very fine snow about 11.30, when I was getting in some firewood, & now we're getting proper flakes.

Main roads are clear, well-gritted, but our street is untouched. Mrs B went out with the ash from last night's fire to put in front of the front wheels this morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: citoyen on 20 December, 2010, 01:02:50 pm
Q. What's white and fucks up your commute?

A. Charles Horton.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 December, 2010, 01:17:17 pm
-6 in E17 at ~07:30; -11 in Harlot at 08:45.  Harlot almost totally gridlocked coz some numpty lorry driver got stuck.  Currently nice and sunny and I think no SNO since Saturday afternoon chiz.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 20 December, 2010, 01:31:32 pm
Minus two at Northolt at midday today.
Sunny here.
No recent precipitation.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 20 December, 2010, 01:36:46 pm
Mrs MV just sent herself home.  I'm relieved.  Could take a while to get back though.

I just spoke to a local company we're trying to get a quote from for a new kitchen, and the chap said that his son had set off for Coleford this morning and hadn't been heard of since ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 20 December, 2010, 01:40:55 pm
-6 in E17 at ~07:30; -11 in Harlot at 08:45.  Harlot almost totally gridlocked coz some numpty lorry driver got stuck.  Currently nice and sunny and I think no SNO since Saturday afternoon chiz.

      Bikini weather then  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 December, 2010, 02:27:48 pm
It is inside the office.  I've had to take my jumper off for fear of boiling over.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 20 December, 2010, 02:34:22 pm
Here in Mos Eisley Pompey, it's like a baby's bottom - wet and windy.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Von Broad on 20 December, 2010, 02:35:49 pm
-19.6c last night here in Chesham [Bucks]. This place is not exactly the Highlands. but boy oh boy it really is a frost pocket round here, especially where this weather station (http://www.chesham1879.co.uk/weather/weather.htm) is situated.
It was -10 walking back from the pub last night. That is well taters.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rower40 on 20 December, 2010, 02:41:18 pm
It is inside the office.  I've had to take my jumper off for fear of boiling over.
I hate buildings like that.  It's no fun being too cold outside, and too hot inside.  Dressing for the conditions is so much more difficult in these situations.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PeteB99 on 20 December, 2010, 03:21:29 pm
Down in London last night to see Nerdstock at the Bloomsbury theatre.

Travelled back to Chester today with no problems (only an hour late due to signal problems*)

No new snow here but -10.5 at 1400 according to the Uni weather station.

* For a while we had to stop at each signal to get permission to proceed

The roads I could see from the train looked dodgy :hand:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 20 December, 2010, 03:38:17 pm
Mrs MV got back a while ago; she was the only thing moving when she did, and was passing abandoned 4x4s on the main road hill out of Monmouth. Yeah for winter tyres :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 20 December, 2010, 03:58:35 pm
I'm planning on driving down to Cambridge (Little Thetford) to see Kevin as D-Tek in the morning. Anyone know what the roads are like from Stoke, down the M6, A14 to Huntingdon - and able to tell me if I am being stupid for even thinking of it.

As far as I can tell, no snow forecast for the route tomorrow, and there has been none since Friday/Saturday.

Ely area seems to be better than Cambridge - but the A14 is fairly dicey at the moment and further snow is expected tonight.

To be honest, I'd suggest some delayed gratification is in order.  Is your journey vital?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 20 December, 2010, 04:40:38 pm
It's peeing with rain now, nice slushy roads, hope it doesn't freeze tonight or we will be right in the slip
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tom_e on 20 December, 2010, 04:55:27 pm
I'm planning on driving down to Cambridge (Little Thetford) to see Kevin as D-Tek in the morning. Anyone know what the roads are like from Stoke, down the M6, A14 to Huntingdon - and able to tell me if I am being stupid for even thinking of it.

As far as I can tell, no snow forecast for the route tomorrow, and there has been none since Friday/Saturday.

Ely area seems to be better than Cambridge - but the A14 is fairly dicey at the moment and further snow is expected tonight.

To be honest, I'd suggest some delayed gratification is in order.  Is your journey vital?

Quite localised falls - the snow didn't seem to get much past Cambridge going North.  We are halfway between Cambridge and Huntingdon on the A14, and have seen bugger all.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Paul D on 20 December, 2010, 04:56:56 pm
Snopocalypse arrived in Dorset between 9 and 11 this morning. We went out for a yomp to see what the score was - main roads on slight inclines at a standstill and the bypass round town shut. The idiots still ventured out in their cars:


    YouTube
        - How to drive in snow, December 2010
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq4KLm9QLZo)

Got out on the MTB in the afternoon; didn't need to venture too far away from town to have a lot of fun (and a lot of 'rether you than me' comments). No falls, no submissions, lots of laffs. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 20 December, 2010, 05:04:22 pm
Though it's not entirely surprising, this *is* 2010.

Yay!  I live in Teh Future (TM). :thumbsup:
My reaction exactly!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kathy on 20 December, 2010, 05:11:46 pm
Though it's not entirely surprising, this *is* 2010.

Yay!  I live in Teh Future (TM). :thumbsup:
My reaction exactly!

This isn't the future: I don't have a jetpack!  >:( :'(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Paul D on 20 December, 2010, 05:23:01 pm
North Dorset today.

Main road
(https://sites.google.com/site/tencyclingclub/news-2/snopocalypseindorset/PC200196.JPG)

Not everybody had fun in the snow (although the tracks are snowed in so happened earlier or yesterday)
(https://sites.google.com/site/tencyclingclub/news-2/snopocalypseindorset/PC200233.JPG)

Quite deep on the fields
(https://sites.google.com/site/tencyclingclub/news-2/snopocalypseindorset/PC200242.JPG)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 20 December, 2010, 05:41:54 pm
Though it's not entirely surprising, this *is* 2010.

Yay!  I live in Teh Future (TM). :thumbsup:
My reaction exactly!

This isn't the future: I don't have a jetpack!  >:( :'(

The problem is, we overtook the future.

Back in the early 80s, there were quite a few books predicting what life in the 21st Century would be like - let's just say that the future isn't what it used to be.  ;)

We now return you to rants at folks taking vehicles out in unsuitable conditions...

EDIT: Still wanna jetpack, I'll pass on the bacofoil jumpsuits, though...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 20 December, 2010, 05:51:18 pm
The snow in the middle of town is about ten feet deep!

Where they have dumped all the stuff cleared from a car park.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 20 December, 2010, 06:08:36 pm
+1°C in Londonton. No precipitation so far. Thaw likely.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: simonp on 20 December, 2010, 06:10:16 pm
+1°C in Londonton. No precipitation so far. Thaw likely.

Is it heading our way?  Currently -5.6 in Cambridge.  Which is warmer than it was at midday.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 20 December, 2010, 06:15:28 pm
+1°C in Londonton. No precipitation so far. Thaw likely.

Is it heading our way?  Currently -5.6 in Cambridge.  Which is warmer than it was at midday.


Supposed to be -5 to -6 tonight in Cambridge...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 20 December, 2010, 06:33:44 pm
We've had a MAHOOSIVE dump in Monmouthshire.  Proper snowed-in in the valley at the moment!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wendy on 20 December, 2010, 06:38:33 pm
Snowing again here in NW Kent.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 20 December, 2010, 06:46:10 pm
We've had a MAHOOSIVE dump in Monmouthshire.  Proper snowed-in in the valley at the moment!

We're not too bad up here. 3-4".  The road may be entertaining
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: her_welshness on 20 December, 2010, 06:52:13 pm
Snowing quite heavily in Lewisham! Why???? Bloody Met Office, we were not expecting this until Wednesday  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 20 December, 2010, 07:26:46 pm
Well net weather and the beep did say that there would be snow this afternoon in London, it just missed out on SW6 :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: HTFB on 20 December, 2010, 09:02:08 pm
Snowing quite heavily in Lewisham! Why???? Bloody Met Office, we were not expecting this until Wednesday  >:(
More or less stopped now, and it doesn't seem to add up to more than a few millimetres. It may even make the pavements easier. The earlier thaw combined with a chill about dusk made an icy layer which did for a colleague in Deptford, who broke her leg on leaving work. Ugg-alike boots with a slick sole won't have helped.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 20 December, 2010, 09:03:16 pm
No more snow today, but our boiler froze up....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 20 December, 2010, 09:03:48 pm
It started snowing on my commute at Mitcham Eastfields station. It got progressively more determined until it was quite serious by the time I got home. It's still snowing 2 hours later.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Tewdric on 20 December, 2010, 09:08:40 pm
We've had a MAHOOSIVE dump in Monmouthshire.  Proper snowed-in in the valley at the moment!

We're not too bad up here. 3-4".  The road may be entertaining

We had 4-6" today, on top of what was already here.  It's -7 too!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: itsbruce on 20 December, 2010, 10:42:51 pm
+1°C in Londonton. No precipitation so far. Thaw likely.

That was over optimistic ;)

It R snowing!  I just got back with the bike from some late Christmas shopping and the air is full of big, tufty snowflakes drifting down as if this were some BBC period drama.  If this keeps up - and it's been going solidly for 40 minutes - tomorrow's commute is going to be even more interesting than todays.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 December, 2010, 10:44:33 pm
We've had very light frozen drizzle for quite a while. It's taken about 3 hours just to dust the pavement where Dez cleared it. I think the temperature is scarcely below freezing.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 20 December, 2010, 11:08:58 pm
Another 5cm of pathetic fluffy stuff tonight, despite the fact that most of our town's (2 wheel drive) cars are still stuck in the roads I'm very impressed with the train service this time, maybe 5-10 min delays.

had another walk out foraging for holly with berries last night; the ungritted roads are just like a proper skating rink; all shiny white. I still blame the volcano.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 20 December, 2010, 11:11:16 pm
had another walk out foraging for holly with berries last night;

find any ?

I found exactly one berry yesterday. birds are hungry.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 20 December, 2010, 11:11:53 pm
We have holly with loads of berries.  :smug:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Martin on 20 December, 2010, 11:17:59 pm
had another walk out foraging for holly with berries last night;

find any ?

I found exactly one berry yesterday. birds are hungry.

yes quite a lot (but confined to a couple of bushes about 200m from our house; I made Zoom jr #2 walk the long 3km way round to get to them though as otherwise he would have stayed indoors all weekend)

Top Tip; I got one of those chains of red balls for Xmas trees, cut them into little lengths of 4-5 balls; spray with Humbrol post office red, attach a bit of green garden wire and hey presto instant holly with berries  ;) they are on about their 15th year, IIRC I devised this to stop Zoom Jr #1 eating any real berries that fell off

(http://www.reb.co.uk/skating.jpg)

that's nice to see (NHM innit?); I half expected it to be cancelled due to "inclement weather"
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 20 December, 2010, 11:23:25 pm
Yes, Natural History Museum. The snow settles very well on the ice, naturally, and they had to clear it off between each hour-long session. I was impressed with the organisation, but it did cost a lot.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 20 December, 2010, 11:25:02 pm
Was supposed to be going to Tenerife for my parents' Golden Wedding tomorrow, just seen that the flight's been cancelled. Not happy :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 21 December, 2010, 12:45:23 am
Bloody Hell.  Weather Man on R4 has just said it was minus 18 last night at Pershore (nearest weather station to Bournville)
No wonder my commute on the Pershore was chilly.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2010, 12:54:59 am
You've said that twice.

A good evening, was it?  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 21 December, 2010, 12:59:31 am
To be fair, with weather that cold, it's worth posting twice.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 21 December, 2010, 07:28:58 am
You've said that twice.

A good evening, was it?  ;)

Bloody crap phone.

One's been binned.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cyclops on 21 December, 2010, 08:19:28 am
I think that's the first time I've ever been in a bus that had ice on the inside of the windows.

I cleared myself a wee porthole to peer out but it had frozen over again when I got off 20 minutes later
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 21 December, 2010, 08:56:16 am
Had you managed to wee out of it before it froze over again?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cyclops on 21 December, 2010, 09:26:57 am
No, I didn't fancy getting frostbite down there.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 December, 2010, 09:46:24 am
Yes, Natural History Museum. The snow settles very well on the ice, naturally, and they had to clear it off between each hour-long session. I was impressed with the organisation, but it did cost a lot.

We went last year and I complained afterwards because the 'kids' area was absolutely lethal - no handrails, no 'penguins' for the littlies to use to keep themselves upright, incredibly bad surface because it didn't get cleared (unlike the main rink which got done between each session) and the only way to access it was to go against the flow or to get more than 3/4 of the way the right way round the main rink - and if you could do that you didn't need to be in the little people bit.  The only real saving grace was that (after the third time that an adult fell over and nearly squashed the smallest cub resulting in many tears and him not wanting to stay on the ice) they let me trade in my skates for a pair for Dearly_Beloved so that he could join the EldestCub and the friends we were with.  They never answered my complaint either, now I think about it.  Although they do have penguins this year.
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Post by: PaulF on 21 December, 2010, 10:04:09 am
At 6am our flight was still cancelled. At 715 it showed on the wesite as reinstated but delayed. Cue mad dash to airport. Now waiting for an update but en route :)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 December, 2010, 10:07:45 am
Hovering around freezing in Harlot.  Brief flurry of SNO at around 08:00.  Possibility of more in the N. Londonton / W. Essex tonight but I suspect it'll be as rubbish as the previous lot.
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Post by: border-rider on 21 December, 2010, 11:30:17 am
I took Mrs MV to work today because my car had more chance of getting the first 200 m

Loads of cars still abandoned on the main road - mostly high end stuff like Mercs and Saabs

It's still very cold here but no more snow
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Post by: perpetual dan on 21 December, 2010, 11:50:23 am
Its melting here.
Someone in the street was out with a big snow shovel taking the compacted snow off and leaving the hard icy stuff underneath. I then went out with a metal spade and scraped the icy layer off so that when it re-freezes the road has some chance of being more passable rather than less.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2010, 12:04:19 pm
There's a slow thaw here as well. 1°C when I looked at about 9.30. Heavy rain is forecast for later, and no more frost until tomorrow, allegedly.
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Post by: rower40 on 21 December, 2010, 12:46:50 pm
My mains water has stopped (again).  There's no evidence of water dribbling/squirting/gushing out of the ground, so I'm hoping that it's just the pipe under my drive that has frozen.

Must be me - my neighbour's kitchen tap is issuing water OK.

Some warmer weather please.  kthxbai.
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Post by: Wendy on 21 December, 2010, 03:40:35 pm
On an MTB ride this morning:

Nicht unterstüzter Browser | Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=7559532&l=18debae81a&id=695538782)
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Post by: Gus on 21 December, 2010, 08:26:19 pm
- 18oC right now and the temperature are still going down.
Seems like my rohloff equiped bike will stay inside tomorrow.  :(
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 21 December, 2010, 09:36:03 pm
I slipped on what seemed to be frozen petrol today. Snow to the left of me, snow to the right of me, compacted by traffic with a fluffy layer of snow and sand on top. But right between them is an intermittent band of tarmac worn clear by car tyres, so I walk along it, then - woops! Looking down there was a small puddle-shaped bobble-surfaced area of thin blue-black ice.
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Post by: Andrew Br on 21 December, 2010, 09:48:14 pm
I slipped on what seemed to be frozen petrol today.

Doubt it.
It would have to be significantly less than -60oC for that to happen.
Even frozen diesel is unlikely since winter diesel is usually usable (hence not frozen) down to -400C.

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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 21 December, 2010, 09:49:43 pm
Well it was frozen something and it didn't look like normal ice. Perhaps I'd prefer not to know what I actually trod on!

Actually, considering it was no more than -5 at the most today, it can only have been water. Or frozen dog piss maybe. It was just the strange colour and different texture and site from the rest of the snow that gave me the strange petrol idea.
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Post by: Pingu on 21 December, 2010, 10:10:22 pm
It was really cold cycling to work this morning. My fingers were in agony as they warmed up at work  :'(

-12 in Dyce at the mo' according to the beeb.
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Post by: Regulator on 21 December, 2010, 11:04:48 pm
It's snowing again.  And it's supposed to go on most of the night, with a heavier period during rush hour tomorrow.

I have a feeling that tomorrow is going to be a busy day...
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Post by: Feline on 21 December, 2010, 11:11:43 pm
I am delighted to not actually have to drive anywhere for the next 2 days having had to risk life and limb to get to work over the past few days. Time to have some fun on my old MTB methinks :)
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Post by: border-rider on 21 December, 2010, 11:12:53 pm
+1

Was meant to be going to Slough tomorrow, but it can wait.
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Post by: tonycollinet on 22 December, 2010, 01:43:42 am
It's just started here - south cheshire. Supposed to drop 5 to 10 cm.

If so - I'm out on the spike tyred mtb in the morning.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 22 December, 2010, 02:14:33 am
It's been raining here all evening and the temperature was about 2°C around midnight.
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Post by: Regulator on 22 December, 2010, 07:45:32 am
Mr R has finally got back to the UK.  :thumbsup: 

He's currently stuck at Gatwick.
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Post by: jogler on 22 December, 2010, 09:36:12 am
A significant dollop over the last two hours here & a continuing  light fall.
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Post by: jogler on 22 December, 2010, 09:57:33 am
I'm stepping out of the tent house to fetch the newspapers.I may be some time..... ;D
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Post by: Polar Bear on 22 December, 2010, 10:00:13 am
It's been snowing in Rugby for at least 2 1/2 hours.   It looks like it could just carry on forever.   8)  :thumbsup:
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 December, 2010, 10:11:30 am
Still no SNO in York.  A hefty layer of frost though.  We're meant to be going on a (car based) adventure across the pennines then down to paddle in the sea down south.  Dearly_Beloved is getting a bit twitchy about the idea, given the doom and gloom on all the weather/news reports.
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Post by: rafletcher on 22 December, 2010, 10:29:22 am
A narrow band of sno dropped 4-5" on Northamnmton this morning - just as I got there!  An hour sat on the delightfully named Lumbertubs Way, and a 2 3/4 commute in all. Still no more forecast today so should get home without too much trouble  :)
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Post by: Polar Bear on 22 December, 2010, 10:30:41 am
Trapped on Lumbertubs way and you got out alive...    :o    :D
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Post by: Ray 6701 on 22 December, 2010, 10:38:50 am
We've had about 5 inches in Tamworth this morning & it's still snowing but only lightly  8)
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Post by: LindaG on 22 December, 2010, 12:11:55 pm
Enough of a dusting in Toytown, to cover up the footprints and ruts on the pavements.

Also, enough of a dusting to re-start the White Van Waltz on the road outside my house.  When walking home I have to just stop and watch them spin, in case I have to duck out of the way  ::-)
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 22 December, 2010, 12:17:32 pm
Warming up here. The temperature has fallen from about 4 to 0 and carried on up to 2. In town slightly dirty snow is turning into filthy, slippy slush.

BTW that's fallen as in "degrees of frost are fewer".
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Post by: numbnuts on 22 December, 2010, 12:34:38 pm
today we have a high of 1.1c most of the snow has nearly gone, I was out beach fishing last night and the shingle on the beach was frozen
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Post by: Chris S on 22 December, 2010, 03:17:00 pm
Blimey - it's kicked off here in a big way now. Snowing hard and drifting in the wind.
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Post by: border-rider on 22 December, 2010, 06:37:48 pm
Just saw an item on then news; couple unable to get out of the house and down to their last slice of bread.  Worrying about food over Christmas.

Being filmed by a TV crew.  How does that work then ?
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Post by: Adrian on 22 December, 2010, 07:27:25 pm
Just saw an item on then news; couple unable to get out of the house and down to their last slice of bread.  Worrying about food over Christmas.

Being filmed by a TV crew.  How does that work then ?

Artistic integrity innit. Can't interact with the subject.
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 22 December, 2010, 07:42:24 pm
They have to let nature take its course
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 22 December, 2010, 07:45:04 pm
So if the couple can't get out and no one can get food in, how did the film crew get in? Ah, there are two possibilities:
Movie Magic
or
Clever Camera Tricks
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Post by: LindaG on 22 December, 2010, 08:03:50 pm
Still snowing.   :(
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Post by: Bledlow on 22 December, 2010, 08:49:30 pm
So if the couple can't get out and no one can get food in, how did the film crew get in? Ah, there are two possibilities:
Movie Magic
or
Clever Camera Tricks
Or some big 4WDs or tracked over-snow vehicles or helicopters.
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Post by: tonycollinet on 22 December, 2010, 10:17:24 pm
Some photos from my ride this morning

Winter 2010 (http://www.collinet.plus.com/Galleries/Winter2010/index.html)
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Post by: jogler on 22 December, 2010, 10:55:39 pm
The Salt Line?
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Post by: Feline on 22 December, 2010, 10:57:35 pm
Some photos from my ride this morning

Winter 2010 (http://www.collinet.plus.com/Galleries/Winter2010/index.html)

Very nice photography :)
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Post by: tonycollinet on 22 December, 2010, 11:06:29 pm
The Salt Line?

First 4 are from the salt line. The bridge with the robins is on Wheelock rail trial (start of). I was annoyed with myself - I could get within 4 ft of the robins (someone had put seed on the bridge), but only had a 20mm lens with me. I could have got a really nice winter robin shot if I'd had my telephoto.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 23 December, 2010, 09:49:06 am
So if the couple can't get out and no one can get food in, how did the film crew get in? Ah, there are two possibilities:
Movie Magic
or
Clever Camera Tricks

They've been there for a fortnight and are the reason that the trapped couple have run out of scran.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 December, 2010, 12:06:55 pm
Argh, severe weather warning for yet more frikkin white stuff tonight and tomorrow morning. Starting to wonder if we'll get to x-mas at this rate.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 23 December, 2010, 03:23:30 pm
No snow today. None falling and the stuff on the ground is melting. It made pulling the sledge hard in places - still, I need the exercise! Predicted to be cold tomorrow, though.
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Post by: tonycollinet on 23 December, 2010, 05:33:42 pm
The Salt Line?

First 4 are from the salt line. The bridge with the robins is on Wheelock rail trial (start of). I was annoyed with myself - I could get within 4 ft of the robins (someone had put seed on the bridge), but only had a 20mm lens with me. I could have got a really nice winter robin shot if I'd had my telephoto.

Went back today, and got the robins.

Christmas Robins (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=42026.0)
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Post by: clarion on 23 December, 2010, 05:35:44 pm
You got a good set there.  I like the ones where they're puffed out as a ball.
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Post by: tonycollinet on 23 December, 2010, 05:43:00 pm
My favourite - cos he looks so cross.

(http://www.collinet.plus.com/Galleries/Robins/content/images/large/P1010873.jpg)
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Post by: numbnuts on 23 December, 2010, 06:14:47 pm
Quote
My favourite - cos he looks so cross
he looks very fat as well
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Post by: Feline on 23 December, 2010, 06:35:16 pm
Jeeeeeeeeez that robin needs to enrol at weight watchers in the new year :P
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Post by: andrewc on 23 December, 2010, 07:26:05 pm
Still a bit cool in Liverpool and I've had no running water since the weekend.  Whoever built this place with external riser pipes needs to have his wedding tackle rubbed down with sandpaper  >:(

As a hardened camper I really don't mind, there are showers in the office to keep my colleagues from complaining, but I'm rapidly running out of clean underwear !
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Post by: valkyrie on 23 December, 2010, 07:30:16 pm
The white stuff is getting to be a nuisance. Frozen pipes in the house and I've just received an email from the cycling club secretary to say that the Boxing Day ride is now a Boxing Day walk!
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Post by: Canardly on 23 December, 2010, 08:12:16 pm
Right done the snow thing, have  had enough. Want some exercise, want to get out on bike ....got the hump.
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Post by: itsbruce on 23 December, 2010, 08:46:06 pm
My favourite - cos he looks so cross.

(http://www.collinet.plus.com/Galleries/Robins/content/images/large/P1010873.jpg)


You could make a fortune selling that as a christmas card or poster.
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Post by: rower40 on 23 December, 2010, 10:16:47 pm
My favourite - cos he looks so cross.


You could make a fortune selling that as a christmas card or poster.
With Caption:
Bad-Tempered Robin says: "Tweet F**king Tweet".
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 December, 2010, 10:26:38 pm
They are lovely photos! And don't they look like tennis balls all puffed up!
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Post by: Feline on 23 December, 2010, 10:31:18 pm
My robin seemed very pleased I had poured a kettle of boiling water into pond to keep a hole melted tonight, he hopped in for a drink and a bath and then went and chomped on some meal worms I left him on the bird table. I have put out lots of extra food for the birds at the moment, they all seem hungry.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 December, 2010, 10:03:47 am
It's snowing. Again.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 December, 2010, 11:11:01 am
My favourite - cos he looks so cross.

[Psycho robin]


Tony, please remind me of where you live so I can avoid being Killed to DETH by that, that, THING.
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Post by: mattc on 24 December, 2010, 11:11:33 am
... and I've just received an email from the cycling club secretary to say that the Boxing Day ride is now a Boxing Day walk!
Our boxing day TT has been cancelled/postponed. I think the email had a subtext:
" ... so get a couple of hours in on the turbo."
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 24 December, 2010, 11:13:10 am
All wet and melting here. Really rather slippy and unpleasant. Disease weather. It shouldn't be like this till March!
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Post by: Aidan on 24 December, 2010, 11:27:50 am
Snowing on and off here. Mrs Aidan made the decision to go to work by train this morning rather than drive   and thats looking very much like a sensible decision now.
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Post by: mattc on 24 December, 2010, 01:31:23 pm
All wet and melting here. Really rather slippy and unpleasant.
Still sub-zero in the shade here, but the sun has melted some bits. Only main roads are properly clear in the middle

So we've got the worst of all worlds - slippery as heck nearly everywhere.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2010, 09:51:55 pm
We took the dog out for a couple of miles across the tundra of central Essex - and it really was tundra! The soil has become so frozen that the last lot of snow had partially melted and, being unable to drain away because of the depthy of the frozen soil beneath, refrozen, leaving pools of sheet ice which are most treacherous to walk on. Normally, an Essex cold snap gives a thin crust of frozen stuff and it doesn't take a lot to go through it to the soft mud beneath, but not this time.

Very slippery and crunchy.
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Post by: gordon taylor on 26 December, 2010, 06:27:13 am
It's amazing here in the lowland bit of Staffordshire. Snow that fell a week ago is still  deep on the ground, and the big fall from Wednesday is still stuck to the tree branches. It is minus twelve again this morning.

We usually have snow lying overnight only, then it goes. I've never seen anything like this.

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Post by: robgul on 26 December, 2010, 12:05:58 pm
It's amazing here in the lowland bit of Staffordshire. Snow that fell a week ago is still  deep on the ground, and the big fall from Wednesday is still stuck to the tree branches. It is minus twelve again this morning.

We usually have snow lying overnight only, then it goes. I've never seen anything like this.



Were you not around in 1963? -  snowed on Boxing Day (everywhere IIRC, I lived in NE London*), still on the ground in parts of the UK at Easter (I recollect that high up above Buttermere on Good Friday the snow was thigh-deep)

I had cause to go to an office in one of the courtyard places off Fleet St, I think, 2 days after Christmas and the snow had blown/drifted higher than the top of the front doors!!

Rob

Edit : In case a pedant comes along ... the Boxing Day was 1962's.  

AND amazingly, we didn't lose any days of school (it was my last year) right through the severe weather - none of this mamby-pamby H&S stuff and not being safe for the teachers.  Teachers were MEN in those days (in fact at my school they all were male save for one Maths teacher who it transpired many years later when times became more liberated came out of the proverbial closet)
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Post by: hellymedic on 26 December, 2010, 01:08:55 pm
I think Gordy, like me, was only a Small Child in 1963.
I remember little of that winter but know we were moving house in Harlot (from Little Brays to Finchmoor for those wot kno). Dad always regales us with tales of how the diesel in the removal van froze (or at least gelled) and of how pipes burst, causing water to come through the ceiling roses on his first night in the new place. He'd moved in ahead of wife + 3 smalls.

Here in Londonton, last week's snow still lies in the garden and Northolt was -9°C at 8am today.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 26 December, 2010, 10:32:32 pm
I am seeing mixed forecasts at the moment.  Freezing weather set to return across the country | UK news | The Guardian  (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/26/freezing-weather-set-to-return) talks about yesterday's "double-digit temperatures" but I suspect that the poor reporter has got his brain in a twist. So far as I can tell, the warmest place yesterday was the Scilly Isles at 6.1°C. There were plenty of places with double-digit temperatures all right - but they were negative numbers! My brother, 6 miles S of Shrewsbury, reckoned it was the coldest Christmas day he can remember (he was born in 1945). He was's sure what his minimum temperature was on Christmas day: one thermometer recorded -10, the other -13.

I remember quite a lot about the 1962-63 winter, the most frustrating part of which was that we took my brother's old camera (http://www.brownie-camera.com/6.jpg) out with us but none of them came out. We discovered later that the lens was no longer in the camera and I suspect it had simply contracted in the bitter cold and fallen out.

But weren't you in Staffs in 1982, Gordy? England's lowest ever temperature was recorded in Shropshire on 10th Jan. We had a bloody cold December that year, with snow failing (IIRC) on 8th and lying around until the new year.
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Post by: border-rider on 26 December, 2010, 10:36:05 pm
-13.8 here at 7:30  this morning - or at least at The Hendre, which is down in the Trothy Valley.  Likely much colder here.

Warmer now though, but still below freezing.

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Post by: Chris S on 26 December, 2010, 10:51:29 pm
Looks like we are in for a couple of days of messy transition from Arctic to Atlantic airmass. Expect snow, sleet, cold rain and mist; and a raw southerly wind.

By Wednesday, it should be lovely and mild. Looking forward to getting out on the bike perhaps, without fearing the ice demon.

It's going to take ages for the ground to thaw out properly though. The freezing depth is well over 30cm now. If it rains heavily, the water will have nowhere to go. Expect floods.
Title: Random
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 December, 2010, 08:09:25 am
3 deg, cloudy and a southerly wind here.
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Post by: SandyV on 27 December, 2010, 08:12:13 am
I've just seen the weather forecast for New Year's Day - they say it will be 38 degrees here   :o

Hope not!
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Post by: mondobongo on 27 December, 2010, 08:53:04 am
We've had another smattering overnight, just enough to knacker the Club run this morning.
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Post by: bobb on 27 December, 2010, 09:27:44 am
I've just seen the weather forecast for New Year's Day - they say it will be 38 degrees here   :o

Hope not!

Poor you!!  :P

It's funny thinking about it, both the hottest and coldest I've ever been were both in Australia.

The hottest was playing in a golf competition at some course maybe 50 miles or so inland of Sydney. My car had decided it was time for the air conditioning pump to die. So I was roasting even before I got there. There was a thermometer outside the club house and it was a full 45 degrees in the shade !! I don't think I have ever sweated so much! I also must have smashed down at least 2 gallons of water on my way round. I did win though  ;)

The coldest would be being stuck on a knackered chair lift at Thredbo. The weather was terrible and they only opened the lifts so they could flog passes. About halfway up the mountain it stopped. I just thought some twat has just had a "Incapable of getting off the lift" moment and it would start up again soon enough. Three hours later I was eventually winched off. I was frozen. My knees didn't work any more but the only way was down, so off I went. I reckon it took a full 24 hours in front of the fire to get my core temperature back up to normal! Happy days....
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 27 December, 2010, 09:41:15 am
Ice and wind.
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Post by: woollypigs on 27 December, 2010, 09:44:59 am
Not sure if it is raining or snowing here, BB8.
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Post by: toekneep on 27 December, 2010, 10:06:05 am
Wet snow on and off here but it is finally thawing. Drip, drip, drip.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 December, 2010, 10:15:40 am
3°C, S, ave 5kph, 1018.1 mb, 83% humidity.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: SandyV on 27 December, 2010, 10:18:43 am
3°C, S, ave 5kph, 1018.1 mb, 83% humidity.  :thumbsup:

so the new technology is a success?
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2010, 10:27:13 am
It's melting! Yeeeha!
There appears to be a small stream running down the path at the side of the building.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 December, 2010, 10:53:49 am
3°C, S, ave 5kph, 1018.1 mb, 83% humidity.  :thumbsup:

so the new technology is a success?

A limited one. The limitations are the small size of our garden and the proximity to trees. unless you've got a lot of land, I think any weather station will be a compromise. Where ours is, I think our wind readings will be inaccurate. The rest should be OK.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2010, 10:59:01 am
There appears to be a small stream running down the path at the side of the building.

Oh bollocks. That'll be because my downstairs neighbour's utility room in the outside washhouse appears to have a burst pipe. Well that's what it sounds like. It's locked. I hope this is because he knows about it already and has gone to get supplies to do something about it, and hasn't instead disappeared off somewhere til after the new year.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 December, 2010, 11:08:51 am
3°C, S, ave 5kph, 1018.1 mb, 83% humidity.  :thumbsup:

so the new technology is a success?

A limited one. The limitations are the small size of our garden and the proximity to trees. unless you've got a lot of land, I think any weather station will be a compromise. Where ours is, I think our wind readings will be inaccurate. The rest should be OK.

Oh, and when Dez has done his stuff there will be a web page showing all the readings. He would have already done this except the 8Gb SD card that was sent with the Sheeva plug was faulty. He's hoping to set up an old laptop today to do the job until the replacement card is sent.
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Post by: jogler on 27 December, 2010, 12:21:58 pm
It certainly is.Flakes like dinner plates,& it's sticking
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Post by: andrewc on 27 December, 2010, 08:05:12 pm
It's warming up in Liverpool, a whole 2C, I've got running water for the first time in a week  :thumbsup:   Now to catch up with the backlog of washing  :(
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Post by: Quint on 27 December, 2010, 09:03:44 pm
+ 3c here, positively tropical, with any luck I shall be able to do my New Years day pub crawl fitness ride
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Post by: mondobongo on 27 December, 2010, 09:25:36 pm
Its on the thaw fast here, looks like being a mild night which should bode well for getting shut completely.
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Post by: andrewc on 27 December, 2010, 09:32:59 pm
It's warming up in Liverpool, a whole 2C, I've got running water for the first time in a week  :thumbsup:   Now to catch up with the backlog of washing  :(
Bugger, there is a leak,  not too bad , lets hope the on site maintenance people are working tomorrow.
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Post by: pdm on 29 December, 2010, 10:33:38 am
This is the first day since November that we are able to look outside and see NO SNOW in the garden!

I think I may go for a short pootle this afternoon... Need to replace bottom bracket and cranks first though...
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Post by: toekneep on 29 December, 2010, 10:39:14 am
I have just received a message from a former neighbour informing me that the snow has come off the roof of our house in Wales and taken the guttering with it. Front and back.  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tonycollinet on 29 December, 2010, 10:40:56 am
It's all melted round here, apart from the odd patch of slush. However, I went out for a ride yesterday, and the resulting mud is MUCH less pleasant than hardpacked snow for riding on. Apart from anything else, I got covered in it, and needed to clean the bike when I got back.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: toekneep on 29 December, 2010, 11:30:01 am
Well I have just phoned the insurers only to get a message to the effect: Sorry we are too busy, try again later. Great.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 30 December, 2010, 01:28:32 pm
Back to proper winter here. Snowed in!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 30 December, 2010, 04:05:39 pm
in the sunny south it's been 8c today  8)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 30 December, 2010, 04:11:03 pm
in the sunny south it's been 8c today  8)

It's around 7°C here today, but grey and murky.

The last vestige of David's snowman has just melted. It's been mild here for sevveral days.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 December, 2010, 04:12:42 pm
Southend-on-Sea,Essex Weather (http://tickfield.thewalkers.org.uk/weather/)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 03 January, 2011, 12:46:14 pm
It's snowing!!!

and settling.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 03 January, 2011, 05:23:47 pm
The snowplough came round this morning and the driver included our drive in his route, which he is not really obliged to do, as it's private property. FiL had given him a bottle or two of homemade vodka! Worth it for him as the 'drive' is 270m long and if it's blocked, the nearest sensible place to leave his car is at some neighbours about 700m away.

When the plough had gone, it started snowing.  :D

Pulling Little Cudzo home from school on the sledge, I slipped on ice - first time slipping while pulling. He avoided running into me.  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 January, 2011, 09:29:48 pm
According to the radar, there's an awful lot of precipitation in Scotland at the moment.

Is it rain or snow? Or is the Met office lying?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: JonBuoy on 03 January, 2011, 09:34:15 pm
XCWeather (http://www.xcweather.co.uk/) shows that it is mostly rain.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wendy on 03 January, 2011, 10:36:56 pm
Rain north of Glasgow, snow south of it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 03 January, 2011, 11:10:03 pm
It was snowing in an off-hand way in the vicinity of Croydon this afternoon :).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 04 January, 2011, 08:46:33 am
It was snowing and lying here, as I went to bed last night at around 23.30.

All gone now.   :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 04 January, 2011, 09:14:42 am
Snow overnight up here on the Wolds. It's laid.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 04 January, 2011, 11:14:13 am
Nowt in the flatlands of North Yorkshire (yet)

really? Odd. There was snow on the ground in York this morning, still there on the rowing club webcam.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 04 January, 2011, 11:44:49 am
I wouldn't mind if the sno held off till the sno tyres arrived from Wiggle.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 04 January, 2011, 11:55:57 am
Light showers in Reading yesterday, which didn't settle.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 04 January, 2011, 11:58:35 am
Nowt in the flatlands of North Yorkshire (yet)

really? Odd. There was snow on the ground in York this morning, still there on the rowing club webcam.
None at all when I originally posted, but there was what could charitably called a 'dusting' on the ground when I went to bed around 3am (damn these Australian cricket matches :) ) but what was there is pretty much gone now, at least around here. There was quite a bit up Scarborough way, apparently.

Looking like a nice day now, although I'm stuck indoors until the sodding couriers turn up with my new camera :(
It's a slippery dusting in York still

http://www.ycrc.co.uk/webcam (http://www.ycrc.co.uk/webcam)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Karla on 04 January, 2011, 12:19:16 pm
The STD machine?  I don't want to meet that.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Karla on 04 January, 2011, 12:25:12 pm
In that case, I'm glad I didn't touch it ... or did I?  I'm going to the hospital this afternoon, should I get myself checked out at the same time?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ham on 04 January, 2011, 02:24:41 pm
I wish I were still in sno-land


(http://lh5.ggpht.com/__5EyI8Ck-Lw/TSL6-oaYfhI/AAAAAAAAbtg/UE5WNJpvgeo/s640/P1030010.JPG)

Top of the world in Val Thorens.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 04 January, 2011, 04:29:25 pm
It was snowing in an off-hand way in the vicinity of Croydon this afternoon :).

I noticed that when I was going into Sainsburys, but any lighter and you would barely have been able to notice that it was snow at all.  It most certainly wasn't settling (or even making the ground noticeably damp).

I wouldn't mind if the sno held off till the sno tyres arrived from Wiggle.

If your snow tyres arrive, that'll guarantee that we get no more snow. ;D

I've still got the studded tyres on the snow bike, which is the only suitable bike I've got which is currently working (due to a plethora of broken spokes).  If I wasn't feeling washed out from lurgy, I'd probably swap the tyres back over to the bog standard cheapo ones that came with it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: her_welshness on 04 January, 2011, 04:35:51 pm
Met Office predicting heavy snow warnings (on Friday 8th January) have been issued.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 04 January, 2011, 04:39:38 pm
Met Office predicting heavy snow warnings (on Friday 8th January) have been issued.

So, that buggers up Clarion's chance of his tyres being delivered then. ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 04 January, 2011, 09:02:42 pm
Met Office predicting heavy snow warnings (on Friday 8th January) have been issued.

So, that buggers up Clarion's chance of his tyres being delivered then. ;D

;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 January, 2011, 09:18:28 pm
I would happily give my tyres to Clarion for free if it meant we didn't get any more snow for the rest of the winter :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Gus on 06 January, 2011, 07:33:16 am
Bugger

When I woke up this morning,  another  10 cm snow have fallen over night, and it still snows.  :facepalm:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wombat on 06 January, 2011, 07:45:59 am
It will never snow again in England.  We have each bought a set of "snow sock" get-you-home snow thingies for our cars, therefore this will prevent snow from settling, ever.

Mind you, I've also got an umbrella in the back of the car, and its pissing down out there...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: toekneep on 06 January, 2011, 08:06:52 am
Look out if you live on the Isle of Wight. My Great niece is four today. She has vivid memories of it snowing on her third birthday and has therefore informed everybody that it will snow today because it is her birthday.  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 January, 2011, 09:15:02 am
Bugger, it's snowing on me as I stand at the bus stop.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 07 January, 2011, 09:18:45 am
It certainly is snowing...again.Enough to make the roads a bit "iffy"( a car has just failed to make a 90 degree turn into the close off the main road & slide sideways across the junction ::-))
It's sticking & there's not enough traffic to make tracks in the snow.
I was intending to ride today making the first consecutive-days (IYSWIM) effort for some long while.  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: toekneep on 07 January, 2011, 09:27:08 am
Trying a bit here even. No snow forecast so that isn't a good sign. I shall report back later.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hulver on 07 January, 2011, 10:21:37 am
Bloody stuff, bugger off! I was supposed to be doing "Goodbye XMas Yorkshire Pud" on Sunday, which was cancelled last year because of the snow. I'd quite like to do it this year.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 07 January, 2011, 10:27:11 am
Bloody stuff, bugger off! I was supposed to be doing "Goodbye XMas Yorkshire Pud" on Sunday, which was cancelled last year because of the snow. I'd quite like to do it this year.

The snow is transient today - it'll soon change to rain, and warm up  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 07 January, 2011, 10:46:35 am
snowmageddon has struck leeds.

Considering the warm weather recently, it's building up impressively fast.

I'm supposed to be working on the boats this weekend - why couldn't it have snowed at new year when I was being lazy at home?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: newtoncap on 07 January, 2011, 12:34:30 pm
Snowing and settling in Bishop Auckland  :-[
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 07 January, 2011, 12:40:44 pm
Rian - sleet - snow - rain all in the space of 3 hours in the East Midlands.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 07 January, 2011, 05:38:02 pm
No snow, but absolutely freezing in Glasgow, although it's "warmed up" to -2. (http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs8/i/2005/300/1/f/_freezing__by_sentrien.gif) 
I'm trying to ignore the widget on my desktop which is telling me how warm it is in London.
 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 January, 2011, 05:40:11 pm
We had a brief spell in Saarfend when it was sunny and the temperature exceeded 10°C. Not seen that for the best part of two months.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feline on 07 January, 2011, 06:02:56 pm
My metcheck just played nasty tricks on me, I was checking tomorrow and sundays weather for the bristol area and it had winds between 28 and 40 mph for 2 days! However closing and reopening and refreshing has sent it back to normal 9-13 mph thank god!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 January, 2011, 07:18:02 pm
Snow, and it's sticking. Gah.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 07 January, 2011, 07:39:29 pm
Snow, and it's sticking. Gah.

It's going to make the International Cross Country very scenic tomorrow  :)

(Holyrood Pk)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 January, 2011, 08:13:45 pm
Nothing here yet
*crosses everything hoping it stays that way*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 07 January, 2011, 08:19:13 pm
Snow, and it's sticking. Gah.

Same here in Glasgow.  Just hope everything clears up for getting across to Edinburgh Sunday morning.
 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 January, 2011, 09:39:29 pm
Nothing here yet
*crosses everything hoping it stays that way*
I spoke too soon.
Feck :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: arvid on 07 January, 2011, 09:48:09 pm
Ha, 9°C here now! Still ice on the roads though. Near Ivo everything is melting so fast + current rain that the Meuse is about to flood.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 07 January, 2011, 09:55:55 pm
Melting again here. I think it's about zero, though on Wednesday it was -10 in the morning and -8 at midday. Rain and 5 or 6 predicted for tomorrow. Not nice.  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 07 January, 2011, 11:01:32 pm
Wet as a wet Welsh weekend here. Very mild - 9°C.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 07 January, 2011, 11:28:09 pm
There was a gentle layer of snow in Darlo which laid from about 10 am to 2 pm.  The roads remained clear, but pavements not so much.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jakob on 08 January, 2011, 01:42:29 pm
Well, I'm off to Whistler where there's been 1 meter + of fresh snow over the last week. Should be good!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 08 January, 2011, 08:06:10 pm
Wet here too. Rain today and temperature "7 degrees of warmth" as FiL put it. Terribly slippery roads immediately round us - water on ice over the entire width - but the tarmacced roads are now all clear. Dirty puddles in town. Everyone coughing. Yeah, thaw flu is here.  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 08 January, 2011, 10:58:44 pm
It certainly is.  Except it's horizontal snow combined with a gale force wind.

It's because we planned our 100k for tomorrow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 09 January, 2011, 11:37:41 am
And the slush has now frozen to a rock hard layer an inch thick.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 09 January, 2011, 11:39:57 am
Damn cold & icy last night (I was wheelspinning on the way home on 37 mm tyres after dark) but it's a fabulous day today.  Cloudless blue skies & warmi(ish) sunshine :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Dibdib on 09 January, 2011, 12:31:10 pm
Just back from a very short pootle to the shop to buy some electricity (about 1.5 miles each way, West Swindon) with largely the same experience as interzen. Bright, sunny and quite pleasant, but very chilly and a bit of frost on the cycle paths in places.

Have also heard on the Facebook grapevine that at least one local biker acquaintance has dropped his motorbike somewhere near Trowbridge.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 09 January, 2011, 03:40:39 pm
David set out early to lead a Brent Cyclists ride to Windsor.
Fell off on ice less than a mile from home, bruising his shoulder and had one pannier fall off.
Continued to meet riders at Kingsbury Station (0), Kenton Station (0) and North Harrow (1).
Decided to retreat home after he skidded again.
Ortlieb pannier has broken clip. Replacement ordered.

He's now off on the buses to Ruislip Lido, where he'll freeze his nuts off entetaining punters at the Stargazing LIVE event. There were 250 punters last night.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wendy on 10 January, 2011, 10:06:13 am
Ouch!  It seems quite a few of my mates have fallen off yesterday too.  Hope the bruises aren't too bad.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 10 January, 2011, 09:37:15 pm
Ouch!  It seems quite a few of my mates have fallen off yesterday too.  Hope the bruises aren't too bad.

He's not let me look but has reasonable function.
He has audibly complained of pain rather frequently but insisted on cycling to a station three miles away.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 10 January, 2011, 09:47:51 pm
It was horribly skiddy yesterday.  It must have been a combination of skill, judgement and extreme luck which saw me through, though I did have one inadvertent moment of horizontality while proceeding very slowly across a sheet of ice.  No lasting harm, as far as I can tell.

The weather forecast was predicting much milder weather towards the end of the week.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 January, 2011, 11:26:17 pm
It must have been a combination of skill, judgement and extreme luck which saw me through

Whereas I relied primarily on blind faith and a sense of fatalism :)  Glad to hear there's no lasting damage!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wendy on 12 January, 2011, 07:49:59 pm
I would think that it's probably not going to snow again here in London - I just bought two pairs of yaktrax.  One for us, and one for my bro who broke his hip after falling badly on ice last year.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 12 January, 2011, 09:10:16 pm
It's not over until Clarion gets his tyres, though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wendy on 12 January, 2011, 09:19:45 pm
Last time I bought a sledge, it didn't snow at all for 4 or 5 years, LOL!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 12 January, 2011, 09:30:22 pm
It's not over until Clarion gets his tyres, though.

Currently scheduled for late January ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 12 January, 2011, 10:12:53 pm
It's not over until Clarion gets his tyres, though.

Currently scheduled for late January ::-)

So there'll be no snow after that?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 12 January, 2011, 10:43:10 pm
York has an altitude? :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 12 January, 2011, 11:00:33 pm
It's the accent.

Oh no, hang on, it is Bristol that adds an 'wl' to 'a's
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 27 January, 2011, 09:19:30 am
Winter's returned :(

Moderate flurries in Norfolk this morning, with a dusting on the ground.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: citoyen on 27 January, 2011, 09:47:17 am
It's not over until Clarion gets his tyres, though.

Currently scheduled for late January ::-)

You might get them in time for the next bout of snow. I thought I was imagining it at first but there were definitely a few flakes floating around in the air this morning, brought in by the bitterly cold Siberian wind, no doubt.

Winter is far from over, folks.

d.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 January, 2011, 09:51:35 am
According to some sources, the most vicious blizzard to strike Britain during the twentieth century was on 5th March 1947. Apparently that was also the wettest March for 300 years.

The 1947 winter didn't get going until the last week of January (or so I'm told).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Psychler on 27 January, 2011, 07:07:34 pm
Driving home at 2 am last night it was snowing quite heavily for about 1/2 an hour but it didnt settle.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 27 January, 2011, 07:27:54 pm
There was snow in NW London today, very very fine but it was snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 27 January, 2011, 08:03:43 pm
According to some sources, the most vicious blizzard to strike Britain during the twentieth century was on 5th March 1947. Apparently that was also the wettest March for 300 years.

The 1947 winter didn't get going until the last week of January (or so I'm told).
I asked my dad about this. He said it was a very cold snowy January. He was living in a village in Buckinghamshire at the time, in a corrugated iron house that was later bought by a grandson of H.G. Wells. And two of the village inhabitants were known to all the kids as "The Witch" and "The Witches Sister"  :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 19 February, 2011, 09:06:57 am
Here it comes again!
Got an inch of the stuff now and its falling thick and fast - no ridey today....  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 February, 2011, 11:13:49 am
Sleety and 'orrible in York this morning.  S'NOT FAIR!  Can it be spring soon, pretty please?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 19 February, 2011, 11:40:21 am
Keep it up North where it belongs, please.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 February, 2011, 12:13:29 pm
Don't wanna


(very sulky CL)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 February, 2011, 12:15:09 pm
It's wet, cold and unpleasant here in sunny Saarfend.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feline on 19 February, 2011, 12:53:40 pm
Wow hard to believe the weather here is so different, it is currently sunny with clear blue skies and 8C  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wendy on 19 February, 2011, 12:57:12 pm
Wow hard to believe the weather here is so different, it is currently sunny with clear blue skies and 8C  :o

Met Office: British Isles: Rainfall radar (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feline on 19 February, 2011, 12:58:43 pm
Ah yip I am definitely on the mildest side of the country today. You have my sympathies!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 19 February, 2011, 01:50:00 pm
Ever since I got my shiny new recumbent trike from Kevin (D-tek) it hasn't stopped raining confirming that Rain loves me  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 09 March, 2011, 07:37:19 am
It snowed here last night.  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Polar Bear on 09 March, 2011, 07:51:00 am
It is here in Tarbert, Kintyre.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adrian on 09 March, 2011, 08:08:29 am
Am I OK to move the snobike to the back of the shed now?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 March, 2011, 05:36:56 pm
The forecast for Saturday is heavy snow.  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 10 March, 2011, 05:38:15 pm
The forecast for Saturday is heavy snow.  >:(
But now down here :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 10 March, 2011, 05:40:28 pm
No snow forecast here... It's going to be 8 degrees on Saturday.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 March, 2011, 05:43:21 pm
It is here in Tarbert, Kintyre.
Please don't say things like that ...
I'm hoping to get up that way at Easter, and every time I've undertaken such a trip the weather has been unspeakably foul. I know that there's still 5 weeks to go, but ....

Cold and windy here in the flatlands, with a distinct possibility of 'wet' being chucked into the mix later.

The weather in Scotland is always beautiful in April.  :P

(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/7361-2/DSC04976.JPG)

That is Skye during our trip last year.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 10 March, 2011, 05:55:21 pm
Not just sky though, there's some road and sea there too.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Gus on 10 March, 2011, 09:21:03 pm
It was white last night and it snowed again earlier today  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MattH on 04 April, 2011, 01:19:00 am
Jumped into the limo at Toronto to be told by the driver that they were expecting some rain.

Turned into a bit of an unexpected snow storm - this is the view from my window an hour later - that's a good few inches.
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5266/5587266258_406ea8f464.jpg)

The guy on reception at the hotel did say it's unusual for this time of year, the limo driver was off to swap cars for one with snow tyres...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 December, 2011, 10:46:11 am
It snowed here last night. There isn't a lot here, just an icing sugar dusting really, but I think it's worse further out of town.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 04 December, 2011, 08:38:37 pm
we had the faintest of smidgens last night. Put the winter tyres ont eh car this afternoon.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feanor on 04 December, 2011, 10:21:26 pm
Changed both our vehicles to snow tyres over the last 2 weeks, and was glad of it on the drive to Edinburgh today.   The A90/M90 was distinctly wintry, and I was struggling to stand up in the car park of The Horn cafe where I stopped for breakfast.

Came across an overturned horse-box near Kinross around 09:00.
Was still causing an M90 northbound closure hours later on my way home.
Horses got out OK, according to news.

I do strongly reccomend winter tyres in northern Scotland.

--
F

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 04 December, 2011, 10:29:32 pm
I put winter tyres on my car on Friday, not yet on Mrs MV's. Paid dividends last year: we got out every day.

Still warm here; not even had a real frost yet, just a little bit of ground frost on Thursday or so
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 05 December, 2011, 12:03:53 am
First bits of snow on the ground here - just refitting the snow tyres that I took off last week.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 December, 2011, 12:48:00 am
Still no sign of frost round here.

Wye, in Kent, is one of the nearest weather stations to us for which the met office have published certain data, and according to this data http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/averages/19712000/sites/wye.html the Wye station recorded an average of more than 40 days of frost a year for a 30 year period (1971 - 2000).

So far in 2011 we've only had 7 days in which the temperature has fallen below freezing, and for two of those at least, there was only one brief spell of frost which happened to fall either side of midnight, so it counted twice, as it were.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 05 December, 2011, 10:44:37 am
About 1/2" here in the lower Pennines. Cold outside with continued dustings every now and then.
No commute today (day off) so have cleaned the bikes in preparation of getting them dirty again tomorrow and replaced a broken front braze-on derailleur....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 05 December, 2011, 10:46:07 am
The fells look very white this morning, but the snow on the lowlands has just about all melted away again. We're getting lots of hail squalls at the moment.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 05 December, 2011, 10:48:17 am
Nothing here, the paths were icy first thing but the air is cold and has the feeling of snow in it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 05 December, 2011, 10:50:44 am
Apparently it was snowing in Wetherby this morning, but it hasn't reached York (yet)
Given how freakin' windy it is outside, I find this a bit surprising.
Wet sleet in Leeds. More like hail that wasn't quite managing to nucleate properly.  Very unpleasant to cycle into with a headwind.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Manotea on 05 December, 2011, 10:54:24 am
I get the feeling Winter has been cancelled in London this year. You can remind me I said that.

Edit: feels proper parky tonight. That didn't take long...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 December, 2011, 05:26:17 pm
There was no snow in Furrybootoon when I left this morning, but Stavnger has some. I hope Aberdeen will be in the same state I left if when I return on Thurs.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 05 December, 2011, 05:54:12 pm
Funnily enough, no sign of snow down here either. You know it's bad when I start reporting the white stuff.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Aidan on 05 December, 2011, 06:01:28 pm
Joy!   I'm driving to Glasgow early tomorrow :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ashaman42 on 05 December, 2011, 07:19:31 pm
No snow here but I was surprised to see frost on the verges this morning. Given that I'm on the south coast (Eastbourne) and it wasn't that chilly (I thought) last night.

What was even stranger was the Cooden beach road (rather laney and not heavily trafficked) has been gritted.  ??? Didn't get any grit on it last year when it ended up with a couple of inches of snow on it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 05 December, 2011, 08:00:09 pm
Not enough for skiing at Yad Moss yet.

(http://www.yadmoss.co.uk/images/stories/webcam/hut/latest.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adam on 05 December, 2011, 08:15:47 pm
Here on the hills above Luton, there was ice all over the roads this morning, and for the first time in over 6 months I wore a long sleeve jersey under my jacket, along with a buff over my ears. 

It was cold. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: drossall on 05 December, 2011, 08:29:28 pm
We drove back from Cheshire last night. I chose to go over the Cat & Fiddle, mainly for old times sake - if I couldn't ride it, at least I'd drive :D

It was wet in Macclesfield, but I still hadn't anticipated snow on the moors. Not much of it really, but definitely a covering of white.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 06 December, 2011, 06:48:55 pm
Hard frost this morning (North Oxfordshire), snow is  a four letter word y'know  8)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 06 December, 2011, 07:22:28 pm
Most of my commute home through the Peaks is above 240m asl.
Winter wonderland conditions on the way home this evening - lovely trip except for the patch of black ice up the hill just 300m from home....  :P
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 06 December, 2011, 08:44:08 pm
The gritters were out here last night. But why? OK, it was frosty this morning - but the roads were bone dry. No ice anywhere.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: drossall on 06 December, 2011, 08:51:02 pm
I've just heard on the radio that the Snake Pass is closed by snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 06 December, 2011, 10:56:02 pm
It was raining about 3 o'clock here, with a tiny bit of sleet mixed into it. That's all.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 07 December, 2011, 03:11:30 pm
No snow here yet, but it was icy in places this morning  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 December, 2011, 05:35:19 pm
It was much milder here this morning but this afternoon I left the office to get a bus into town and I think it was about 0 degrees Kelvin. Which could explain why there was no bus.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 December, 2011, 05:37:50 pm
Mild and sunny here this afternoon, until it got too late to be sunny. I think that that was around sunset.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 December, 2011, 07:01:08 pm
No snow here yet, but it was icy in places this morning  :-\

Better get out in the shed and stick my spiky tyres on for then, eh dear? :P

Do. Not. Want.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feanor on 07 December, 2011, 08:47:58 pm
B974 over the Cairn closed today ( snow gates locked ).

There was only the slightest dusting of snow, and a little bit of ice.
It was well-passable with care.

Since they installed the snow-gates, they just close them at the drop of a hat in order to save on the cost of running a plow/gritter over the top.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feline on 07 December, 2011, 09:42:07 pm
I drove back to Somerset from Scotland today, lots of snow in the Glasgow area and also covering the mountains in the Lake Disctrict. There was a bit of a slushy blizzard on the M74. The temperature in Scotland was 0C, but by the time I got down south it was 6C. Very windy too in the north today.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 December, 2011, 11:41:32 am
Police advising to avoid all travel in Central Scotland and Lothian and Borders areas between 14:00 and 21:00 due to winds of 90mph expected.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 08 December, 2011, 12:19:46 pm
Quote
Further to the earlier message, we have decided to close ALL offices in the worst affected area at 12.30 today. This applies to all offices, with the exception of: Aberdeen, Elgin, Dingwall, Stornoway, Kirkwall, Lerwick, Fraserburgh and Thurso.

Bloody soft southerners  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 08 December, 2011, 12:33:49 pm
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Further to the earlier message, we have decided to close ALL offices in the worst affected area at 12.30 today. This applies to all offices, with the exception of: Aberdeen, Elgin, Dingwall, Stornoway, Kirkwall, Lerwick, Fraserburgh and Thurso.

Thereby sending everyone who works in those offices out into the storm? Seems a bit mean...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: RJ on 08 December, 2011, 01:27:40 pm
On similar lines:
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Having taken police advice that no one should travel by any means between 2pm and 9pm today, we are closing the office
  Message sent shortly after 1pm ...  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 08 December, 2011, 07:15:27 pm
Blizzards forecast for tonight  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 December, 2011, 07:36:58 pm
Currently 12.7°C in Saarfend!
The official Met Office one 5 miles down the road says 13.1°C!  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 December, 2011, 10:20:37 pm
And now 8.7°C.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 09 December, 2011, 05:04:19 pm
It's snowed on my yacf logo :o
It wasn't like that this morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Canardly on 09 December, 2011, 08:18:54 pm
Coldest night of the year forecast ......
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feanor on 09 December, 2011, 08:22:48 pm
Just got sent this...

(http://www.lowe-family.me.uk/1117.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 December, 2011, 08:32:09 pm
Coldest night of the year forecast ......

Not round here - minimum of 2°C according to the met office. We had -1.7°C on 19th March. That was the coldest so far.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 09 December, 2011, 08:35:49 pm
Just got sent this...

[funny cartoon]

LOL ;D

ETA - for those who wish to share via social media, it can be found here:

http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2002/12/29
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mr magnolia on 10 December, 2011, 09:11:27 am
All I can hear outside is the sound of everyone playing in the snow with their new snow shovels!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 10 December, 2011, 09:29:37 am
We had a -3 here in North Baddesley this morning (http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f242/tonksloveslupin/coldsmiley2.gif)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 December, 2011, 12:57:46 pm
Still no air frost in our garden - although there were lots of icy cars in the night. Minimum temperature 1.3°C, at 7 a.m. or thereabouts.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: RJ on 10 December, 2011, 02:20:40 pm
Snow rapidly turning to slush here now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 10 December, 2011, 04:01:26 pm
Still no snow, but I doubt the temperature's been much above freezing all day.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wendy on 10 December, 2011, 05:54:23 pm
That was 'KIN cold!!! Very glad I now have sealskinz lobster claw gloves, they are the best gloves I've yet owned. Oh, and LOLZ at my mate, who asked what gloves I was looking at in the shop and responded "Isn't that a bit unethical?" Doh!

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 10 December, 2011, 06:20:05 pm
Saw my first ice of the winter today, on roadside and pathside puddles - but only in South Glos, they have the good sense to keep out of Bristol proper! Presumably the city is big enough to keep a sufficiently warm microclimate  :) - though the fact that I'm virtually never out in the early morning must also be taken into account. Just about warm enough in fingerless mits still, but I think I need some fancy socks or winter shoes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 10 December, 2011, 07:30:21 pm
Minus 2c when trikling home from work at 04-30 this morning (Oxford to near Woodstock - Oxfordshire),frost and brilliant  full(ish) moon, stars out and the road all to myself, can't be bettered  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 December, 2011, 09:25:44 am
Hail this morning, about an hour ago. Or 45 minutes ago. Hurt my ears! Settled on the ground, v slippy, but all melted now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 December, 2011, 10:35:05 am
Now it's hailing again, so hard it's made the senso back light on my bike (I can see where it's parked through the window) come on. I think I may be walking today.  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 December, 2011, 10:49:42 am
Mild again here at 8°C. However, the pressure dropped to 983mb this morning, the lowest so far this year.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Panoramix on 13 December, 2011, 12:43:38 pm
However, the pressure dropped to 983mb this morning

 :o there must be something nasty round the corner!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 13 December, 2011, 01:16:36 pm
We dropped to 974 mbar by early this morning, slowly recovered to 976 in the last few hours. Bit windy, and a torrential downpour for a while overnight, but nothing amazingly extreme has happened.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 13 December, 2011, 03:40:53 pm
One weather site predicts -2 for York tomorrow, the other one 2.

Oh, and 'hard packed snow' on the road, but temperatures above 0 and no snowfall.


Is this just a case that the meteorologists don't have a clue what is happening?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 December, 2011, 05:18:36 pm
Sounds like it'll have to be artificial snow - are they shooting a movie in York?  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 16 December, 2011, 08:00:45 am
It is sleeting in Cambridge - and snow is forecast.

Regina is still off the road...  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: matthew on 16 December, 2011, 08:10:33 am
It was snowing in Sunningdale but the ground was sodden so it was not settling.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 16 December, 2011, 08:12:42 am
They were bigging up the sno likelihood for here on the weather reports last night, but we've got just a  few mm of wet snow which hasn't even stuck on yesterday's mud.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mike on 16 December, 2011, 08:17:09 am
It is sleeting in Cambridge - and snow is forecast.

Regina is still off the road...  :(
Proper sno down the road in royston at 6ish this morning. Am now in cold sleety london, preferred the snow.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 16 December, 2011, 08:18:36 am
Some heavy splodgy sleety snowy stuff over the Chilterns, don't expect it to last.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wendy on 16 December, 2011, 08:19:53 am
Snow here on the North Downs, I doubt it'll settle for very long though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Steph on 16 December, 2011, 08:21:36 am
Fat flakes here by the airport at 0750.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 16 December, 2011, 08:22:51 am
Driving sleet when tandeming No2Daughter to the bus this morning. Outwards I thought it wasn't too bad, but returning (into the wind) it was vicious and I'm glad we're not doing a proper ride this weekend, as, by all accounts it's going to get worse.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rapples on 16 December, 2011, 08:31:11 am
It's stopped, near Bedford
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 16 December, 2011, 08:33:59 am
Now snowing properly in Cambridge...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 16 December, 2011, 08:35:12 am
A brief smattering of sleet herabouts that's come & gone
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Polar Bear on 16 December, 2011, 08:35:43 am
Only rain here  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kathy on 16 December, 2011, 08:39:30 am
At least 1/8 of an inch of SNO in Surrey this morning. I assume this means that it's official SNO, since it's practically London.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 16 December, 2011, 08:46:35 am
Just raining in this part of Norfolk. Will probably freeze into an ice rink tonight; hence abandonment of early ride plans for tomorrow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: delthebike on 16 December, 2011, 08:50:43 am
Sleet in Southend.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 16 December, 2011, 09:01:10 am
Bugger all in Brum.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 16 December, 2011, 09:02:29 am
Bugger all in Brum.

That's a bit ambitious Basil but whatever floats your boat :demon:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 16 December, 2011, 09:04:02 am
 ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rapples on 16 December, 2011, 09:05:19 am
I'm travelling to Litchfield later, is that in your "catchment" area :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 16 December, 2011, 09:07:25 am
Skies are clearing here now, going from leaden grey to blue with amazing rapidity and the sun is shining :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: giropaul on 16 December, 2011, 09:17:40 am
I'm travelling to Litchfield later, is that in your "catchment" area :o

If that's anywhere near Lichfield - there's no snow, and it's drizzling and miserable.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Snakehips on 16 December, 2011, 09:22:32 am
I am sure the rain took on a slightly fluffier appearance for a minute or two a short while ago.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 16 December, 2011, 09:39:53 am
Heavy snowflakes in Egremont at 8:30, now back to light snow. About 1-2cm lying, including on the roads.

Oh, and I have just re-established my reputation in the office for being mad by cycling in :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 16 December, 2011, 09:41:22 am
Big wet flakes of it here in SW19. Not settling
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bairn Again on 16 December, 2011, 09:48:09 am
bone dry, windless and 1 degree in Edinburgh, but colleagues from the provinces (Innerleithen, EK) have told fanciful tales of lots of snow.

Hope it stays dry so I can get out on my bike tomorrow. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: essexian on 16 December, 2011, 10:00:15 am
I'm travelling to Litchfield later, is that in your "catchment" area :o

If that's anywhere near Lichfield - there's no snow, and it's drizzling and miserable.

Just started snowing in Stafford.  :(     I was going to go out for a ride at lunchtime but might skip that now.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 December, 2011, 10:03:44 am
It's been precipitating gently since about 10 yesterday evening, with a short break around 5 a.m. but since 4 a.m. the temperature has dropped steadily from 5.0°C to 1.7°C at 9.30 a.m. It's now 1.9°C and the precipitation has some white bits in it.

Still no air frost in my garden since 19th March, although the wind chill factor this morning is around the -1 mark.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 16 December, 2011, 10:05:49 am
Sno here in that london (tropical fringe).

I did see a car with an inch of snow on the bonnet this morning.  Probably from the Surrey Hills.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 December, 2011, 10:42:18 am
Half-hearted SNO in NE That London and into the part of Essex which, if it showed a bit more strength of character, could be Hertfordshire.  It's settling on the occupants of the car park but not on the ground.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CAMRAMan on 16 December, 2011, 10:44:32 am
Sunny in Warwick! I was supposed to be meeting Polar Bear at lunchtime, but my eldest's school's heating system has put the dampeners on that...

We were said to be getting 5-8cm overnight, but it failed to happen & stayed as rain.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 16 December, 2011, 10:50:23 am
Bloody atlantic depressions - can't trust them as far as you can throw them. Not like the good, solid, reliable Siberian winters we get on this side of the country!

Edit: I've just noticed that it's 2 years to the day that this thread started.

HBTYHBTYHBDISTHBTY.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 16 December, 2011, 10:58:19 am
the world has turned on it's head, snow in Surrey but none in North Yorks?

Anyway it is cold enough to snow here, and steel grey skies, some maybe snow later.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ferret on 16 December, 2011, 11:03:01 am
Not surprisingly it's snowed here in just outside Brecon >:( hate the stuff makes the workload twice as difficult to do
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PeteB99 on 16 December, 2011, 11:25:46 am
Wet snow for the last hour in Chester.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 16 December, 2011, 11:27:48 am
Glorious blue skys in Brum.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrew Br on 16 December, 2011, 11:43:48 am
I woke up to quite a covering in South Manchester but most of it has melted although it's stuck around on the cars and some roofs.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 16 December, 2011, 11:44:37 am
Heavy snowflakes in Egremont at 8:30, now back to light snow. About 1-2cm lying, including on the roads.

Oh, and I have just re-established my reputation in the office for being mad by cycling in :D

Snow now stopped. The suns come out and it's all melting again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrew Br on 16 December, 2011, 12:04:49 pm
It's coming down quite hard now 'though it's not sticking on the ground.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 16 December, 2011, 12:34:51 pm
Snowing again now, quite hard.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PeteB99 on 16 December, 2011, 01:31:06 pm
Wet snow for the last hour in Chester.

Still snowing and sticking now.

Was going to go out for a haircut - don't think I'll bother now
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 16 December, 2011, 01:50:47 pm
Was going to go out for a haircut - don't think I'll bother now

I had an appointment for a haircut yesterday which I cancelled in consideration of the arrival of winter temps..
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 16 December, 2011, 01:53:34 pm
My sister & her bloke are in slow-moving traffic in snow on the M6 near Stoke on Trent.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 16 December, 2011, 01:58:34 pm
Glorious, glorious rain this morning. Ver cold, though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 16 December, 2011, 02:00:09 pm
Sno here in that london (tropical fringe).

I did see a car with an inch of snow on the bonnet this morning.  Probably from the Surrey Hills.

Snow now gone. Sunshine. Hello spring. :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 16 December, 2011, 02:10:59 pm
My sister & her bloke are in slow-moving traffic in snow on the M6 near Stoke on Trent.

We are very close to Stoke &  we have had moderate snowfall for the past hour or so. It's begining to build up on the roofs of cars & houses.It's not melting away on the roads as it was earlier.
The back garden is begining to look rather like a snow scene at Xmas.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 December, 2011, 02:14:47 pm
Not snowed here yet but it's bloody slippery outside, nearly ended up on my ar3e a minute ago. Should be a fun time tippy toeing down to my pal's house at tea time then....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 16 December, 2011, 06:01:02 pm
THick blizzard out there now. It is lying.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 December, 2011, 12:25:52 pm
It's finally snowing. Boo, hiss.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ashaman42 on 17 December, 2011, 03:25:10 pm
Snowed briefly in Hastings yesterday morning. Had been raining prior ro that so didn't even try and settle.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 17 December, 2011, 04:01:28 pm
Butterfly now has Ice Spikers on her bike.

Snow averted.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 17 December, 2011, 05:01:00 pm
As we crossed the Severn Bridge this morning there was light snow or heavy frost visible on the Welsh hills, which aren't at that point any higher than our good Cuban* hills. It's being in a city that keeps them warmer. Somebody from one of the leafier and higher suburbs said they'd had heavy frost on their car this morning. Nothing more.

*Cuba = Counties that Used to Be Avon  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 17 December, 2011, 05:28:58 pm
05-00 this morning North Oxfordshire - 2c on the gentle climb into the village wheel spin as dampness turned to ice
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 17 December, 2011, 05:33:19 pm
Oooooooh, I've just remembered there was some ice on today's ride!  :o It was frost and ice on a tarmac path through a grassy area, on the edges of Bristol - I'd have to check if it's City or South Glos, it may be that ice has now crossed the border! A lot of people walked over it, but I found it quite rideable - at walking speed because of all the people pushing their bikes in front of me.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 17 December, 2011, 07:18:20 pm
Several flurries today.
Some of it is still sticking in the garden.
This evening the roads are almost sheet ice with bods and cans sliding about on untreated roads.
Went down (12% in places) to the local take away for some peshware nan on my ice bike - was fine as long as I did not try to stop and put a foot down....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 17 December, 2011, 07:29:34 pm
Just very cold here and the rainshower yesterday has left anything ungritted (like the pavements) absolutely lethally slippery.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2011, 02:12:48 am
1.6°C at 2 a.m. here. Will this be the first air frost of the winter?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 18 December, 2011, 05:31:22 am
It sounds like it's going to be a bit frosty when I get back.  That'll be a bit of a shock to the system after a week of mild california weather!

Currently, according to my desktop widgets, it's 6°C here, but only 1°C in London.  It'll be something like 17 hours before I get back to London, so you'll have had a days worth of warmth, and it'll be cooling down again.

Actually,looking at the forecasts, it looks like the weather is just going to be getting progressively warmer when I get back.  The chances of a white Christmas (at least in the bottom part of the UK which I've checked) looks pretty remote.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 18 December, 2011, 07:25:38 am
It's gently snowing atm but we've had approx 25mm fall overnight.A lack of traffic & gritting make the road hereabuts very iffy so I'll be a DNF for the Derby CTC Belton Mince Pie ride :(
Title: It's snowing
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2011, 08:50:01 am
Well it isn't but the temperature fell to -0.1 deg C at 7.47 this morning. That's good work by the Met Office, who predicted 0.

Edit: and at 7.51 it was -0.2°C! The Met Office at Shoeburyness recorded -0.5°C.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 18 December, 2011, 09:19:43 am
It's gently snowing atm but we've had approx 25mm fall overnight.A lack of traffic & gritting make the road hereabuts very iffy so I'll be a DNF for the Derby CTC Belton Mince Pie ride :(

Yet more snow in the last couple of hours.No vehicles on the road & everywhere is very very quiet.I may go down to the village for newspapers on the sledge :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: plum on 18 December, 2011, 10:01:44 am
Just got a little sprinkle here in Brum. It's going very dark now.
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Post by: L CC on 18 December, 2011, 11:26:45 am
Snow in Suffolk Norfolk.
It's probably snowing in Suffolk too, but I can't quite see that far.
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Post by: bobb on 18 December, 2011, 11:28:54 am
It is now snowing in Essex. This is not helping my "Shall I or shan't I go out for a bike ride?"
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 December, 2011, 11:32:21 am
Go and get your mum's Christmas present. *helpful*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 18 December, 2011, 11:37:53 am
-2 in the Vale of Usk at 11 pm last night, but +1 °C up here on the hill when we got home.

The drive up the back lanes was interesting at times. Not a day to be out early on a bike today, though by now it's sunny and passably warm.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bobb on 18 December, 2011, 11:41:10 am
It is now raining  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 December, 2011, 11:56:02 am
It's snowing in Saarfend atm. At 2.9°C it will be raining shortly.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 18 December, 2011, 12:07:58 pm
This morning in furryboottoon:

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6530676355_d9ac820cac_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6530676355/)
pano_01_cropped (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6530676355/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 December, 2011, 11:43:04 pm
No snow, but ice in the Vic Rooms fountains about 6 o'clock tonight. Winter has arrived!

But I still saw two girls - students most likely - sitting on the road making roll ups about half an hour after that. In my street too!  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 19 December, 2011, 03:40:50 pm
Google 'let it snow'.

Go on.  I dare you.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 19 December, 2011, 03:45:34 pm
Google 'let it snow'.

Go on.  I dare you.

You had to do it, didn't you? You just had to say that..... :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 19 December, 2011, 03:46:34 pm
Google 'let it snow'.

Go on.  I dare you.

You had to do it, didn't you? You just had to say that..... :D

Heh, heh, heh,

I mean ho, ho, ho.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 19 December, 2011, 03:47:16 pm
Who you calling a ho?
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Post by: jogler on 19 December, 2011, 04:06:45 pm
I think she is referring to yhu :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 December, 2011, 09:57:03 pm
The temperature here is 11.7°C here at the moment. This is in fairly stark contrast to the past two winter solstices (OK, I know 22nd is the sostice this year) when it has been bleedin' freezing and snowy as hell somewhere not really like hell but very cold and snowy.

Incidentally, tomorrow is the anniversary of my weather station arriving and being installed in the outside world.
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 22 December, 2011, 09:11:14 am
15cm of snow in Budapest according to my youngest. They are off to make a snowman later. Blue skies & white cloud in Warwick.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 22 December, 2011, 12:35:55 pm
Looking at the forecasts, for the week I'm away over Christmas, the temperatures won't even get close to freezing, so I'm going to risk it, and take the Kaffenback, not the snow bike (with studded tyres).

This of course means it'll start snowing tomorrow!

The current forecast temperatures do seem to be dropping in a weeks time, so it could yet be a cold and frosty New Year holiday.  There's no snow currently being forecast for that period, but it's right at the limits of the forecast, so anything could happen.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 22 December, 2011, 08:01:53 pm
Cold and frosty, good. Snow, please no. I don't want to be stuck with our trikes at a folk do in a pub with 12% climbs either way out  :facepalm:   
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 22 December, 2011, 08:53:58 pm
Cold and frosty, good. Snow, please no. I don't want to be stuck with our trikes at a folk do in a pub with 12% climbs either way out  :facepalm:

Why is it always chevrons on the way back from the pub?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 22 December, 2011, 09:04:53 pm
Cold and frosty, good. Snow, please no. I don't want to be stuck with our trikes at a folk do in a pub with 12% climbs either way out  :facepalm:

Why is it always chevrons on the way back from the pub?

Could be the same reason they built (artificial)shallow gradients to the middle of Meadowhell Shopping Centre, and charge more rent for the shops at the bottom of the slope. Causes the subconcious to drift towards the pub.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 22 December, 2011, 10:39:07 pm
Could be the same reason they built (artificial)shallow gradients to the middle of Meadowhell Shopping Centre, and charge more rent for the shops at the bottom of the slope. Causes the subconcious to drift towards the pub.

Really?  The evil of that place knows no bounds.

/me has strange urge to visit Meadowhell armed with a basketball, and re-enact that scene from Volcano
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 22 December, 2011, 10:42:32 pm
Cold and frosty, good. Snow, please no. I don't want to be stuck with our trikes at a folk do in a pub with 12% climbs either way out  :facepalm:

Why is it always chevrons on the way back from the pub?

it's an audax thing :demon: ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Red on 22 December, 2011, 10:44:38 pm
Really?  The evil of that place knows no bounds.

/me has strange urge to visit Meadowhell armed with a basketball, and re-enact that scene from Volcano

It's not worth visiting Meadowhell, even for SCIENCE. *shudders*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 22 December, 2011, 11:07:12 pm
Really?  The evil of that place knows no bounds.

/me has strange urge to visit Meadowhell armed with a basketball, and re-enact that scene from Volcano


It's not worth visiting Meadowhell, even for SCIENCE. *shudders*


We visited for Geography - wasn't really worth visiting for that either.

The three places I remember visiting at school for Geography were Meadowhell, Blackburn Meadows STW and Supertram. What an enlightening education  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2011, 09:20:18 am
It isn't today!

Warmest Christmas Day on record for Belfast & Aberdeen? 15°C forecast by the BBC just now. I'm picturing Mrs. Pingu in her bikini.  :thumbsup:

I recall one Christmas Day, in the late 1980s, in which it was very mild and sunny and my bees were out visiting the late-flowering heather in my mum's garden. I can't remember the precise temperature, but it must have been around 16°C. They are forecasting 11°C round here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 25 December, 2011, 04:53:57 pm
...I'm picturing Mrs. Pingu in her bikini.  :thumbsup:...

You dirty old man  :D

No bikinis 'cos we're in Fife  :-X
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 December, 2011, 07:48:24 pm
Quote from: Met Office
A very mild Christmas, but very windy in the North.

Northern UK has been stormy; gusts have reached 101mph at Sella Ness, Shetland. Provisional figures suggest that the UK as a whole has seen its third warmest Christmas Day on record with Aberdeen reaching 15.1C. Only 1920 and 1896 were milder at 15.6C. Northern Ireland has broken its record of 13.0C set in Belfast in 1988, with Murlough reaching 14.3C. Issued at 1731 on Sun 25 Dec 2011.

I would imagine that it was 1988 that I remember as being a very warm Christmas Day.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 26 December, 2011, 03:08:38 pm
For this month, on average, it has been 15C warmer (max and min) in York compared to 2009 and 2010.  There is a tree come out in full blossom on my street - obviously thinks it is spring.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 26 December, 2011, 07:40:40 pm
I saw a teenage boy in shorts today, but that seems to be par for the course here, even when it actually is bitterly cold. Those crazy English!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: RJ on 19 January, 2012, 01:23:13 pm
.... massive heavy wet flakes.  Preceded by rain, so it's not settling (yet)  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 January, 2012, 06:33:20 pm
Fucking weather.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 19 January, 2012, 09:33:19 pm
Bobb's arrived then?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 19 January, 2012, 10:04:19 pm
 :'(

Not for another 28 sleeps.  :'(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 26 January, 2012, 08:01:53 pm
That was unexpected. A couple of cm here, and the temperature is plummeting
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Post by: Bledlow on 26 January, 2012, 09:05:35 pm
We just got hail this afternoon. Dropped the temperature by a few degrees immediately.
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Post by: mcshroom on 26 January, 2012, 10:05:00 pm
Sleeting round here, and forcast to be snowy on the Pennines. Guess who's driving over the A66 tomorrow :(
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Post by: Canardly on 26 January, 2012, 10:17:47 pm
mmmmm
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Post by: Efrogwr on 29 January, 2012, 09:10:08 pm
A couple of inches at Pen_y_Pas this evening, but very wet.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 January, 2012, 09:25:30 pm
I've looked at the forecast for the next 5 days here: nothing above 3°C apparently.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 29 January, 2012, 09:37:22 pm
... but any snow around the eastern side of the country looks to be unlikely.  I may use the Vince the snow bike anyway, because the Kaffenback is buggered, and I haven't managed to get n+1 together yet.  So long as it isn't wet, the lack of mudguards won't be an issue, although the additional weight could be!  In the unlikely event that it's particularly badly icy, the studded tyres will ensure I'm OK!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: GruB on 29 January, 2012, 10:14:04 pm
It better not snow here tomorrow.  I have loads to do at work and I can't be arsed to ride all that way on the studded MTB.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 30 January, 2012, 09:00:58 am
It's been snowing here since yesterday lunch time.
Not settling though.
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Post by: border-rider on 30 January, 2012, 09:02:40 am
It started here about 7:30 this morning but it's not really sticking.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Efrogwr on 30 January, 2012, 10:16:07 am
It looks like the Eryri Spring now! However, there is snow on Cefn Du (the hill behind Llanberis) so the real mountains should look good.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 30 January, 2012, 10:25:19 am
We've had dandruff this morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 30 January, 2012, 12:49:33 pm
We've had dandruff this morning.

Same here, as I was walking back from dropping TLD off at the Breakfast club, I thought "What is this white stuff on my coat?" "Oh it's sno"

Nothing since, but it is COLD....
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 30 January, 2012, 12:50:39 pm
Snow in Bristle this morning, but stopped soon and never settled. Exciting for children though.
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Post by: David Martin on 30 January, 2012, 01:09:37 pm
Snow? not a chance in Sunny Dundee
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Post by: GruB on 30 January, 2012, 08:39:06 pm
Snow between Pewsey and Wanborough but not when I got to Swindon.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 January, 2012, 10:58:06 pm
There were a few flakes falling a few minutes ago when I was riding from Rayleigh to Southend. Gritting lorries were out.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 January, 2012, 10:28:04 am
It's trying ever so hard in Harlot and settling a tiny bit up on the roof, but it's not terribly convincing.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 31 January, 2012, 11:26:19 am
Out for a trikle yesterday (Mon 30th Jan) 2c easterly wind, Barbara went numb down one side of face (thought "Christ, she's having a stroke") called in at doctors to be told "you have literally frozen your face Barbara"
     Never had that (pedal powered) before. Gritters were out but hopefully will miss white stuff here in sunny North Oxfordshire.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 January, 2012, 11:35:28 am
Bloody 'orrible out there today. Dark, cold (1.2°C), clammy and with that pointless frozen drizzle falling gently, it's the first proper winter's day we've had since Boxing Day 2010 I reckon.
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Post by: Steph on 31 January, 2012, 11:43:53 am
SNO now here.
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Post by: border-rider on 31 January, 2012, 11:46:16 am
\Not a bad day at all here. Dry, fairly cold and a bit overcast, but also bright in a strange kind of way. I think I might go for a run :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 31 January, 2012, 11:49:54 am
I got snowed on very very lightly a while back, walking from Gloucester Road Station to work.  It was barely wetting the pavement, and certainly didn't settle!

The little flecks of white on my fleece had melted by the time I got upstairs to my office.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 31 January, 2012, 11:52:45 am
A patter of half-hearted snow here in Southwark.

Might dig out the CX tyres tonight ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 31 January, 2012, 12:34:24 pm
I came out to find snow on the child seat. Fortunately the child in question was too excited to mind :).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 31 January, 2012, 12:36:49 pm
Was there snow on the child?  Or had you taken them inside? ;)
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Post by: Butterfly on 31 January, 2012, 12:38:39 pm
Was there snow on the child?  Or had you taken them inside? ;)
On this occasion I took her inside ;D. I got told off for not doing at the totally secure, watched by a teacher, nursery compound ::-).
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Post by: iddu on 31 January, 2012, 03:16:50 pm
[grump]
NO SNO...
[/grump]
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ferret on 31 January, 2012, 05:08:39 pm
can't beat road runner on temp, we've only managed a poor minus 6 so far this year, we've had snow since Sunday but it's only a couple of inches. Every where is just wet and cold, hovering around freezing most of the day, fields have really turned to mush where the livestock are
and it's quite painful opening field gates when your hand sticks to them, but I'm itching to get out on the bike :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: cycleman on 31 January, 2012, 07:15:26 pm
no snow here  :'(
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 31 January, 2012, 07:19:11 pm
A little bit of snow in Hastings. Well either snow or tiny tiny hailstones.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 January, 2012, 10:52:01 pm
can't beat road runner on temp, we've only managed a poor minus 6 so far this year, we've had snow since Sunday but it's only a couple of inches. Every where is just wet and cold, hovering around freezing most of the day, fields have really turned to mush where the livestock are
and it's quite painful opening field gates when your hand sticks to them, but I'm itching to get out on the bike :thumbsup:

The lowest temperature we recorded in 2011 was -1.7°C.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ferret on 01 February, 2012, 09:50:58 am
I can do better than that for last winter -17C, & never went above -2 or -3C during the day for two or three weeks,
now that was cold, first time in 20 years we were actually snowed in, 4 weeks IIRC, oh the joys of winter :facepalm:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 February, 2012, 10:01:02 am
Ah, but was that not 2010? I didn't get my weather station until 22nd December 2010 so I missed the coldest weather of that winter.

http://tickfield.thewalkers.org.uk/weather/almanac.htm shows all the extremes I recorded, and Boxing Day 2010 is the coldest. If I'd got the weather station a month earlier I think I'd have recorded a few -6s. Obviously not in your league, but was December 2010 not the coldest month ever recorded in Wales?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 01 February, 2012, 12:31:17 pm
I can do better than that for last winter -17C, & never went above -2 or -3C during the day for two or three weeks,
now that was cold, first time in 20 years we were actually snowed in, 4 weeks IIRC, oh the joys of winter :facepalm:
Yebbut yebbut what do you expect if you live there? I'm assuming your profile location is accurate.

I reckon in the 1980s you'd have been snowed in a few times if you'd been living in the same place.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ferret on 01 February, 2012, 06:53:52 pm
your quite right, 2010 was that year.  And yes it was the coldest winter since the 1980's at which point I was still roughing it in Cookham, near Maidenhead, my friends dad was in charge at Boulters Lock,
I don't actually expect anything else, it just becomes a bit of a drag after a couple of weeks but we're usually well stocked up on firewood, animal food and our food, the best way of dealing with adverse weather is to just do what needs doing then sit in front of the fire drinking tea :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feline on 01 February, 2012, 10:02:46 pm
Decisions decisions ... I am planning to go on a 50 mile or so ride tomorrow and it will be about -5C when I set off. Should I put my Schwalbe winter tyres on the bike or stick with the 35mm ones that are already on it?
Some of the lanes might not be gritted.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ashaman42 on 01 February, 2012, 10:08:24 pm
I'd say go with the winter tyres. Better a slightly harder work ride (good training) than borking something on the hard ground.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Frere on 01 February, 2012, 10:12:31 pm
I'd say go with the winter tyres. Better a slightly harder work ride (good training) than borking something on the hard ground.

What Ashaman42 said. Better safe than sorry.

Frere
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Post by: numbnuts on 02 February, 2012, 09:34:41 am
now that is bloody (http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv191/Beckybert/Smileys/coldsmiley.gif)
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Post by: Jasmine on 02 February, 2012, 10:47:49 am
No snow here, but the edges of the Menai Strait have started to freeze by my office.   :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feline on 02 February, 2012, 06:23:46 pm
I'd say go with the winter tyres. Better a slightly harder work ride (good training) than borking something on the hard ground.

What Ashaman42 said. Better safe than sorry.

Frere

Well I did put them on and was glad I did, there was some ice in parts, although to be fair the group members without winter tyres didn't fall off either, although they did walk around a veritable glacier at one point. I loved the security of not having to worry so much about the ice. It also gave me a chance to 'ride them in', as the instructions say to do 25 miles on a hard road surface to help the studs bed in. I did 55  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 02 February, 2012, 09:47:26 pm
No ice on the roads round here, or in the southern Chilterns last night. Cold enough (water in a bucket outside my back door has stayed frozen since the day before yesterday), but the roads are bone dry. Air's too dry for cars to frost up.
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Post by: Wendy on 02 February, 2012, 09:50:38 pm
My cousin made a snow cannon today, LOL! Wanted snow, but only had -8C and sunny skies to play with.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 February, 2012, 10:31:00 pm
There is heavy snow forecast for East Anglia and Kent for Saturday night / Sunday morning, with an accompanying temperature of -3°C.

I might have to get my tyres out of the garage.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 02 February, 2012, 10:47:47 pm
LOL, I love having a snow bike.  All I need to do, is pump the tyres up a bit (they've gone flat since last winter), and carry the bike downstairs. ;D

Simples.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 02 February, 2012, 10:54:02 pm
There's a bit of ice round here, although again it is pretty dry.

It looks like we are in for quite a bit of snow on Saturday, and I'm planning to go out for a long ride - could be interesting  :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 02 February, 2012, 11:19:09 pm
If it snows here I am well prepared (for a change) 40 pints of home brew porter and several demi johns of home made wine, combine that with a load of logs a stack of cycling books and appy as a  ;D
   
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 03 February, 2012, 06:44:46 am
The window thermometer, normally accurate, says -14 this morning.  It is always 2 degrees colder across The Marsh, where I have to cycle to work.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Efrogwr on 03 February, 2012, 09:13:00 am
There were ice crystals growing out of the soil above Llanberis on Wednesday and it's dry!

Snow is forecast for tomorrow, but it looks like it will be the edge of the snowy weather (mostly it will be to the east).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 February, 2012, 10:01:24 am
The lowest temperature we have recorded this month has been -1.4°C yet when I take the dog out the soil is frozen solid. The mean temperature this month has been 0.7°C but the average wind speed has been 11.5kph, and north-easterly. The barometric pressure is close to the highest we've recorded.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 03 February, 2012, 10:06:43 am
The air pressure over Russia and Finland has been over 1060mb this week. That's enough to crush yer aneroids, that is  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 03 February, 2012, 11:22:21 am
Only -3.5C last night outside my back door.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: why1040 on 03 February, 2012, 11:24:49 am
According a friend who works there, Heathrow is looking at 60% likelihood of 5-10 cm of snow after 17:00 on Saturday.

I'm meant to be driving the horse and a friend's horse in the horse lorry to a showjumping lesson on Sunday morning.   :facepalm:

I thought putting winter tyres on my car had ensured a lack of snow/wintry weather this year!  PAH!  ;)

I'm not cycling in this weather, we have ice on the roads and I'm too nervous.  My co-ordination just isn't up to it!   :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 03 February, 2012, 12:59:55 pm
I'd say go with the winter tyres. Better a slightly harder work ride (good training) than borking something on the hard ground.

What Ashaman42 said. Better safe than sorry.

Frere

Well I did put them on and was glad I did, there was some ice in parts, although to be fair the group members without winter tyres didn't fall off either, although they did walk around a veritable glacier at one point. I loved the security of not having to worry so much about the ice. It also gave me a chance to 'ride them in', as the instructions say to do 25 miles on a hard road surface to help the studs bed in. I did 55  :thumbsup:
But did you ride over the glacier?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ferret on 03 February, 2012, 02:04:24 pm
well, bone dry clear bright skies but -15 last night and hovering around -8/9 at the moment, all water troughs & drinkers frozen solid, lots of water carrying going on, ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 03 February, 2012, 02:20:56 pm
Just been talking to Little and Mrs Cudzos, who arrived in Poland today for a short holiday. It's -27 where they are, but not much snow she says.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feline on 03 February, 2012, 03:01:43 pm
I'd say go with the winter tyres. Better a slightly harder work ride (good training) than borking something on the hard ground.

What Ashaman42 said. Better safe than sorry.

Frere

Well I did put them on and was glad I did, there was some ice in parts, although to be fair the group members without winter tyres didn't fall off either, although they did walk around a veritable glacier at one point. I loved the security of not having to worry so much about the ice. It also gave me a chance to 'ride them in', as the instructions say to do 25 miles on a hard road surface to help the studs bed in. I did 55  :thumbsup:
But did you ride over the glacier?

Unfortunately 6 riders stopped in front of me to walk the glacier so I had to stop too, but the next iced over puddle section I rode over all of it and the tyres totally mullered the ice  :thumbsup:
They had discussed sending me down certain downhill dodgy bits first to test the road out, but I pointed out that me staying upright would not give them that much useful info anyway  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 03 February, 2012, 03:26:36 pm
Just spoke to a colleague in Belgium where it's apparently snowing heavily.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 03 February, 2012, 10:36:04 pm
-8 here this morning, and likely to hit -10 tomorrow morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Von Broad on 03 February, 2012, 10:49:45 pm
Just been talking to Little and Mrs Cudzos, who arrived in Poland today for a short holiday. It's -27 where they are, but not much snow she says.

Blimey, that's really 'Taters in the Mould' isn't it. And some of those -35s in the Ukraine. Serious stuff.

It's -6 here in Chesham at 22.45pm [my car]. [The frost pocket weather station will probably record -12 later tonight]
That, is positively Mediterranean in comparison! All of a sudden I feel warm.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 February, 2012, 11:03:26 pm
We've still had nothing serious in the way of frosts. LOwest temperature in 2011: -1.7°C. Lowest so far this year: -1.4°C. Mind you, it's currently -1.4°C so we might just beat that tonight. The Met Office are forecasting a minimum temperature over the next 5 days as -1 for Southend.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MattH on 04 February, 2012, 09:08:08 am
My car was saying -6 this morning when I left home, -7 at my son's friend's house. I dropped off the lads at their Explorer group leader's house - they're off down to the New Forest to spend the day walking.

Son came out of the house this morning as I was scraping the car, all sensibly dressed in layered walking clothing and daysack on his back ready to go. I asked if he'd got his jacket in the bag (it may snow later, or he may need it as a windproof) - he'd forgotten it  :facepalm:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 February, 2012, 09:12:47 am
We've had a dusting of snow in the night. Mind you, the weather station's software seems to be playing silly buggers: it has the lowest temperature today reading -1.1 at 23.30. Given that it's something past 9 now, I reckon that the last time it was 23.30 was yesterday.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Domestique on 04 February, 2012, 09:21:06 am
Snow later tonight, apart from the light dusting in the night, according the weather forcast.
Looks like Shanks Pony will be in action for the commute to work on Monday morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Aidan on 04 February, 2012, 09:30:37 am
Local temp is -4 here, with a feels like -8,it is bright clear and sunny at the moment but  we're supposed to be getting a big pile of snow this evening.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 February, 2012, 09:32:33 am
The Met Office is forecasting 9 hours of heavy snow for Southend tonight. I think I'll put the snow tyres on today.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: GruB on 04 February, 2012, 09:35:55 am
Looks like it will be 21.4 miles on the studded MTB.  Deep joy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ferret on 04 February, 2012, 09:38:19 am
Sky is looking rather ominous at present, apart from that it's bloody cold
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Efrogwr on 04 February, 2012, 09:47:12 am
Snowonia;

It's warmed up, it's windy and there's a hint of drizzle in the air. Ominous looking clouds, but it doesn't look particularly snowy.

We'll see what happens.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: border-rider on 04 February, 2012, 09:58:53 am
Just started here. Bugger; I had some tractoring to do today.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 04 February, 2012, 10:07:54 am
No snow here at 6am it was -8c
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PeteB99 on 04 February, 2012, 12:05:05 pm
Chester - currently -0.4 and light/moderate sleet

Deep joy - off to warm up in the shower.
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Post by: lou boutin on 04 February, 2012, 12:56:12 pm
It's snowing quite heavily here and is white all over.  I'm glad to be in front of a roaring fire.
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Post by: rafletcher on 04 February, 2012, 01:11:10 pm
So far the forecast has been spot on for today here in the Chilterns. Cold morning 9around -10 at 07:00.  Rose above 0 about half an hour ago, in the strengthening southerly breeze. Snow forecast between 18:00 and 03:00 - light/heavy/light. Hopefully it'll be wrong.
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Post by: Feline on 04 February, 2012, 01:14:00 pm
Yay it's now snowing here. I might venture out on my ice tyres this afternoon  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Peter on 04 February, 2012, 01:18:35 pm
Been snowing in Lancashire for an hour, now.  Not supposed to get here until 1600.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 February, 2012, 01:35:56 pm
A few soft flakes falling here. It won't settle though. Judging by Feline's post it's taken 20 minutes to cross the Mendips.
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Post by: lou boutin on 04 February, 2012, 01:43:14 pm
It has stopped here. Oh well.
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Post by: mcshroom on 04 February, 2012, 02:06:58 pm
Snowed a bit here, but now it's gone and heavy rain - 1oC according to my weather thingy
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Post by: Jaded on 04 February, 2012, 02:14:39 pm
-9.2 last night. Now snowing. 0C
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Post by: pdm on 04 February, 2012, 02:17:57 pm
Cold and windy this morning on a short 20 miler this morning. The SNO set in about 1pm.
Chucking it down now - fine wind blown stuff. We are forcast about 4-5 inches (10-12cm) of the stuff so we shall see how accurate the Met Office is..... :)
We are above 800ft so it should stay a while....
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Post by: Feline on 04 February, 2012, 02:47:22 pm
My daughter has been writing on my car!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/carart.jpg)
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Post by: border-rider on 04 February, 2012, 02:56:04 pm
Just started here. Bugger; I had some tractoring to do today.

It was OK until about an hour ago, then the combination of light snow and hard-frozen hummocks on a fairly steep slope, a very wide wheelbase & unsuitable tyres led to increasing disagreement between me & the tractor as to who was in charge.

Time to call it a day.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 February, 2012, 02:58:48 pm
My daughter has been writing on my car!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/carart.jpg)
How sweet! But isn't she a week late?

I was wrong when I said it wouldn't settle. At least, it has stopped melting as soon as it hits the ground. Nothing thick enough to write in yet. Impressively big frozen puddle right by one set of bike racks on Gloucester Rd. Cold makes me hungry, and then I buy more food, forgetting that I've only taken one pannier to carry it home in. Leeks sticking out the top like a flag pole!
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Post by: Tewdric on 04 February, 2012, 03:01:16 pm
It's sudenly gone very white here!
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Post by: Bledlow on 04 February, 2012, 03:25:28 pm
Me mum's 70th birthday party has been postponed because nobody fancied driving to it in the snow.
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Post by: Feline on 04 February, 2012, 03:57:18 pm

How sweet! But isn't she a week late?

No, it's my son Chris' 18th today  ;D
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Post by: Feline on 04 February, 2012, 03:58:58 pm
Me mum's 70th birthday party has been postponed because nobody fancied driving to it in the snow.

Oh, that's a shame :(

I was just starting to worry the pizza delivery place won't bring me birthday party pizza later on. But I can always ride there on snow tyres with bungees for the pizzas!
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Post by: TimO on 04 February, 2012, 04:00:19 pm
No snow in That London yet.  Quite brisk out, and Zev keeps on coming back in with cold paws.
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Post by: tiermat on 04 February, 2012, 04:01:57 pm
Has been snowing here in North Yorkshire since lunchtime, about 5 minutes after I said "I don't think we will get any snow this year" in fact...

Sorry  :facepalm:
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Post by: Jaded on 04 February, 2012, 04:02:40 pm
It's all white here now.
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Post by: barakta on 04 February, 2012, 04:17:04 pm
No snow in That London yet.  Quite brisk out, and Zev keeps on coming back in with cold paws.

And attempting to sit on you and warm them up on hoomin?
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Post by: barakta on 04 February, 2012, 04:25:23 pm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35763097@N06/6817485001/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/35763097@N06/6817485001/)
(No idea how you make YACF embed an image)

Snowing here as of about 90 mins ago, temp dropped from 0 to -2C just as Kim has to cycle home from Mordor. 
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Post by: andrewc on 04 February, 2012, 04:30:56 pm
Just above freezing in Liverpool, it's raining with the occasional bit of wet sleet mixed in.  I'm sitting next to a warm radiator and staying here !
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Post by: Bledlow on 04 February, 2012, 04:35:53 pm
Small powdery flakes here now. Mrs B noticed as she was going out for a run.
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Post by: TimO on 04 February, 2012, 04:37:49 pm
... Zev keeps on coming back in with cold paws.
And attempting to sit on you and warm them up on hoomin?

To be fair, my own fault the last time, I picked her up after she'd just come in.  Otherwise she was perfectly warm, cat fur is a good insulator.
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Post by: TimO on 04 February, 2012, 04:41:15 pm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35763097@N06/6817485001/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/35763097@N06/6817485001/)
(No idea how you make YACF embed an image)

Snowing here as of about 90 mins ago, temp dropped from 0 to -2C just as Kim has to cycle home from Mordor.

Use the [img] & [/img] tags around the image URL.

  [img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6817485001_0b7af7c323_z.jpg[/img]

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6817485001_0b7af7c323_z.jpg)
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Post by: Adam on 04 February, 2012, 04:46:39 pm
A few flakes in Luton at the moment.
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Post by: drossall on 04 February, 2012, 04:56:38 pm
Not yet in Hitchin though
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 February, 2012, 04:59:54 pm
My dad just texted to say he's just driven over Snake Pass in the snow - the road closed signs were up by the time he reached Glossop.
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Post by: Feline on 04 February, 2012, 05:03:59 pm
Just noticed my darling daughter posted a pic on facebook of herself out in the garden earlier in bare feet  :o

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/feistyfeline/natmadinsnow.jpg)
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 February, 2012, 05:31:28 pm
I thought I should go out for a ride in the snow. Not as much of it here as in Brum, but I went out for, ooh, at least ten minutes. Up to the top of Blackboy Hill was fine. Side roads a bit slippery - I actually had an instant of wheel spin! - but busier roads clear. But coming down - ooof! My fingertips were so numb I wasn't sure I'd be able to reach the brake levers!

Just noticed my darling daughter posted a pic on facebook of herself out in the garden earlier in bare feet  :o
The other day I saw a bloke in t-shirt, shorts and flip-flops - no socks!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 February, 2012, 05:38:23 pm
The other day I saw a bloke in t-shirt, shorts and flip-flops - no socks!
If he was covered in bandages, it was probably Nutty.
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Post by: numbnuts on 04 February, 2012, 05:48:53 pm
we have rain  :(
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Post by: drossall on 04 February, 2012, 06:11:39 pm
Not yet in Hitchin though
Tis now...
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Post by: nightrider on 04 February, 2012, 06:15:48 pm
1 inch in Grantham at the moment and expecting more.Looks like tomorrow's reliability ride might be cancelled :-\Might be sledging with the kids instead :)
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Post by: GruB on 04 February, 2012, 06:41:44 pm
Been swowing for the last 2 hours or so in Swindon.  Settling on untreated surfaces too.  Accidents left right and centre.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 04 February, 2012, 06:53:57 pm
I can run you home if cycling is too insane.  I have snow tyres.
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Post by: GruB on 04 February, 2012, 06:55:40 pm
I've got the MTB and the studs thanks Roger.
Looking forward to it to be honest.  I was surprised by how much of the NCN from Marlborough towards Chiseldon was uphill !!  Looking forward to some downhill on the way home.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 04 February, 2012, 06:57:54 pm
It'll be easy to see.  Bike lights are amazing when everything is white.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 04 February, 2012, 07:01:48 pm
In other news...the sea has frozen in Poole Harbour!  If it gets much worse the Sandbanks ferry will need to be replaced with an icebreaker  :o
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Post by: TimO on 04 February, 2012, 07:08:41 pm
A very little dusting settling on some surfaces in Croydon, like the shed roof, and recycling boxes. Not much on the ground so far.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 February, 2012, 07:09:27 pm
Turned to rain here. Feels a bit warmer than this afternoon too, I think.
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Post by: mcshroom on 04 February, 2012, 07:11:41 pm
Still raining here. Now up to 2.5oC so I'm guessing it will stay that way too.
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Post by: rafletcher on 04 February, 2012, 07:28:48 pm
Well just north of Tring very fine spicules fell foo a couple of hours from 4-6, about 5mm cover in the garden, and on our (dead end) lane, but my guess is the main roads are still clear. Starting to fall gently again now.
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Post by: jogler on 04 February, 2012, 07:41:45 pm
It's been snowing here for several hours now.The roads are becoming impassable unless you have 4WD.Indeed the A50 is closed in Stoke.
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Post by: Kim on 04 February, 2012, 08:05:39 pm
Sadly, the blowing snow and generally poor visibility did not stop some people driving like complete and utter tools.

The short ride home from Mordor Central earlier was positively terrifying.  It's a route that I'm extremely familiar with, mostly on a dual carriageway with narrow lanes, so it's primary position (plusminus pothole-avoidance factor) the whole way.  For some reason as soon as there's a blizzard everyone decides to try to squeeze past the cyclist rather than making proper lane-changes.  Because that's obviously a good idea.   ???

I may have been onna upwrong, but I had plenty of lights and a bright yellow jacket, so it's not like I was hard to spot.
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Post by: pdm on 04 February, 2012, 08:06:04 pm
2 inches all over at present - 1/2 way there, I suspect.
No more idiot motons on our roads, TTL.
Tempted to go out for a ride, though...  :)
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Post by: TimO on 04 February, 2012, 08:11:50 pm
It's settling everywhere in Croydon, but it's still just a very light dusting, maybe a ¼ of an inch at most.  It'll have to get a lot heavier before we'll end up with anything near the few inches that was being talked about.
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Post by: bobb on 04 February, 2012, 08:13:05 pm
Sod all here. Which is a bit irritating as they've been banging on about it on the news all day....
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Post by: Wowbagger on 04 February, 2012, 08:18:07 pm

--Timestamp---   Temp   Chill   HIndex   Humid   Dewpt    Wind    HiWind   WindDir   Rain    Barom   Solar    ET      UV
--------------   ----   -----   ------   -----   -----   ------   ------   -------   -----   -----   -----   -----   ----
20120204 17:30   -0.9   -3.2   -0.9       79      -4.1         6   18      202      0.0   1033.0   -100000   0.000   -100000.0
20120204 18:00   -0.9   -0.9   -0.9       79      -4.1         5   18      202      0.0   1032.5   -100000   0.000   -100000.0
20120204 18:30   -0.8   -3.1   -0.8       79      -4.0         6   18      158      0.0   1032.0   -100000   0.000   -100000.0
20120204 19:00   -0.7   -2.9   -0.7       77      -4.2         6   18      158      0.0   1031.2   -100000   0.000   -100000.0
20120204 19:30   -0.5   -3.3   -0.5       75      -4.4         8   18      158      0.0   1030.4   -100000   0.000   -100000.0
20120204 20:00   -0.4   -3.2   -0.4       74      -4.4         8   23      158      0.0   1029.6   -100000   0.000   -100000.0


The last three hours' readings show a marginal rise in temperature, humidity and wind speed and a fall in barometric pressure. The moon is now shrouded in cloud but still visible in an "it's about to precipitate" kind of way.

The temperature forecasts over the next couple of days, which will see Monday creep up to about 2°C makes me think this will last a bit longer than the normal westerly snow-turned-to-rain scenario, but Tuesday sees temperatures of 4°C so I'm not sure that it's worth fitting my snow tyres. I can always postpone Monday's teaching session until the end of term.
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Post by: Jurek on 04 February, 2012, 08:18:13 pm
Is happening here in Forest Hill.

Might have to go out.

Later.
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Post by: Rapples on 04 February, 2012, 08:19:55 pm
Snowed here for about an hour.

I've just driven through it up the A1. Some prat in a Range Rover appears to have misjudged the stopping distance for the weight of their tank at Biggleswade roundabout and  swiped a Mini into the verge.  It's OK though it wasn't a proper one O:-)
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Post by: TimO on 04 February, 2012, 08:22:57 pm
Might have to go out.

Indeed, if we do get a moderate layer I'll have to take Vince out, and see what it's like, before the cars, melting and refreezing reduces it to a frozen rutted mess.
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Post by: Canardly on 04 February, 2012, 08:28:42 pm
I saw a car with snow tyres fitted today. First time ever for me in the UK.
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Post by: Biggsy on 04 February, 2012, 08:30:39 pm
Snow in London and settling.
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Post by: Jurek on 04 February, 2012, 08:36:14 pm
Forecast (for Londres) says tonight, overnight, is it - turning to sleet in the wee small hours.

No further precipitation forecast for the rest of the week.

If you want to go out and play, tonight's the night  :)
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Post by: Steph on 04 February, 2012, 09:01:25 pm
Coming down and settling nicely outside.
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Post by: Rapples on 04 February, 2012, 09:02:43 pm
Just let the dogs out, and it's started again.
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Post by: GruB on 04 February, 2012, 09:14:11 pm
Youths are now hiding in the bushes and throwing snowballs at passing cars  ;D
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Post by: jogler on 04 February, 2012, 09:14:50 pm
Now there is over 100mm of snow on the patio.
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Post by: Rapples on 04 February, 2012, 09:20:38 pm
Youths are now hiding in the bushes and throwing snowballs at passing cars  ;D

Never a fucking Policeman about when you need one ;D
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Post by: GruB on 04 February, 2012, 09:27:24 pm
Youths are now hiding in the bushes and throwing snowballs at passing cars  ;D

Never a fucking Policeman about when you need one ;D

No, never - so they've sent some PCSOs  ;D ;D
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 February, 2012, 09:32:33 pm
How long before the PCSOs get a faceful of snow?
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Post by: Rapples on 04 February, 2012, 09:36:50 pm
He doesn't live in Scotland, so they're probably not pissed yet. I'd give it an hour or two ;D
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 04 February, 2012, 09:49:35 pm
I'm in Belfast, where it is slightly warmer. Lots of rain earlier. I see that Aer Lingus have already cancelled half their flights in and out of Heathrow tomorrow ffs. ::)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 04 February, 2012, 09:59:56 pm
It has started snowing here. The main road is wet but it's settling on the side road. Apparently the temperature has crept up to +0.3°C but I don't think that will be enough to stop it settling. It's been very cold for quite a few days now.
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Post by: mcshroom on 04 February, 2012, 10:02:08 pm
Heathrow have cancelled a third of their flights tomorrow according to BBC news channel
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Post by: border-rider on 04 February, 2012, 10:02:38 pm
It turned to rain here at about 6 and the temperature has gone up by several degrees, well above freezing for the first time for days.

There's still a cm or so of snowy slush on our lane but it'll be gone by tomorrow I'd think.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 04 February, 2012, 10:05:31 pm
We don't normally get any snow which comes from the west: at least, it might come through as a front but quickly turns to rain. I notice that the 0.3° C above freezing at 930 has returned to -0.2°C at 10p.m.
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Post by: Palinurus on 04 February, 2012, 10:24:16 pm
Steadily snowing in Watford; probably an inch or so of it at the moment. Still feels chilly out there.

I'm worried about my commute on Monday.

The site might be closed- guess I could do it anyway.
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Post by: Jurek on 04 February, 2012, 10:43:53 pm
Proper 'Jingle Bells' out here at the moment...
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Post by: Domestique on 04 February, 2012, 10:56:52 pm
Small amount here so far

(http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320x320/393939_10150577654304855_808409854_8878423_229450128_n.jpg)
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Post by: andrewc on 04 February, 2012, 10:57:58 pm
No snow in Liverpool but all the drizzle has frozen and some of the roads & pavements are a bit lethal.  My balcony door is covered in icicles.
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Post by: Jules on 04 February, 2012, 11:14:06 pm
Two inches of deep and crisp and even here in Twickenham so that's us snowed us for the next week as its not supposed to snow in London.
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Post by: simonp on 04 February, 2012, 11:37:38 pm
I think tomorrow I will fettle my Galaxy back into a rideable state, complete with snow tyres…
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Post by: rafletcher on 04 February, 2012, 11:46:52 pm
Around 2" on the herts/bucks borders, at least in our lane.
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Post by: Adam on 04 February, 2012, 11:51:57 pm
A few flakes in Luton at the moment.

Now 13 cm in depth and still rising.
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Post by: her_welshness on 04 February, 2012, 11:53:16 pm
Proper 'Jingle Bells' out here at the moment...

Indeed it is looking well snowy in Lewisham!
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Post by: Feline on 04 February, 2012, 11:56:14 pm
It's all melted here now and 4C
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Post by: Wobbly John on 04 February, 2012, 11:56:32 pm
Between 0 & 300 mm here in the fens - the wind is blowing it all over the place and it's piled up in drifts.

3 cars seen stuck and spinning wheels on 1/2 mile walk home.  ::-)
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Post by: zigzag on 05 February, 2012, 12:08:36 am
it's all so quiet...... shhh.. shhh..

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-FhsY8mI4y0c/Ty3INreYT2I/AAAAAAAABrY/xPtjKDXagZM/s640/IMG_0475.jpg)
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Post by: Wonky on 05 February, 2012, 12:37:13 am
So much snow in harrow that my sky tv has given up again only 1 1/2 hours after I last swept the dish.
Cant be bothered to sweep it again.
The kids will have to go out and play in the morning.
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Post by: TimO on 05 February, 2012, 12:42:15 am
It's been settling quite well in Croydon, there's probably three or four inches now.  I just had a quick bimble out, and it was quite fun, although even now with fresh snow, it's more fun on the entirely fresh stuff than on the freshish stuff, where cars have already had a chance to put ruts in it. :-\

The trains going past the back of the house (the east-west line between places like West Croydon station and Sutton) are arcing horribly, throwing up big flashes of light.
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Post by: why1040 on 05 February, 2012, 12:52:35 am
About an inch and a half, maybe 2 at the most on the bucks/berks borders.

And complete idiots who wouldn't know how to pilot a car in this weather, wearing completely unsuitable clothing or driving rear-wheel drive cars stuck as soon as there's the slightest hill.  It took me nearly an hour to get up the little hill on the A40 in Denham because of stuck cars-yet I was about the only one getting out to help those who were stuck in front of me!   ::-)
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Post by: Regulator on 05 February, 2012, 12:53:12 am
We've got about 3" in Cambridge...
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Post by: spesh on 05 February, 2012, 01:14:02 am
There's a distinct lack of SNO so far in Mos Eisley Pompey...
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 05 February, 2012, 01:49:11 am
We've got about 3" in Cambridge...

Fnaar, Fnaar!
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Post by: Tewdric on 05 February, 2012, 02:02:36 am
I saw a car with snow tyres fitted today. First time ever for me in the UK.

We fitted winter tyres for the first time this year and this is the first time I've driven on them in snow.  They make an incredible difference!
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Post by: Butterfly on 05 February, 2012, 04:59:53 am
It's started again here. Not very hard though. It's about 2 inches deep, I reckon.
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Post by: Jurek on 05 February, 2012, 05:02:49 am
More falling from the skies in sunny  snowy Forest Hill.
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Post by: matthew on 05 February, 2012, 05:47:43 am
No Snow here in Saudi, just dust blowing in from the desert.  :-\
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Post by: jane on 05 February, 2012, 06:57:19 am
Well, I've just been out and although there is a fair bit of it lying, already it seems to have become a bit more sleety.  Still pretty. However, I missed the  beautiful, eerie, crystal stillness that usually hangs over all of London, viewed from the top of  Blythe Hill, when it's deep in snow.  The still air held the occasional soft plink plink of sleet falling from branches and melting the snow.
     Now I am coughing, wheezing and spluttering again like an overacting consumptive in a period TV drama. Pooey.
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Post by: De Sisti on 05 February, 2012, 07:51:38 am
All of those people trapped in cars due to the snow (like the stroppy woman who phoned radio 5 live),
why didn't they heed the warnings and stay at home. I know there would have been people making
deliveries, etc, but as with the woman who had a rant on the radio, she was only visiting friends.

The light snow that we had in my part of the "Centre for the Cotswolds" last night has melted.
Temperature is about +2 degrees C at the moment.
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Post by: clarion on 05 February, 2012, 08:03:48 am
We've got about 3" in Cambridge...


It's the cold weather, you know ;)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 05 February, 2012, 08:27:21 am
Must have been about 6" when I trudged down to the garage just now to retrieve the snow tyres. I was quite surprised - next door's roof looked only to have 2 to 3" on it. It stopped snowing some hours ago, I think.

No sign of a thaw yet.
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Post by: why1040 on 05 February, 2012, 08:38:57 am
I saw a car with snow tyres fitted today. First time ever for me in the UK.

We fitted winter tyres for the first time this year and this is the first time I've driven on them in snow.  They make an incredible difference!

As I don't have a 4x4 this year for the first time in quite a while, I had snow tyres put on the Fiesta.  That plus years of experience driving in Sweden mean I'm actually pretty sensible and skilled.

All of those people trapped in cars due to the snow (like the stroppy woman who phoned radio 5 live),
why didn't they heed the warnings and stay at home. I know there would have been people making
deliveries, etc, but as with the woman who had a rant on the radio, she was only visiting friends.


This.  In spades!  Yes, I went out last night because I was confident I could get home due to the above.  And I would indeed have been absolutely fine had it not been for the amount of other idiots on the roads!  The sports cars, rear wheel drives, people with absolutely no clue.  As soon as there was a bit of a hill, I was stuck because others got stuck.  Yet very few people actually got out and helped push!   :facepalm:

Last night on the first hill, I pushed: two mercs (one heavy sports modified with a dozy bint behind the wheel who couldn't follow simple instruction), one beemer, a jaguar and an alfa romeo (four times...it's a long hill and I was stuck right behind him!).  There were four of us in total pushing all these, yet there was a mile-long queue behind us.   ::-)

The second hill is steeper and I only got out to push one-a Peugeot.  Most had already long stalled or avoided, so after I got him out of the way, I was able to make my way up.  Unfortunately I'd had to stop for him halfway up and nearly couldn't restart as I'd lost momentum, but a bit of judicious rocking and a change of wheel direction and I was on my way.  I gave a poor soul walking from the train station a lift for a couple of miles when I came upon him at the top of the hill.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 February, 2012, 09:05:02 am
Just measured the snow depth outside the front door: 6¼".

I've fitted the snow tyres. I'll just have a cup of tea and then I'm going out for a play.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 05 February, 2012, 09:08:39 am
We were out for dinner with friends last night, and left the car there as we were drinking (I have a bit if a head this morning).  We'll have to walk over later and pick it up - so I'm going to dig out my snow boots.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Marco Stefano on 05 February, 2012, 09:09:06 am
About 5 inches here in Ely, but as it was powdery & with swirling winds last night there are some spectacular drifts, particularly hanging from the edges of roofs.

We plan some walking & photography. That's when we can get past the drifts into the shed to get the spade to get past the drifts into the garage to get wellies. There's nothing like planning ahead, and that was nothing like it.  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 05 February, 2012, 09:20:00 am
Well it stopped at around 2" depth here, and it's thawing rapidly now - thankfully as our local "helpful" farmer ploughed the lane at 6am, smoothing out and polishing the nice rough surface - git. Does it everytime it snows, made the lane treacherous last year.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Juan Martín on 05 February, 2012, 09:27:42 am
About 6'' or so here in Kent. No cycling for me today, perhaps a walk is in order.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: teethgrinder on 05 February, 2012, 09:30:56 am
So much for going to Stow on the Wold today. About 2-3" in Milton Keynes.
No snow tyres and the mountain bike has very badly worn wheel bearings, so I'm on foot for now.
Pub bike now dry in my bath after last night. ;D
Hope it all goes before Friday or I'll be catching a train to Bristol instead of cycling there. :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Oaky on 05 February, 2012, 09:32:23 am
Just over 6" here in Witham.

Cycled home from the station in it last night (with Marathon winters on).  It was fun, although it seemed to bring on some very close overtakes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: cycleman on 05 February, 2012, 09:43:39 am
3" here in slough .thawing and soft . hard work on the trice  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 05 February, 2012, 09:54:46 am
Less than an inch here, now going slushy.  No use to man or beast, really.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 05 February, 2012, 09:57:56 am
About two inches here on the ground (NW London).
Rapidly falling off the trees.
Temperature 1.1-2.4°C in the various outhouses, so unlikely to lie long.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: marcusjb on 05 February, 2012, 10:00:43 am
About the same (unsurprisingly) here in west London

Just have hope the temp doesn't drop too much later, or the melting slush will become lethal for tomorrow

Ah well, gave our younger cat a first taste of snow. He didn't like it too much!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Simonb on 05 February, 2012, 10:10:10 am
Loads here in the Far East (Ramsgate) 14-15 cm,  and cold (minus 4 deg C) as we're still inside the cold pool. About to try the CX bike in the snow... :-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 05 February, 2012, 10:28:55 am
Snow? What snow? Heavy frost was the best we got.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 05 February, 2012, 10:35:25 am
6"+ here, drifts over a foot, apparently.
One of us got up early to play on the snow bike, but apparently it's a veritable powder fest out there.

Unsurprisingly, the club reliability ride is cancelled.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ferret on 05 February, 2012, 11:03:16 am
It's gone, almost, bright sunshine and taps are running ;D

this could be the quiet before the storm,
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 05 February, 2012, 11:10:32 am
About the same (unsurprisingly) here in west London

Just have hope the temp doesn't drop too much later, or the melting slush will become lethal for tomorrow

Ah well, gave our younger cat a first taste of snow. He didn't like it too much!

It's melting in Croydon as well, it's more just icy remains now, I'm glad I had a go in the fresh snow last night!

The forecast for the next 36 hours or so is above zero, so I guess it'll mostly melt and drain away before it hits sub-zero again on Tuesday.

Kai and Zev have both gone out for a careful wander in the icy snow.  The cat flap is propped open so Zev can get back in, but surprisingly they haven't turned around and come straight back.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Canardly on 05 February, 2012, 11:14:18 am
6" here and does not appear to be going anywhere
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 05 February, 2012, 11:26:04 am
Cleared the pavement, and it is melting slowly at the moment.

Here's a definition of optimism:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0251.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mmmmartin on 05 February, 2012, 11:28:10 am
6"+ here
Snigger. Fnarr fnarr. I expect Hummers will be along in a minute with some comment or other....... :demon:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 05 February, 2012, 11:32:38 am
Obviously colder here in Suffolk. Just fetched a cycling boab-offspring who didn't like the look of the back road conditions. The car claimed it's -2c, and the powdery state of the snow would seem to confirm this.

The Volvo loves the deep snow in the lanes. Must be a Swedish thing.

I also took the Gay Bike out for a circuit. The Marathon Winters are brill - though damn hard work off-piste. I had a small "moment" encountering a deep drift, and couldn't get started again. The front was less squirmy after letting some air out.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 05 February, 2012, 11:40:26 am
My brand new (well, ordered eighteen months ago but never ridden :facepalm: ) Winters eager to bite what remains of the Sno.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0250.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0249.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 05 February, 2012, 11:43:30 am
Obviously colder here in Suffolk. Just fetched a cycling boab-offspring who didn't like the look of the back road conditions. The car claimed it's -2c, and the powdery state of the snow would seem to confirm this.

The Volvo loves the deep snow in the lanes. Must be a Swedish thing.

I also took the Gay Bike out for a circuit. The Marathon Winters are brill - though damn hard work off-piste. I had a small "moment" encountering a deep drift, and couldn't get started again. The front was less squirmy after letting some air out.

how did the Stewards Enquiry go then?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 05 February, 2012, 11:44:13 am
The Marathon Winters are harder work even when pumped up to 70psi for use in the dry.

I let a lot of air out of mine last night before I took them out, I'd reckon they're probably around 15 to 20psi now, which is probably the sort of pressure you want for cycling in significant snow, although it doesn't make them any less effort. :)

Both Zev and Kai have come back in, they've had enough of the snow now!  Kai was in faster, although given his more mature years, I'm guessing he's seen it all before.  Since Zev is smaller (ie she's got a reduced volume to surface area ratio compared to Kai), and with a much lighter fur coat you would have thought she would have gotten colder faster, but maybe the novelty won out!

Edit: Famous last words, a beep from downstairs tells me that she's just gone out the cat flap again, Kai is sat by me, so I know it's not him!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 05 February, 2012, 11:45:52 am
My Winters say max 85psi, which I was surprised by, but I've given them rather less than that for now.

Ah - mine are 35s, so yours may be wider.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: GruB on 05 February, 2012, 12:00:44 pm
Same problem as yesterday - which is the best bike to use today.
Currently slushy stuff outside but if it freezes tonight it will be tricky getting home.
The MTB with studs only had crud catcher guards and they are next to useless in wet weather.
The fixed?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Efrogwr on 05 February, 2012, 12:07:00 pm
Radio 4 News has just reported that Doncaster Airport is closed. Without it's being reported on the news, would anyone have noticed?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 05 February, 2012, 12:39:34 pm
My Winters say max 85psi, which I was surprised by, but I've given them rather less than that for now.

I think mine are 35s, but I was trying to read them in the poorly lit hallway, so erred on the side of paranoia.  Tyres blowing off the rims are a bad thing, and with relatively chunky tyres and rims, it's easier than with high pressure thin racing tyres, which I've put over 150psi into in the past (on a recumbent).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 05 February, 2012, 12:45:19 pm
No snow here and it's becoming a warm(ish) sunny Sunday afternoon up here in the 'frozen' north. The roads are even drying up. Looks like my snow studs aren't destined to ride on any fresh white stuff any time soon.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 05 February, 2012, 02:55:28 pm
Not to be outdone - another SNO bike, in its natural habitat.

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7014/6823179893_eb61e91b75.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/6823179893/)
IMAG0295 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/6823179893/) by Pelotonhound (http://www.flickr.com/people/40735552@N05/), on Flickr

Nice to see the Gay Bike used in anger at last.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Simonb on 05 February, 2012, 03:16:39 pm
Just been out for 3 hours in the stuff. Great fun away from the trampled, rutted, compressed or slushy bits (bombing along the toll road at Sandwich Bay was fun). Didn't really need 'snow' tyres for any of it. I did let quite a few PSI out of the bog-standard CX tyres though.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1127109/bike.jpg)





Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Charlotte on 05 February, 2012, 03:44:57 pm
Crinkles is currently staying with us and seeing as how Phil and Jen couldn't get home on the tube last night and stayed round here, we all got up and went for a hike up Horsenden Hill to play in the SNO'.



(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-S_g1Ey-268c/Ty6gvZ6sh3I/AAAAAAAAE6w/lX5XBUkPWNw/s640/D7K_2966.jpg)   (https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-3gG7DmlDG48/Ty6hBYAerAI/AAAAAAAAE8c/JFuTjBPxQIo/s640/D7K_3002.jpg)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-j4UHJlMWePo/Ty6g2QDEYhI/AAAAAAAAE7U/fYPnFVHByYo/s640/D7K_3027.jpg)   (https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-mBbop0fU6Ws/Ty6g6U5o3aI/AAAAAAAAE7s/etjYKqKl7gk/s640/D7K_3028.jpg)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-quRX1Ilv4QY/Ty6gpVdxI1I/AAAAAAAAE58/yxvsu5w9ONw/s640/D7K_2992.jpg)   (https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ino26Qy_n7Q/Ty6guO-EW2I/AAAAAAAAE6k/9Rm5ioGaJMc/s640/D7K_3022.jpg)

We were amateurs though - there was some serious sledging going on and one guy had even bought his snow blades out to play:

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DnMFpHEbyZo/Ty6g9eLH7SI/AAAAAAAAE74/vSGJrzVM_QI/s640/D7K_2952.jpg)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-8dyY_q-3p1E/Ty6gtAWfX-I/AAAAAAAAE6U/wgEojnWFMBs/s640/D7K_2962.jpg)

(moar here (https://picasaweb.google.com/fixiegirl/120205Snow#))
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 05 February, 2012, 03:50:14 pm
Is CL wearing a wooly jumper?  Shocking!   :o


(I'm still lacking any kind of enthusiasm for the white stuff after yesterday's adventure in rather more layers.)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 05 February, 2012, 03:54:19 pm
Well, my community service has been done.  I've dug out (by hand) and gritted our road.  I've also cleared and gritted the paths of a couple of our elderly neighbours.

I'm knackered... and I'm going to spend the rest of the afternoon slobbing in front of the telly.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 05 February, 2012, 04:02:25 pm
Well, my community service has been done.

what were you found guilty of?
 ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: little miss mac on 05 February, 2012, 04:04:06 pm
This morning on Wandsworth common, the clouds were so heavy that the photos look like I took them in the gloaming...

All someone else's work:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7015/6823246617_13b504589e.jpg)

Impending sno-in-face:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7154/6823229661_ff15f17f8a.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wobbly John on 05 February, 2012, 04:28:03 pm
Well, my community service has been done.  I've dug out (by hand) and gritted our road.  I've also cleared and gritted the paths of a couple of our elderly neighbours.

Cleared our cul-de-sac a well - with only 9 houses and a slight slope, snow tends to get compessed and polished then stays for weeks. 2 cars had already packed a track down. I shovelled parallel clear tracks. It was about 6" thick on most of it.

Photo from this morning in the grounds of Wobbly towers:

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/wobblyjohn/snow2.jpg)
Title: It's snowing!
Post by: JJ on 05 February, 2012, 04:35:02 pm
A vote of thanks to the weathermen! I had to drive to Oxford yesterday to sort out Ageing Ancestor. Because the BBC predicted snow around 6pm I made sure to set off back early, and lo and behold, the first flakes came at 6.30.

Had I stuck around till later, as was proposed, I'd have been one of the stranded drivers on the M25 so here's to the men on the met office roof.

Today was for snowmen and sledging on "Big Hill"
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 05 February, 2012, 05:18:32 pm
Nothing in Bristol but enough in Chippenham to cancel, or at least delay and truncate, an audax. I thought these auks were hard types who wouldn't be put off by a inch or two or slush, but it seems not. Apparently it was pretty bad around Bath too, but all was clear as I rode home.

One guy who turned up for the ride had made his own snow tyres, by simply tying zip ties around his MTB tyres. Pretty effective he said, and a lot cheaper than proper studded ones. He was carrying a big pair of scissors in case of punctures.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 05 February, 2012, 05:20:45 pm
One guy who turned up for the ride had made his own snow tyres, by simply tying zip ties around his MTB tyres. Pretty effective he said, and a lot cheaper than proper studded ones. He was carrying a big pair of scissors in case of punctures.

Supposed to work quite well if you've got a compatible braking system.  The cable ties don't last that long, but neither does British snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 05 February, 2012, 05:39:36 pm
Yes, we've discussed zip tie "studded" tyres before, somewhere in this thread (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=39122.0), but it's 35 pages long and I can't find the first reference.

They work OK on hub or disc braked bikes, where you've got clearance around the rims.  You can also trivially fit home made snow chains to that sort of a wheel.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 05 February, 2012, 05:49:25 pm
Surly the Pugsley would be fine on it's standard tyres :)

Watching the news reports, hvae you noticed how many of the cars that are stuck/sliding are BMWs?  ;D

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 05 February, 2012, 06:00:02 pm
One of the better places to look for information on studded bicycle tyres is the Peter White Cycles (http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/studdedtires.asp) website.  There are various tyres listed on there, some more suited to thick snow, other for ice.  You can probably find some of them from European suppliers (very few in the UK though), but you'll probably have to search, and as you say, it'll cost you a significant amount of money.  Even Winter Marathons, which are relatively cheap for studded tyres, are between £30 and £40 each from most suppliers (assuming they have stock).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 February, 2012, 06:00:23 pm
Surly the Pugsley would be fine on it's standard tyres :)

Watching the news reports, hvae you noticed how many of the cars that are stuck/sliding are BMWs?  ;D

Aren't they all rear-wheel drive?

Two winters ago, we had a spectacular snowfall one evening. It had been freezing all day and in the evening the snow started. I went to my tai chi class as normal, but we knocked of early because of the weather. I cycled home on the pavement because the road was too slippery: the cars had been slushing the snow.

I got to the main road near home, which involves a short climb of no proper steepness whatever, and BMWs and Mercs were sliding all over the place. There was a massive queue at a time when normally the road was clear of traffic.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feanor on 05 February, 2012, 06:02:59 pm
Yes, Rear-wheel-Drive with no real weight over the driving wheels, and big fat wide tyres which don't give good grip on snow.

We had one briefly many years ago, and it was horrible in the snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 05 February, 2012, 06:46:39 pm
Just back from a day's skiing at Yad Moss, no snow in Penrith, or Alston, some snowfall last night at Yad. We got to try out our £19.99 Lidl snow chains yesterday, after a hedgelaying competition between Staveley and Crook, near Kendal, quite easy to put on, very effective, a useful standby. This is what people look like eating Hot Pot in a snowstorm, we had another 3 and a half hours out in that, we got a bit chilly standing around waiting for the judging.

(http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/426768_327414100631323_100000882080382_910905_1165437221_n.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 05 February, 2012, 07:14:57 pm
Surly the Pugsley would be fine on it's standard tyres :)
On snow, certainly (drop the pressure to around 5-10 psi) but I'm not sure how well they'd cope with ice even running at silly low pressures. Given that it was thawing like buggery here today and it'll most definitely freeze tonight, ice is going to be more of a problem over the next few days I suspect.

Of course, I could always try the zip-tie dodge on Morticia the 1x1 ...
A snow unicycle? Nothing could possibly go wrong!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mattc on 05 February, 2012, 08:17:45 pm
One of the better places to look for information on studded bicycle tyres is the Peter White Cycles (http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/studdedtires.asp) website.

...
Or even here:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=yacf+studded+tyres&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a#hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=lGU&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&q=+site:yacf.co.uk+yacf+studded+tyres&sa=X&ei=iOMuT4v_C8OQ0AX03aWtCA&ved=0CFYQrQIwAA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=2d8cc53d1d73d28e&biw=1024&bih=655
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Frere on 06 February, 2012, 11:54:22 am
One of the better places to look for information on studded bicycle tyres is the Peter White Cycles (http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/studdedtires.asp) website.

...
Or even here:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=yacf+studded+tyres&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a#hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=lGU&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&q=+site:yacf.co.uk+yacf+studded+tyres&sa=X&ei=iOMuT4v_C8OQ0AX03aWtCA&ved=0CFYQrQIwAA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=2d8cc53d1d73d28e&biw=1024&bih=655

364 results :)

Frere
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Paul D on 06 February, 2012, 01:43:33 pm
I notice my local top class bikemonger Charlie is now stocking a selection of eye-wateringly priced studded tyres (http://www.charliethebikemonger.com/snow--fat-tyres-133-c.asp), including a 29er 2.25" one, something I have previously searched for but not found. Not at that price though.  :hand:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 06 February, 2012, 03:51:06 pm
You can get what I think are the tyres (http://www.bike-discount.de/shop/k669/a53325/ice-spiker-pro-402-spikes-29-x-225-tl-ready-folding.html?mfid=78) which you're referring to for about £60 each, plus around £5 delivery via DHL (the exact price will depend on exchange rates) from bike-discounts.de, which I've used once so far, and found to be fairly efficient.  That's a lot better than the £90 or so that Charlie is quoting (although he has free delivery).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Paul D on 06 February, 2012, 04:22:40 pm
Thanks but until I feel the need to enter the Strathpuffer 24 (http://www.strathpuffer.co.uk) I shall be saving my £130 (or £160 from Charlie as I get 10% discount)!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: citoyen on 06 February, 2012, 04:27:15 pm
I'm not daft enough to attempt unicycling on a normal surface, much less a snowy and icy surface.

Funnily enough, I looked at my unicycle before I left the house this morning (it was propped up next to my Brompton) and did briefly consider it... But I'm not good enough on it yet, so I would have got nowhere fast. Must do more practice.

And then, lo and behold, I saw someone with a unicycle at the station. Must have been something like a 36" wheel. Huge, anyway. Looked like a normal knobbly tyre.

d.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 February, 2012, 11:13:11 am
A very slow thaw this morning, although roads running east-west were very treacherous partly with compacted snow and partly black ice.

I thought yesterday's thaw had seen off about half Sunday's snow, but it's less than that. There's still at least 4 inches lying and with the forecast of 12 hours of frost and some more snow tonight, it's going to be hanging around for a few more days yet I think.

My afternoon school has cancelled all clubs this week so I'll have a free afternoon. I'll take the dog for a short walk now and a longer one after lunch.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 07 February, 2012, 11:23:15 am
Th-th-th-that's All, Folks!

At least as far as that there londonton village is concerned. 

Snow gone.  Pretty much disappeared by last night, as my lack of success icehunting on the way home proved. 

Couple of freezing nights coming up, so there may well be ice in the mornings, though. :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 07 February, 2012, 11:35:32 am
Still plenty of winteriness hereabouts; viz - https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=26458.msg1157495#msg1157495
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 07 February, 2012, 11:37:26 am
No sno here, but we had a hard frost last night and I had to ride over a couple of road-wide ice patches on the way in this morning. It's all thawing out now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 February, 2012, 01:37:18 pm
Still plenty here.  And it's blooming cold at this bus stop!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 February, 2012, 02:21:36 pm
When I delved into areas where the sun doesn't shine (Churchill Gardens) there was still a full 6" or so of snow.

I notice that yesterday Shoebury had the lowest maximum temperature of anywhere in East Anglia, according to the Met Office. I've also noticed that the barometric pressure is perilously close to the highest I've recorded since buying the weather station, viz. 1040.1mb now, compared to 1041.6mb on 23/3/2011.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 February, 2012, 05:27:15 pm
I will say that I've been very impressed with the Met Office's forecasting over the past few days. It's snowed when they said it would, the fog has come and gone at the right time, and their wish seems to be the temperature's command. Is it easier to get it right when it's a cold easterly?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 07 February, 2012, 05:31:41 pm
I will say that I've been very impressed with the Met Office's forecasting over the past few days. It's snowed when they said it would, the fog has come and gone at the right time, and their wish seems to be the temperature's command. Is it easier to get it right when it's a cold easterly?

No - it's much harder. I think it's just luck. The Easterly has clearly returned; the air is much drier and the temperature has been falling all day. Looks to be well below freezing out there now (checks) - ah yes, Wattisham reporting -4c currently (and it's only 17:30).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 February, 2012, 05:37:28 pm
It's -3°C in Shoebury at the moment (well, it was a 5 p.m.) whereas we are about half a degree above that.

This is the lowest temperature I've recorded since Boxing Day 2010, and the highest barometric pressure since buying the weather station! Whoopee!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 07 February, 2012, 06:08:12 pm
I see that the BBC lists "hot spots" and "cold spots".

Current  the hottest of the hot is Durness!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Chris S on 07 February, 2012, 06:52:48 pm
I think the forecasters will have been caught out by the depth of the cold now flooding into the SE.

The "official" forecast minimum for East Anglia (it's as precise as the Met Office goes) is -4C. Well, it's now down to -6C at Wattisham, and it's not yet 7pm.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 07 February, 2012, 06:58:16 pm
It seems to have stopped at -3 in Shoebury, and got a bit warmer here. Now -2.1°C.
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Post by: Chris S on 07 February, 2012, 06:59:47 pm
It seems to have stopped at -3 in Shoebury, and got a bit warmer here. Now -2.1°C.

You may find it's clouding over. There's some decaying shower activity in the North Sea that may give some flurries later.
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Post by: Canardly on 07 February, 2012, 07:11:07 pm
Coldest night of the year due apparently forecast -10C here.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 07 February, 2012, 09:15:16 pm
I will say that I've been very impressed with the Met Office's forecasting over the past few days. It's snowed when they said it would, the fog has come and gone at the right time, and their wish seems to be the temperature's command. Is it easier to get it right when it's a cold easterly?

No - it's much harder. I think it's just luck. The Easterly has clearly returned; the air is much drier and the temperature has been falling all day. Looks to be well below freezing out there now (checks) - ah yes, Wattisham reporting -4c currently (and it's only 17:30).
I don't know anything about this, but I do remember hearing that one of the advantages many weather forecasters in continental Europe and much of America have over those in Britain, is that because most weather patterns come from the west, they have advance info from stations to the west - whereas we have only the Atlantic. Perhaps in east England you get enough info to counteract this though?
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Post by: Bledlow on 07 February, 2012, 09:30:48 pm
Nowadays there are things called ships, aircraft, & satellites to give warning.

I think our problem isn't lack of warning, but changeability. We're on a boundary between sea & land. Quite a small change in direction or intensity of a weather system rolling in from the Atlantic can make a big difference to our weather.
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Post by: Chris S on 07 February, 2012, 09:50:38 pm
We've become quite good at short-term, broad-scale forecasting. So we can say "The broad pattern will be westerly and cyclonic over the next five days" and such. We have computers, satellites and a lot of data to thank for that.

This is useful for airlines who want to know which NAT track to use to get from Europe to North America (position of the Jet Stream is key) but totally useless for Auntie Vera who wants to know if she should wear a Mac on her weekly shopping trip on Tuesday morning.

This is all fine when the natural West to East flow is working. When the (normal) balance is upset by (for example) a damn great blocking High over Siberia, the computers become quite poor at predicting anything useful beyond a couple of days.

The accuracy with which the computer models predicted last weekend's snow was quite stunning. In a trough disrupted, blocked scenario (a traditionally very hard situation to forecast) they got several things as near as dammit spot on. They forecast the exact time of the onset of snow, accurately to within 2 hours. They predicted the stalling of the progression of the mild air intrusion very well - such that areas south and east of a line from the Wash to Brighton remained below freezing all day Sunday - a key component to the forecast.

They very VERY rarely get this forecast scenario even close to reality. They out-performed themselves this time.

But I think it was luck. Another time, they'll get it completely wrong. And that's why weather forecasting is ultimately doomed - Mother Nature will always have the last laugh.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 07 February, 2012, 10:08:09 pm
This situation we have had this weekend is unprecedented in my experience: a band of snow which has approached SE England from the west and hung around for days. Normally, snow from the west is the front of the warm air meeting the cold and dominating it. If we're going to get snow which lasts, it's almost invariably from the east or north-east. 1963, 1970-71, 1980-81, 1987 were all hard winters in Essex and were all as a result of an easterly airstream which hung around for days and, occasionally, weeks.
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Post by: Paul D on 08 February, 2012, 12:15:08 pm
Scarily enough, the Strathpuffer is on my 'to do' list for (possibly) next year ...

It's been on my list for the last couple of years, but without much enthusiasm as it's the other side of the world from me in Dorset.

Want to put a (YACF) team entry in for 2013? I can probably rope in at least a 3rd loony team member. Probably a discussion for a separate thread.
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Post by: TimO on 08 February, 2012, 01:47:11 pm
It was very very lightly snowing on my way in this morning, more so in Croydon than once I got nearer to South Ken.
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Post by: PaulF on 08 February, 2012, 01:57:51 pm
Scarily enough, the Strathpuffer is on my 'to do' list for (possibly) next year ...

It's been on my list for the last couple of years, but without much enthusiasm as it's the other side of the world from me in Dorset.

Want to put a (YACF) team entry in for 2013? I can probably rope in at least a 3rd loony team member. Probably a discussion for a separate thread.

Does sound suitably barmy. Pencil me in as 'curious'
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Post by: spesh on 09 February, 2012, 11:07:49 pm
Looks like it's finally condescended to sprinkle a bit of SNO in Mos Eisley Spaceport Pompey.

Which means that for anyone north of Waterlooville, the SNOpocalypse must be at hand...
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Post by: Jurek on 09 February, 2012, 11:12:55 pm
It has been giving it some, here in SE Londres for at least couple of hours.

But the 2.2°C displayed on the thermometer says it is unlikely to settle on anything other than the cars.
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Post by: Jaded on 09 February, 2012, 11:15:05 pm
We has whiteness everywhere here
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Post by: her_welshness on 09 February, 2012, 11:17:37 pm
Am staying with my sister in east sheen and it's been snowing here for at least three hours.
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Post by: nicknack on 09 February, 2012, 11:30:44 pm
It hasn't made it to my bit of North Kent yet - thank goodness.
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Post by: Kim on 09 February, 2012, 11:42:01 pm
It seems to have avoided us yet again.  Bored now.
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 09 February, 2012, 11:48:45 pm
Am staying with my sister in east sheen and it's been snowing here for at least three hours.

I'm not too far from there and wondering if the tube (Kew Gardens) will work tomorrow. Not riding as I don't have the studded tyres on and, more so, I have a stinker of a cold.
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Post by: Bledlow on 09 February, 2012, 11:49:40 pm
Kim:
You can have ours if you like.  Been snowing lightly on & off for 6 hours. It's nice & wet, & started out melting on the roads before settling. A small drop in temperature & we'll have sheets of ice everywhere.
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Post by: border-rider on 10 February, 2012, 12:02:24 am
just raining here at the mo. We may catch the edge of it in a few hours.
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Post by: TimO on 10 February, 2012, 12:29:27 am
I just cycled home, and it was lightly snowing the entire way.  It has been settling everywhere but the roads, I'd guess because of the metric shitload of grit that they've been pouring onto the roads every night for the last week or so.

Most of the footways, cyclepaths, grass, car etc have settled snow on them (not that it slowed me in the slightest on Vince with his studded tyres), but the roads were almost entirely clear.

It's also not really all that cold either, and I met Kai outside when I got home.  He came in briefly to ensure that my skills at opening tins were still adequate, before going back out of the cat flap back into the slightly whiter back garden.
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Post by: nightrider on 10 February, 2012, 03:58:44 am
Another good covering here.Its getting boring now.
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Post by: rafletcher on 10 February, 2012, 07:44:34 am
Seems to vary around here, some 3" in Oxford, down to around 1" around Hemel. But all major roads running fine, you just have to be careful turning onto the minor ones.  And the car park at work is ploughed again (though not yet salted). The benefits of a Swedish employer perhaps?
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Post by: Aidan on 10 February, 2012, 07:45:20 am
We had loads last night, roads are awful this morning . The main road to York has been shut because of ice and accidents. I've postponed my meeting in York this morning :-)
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Post by: numbnuts on 10 February, 2012, 09:10:29 am
we had snow....about 2mm  :(
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Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 10 February, 2012, 09:28:30 am
Roads from Stockwell to Central Londonton were absolutely fine, I had no trouble cycling.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 10 February, 2012, 09:47:31 am
None in Maidstone - much to my daughter's diappointment.
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Post by: Jaded on 10 February, 2012, 10:08:48 am
Ours is now melting
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Post by: tiermat on 10 February, 2012, 10:15:48 am
We had freezing rain last night, and it had frozen all over the road outside our house.

I sat in the office this morning watching the antics outside the school, with a mix of amusement and horror.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 10 February, 2012, 11:25:32 am
Cold rain last night turned into snow sometime earlier this morning. Now it is all melting.
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Post by: ferret on 10 February, 2012, 11:32:19 am
well here in the sunny Brecon Beacons it's trying it's hardest to snow but nothing yet :thumbsup:

roads are a bit dodgy though, accident on the 470 this morning and for the last few days the 4067? Brecon to Swansea road has been closed
due to the fact it's disappeared near the Ancient Briton , drains frozen and then collapsed apparently   
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Post by: TimO on 10 February, 2012, 11:54:32 am
Nothing to speak of cycling from Croydon to South Ken this morning.  The little snow that had settled on the cycle paths and footways last night, has all gone now, and it's too warm for ice.  The Commons, which had almost lost all of their snow yesterday, except for the last few mostly melted remains of snowmen, are now freshly white on the grass again, although a bit threadbare compared to a proper dump.
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Post by: Jaded on 10 February, 2012, 12:12:46 pm
Big clumpy lumps of snow falling on us now.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 10 February, 2012, 12:23:06 pm
Small unclumpy flakes here.
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Post by: Si_Co on 10 February, 2012, 12:45:32 pm
and I'm running slicks
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Post by: jogler on 10 February, 2012, 12:47:10 pm
and I'm running slicks

 :o
 ::-)
be carefull
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Post by: Wowbagger on 10 February, 2012, 12:53:41 pm
It's a beautiful sunny day here in Maidstone. There's still some snow on the roofs though.
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Post by: mcshroom on 10 February, 2012, 12:58:29 pm
No snow here still, but there was a nice covering on the fields and railway line around Millom this morning.

I'm getting bored of the snow studs now (they are so draggy) and it's warming up and dry outside. We still get icy patches on the back roads in the mornings though.
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Post by: Basil on 10 February, 2012, 01:22:39 pm
From the BBC
Quote
A widespread frost in some areas was expected on Friday night along with a risk of icy patches, particularly where snow cover remains.

The ambulance service urged the public "to be mindful of the conditions" if venturing out by car or on foot.

Pedestrians especially "should wear appropriate footwear", it said.

As I will be venturing out by bike, so not by car or on foot, I should be OK then.  :)
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Post by: clarion on 10 February, 2012, 01:27:27 pm
Snow everywhere in Sarf Landan.  Except on the roads.  I had to go to some effort to hunt out some ice to ride on.  A few flurries today, but the Winter tyres were complete Overkill.
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Post by: Butterfly on 10 February, 2012, 02:25:16 pm
Snow everywhere in Sarf Landan.  Except on the roads.  I had to go to some effort to hunt out some ice to ride on.  A few flurries today, but the Winter tyres were complete Overkill.
ITYS
 ;D :-*
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Post by: clarion on 10 February, 2012, 04:07:19 pm
That'll be 'I Told You So'.  And indeed she did. :)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 11 February, 2012, 09:19:59 am
Well, that was a cold one. -6.5°C in my garden around 8 a.m. Looking around East Anglia, the Met Office recorded -9.1°C in Shoebury, 5 miles away, but -13.8°C in Marham, Norfolk.

Guess whose central heating has packed up.
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Post by: Regulator on 11 February, 2012, 09:30:45 am
Freezing fog is rolling in here.  You cn almost see it getting thicker as you watch.
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Post by: Aidan on 11 February, 2012, 10:01:19 am
Beautifully clear here, sun shining , roads dry. Very very cold though, was -15 at 7.30 this morning.  -9 now.
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Post by: Regulator on 11 February, 2012, 10:07:42 am
Fog all gone now...
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Post by: mattc on 11 February, 2012, 11:43:54 am
Snow everywhere in Sarf Landan.  Except on the roads.  I had to go to some effort to hunt out some ice to ride on.  A few flurries today, but the Winter tyres were complete Overkill.

I've just heard it was -17 on the Chipstead Valley Road last night. (Very Sarf Landan, not that far from Clarion and still inside the M25). Apparently a record, but recorded by amateur meteo.

We only had -9 here - balmy!
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Post by: Jaded on 11 February, 2012, 11:53:02 am
The country is upside down. windy is basking in 7C whilst we are 14 degrees lower...
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Post by: Wowbagger on 11 February, 2012, 11:57:05 am
I would imagine that it's not often -7°C in Stornoway...
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Post by: Bledlow on 11 February, 2012, 01:02:13 pm
-5.5C outside my back door overnight. Up at Reading University (where Mrs B & I walked to this morning, to enjoy the Harris Garden & the woods), the dry bulb minimum was -10.2C, & wet bulb -10.6C, at 7.21 & 7.26 this morning. Still below freezing here.
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Post by: orienteer on 11 February, 2012, 01:29:46 pm
-10C here in outer west London this morning. Just gone above 0.
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Post by: Andrij on 11 February, 2012, 01:40:09 pm
In Northeast Ohio it is currently -6 with winds at a steady 30kph from the north, and LOTS of SNOW!   It's all looking very pretty (will take some pics) but it could make today's travel 'interesting'.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 February, 2012, 04:55:30 pm
The country is upside down. windy is basking in 7C whilst we are 14 degrees lower...
And back to front, with loads of precipitation in the East and not much at all in the West.
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Post by: Quint on 11 February, 2012, 06:15:29 pm
minus 10c @ ox5 1jt when I trikled home, nice starry night though  8)
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Post by: Feline on 11 February, 2012, 06:15:51 pm
There is quite a bit of snow up on the top of the mendips today. We almost required helmets to protect us from mini icicles falling from overhanging trees. There was a fantastic blue-white glistening effect in some of the plants up there where the sun was shining through solid ice all over their upper branches. I wished I was a proficient enough stoker to be able to get the phone out to take a picture as we passed. There was a fair amount of ice up there so we had to be a bit careful, especially descending the gorge, our first ever proper decent on the bike  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 February, 2012, 06:26:44 pm
Sounds like you're getting on rather well with the tandem. Perhaps you should take the winter studs off your Pompetamine and put them on the tandem? Then you'd have no worries down the Gorge!
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Post by: Von Broad on 11 February, 2012, 06:32:16 pm
-18 here last night

http://www.chesham1879.co.uk/weather/weather.htm

woke up this morning to find a blocked kitchen sink half full of water. Uh?
[looking at it and thinking]...ah!....must put a new washer on that kitchen tap.
Water from dripping taps can't drain away in those kind of temperatures!
About 5ft of external 40mm waste pipe was frozen solid.
Good job I didn't go away for the weekend or else my neighbour would have been flooded! [eventually, around lunchtime]
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Post by: Wobbly John on 11 February, 2012, 07:08:20 pm
Car recorded -160C at 9am as Mrs WJ was going to work, and -120C at 5.45pm on the way home.  :o

Looks as if I lost all my tender plants in the greenhouse.  >:(
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Post by: Wowbagger on 11 February, 2012, 07:11:47 pm
Car recorded -160C at 9am as Mrs WJ was going to work, and -120C at 5.45pm on the way home.  :o

Crikey Penfold!
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 11 February, 2012, 07:15:57 pm
-18 here last night

http://www.chesham1879.co.uk/weather/weather.htm

woke up this morning to find a blocked kitchen sink half full of water. Uh?
[looking at it and thinking]...ah!....must put a new washer on that kitchen tap.
Water from dripping taps can't drain away in those kind of temperatures!
About 5ft of external 40mm waste pipe was frozen solid.
Good job I didn't go away for the weekend or else my neighbour would have been flooded! [eventually, around lunchtime]

Is that anything to do with the famous frost hollow caused by the railway embankment?
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Post by: andrewc on 11 February, 2012, 07:23:39 pm
No snow in Liverpool, the temperature is hovering just above freezing. I was out for a brief spin before and there is a good layer of ice on Princess Park lake.
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Post by: Chris S on 11 February, 2012, 07:26:57 pm
-9 on the car display passing Cambridge, on the way over to Bedford earlier. It had better warm up before tomorrows 200!
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Post by: Von Broad on 11 February, 2012, 07:39:56 pm
-18 here last night
http://www.chesham1879.co.uk/weather/weather.htm

Is that anything to do with the famous frost hollow caused by the railway embankment?

Frost hollow? most definitely yes, but due to the railway embankment? no. You might be thinking of Rickmansworth, about 7 miles away, a couple of stops down the line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickmansworth
"Rickmansworth also has a famous frost hollow. This is caused by the local geography, notably a railway embankment which prevents the natural drainage of cold air from a specific part of the valley. Rickmansworth recorded the largest daily temperature range in England when, on 29 August 1936, the temperature climbed from 1.1°C at dawn to 24.9°C within 9 hours due to this unique geographic feature."

The temperature data is from a private weather station, situated just about here (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=RqJ&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&q=51.702712%2C-0.621221&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=6335l6757l0l7371l1l1l0l0l0l0l86l86l1l1l0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl)
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Post by: Von Broad on 11 February, 2012, 07:42:40 pm
-9 on the car display passing Cambridge, on the way over to Bedford earlier. It had better warm up before tomorrows 200!

That's 200 yards you talking about there, right Chris?
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Post by: Wobbly John on 11 February, 2012, 08:10:32 pm
Car recorded -160C at 9am as Mrs WJ was going to work, and -120C at 5.45pm on the way home.  :o

Crikey Penfold!

Our cycle club is running it's 'Hardriders' 25 mile time trial tomorrw  ::-)

They make 'em tough in the Fens.
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Post by: Chris S on 11 February, 2012, 08:23:34 pm
-9 on the car display passing Cambridge, on the way over to Bedford earlier. It had better warm up before tomorrows 200!

That's 200 yards you talking about there, right Chris?

It may yet turn out that way!
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Post by: TimO on 11 February, 2012, 10:53:02 pm
Well I'm intending to do the Dickens Ride in London tomorrow, which I'll cycle to from Croydon.  That means I'll probably only do forty miles or so, but the forecast -3°C doesn't even vaguely worry me, although there's a risk that the relatively slow ride could be a bit brisk, because we probably won't be moving fast enough to keep ourselves very warm.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 February, 2012, 10:55:48 pm
The slow ride could be brisk!  ;D
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Post by: TimO on 11 February, 2012, 11:44:21 pm
Well, I'd guess if people get too cold (and I seem to be more tolerant of these sort of conditions than most people) then I suspect the ride will either be abandoned, or will end up with more stops for tea, coffee, and heating!
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Post by: Juan Martín on 12 February, 2012, 08:37:01 am
It's snowing steadily in mid-Kent. This wasn't supposed to happen - bugger!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 12 February, 2012, 10:17:24 am
The met office forecast it. They are also forecasting it for Southend and Basildon.
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Post by: nicknack on 12 February, 2012, 12:03:23 pm
Gently raining now in North Kent. Yay!
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Post by: rafletcher on 12 February, 2012, 01:43:21 pm
I reckon that's the worst over for us, around 5C here and a slow thaw. Overcast but dry. Not forecast to go below 0 for the next few days (mind you, it wasn't forecast to get to -11C on Friday either!)
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Post by: Quint on 12 February, 2012, 01:45:38 pm
Warming up in OX5 1JT, up to  minus 5 on way home this morning, strange, but with it being so cold the stars are not twinkling as brightly as you would think
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Post by: border-rider on 12 February, 2012, 01:50:28 pm
It's sunny here, and quite warm. No sign of any snow whatsoever. Yesterday was cold & clear & icy.
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 12 February, 2012, 03:10:39 pm
-18 here last night
http://www.chesham1879.co.uk/weather/weather.htm

Is that anything to do with the famous frost hollow caused by the railway embankment?

Frost hollow? most definitely yes, but due to the railway embankment? no. You might be thinking of Rickmansworth, about 7 miles away, a couple of stops down the line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickmansworth
"Rickmansworth also has a famous frost hollow. This is caused by the local geography, notably a railway embankment which prevents the natural drainage of cold air from a specific part of the valley. Rickmansworth recorded the largest daily temperature range in England when, on 29 August 1936, the temperature climbed from 1.1°C at dawn to 24.9°C within 9 hours due to this unique geographic feature."

The temperature data is from a private weather station, situated just about here (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=RqJ&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&q=51.702712%2C-0.621221&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=6335l6757l0l7371l1l1l0l0l0l0l86l86l1l1l0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl)

I'm getting Chesham mixed up with Chorleywood, it all those settlements beginning with CH round there, I blame the Chalfonts.

Quote
From 'The English Climate' by H.H. Lamb

'Among the foothills of the Chiltern Hills between Rickmansworth and
Chorleywood, Herts, is a residential district in a little valley 177 feet
above sea level, with the surrounding hills a hundred feet higher. This is
our best studied frost hollow. The valley runs east-southeast, but turns at
right angles towards south-southwest just below the point where E.L Hawke*
maintained a meteorological station from 1930 to 1942. About 300 yards below
the bend it is partly blocked by a high railway embankment.'

* Hawke, E.L 'Extreme Diurnal Ranges of Air Temperature in the British
Isles', Quarterly Journal of the Royal Met Soc Vol 59,pp. 261-265, 1933,
and...'Thermal Characteristics of a Hertfordshire Frost Hollow', ibid., Vol
70, pp.23-48, 1944

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Post by: TimO on 12 February, 2012, 05:21:16 pm
The Dickens Ride was quite warm, although it started off a little brisk, and at one point Bill decided not to cycle as far along the south bank near Tower Bridge as he had intended, after a few feet of more or less completely ice covered footpath.

I wondered why everyone else was walking, and didn't realise how icy it was until I put my feet down on the ground and promptly fell over.  Marathon Winters ftw!

It was very lightly snowing when I left Croydon, and it had been settling on the ground, but by the time I got a couple of miles closer into central London, even that went.
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Post by: Adam on 12 February, 2012, 07:19:16 pm
It was strange being in London today (shopping).  No snow anywhere, yet on the train home, once you get past the suburbs, the fields are covered in thick snow and in the villages, there are mounds of snow heaped up on the verges.  Seeing it all white seems normal now.
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Post by: lou boutin on 19 February, 2012, 07:03:32 am
Snow, snow, i said WE HAVE SNOW!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: pixieannie on 19 February, 2012, 07:07:39 am
Snow, snow, i said WE HAVE SNOW!  :thumbsup:
Where are you?
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Post by: lou boutin on 19 February, 2012, 07:14:06 am
At the moment we're in Craven Arms in Shropshire but back to London for Mr LB and then onto Paris for me. Just hope there's not too much snow anywhere else en route.
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Post by: pixieannie on 19 February, 2012, 07:15:26 am
At the moment we're in Craven arms in Shropshire but back to London for Mr LB and then onto Paris for me. Just hope there's not too much snow anywhere else en route.
Please to not be bringing the snow with you to the bottom half of the country.

I'm loving your profile pic :)
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Post by: lou boutin on 19 February, 2012, 07:17:19 am
At the moment we're in Craven arms in Shropshire but back to London for Mr LB and then onto Paris for me. Just hope there's not too much snow anywhere else en route.
Please to not be bringing the snow with you to the bottom half of the country.

I'm loving your profile pic :)

glad to hear it's not snowing down south.

Re profile pic, I'm never properly equipped without them.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 February, 2012, 10:24:51 am
Gah! We haz sno :(
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Post by: Wowbagger on 19 February, 2012, 10:26:11 am
We have a cold, bright, sunny day. It looks ideal for a short ride to see how well the congested nasal cavity copes.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 February, 2012, 10:08:30 am
The temperature's ratcheting up here at the moment. 14.8°C so far. Only 12 days ago it was -6.5°C. Must take the dog for a walk and then go cycling!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 February, 2012, 03:33:22 pm
Maximum today: 18.8°C. That must be some kind of February record. 25.3°C higher than it was 12 days ago.
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Post by: Bledlow on 23 February, 2012, 07:11:34 pm
Hot! We got 14.4C max. Reading uni recorded 16.2 dry bulb, 13.6 wet bulb, according to their website - http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/Data/fieldsite/cgi-bin/graph_page.cgi?RL=0&Dat=1 (http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/Data/fieldsite/cgi-bin/graph_page.cgi?RL=0&Dat=1)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 February, 2012, 07:21:23 pm
Apparently the official maximum was in Warks somewhere.

Quote from: Met Office
Weather report — Highest temperatures today
It has been an exceptionally mild day across many parts of the United Kingdom. The warmest place was Coleshill (Warwickshire) with 18.7 ºC, closely followed by Market Bosworth (Leicestershire) with 18.3 ºC and Santon Downham (Suffolk) with 18.2 ºC. Issued at 1617 on Thu 23 Feb 2012.

From http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/beta/weather/observations/?tab=last24hours
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Canardly on 23 February, 2012, 07:39:53 pm
Unfortunately it is not forecast to last until the week end. Today was glorious cycling weather and trapped at work.
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Post by: Quint on 23 February, 2012, 08:14:56 pm
And so say all of us  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 February, 2012, 10:42:36 pm
Sat and Sun look to be very good cycling days round here - 10°C, some sun and not much wind.
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Post by: Simonb on 23 February, 2012, 10:50:05 pm
- 10°C

A tad on the cold side for me.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 04 March, 2012, 11:05:41 am
Sleeting here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Carradice bag lady on 04 March, 2012, 11:50:15 am
rain here AGAIN in lancashire never a day without !!!
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Post by: AndyK on 04 March, 2012, 11:56:21 am
According to Robert Llewellyn it's, "snow in the Cotswolds. Proper snow, settling."
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Post by: mcshroom on 04 March, 2012, 12:10:07 pm
Snow on the fells above about 300m round here. It all fell overnight though - now the sun's out  8)
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Post by: Bledlow on 04 March, 2012, 01:22:37 pm
Snow is now falling in Reading.

Yesterday, Mrs B & I got a little pink in the sun down in Dorset, & ate our lunch sitting outside. We came back this morning through torrential rain, & now we're home, it's bloody cold & there's wet slushy white stuff falling from the sky.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 04 March, 2012, 01:59:44 pm
That's quite impressive: it's 9°C in Southend atm and only about 70 miles to Reading.
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Post by: Bledlow on 04 March, 2012, 04:07:44 pm
It's not settled. The ground was soaking wet & too warm.

The graph on the Reading University weather station site shows an impressive temperature drop this afternoon, from 7.5C to just above zero in two hours, before recovering to 3.5-4C.
http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/Data/fieldsite/cgi-bin/graph_page.cgi?RL=1& (http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/Data/fieldsite/cgi-bin/graph_page.cgi?RL=1&)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 March, 2012, 04:11:33 pm
The temperature has dropped by 5°C in the past 2 hours.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 04 March, 2012, 04:21:06 pm
We got snowed on at the campsite in Bletchingd/ton, just North of Oxford.  It made a change from the rain which was falling from about 5am till we arrived in Oxford after 3pm.  Although it was cold, no snow settled.


Cycleman was riding home downwind, so unlikely to have escaped the rain much at all. :(
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Post by: Panoramix on 04 March, 2012, 04:36:30 pm
It was sleeting this morning on the top of Lansdown hill (close to Bath) as I was on my Sunday morning outing.
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Post by: Efrogwr on 04 March, 2012, 06:51:24 pm
There's plenty in Eryri: the best we've had all winter. (When the east had spectacularly wintry weather it got a bit cool here). The tops look wonderful.
I managed to find some to ride in: at 600+ m on Marchlyn Mawr (on the road to the top of the pressure relief shaft at Dinorwic power station).
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 March, 2012, 07:33:11 pm
A few hail showers this afternoon on the low land between Bristol and Bath.
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Post by: cycleman on 05 March, 2012, 10:15:57 am
there was a light dusting of snow on the open bits of the chiltens when i went over pictures later  :)
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Post by: cycleman on 06 March, 2012, 08:48:01 am

(http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k411/cycleman108/2012046.jpg)

(http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k411/cycleman108/2012051.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: AndyK on 07 March, 2012, 09:24:23 am
What a beautiful view!
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Post by: clarion on 07 March, 2012, 09:34:50 am
Stunning.  It's so heartening to have a lovely view. I well remember the view from my landing window in Mankinholes.  I'd wake up in the morning and stumble along to the stairs, with my smile widening as the panorama did.

*sigh*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 07 March, 2012, 02:28:07 pm
Got hailed on heavily in Manchester.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MattH on 19 March, 2012, 09:07:28 pm
Snowing reasonably heavily here. Proper, mid-winter, dry flaked snow. I am in Finland (Jyväskylä), so I guess it's understandable. Perhaps I'll take a taxi to work tomorrow rather than borrowing one of the hotel bikes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 March, 2012, 11:37:44 am
Well, it isn't, but the temperature here is a mere 6°C, in stark contrast to yesterday, when it was nice and warm and sunny.

I understand that Manchester is expecting 20°C this afternoon - the bastards!
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Post by: Chris S on 25 March, 2012, 12:23:50 pm
Well, it isn't, but the temperature here is a mere 6°C, in stark contrast to yesterday, when it was nice and warm and sunny.

I understand that Manchester is expecting 20°C this afternoon - the bastards!

There was a noticeable East/West split yesterday. It was easily 20c riding through the Forest of Dean.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 March, 2012, 12:49:05 pm
I think the temperature yesterday was getting on for 20°C in Cambs / N. Essex, but as we approached the Crouch & Thames estuaries it became noticeably cooler. I was down to 1 layer for most of yesterday's ride.

Edit: just checked E. Anglian Met Office. Highest in East of England was 18.7°C in Cambridge (NIAB).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: FatBloke on 25 March, 2012, 01:13:33 pm
At my house the temperature struggled to get into double figures for most of the day. A mile inland the temp was 16.5 degrees plus!   :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 March, 2012, 01:34:03 pm
Indded. The maximum temperature in our garden was 16.4° - and we are about a mile inland!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 25 March, 2012, 04:02:20 pm
It seems to be 14-15°C in London today, very nice and mild.  I just used a short sleeved YACF jersey cycling to Sutton earlier, and that was perfectly comfortable.

I think we've seen the last of any snow now, at worst we may get the odd bit of hail, which won't settle, until the late autumn.
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Post by: Wendy on 25 March, 2012, 05:43:32 pm
It was 'kin freezing in London, at least by comparison with yesterday.
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Post by: Jaded on 25 March, 2012, 05:55:45 pm
It was warm to sit out this afternoon, lovely.
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Post by: SteveC on 25 March, 2012, 06:15:34 pm
18C here in Somerset.  Shorts.  Ice-cream.  :smug:

S
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Post by: Bledlow on 25 March, 2012, 08:21:42 pm
16.7 at Reading university weather station today.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 25 March, 2012, 08:28:23 pm
Maximum of 9.1°C in Southend today. Over 16° yesterday.
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Post by: spesh on 25 March, 2012, 08:30:03 pm
Maximum of 9.1°C in Southend today. Over 16° yesterday.

I presume the fog didn't burn off then. It was quite nice on the south coast all weekend.
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Post by: Andrew Br on 25 March, 2012, 10:06:29 pm

I understand that Manchester is expecting 20°C this afternoon - the bastards!

Hey ! Not fair.
It's not been exactly brilliant up here over the past few weeks.
Still, at least we've got lots (of the Lake District's) water.
Want to buy some ? Collect anytime  ;)

Think I might need the sun-cream again tomorrow.



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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 March, 2012, 10:16:38 pm
Maximum of 9.1°C in Southend today. Over 16° yesterday.

I presume the fog didn't burn off then. It was quite nice on the south coast all weekend.

It's not been foggy, just cloudy. The sun did emerge this afternoon, but far too late and briefly to make any difference.
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Post by: Quint on 27 March, 2012, 06:20:57 pm
20c here (North Oxfordshire) today, sat in an office until 04-00  :(
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Post by: Pingu on 28 March, 2012, 02:20:03 pm
Nearly 24°C in Aboyne yesterday  :o

There's a great pic of an almost cloudless British Isles at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17535199
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Post by: David Martin on 03 April, 2012, 03:50:05 am
Snow on the ground now in the upper parts of Dundee/Lochee.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 April, 2012, 07:19:09 am
Snowing in ABZ as I type. I want the summer back.
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Post by: Noodley on 03 April, 2012, 07:24:21 am
I was gonna be riding the 100km audax from Kirkmichael today...oh well, back to bed  O:-) :thumbsup:
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Post by: BrianI on 03 April, 2012, 07:51:10 am
Snow much for the easter holidays!

Currently snowing in Dunfermline  >:(
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Post by: Wowbagger on 03 April, 2012, 08:02:04 am
It seems to have rained here in Kirkcudbright but has stopped for now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jane on 03 April, 2012, 08:12:51 am
Well I am supposed to be riding out from Rannoch to visit friends in Pitlochry tomorrow morning.  I can't get hold of them at the moment so am a bit perplexed.  Don't fancy getting off the train at 8 am tomorrow to find that road is impassable. Anybody know how I can find out?
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Post by: ferret on 03 April, 2012, 08:18:48 am
nothing here west of Brecon, just overcast grey skies it has rained over night though. But snow would not be unusual for Easter here
we've had some horrendous weather in the past, unable to turn lambs out or having to use plastic macs for them etc. it was minus 2 on Sunday though    ::-)
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Post by: mcshroom on 03 April, 2012, 09:24:04 am
No snow here on the CUmbrian coast, but a lot of rain falling at the moment (and on my commute in).
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Post by: David Martin on 03 April, 2012, 09:29:06 am
Very wet ride in today - about 2-3 inches of wet claggy snow. I should have worn the cycle shoes and taken a spare pair of socks.
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Post by: numbnuts on 03 April, 2012, 09:38:07 am
sun and blue skys in the sunny south  8)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 03 April, 2012, 09:48:37 am
I'm hoping that Norfolk will be lovely & warm next weekend.  No sno, please.

Mind you, if it does snow, we'll still go camping.
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Post by: Riggers on 03 April, 2012, 09:53:00 am
Duck-egg blue skies in Brighton at the mo, and pleasantly warm. You can keep your snow thank you very much.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 April, 2012, 12:20:30 pm
Well I am supposed to be riding out from Rannoch to visit friends in Pitlochry tomorrow morning.  I can't get hold of them at the moment so am a bit perplexed.  Don't fancy getting off the train at 8 am tomorrow to find that road is impassable. Anybody know how I can find out?
http://trafficscotland.org/ ?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 April, 2012, 12:20:55 pm
It's hailing here now.

*wanders off trying desperately to think happy thoughts*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Riggers on 03 April, 2012, 12:22:26 pm
You think you've got it bad!? Some bloody white clouds are starting to drift our way from the north!
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Post by: David Martin on 03 April, 2012, 02:23:11 pm
Blue sky and sunshine here now. It will snow later.
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Post by: Feanor on 03 April, 2012, 03:19:38 pm
Blue sky and sunshine here too ( Aspen ) and it won't snow later  :(
Shoulda stayed at home.
Still, conditions not too bad higher up, from a Scottish PoV.
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Post by: jane on 03 April, 2012, 03:28:06 pm
Well I am supposed to be riding out from Rannoch to visit friends in Pitlochry tomorrow morning.  I can't get hold of them at the moment so am a bit perplexed.  Don't fancy getting off the train at 8 am tomorrow to find that road is impassable. Anybody know how I can find out?
http://trafficscotland.org/ ?
Thanks for that.  I have a feeling the road will be pretty icy tomorrow morning. And my friends who planned to head westwards today from Aberdeenshire to spend the night in Pitlochry to meet me there tomorrow, haven't been able to get on the road from their isolated home. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 03 April, 2012, 04:16:31 pm
My morphine induced slumber came to a ridrudee awakening thanks to a load of gravel landing on the roof.
Apparently hail. not allowed to nip out and check for myself, in case I make a run for it.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 04 April, 2012, 08:21:50 am
Snow. Sodding snow. Lots of it.
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Post by: mcshroom on 04 April, 2012, 08:27:29 am
Lots of horizontal snow and strong winds* on my way home last night but nothing settled (except on a few road signs)

* Head winds, naturally ::-)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 April, 2012, 10:11:12 am
I have had a series of increasingly apopleptic texts from my dad this morning. He's in Huddersfield, his house is on a t-junction and two of the bits of the t are steep hills. At the last count he was grumpy about
- 13 cars abandoned at the bottom of the hills
- muppets trying to drive up steep hills in rear-wheel drive German cars in 4" of snow
- some idiot in a white van coming down one hill and trying to turn right up the other one and spending ten minutes not even making it off the junction
- the lorry from Quarmby garage which is now stuck

He really needs to get a better hobby.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Efrogwr on 04 April, 2012, 10:50:20 am
Some of this lot's fallen on Eryri (we were lucky last time).

A couple of inches of horrible wet crap: its driveable with reasonable care.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Androcles on 04 April, 2012, 11:23:57 am
Last Wednesday evening ride was in short sleeved jersey and shorts.

Today - looking out of the window at a junior blizzard
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 04 April, 2012, 11:37:43 am
Snow in April is perfectly normal - I've got photographic evidence of several inches of snow in Mos Eisley spaceport Portsmouth on April 6th, 2008, it's been known to snow at the later end of April and it's not unheard of for the occasional flurry to occur in May!

The only reason that we are acting all surprised about this latest bout of snowy weather is because we have been fooled by an unseasonably warm and dry March.
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Post by: rafletcher on 04 April, 2012, 11:42:08 am
Snow in April is perfectly normal - I've got photographic evidence of several inches of snow in Mos Eisley spaceport Portsmouth on April 6th, 2008, it's been known to snow at the later end of April and it's not unheard of for the occasional flurry to occur in May!

The only reason that we are acting all surprised about this latest bout of snowy weather is because we have been fooled by an unseasonably warm and dry March.

Indeed. I can recall a brief flurry of snow on the Kent weald on a June day albeit some 35 years ago.
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Post by: Bledlow on 04 April, 2012, 11:44:29 am
Yeah. I remember snow in April 1998, for example. Wet & slushy on the way to work.  >:(

And it settled (briefly) in the Chilterns at the beginning of June 1974. I woke up early & freezing, got out of bed to close the window, & saw the hills white in the dawn from 5 miles away. Woke again when the alarm went off, & thought "Was that a dream?". No sign of snow by then: cold, but sun shining bright. Switched on the radio while getting ready for school, & the Beeb was reporting snowfalls on high ground in southern England. There were pictures.

Maybe that was your "about some 35 years ago".
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 04 April, 2012, 12:23:46 pm
A week's difference (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17597584)
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Post by: PeteB99 on 04 April, 2012, 12:32:44 pm
June 2nd 1975

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/i/1/Snow_in_June_-_2_June_1975.pdf (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/i/1/Snow_in_June_-_2_June_1975.pdf)

Snowed heavily in Norwich for a while. I remember looking out of the flat window and watching vehicles failing to get up Grapes Hill ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 04 April, 2012, 12:37:14 pm
It snowed (horizontally) in Toytown last night, but there's none left this morning.  But I just watched my greenhouse cartwheeling past the window.

With my seedlings :( in it. 

I'm not riding my bike in that, even if the sun is shining.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 April, 2012, 12:55:42 pm
June 2nd 1975

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/i/1/Snow_in_June_-_2_June_1975.pdf (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/i/1/Snow_in_June_-_2_June_1975.pdf)

Snowed heavily in Norwich for a while. I remember looking out of the flat window and watching vehicles failing to get up Grapes Hill ;D
Quote
Several county cricket matches were abandoned due to snow,
This is reported before the gale force winds in Scotland! A very English forecast, in many ways.

A week's difference (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17597584)
Nevertheless, it was quite sunny - though not particularly warm - here yesterday, till about 3pm anyway.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Noodley on 04 April, 2012, 01:08:51 pm
I see some snow has made it far enough south that it has become newsworthy...southerrn twatty meedya cnuts!   >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PeteB99 on 04 April, 2012, 01:34:36 pm

...
Quote
Several county cricket matches were abandoned due to snow,
This is reported before the gale force winds in Scotland! A very English forecast, in many ways.


...

Indeed.
But that's how it was in those days. If it didn't happen in London or the Home Counties it wasn't news.

Be grateful that things have changed, if only by a little.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 04 April, 2012, 01:39:38 pm
Snowed horazontally last night here (including straight at my face in a glae all the wayu home yesterday but nothing settled on the floor below about 250m (lower than a lot this year as Dent had snow a third of the way down).

The wind has redistributed the local wheeliebins (though mine was fine anchored to the wall with a bungee) and lots of leaves seem to have been blown off, but I haven't seen any flying greenhouses LG.

Now theres bright sunshine and the wind is dropping 8)

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 04 April, 2012, 02:23:53 pm
I see some snow has made it far enough south that it has become newsworthy...southerrn twatty meedya cnuts!   >:(

I remember thinking a similar thing in reverse last week, when the killer heatwave struck The North.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 04 April, 2012, 02:24:30 pm
I see some snow has made it far enough south that it has become newsworthy...southerrn twatty meedya cnuts!   >:(

Channel 4 News had a reporter in Aboyne yesterday.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 04 April, 2012, 06:44:44 pm
Skiing was had at Yad Moss today, I was working planting trees in open mossland at sea-level, and that was bad enough, God knows what it was like at 2,000 feet.
Picture at 4.30 pm.


(http://www.yadmoss.co.uk/images/stories/webcam/summit/latest.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 15 April, 2012, 10:52:09 am
Snowing in furryboottoon just now  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Efrogwr on 15 April, 2012, 11:16:22 am
There was a just discernible dusting of snow on the Carneddau yesterday afternoon, and very cold rain on my side of the Glyderau. I got home just as it started!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 15 April, 2012, 09:53:04 pm
A flurry at the road race today, just as I was saying hello to Noodley ..

dissapeared leaving sunny dry roads with a cold north wind.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Rhys W on 15 April, 2012, 10:15:41 pm
There was some spectacular thunderstorms in Cardiff on Thursday afternoon. I went for a spin on Friday lunchtime towards Newport and there was "snow" in the verges. It was actually hail of course, but imagine how much hail must have fallen for it look like snow almost 24 hours later on a sunny day.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 16 April, 2012, 09:21:16 am
There was some spectacular thunderstorms in Cardiff on Thursday afternoon. I went for a spin on Friday lunchtime towards Newport and there was "snow" in the verges. It was actually hail of course, but imagine how much hail must have fallen for it look like snow almost 24 hours later on a sunny day.

I've seen that kind of thing once before - I even remarked about it somewhere else: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=20230.msg362505#msg362505

Not something I'd want to get caught cycling in...  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mattc on 24 April, 2012, 08:21:18 pm
(Not strictly snow-related, but contains hail:)

Look, I know April is known for showers, but this is getting silly. Admittedly, it's not raining all the time, but I've never known so many consecutive days of on-off, sporadic rather vicious showery weather.

Good luck to you commuters out there  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 24 April, 2012, 08:34:23 pm
We just had a weeks hols  :facepalm:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 17 October, 2012, 02:06:08 pm
WTF?

It's 15C and sunny here.  With a very light flurry of snow!?!

First of the year?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 17 October, 2012, 02:13:39 pm
I do wish I could hibernate   :facepalm:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 17 October, 2012, 02:14:08 pm
WTF?

It's 15C and sunny here.  With a very light flurry of snow!?!

First of the year?
Seriously?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 17 October, 2012, 02:18:07 pm
Just a little flurry of dandruff.  Stopped after a couple of minutes, and didn't settle or anything.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: matthew on 17 October, 2012, 02:18:57 pm
WTF?

It's 15C and sunny here.  With a very light flurry of snow!?!

First of the year?

The student theatre group hasn't got its hands on a snow machine has it?

You can't blame pebble mill any more though
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 17 October, 2012, 02:20:16 pm
Just a little flurry of dandruff.  Stopped after a couple of minutes, and didn't settle or anything.

I think that sounds like fluffy hail.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 26 October, 2012, 06:38:51 pm
Snowing in Newcastle, according to my cousin.  And it sleeted in Toytown today.

 :( :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 26 October, 2012, 06:48:11 pm
Had snow first thing this morning.
And second thing, and third, and fourth.

Repeat....
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Post by: David Martin on 26 October, 2012, 07:02:35 pm
a bit of snow here.
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Post by: BrianI on 26 October, 2012, 07:16:54 pm
It snowded at Mar Lodge today!   :thumbsup: Made for a braw college field trip.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feanor on 26 October, 2012, 07:36:24 pm
I was planning to do a bike commute today, but was glad I didn't.
Got up at 5am, and the lurgy I have rumbling under made itself felt.   It was 0 C outside, and I decided to go back to bed.   Glad I did.

By lunchtime, the snow had started.
It was too wet to lie.
By home-time, it was a proper blizzard over the Cairn, and I was glad to be inside a Land Rover and not on a bike.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 26 October, 2012, 09:31:36 pm
Definite snow in the Peak on the way home this evening. Climbing through about 300m brought me into a flurry which continued on and off for about 20 minutes - ground still too warm for it to settle. Air temperature up there was 0.5C. Northerly 10mph headwind. Almost under-dressed for the occasion... brrr.
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Post by: Efrogwr on 26 October, 2012, 09:37:31 pm
Snow reported in Porthmadoc at about 7 pm.
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Post by: LindaG on 26 October, 2012, 09:43:13 pm
Yep.  Snow in Toytown now.  And it's COLD.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 October, 2012, 10:06:16 pm
On the bright side, the paint on the front door is dry enough that I'd shut it.

Hopefully dry enough, anyway....
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Post by: matthew on 26 October, 2012, 10:06:52 pm
Brief snow fall in Helmsley. Unfortunately I have to ride to Scarborough and wanted to go via stain dale and the back roads. If there is snow on the ground my 25mm slicks will have to stay on the A170.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 26 October, 2012, 10:56:06 pm
A few flakes melted on the car windscreen as we were stuck in a queue in Longdendale at about 5pm.
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Post by: iainj837 on 29 October, 2012, 01:14:19 pm
No snow here yet
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 29 October, 2012, 07:28:06 pm
There's been snow in Warsaw too, I'm reliably informed. Again, it's early, though only about two weeks rather than a month. Assuming it does melt - if it doesn't then it's over a month early.
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Post by: LindaG on 01 December, 2012, 02:58:07 am
It snowed quite heavily here an hour or so ago. Turned to sleet, then rain so nothing's laid - so far.
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Post by: jane on 01 December, 2012, 06:52:50 am
According to my daughter, the Lecht and Cairngorm ski runs are open this weekend.  She is a little bit torn as she has an assessment on Monday so had planned to spend the weekend in her studio, working.  All her friends made the trip north yesterday.  I wonder if she'll hold out.
Her boyfriend plans to do this tonight

(https://dl.dropbox.com/s/mqkc3wtpnwa6mtv/2012-06-02%2006.24.37.jpg?dl=1)
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Post by: Torslanda on 01 December, 2012, 08:00:03 am
^^^^^^

'Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away . . .'
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Post by: David Martin on 01 December, 2012, 12:50:20 pm
No snow in DUndee but a bonny winter day with ice on the ground. And I'm sat in the office marking :(
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Post by: Pingu on 01 December, 2012, 02:17:28 pm
A small amount of snow lying up here.
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Post by: Canardly on 01 December, 2012, 07:11:53 pm
^^^^^^

'Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away . . .'

A similar thought crossed my mind.
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Post by: LindaG on 03 December, 2012, 02:07:41 am
Snowing in Toytown now. We need to find some new words for snow. This is the kind that is wet enough to make a sort of lumpy mulch on the pavements and cars and makes a slapping noise when it lands.
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Post by: LindaG on 03 December, 2012, 02:23:21 am
I went downstairs for a cup of tea and when I came back to bed and looked out the window it had turned into huge fluffy flakes falling straight down because there's no wind. They must still be quite wet because they fall fast-ish. One of the good things about having a street light outside my bedroom window - watching snow in bed. Shame the light is orange. The one outside my childhood bedroom was white and snow looked really magical.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 03 December, 2012, 07:35:03 am
It's snowed here overnight. There's a very thin wet layer. I doubt it'll last.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 03 December, 2012, 08:33:42 am
It rained here. 9°C now.
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Post by: Oaky on 03 December, 2012, 08:45:50 am
It's snowing here in Amsterdam.

This is the first snow of the year that I've noticed here, and this is the week I decided I'm going to take my bike home, so I will be riding to Hook of Holland on Friday.  I sincerely hope the weather improves for that, not least because I don't have all of my cold weather gear over here.

If it doesn't improve, I will be in Decathlon on Thursday shopping for overshoes etc..
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Post by: Gus on 03 December, 2012, 08:51:21 am
It snowed here yesterday and now the temperature have dropped to -8oC. I have to put my Thorn with Rohloff in the basement from today.  :(
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Post by: padbeat on 03 December, 2012, 09:21:15 am
An inch at my house, which is not on a busy road so doesn't get cleared. If I had walked my bike 500m to the main road, I'd have been fine to ride in this morning, but frankly ICNBA. The rest of the route awas a bit marginal anyway ...

OTOH 4 of us ran up Tom na h-Airidh (http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/lochlomond/tom-na-h-airidh.shtml) last night in -$lots & snow with the dogs and spotted a couple of deer. Luckily it was towards the end so Mia & Ronnie (the Ridgebacks) were too buggered to chase them. Tara (the collie) had a go at herding them though.
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Post by: SandyV on 03 December, 2012, 12:44:55 pm
And just for contrast - it's forecast to be 41 with high fire danger here tomorrow. Hope they're wrong.
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Post by: Pingu on 03 December, 2012, 01:02:36 pm
Interesting rain-on-top-of-ice conditions on our street this morning  :-X
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Post by: agagisgroovy on 03 December, 2012, 01:21:50 pm
(http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/31564_518951861457250_1950869063_n.jpg)

Went for a walk up Stob Ban and along the ridge to Mullach nan Coirean yesterday with some friends from the mountaineering club. We saw the front moving in and felt the wind getting up on the way down. Got back to Glasgow and everyone is raving about the snow and having snowball fights. ;D Very slushy this morning though.
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Post by: bumper on 03 December, 2012, 01:24:51 pm
The kings house hotel webcam looks very nice today. About 8 inches of snow this morning!

I was planning a mull trip before Christmas.
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Post by: Efrogwr on 03 December, 2012, 10:41:44 pm
There's snow on the Glyderau, but it's drizzling down here.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 December, 2012, 07:52:46 am
Yesterday's thin layer of snow melted, then refroze overnight. The thick frost and ice are very pretty, shimmering like diamonds, but not much fun to be walking on.
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Post by: Pingu on 04 December, 2012, 10:57:49 pm
View from our door just now:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8063/8245959776_7dc96b8208_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8245959776/)
IMG_1021 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8245959776/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: mattc on 04 December, 2012, 11:57:39 pm
(http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/31564_518951861457250_1950869063_n.jpg)

Went for a walk up Stob Ban and along the ridge to Mullach nan Coirean yesterday with some friends from the mountaineering club. We saw the front moving in and felt the wind getting up on the way down. Got back to Glasgow and everyone is raving about the snow and having snowball fights. ;D Very slushy this morning though.
That is ridickalous cool!

(although I'm rather glad not to have any snow/ice to negotiate on the commute here in the deep south)
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Post by: Adam on 05 December, 2012, 05:40:47 am
Currently snowing in Luton - definitely an improvement!
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Post by: Carradice bag lady on 05 December, 2012, 06:24:08 am
It's freezing here in Nelson Lancashire but no snow yet. Just setting off to scrape my car.
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Post by: Giraffe on 05 December, 2012, 06:39:06 am
About an inch here but stopped now - might melt soon.
Last Winter I bought some Kahtoola Microspikes and that really invoked sod's law - no ice or snow worthy of the spikes for the rest of the Winter! Perhaps I'll get a chance to use them soon.
(got them from here:
http://www.mightcontainnuts.com
as it was cheapest place and I liked the name).
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Post by: Regulator on 05 December, 2012, 07:02:19 am
It snowed here in Cambridge overnight.  I've just taken Jack for his walk and he loves it...
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Post by: bloomers100 on 05 December, 2012, 07:29:19 am
Chelmsford is in chaos. One inch of wet snow since six ish. Not sure the Volvo will cope too well.
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Post by: Regulator on 05 December, 2012, 07:32:45 am
We have lots of slush on the roads, which weren't gritted and it's beginning to freeze... :-\
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Post by: Jurek on 05 December, 2012, 07:41:00 am
Sleet in SE23.
Merde.
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Post by: rafletcher on 05 December, 2012, 07:41:24 am
Seems to be a light dusting all around our area - Luton. MK, Aylesbury, Hemel, Watford. But it only fell for about 20 minutes and is slushy - presumably a warm front moving across. Glad of the winter (car) tyres just in case.
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Post by: MattH on 05 December, 2012, 07:43:19 am
Enough to just cover the ground just east of Basingstoke.
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Post by: bobb on 05 December, 2012, 08:04:15 am
I got a shock when I opened the curtains this morning - wasn't expecting that! Oh well, time for some mtb mayhem   :)
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Post by: Riggers on 05 December, 2012, 08:09:20 am
Only frost in Brighton. Dropping wife off at 6.30 this morning.
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Post by: delthebike on 05 December, 2012, 08:09:30 am
It started here around 0645ish as I was walking the dog. I never gave it a thought about it settling!

From the back door.
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-aBWlgKZgLLk/UL8AnAn92KI/AAAAAAAAHTA/Ct-CYL4qhs4/s640/pc058439.jpg)

The bike is calling me out!
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Post by: TimO on 05 December, 2012, 08:10:15 am
Light snow in Croydon, maybe half an inch to an inch so far, but still falling.  Since the ground is so dry, I guess it's settling fairly easily.  There was no sign of it last night, except that it was a little brisker than it has been when I came in (midnightish).  I'm glad I popped into Asda to buy some milk then, rather than relying on quickly popping out now!

Time to swap over to the Marathon Winters I think!

... of course the capital will now proceed to grind to a halt, but on the plus side, it'll be relatively easy to put my bike in the bike store. ;D
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Post by: teethgrinder on 05 December, 2012, 08:11:47 am
I got a shock when I opened the curtains this morning - wasn't expecting that!

Did Hummers pay you a visit? :o

A bit of snow in Milton Keynes too, but now a bit of rain. Hopefully melt the bastard stuff.
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Post by: Jaded on 05 December, 2012, 08:12:50 am
It started here around 0645ish as I was walking the dog. I never gave it a thought about it settling!

From the back door.
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/del_dog.jpg)

Looks like the dog stayed out all night. Hope you dusted him down before taking him for his walk.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 05 December, 2012, 08:35:20 am
We've had an inch or so as well, which inot surprising since we live less than a mile from Del. the Met Office made no mention of that on their website last night - good work!
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Post by: TimO on 05 December, 2012, 08:44:17 am
When I last checked the weather, a couple of days ago, there was rain forecast for later in the week.  Snow is basically the same stuff, only the temperature is a bit lower.

I see it's forecast to get quite cold tonight, so we'll either get the snow frozen again (and probably impossibly rutted), or if it's melted enough, lots of ice.
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Post by: delthebike on 05 December, 2012, 09:03:25 am
Southend Borough Council have failed to get the gritters out and it's grid lock! I took to the Greenway and dodged the school kids, not one snowball came my way. It's horrible to ride on as it is so wet and compacting really quickly. This is making the virgin snow dodgy to ride on too as the front wheel is causing a harder, slippery, surface almost immediately!
Here's the Pomp on the greenway.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bU3RijUq88k/UL8NLWeW4OI/AAAAAAAAHTY/0_KzzatP2Ds/s640/pc058442.jpg)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 05 December, 2012, 09:04:30 am
My lunchtime school is already closed! Apparently two of their staff have had collisions on the road this morning and they are not taking the risk of getting staff in. It's a bit of a relief to me as I can spend a bit of time doing sensible stuff rather than driving a car along the A127 for a bunch of kids whose minds won't be on chess anyway.

Del, I was awoken by a lorry with a flashing light on East Street at about 3 this morning and I assumed it to have been a gritter. Didn't get out of bed to check though. Mind you, it was coming down so fast at one point that I'm not surprised that a little bit of grit couldn't cope. Heeoooge flakes!
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Post by: Riggers on 05 December, 2012, 09:19:21 am
It's snowing in Brighton. It's the light inconsequential stuff that won't inconvenience.
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Post by: mcshroom on 05 December, 2012, 09:27:10 am
We've had an inch or so as well, which inot surprising since we live less than a mile from Del. the Met Office made no mention of that on their website last night - good work!

They were warning about heavy snow showers all the way down the east coast on BBC radio and TV last night. It's not unusual for the Met Office to not warn of things though. When we had a massive thunderstorm and surface flooding back in early September the rain warning was published half an hour after the rain started falling.

No snow here, but a lot of frost. It's cold but I can't actually see a cloud in any direction at the moment.
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Post by: hatler on 05 December, 2012, 09:27:48 am
About an inch in SW20. Any road with traffic was clear by the time I left at 8.20. Side roads with no traffic are perfectly passable. Side roads with a bit of traffic the car tyres have compressed it a bit and it is a bit slippy.

Cue one cock in a Discovery. I tried lightly trafficed side road with cars parked on both sides. one lane left in the middle and therefore with two tracks. I'm in th eleft track. Discovery approaches at about 20mph. I stop adjacent to an unparked section of street on my offside so giving Disco driver somewhere to go. Does he feck. Straight past me with inches to spare at 20mph. I had held up my hand to indicate he might want to slow down. Shame it caught his mirror.
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Post by: hatler on 05 December, 2012, 09:28:52 am
And yes. Traffic mayhem in Kingston (long queue to get past the hospital) and at Sunbury Cross. Tailback was well over a mile long down the A308.
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Post by: TimO on 05 December, 2012, 09:48:05 am
The roads had fairly clearly been gritted recently last night when I got in.  My route in is busy enough that I expect them to be pretty clear, excepting the very local bits, and I've got the studded tyres for anything iffy there.
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Post by: bikenrrd on 05 December, 2012, 10:01:50 am
A light covering in Botley, Oxford but non in the centre of town.
This is an improvement on last weeks floods!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 05 December, 2012, 12:45:52 pm
Just started snowing here. We dont get gritted ...
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Post by: LindaG on 05 December, 2012, 01:29:02 pm
The first few flakes here as well.  At least I don't have to get to/from work today.
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Post by: tiermat on 05 December, 2012, 01:33:42 pm
None here, yet, cold enough to snow too (VERY cold northern wind)
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Post by: Noodley on 05 December, 2012, 01:34:50 pm
It can't have reached that London yet, obviously.  There have been no reports of impending doom as far as I am aware.
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Post by: marcusjb on 05 December, 2012, 01:39:15 pm
It can't have reached that London yet, obviously.  There have been no reports of impending doom as far as I am aware.

Had you not heard? Dusting of snow in the south east, airports closed, traffic chaos, RRtY extensions, the lot!

Nothing here in west London though, I have just ridden over to Buckinghamshire on a beautiful winter's day.
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Post by: PaulF on 05 December, 2012, 03:14:16 pm
Slight dusting the first thing for us in South Oxfordshire, got a bit heavier over The Ridgeway
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Post by: LindaG on 05 December, 2012, 03:16:49 pm
Snowing in Toytown and someone called Fred in Toytown is talking about the snow on 6Music, right now, whilst requesting Drinking In LA.   :D
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Post by: rafletcher on 07 December, 2012, 08:33:22 am
Heavyish sleet here in Herts at the moment.
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Post by: Oaky on 07 December, 2012, 12:56:45 pm
The snow here in the Netherlands ha put paid to my plan to cycle to Hook of Holland today, so I've been on a few trains instead and am now ensconced in the Riva bar which is currently located in Hook of Holland, but which will soon drag itself off Harwich-wards
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Post by: padbeat on 09 December, 2012, 12:28:38 am
Most of Helensburgh is now defrosted, but when we went up Tom na h-Airidh this afternoon it was ... marginal. The paths & tracks under the trees were clear, but where it was open there was a lovely layer of water over the compacted snow. I think cross-country spikes would have been of more benefit than trail running trainers.
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/32371_10151356621596042_1768006666_n.jpg)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 December, 2012, 08:25:42 am
We have a very thin dusting of sno at this side of town this morning.
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Post by: David Martin on 13 December, 2012, 09:07:37 am
A very light sprinkle as I walked into work today.
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Post by: Feline on 13 December, 2012, 12:27:29 pm
I have just bought a pair of those fabric tyre covers for the car in snow, thus assuring that it will not snow again in Somerset until such a time as I have replaced this car with another with different sized wheels.
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Post by: Gus on 13 December, 2012, 12:39:57 pm
I have just bought a pair of those fabric tyre covers for the car in snow, thus assuring that it will not snow again in Somerset until such a time as I have replaced this car with another with different sized wheels.

If that is true, then please move to Denmark :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
I'm tired of the snow, it makes it impossible to do long rides in the countryside. Only big  main roads have been bike friendly the last 2 weeks  >:(
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Post by: billplumtree on 13 December, 2012, 01:34:10 pm
A very light sprinkle as I walked into work today.

When you've got to go, you've got to go...
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Post by: tiermat on 14 December, 2012, 08:10:42 am
Due to a restless night and need to work first thing this morning I have only just gotten around to looking out of the window and we have a light dusting of snow here!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 December, 2012, 09:28:53 am
It's trying to snow here, in a pathetic half-arsed sort of way. We're as giddy as children hoping it'll get really heavy and we'll get sent home.
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Post by: tiermat on 14 December, 2012, 09:37:56 am
It's melting here (cue "The Witch Is Dead")
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Post by: Wowbagger on 14 December, 2012, 09:39:43 am
7°C here, and to rain all day, allegedly.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 14 December, 2012, 11:27:12 pm
It's been raining here all day, although it usually seems to take twelve hours or so for your weather to get to us. I suppose it's usually our weather getting to you actually, especially if it's rain! Anyway, it was sleeting lightly when I left the pub last night so the rain today is a let down.
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Post by: reddo on 15 December, 2012, 04:10:54 pm
CAVOK (aka sunny) here in Moscow. -17C though...  :o
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Post by: agagisgroovy on 16 December, 2012, 08:19:28 pm
Lots of melting in Glencoe today, no winter climbing got done. Might get some snow up in the Cairngorms tomorrow though.  ;D
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Post by: bumper on 13 January, 2013, 05:47:10 pm
It's been snowing for about an hour here ( Newcastle-u-Lyme ) and it's sticking. Luckily I prepped the mtb with the studs today for tonight's outing.  :)
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Post by: PaulF on 14 January, 2013, 06:51:05 am
We've got a few inches down here - South Oxfordshire. I'll take the Pugsley out while it lasts!!
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Post by: her_welshness on 14 January, 2013, 07:15:55 am
A slight dusting in Saarth East London....
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 14 January, 2013, 07:27:19 am
About 1cm here in Warwick. No school closures!
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Post by: Aidan on 14 January, 2013, 07:40:35 am
Had a bit overnight in east Yorkshire but only a dusting really, nothing on the roads. Supposed to get a load this afternoon though
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Post by: rafletcher on 14 January, 2013, 07:47:29 am
West Herts has about 2cm, but stopped now, forecast for light snow/sleet later, so not as bad as it could have been.
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Post by: essexian on 14 January, 2013, 07:55:42 am
An inch or so here in Stafford.

I am supposed to be driving to Boston Lincs this afternoon. Is anyone down that way able to give me a update please. To be honest, the idea of driving 120 miles in snow isn't my idea of fun so I would like to cancel.

Stay safe.
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Post by: TimO on 14 January, 2013, 08:32:08 am
There was a light dusting of snow overnight in Croydon, but it's barely settled on the cars and plants.  Anything on the ground has melted.

It's not going to stop me cycling into work, I've got the studded tyres on Vince, so even if the temperature take a significant dive from the -1.7°C I'm currently seeing for Biggin Hill, it's not going to make any difference to me.

Heathrow and Gatwick are reporting a balmy 0°C, so it's not particularly cold out there.  I may put some gloves on.
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Post by: clarion on 14 January, 2013, 09:17:31 am
There must have been some snow overnight, but it hasn't settled, except on cars.  A bit of ice on the roads, and a a few flakes fluttering down as I rode, but relatively weather-free here.

Considering the studded tyres.
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Post by: Notsototalnewbie on 14 January, 2013, 09:31:58 am
Yep, it’s settled on the cars but the ground is merely wet so commute not a problem. May become more of a problem if moisture on the ground freezes overnight/tomorrow, which is supposed to be a few degrees colder, though the roads appear well gritted.

I’ll be on the bus if it does freeze; don’t think you can get studded tires for Bromptons and even if you could I’m not the slightest bit inclined to wrestle with them. #avoidsallbutesstentialfettling
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Post by: cycleman on 14 January, 2013, 09:38:20 am
slight dusting here this morning but already melting :(
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Post by: TimO on 14 January, 2013, 09:41:02 am
... don’t think you can get studded tires for Bromptons ...

Correct.  The smallest studded tyres I'm aware of, are 20" (42-406) Winter Marathons (and I imagine they're probably difficult to easily get hold of).  There's nothing as small as a 16" studded tyre.
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Post by: Butterfly on 14 January, 2013, 09:53:58 am
It's snowing lightly again here.
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Post by: mcshroom on 14 January, 2013, 10:07:59 am
Snowed persistently but without much settling yesterday here. The rain overnight cleared everything away though and now we have bright sunshine with hardly any cloud.
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Post by: LindaG on 14 January, 2013, 10:36:05 am
A very light sprinkle last night, which felt nice on my face after a hot busy day.  It had mostly melted by this morning but it's properly snowing here now.  It looks like it might lie, too.
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Post by: Bledlow on 14 January, 2013, 10:59:33 am
We woke to a thin covering, which is still on the ground. Melted on roads, melting elsewhere. Thin sprinkling of fine snow coming down. It's starting to look wet now. Turning to sleet.
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Post by: tiermat on 14 January, 2013, 11:04:47 am
As others have said, a light dusting overnight, but now it is piling down, and laying nicely.
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Post by: Bledlow on 14 January, 2013, 11:13:56 am
Mrs B just phoned me. She was leaving a school where she had an appointment, but turned up to find the school shut due to broken down heating. Of course, they didn't bother to tell her office (not her directly) until she was already at her previous appointment, 11 miles away. So she's driving several extra miles through what she tells me is heavy snow around High Wycombe.
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Post by: JonBuoy on 14 January, 2013, 12:53:54 pm
An inch or so here in Stafford.

I am supposed to be driving to Boston Lincs this afternoon. Is anyone down that way able to give me a update please. To be honest, the idea of driving 120 miles in snow isn't my idea of fun so I would like to cancel.

Stay safe.

I am roughly half way there in Loughborough.  About an inch here and still coming down but at a reduced rate.
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Post by: matthew on 14 January, 2013, 01:16:23 pm
Snowing quite hard here in Winnersh Triangle, however the ground is wet from the melt of the overnight snow so it is not settling. All we need is a drop of a couple of degrees to freeze the wet ground and it would pile up quite nicely.

Glad I still have the Marathon Winters fitted.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: tiermat on 14 January, 2013, 01:21:50 pm
It has stopped here, and the temp must be at the point where it's not going to stay.  The road outside the house is nearly clear of slush now and the drive (and the car) are starting to clear.
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Post by: Biggsy on 14 January, 2013, 01:26:57 pm
Now in north London: Wet snow, not settling.  Probably icy tomorrow early norming.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 14 January, 2013, 01:31:54 pm
Enough precipitation to make me commute by car this afternoon. Not sure about its state of flux.
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Post by: rafletcher on 14 January, 2013, 01:35:59 pm
Been snowing steadily but not heavily here in Hemel, but not settling on anything remotely gritted, just on the parked cars, maybe another cm. looking increasingly wet.
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Post by: interzen on 14 January, 2013, 01:36:43 pm
FINALLY! Proper Pugsley weather ;D

(coming down quite heavily on the outskirts of York, and its sticking too!)
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Post by: PaulF on 14 January, 2013, 01:39:20 pm
FINALLY! Proper Pugsley weather ;D

(coming down quite heavily on the outskirts of York, and its sticking too!)

Enjoy it while it lasts. Managed to get out first hung but it's all turned to rain here now :(
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Post by: Charlotte on 14 January, 2013, 01:40:24 pm
Large lumps now and starting to settle in NW London.  Everywhere is well gritted and it's not yet cold enough for it to be a problem, but everywhere is starting to look pretty.
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Post by: interzen on 14 January, 2013, 01:40:38 pm
FINALLY! Proper Pugsley weather ;D

(coming down quite heavily on the outskirts of York, and its sticking too!)

Enjoy it while it lasts. Managed to get out first hung but it's all turned to rain here now :(
Well, if it does turn to rain then I'll at least find out how effective the Dave's Mud Shovel mudguards are. Every cloud, and all that ;)
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Post by: interzen on 14 January, 2013, 01:44:54 pm
Current view from the office:

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/230607_10151182682796636_1435195710_n.jpg)

Unfortunately, I had to drive in to work today :(

(snow coverage first thing was approximately 9/10 of bugger all)
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Post by: GrahamG on 14 January, 2013, 01:53:43 pm
All OK here in the mild, mild west - was a light dusting on top of the mendips (c.250m) this morning though. Sticking to main roads either way.
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Post by: PaulF on 14 January, 2013, 01:59:19 pm
FINALLY! Proper Pugsley weather ;D

(coming down quite heavily on the outskirts of York, and its sticking too!)

Enjoy it while it lasts. Managed to get out first hung but it's all turned to rain here now :(
Well, if it does turn to rain then I'll at least find out how effective the Dave's Mud Shovel mudguards are. Every cloud, and all that ;)

I can answer that for you if you like :) Just to save you the bother of going out in the cold. But it's in a spoiler if you want that crucial element of surprise ;D

(click to show/hide)
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Post by: Charlotte on 14 January, 2013, 02:04:22 pm
The view out of my office window here on the eighth floor of Evil Towers:

(http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/1558/snot.jpg)
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Post by: matthew on 14 January, 2013, 02:05:47 pm
Now stopped out in Winnersh,  :( It did't settle  >:(
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Post by: Kim on 14 January, 2013, 02:06:55 pm
The sun's come out in Brummingham and melted all the snow.

Nice weather for a bike ride ...for the next hour or so.
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Post by: interzen on 14 January, 2013, 02:12:47 pm
We seem to have transitioned from big, fat fluffy flakes to teeny-tiny flakes (it's definitely snow, as its blowing around a bit) and the few remaining cars all have quite a covering. The forecast indicates that it's not going to be going anywhere quickly (below freezing for much of the rest of the week)

A bigger problem may turn out to be fog - it's already quite misty and being in the Vale of York means we're very good at fog.

A stark contrast to this morning, where I had to battle through literally millimetres of snow.

The only folks left in the office now are those of us that actually live in York - the last of the Leeds/Harrogate contingent left at lunchtime and one guy from Kirbymoorside1 left earlier this morning.

1 - heavy snow up there, which bodes well for snowy, fat-bike fun at Dalby Forest  :thumbsup:
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Post by: tiermat on 14 January, 2013, 02:18:34 pm
Deffo melting here, but the forecast is for it drop below 0C shortly (i.e. within the next hour or so), so tomorrow morning will be slippery :(
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Post by: Deano on 14 January, 2013, 02:21:15 pm
Go and see what Shark Lane's like, tiermat!
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 January, 2013, 02:22:14 pm
Coming down quite hard in Harlot but not settling properly yet.  It could get interesting after dark thobut.
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Post by: tiermat on 14 January, 2013, 02:22:23 pm
Now there is a sensible idea!  ::-)

Shall I see how much further I can go sideways? Or shall I cheat and put the RaceKings on first :)
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Post by: interzen on 14 January, 2013, 02:24:13 pm
Now there is a sensible idea!  ::-)

Shall I see how much further I can go sideways? Or shall I cheat and put the RaceKings on first :)
*cough*fatbike*cough* ;D
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Post by: TimO on 14 January, 2013, 02:32:49 pm
I saw the very light covering on some plants, and cars, for at least the first half of my commute, but not a lot beyond Tooting Bec Common.

We've had big fluffy snowflakes dropping for a while in South Ken, but it's too warm for them to settle, so it's just making the ground damper.  The forecast is for the temperatures to just about hit freezing tonight, so there may be some ice.  Tomorrow night is forecast to be significantly colder (minimum of -4°C on the Met Office site, -7°C on XCWeather!), so ice is much more likely.

I'm not about to take my Marathon Winters off, the certainty of being able to cycle across anything is worth leaving them on for.  I'll review this, and swap over to the Marathon Plus tyres at the weekend, if necessary.
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Post by: interzen on 14 January, 2013, 02:35:28 pm
First thing I need to do when I get home is to let some of the air out of Pugsley's tyres - 15psi ought to do it, maybe a bit less if it turns icy.
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Post by: rafletcher on 14 January, 2013, 03:16:31 pm
Well it apperas most of the companies on the Hemel Industrial estate have decided that staff can leave at 3pm. With the inevitable result that the main road through the esate is now at a standstill  ::-).  I guess one of the advantages to being a contractor is I'll be here at 4 still, when the traffic will have died down again  ;)
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Post by: spesh on 14 January, 2013, 03:25:23 pm
It's been raining all day in Mos Eisley Spaceport Pompey, which is about par for the course when SNO is forecast. It's going to take a proper 2010-style SNOpocalypse hitting all points north of Butser Hill for any proper manifestation of the white stuff here.  ::-)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 January, 2013, 03:38:00 pm
Our end of the office is deserted bar me and Paul who lives locally and has 4wd...
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 14 January, 2013, 03:51:12 pm
Wet sleet in Leeds and York, with sub-zero temperatures forecast.

Can't bring myself to bother fitting spiked tyres though. I'll take the (longer, slower) back route in - it's nearly always heavily gritted.
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Post by: SteveC on 14 January, 2013, 03:58:55 pm
Turned into a nice day here. Sunny. Springlike even.
And tomorrow doesn't look too bad either.
Wednesday however...
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Post by: bobb on 14 January, 2013, 04:07:11 pm
Well, it's started coming down properly now. I got a few miles in when it was still just a few flakes.

Boris the blade has been keeping an eye on things. He'll have to go out sooner or later...

(http://www.zaribor.co.uk/raz/pics/bosnow.jpg)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 14 January, 2013, 04:12:07 pm
What a difference 20 miles makes! It's raining heavily in Southend.
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Post by: clarion on 14 January, 2013, 04:18:02 pm
Now raining in my corner of London.  That's not so bad, but an overnight freeze might make things interesting. :-\
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 January, 2013, 04:33:25 pm
Bah, I thought we weren't going to get any, but no such luck. I'm supposed to be videoconning the Nogs so need to be in at sparrow fart tomorrow as well. Gah!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 14 January, 2013, 04:34:52 pm
The Met Office thinks it's going to snow here overnight, with the temperature close to freezing. That could be messy. Northerly wind.
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Post by: numbnuts on 14 January, 2013, 05:43:44 pm
Still nothing here in Southampton
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Post by: spindrift on 14 January, 2013, 05:46:15 pm
Coming down hard in Norwich, I just drew a spaffing cock in the car park.
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Post by: interzen on 14 January, 2013, 05:47:50 pm
Coming down hard in Norwich, I just drew a spaffing cock in the car park.
TPIUWP ... oh, wait ...

The roads round here are in pretty good nick, although the paths and cycle-tracks don't appear to have been treated. Since its likely to be icy tomorrow I've dropped Pugsley's tyre pressure to 12psi, just in case :)
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Post by: matthew on 14 January, 2013, 06:31:26 pm
... tyre pressure to 12psi ...
That is low. I have ridden a bike with 20psi in the rear tyre and it was dangerously flat, not enough to cushion all the road's unevenness and wobbly on corners.
Pugsley is a "fat bike" on 3" tyres, it will cope wonderfully.
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Post by: hellymedic on 14 January, 2013, 06:48:58 pm
David has slipped off the Brompton and has a VERY sore bottom. :(
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Post by: cycleman on 14 January, 2013, 07:19:36 pm
it snowed several hours here but only settled on the grass and cars here pretty much gone now :(
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Post by: Quint on 14 January, 2013, 07:33:48 pm
birthday this week, I/we have a weeks hols, not getting out of bed till has all gone, I have books, a coffee machine and that will do me   :)
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Post by: tiermat on 15 January, 2013, 01:33:22 pm
The day started [1] with snow, it then stopped, then started again, but light, and has now got harder.

However, due to the earlier snow melting it is not laying, which is good.

[1] Start of the day, today, for me was 09:50 as I had a carp nights sleep due to ankle pain.
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Post by: Chris S on 15 January, 2013, 03:30:15 pm
Three inches of snow here in 90 minutes. On a weekday afternoon. The roads are complete gridlock.

I like the tweet from Norfolk Police - "Norwich is a mess. Please... stay away."

And the postman in the post office, here in Diss:

"The A1066 is blocked at Roydon, Stanley road is blocked, the A140 is blocked at Scole, and Denmark hill is blocked by twats."

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Post by: interzen on 15 January, 2013, 03:32:53 pm
... tyre pressure to 12psi ...
That is low. I have ridden a bike with 20psi in the rear tyre and it was dangerously flat, not enough to cushion all the road's unevenness and wobbly on corners.
Pugsley is a "fat bike" on 3" tyres, it will cope wonderfully.
4" tyres (well, 3.8")
It does indeed cope wonderfully on snow. Ice, not so much.
I've got a magnificently aching hip which more than proves this point.
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Post by: rafletcher on 15 January, 2013, 03:53:47 pm
Three inches of snow here in 90 minutes. On a weekday afternoon. The roads are complete gridlock.

I like the tweet from Norfolk Police - "Norwich is a mess. Please... stay away."

And the postman in the post office, here in Diss:

"The A1066 is blocked at Roydon, Stanley road is blocked, the A140 is blocked at Scole, and Denmark hill is blocked by twats."

I just looked at Norwich on the AA traffic site - now that's entertaining!
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Post by: Feline on 15 January, 2013, 04:10:25 pm
... tyre pressure to 12psi ...
That is low. I have ridden a bike with 20psi in the rear tyre and it was dangerously flat, not enough to cushion all the road's unevenness and wobbly on corners.
Pugsley is a "fat bike" on 3" tyres, it will cope wonderfully.
4" tyres (well, 3.8")
It does indeed cope wonderfully on snow. Ice, not so much.
I've got a magnificently aching hip which more than proves this point.

Oh dear, that doesn't sound so good. GWS  :-*
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Post by: clarion on 15 January, 2013, 04:12:50 pm
Three inches of snow here in 90 minutes...

:o
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Post by: matthew on 15 January, 2013, 04:16:15 pm
Three inches of snow here in 90 minutes. On a weekday afternoon. The roads are complete gridlock.

I like the tweet from Norfolk Police - "Norwich is a mess. Please... stay away."
...

And who replyed as my colleagues did "We knew that already"  :demon:
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Post by: Chris S on 15 January, 2013, 04:17:54 pm
Three inches of snow here in 90 minutes...

:o

For those watching at home, this is what that looks like:

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8078/8384216478_dfe078e8ca.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/8384216478/)
2013-01-15 14.13.12 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/8384216478/) by Pelotonhound (http://www.flickr.com/people/40735552@N05/), on Flickr

(though it was easing off when I took that!)
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Post by: microphonie on 15 January, 2013, 06:31:24 pm
Discretion was the better part of valour for the commute home: I walked the 2 miles home & was outpacing the motorists all the way down the A140 in Norwich - and on icy pavements too...

The bike will stay at home tomorrow.
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Post by: Chris S on 16 January, 2013, 09:31:04 am
No new snow, but very cold: -12c on the car thermometer this morning. Niiice....
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 January, 2013, 09:41:14 am
What little snow we had has melted. It's freezing here, but not in Chris S's league by any means. Minimum -2.5°C, currently -1.8°.

Something tells me that I will be doing essential cycling only today.
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Post by: Chris S on 16 January, 2013, 09:56:47 am
Norfolk seems to have been singled out by this cold snap. There's almost 10" of snow in parts of the county, and after yesterday's dumping the temperature has just been dropping more and more.

Over 200 schools closed this morning. This school-closing thing seems to be a modern phenomenon - we of a certain age can all remember trudging miles and miles in our shorts through deep snow to get to school. Kids/Teachers today... pfft... lightweights  ;)
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Post by: MattH on 16 January, 2013, 10:21:15 am
They are lightweights.
I remember in juniors in the 70s there being no food in the school because the delivery van couldn't get anywhere close. The school was up a narrow country lane that had snow drifts level with the walls of the fields. We went down the hill on sledges, loaded them with food and pulled them back up the hill. The head teacher ended up cooking it as the kitchen staff couldn't get in! (it was only a small school - 120 children - and obviously many of the kids hadn't turned up either).
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Post by: marcusjb on 16 January, 2013, 10:32:05 am
Schools never closed in my youth (80s for secondary school) - however, those of us in the outlying villages could rely on the fact that the bus couldn't get through when it snowed (and it was too far to walk) - so a day of sledging and/or mountain biking in the Peak District would follow!
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Post by: mcshroom on 16 January, 2013, 10:53:59 am
There also wasn't a culture of suing everyone for falling over on ice. A couple years back football matches were being called off because, althought eh pitch was heated and perfectly playable, there was ice on the pavements around the grounds and they were considered unsafe.
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Post by: SteveC on 16 January, 2013, 10:59:18 am
I got sent home from primary school once in the late 60s.
But there was snow coming through the roof in one building and the heating wasn't coping in most of the others.
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Post by: Morrisette on 16 January, 2013, 11:01:37 am
No, they never used to close schools for a bit of cold weather. I recall sitting in class in a hat and coat when the heating packed up, they still didn't send us home. And the excuse they use that 'teachers can't get here' - well, a colleague of Mr M's had to take her kids to court the other winter as the school nursery was shut for this reason (she's a solicitor) and on the way home she popped into Tesco and saw TWO of the nursery's staff in there doing their shopping! It;s only dangerous if you're driving to WORK.
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Post by: Butterfly on 16 January, 2013, 11:03:28 am
Our school (in the 70s) was closed whenever it snowed - I did go to village schools where no-one could get in, but I seem to remember the usual reason was that the heating packed up. One of the schools had a head teacher who felt the cold badly and would proably close the school if it dropped below 20 degrees ;).
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 January, 2013, 12:20:04 pm
Mine used to close coz the day bugs mostly relied on the buses for getting to and from skool.  East Yorkshire Motor Services used to run and hide every time a snowflake settled on the ground for more than ten seconds :thumbsup:
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Post by: Bledlow on 16 January, 2013, 12:20:40 pm
I don't recall my schools (60s-70s) ever closing for snow, though when I was at secondary school we'd sometimes lose pupils from outlying villages until the roads were made passable. At primary school, we'd sometimes be short of teachers when roads outside town were closed by snow, but the schools stayed open.
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Post by: clarion on 16 January, 2013, 12:23:29 pm
Our secondary school closed when the boiler room flooded.  And once IIRC for snow (though we prayed fervently for more).  Primary schools never closed - even the one in the Dales.
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Post by: jane on 16 January, 2013, 12:33:36 pm
Much less of a health and safety dominated culture back then. I remember the head and the deputy alone teaching all the children who made it in when I was about 5.  (It may have been the 62/3 winter, but I can't be certain). There must have been over a 100 of us.  That would not be allowed now.   Last year, my school did not close at all, but we did operate with about half the staff on a couple of days.  The year before, we closed on two  days, when the roads were not gritted in London (remember that).  Only the head and I made it in- on our bikes. The council (we are a local authority school) told us to close.
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Post by: clarion on 16 January, 2013, 12:35:22 pm
I do remember the kids who could get to school being all put into the hall (cold floor, draughts and all :( ) for teaching by the staff who could get there, though I am sure that there were more than two.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 January, 2013, 12:38:57 pm
I don't remember primary school closing for snow (70s) - though that might just be me not remembering! - but many times I walked the couple of miles to secondary school to find it closed. I think the problem, as with others, was that most children came in from surrounding villages in steep-sided valleys by bus. You might think that the popularity of the SUV as family car meant this was no longer necessary.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 January, 2013, 01:16:54 pm
I don't remember primary school closing because of snow. I remember being sent home from secondary school early on maybe two occasions, because there was already a foot of snow and then it started to snow again. Some of the kids from the farms on the moors couldn't get in, but the rest of us were expected to be there, and be on time.

I got embroiled in an argument on my professional body's forum a couple of years ago, when staff were complaining that they'd been docked pay for not going in when it was snowy. They didn't like me pointing out that one of our primary school teachers used to walk in from Mirfied to Lindley in Huddersfield (about eight miles) if the snow was too bad to drive. He generally didn't make it in till 11ish, but he made it (and then my friend Lisa filled his wellies with empty crisp packets from the bins  ;D ). I walked to and from work, about 3 miles each way, in 2010 and 2011 when the snow was bad and the buses were off. Some people expressed surprise, but they did not have Yorkshire childhoods.  ;D I doubt I'd do it now, I'd point out I have an arthritic hip and milk that for all it was worth  ;), but if my hip was up to it, I'd do it.
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Post by: mcshroom on 16 January, 2013, 01:21:46 pm
I don't think my primary shut at all for snow (late 80-early 90s). We shut early a couple times at secondary school (late 90s) as the buses used to turn up (without consulting the school) at the first sign of snowfall due to the steep roads leading away from the school. I think we were shut for one whole day but that may have been boiler related.
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Post by: numbnuts on 16 January, 2013, 05:46:30 pm
We were all sent home from primary school in the 50s due to the outside toilets freezing up
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 January, 2013, 05:55:36 pm
I'm certain I never missed a day's school in the 1962-63 winter and I don't remember my primary school ever closing because of the weather.

I missed a few days when I was at secondary school because of snow, but I had a 15 mile bus journey to make and was never that averse to bunking off with a half-decent excuse. There was one occasion, in the late 1960s, when I was waiting for the bus at 8 a.m. as usual, the snow started after I got on the bus and half-an-hour later the bust couldn't get through: almost a foot of snow fell that day. The following day I got on the bus again but then walked 4 miles home because all traffic that had got stuck on the Galleywood Common was still there from the previous day. I remember an ossifer boarding the bus and actually advising us to go home. It was a gorgeous walk: sunny and a very hard frost. That was March, probably 1968 or 1969.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 January, 2013, 07:09:27 pm
Mine used to close coz the day bugs mostly relied on the buses for getting to and from skool.  East Yorkshire Motor Services used to run and hide every time a snowflake settled on the ground for more than ten seconds :thumbsup:

Ah, but did you ever participate in one of the legendary (possibly literally so - I never found anyone who had, just those who claimed to know someone who...) epic huge snowball battles against the natives down on The Path?  The ones that apparently resulted in massive injury and DETH?
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Post by: Basil on 16 January, 2013, 07:18:36 pm
Oh dear.  I do hope that the forecast for Friday is an exaggeration - or a Worst Case Scenario.  I really don't want to be the only one able to turn up to work.  >:(
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Post by: Bledlow on 16 January, 2013, 07:39:39 pm
We were all sent home from primary school in the 50s due to the outside toilets freezing up
My first three years education were at a school with outside toilets. That was in the 1960s. I can't remember if we were ever sent home because they froze, but probably. I do remember being unable to walk anywhere because the snow was too deep for my little legs in the winter of 1962/3, & being pulled around sat on a sledge.

Paper bag in't middle o' road.  ;D
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Post by: Quint on 16 January, 2013, 07:40:53 pm
I am sure my teachers were ex SAS, the buggers would be there tapping their canes in whatever weather 1950/60's, one was an ex Welsh national rugby player who used to take outdoor PE in any weather, might explain why I had so few days off work in my life (or was it fear the bastard was still about).
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Post by: Chris S on 16 January, 2013, 08:23:49 pm
Oh dear.  I do hope that the forecast for Friday is an exaggeration - or a Worst Case Scenario.  I really don't want to be the only one able to turn up to work.  >:(

Looks a mess, doesn't it? This is what kept happening in the winter of '47; incursions from the Atlantic disrupted over the UK, leading to snow but no respite from the cold. I hope it doesn't go on that long though - there was snow lying until mid March then!
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 January, 2013, 09:26:32 pm
We were all sent home from primary school in the 50s due to the outside toilets freezing up
My first three years education were at a school with outside toilets. That was in the 1960s. I can't remember if we were ever sent home because they froze, but probably. I do remember being unable to walk anywhere because the snow was too deep for my little legs in the winter of 1962/3, & being pulled around sat on a sledge.

Paper bag in't middle o' road.  ;D
My first three years of school had indoor toilets, but juniors and secondary school - from the mid '70s on - had outdoor toilets only. I presume all Victorian/Edwardian school buildings did. I know my primary school no longer uses that building but I'd imagine my secondary school still has the same toilets. I don't remember them ever freezing but I do remember they were made by Adam Ant.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 January, 2013, 09:39:13 pm
Oh dear.  I do hope that the forecast for Friday is an exaggeration - or a Worst Case Scenario.  I really don't want to be the only one able to turn up to work.  >:(

Looks a mess, doesn't it? This is what kept happening in the winter of '47; incursions from the Atlantic disrupted over the UK, leading to snow but no respite from the cold. I hope it doesn't go on that long though - there was snow lying until mid March then!

I read somewhere that 5th March 1947 was "one of the most vicious storms of the 20th century in Britain".

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gesc_b/Pages/Discussion/D5thMarch1947.htm shows a weather report.

In 1963 the thaw didn't set in until 17th March. For most of the country, the first snow of the winter fell on Boxing Day 1962. The most violent storm for southern England was on the night of 30th December. I recall my brother, who was accustomed to sitting in our bedroom listening to the Third Network (as it was known in those days) gallumphing downstairs to say that the forecast had predicted a massive blizzard coming down form Scandinavia.

They weren't wrong. Our road was blocked by 4' snowdrifts for 3 weeks. There were "virgin" snowdrifts, where no-one had walked, in the fields a little way behind our house until March. They had been there so long that they were dirty with wind-blown dust. That January was the coldest month on record in Britain and there were quite a few places where the temperature didn't go above freezing for the whole of January.

We went for a walk on 31st Dec and the weather was so cold that the lens contracted and fell out of the Brownie box camera that we were using. Not surprisingly, none of the photographs came out.
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Post by: spindrift on 16 January, 2013, 09:41:38 pm
In Poland the kids get sent home from school at minus 26. At that temperature if you spit it's frozen when it hits the ground. Apparently it's the same with urine but if you think I'm getting my old boy out at minus 26 you want your bumps felt.
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Post by: Kim on 16 January, 2013, 09:51:50 pm
This is where the Shewee Extreme comes in...

Don't think any of my schools got closed because of snow.  Boiler failures were something of a theme at secondary (combined with knock-on substation failures as all the teachers in the affected block brought electric heaters in and unbalanced the phases), so it got unpleasantly cold without the aid of extreme weather.  I remember huddling around bunsen burners in full winter clothing in an attempt to keep warm.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bobb on 16 January, 2013, 10:01:02 pm
The only time my school closed due to weather was when the roof got blown off in the hurricane.

Never closed due to snow, but those were the days when kids walked to school rather than being driven by orange women in BMWs...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feanor on 16 January, 2013, 10:07:24 pm
At the Lake Louise ski centre in Canada, there was a notice on the door of the creche ( that dates our trip! ) which said they would not take the kids for outside play if the temperature dropped below -25.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 January, 2013, 10:09:05 pm
Never closed due to snow, but those were the days when kids walked to school rather than being driven by orange women in BMWs...
I think that has a lot to do with it. When I was a kid, we were used to walking to school in all weathers. Weather wasn't seen as a reason not to go to school.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 January, 2013, 10:26:11 pm
I remember our dad (who was the head of the primary school that we attended!) picking out the furniture for the compact and bijou new staffroom after they did the building work that for the first time ever gave the school, which was a tiny village one with 2annahalf classes, an actual staffroom and indoor toilets.  I guess it must have been some time in the early 80s.  He deliberately chose chairs that didn't have arms so you could put them all in a row and kip on them.  And kept a sleeping bag in a cupboard in the winter, just in case, because we lived 5 miles away and the other 2 teachers lived in even more likely to get snowed in villages.  Can't remember if he did end up sleeping there or not.  I do remember him taking the whole of the juniors out on the hill (village was at the foot of the Wolds) sledging every year.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tonyh on 17 January, 2013, 08:47:34 am
huddling around bunsen burners in full winter clothing in an attempt to keep warm.

Lighting the gas at the taps warms the room faster. (Having carried out a Risk Assessment, of course.)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 January, 2013, 10:21:39 am
Mine used to close coz the day bugs mostly relied on the buses for getting to and from skool.  East Yorkshire Motor Services used to run and hide every time a snowflake settled on the ground for more than ten seconds :thumbsup:

Ah, but did you ever participate in one of the legendary (possibly literally so - I never found anyone who had, just those who claimed to know someone who...) epic huge snowball battles against the natives down on The Path?  The ones that apparently resulted in massive injury and DETH?

I don't believe I did.  Plus I can't remember where this soi-disant The Path is anyway ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 17 January, 2013, 10:47:12 am
Fuck me, it's snowing here! It never snows here!

That decides it. I'm staying home and dusting off the bike for a Snow Ride. I love riding with the snow coming down. Particularly at night.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 17 January, 2013, 12:49:01 pm
A very few soft, fluffy flakes of almost snow here, about fifteen minutes ago. Some probably reached knee height before melting. A few minutes later I saw a bumble bee crawling disorientatedly across the pavement.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 17 January, 2013, 02:38:50 pm
Starting to come down in sunny (not) North Oxfordshire, roll on Spring
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: GrahamG on 17 January, 2013, 03:26:56 pm
I'm just hoping that enough snow falls before 7.30 tomorrow to make a reasonable decision on whether or not to travel to work - I won't be happy if I get the bus in only to end up virtually stranded!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: interzen on 17 January, 2013, 03:30:36 pm
We were told this morning not to take any 'unnecessary risks' getting to work in the event of the predicted snowmageddon coming to pass (I doubt it will - yr.no suggests we'll have some snow; I trust the Met Office forecasts about as far as I could physically spit Scotland) - I suspect that the office will be fairly empty tomorrow.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 17 January, 2013, 03:35:41 pm
Fuck me, it's snowing here! It never snows here!

That decides it. I'm staying home and dusting off the bike for a Snow Ride. I love riding with the snow coming down. Particularly at night.

There were a few desultory flakes that didn't settle a little further east this morning, but it's been more like a fine sleet since then. Going by what I read elsewhere, the proper SNOpocalypse isn't due to hit the country until tomorrow, just in time for the rush hour...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21064235
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: GothonaBrompton on 17 January, 2013, 04:18:45 pm
SouthWest trains have published their 'snow timetable' for tomorrow already, and it isn't doing anything yet in Central London (nor in much of their network AFAIK).

So down to 4 trains an hour instead of 6 (they add two in the rush hour), the semi fast (starts in Windsor) will now be the slow and stop absolutely everywhere, because the train that usually does that has to come all the way from deepest darkest Weybridge and can't do the bit between there and Virginia Water.

It will either be chaos as more people per train, or some folks decide not to bother and its Friday.

Not sure I want to find out - provided nothing goes t*ts up with the Piccadilly Line, I'll take the tube.

 

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: matthew on 17 January, 2013, 05:04:14 pm
SouthWest trains have published their 'snow timetable' for tomorrow already, and it isn't doing anything yet in Central London (nor in much of their network AFAIK).

So down to 4 trains an hour instead of 6 (they add two in the rush hour), the semi fast (starts in Windsor) will now be the slow and stop absolutely everywhere, because the train that usually does that has to come all the way from deepest darkest Weybridge and can't do the bit between there and Virginia Water.

It will either be chaos as more people per train, or some folks decide not to bother and its Friday.

Not sure I want to find out - provided nothing goes t*ts up with the Piccadilly Line, I'll take the tube.

 
Reducing the frequency and close the branch lines - No Ash - Ascot - Hounslow - Waterloo or Weighbridge - Virginia Water - Richmond - Waterloo services.

Fortunately I need neither of these but I think my Marathon Winter tyres will be on the bike and with me in the morning so that I at least have a fall back if the trains get worse come home time.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 17 January, 2013, 06:03:21 pm
Looking at the forecast, it might be sensible for Mrs B not to go to work tomorrow. Maybe there's some work she can do from home.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 17 January, 2013, 07:58:50 pm
It's trying to snow in Liverpool, not making a very good job of it though.   Down to 6C in my bathroom at the moment.  Note to self, get up early, turn on heater, go back to bed for 30 mins tomorrow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 January, 2013, 08:04:31 pm
Oh bloody hell, we're supposed to be flying out from Embra on Sat. What are the odds that the flights end up all up the spout because there's a snowpocalypse down south?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 January, 2013, 08:46:40 pm
Oh bloody hell, we're supposed to be flying out from Embra on Sat. What are the odds that the flights end up all up the spout because there's a snowpocalypse down south?
I'm more concerned that bobb is supposed to be flying here on Wednesday. I don't mind if he can't get back, but he needs to get here!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 17 January, 2013, 08:47:52 pm
No onions in Morrisons.

For goodness sake, it is supposed to rain on Sunday. Panic buying onions? Gah!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 17 January, 2013, 09:27:04 pm
Right.  I'm staying in this pub untill it stops snowing.
 
This could be quite a session.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: madcow on 17 January, 2013, 09:31:07 pm
For some complicated reason, I hope to be a customer of Edinburgh airport  as well on Tuesday and Wednesday. BBC Weather forecast is for white cloud, whatever that means. Only occasional snow showers. If the roads are dodgy , I will let the train take the strain.
Just a fine covering of snow in Vale of York, but its cccold-around -3C  this afternoon.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 17 January, 2013, 09:34:24 pm
Looking at the #uksnow map, there's a little bit in the middle of the country, but nothing getting anywhere significantly close to That London.  Even if any snow does come this way, the temperature's going to have to drop a bit before it'll do anything significant.  Currently with London City Airport at 0°C, and Biggin Hill barely below zero at -0.6°C, I can't imagine much will happen.

I guess tomorrow could be a bit different, and the forecasts suggest there could be a bit of snow, but probably not until middayish.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 17 January, 2013, 09:36:26 pm
Still nothing in Liverpool.  Bugger!  This means that staff in our partner office in St Albans won't turn in and we'll have to do all the work!  Bloody southerners!  :P
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feanor on 17 January, 2013, 09:44:54 pm
Well, my lazy fuckwit students failed to do as I asked on Tuesday afternoon, whan I had to leave them alone for about an hour un-supervised.

After testing the mega-expensive doo-hicky in the yard with water in it's sample-line, PLEASE to be blowing it clear with compressed air in the manner I have shown.   UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES to be leaving it full of water overnight, where it will freeze, and cause damage to many expensive seals within the instrument.

So what did they do?
Yes, left it full of water.
Because the air line had been 'rolled up back into it's reel, and we didn't know how to pull it back out'.

Uuh, you pull it.   Like a tyre inflating hose at a garage.
Like I did during the demo.

FFS.



Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 18 January, 2013, 04:01:47 am
Fuck me, it's snowing here! It never snows here!

That decides it. I'm staying home and dusting off the bike for a Snow Ride. I love riding with the snow coming down. Particularly at night.

There were a few desultory flakes that didn't settle a little further east this morning, but it's been more like a fine sleet since then. Going by what I read elsewhere, the proper SNOpocalypse isn't due to hit the country until tomorrow, just in time for the rush hour...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21064235

Looks like those few flakes were exceedingly transitory, then. In fact, it warmed up significantly not long after I'd posted that and started to rain.

The weather website I use is still forecasting "heavy snow" for my postcode for 24hrs starting at 0700. I'll eat my hat if that happens.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 18 January, 2013, 05:23:37 am
Some light snow here in Southampton
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Post by: Moleman76 on 18 January, 2013, 06:10:48 am
Dense, freezing fog over here near Seattle.  Roadways glazed with black ice.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MattH on 18 January, 2013, 08:17:33 am
Snowing quite heavily here, just east of Basingstoke. MrsH's school decided yesterday that it wouldn't be open. The kids go to school on buses hired by the council. The bus company that runs their route decided that they wouldn't run this morning, so the kids are here too.

Tempted to go into the office (I normally work from home) so I can have a quiet working day!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: vorsprung on 18 January, 2013, 08:21:39 am
Devon Somerset border, woke up to maybe an inch of snow.  It's still falling and now have about 2 inches.  Visibility is poor.

I've run out of coffee so I am going to have to go out...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 18 January, 2013, 08:22:06 am
I seem to be the whole department today.
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Post by: Pancho on 18 January, 2013, 08:26:26 am
Loads of snow!

I'm going to work from home today. Or rather, I'm going to ride my bike today.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Riggers on 18 January, 2013, 08:33:36 am
Brighton here.

Up until 8am this morning … no snow. Now at 8.30 we have a steady fall of light 'pill'-like snow – no lovely flakes I'm afraid. It is beginning to lay on roofs, etc, but doesn't feel particularly cold. Will keep you updated.

Now back to you in the studio.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wombat on 18 January, 2013, 08:33:36 am
Some light snow here in Southampton

Southampton usually gets let off.  when I worked there I had to email in pictures of my snowed in car in Purbrook, because the boss thought I was swinging the lead.  The fact that I produce a load of work at home didn't convince her that anyone working from home did actually work.  don't judge us by your standards, old bat!

I've just emailed my current employer in Gosport to say I'm not moving.  About 50mm of snow and its throwing it down out there.  Dog is confused (not seen snow before) but then our dog only has an 8086 processor...  The A3 may well be O.K., but its getting t it thats the problem.   I've got a project to get on with, so why add to the undoubted chaos out there.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 18 January, 2013, 08:39:06 am
@Wombat - what's the chance of me getting to a little village just outside Petersfield?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 18 January, 2013, 08:40:03 am
I get out of bed when my alarm goes off (unusual, lately, for me)

I get dresses, have my coffee and head out the door at 06:10.

I walk to the station, see the EC train that goes before mine leave the station (so all well and good so far).

I buy a ticket.

I walk up the ramp onto the platform and look at the display. NO 06:23 SHOWING!!!! It's only 06:19, so I know I haven't missed it.

I stand there for a while, a couple of people ask me if it is coming (it has got to about 06:27 by this time).

I run down the ramp to the ticket office, and find the train is still on the display there.

I check the TPE app which is showing the train as somewhere between NTR and THI, SHIT!!!

I go back up the ramp, to hear an announcement over the tannoy that the 06:23 is running late, and that it will terminate at York, with an onward bus service.

"Fuck it" I think and go home...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 18 January, 2013, 08:40:53 am
Some light snow here in Southampton

Southampton usually gets let off.  when I worked there I had to email in pictures of my snowed in car in Purbrook, because the boss thought I was swinging the lead.  The fact that I produce a load of work at home didn't convince her that anyone working from home did actually work.  don't judge us by your standards, old bat!

Guilty as charged. See my post above.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: marcusjb on 18 January, 2013, 08:42:54 am

I get dresses, have my coffee and head out the door at 06:10.


Well that might raise an eyebrow or two at work - good job you've not made it in!  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 18 January, 2013, 08:46:39 am
Coming down quite heavily now. Think the Pugsley may get an outing :smug:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 18 January, 2013, 08:48:37 am

I get dresses, have my coffee and head out the door at 06:10.


Well that might raise an eyebrow or two at work - good job you've not made it in!  ;D

DAMN! My secret is out!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 18 January, 2013, 08:48:49 am
No onions in Morrisons.

For goodness sake, it is supposed to rain on Sunday. Panic buying onions? Gah!

That's the thing to remember about panic buying - make sure you're the first to panic.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: vorsprung on 18 January, 2013, 08:53:05 am
....and I made it on the 1 mile round trip to the shops and back!

Bike has ice tyres but I could have ridden it on normal tyres with a bit of tread.  The snow is turning to slush and there is no ice
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wombat on 18 January, 2013, 08:58:18 am
@Wombat - what's the chance of me getting to a little village just outside Petersfield?

Not good at all, most of those, such as Steep, for example disintegrate in snow of any sort.  I may be able to phone or email someone in buriton who will know more locally.  More info later.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: marcusjb on 18 January, 2013, 08:58:28 am
Just started in W4 - HTFU and ride up to Hampstead or take train?  Discretion may be the better part of valour just at the moment......
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: GothonaBrompton on 18 January, 2013, 09:02:21 am
SouthWest trains have published their 'snow timetable' for tomorrow already, and it isn't doing anything yet in Central London (nor in much of their network AFAIK).

So down to 4 trains an hour instead of 6 (they add two in the rush hour), the semi fast (starts in Windsor) will now be the slow and stop absolutely everywhere, because the train that usually does that has to come all the way from deepest darkest Weybridge and can't do the bit between there and Virginia Water.

It will either be chaos as more people per train, or some folks decide not to bother and its Friday.

Not sure I want to find out - provided nothing goes t*ts up with the Piccadilly Line, I'll take the tube.

 
Reducing the frequency and close the branch lines - No Ash - Ascot - Hounslow - Waterloo or Weighbridge - Virginia Water - Richmond - Waterloo services.

Fortunately I need neither of these but I think my Marathon Winter tyres will be on the bike and with me in the morning so that I at least have a fall back if the trains get worse come home time.

Best of luck matthew.  My daughter in law works at Garth School in Bracknell and the predictions are for heavier snow than here.

I got the Piccadilly Line in the end.  It might be crowded and smelly sometimes, but (cross fingers) it tends to be more reliable in adverse weather (which in London, we don't actually have yet).

Just looked behind me out of the window, and a very fine icing sugar dusting is coming down.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 18 January, 2013, 09:03:19 am
Enjoyable ride in on the hybrid.  It's been snowing since last night but only the side roads are difficult.  Hardly any traffic at all.
I suspect that the ride home may have more comedy value.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 18 January, 2013, 09:04:46 am
It also started in Croydon a short while ago.  Very small flakes, which are leaving a thin layer on stuff at the moment.  Whether it'll get thicker or just build up I don't know, but it's definitely settling.

I'm not fussed, I'll leave in a short while anyway, that's why I've got studded tyres on the bike!

Zev was a bit curious, peering out through the back door, but hasn't been tempted to go out and investigate.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wombat on 18 January, 2013, 09:05:41 am
@Wombat - what's the chance of me getting to a little village just outside Petersfield?

Not good at all, most of those, such as Steep, for example disintegrate in snow of any sort.  I may be able to phone or email someone in buriton who will know more locally.  More info later.

forget it, Pancho.  Just spoken to Wendy, not a hope!  Off the A3 its just no-go.  The flakes are getting much bigger here in Purbrook, it is absolutely lobbing it down.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 18 January, 2013, 09:12:36 am
Hah. It's Steep I was hoping to get to! My children are at school there and I'm scheduled to bring them home tomorrow. I'd been thinking of nipping up and collecting them this morning and beating the snow - seems I missed the window. Here's hoping things get better rather than worse over the next 24 hours.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Panoramix on 18 January, 2013, 09:13:46 am
Snow has reached sunny Brittany!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: RainOrShine on 18 January, 2013, 09:14:57 am
A good three inches here near Bath.  I kind of think the snow is directed especially at me, since my Cyclescheme voucher arrived yesterday afternoon!  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 18 January, 2013, 09:17:45 am
We've got nearly 4 inches. Although it is all tiny flakes falling now and looks warmer.

I'm off to take photos.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 18 January, 2013, 09:20:39 am
Still nothing at all here in CA20. In fact there is blue sky directly outside my office window.

Wind is howling round the site with some anger though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CAMRAMan on 18 January, 2013, 09:21:17 am
Warwick had a light dusting overnight, but it's coming down a lot faster now & the wind is whipping it up. The walk to school was not fun. The bin men have made it!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 18 January, 2013, 09:31:26 am
An uneasy sense of foreboding hangs over Southend...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: matthew on 18 January, 2013, 09:39:13 am
Left home - no snow.
Got to station (500m) - snowing gently - train has just left running bang on time  :facepalm:
Go back home, find skull cap for under helmet and make lunch - snow heavier but still gentle
Go back to station for later train - it is delayed
Get to work - steady snow settling but roads clear.

I have the bike as a backup to the trains home and a pannier with the hiking boots as a back up to the bike.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 18 January, 2013, 09:49:54 am
Patchy on the Herts/Bucks borders it seems. Here in HEmel it's snowing very fine flakes, has been for an hour but you can still see the colour of the cars.  15 miles North near Tring my wife tells ne there's an inch or so, and you can't tell the colour of her car.  Got a conference call at 10:30, so got to deicde soon if to bail for home or take it here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ferret on 18 January, 2013, 09:53:30 am
tell me about it, 8 to 9 inches and growing deeper by the hour, oh well I suppose the met office got this one right:)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wombat on 18 January, 2013, 09:58:20 am
Hah. It's Steep I was hoping to get to! My children are at school there and I'm scheduled to bring them home tomorrow. I'd been thinking of nipping up and collecting them this morning and beating the snow - seems I missed the window. Here's hoping things get better rather than worse over the next 24 hours.

I think tomorrow afternoon might be O.K., as long as it melts off the roads, 'cos they won't be ploughing the little local roads.  I'm wary of tomorrow morning, as some of it may then be ice... ice on snow or snow over ice, is not good.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 18 January, 2013, 09:58:32 am
We have had a brief flurry with about 1/4 inch on the pavement (or just enough to make it white in metric)

More due later.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 18 January, 2013, 10:00:30 am
Coming down steadily in Reading, & settling. Everything's covered thinly so far. Fine & powdery, rather than big fluffy flakes.

Went outside to uncover the fat-soaked bread I put down yesterday, & disturbed a blackbird with its feathers fluffed up, which had found it (or remembered its location) despite the covering of snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 18 January, 2013, 10:00:47 am
Sno has arrived in Londonton.  Nobbut a flake or two while I was riding in, but now it's settling fast.
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Post by: Charlotte on 18 January, 2013, 10:06:19 am
NW London checking in.  It's coming down sideways!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 18 January, 2013, 10:15:36 am
We have a couple of inches here now. The commuters that usually use our road as a car park have obviously all taken the day off - it's lovely and quiet. I don't blame them as I assume they park here for the station and southern don't play with their train set if it's bad weather.
Title: It's snowing!
Post by: bumper on 18 January, 2013, 10:16:20 am
It's been snowing here from about 5.00pm yesterday and its still only 3 inches deep. I've just been out to feed the birds and give them some fresh water and they've filled the garden, so I'm off to make a coffee and then I'm going to sit and watch them for an hour. There's not much else to do!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bobb on 18 January, 2013, 10:21:06 am
Snow has just started to fall here.

Time for some MTB mayhem!  :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 18 January, 2013, 10:32:10 am
Mrs B may come home early. Her school visit this morning is to a place not too far from the M4, so she has an easy route home. Some of 'em are in villages in the Chilterns.

This snow is ideally made for drifting. I just saw some blowing off a roof where it had settled. Down, sideways - sometimes up.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 18 January, 2013, 10:39:48 am
Quite slippery outside here.  Will be better if the snow gets thicker.  We've swept a way out of the car park for the doctors to go on visits.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Juan Martín on 18 January, 2013, 10:40:23 am
It's snowing fairly steadily in the City and I think that many have taken the opportunity to 'work from home' or should that be 'work' from home. It's pretty quiet so I'm going out for an early run. I may be gone some time.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 January, 2013, 10:43:10 am
It's been going for about half an hour in Harlot.  Small powdery flakes but it does seem to be settling.
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Post by: essexian on 18 January, 2013, 10:44:29 am
101 schools closed or closing in Staffordshire today due to the weather. A lot due to "risk assessments" and "transport difficulities."

Back in my day we would have been sent out to do cross country running down to Tottenham Locks and back in this weather while Mr Davies sat in his office by the fire. He always said that he would be checking up on us to make sure we didn't take any short cuts: he never did but we didn't know that! ................... don't know they are born today.  ;D
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Post by: rogerzilla on 18 January, 2013, 10:46:20 am
We've got nearly 4 inches.
Only you would brag about such a miniscule amount.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 January, 2013, 11:23:53 am
We've got nearly 4 inches.
Only you would brag about such a miniscule amount.

Spelling!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 January, 2013, 11:32:32 am
Warm and damp last night, a few inches of snow this morning. School's closed so we've made a snowmandwarf and had a snowball fight all along the street.

Earlier, I think in another thread, I was a bit moany (with lots of others) about schools closing for snow, but now - I'm glad. School attendance seems to be taken more seriously than when I was primary-age, and it's rare for kids to get a day off when they play in the street with no (or at least very few) cars driving - at least that's how our street is, and it seems very popular today.
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Post by: Biggsy on 18 January, 2013, 11:36:03 am
Small powdery flakes settling in north London.

*Looks in fridge for carrots*
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pancho on 18 January, 2013, 11:39:37 am
We walked to the shops to buy chocolate digestives. The route to the shops includes this snopocalyptic scene:

(http://calypsovoyages.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/wpid-20130118_104912.jpg)

It's all a bit The World in Winter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_in_Winter) for us denizens of the southern beaches.

It's still falling - although thinner. Unless the roads really clear, I'm abandoning my children and will stay tucked up at home all weekend.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Riggers on 18 January, 2013, 11:51:53 am
An uneasy sense of foreboding hangs over Southend...


Ah… was it ever thus.
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Post by: Riggers on 18 January, 2013, 11:54:37 am
Still coming down in Brighton. Wind driven too, which dun'arf stings the eyeballs!!!

Oi've been on me bike I should add.
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Post by: matthew on 18 January, 2013, 11:59:58 am
Office emptying rapidly as the A329(M) behind slows to a single lane crawl. Work emailed home and I am now going to change and leave. Rideing home is the backup if the trains fail. The Timetable is now only an approximate suggestion.
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Post by: Riggers on 18 January, 2013, 12:01:06 pm
Good luck soldier!
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Post by: GothonaBrompton on 18 January, 2013, 12:03:58 pm
Office emptying rapidly as the A329(M) behind slows to a single lane crawl. Work emailed home and I am now going to change and leave. Rideing home is the backup if the trains fail. The Timetable is now only an approximate suggestion.

Good luck matthew!
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 18 January, 2013, 12:19:16 pm
10cm and counting here in Warwick. The schools have closed and I've walked miles in it to and from school and a meeting. The Drizabone coat and hat got an outing as did the Aldi boot overshoes. Very effective too.
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Post by: Feline on 18 January, 2013, 12:22:48 pm
We have about 3 inches. My golden stemmed bamboo has bowed to the ground with the weight (it's about 15 foot high normally!).
My dogs are delighted. My daughter even more so that her school is closed except for the poor A level students who have an exam. The head slept in the school last night to make sure he could be there to open the doors for them and invigilate.
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Post by: Oscar's dad on 18 January, 2013, 12:24:09 pm
Snow has just started to fall here.

Time for some MTB mayhem!  :D

Nothing here in Witham.  Strangely I gather it's snowing Colchester so we are surrounded by snow but none here.
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Post by: Riggers on 18 January, 2013, 12:32:43 pm
I'd like to say we've got a good 6 inches in Brighton!

But no,  :( we haven't … yet. Still snowing. Big flakes now.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 January, 2013, 12:33:31 pm
It's virtually stopped in Harlot now - barely visible to the naked eye.  This has, however, not stopped most of thw jbexforce from buggering off.
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Post by: numbnuts on 18 January, 2013, 12:36:30 pm
It has all gone crazy here there is no movement in my road we had a bus went through at 6am, but that was it, kids never went to school, and the gas service engineer will not come out (OK it is only a service) and we have only two inches of snow, God help us if we had three inches
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Post by: bumper on 18 January, 2013, 12:48:04 pm
I've got eight inches!  Oooeerrrr!!


It's about 20 in the drifts, I may need to let some air out of my tyres for tonight's ride.
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Post by: rafletcher on 18 January, 2013, 01:11:26 pm
Only contractors are left in the office here. Even staff within walking distance have pissed off - amazing how being paid by the hour alters ones perception!) Maybe 5cm of very powdery snow (probably drifting to 15cm in places), but roads all clear of snow (if not of traffic).
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Post by: ferret on 18 January, 2013, 01:14:17 pm
Stopped here for now, our road is blocked due to drifting and I can't start the tractor, come in for a cuppa and a warm in front of the fire,
not sure how deep it is, a bit variable seems to range from a couple of inches to 6 foot where it's drifted, 
I don't think we have any more forecast ?
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 January, 2013, 01:34:49 pm
Warm and damp last night, a few inches of snow this morning. School's closed so we've made a snowmandwarf and had a snowball fight all along the street.

Earlier, I think in another thread, I was a bit moany (with lots of others) about schools closing for snow, but now - I'm glad. School attendance seems to be taken more seriously than when I was primary-age, and it's rare for kids to get a day off when they play in the street with no (or at least very few) cars driving - at least that's how our street is, and it seems very popular today.
Though I do wonder what "normal" families - where both parents have going-out-to-work jobs - do?

Should add I've seen a few brave bods out on mountain bikes and even one on a road bike - though he was down on the main road, where traffic is moving fairly normally, not on our hill. And though it's warmer than the last few days, the only person in shorts is the postman.
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Post by: ferret on 18 January, 2013, 01:49:21 pm
ooopps! look like I spoke a bit too soon,

(http://i587.photobucket.com/albums/ss319/MB1_63/th_P1000590_zpsb266a250.jpg) (http://s587.beta.photobucket.com/user/MB1_63/media/P1000590_zpsb266a250.jpg.html)
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Post by: spesh on 18 January, 2013, 02:08:41 pm
It looks like Round 2 of the larger flake snowfall has begun in Mos Eisley Spaceport Pompey...
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Post by: mcshroom on 18 January, 2013, 02:14:05 pm
For the record - still no sno in West Cumbria :(
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Post by: Jaded on 18 January, 2013, 02:14:56 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_6200.jpg)

That's  4x4 up there, crashed through the wall. Someone said it had pushed this lower one through the wall.

more photos on the have you been out with your camera (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=58889.msg1401039#msg1401039) thread.
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Post by: tiermat on 18 January, 2013, 02:19:46 pm
It would appear that, rather than come in from the West, as predicted by the forecast last night, our snow clouds are coming up from the South and East.

Leaden skies now, temp dropping like a stone, just about to go and light the fire in the front room.
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Post by: Pancho on 18 January, 2013, 02:32:10 pm
Agreed. I was certainly striding into an easterly this morning and wondered what the weathermen were playing at with their westerlies.
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Post by: mcshroom on 18 January, 2013, 02:35:57 pm
The snow is falling on a meeting of a cold easterly airflow and a wet Westerly low pressure system. The debate was about where the two would settle out at. In my case it's about 5 miles off the coast in the Irish Sea, meaning we have had not snow, but the Isle of Man looks to have been getting a lot of the stuff.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 January, 2013, 02:36:59 pm
There's no wind at all though.
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Post by: L CC on 18 January, 2013, 02:37:54 pm
All the schools are shut- closed early.
There's not a single flake falling.

FFS.
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Post by: mcshroom on 18 January, 2013, 02:41:02 pm
There's no wind at all though.

It's rather blowy up here (from the South East). St Bees Head (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/nw/st_bees_head_latest_weather.html), about 3 miles away has been recording wind speeds of 30-40mph (average) all day
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 January, 2013, 02:43:43 pm
yr.no is forecasting "moderate breeze from east-southeast" here (bristol) now and for tomorrow - but it isn't actually happening out there!
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 18 January, 2013, 03:12:35 pm
I heard a lovely, expensive sounding crunch earlier as I witnessed a wankpanzer driver hit a kerb as s/he came round a corner too fast. They drove off, but there must've been damage.
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Post by: MattH on 18 January, 2013, 03:30:31 pm
Currently about 5-6 inches just east of Basingstoke and still snowing lightly.
I went for a walk into the village earlier; the main road (A30) is clear with very little traffic. Looking around the houses here it seems most people have stayed at home - which is unsurprising as Basingstoke tends to go into complete gridlock when the snow falls, resulting in people being stuck in their cars for hours. I guess being a Friday helps to make that decision for people too; taking a long weekend is easier to justify to yourself than a mid-week day.
As someone who normally works from home it's made little difference to me.
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Post by: Jacomus on 18 January, 2013, 03:40:54 pm
After a pretty few hours of snoflakes drifting around in flurries, but not really settling, it has given up in Very Central London
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Post by: Butterfly on 18 January, 2013, 04:04:45 pm
TGL says it must be deep because you can't see the weeds in the front garden ::-).
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Post by: matthew on 18 January, 2013, 04:27:25 pm
drivers were great,  :o rode to my sisters for a coffee, then went with her to meet BiL and Niece for sledging. Rode on to the station for the last of the way home as the Marathon Winters when soft are hard work and my feet were getting cold from the sledging. good 4 - 6 inches on the ground but gritted roads are running well and traffic volumes are right down.
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Post by: Tigerrr on 18 January, 2013, 04:38:06 pm
What a drag. I was meant to be doing a special training course over the weekend just south of Brum, travelling tonite from London by road. I decided to cancel a couple of hours ago as the hotel is in the sticks with snowed up minor roads - and now it all looks just fine. I suspect I was too quick to cancel.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 January, 2013, 04:44:49 pm
Greengrocer's is both running out of produce - no supplies - and Caikye Shoppe had only a few pieces of some awful cherry thing left.  :(
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Post by: Regulator on 18 January, 2013, 04:45:41 pm
They closed the office early today...

...but I'm working from home...  :(
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Post by: clarion on 18 January, 2013, 04:46:11 pm
It has now stopped snowing in London's famous London.  Chiz.
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Post by: LindaG on 18 January, 2013, 04:46:21 pm
I'm catching trains to London and across London tomorrow. Hmmm.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 18 January, 2013, 04:49:44 pm
I'm just about to leave the office to try to get a train home. Byeeeeeee!
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Post by: mike on 18 January, 2013, 04:51:25 pm
It has now stopped snowing in London's famous London.  Chiz.

same here too.  Not even enough to cover the garden path. Boo.
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Post by: clarion on 18 January, 2013, 04:53:11 pm
I'm catching trains to London and across London tomorrow. Hmmm.

Important Information:

We have a teapot and cake.  And are near Londonton.

(we can also meet you in town if you like :) )
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Post by: LindaG on 18 January, 2013, 04:59:34 pm
I'm going to see Grandad in Cobham.  My KX train gets in at 1615. Will then probly tube it to Waterloo.
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Post by: delthebike on 18 January, 2013, 05:00:57 pm
It has now stopped snowing in London's famous London.  Chiz.
Not even started here in Southend. I've seen a handful of small flakes float by the window but that's it!
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Post by: Kim on 18 January, 2013, 05:07:34 pm
Just been on a mission to panic-buy chocolate.

The Marathon Winters finally justified themselves.  The bike isn't rated for fluffy snow, which our road is ankle deep in at present, but they maintained just about adequate grip (read: I'd have preferred a mountain bike) on the packed stuff in the car tracks.  Once on the main road it was slush and ice, on which they performed admirably.  They're quite hard work at low pressure, though, aren't they?

Cars were struggling.  The only vehicle that attempted to overtake me was a tractor.

I saw two BSOists riding on the (ungritted, snow-packed) pavements, one with carrier bags on handlebars.  I know BSO tyres can be surprisingly grippy, but that's still hardcore.   :o
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Post by: Tigerrr on 18 January, 2013, 05:13:11 pm
What a drag. I was meant to be doing a special training course over the weekend just south of Brum, travelling tonite from London by road. I decided to cancel a couple of hours ago as the hotel is in the sticks with snowed up minor roads - and now it all looks just fine. I suspect I was too quick to cancel.
Ha.  Just called hotel @ Alvechurch nr Redditch and they said its freezing and going to snow overnight, B roads not passable and vehicles stuck on the main road so told me not to come. That's good to know as I was just thinking of giving it a go - drive for 3 hours to find I cant get the last 5 miles and come home again is not a good plan really.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 January, 2013, 05:20:27 pm
I saw two BSOists riding on the (ungritted, snow-packed) pavements, one with carrier bags on handlebars.  I know BSO tyres can be surprisingly grippy, but that's still hardcore.   :o
If you're a BSOist, you're probably riding from necessity not enthusiasm, so greater incentive to get to your destination. The only cyclist I saw climbing our hill, which although not proper steep is a bit of a drag and defeated most of the few cars that attempted it this morning, was a double-boinger. He was on the road though.
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 18 January, 2013, 05:24:42 pm
What a drag. I was meant to be doing a special training course over the weekend just south of Brum, travelling tonite from London by road. I decided to cancel a couple of hours ago as the hotel is in the sticks with snowed up minor roads - and now it all looks just fine. I suspect I was too quick to cancel.
Ha.  Just called hotel @ Alvechurch nr Redditch and they said its freezing and going to snow overnight, B roads not passable and vehicles stuck on the main road so told me not to come. That's good to know as I was just thinking of giving it a go - drive for 3 hours to find I cant get the last 5 miles and come home again is not a good plan really.
I was going to advise caution. It's not good up this way on the main roads. Alvechurch, nice though it is, is off the beaten track...
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Post by: Oscar's dad on 18 January, 2013, 05:29:52 pm
According to Metcheck we (CM8) will get snow any minute and it will continue throughout the weekend.  They are forecasting snow and sleet all next week.  I will believe it when I see it.

I shall be out on me Marathon Winters on Sunday and possibly the following Sunday when I have a pass for my first all-day ride of 2013.
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Post by: Kim on 18 January, 2013, 05:39:46 pm
What a drag. I was meant to be doing a special training course over the weekend just south of Brum, travelling tonite from London by road. I decided to cancel a couple of hours ago as the hotel is in the sticks with snowed up minor roads - and now it all looks just fine. I suspect I was too quick to cancel.
Ha.  Just called hotel @ Alvechurch nr Redditch and they said its freezing and going to snow overnight, B roads not passable and vehicles stuck on the main road so told me not to come. That's good to know as I was just thinking of giving it a go - drive for 3 hours to find I cant get the last 5 miles and come home again is not a good plan really.
I was going to advise caution. It's not good up this way on the main roads. Alvechurch, nice though it is, is off the beaten track...

Seconded.  Main roads are just about keeping up with slushifying the fresh snow as it falls (which is still problematic for standard cars), but anything not heavily used is going to be deep fluffy or compacted snow.  A bike with ice tyres can just about cope.  It's treacherous on foot.  Don't even think about it in a car - there are going to be too many stuck cars in the way.
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Post by: mcshroom on 18 January, 2013, 05:44:33 pm
I can recommend using snow stud tyres for warding off the white stuff. Mine are now in their third winter and I'm not sure they've ever been used in sno.
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Post by: Feline on 18 January, 2013, 06:23:46 pm
Just been on a mission to panic-buy chocolate.

The Marathon Winters finally justified themselves.

 ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Kim on 18 January, 2013, 06:43:00 pm
I saw two BSOists riding on the (ungritted, snow-packed) pavements, one with carrier bags on handlebars.  I know BSO tyres can be surprisingly grippy, but that's still hardcore.   :o
If you're a BSOist, you're probably riding from necessity not enthusiasm, so greater incentive to get to your destination.

Indeed.  These were studenty types who had presumably ridden in to uni first thing, before the main snowfall.

It's both amusing and sad that they think it's sensible to ride on the pavements in these conditions.  Not to mention hazardous to pedestrians.
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Post by: Jaded on 18 January, 2013, 07:05:56 pm
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_6200.jpg)

That's  4x4 up there, crashed through the wall. Someone said it had pushed this lower one through the wall.

more photos on the have you been out with your camera (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=58889.msg1401039#msg1401039) thread.

and in a glorious doubleposting fester

00:45 on the news report on this page.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21073460
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Post by: Bledlow on 18 January, 2013, 07:18:19 pm
It has now stopped snowing in London's famous London.  Chiz.

same here too.  Not even enough to cover the garden path. Boo.
There's a lot more in Reading. I measured 10cm deep snow on top of the wheelie bins (selected as not likely to be boosted by drifting) at lunchtime. No melting since, & a very thin sprinkling of new stuff.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 18 January, 2013, 07:20:49 pm
I worked from home today, so work shutting didn't really affect me. I gather buses weren't running at that point though.
The kids school shut at 1 though, so I didn't get that much work done. There isn't that much snow, but enough to slide a sledge on and enough to delay my Friday night shopping trip.
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Post by: Jacomus on 18 January, 2013, 07:21:41 pm
Nice work Jaded.

Such a Damn Shame that people don't drive slow enough. I've always considered a shunt to be an acceptable accident in icy conditions, because as I discovered shortly after I passed my test... It is entirely possible to shunt your parents garage door at 2mph or so if there is enough ice. Having a Proper Crash can only mean driving too fast.

P.s. both the car and the garage survived the comedy shunt with nothing more damaged than my pride, which was badly damaged!
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Post by: hellymedic on 18 January, 2013, 07:22:57 pm
There's about 8cm of SNO here.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 January, 2013, 07:30:02 pm
We haven't even got any proper clouds, let alone any snow. To add insult to injury, the temperature has crept above freezing.

I'm off out on my bike in a minute.
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Post by: cycleman on 18 January, 2013, 07:35:56 pm
about 8cm here in slough. going up over the railway bridge at slough station i snapped the chain  ::-)fixing in in the snow was interesting as my fingers were getting a little chilled :)
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 18 January, 2013, 07:53:22 pm
Hardly the Snopocalypse I was expecting, maybe a cm on the untreated roads.

The pissweasel who decided to squezze past me on a steepish down hill when I was virtually in the middle of the road due to potholes and ice and slushy bits can go and die in a fire though. All of ten seconds it would have taken to let me get down the hill onto the flat wider bit of road.

I undertand it a bit more if putting me in danger would have saved them 20 minutes or something but for the sake of a few seconds patience  :facepalm:
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 January, 2013, 07:56:29 pm
It has actually started snowing. The temperature is above freezing.
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Post by: matthew on 18 January, 2013, 07:58:51 pm
BiL collected my Niece  from school and his sister from work after lunch today. Driving back they were overtaken by a bloke in his fifties and in a hurry. Unfortunately the next vehicle in front chose to stop at the roundabout despite there being no one coming and he couldn't stop.

BiL said he had never fist pumped at witnessing an accident before but has now  :D
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Post by: nikki on 18 January, 2013, 08:13:13 pm
Forced out in the car at lunchtime by a full diary and rapidly approaching MOT/tax deadlines. Saw enough low-friction stupidity to sincerely hope I won't need to do any more 2- or 4-wheeled journeying until tarmac is sighted again.

Saw a speedy cyclist land a jump off the pavement at a junction ...before totally wiping out in my peripheral vision.

Followed up by another cyclist coming towards me on the wrong side of the road, forcing me to swerve off to the side to avoid hitting him. He waved his appreciation. Twice. A tiny part of me respects his one-handed ice-biking skillz, however...
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Post by: anotherdeadhero on 18 January, 2013, 08:17:16 pm
First time I've dug one of the MTBs out since April!

(http://sphotos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/64600_10152430656445153_542647599_n.jpg)
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Post by: Bledlow on 18 January, 2013, 08:19:12 pm
Since the snow fell, a bollard has been taken out on a side road near here. It was bashed by someone coming the wrong way, that is, it's on the right hand side for the direction of travel of the vehicle that hit it. The main road is clear: well-gritted & lots of traffic to melt the snow. Turn off it, & you immediately hit ungritted roads with just enough traffic to compact the snow into ice, which this afternoon had a nice wet slippery surface.

I didn't see it happen, but I don't need to. Someone coming along the nice clear main road turns left across the bus lane into the side road, & too late, realises that he's going too fast & is sliding across the road while still moving forward . . . .  He might even have braked, & made it worse.  :facepalm:
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Post by: Feline on 18 January, 2013, 08:22:08 pm
Its -2C here at the moment and still intermittently snowing. I haven't ventured out on the ice tyres yet, but plan to try it tomorrow :thumbsup:
I did get to try out the rubber straps with metal studs I had bought to wear over boots/wellies though, and they worked extremely well on a walk around Cheddar reservoir earlier. They are like Schwalbe ice tyres only for my feet  ;D
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Post by: Dinamo on 18 January, 2013, 08:29:58 pm
Little Dinamo ( 3 1/2 yo ) & myself made our first snowman together today.

Happy days  :thumbsup:
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Post by: matthew on 18 January, 2013, 08:47:08 pm
I fell of a sledge for the first time !!

Shame I had a 5 year old on my lap  :facepalm:
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Post by: LindaG on 18 January, 2013, 11:41:21 pm
Just got back from a couple of hours walking in the woods with Crusty. By the time we got round the loop our footprints were buried. About three inches here.
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Post by: David Martin on 18 January, 2013, 11:46:27 pm
Drove (sorry!) up to the observatory. There were cars 'parked' at various points where they had given up trying to get up the hill. It meant I had the car park to myself at the top. There is a reason we have winter tyres on the car in winter.
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Post by: Bledlow on 19 January, 2013, 10:18:04 am
I fell of a sledge for the first time !!

Shame I had a 5 year old on my lap  :facepalm:
5 year olds fall off sledges all the time, usually with no lasting ill effects.
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Post by: rr on 19 January, 2013, 12:28:44 pm
After all the sno panic, sainsburys stripped bare by 5pm. Cleaners not coming to the office etc you can still see the grass outside and there isn't enough to make a snow man.
Chelmsford does make it into the Britains coldest list.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 19 January, 2013, 12:39:55 pm
It's melting a bit here.  Roads are fine once you get near Swindon, and even in the village cars seem to be moving about as normal, just slower.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 19 January, 2013, 12:42:09 pm
The temperature is stable at 1°C and what little snow that fell yesterday has mostly gone.

I understand that tomorrow is supposed to bring us a significant fall though. Mind you, I thought that about last night/today. I'll believe it when I see it.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 20 January, 2013, 08:09:43 am
It has just started snowing here in Kent, right on cue!
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Post by: tiermat on 20 January, 2013, 08:32:27 am
No more here, yet but forecast for all day on and off snowfalls. Garage fettling today, then.
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Post by: PaulF on 20 January, 2013, 08:47:37 am
Started falling again here
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Post by: Wowbagger on 20 January, 2013, 09:00:59 am
A small dusting overnight but it seems to be snowing now in very small flakes.

According to my weather station we didn't have a frost yesterday: the maximum temperature was 1.4°C and the minimum was 0.3°C.

It's -0.3°C at the moment.
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 20 January, 2013, 09:07:19 am
Although we had 10-12cm here, it hovered just above freezing all day. Not enough to make slush of the snow, but sufficient to make clearing the stuff a doddle. We are in a cul-de-sac at the turning area on a slope, so no doubt we'll witness some moronic, first-gear, tyre-screaming drivers today, as it's now well below freezing and looks rather slippery.
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Post by: TimO on 20 January, 2013, 09:13:19 am
Yesterday the snow of the footways had either been cleared, or was mostly gone, and a bit slushy, and the roads were mostly cleared by traffic.  Currently in Croydon it's now snowing very finely, which is slowly covering stuff up again.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 20 January, 2013, 09:43:49 am
It appears that the road outside my house, which is one of only 4 thoroughfares connection the east of Southend to the West, over the continuous barrier which constitutes the railway line and the pedestrianised high street, has not been gritted. We are forecast to have about 12 hours' continuous heavy snow.

This will be interesting by mid-afternoon.
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Post by: rafletcher on 20 January, 2013, 10:32:28 am
Here on the West Herts/Bucks border, its been falling since 9. Same as Friday, fine powdery snow. Just under 1cm of fresh accumulation. As its well below freezing it should be a doddle to brush off the car before bed (by which time it should have stopped falling...) ready for the morning.
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Post by: docsquid on 20 January, 2013, 10:34:52 am
Snowing a bit here. There was just enough at the woods yesterday to do this...

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8324/8395768628_bf1afc3f6e.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/alvecotewood/8395768628/)

Might be even better with a bit more snow, although to be fair, it is pretty sleety at the moment and definitely not that lovely off piste powder that we would prefer.
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Post by: hellymedic on 20 January, 2013, 12:10:27 pm
About 5cm of snow has settled here in outer Londonton since 8am. Temperature just below freezing in the outhouses.
Getting self, wheelchair and projector to Camden Cyclists tomorrow could be problematic.
Title: It's snowing!
Post by: docsquid on 20 January, 2013, 12:14:32 pm
Less than that here. It would be generous to describe it as 1cm and definitely not below zero as snow melting on our paths. It is starting to snow harder though. Going to the woods later to top up the seed feeders and hitch up an auxiliary battery as the solar panels aren't working as they are covered with snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 20 January, 2013, 12:32:24 pm
In a village here in North Oxfordshire I reckon about 15cm on top of the bin with more coming down, near suicidal, two pubs one 30 mins (normal) walk along the canal and t'other 20 mins over the fields, as Captain Oates said "I might be gone some time"   :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Oscar's dad on 20 January, 2013, 12:33:30 pm
Here in mid-Essex it's being snowing for the last few hours, we have about 2cm.  Myself and Oaky have been out for 18 miles on our Marathon Winters.  It was all going so well until a combination of steep road camber and fresh snow covering sheet ice had me measuring my length on the road.  The front wheel just disappeared from under me in a nano second.  We conducted a crash investigation and concluded the road camber initiated a front wheel slide on the ice and the covering of fresh snow prevented the spikes from getting a grip.  I have a bruised knee and bumped my head which may have been my bonce hitting the deck or might have been Oaky giving it a glancing blow with his front wheel.  I was wearing my Magic Hat TM so no harm was done.

Much fun despite the crash.  Claud the bike is fine, in case you're worried  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spindrift on 20 January, 2013, 01:13:53 pm
Check out the warm front from the west meeting the icy winds from the north east and bringing the snow up from the south-west:

http://www.sat24.com/?culture=en

The snow clouds are three dimensional. Yikes.

Those warm fronts trying push through are just making it worse! They're thinking "Here I come, love warm, moist air!" and the cold front's just shrugging and blocking it and turning it to snow.
Title: Re: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rr on 20 January, 2013, 01:20:22 pm
Here in mid-Essex it's being snowing for the last few hours, we have about 2cm.  Myself and Oaky have been out for 18 miles on our Marathon Winters.  It was all going so well until a combination of steep road camber and fresh snow covering sheet ice had me measuring my length on the road.  The front wheel just disappeared from under me in a nano second.  We conducted a crash investigation and concluded the road camber initiated a front wheel slide on the ice and the covering of fresh snow prevented the spikes from getting a grip.  I have a bruised knee and bumped my head which may have been my bonce hitting the deck or might have been Oaky giving it a glancing blow with his front wheel.  I was wearing my Magic Hat TM so no harm was done.

Much fun despite the crash.  Claud the bike is fine, in case you're worried  ;D
I was considering taking the mountain  bike out sounds like a good thing i didn't.
Now off to discovery centre for sledging .
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Moose57 on 20 January, 2013, 01:24:37 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/r270/774957_10151362498628399_473258821_o.jpg)

Getting on for a couple of cms here in Kent, very pretty but bored of it now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 20 January, 2013, 01:28:22 pm
Played snowballs yesterday morning with Little Cudzo. His aim isn't too good but he got one shot right up my nose - literally, I had a nostril full of snow! Quite a laugh.  ;D The two he got down the back of my neck were less amusing.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 20 January, 2013, 01:43:11 pm
The light snow we've had falling for hours hasn't made an awful lot of difference in Croydon, it's barely added to the crunchy snow that was out there already.

Yesterday on my commute, I did skid a few times, and it was in places where the snow was thinning, at the end of the cycle paths where there was some salt, and which reduced the snow to a slushy and iffy state.  Luckily, unlike Oscar's Dad, the wheel just slid for a short distance before regaining grip.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 20 January, 2013, 01:52:57 pm
It's been coming down all day in Cobham. Which is a good thing as it's actually made the icy pavements more walkable. Walking to the shops with a 92 year old makes you realise why bad weather is such a nightmare for older people. They really should prioritise salting and clearing the pavements.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: her_welshness on 20 January, 2013, 02:44:03 pm
Its been snowing here in Hither Green since early this morning and its not looking as if its stopping anytime soon. Probably over 10cm here now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 20 January, 2013, 02:45:39 pm
Now looks like 8-9cm here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 20 January, 2013, 02:45:56 pm
Barakta has expressed a desire to go and play in the snow...

ETA:  She did!

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/IMG_3679.sized.jpg)

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/IMG_3678.sized.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 January, 2013, 03:34:52 pm
It's been coming down all day in Cobham. Which is a good thing as it's actually made the icy pavements more walkable. Walking to the shops with a 92 year old makes you realise why bad weather is such a nightmare for older people. They really should prioritise salting and clearing the pavements.

Not just older people.  I bumped into a friend's husband on Friday and asked how they were getting on with the snow - basically he said that it is a complere 'mare.  Brittle bones, y'see.  She had a fall in snow a few years ago and it took two years (following pretty significant surgery and a fair while of needing nursing) for her to really heal.  They've moved house so that their kids can play out in a garden whatever the weather, but she is effectively housebound from the first snowflake until the thaw because the implications of another slip are too serious and the chances of a slip are too high.  Bring on the thaw, as far as I'm concerned :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Dez on 20 January, 2013, 03:52:08 pm
You can watch the kids opposite building a snowman live on my webcam at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/soslug (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/soslug)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 20 January, 2013, 04:53:07 pm
I have to make an apology.

It's my fault that it is snowing.

I have a week off, see.

With the intention of getting some cycling done (having only managed two rides THIS YEAR!).

So, SORRY
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 20 January, 2013, 05:35:31 pm
Took the dog for a five mile walk in the snow today.  Stopped at the Royal Oak at Barrington for lunch.

Jack loves the snow and, despite it snowing the whole time we were out, he doesn't seem to be that affected by the cold.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Polar Bear on 20 January, 2013, 05:40:56 pm
Barakta has expressed a desire to go and play in the snow...

ETA:  She did!

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/IMG_3679.sized.jpg)

(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/IMG_3678.sized.jpg)

Kewl!   :D  :thumbsup:

You look to have similar amounts of skysnot to us here in Rugby.  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 20 January, 2013, 05:50:12 pm
I have to make an apology.

It's my fault that it is snowing.

I have a week off, see.

With the intention of getting some cycling done (having only managed two rides THIS YEAR!).

So, SORRY

Ditto, took a week off for my 65th Birt, go to see Mum in law, no chance, get the trikes and do a few rides we have been planning, no chance, take dog for a walk to the pub a few times, game on  :) after bribing her (my wee hairy dog) she skipped out of the door and seemed to quite enjoy it, someone built an igloo of sorts for their children to have a sleep over by their narrowboat in Thrupp (Oxfordshire) cool or what  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 20 January, 2013, 06:36:16 pm
Went to the pub on the Hybrid at about 3:30.  Just to see how it was in view of tomorrow's commute.  My mate (the one who is always coming on our rides, but never turns up.) insisted on driving me home in his van.
So that's it.  My update on My Cycling Logs for the entire weekend is 1.2 miles.  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ashaman42 on 20 January, 2013, 07:14:35 pm
Had about 2-2 1/2 inches over the course of the day down here in Eastbourne, should be fun for the commute tomorrow.

Main roads fairly clear but the cul de sac and the industrial estate at work will be a bit trecherous so rather take the bike than the car.

Early night though and earlier alarm than usual as it will be slow, doubt I'll break a 10mph average especially as the middle few miles of the commute is a road that is sometimes cleared by the farmer and sometimes virgin snow. Hoping for the later to be honest as whilst it's harder work it's more fun.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CAMRAMan on 20 January, 2013, 07:55:22 pm
Warwick was sposed to get light amounts today, but it hasn't stopped all day. Not heavy fall, but persistent. I've just cleared the drive, but it's already getting a covering again. Lots of Warwickshire schools are closed tomorrow, but mainly in the north & east of the county over towards the Great White Bear in Rugby. Good!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 20 January, 2013, 08:28:39 pm
I could do with getting into work early tomorrow, and the earlier I go, the easier the snow and ice will likely be, before the cars have much chance to overly churn it up.  This may be a basis for setting the alarm stupidly early, and cycling into work in the dark.  The snow here doesn't seem to have done anything overly dramatic, but it has put another layer on top of the half melted and refrozen snow and slush.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 20 January, 2013, 08:50:55 pm
Warwick was sposed to get light amounts today, but it hasn't stopped all day. Not heavy fall, but persistent. I've just cleared the drive, but it's already getting a covering again. Lots of Warwickshire schools are closed tomorrow, but mainly in the north & east of the county over towards the Great White Bear in Rugby. Good!

Yeah, I'm pissed off about this.  The stuff that hit South Wales on Friday hit also hit the West Midlands.  This time it's hitting the South East and also the bloody West Midlands.  It's not stopped here for three days and it's still bloody snowing. 
Snot fair.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 January, 2013, 10:02:19 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01q9d86/Winterwatch_1963_The_Big_Freeze/

Before you start complaining about snow, have a look at what we had to put up with in 1963...  :P
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 20 January, 2013, 10:03:43 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01q9d86/Winterwatch_1963_The_Big_Freeze/

Before you start complaining about snow, have a look at what we had to put up with in 1963...  :P

But as you lived in Black and White back then, didn't it just help with the contrast :P
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 20 January, 2013, 10:27:56 pm
Quote from: mcshroom qlink=topic=27561.msg1402570#msg1402570 date=1358719423
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01q9d86/Winterwatch_1963_The_Big_Freeze/

Before you start complaining about snow, have a look at what we had to put up with in 1963...  :P

But as you lived in Black and White back then, didn't it just help with the contrast :P

My grandad cycle commuted six miles each way through that winter.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ashaman42 on 20 January, 2013, 10:38:41 pm
Quote from: mcshroom qlink=topic=27561.msg1402570#msg1402570 date=1358719423
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01q9d86/Winterwatch_1963_The_Big_Freeze/

Before you start complaining about snow, have a look at what we had to put up with in 1963...  :P

But as you lived in Black and White back then, didn't it just help with the contrast :P

My grandad cycle commuted six miles each way through that winter.

Uphill both ways?  :P
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 20 January, 2013, 10:41:36 pm
Quote from: mcshroom qlink=topic=27561.msg1402570#msg1402570 date=1358719423
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01q9d86/Winterwatch_1963_The_Big_Freeze/

Before you start complaining about snow, have a look at what we had to put up with in 1963...  :P

But as you lived in Black and White back then, didn't it just help with the contrast :P

My grandad cycle commuted six miles each way through that winter.

Uphill both ways?  :P

Probably. He got a flat one day and was invited into a nearby cottage for a hot drink. They still had a swept earth floor and no running water.

Then he licked 't road clean.

He tells me there was still snow on the verges in June.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 20 January, 2013, 11:03:20 pm
Early 1963 wasn't good good for my Mum.  My younger older brother was born in March, so my Mum had the last three months of pregnancy, in the South West, with snow and ice everywhere more or less continuously. :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 20 January, 2013, 11:04:49 pm
I was 14 that winter.  I still cycled 3 miles to school. 
These days moms would worry if you did that.  Those days moms would worry if you didn't.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 20 January, 2013, 11:11:08 pm
Quote from: mcshroom qlink=topic=27561.msg1402570#msg1402570 date=1358719423
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01q9d86/Winterwatch_1963_The_Big_Freeze/

Before you start complaining about snow, have a look at what we had to put up with in 1963...  :P

But as you lived in Black and White back then, didn't it just help with the contrast :P

My grandad cycle commuted six miles each way through that winter.

Uphill both ways?  :P

Probably. He got a flat one day and was invited into a nearby cottage for a hot drink. They still had a swept earth floor and no running water.

Then he licked 't road clean.

He tells me there was still snow on the verges in June.

That's only because he never got anywhere with June.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 20 January, 2013, 11:34:19 pm
My family moved house in early 1963, from one house to another in Harlow.
The diesel in the removal van 'froze' into a jelly.
My 5th birthday party in June 1963 was postponed due to an outbreak of typhoid in the town.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CAMRAMan on 21 January, 2013, 08:53:27 am
Ho hum! Warwick's "dusting" has closed our kids' schools. Still, it's high time we made a back garden snowman. I'm out of mealworms and almost out of sultanas for the birds now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 21 January, 2013, 09:09:01 am
Well after being on yellow alert all week, they take the alerts away and we got a bit of snow overnight. Probably 1-2cm in Egremont making the untreated roads nice and white. The snow studs didn't seem to have any issues with the stuff.

Now at work 6 miles away where there's no lying snow at all
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 21 January, 2013, 09:18:19 am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01q9d86/Winterwatch_1963_The_Big_Freeze/

Before you start complaining about snow, have a look at what we had to put up with in 1963...  :P

But as you lived in Black and White back then, didn't it just help with the contrast :P

It felt like the earth would freeze, with John F Kennedy, and the Beatles.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 21 January, 2013, 09:19:46 am
Our recycling wasn't collected on Friday cos of the snow and ice - fourth Friday in a row it's not been collected according to schedule. Now the council's website is saying they won't be doing those collections till this Friday  - assuming they can get up our street by then! Our recycling boxes are already overflowing. Mind you, so are our bins, which aren't due to be collected till this Friday anyway.

More importantly, school is open.  :thumbsup: But Mrs Cudzo reports that her shock that the playground has not been cleared at all and is one large sheet of ice.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 21 January, 2013, 09:30:15 am
Early 1963 wasn't good good for my Mum.  My younger older brother was born in March, so my Mum had the last three months of pregnancy, in the South West, with snow and ice everywhere more or less continuously. :o

My older brother was born in April that year.  In the Dales.  The cottage hospital was up a steep road on the hillside, and I know my dad fretted a lot about whether the car would get up there.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 21 January, 2013, 09:32:20 am
Yesterday evening I listened to A Brief History of Being Cold (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pyfr7) (Radio 3 alert!) which was rather enjoyable. Contains references to the origins of central heating which make conditions at, say, Pancho Towers, seem positively luxurious.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 January, 2013, 09:49:58 am
My family moved house in early 1963, from one house to another in Harlow.
The diesel in the removal van 'froze' into a jelly.

That happened to my late friend Hairy McSteve in Aberdeen in the late 90s, when diseasel was supposed to be beyond that sort of thing.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 January, 2013, 11:34:33 am
Every school in Kirklees is shut so it must be badder than the baddest snow ever.

Here it's snowing moderately heavily, but horizontally. The stuff that does make it to the ground isn't sticking.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 21 January, 2013, 11:39:35 am
I've just looked up our local schools and the Primary (on the hill) is open but West Lakes 'Academy' just down the road and not on the hill is shut to all except exam students?

I rode passed WLA this morning and the roads were completely gritted and clear of snow ???
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 21 January, 2013, 11:46:15 am
Here in the sunny south (http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk157/dyedinthewool/Smilies/Sunny.gif) we have a beautiful day 5.8c
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 21 January, 2013, 11:51:21 am
A quick summary of the weather here.

It snows
Then it stops
Snow melts, a bit
Then it snows again.
Repeat ad nauseum.

Tomorrow will be interesting, driving wise if the temp drops overnight.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 January, 2013, 11:59:36 am
Every school in Kirklees is shut so it must be badder than the baddest snow ever.
My mum says it's nowhere near the baddest snow ever and she can't understand why there's chaos this year. Also, she just walked into Milnsbridge and was overtaken by a man on skis.

No sign of us getting sent home from work, boo hiss.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 21 January, 2013, 12:02:16 pm
Our busy hill is clear while the little hill that runs parallel to it was occupied by sledgers yesterday.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CAMRAMan on 21 January, 2013, 12:31:23 pm
The diesel in the removal van 'froze' into a jelly.
I drove to England with a class of Swedish mature students in 1991. We were in a minibus & saw an by one of the big petrolco's boasting that their diesel was guaranteed to be useable at -15C. The Swedes had a chuckle, as their diesel had to work at <-30C...

I laughed when I first saw them using these (http://shop.textalk.se/se/article.php?id=10171&art=2802395) to get around in the north, but they were really useful.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 January, 2013, 01:49:41 pm
It's snowing quite a bit here.


In Val d'Isere though, so no apocalypse required. Somebody just drove a Porsche past the window - keen.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 21 January, 2013, 04:33:40 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01q9d86/Winterwatch_1963_The_Big_Freeze/  Before you start complaining about snow, have a look at what we had to put up with in 1963...  :P

    Ah 1963, North Wales on a motor bike and side car, the joys of running my hands under a cold tap and feeling they were burning, in flames, one feels truly alive, pain like that would have woken the dead.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 January, 2013, 04:38:02 pm
Some of the footpaths and cyclepaths on the way to school had been cleared!  The council have a dinky pavement snowplough, and look to have been using it  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 21 January, 2013, 04:40:12 pm
Some of the footpaths and cyclepaths on the way to school had been cleared!  The council have a dinky pavement snowplough, and look to have been using it  :thumbsup:

They could do with heading north a bit! ours are still slippy and messy!

Having said that in 2009 and 2010 when we had all that snow (most of which we missed in 2010 due to being elsewhere), they broke out the quad bike path clearer, which I thought was really cool.  Basically a small snow plough and gritter mounted on a quad bike, one man can clear loads of paths in no time.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 21 January, 2013, 05:21:13 pm
Fabulous bit of kit, the man hours it must save leaves no excuse for dodgy paths/streets, mind there are plenty in the prisons could be chained and used to deal with this but ah, they have rights which unfortunately they didn't realise others they robbed etc had.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: petes46 on 21 January, 2013, 05:57:27 pm
Coming home today after the weekend away, most of the roads I was on had been ploughed and gritted.  The one that wasn't seemed to have been scraped clear of snow;  one of the local farmers using a rough terrain lift with a bucket on the telescopic boom seemed most likely.

So I wasn't surprised when I cam up behind it.  Trouble was, it wasn't on the road but at 45o down in a ditch!   :o  The driver was still in his cab and on the phone, presumably to get himself rescued.   :facepalm:

Shortly after, I encountered a tractor so perhaps he wasn't going to have to wait too long!  Not sure how he was going to explain it though!   :demon: 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 21 January, 2013, 06:02:43 pm
Some of the footpaths and cyclepaths on the way to school had been cleared!  The council have a dinky pavement snowplough, and look to have been using it  :thumbsup:

No such thing, doesn't exist.  And even if it did, we couldn't afford one anyway.  </BCC>
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 21 January, 2013, 06:14:44 pm
Some of the footpaths and cyclepaths on the way to school had been cleared!  The council have a dinky pavement snowplough, and look to have been using it  :thumbsup:

No such thing, doesn't exist.  And even if it did, we couldn't afford one anyway.  </BCC>

Cambridge has one - they got it two years ago.  It is parked up, awaiting the safety/operating protocols to be signed off...  :facepalm:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 21 January, 2013, 06:19:58 pm
We had that on site in 2010. There were five gritters parked up and ready to go - but no signed off contract with the contractor who owned them for the gritters to be used :facepalm:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 January, 2013, 07:29:37 pm
It hasn't stopped snowing all day but it's only just started to stick.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 21 January, 2013, 08:33:17 pm
... Basically a small snow plough and gritter mounted on a quad bike, one man can clear loads of paths in no time.

A few years ago, driving through Wandsworth, there was a small gritter mounted on a trailer being pulled along by a quad bike on the pavements around the one-way system (https://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.457831,-0.193505&spn=0.010509,0.01929&t=m&z=16).  I haven't seen it since, and no one anywhere that I cycle these days seems to have ever heard of one.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 21 January, 2013, 09:09:30 pm
There's a small gritter trailer that is towed around the car park at one of the local retail parks. It's pulled by a 4x4 in the car park, but it's narrow enough that it would fit down a cycle path if you hooked it up to a quad.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 21 January, 2013, 09:20:28 pm
Some of the footpaths and cyclepaths on the way to school had been cleared!  The council have a dinky pavement snowplough, and look to have been using it  :thumbsup:

I saw it in action this morning. :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 22 January, 2013, 12:43:59 am
My sister-in-law emailed me a picture of my brother and his four-year old daughter in the snow.
They were standing in front of the snow penguin he, and 14 neighbours had taken 4 hours to build.
It's about nine feet tall and three feet wide.
As Hendon is home to many strictly orthodox Jews, Pingu wears a skullcap...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 January, 2013, 07:32:21 am
Most of the snow is going now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 22 January, 2013, 08:48:10 am
We had a light dusting this morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 January, 2013, 09:09:32 am
Hah. The weather is playing tricks. When I went out at 6am it had been raining and the snow was going. When I left to go to work about half eight, it was snowing heavily and it's sticking. It should make its mind up.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 22 January, 2013, 09:16:27 am
We have a lovely combo on the road outside our house.

Ice - check
Snow on top of the ice - check
Snow squashed down by cars - check

It has been interesting this morning, watching the car ballet going on.  Oh! There's another one, a Citreon C2, going sideways around the corner...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 January, 2013, 11:23:18 am
The side road outside Larrington Towers always turns into a skating rink after even a light dose of sno.  And you always get idiots who approach the T-junction at dry-road speeds and use their usual dry-road braking point.  And then slide helplessly into the middle of the main road.  I saw two doing this just in the time it took me unload my shopping from the motor-car.

Later there was a huge UPS delivery van which approached the junction sensibly, then turned right in a full-on power slide.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 January, 2013, 12:53:18 pm
You should make some score cards and hold them up.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 22 January, 2013, 01:10:35 pm
A dose of perspective: Family have just mentioned the forecast for the suburbs east of Cleveland (as in Ohio, US), which are in the snow belt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowbelt), is for 1-3 FEET of snow.

That's one reason the airport was built to the west of the city.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: her_welshness on 22 January, 2013, 01:31:16 pm
We have a lovely combo on the road outside our house.

Ice - check
Snow on top of the ice - check
Snow squashed down by cars - check

It has been interesting this morning, watching the car ballet going on.  Oh! There's another one, a Citreon C2, going sideways around the corner...

I have seen a number of cars (in that Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea) just crazily banged up and parked along the Chelsea Embankment with the stickers 'police aware' on them  :facepalm:
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Post by: jane on 22 January, 2013, 01:45:57 pm
It doesn't feel like much snow to me. (They have had quite a bit more elsewhere in the country, though, I know).  The problems it causes in the overcrowded urban corners of the country are out of all proportion to its amount, partly because our infrastructure, in many places, is operating at capacity at peak times.  I remember quite a few years when the snow has been much heavier, and longerlasting.  (I am a child of the 60's after all).  I remember snow drifts so deep, (probably 1963) my dad had to climb out of the window and dig a little path to our back door, with the snow banked up on each side.  I also remember, sledging down a very steep hill to school when we lived in Yorkshire for a couple of years. That would have been the late 60's.  The snow was deeper then the dry stone walls on either side of the cobbled track down.  I even remember, maybe early 90's, Frances' at about 3 years old, disappearing into the snow into the back yard of the block of flats where we lived, in Catford.
   
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Post by: Wowbagger on 22 January, 2013, 02:17:09 pm
It's a beautiful day here today: sunny and pleasant. The weather station reports 4°C and it probably is on the south-facing roof, but I'm sure it's a couple of degrees lower in the shade at ground level. The trees were dripping nicely in the park this morning, and every so often a big lump of snow would tumble 60' to the ground, where I was pleased not to be directly underneath. The pavements are still mostly slush covered but the roads are mostly clear.
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Post by: Quint on 22 January, 2013, 02:31:16 pm
Packed ice in village, main road is ok, see what it is like at 04-00 in the morning when I trikle home from Oxford  :)
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Post by: interzen on 22 January, 2013, 02:36:22 pm
Thawing like a biatch here.
Since its forecast to get colder over the next couple of days there's scope for some, erm. interesting riding surfaces.
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Post by: Zipperhead on 22 January, 2013, 02:37:40 pm
I have seen a number of cars (in that Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea) just crazily banged up and parked along the Chelsea Embankment with the stickers 'police aware' on them  :facepalm:

ah yes, the what looks to be 4 car pile up where maybe the BMW has crossed the (wide) road and ended up on the pavement the other side. It looked like the wreckage was being cleared up when I came past this morning.
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Post by: tiermat on 22 January, 2013, 02:46:03 pm
Thawing like a biatch here.
Since its forecast to get colder over the next couple of days there's scope for some, erm. interesting riding surfaces.

Ditto here, the postman was complaining loudly, about the thaw and re-freeze cycle, when he delivered my parcel earlier.
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Post by: Guy on 22 January, 2013, 03:13:17 pm
Bin freezing all day here.  Visibility never more than about 800 yards, and a biting northerly wind that can just sod off.
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Post by: Riggers on 22 January, 2013, 03:36:19 pm
Sleeting in Brighton.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 January, 2013, 03:53:22 pm
Stopped snowing this morning and then the sun came out, so Pingu and I have spent the day messing about in the powder :)
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Post by: Riggers on 22 January, 2013, 03:57:04 pm
… er, back to snow. Though not laying.
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Post by: PaulF on 22 January, 2013, 04:20:10 pm
Just started again here, not settling. Yet....
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Post by: rogerzilla on 22 January, 2013, 05:11:36 pm
Snowing heavily here and beginning to stick.
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Post by: PaulF on 22 January, 2013, 05:20:03 pm
Just started again here, not settling. Yet....

Now settling :) Appreciate for some it causes problems but this is the best snow that I've experienced in the UK! Had fun cycling in it and took my son sledging for the first time.

If this is global warming bring it on! :D
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Post by: Tewdric on 22 January, 2013, 05:22:24 pm
We had about 3" last night (shut up at the back) and another MAHOOSIVE dump is on the way shortly, apparently..
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Post by: Zipperhead on 22 January, 2013, 05:28:06 pm
We had about 3" last night (shut up at the back) and another MAHOOSIVE dump is on the way shortly, apparently..

Stomach cramps?
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Post by: spesh on 22 January, 2013, 06:47:11 pm
There was a yellow SNO warning for the south-east today - so normal winter service for Mos Eisley Spaceport has resumed, insofar as it has been pi$$ing down most of the day.

Badoom, and indeed, tish...
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Post by: rogerzilla on 22 January, 2013, 06:57:35 pm
I had Miss Z the elder with me when we went to Sainsbury's, and she's always up for an adventure, so we went up on the Marlborough Downs on the way home.  Horizontal snow and white roads, cars tiptoeing about gingerly.  Quite exciting.
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Post by: SteveC on 22 January, 2013, 08:37:00 pm
A Merc might be a nice car, but the rear wheel drive didn't seem to work to well going up the hill outside our house.
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Post by: simonp on 22 January, 2013, 09:21:57 pm
It was hard work mentally riding home on snow tyres this evening. It is quite hard to believe they will keep on saving you each time you get caught in a rut.
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Post by: Feline on 22 January, 2013, 09:26:51 pm
I am delighted with myself I managed to get out in the garden today during that sweet spot, where the snow has just thawed revealing the dog poo I wanted to pick up, just before it snowed again on a clean lawn  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Ian H on 22 January, 2013, 09:40:23 pm
I am delighted with myself I managed to get out in the garden today during that sweet spot, where the snow has just thawed revealing the dog poo I wanted to pick up, just before it snowed again on a clean lawn  :thumbsup:

No shit!
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Post by: Feline on 22 January, 2013, 10:30:50 pm
I am delighted with myself I managed to get out in the garden today during that sweet spot, where the snow has just thawed revealing the dog poo I wanted to pick up, just before it snowed again on a clean lawn  :thumbsup:

No shit!

Sherlock!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 22 January, 2013, 10:32:26 pm
Still thawing here (3°C). I went to choir on the solo machine, with normal tyres. Everything was fine until I got to the school where we practise. The car park was very dodgy indeed, with ice under melting slush.
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Post by: Basil on 22 January, 2013, 10:40:25 pm
Colder today, so no thaw.  My street is still deep in snow - no tarmac visible at all, as it has been for 4 days now.  Since Friday!  And guess what?  It's just started snowing again!
The main roads in Brum are completely clear, if you ignore the pile of black snow that now covers where the double yellows used to be, but turn off down any side street and you're on to 3 - 4 inches of packed snow.

Oh well, that's the last commute.  I'm off back to Waleslandshire in the morning.   Hopefully I'll get snowed in.
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Post by: Ian H on 22 January, 2013, 10:55:12 pm
I am delighted with myself I managed to get out in the garden today during that sweet spot, where the snow has just thawed revealing the dog poo I wanted to pick up, just before it snowed again on a clean lawn  :thumbsup:

No shit!

Sherlock!

Oh dear. It's got to the point where others have to finish my sentences for me.
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Post by: agagisgroovy on 23 January, 2013, 12:24:13 am
And as snow chaos engulfs Caerphilly, England and Aberdeenshire (according to what I saw on TV at the pub last night), Glasgow continues to bask in the gulf stream.

I've been living in this flat since September and still get excited every morning as my bedroom window looks out directly onto the forecourt of the local fire station, and the foam they use to wash down the engines looks exactly like snow  ::-). You can see snow on the hills from the upper floors of the library though.
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Post by: jane on 23 January, 2013, 06:06:46 am
Indeed, in an unusual twist of the usual pattern of behaviour, my daughter was ringing me from Glasgow, concerned about my safety in the snow down here. 
    However, at the weekend, I was really panicking when I heard the sad news of the walkers who died in the Glencoe avalanche.  My daughter was up there, doing something climby.  I felt a strange mix of relief and guilt when I finally tracked her down.
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 23 January, 2013, 07:09:35 am
Warwick was sposed to get light amounts today, but it hasn't stopped all day. Not heavy fall, but persistent. I've just cleared the drive, but it's already getting a covering again. Lots of Warwickshire schools are closed tomorrow, but mainly in the north & east of the county over towards the Great White Bear in Rugby. Good!

Yeah, I'm pissed off about this.  The stuff that hit South Wales on Friday hit also hit the West Midlands.  This time it's hitting the South East and also the bloody West Midlands.  It's not stopped here for three days and it's still bloody snowing. 
Snot fair.
Bugger me! Here we go again. Shefali, you lied to me!
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Post by: Tewdric on 23 January, 2013, 07:16:13 am
Well the MAHOOSIVE dump never arrived.  Bit of an anticlimax really.
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Post by: bumper on 23 January, 2013, 08:20:22 am
It's snowed here again. This will be the fourth time I've cleared the drive!

I wouldn't bother but its fairly steep and once the snow compacts I can't drive up or down it unless its sideways towards the house or wall :(
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Post by: MattH on 23 January, 2013, 08:33:54 am
Snowed here again last night. I spent a happy hour clearing the drive and bit of road outside the house.
It feels warm and melty out, so clearing it was really to stop squashed snow turning to ice that hangs around for ages rather than because we couldn't get out (though my son's girlfriend's mum had trouble turning her car around on the drive last night whilst it was snowing - I though we'd have to go and push).
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Post by: Basil on 23 January, 2013, 09:15:33 am
Well the MAHOOSIVE dump never arrived.  Bit of an anticlimax really.

No,  because it came to Brum.  AGAIN!  Bloody Hell.

Glad I'm off out of here this morning.
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Post by: Jaded on 23 January, 2013, 10:22:16 am
We had medium showers this morning. Bristol has had a flurry, but sleet/rain now.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 January, 2013, 11:08:04 am
Still a steady thaw here. 3°C, little wind, cloudy. Most of the pavements and footpaths are clear, but there's a bit of slush every so often.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 23 January, 2013, 12:07:50 pm
A few flakes coming down in Harlot ATM but it's far from convincing.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 23 January, 2013, 12:16:42 pm
Wet snow in big clumpy flakes last night. Melted. Dry snow in little flakes now.
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Post by: LEE on 23 January, 2013, 12:20:23 pm
No more snow predicted in north Hampshire now. Predicted 7degC and 10degC on Saturday and Sunday...thank God for that.
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Post by: Chris S on 23 January, 2013, 12:25:01 pm
Predicted 7degC and 10degC on Saturday and Sunday...thank God for that.

Floods instead then!  :-\
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Post by: MattH on 23 January, 2013, 12:32:34 pm
No more snow predicted in north Hampshire now. Predicted 7degC and 10degC on Saturday and Sunday...thank God for that.
It's snowing here at the moment!
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Post by: Salvatore on 23 January, 2013, 12:36:02 pm
No more snow predicted in north Hampshire now. Predicted 7degC and 10degC on Saturday and Sunday...thank God for that.
It's snowing here at the moment!
And here, not surprisngly.
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Post by: Guy on 23 January, 2013, 12:36:28 pm
Light sno in the SG17 postal district (and the wind's changed so it'll be a poxy head wind home :hand:)
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Post by: TimO on 23 January, 2013, 01:13:19 pm
There was a bit of snow falling last night, when I was commuting home, and a little bit here around lunchtime, but none of it was settling, and most of the snow around here has gone, or is well on it's way to melting.  I'll probably pump my tyres back up to 85psi this evening using one of the track pumps chained up to our bike store, and make my commute home marginally easier!  There was some slushy slippery stuff on the way in, but traction on that isn't actually helped by studs anyway, it's the ice on ice movement that makes it iffy, and there's bugger all I can do to limit that (other than wait for it all to melt).
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Post by: Andrij on 23 January, 2013, 01:28:28 pm
Very light snowfall in the City.  Not worth the effort, really.
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Post by: docsquid on 23 January, 2013, 01:50:40 pm
Wet snow here in Tamworth. Hasn't settled. Temperature above freezing and snow is melting.  Roads are fine, as it has turned to slush in most places.
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Post by: Charlotte on 23 January, 2013, 01:52:39 pm
Oh bugger, it's snotting it down here in NW Laaandon.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 January, 2013, 02:34:41 pm
No change here: still 3°C (no, metoffice.gov.uk, it doesn't feel like -1°C, it feels like 3°C), cloudy and it's melting gradually.
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Post by: mcshroom on 23 January, 2013, 03:03:40 pm
Very light snowfall here, not settling (nor would it make much difference if it was at this rate). It's colder out there than this morning though.
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Post by: Snakehips on 23 January, 2013, 03:09:22 pm
Just had a short sharp shower of some ghastly substance.
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Post by: Andrij on 23 January, 2013, 03:17:59 pm
Just had a short sharp shower of some ghastly substance.

Marmite?  :o
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Post by: Guy on 23 January, 2013, 03:28:21 pm
Just had a short sharp shower of some ghastly substance.
Well, dont sit in the piss-dungeon then ::-)

 ;D
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Post by: PaulF on 23 January, 2013, 04:18:30 pm
It's just started again here!
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Post by: tiermat on 23 January, 2013, 04:19:18 pm
Cold enough to here, but hasn't.  Maybe tonight, but I hope not.
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Post by: hellymedic on 23 January, 2013, 04:34:54 pm
Had what my Dad calls 'baby snow' here earlier today but it did not settle.
Slow thaw continues in HA8.
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Post by: mcshroom on 23 January, 2013, 05:19:59 pm
Still snowing. Now has a bit more substance than before but isn't making much of an impression on the ground. I think right out near the coast is was more sleaty.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 January, 2013, 05:25:36 pm
More thawing here. Still a very turgid 3°C. Commuted on the solo machine, with normal road tyres. Avoided the Prittle Brook Greenway because there are still patches of slush etc. Used the roads. Several bits of really inconsiderate driving by the motons.
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Post by: numbnuts on 23 January, 2013, 05:46:34 pm
Southampton has rain
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Post by: LEE on 23 January, 2013, 07:00:22 pm
No more snow predicted in north Hampshire now. Predicted 7degC and 10degC on Saturday and Sunday...thank God for that.
Forget that...it's snowing quite heavily now. 

Set off in the car but turned back as it's looking grim on the country roads.
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Post by: BrianI on 23 January, 2013, 07:23:35 pm
Was on a college field trip to Glen Clova today.
Sno either side of the road into Glen Clova higher than the roof of the minibus in places!    :thumbsup:
Thigh deep sno on the walk up to Loch Brandy too!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 January, 2013, 11:14:09 pm
We have had a little snow as well, but the air temperature is 1°C.
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Post by: hellymedic on 23 January, 2013, 11:20:17 pm
Snow seems to have settled here now.
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Post by: numbnuts on 24 January, 2013, 05:43:29 am
Snow here in Southampton it started at 05.00
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 24 January, 2013, 06:59:59 am
There was a bit in London as I was riding to work about 4.30ish, wasn't sticking though, not even in Richmond Park, for which I was grateful as I was back on my road bike rather than my MTB.  Not icy either despite the forecast.
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Post by: Wombat on 24 January, 2013, 08:15:08 am
Light snow in purbrook has become hard lumpy stuff that needs a hammer and chisel to get off the car. Ho hum, just as well I have a late start as I have to go to the dentist.
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Post by: TimO on 24 January, 2013, 09:41:54 am
... Not icy either despite the forecast.

Yesterday the cold was forecast for tonight, but even that's been scaled back now.  The Met Office was forecasting -7°C, but it's risen to only -2°C in the early hours of tomorrow morning now.  Again, it's forecast to not drop below 1°C for the remainder of today.

There's still a bit of snow in my back garden, but most of the snow on the roads and footways had gone last night when I was commuting home.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 24 January, 2013, 09:49:41 am
Snow and almost all of the slush have melted here, but at 8:40 there was lots of black ice in Cotham and Kingsdown. Seems to be all melted by 9:30. Would be nice if the sun would shine, haven't seen it for a week.
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Post by: Basil on 24 January, 2013, 10:14:44 am
Not as much in SA39 as I had expected.  In fact, nothing compared to B30.
Both of Mrs. B's support workers and her student have rung to say that they don't want to go in.  (which surprises me as the roads seem completely clear - even our lane)
Mrs. B is happy about this.  Says she will be able to tackle piles of stuff to do without distraction.

Perhaps it's worse in other areas.
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Post by: delthebike on 24 January, 2013, 10:16:37 am
A drizzle of snow now happening in Southend. I think this'll turn into sleet and rain very soon.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 January, 2013, 10:20:47 am
Not much happened after the Met Office's prediction of "80% chance of heavy snow at 6 a.m." unless it snowed heavily from 5:59:59 to 6:00:01. If it did, I missed it.
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Post by: SteveC on 24 January, 2013, 10:35:00 am
Part of a tweet from @somersetgritter last night
...thaw expected tomorrow. Rain due Friday so back to risk of flooding.


Fine!
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Post by: Efrogwr on 24 January, 2013, 02:43:45 pm
Winter is over! Gwynedd Council has gritted our road. (steep, narrow dead-end on a north-facing hillside)
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Post by: iainj837 on 24 January, 2013, 08:39:26 pm
Clear in Glastonbury but still see the snow on the Mendip Hills
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Post by: Feline on 24 January, 2013, 09:40:00 pm
Clear in Glastonbury but still see the snow on the Mendip Hills

It seems to be holding fast up at high altitude, still pretty deep up near Bristol airport and yet mostly melted lower down now.
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Post by: PaulF on 24 January, 2013, 11:41:20 pm
Just a dusting here in Flanders
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Post by: agagisgroovy on 25 January, 2013, 08:44:03 am
I was about to say "nothing in Glasgow" but then looked out the window and small white flakes are falling out of the sky. Doesn't look like it's settling though.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 25 January, 2013, 01:38:25 pm
Black ice again this morning.
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Post by: mcshroom on 25 January, 2013, 01:46:40 pm
snowing quite enthusiastically here now
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 January, 2013, 01:52:00 pm
Erm... badly enough to cause you (and therefore us!) a transport issue?  Don't take silly risks, mind.... we'd figure summat out if it came to it.
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Post by: Basil on 25 January, 2013, 02:20:19 pm
It's been drizzling with rain here all day.   Which is a bit odd, as it is much colder than yesterday.
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Post by: TimO on 25 January, 2013, 04:16:44 pm
No more snow fall here, but with some effort Wandsworth Council has managed to retain some icy slush on Tooting Bec Common that's still quite iffy to cycle over.

There's now an almost clear very narrow path through it, but if you move a few inches off of that, it's decidedly slippery.  I barely see any other snow or ice on the way in, so managing to retain it has taken a decided effort.  Letting it look at some salt would probably make it melt, so they're doing spectacularly well to not put any salt on it whatsoever.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 January, 2013, 04:31:23 pm
Bollox, according to the BBC it's been snowing at home again. I wonder how on earth we're going to get the kittehs back from the cattery-in-the-middle-of-nowhere on Sunday....
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Post by: bumper on 25 January, 2013, 06:30:32 pm
Another covering here again. If it carries on it'll be deep tomorrow, the flakes are huge!
There's still a couple of hard packed inches left from the last flurry.
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Post by: Basil on 25 January, 2013, 07:12:41 pm
It's pouring down here. (With rain)
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Post by: Basil on 25 January, 2013, 07:31:09 pm
Bloody  Hell .   It's torrential. 
If this turns to snow inland, you'll be in for it.
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Post by: TimO on 25 January, 2013, 08:54:16 pm
Bollox, according to the BBC it's been snowing at home again. I wonder how on earth we're going to get the kittehs back from the cattery-in-the-middle-of-nowhere on Sunday....

Bicycle with studded tyres and trailer?  I reckon I could shift my two for ten miles, albeit with a bit of effort on my part.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 January, 2013, 11:39:53 pm
Bloody  Hell .   It's torrential. 
If this turns to snow inland, you'll be in for it.

(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/18022-1/metoffradar20130125.png)

 :o
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Post by: Jaded on 25 January, 2013, 11:51:27 pm
We had torrents during the evening.
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Post by: L CC on 26 January, 2013, 07:48:00 am
Another inch or two on top of the ice here. Grrrrreat. Luckily today is house viewing not bike riding. It better go in the next 24 hours. I'm rather fed up of it.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 26 January, 2013, 08:59:26 am
The  BIG THAW  is here with a vengeance.   :(
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Post by: rr on 26 January, 2013, 11:56:31 am
Well the 10 cm heavy snipocolipse that We were promised was replaced by 1mm of thawing slush.
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Post by: PaulF on 26 January, 2013, 12:05:25 pm
Arrived at the dry slope for my son's ski lesson to find it was closed because it was too icy!

Fortunately it's just reopened :)
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 26 January, 2013, 01:31:39 pm
Very thick in York, 15cm plus.  Went shopping at 7 a.m.  Had to shovel the snow out of the drive and off the car, the LA gritters however did a fantastic job and we had no trouble on the road.  The store car park was virgin and we nearly got stuck unparking but the fwd yaris coped wonderfully.
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Post by: Feanor on 26 January, 2013, 09:25:44 pm
Bollox, according to the BBC it's been snowing at home again. I wonder how on earth we're going to get the kittehs back from the cattery-in-the-middle-of-nowhere on Sunday....

Big thaw here in ABZ.
Slushy and a bit icy in the mornings, but roads OK.

Don't think there will be cat-retrieving problems unless the cattery is up several miles of steep un-treated farm track.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 28 January, 2013, 12:04:47 pm
There was a little bit of snow here yesterday evening. Just rain that turned to snow really. All gone within an hour if not half an hour.
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Post by: LindaG on 05 February, 2013, 03:37:52 pm
A light slippery sprinkling here this morning, which wasn't too bad.

But what the heck is this?  This is not what I ordered : http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/take-care-up-north-ice-and-snow-warnings-issued-as-winter-tightens-grip-again-8481746.html
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Post by: Deano on 05 February, 2013, 03:40:43 pm
A light slippery sprinkling here this morning, which wasn't too bad.

But what the heck is this?  This is not what I ordered : http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/take-care-up-north-ice-and-snow-warnings-issued-as-winter-tightens-grip-again-8481746.htm

I got a "Guru Meditation:
XID: 726996615"

error when I clicked on that link. Maybe the internet's saying we need to keep these things in perspective, cosmically.

(I think you missed an "L" from the end)
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 05 February, 2013, 03:43:50 pm
A few, unwanted flakes here in Warwick!
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Post by: LindaG on 05 February, 2013, 03:44:13 pm
Heh.  Modified.  Thanks D.
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Post by: mcshroom on 05 February, 2013, 03:52:52 pm
A light slippery sprinkling here this morning, which wasn't too bad.

But what the heck is this?  This is not what I ordered : http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/take-care-up-north-ice-and-snow-warnings-issued-as-winter-tightens-grip-again-8481746.htm

I got a "Guru Meditation:
XID: 726996615"

error when I clicked on that link. Maybe the internet's saying we need to keep these things in perspective, cosmically.

(I think you missed an "L" from the end)


Both versions work for me - but now redirect to this story: -
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-thundersnow-forecasters-warn-of-70mph-winds-as-subzero-temperatures-return-8481746.html
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Post by: Regulator on 05 February, 2013, 04:46:52 pm
It has started snowing again in Cambridge... :thumbsup:
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Post by: Kim on 05 February, 2013, 04:54:33 pm
I've just been on a short trip to the shops.  There was a heavy flurry of slushy snow on the way out, turning to gits of rain on the way back.
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Post by: LindaG on 05 February, 2013, 04:56:43 pm
gits of rain

 :D :D :D
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Post by: Adam on 05 February, 2013, 05:00:46 pm
Mini blizzard in Luton!  It was rather nasty trying to cycle over the M1 with a cross wind blowing very cold lumps of ice sideways into your eyes.
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 05 February, 2013, 05:03:46 pm
We had a sprinkling overnight, but it soon melted.  Just been out on the Brommie - it's bitingly cold.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 February, 2013, 06:57:59 pm
I even pumped up the slowly deflating rear tyre in preparation for the piddly 4 miles round trip commuting today.  But then I looked out of the window.  Bloody weather.
Title: It's snowing!
Post by: bumper on 07 February, 2013, 12:59:38 pm
Just started here, hope its just a quick flurry.

I'm sick of this crap weather now, when its not raining or snowing its blowing a gale :(
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 February, 2013, 10:55:32 am
Horizontal snow, bleh.
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Post by: itsbruce on 10 February, 2013, 04:11:55 pm
Up here in Banffshire it has not stopped snowing all day.  Unlikely to stop all night.  Ride back to Aberdeen may be interesting.
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Post by: interzen on 10 February, 2013, 11:00:47 pm
Its been snowing in a half-arsed kind of way all the way from County Durham back to North Yorkshire; as far as I can tell it isn't sticking but my drive down the A1 definitely had a 'Millennium Falcon about to jump into hyperspace' vibe about it.
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Post by: mcshroom on 10 February, 2013, 11:04:58 pm
EldestCub was disappointed he wasn't allowed to take a picture of the star field simulation that we experienced on the way to the hostelling weekend last month
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 11 February, 2013, 12:43:38 am
EldestCub was disappointed he wasn't allowed to take a picture of the star field simulation that we experienced on the way to the hostelling weekend last month

Canardly took it instead (well, the less impressive murky daylight version); we thought it was a speed camera.


Enough snow appears to have settled here to make the pavements treacherous in the morning.  I don't think it'll last, though.  The temperature's barely zero.
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Post by: clarion on 11 February, 2013, 08:19:55 am
Snow here but roads clear of ice, and very little traffic.  Sadly, I had to turn back for other reasons, but I don't think the snow will settle.
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Post by: Riggers on 11 February, 2013, 08:43:17 am
Snowing in Brighton. Not laying.
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 11 February, 2013, 08:55:25 am
Just murky and mizzling down here  :'(
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Post by: cycleman on 11 February, 2013, 09:18:51 am
snowed from around 0030 hours but by 0300 hours was melting .just laying on the grass and colder surfaces a little slush on the pavements and sleeting as i write +3 here this morning .
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CAMRAMan on 11 February, 2013, 09:32:16 am
Warwick had a slushy inch or so by the morning. It's sleety stuff coming down now, but it's over freezing and the schools are open.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 11 February, 2013, 09:38:49 am
Reading:
Temperature steady at zero to 1C overnight. A thin coating of wet slushy snow. Roads & pavements just wet.

Trying to snow now, but keeps turning to drizzly sleet.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 11 February, 2013, 09:42:09 am
SA39:
Not even a hint of snow.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Jurek on 11 February, 2013, 09:46:23 am
Whitstable: A mixture of white and slush on the ground, with the occasional flurry of something that is not raindrops.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 11 February, 2013, 09:56:04 am
Looks pretty, but I hate it, now.
(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/20130211_074540.jpg)
An inch, maybe two. -1.
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Post by: TimO on 11 February, 2013, 10:07:36 am
Like Clarion, who is only just up the road a bit from me, it's snowing here, but not settling, other than on plants, because the ground is just too warm.

Biggin Hill airport is registering a balmy 0.6°C, and London City 1°C, so I'll be heating up as I go inwards. :)
Title: It's snowing!
Post by: bumper on 11 February, 2013, 10:09:29 am
ST5
We had a light sprinkling this morning. It's almost gone but the wind is bitter cold.
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Post by: tiermat on 11 February, 2013, 10:13:24 am
Zero sno here, the sun is shining and it's only slightly cold, certainly no need for winter warm cycling gear to ride back from the garage (the car is in a for a service)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 February, 2013, 11:19:47 am
The snow was too wet to be called just a "dusting": it snowed heavily for a while but all there was to show for it was about a quarter of an inch of rubbish, which this morning's rain/sleet is clearing.

However, there is a car parked about 30 yards from our house with over 2 inches of snow on its roof. Obviously it settled somewhere near enough for it not to have been disturbed by the driver's journey. My guess would be that altitude was critical and the driver came in from Leigh, which is about 200 feet up and only about 2 miles away, compared to our 50ish feet.
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Post by: numbnuts on 11 February, 2013, 11:45:14 am
Snowing hard here in Romsey
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Post by: rafletcher on 11 February, 2013, 12:02:46 pm
We had around 2" of very wet snow on the ground this morning, near Tring and down to Hemel. Further North and West towards Oxford there was apprently 4" of the stuff.  Slowly thawing now. And one good thing - it's bright out without direct sun, so at least 1/3 of the window blinds are up so I can see out, hooray!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Vince on 11 February, 2013, 01:42:07 pm
Indoor camp for the Cubs in Delft this weekend.

Sadly not enough dormitory accommodation for our young leaders (including my son).....

(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t140/VinceHall/Scouts/2013-02-10075226_zpsa6ecdd54.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 11 February, 2013, 03:55:11 pm
Like Clarion, who is only just up the road a bit from me, it's snowing here, but not settling, other than on plants, because the ground is just too warm.

Biggin Hill airport is registering a balmy 0.6°C, and London City 1°C, so I'll be heating up as I go inwards. :)

Norf Lahndon is similar; much frozen precipitation but only settling on grass.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: agagisgroovy on 13 February, 2013, 01:33:58 pm
Some snow in Glasgow this morning, but been in the library for 3 hours so it could have gone by now. Using the weather as an excuse to wear plastic mountaineering boots for uni.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 13 February, 2013, 02:19:06 pm
A little bit here (South Oxfordshire) but it's fluttering around trying to summon up the courage to settle much like a gaggle of 15 year old boys plucking up the courage to as k a girl to dance at the school disco.
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Post by: interzen on 13 February, 2013, 02:20:58 pm
A little bit here (South Oxfordshire) but it's fluttering around trying to summon up the courage to settle much like a gaggle of 15 year old boys plucking up the courage to as k a girl to dance at the school disco.
Bit like that up here at the moment - I think the fact that it's a bit breezy and the snow is blowing about makes it feel worse than it actually is. I'd certainly not say that it felt particularly cold.

Pugsley would turn his proverbial nose up at such half-hearted wintriness :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 13 February, 2013, 02:21:29 pm
wet sleet here in Romsey
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 13 February, 2013, 02:35:03 pm
A little bit here (South Oxfordshire) but it's fluttering around trying to summon up the courage to settle much like a gaggle of 15 year old boys plucking up the courage to as k a girl to dance at the school disco.
Bit like that up here at the moment - I think the fact that it's a bit breezy and the snow is blowing about makes it feel worse than it actually is. I'd certainly not say that it felt particularly cold.

Pugsley would turn his proverbial nose up at such half-hearted wintriness :)

Down here Pugsley's definitely pining for the conditions of a couple of weeks ago as is his owner :D
Title: It's snowing!
Post by: bumper on 13 February, 2013, 02:47:29 pm
It's been snowing here since about 10.00am.

2cm forecast, we're now up to 5cm.
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 13 February, 2013, 02:59:15 pm
Ominously heavy snow here in Warwick. It's hovering around freezing, so it might settle.
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Post by: Jaded on 13 February, 2013, 03:30:19 pm
Snowing on The Solent.
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Post by: Guy on 13 February, 2013, 03:32:58 pm
Heavy sno forecast for this evening :hand:
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Post by: tiermat on 13 February, 2013, 03:34:42 pm
It's snowing in North Yorkshire, has been since about lunchtime.

Tonight's ride to the pub should be interesting, especially as the snow is not forecast to stop until the early hours.

Hopefully it won't thaw and I'll get another day at home :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: GothonaBrompton on 13 February, 2013, 04:10:14 pm
Nothing in Central London yet.  The sky is really white though.  I keep looking to see what visibility is to the BT Tower (I am in a 4th floor office near Buckingham Palace and Hyde Park Corner).  When it snows, the BT Tower disappears.  I can't see the top of the London Eye as I usually can from here.
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Post by: BrianI on 13 February, 2013, 04:13:47 pm
A fair bit of sno in west fife.
Mostly raining now though!   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 13 February, 2013, 04:27:04 pm
A good 2-3" settled since lunchtime in Leeds. -1 and they are still forcasting rain tonight. If it rains on this with sub-zero temperatures things will be horrendous by tomorrow.
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Post by: Bledlow on 13 February, 2013, 06:33:20 pm
It's slushed here. Stopped for the moment, but more forecast, followed by rain.
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 13 February, 2013, 07:12:53 pm
Just cold & wet here  :'(
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 22 February, 2013, 01:58:07 pm
A few very small flakes of white water floated from the sky about 9am today in Bristol. You couldn't say it's snowed, but there was snow. Bloody cold though - haven't felt warm since Tuesday.  :(
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 22 February, 2013, 02:00:23 pm
No snow here, bur blooming freezing. I haven't ventured out yet but will need to later  :-\
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Post by: hellymedic on 22 February, 2013, 03:18:00 pm
The observant may have noticed scant snowflakes in the neighbourhood; not even what my Dad would call 'baby snow'.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 22 February, 2013, 04:47:27 pm
Supposed to snow a lot here tomorrow, and I was going on a bike ride.  Bsstkkkkvrbb.  Pfffft.  Hm.    :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 22 February, 2013, 05:54:49 pm
There was a small flurry while I was putting the bin out (in just a T-shirt) earlier.  For a brief moment, I experienced what I imagine being a Geordie must be like.
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Post by: clarion on 22 February, 2013, 06:23:11 pm
It was so cold your bin was wearing a t-shirt?
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Post by: Bledlow on 22 February, 2013, 11:31:35 pm
I hope it was a long t-shirt. Or are your neighbours tolerant in such matters?  ;D
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Post by: LindaG on 22 February, 2013, 11:33:49 pm
Snowing lots in toytown now  :(
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Post by: Quint on 23 February, 2013, 12:41:52 am
Trying in central Oxford, bloody cold for my trikle home at 04-00  ::-)
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Post by: LindaG on 23 February, 2013, 04:51:24 am
And it's a good few inches deep now with your full-on-Xmas card fluffy flakes coming down. So much for tomorrow's bike ride. Sigh.
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 23 February, 2013, 10:28:23 am
Snowing on Exmoor, but not reached here yet  :'(
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 23 February, 2013, 10:36:53 am
and in York but melting instantly.
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Post by: TimO on 23 February, 2013, 11:14:44 am
It's still snowing in Croydon, much as yesterday, when it snowed through both my commute in and return, although it's so light, that it isn't even dampening the roads or footways.  Presumably it's evaporating faster than it's falling!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 23 February, 2013, 01:10:03 pm
It's still snowing in Croydon, much as yesterday, when it snowed through both my commute in and return, although it's so light, that it isn't even dampening the roads or footways.  Presumably it's evaporating faster than it's falling!

Same in NW London. Temperature above freezing and relative humidity >70% so TimO's hypothesis is probably correct.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 February, 2013, 05:43:25 pm
(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/14765-2/Image0169.jpg)

Mrs. Wow having a picnic on 23rd Feb last year. Maximum temperature 18.8°C.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Canardly on 23 February, 2013, 08:11:45 pm
Hopefully, given we seem to have or be having a 'proper' winter, we will also have a 'proper' spring and summer......hopefully! (keeping one eye on Russian perma frost melt)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 23 February, 2013, 08:59:52 pm
We got a fair bit just before lunch. Little flurries of dry powdery snow turned into a briefly heavy shower of bigger wetter flakes, followed by sleet & soft hail, giving me a perfect excuse to hide in the pub for a pint's length before cycling home with the shopping.
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Post by: LindaG on 23 February, 2013, 11:19:45 pm
Ah, feck. White stuff falling from the sky in toytown again. Just when it was nearly all gone.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 24 February, 2013, 11:59:48 am
Uggh. That's the worst sort of weather, when it gets hard to walk around town and people start falling ill.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 24 February, 2013, 03:21:29 pm
No snow, just cold cold cold here.

(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/2013-02-24130443.jpg)
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 24 February, 2013, 05:27:29 pm
A sprinkling around here today, but it peters out a few miles up the road.  Blooming freezing tho'.  I've played for two services and my fingers and toes are still numb.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rooster on 03 March, 2013, 08:59:33 pm
No snow, just cold cold cold here.

(http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae7/fboab/2013-02-24130443.jpg)

Is that Suffolk?  Or is it Papermill Lock, Little Baddow, Essex?  I pass an amazingly similar spot regularly.  Spooky.
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Post by: Chris S on 03 March, 2013, 09:07:56 pm
Actually, the A1066 between Roydon and Bressingham (Norfolk).

http://goo.gl/maps/UAa37
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Post by: cycleman on 04 March, 2013, 09:14:59 pm
(http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k411/cycleman108/015-8_zpsffce6f65.jpg)

photo from the 18th jan outside my house .(only just downloads the photos  :) )
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 March, 2013, 12:30:50 pm
Monday's forecast for Southend is for a maximum temperature of 0°C, 27mph NE winds gusting to 47mph, and light snow.

I'm getting seriously pissed off with this.
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Post by: numbnuts on 08 March, 2013, 01:53:33 pm
According to Metcheck we (Southampton) have snow for Sunday and Monday
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Canardly on 08 March, 2013, 08:21:23 pm
Monday's forecast for Southend is for a maximum temperature of 0°C, 27mph NE winds gusting to 47mph, and light snow.

I'm getting seriously pissed off with this.

Yep seconded.
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Post by: bumper on 10 March, 2013, 09:46:43 am
It's bloomin' snowing here today :(

Not lots but I hope it and the wind bugger off or my ride tonight!
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 10 March, 2013, 10:02:47 am
A few unwelcome flakes in the wind here in Warwick too.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 March, 2013, 10:27:43 am
Oh FFS.
Bored of this nao :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 10 March, 2013, 11:22:07 am
Cold, grey & windy in Liverpool.  A few very fine snowflakes, but nothing that's going to last.   Forecast is for colder weather tomorrow.
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Post by: Deano on 10 March, 2013, 11:24:55 am
Snow in Darlo, getting heavier.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 March, 2013, 11:27:48 am
Apparently it 'tried to snow' in York this morning.  I didn't notice, 'cos I got a lie in :D

We currently appear to have mild amounts of sunshine.  That can stay.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 10 March, 2013, 12:21:41 pm
Snaaawing in Saaarfend.
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Post by: Aidan on 10 March, 2013, 02:42:59 pm
Snowing in East Yorkshire, Met office have a yellow alert in place for round here for today and tomorrow.
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Post by: interzen on 10 March, 2013, 02:55:07 pm
Snowing in East Yorkshire, Met office have a yellow alert in place for round here for today and tomorrow.
About an hour earlier I'd have said 'not here it isn't', but on the way back from the LBS I definitely saw some stuff dropping out of the sky that was far too fluttery to be rain.

Given that Pugsley is currently sans rear wheel (awaiting rebuild as a singlespeed) I fully expect snowmageddon to descend.
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Post by: Aidan on 10 March, 2013, 03:59:41 pm
ahhh, it's your fault! :-)
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 10 March, 2013, 05:37:39 pm
Snowing heavily in York now (thanks, interzen!).
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Post by: interzen on 10 March, 2013, 05:45:05 pm
Snowing heavily in York now (thanks, interzen!).
Don't mention it ...

EDIT: Yellow alert from the Met Office (which probably means there's a heatwave just round the corner) and I can just about see the railway line through blowing snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 10 March, 2013, 05:48:44 pm
Snowing heavily in York now (thanks, interzen!).
Don't mention it ...

It is now proper snowing and settling.  I want Spring.  We had Spring this morning.  Just for a little bit.


It was nice.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 10 March, 2013, 07:42:35 pm
I phoned me mam from Gateshead this morning as we were in a blizzard, and not convinced a further 50 miles north was a good idea. She claimed it was sunny.

We've had more than one white out storm as we've travelled south.

Is anyone not completely sick of this?
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 10 March, 2013, 08:07:20 pm
A little bit settling on car roofs down here.
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Post by: vorsprung on 10 March, 2013, 08:34:58 pm
Snow was settling on the top of the Blackdowns when I was out this afternoon.

It's been fairly good weather for the last week so it was a bit of a shock to the system being in the east wind

I was only out for about an hour and a half
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bumper on 10 March, 2013, 09:19:54 pm
Tonight's ride as just been officially cancelled!
It's still snowing and starting to stick, it's also blowing a gale!

I haven't been on the bike since Thursday :(
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 March, 2013, 10:03:41 pm
It snowed so heavily this morning I couldn't see across the street. For about five minutes. Then it stopped and the sun came out, but blimey it was cold.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 10 March, 2013, 10:07:41 pm
Random flurries all day, nothing settling.  So better cycling weather than Friday...

I predict ice in the morning.
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Post by: SteveC on 10 March, 2013, 10:46:11 pm
Here (South Somerset) the snow is settling on the patio table, but not on the patio itself.
The biggest problem for riding in the morning would be wind chill.
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Post by: David Martin on 10 March, 2013, 11:12:58 pm
Beautiful day today in between the blizzards. Pootled to church and back on the MTB and then went for a walk with Miss M in the Sidlaws.  About 3-6" of snow on the ground, and the road was white in places heading home. Melting like fury though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 March, 2013, 05:55:09 am
Freezing here, and I've just been disturbed by hail against the windows. there's a covering of snow and I've seen a solitary cyclist heading along East Street, in the direction of Siberia.
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Post by: clarion on 11 March, 2013, 06:57:40 am
Snow here :(
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 March, 2013, 07:46:15 am
Couple of inches here, probably more further out of town. Amused myself by making footprints in the pristine snow on my way to the pool.
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Post by: SteveC on 11 March, 2013, 08:33:11 am
The lightest of dustings on dry surfaces here, but the wind is bitter.
However, as I drove in this morning (for I am an utter wimp) I passed a cyclist in shorts!  :o
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Post by: numbnuts on 11 March, 2013, 08:36:15 am
sleet and -1 here in Southampton
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Post by: Deano on 11 March, 2013, 09:13:25 am
I took the ice tyres off last week, so I suppose this was inevitable.

Sunshine and heavy snowy showers here in Darlo. At least the roads were quiet and the drivers sensible for the commute. I reckon a lot of people had decided to come in later.
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Post by: GothonaBrompton on 11 March, 2013, 10:14:40 am
Swirly windy light flurries in London (by Buckingham Palace).  Looks pretty from 4 floors up, but not settling.

Bl**dy cold this morning though more the wind chill I think.  Not fun on a Brompton.
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Post by: clarion on 11 March, 2013, 10:15:43 am
Fairly deliberate snow in Southwark.  Not settling much yet, but it doesn't look like it's passing :(
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 March, 2013, 10:41:40 am
Snow continues here unabated. Staff are unanimous in their desire to go home and drink hot chocolate. Management are not forthcoming.
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Post by: tiermat on 11 March, 2013, 12:15:22 pm
Today we have:

Snow
Sun
Snow
Sun
Snow and wind
Sun
Snow
<repeat Ad Nauseum>

:(
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Post by: clarion on 11 March, 2013, 12:35:30 pm
Snow's  lighter, but the wind is showing no sign of letting up, and it is bitter cold.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 March, 2013, 12:45:59 pm
I decided to walk to work today being as I a) wasn't sure what the roads were like and b) have done feck all exercise all weekend and I figured a 3.5 mile walk would be more exercise for my back than the same distance awheel.
Sadly I only got to do 2 miles as some well meaning colleague spotted me and completely ignored my 'carry on, don't stop for me' gesticulations :(
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 March, 2013, 01:34:15 pm
Today we have:

Snow
Sun
Snow
Sun
Snow and wind
Sun
Snow
<repeat Ad Nauseum>

:(
We're having that, but with hail too.
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Post by: peliroja on 11 March, 2013, 01:36:26 pm
White stuff piling up on the attic velux here in Winewall. Pendle Hill has been white for a couple of days now.  :D
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Post by: tiermat on 11 March, 2013, 01:36:41 pm
Today we have:

Snow
Sun
Snow
Sun
Snow and wind
Sun
Snow
<repeat Ad Nauseum>

:(
We're having that, but with hail too.

Phew! no hail here, but I just got a phone call from Mrs T to say she had battled here way up the High Street, from work, in a blizzard, to send off a parcel to our friend in the colonies.  Once out of the shop she found the snow had stopped and it was back to bright sunshine!

I expect to hear lots of sirens this PM (we have the nearest ambulance station to sections of the A1 and A19, so in weather like this it is almost guaranteed to here them around rush hour)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 11 March, 2013, 01:39:44 pm
We've had intermittent unimpressive episodes of white precipitation.
Nothing has either wet the paving or settled.
There is the occasional break in the clouds through which the world becomes brightly illuminated.
It is cold; around 1C.
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Post by: Jaded on 11 March, 2013, 01:50:53 pm
We have just had a flurry.

Goodness it feels cold out there  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Snakehips on 11 March, 2013, 02:05:29 pm
Staff are unanimous in their desire to go home and drink hot chocolate.
I don't blame them. I am doing exactly that after a 25 mile Thames river bank jaunt through frequent omnidirectional snow flurries.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 March, 2013, 02:21:56 pm
Naff all in Harlot though cow-orker from over Chelmsford way is snowed in ???
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 March, 2013, 05:45:12 pm
A few flakes of snow fell on me as I went to collect Little Cudzo from school. Then more fell, but not in a settling way. Not cold enough for that, but due to the easterly wind it feels terribly bitter.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 11 March, 2013, 05:50:14 pm
I've just driven through the most spectacular blizzard I can remember - heavy snow and a very strong wind picking up teh settled snow from the fields and blowing it across the road.

The temperature went down to -2°C a few minutes ago but it's back up to -1°C at the moment.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ashaman42 on 11 March, 2013, 10:12:29 pm
Fair bit here and I don't believe any of the roads have seen a gritter in yonks.

The drifts on the coutry road bit of my commute were about mid thigh deep along the stone wall.

What was very very pretty was riding along the lane with the wind at my back and a car driving towards me, it's headlights were picking up the light windblown stuff flowing along the surface of the settled snow. I could see all the eddies and currents as it moved along just a tad faster than me. It was like riding along the surface of a river made of smoke.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hatler on 12 March, 2013, 07:24:46 am
I sailed (around the Medway) one time in a blizzard. Watching the air flow over the sails was fantastic.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 12 March, 2013, 07:33:46 am
Loads of motorists apparently 'stranded' in Kent and Sussex. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-21751026)

I think the phrase the reporter failed to find was "unprepared whingers"...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Dibdib on 12 March, 2013, 08:52:56 am
A decent dusting here in Essen, Germany too.

If I get stuck here, I will be very unamused. I can see it now. Düsseldorf airport will be fine, they're pros at this, but Heathrow...  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 12 March, 2013, 09:10:10 am
Not even a flake here in Southampton  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 12 March, 2013, 09:54:05 am
All we've had in Reading is a bitter nor-easter for days, & a few flurries of powdery snow around lunchtime yesterday. Bright and sunny now - and bloody cold in the wind.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 12 March, 2013, 10:28:47 am
(http://www.speckledfreckle.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cadbury-Flake.jpg)

For numbnuts, without a Flake in Southampton.
Thanks  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 12 March, 2013, 10:30:38 am
Still bitter cold in London's famous London, but the sun is out and shining in my eyes. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 March, 2013, 11:18:41 am
I think we had about 18 hours' almost continuous snow. The sun's out now, but it's having little impact. 1°C, allegedly, in our garden, but that's south-facing. I almost copped it when out on the ice with the dog a few minutes ago.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 March, 2013, 02:13:28 pm
Still scarcely above freezing outside, but the sun is heating our solar panel so well that I can hardly put my hand on the hot tank's inlet pipe! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 12 March, 2013, 08:59:09 pm
Loads of motorists apparently 'stranded' in Kent and Sussex. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-21751026)

I think the phrase the reporter failed to find was "unprepared whingers"...

A friend of mine spent 6 hours stationary on the A2 last night.  It doesn't matter how prepared you are if three foot deep snow drifts block the road and stop all the traffic around you.  Apparently the grit was being blown off the road as fast as they were spreading it.

His main winge was that he'd been stopped in a 3G blackspot.  Seems fair enough, really.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Vince on 13 March, 2013, 09:01:18 am
I wasn't going to ride in this morning because of a scattering of snow, but Nibs was adamant that he was riding to school so had to MTFU and go.

Most cycle paths were clear, but it was very cold.

(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t140/VinceHall/2013-03-13090019_zps939d8e74.jpg)
Iced in marina, Vlaardingen
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 March, 2013, 12:38:32 pm
Every time I book myself a lunchtime massage it snows. So like today I don't take the car and I can't get to the joint at lunchtime, and I don't get my nice, relaxing, stress relieving massage.
Tokenz, I haz them  >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 13 March, 2013, 01:57:59 pm
Am booked to cross to France tomorrow.  Apparently the HGV traffic has been stacking up at Dover - just hope they have cleared the backlog today.  It'll be a cold trip as my van heater struggles to make much difference.  If I get stuck I'll be the one without the engine running to keep warm.

2011 trip, well below zero:

(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t51/asorim1/P1000233-1_zpsfead05d0.jpg)

Although that was January.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 13 March, 2013, 02:00:06 pm
...and just for a change, IT'S BLOODY WELL SNOWING HERE!

Stoppit, ok? It's not funny, or fun, anymore...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 13 March, 2013, 02:07:01 pm
Here too.   >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 13 March, 2013, 02:09:41 pm
About ten minutes of wet snow here in Darlo, which has now melted again.

Other than that, it's making a pretty decent show of buggering off.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 13 March, 2013, 02:11:45 pm
It is not so much whether it lays of not, it's the "every time I look out of the window it is either snowing or bright sunshine" thing that is pissing me off.

That and the FREEZIN cold wind :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: interzen on 13 March, 2013, 02:13:24 pm
No snow here - had a series of monumental hail showers about an hour ago, though; looks like someone has been chucking little polystyrene beads everywhere.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 13 March, 2013, 03:02:49 pm
No snow here - had a series of monumental hail showers about an hour ago, though; looks like someone has been chucking little polystyrene beads everywhere.

Here too - day became night, and it polystyrene'd heavily before snowing hard. Then out came the sun, and it was all gone in about 10 minutes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 13 March, 2013, 03:26:03 pm
No snow here in the sunny south (http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p36/gpm1074/sunny.gif) the only way I'm going to see snow is if you guy post some photos  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 13 March, 2013, 04:34:21 pm
Am I the only one here who actually likes it when it snows and that there is snow on the hills. roads etc ?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 13 March, 2013, 04:35:15 pm
Am I the only one here who actually likes it when it snows and that there is snow on the hills. roads etc ?

No, but when it is like this, snow, sun, snow, sun, SLUSH, it is just no fun, no fun at all!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 13 March, 2013, 05:04:57 pm
David's just getting ready to join the Baker Street Irregular Astronomers to view Comet Panstarrs.
It's been cool and sunny all day.
Suddenly, the sky has darkened and polystyrene balls cover everything...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 13 March, 2013, 05:48:54 pm
Loads of motorists apparently 'stranded' in Kent and Sussex. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-21751026)

I think the phrase the reporter failed to find was "unprepared whingers"...

A friend of mine spent 6 hours stationary on the A2 last night.  It doesn't matter how prepared you are if three foot deep snow drifts block the road and stop all the traffic around you.  Apparently the grit was being blown off the road as fast as they were spreading it.

His main winge was that he'd been stopped in a 3G blackspot.  Seems fair enough, really.

It must be very irritating if you have equipped your car properly with winter tyres only to find the road blocked by some moron in a Merc or BMW with sporty tyres whose rear-wheel-drive can't get up even the slightest slope.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 13 March, 2013, 08:11:24 pm
Comedy snow heaping down when I opened the door to leave work.  Didn't settle, though, and had cleared by the time I got to Clapham.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 13 March, 2013, 08:14:57 pm
Snow and sky cleared in time for David and Baker Street Irregular Astronomers to get good views of Comet PANSTARRS.  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Lady Cavendish on 13 March, 2013, 08:30:48 pm
Not seen even a hint of snow in Berks
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Canardly on 13 March, 2013, 09:03:05 pm
Gritters are out tonight on wet roads, ice skating springs to mind, but then its only mid march.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Vince on 14 March, 2013, 11:37:27 am
Lots of snow going horizontally past the window about 10 minutes ago. The sun is out now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 14 March, 2013, 01:10:13 pm
Not seen even a hint of snow in Berks
Not very far away from you, & in Berks, I was outdoors in snow flurries in Reading on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday. Twice, I took my washing in because bright breezy sunshine had turned to snow.

The snow stopped quickly each time, & there wasn't enough to show on the ground.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bumper on 16 March, 2013, 11:19:22 pm
What a surprise!

Just thinking of going for a spin and its snowing like mad. I'm getting really sick of this shit now!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andyoxon on 17 March, 2013, 08:34:42 am
Unexpected heavy snow here in Oxon - I've just seen a black cat crossing the garden with a good layer of snow on it's back.   :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: iddu on 17 March, 2013, 09:34:30 am
No snow here in the sunny south (http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p36/gpm1074/sunny.gif) the only way I'm going to see snow is if you guy post some photos  ;)
(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r200/iddu/00000000-Misc/20130317-01_zps4b458e0e.jpg)
Live'ish...

Or have you got your own stock now?  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jogler on 17 March, 2013, 09:36:04 am
No snow here.

The sun shines on the righteous O:-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Giraffe on 17 March, 2013, 10:17:36 am
Been snowing for about 3 hours here. Started as big floppy flakes, went finer and faster, then back. Settling a bit on sheds and grass but not on road etc. Judging by the run-off from the roof and the temperature being +3C, it's not here to stay. Oops!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 17 March, 2013, 11:34:35 am
Unexpected heavy snow here in Oxon - I've just seen a black cat crossing the garden with a good layer of snow on it's back.   :)
Where in Oxon? Up north, or up high?

Here is wet & miserable Berkshire we're just getting heavy rain - which Mrs B is out running in. I'll get out a fresh towel for her & clear the bathroom.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mattc on 17 March, 2013, 12:01:43 pm
South Oxon, altitude 67m!
4 hours of proper snow. Totally unforecast. Very pretty though, good chunky flakes.

Glad Reading's only got rain, what with the Half-Marathon (started at 1000 I believe)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 17 March, 2013, 12:25:43 pm
South Oxon, altitude 67m!
4 hours of proper snow. Totally unforecast. Very pretty though, good chunky flakes.

Glad Reading's only got rain, what with the Half-Marathon (started at 1000 I believe)

Managed to get out in it for an hour before it started to melt. Hard work in the heavy stuff but a lot of fun!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mattc on 17 March, 2013, 01:09:15 pm
I've lost all faith in the forecasters - so the studded tyre is going on for tomorrow's commute! That should keep temperatures up, you can all thank me later :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Palinurus on 17 March, 2013, 01:54:25 pm
Got back from a business trip from Hungary late on Friday. Got stuck in a Subaru with three colleagues for 22 hrs. Initially the motorway was blocked due to an accident and then high winds stripped the snow from the adjacent fields and piled it up around the vehicles- the drifts were above head height after a few hours.

The following day some sort of community organisation transported us to a nearby village once the opposite carriageway was cleared and gave us coffee, fruit tea, bread and cheese, pizza and cake. Plus a 1.5 litre drinks bottle full of petrol. The carriageway we were stuck on was cleared by the military (with tanks!) a couple of hours later, just as we got back to the vehicle.

It was good to see something of Hungary I wouldn't have otherwise seen, but if there's a next time I'm taking the train.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 18 March, 2013, 06:53:17 am
It isn't snowing near Swindon, but it might was well have done, given how hard the frost is! White everywhere.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 March, 2013, 04:08:00 pm
The first 18 days of March have yielded a mean temperature of 4.5°C. That's still colder than January.

It would not surprise me in the slightest if the first three months of this year are the coldest since 1963. I'm 100% certain that was lots colder as the snow that fell on Boxing Day and 30th Dec. 1962 didn't start to thaw properly until 6th March - the first day of the year with no frost anywhere in Britain and a maximum temperature of 17°C.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Arellcat on 19 March, 2013, 06:55:19 pm
I'm due to be in London tomorrow and Thursday, and have the option of bringing my slick-tyred Brompton (as normal)  :) or using the Tube  :-\ .  All I know is that Edinburgh was under three inches of snow this morning and two millimeters of rain this evening.  Should I prepare for SNO or is everyone carrying on as usual on two wheels?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 March, 2013, 06:58:58 pm
There won't be any snow in London this week. The temperature is due to rise by the weekend. It might be wet though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Arellcat on 19 March, 2013, 10:29:12 pm
Thanks, Wow.  The Beeb reckons cloudy and 6ºC.  Blimey, that's practically t-shirt weather for us northern barbarians!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 20 March, 2013, 08:12:49 am
Snowing in Diss. Again. It's hardly news these days. Sigh. Looks like the Starks were right  >:(.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: David Martin on 20 March, 2013, 09:38:32 am
Unexpected heavy snow here in Oxon - I've just seen a black cat crossing the garden with a good layer of snow on it's back.   :)
That's not a cat, it's an escaped skunk.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Vince on 20 March, 2013, 02:52:26 pm
Started snowing in the last couple of km into work this morning. Then it did some horizontal snowing across the office windows (right to left). All gone now.

Its interesting when the wind is blowing the flakes away from you, then as you speed up they come towards you. I'll get my coat.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Guy on 21 March, 2013, 09:26:28 am
Not snowed here for a couple of weeks :thumbsup: Though the Norwegians say it'll snow early tomorrow morning and all day on Saturday :hand:

I prefer the Norwegian Met Office cos they're  usually far mor akriate than the UK one.

http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Shefford~2638074/long.html (http://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/Shefford~2638074/long.html)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 March, 2013, 09:34:22 am
There won't be any snow in London this week. The temperature is due to rise by the weekend. It might be wet though.

The Met Office have had a huge change of heart since I wrote that. Their 10°C, which was forecast at the time, has now been significantly downgraded to "bloody cold" with much of the country having more snow over the weekend. Arellcat should be OK for today and tomorrow though, but it will probably rain.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 21 March, 2013, 01:55:30 pm
It's actually quite pleasant outside at the moment. 6°C and weak sunshine.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 21 March, 2013, 02:46:37 pm
North Oxfordshire  5c Easterly wind and if the weather forecast before I trikle to work is to believed an armegeddon of snow is forecast at the weekend, if I thought I could get away with it I would claim asylum in Australia (the asylum I live in is to ferkin cold)   ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 21 March, 2013, 03:32:31 pm
It's actually quite pleasant outside at the moment. 6°C and weak sunshine.

Yes.  I should have got up early and ridden to Banbury...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 21 March, 2013, 03:56:18 pm
Sunny up here but a bitterly cold wind, and there's apparently due to be some noticable snowfall starting around 1am tomorrow, accompanied by 30mph+ winds :(.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Canardly on 21 March, 2013, 08:08:29 pm
This bad weather is now becoming very BORING!  :demon:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 22 March, 2013, 07:34:07 am
Just looked out of the window.   It's all white & looks most unpleasant !
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Poly Hive on 22 March, 2013, 08:00:46 am
I never thought I would have to blog on my beesite about what to do about snow in bloody March. This is ridiculous. But then again this is the UK with it's highly unpredictable maritime climate.

Hear in Castle Donington it is an inch and we have cancelled our weekend off to the High Peaks. Mutter mutters..... celebrating the hounds 100th birthday and he loves the motor home so the plan was to have a weekend on the High Peaks trail but that is now stuffed. Roads around Buxton are blocked already the news said at 7am.

PH
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Guy on 22 March, 2013, 08:03:16 am
It's blasting across horizontally here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 22 March, 2013, 08:09:53 am
Started snowing between York and Leeds and has just got heavier and heavier.  Trains to and from Ilkley are delayed by upto 20 minutes.

Keeping an eye on the TPE website, as soon as the trains home start being delayed I am offski.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 22 March, 2013, 08:22:07 am
No snow here in Southampton dull overcast and 4c
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: essexian on 22 March, 2013, 08:24:53 am
Snowed here in Stafford overnight. The roads are rather mushy (well the snow on them is) but passable with care.....

However, once again the drivers of Stafford do not understand that they are required TO CLEAR THE SNOW OFF YOUR CAR, especially the windows and lights. Doing your roof and bonnet will also help you see where you are going.

If I see one more moron trying to see with only a "letter box" of snow cleared, I will.... er, get most upset and moan about it on a cycling forum....sigh!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Guy on 22 March, 2013, 08:33:58 am
numbnuts. Wanna swap?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Vince on 22 March, 2013, 08:36:35 am
No snow here, the sun is out, but it is was still cold enough to leave frost on the cars.
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Post by: Riggers on 22 March, 2013, 08:40:43 am
No snow in Brighton. Dry but that southerly wind is bloody cold.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 22 March, 2013, 09:09:23 am
Monotonous in Maidstone. We're off to feed some ducks.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 22 March, 2013, 09:44:19 am
I don't think it's the inch in Castle Donnington that's cancelled it. The peaks are forcast up to 40cm by the end of tomorrow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 22 March, 2013, 10:12:46 am
I have just shovelled show for the first time since the early 90's and I might have to do it again later today. \o/ And we will go out and have a walk in it later and there is more to come :)

I HAZ WINTER !!!!!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Efrogwr on 22 March, 2013, 10:20:35 am
There's about 15cm in Llanberis, but it seems to be the edge of the snow; nothing at all at the other end of the lake.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 22 March, 2013, 10:35:34 am
Falling quite heavily but mainly sideways up here. The wind is strong enough that the snow is mainly coating walls rather than settling on the ground.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Palinurus on 22 March, 2013, 12:58:45 pm
It was snowing on my way to work this morning but I hasn't taken. Dry now.

GOD DAMN YOU, UH... GOD, ITS SPRING AND I DEMAND TO BE WARM
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 March, 2013, 01:00:41 pm
Still mundane in Maidstone.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 22 March, 2013, 10:25:33 pm
We drove through pouring rain along the M20 this evening, which turned to heavy snow on the tops of the N. Downs before dropping down to the Dartford Tunnel.

Arriving back in Southend, it had hardly rained and we've still had only 0.2mm so far today.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LindaG on 22 March, 2013, 11:05:14 pm
I drove to Egton on the Moors road and thence to Goathland, Sleights and home again. The wind was making the dead heather and twiggy bald shrubs thrash round like crazy and there was an icing sugar sprinkle just on the top of Roseberry Topping. The higher Moors were whited out. It was quite unearthly and quite, quite lovely. Till I got out of the car and the cold knifed me. Gorgeous up there.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 22 March, 2013, 11:21:46 pm
I've come to the pub on the most inappropriate bike I could have chosen.
Bugger!
Might have to leave it in the bottle store (again) and walk home.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: peliroja on 22 March, 2013, 11:25:39 pm
We had a lovely snowy walk today. Woolly threw himself at a snowdrift only to bounce off again as it was frozen stiff.  ;D

There are some pics from our recent snowy adventures to be seen at http://photos.woollypigs.com/
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: +paul on 23 March, 2013, 07:08:23 am
All day yesterday, over night, and still snowing now as I write. It is more than 12 inches where it hasn't drifted. The chicken run roof has given in under the weight. I can't walk around the garden in my (short) wellies without getting snow over the top. My mother's horse is about 2 miles away and will need attention. Guess who's job that will be....!

Does anyone know how much snow weight should be considered per square metre when I beef up the roof of the chicken run?

Last year it was 20 degrees this week!!!

#IhateSnow
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Littlesox on 23 March, 2013, 07:12:25 am
White-out in Whitchurch and apparently Woore is virtually cut-off.

Is there no end to this ?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andyoxon on 23 March, 2013, 07:23:56 am
Snow still quite fine in Abingdon; some wind - so it's blowing around.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MattH on 23 March, 2013, 08:20:13 am
Snowing quite heavily near Basingstoke, just about sticking.
My son is walking from Winchester down to Southampton today. Should be lovely  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bumper on 23 March, 2013, 08:37:26 am
There's easily a good six inches here and a drift on the driveway up to the bonnet on my van. The mtb has been prepped, spikes ready!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 23 March, 2013, 08:39:19 am
Unenthusiastic snow here not bothering to stay around.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TheLurker on 23 March, 2013, 08:53:26 am
Slightly more "enthusiastic" snow 25 miles or so to Jaded's east.  Settling as a thin layer. 
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Post by: Dibdib on 23 March, 2013, 08:58:28 am
Dusting on car bonnets in Swindon, and still snowing a little. Jess is enjoying watching it from the windowsill.
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Post by: drossall on 23 March, 2013, 09:11:20 am
We've finally got proper snow in North Herts. We had it with the really big snowfall weeks ago, of course, but ever since everyone's been going on about it and we've had nothing.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 March, 2013, 09:20:34 am
The east side of the granny annexe roof had some this morning when I looked out. It was even, but neither deep nor crisp.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: cycleman on 23 March, 2013, 10:02:38 am
a brief moment of cold wet snow this morning . mostly gone in the continuing rain now though :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 23 March, 2013, 12:11:17 pm
Reading:
Woke up to a covering of snow & more in the air. Slush & a bit of wet snow now on the ground, & more wet snow falling.

It'll be icy tomorrow morning.
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Post by: jogler on 23 March, 2013, 12:35:48 pm
Overnight we had approx. 150mm.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ferret on 23 March, 2013, 12:59:50 pm
well we have around 3 inches, main roads are ok but the lanes are blocked, we're supposed to be getting more later on,
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 23 March, 2013, 02:05:30 pm
Started coming down at 04-00 this morning, looked as though might lay, first time I have seen a gritter out our way (especially early hours of Saturday morning), normally they leave us to rot, when I got up a covering over the fields but roads nicely slushy  :)   I want Summer, you can see why the ancients worshipped the Sun can you not
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimO on 23 March, 2013, 02:35:04 pm
It's been lightly snowing in Croydon since this morning, and was settling then. The temperature has risen since, and it's no longer selling. What had settled has also melted, so it's much less scenic now.

To be getting any snow this late in the year, this far south is somewhat unusual. :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: clarion on 23 March, 2013, 02:40:34 pm
Still snowing in Central London, but hasn't settled at all.
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Post by: Kim on 23 March, 2013, 02:43:48 pm
It's just started up again properly in Brum.  You can tell it's serious; some of the drivers are slowing down.
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Post by: Basil on 23 March, 2013, 03:27:45 pm
It's just started up again properly in Brum.  You can tell it's serious; some of the drivers are slowing down.

Well, you have to be a little careful when you've only cleared a letter box size viewing box on your windscreen.
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Post by: Kim on 23 March, 2013, 03:31:37 pm
It's just started up again properly in Brum.  You can tell it's serious; some of the drivers are slowing down.

Well, you have to be a little careful when you've only cleared a letter box size viewing box on your windscreen.

It's been suggested that the BMW drivers need the weight of the snow on the rear window for traction...
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Post by: andrewc on 23 March, 2013, 03:45:00 pm
Starting to snow again in Liverpool.   Nasty cold wind as well.
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Post by: Canardly on 23 March, 2013, 05:38:28 pm
Hasnt really stopped all day hereabouts but its the wet stuff and picking up its pace again atm.
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Post by: Canardly on 23 March, 2013, 07:50:41 pm
Its actually still snowing and gritters are out so sub zero then. Ho hum this is boring now with nobs on.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 March, 2013, 09:07:30 pm
No snow here, frikkin freezing wind though.
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Post by: Efrogwr on 23 March, 2013, 09:42:59 pm
As there is no snow here (but there is some on the mountains, and the world was cut off from us) nor in Inverness, Mrs E and her far northern sister have come to the conclusion that it's only snowing where it is. Maybe I should cross-reference this to What Are You Drinking? (In our case, an apparently psychotropic red from Apulia).
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Post by: TimO on 24 March, 2013, 09:27:37 am
We've had a little snow in Croydon overnight, although it's barely settled, just on fences, cars, the garden and so forth, but not noticeably on the roads. The temperature is around, or just above freezing, so if we get any more, I don't expect that'll settle either.
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Post by: bumper on 24 March, 2013, 09:39:21 am
Most of the snow started to melt yesterday, which then froze solid and turned everywhere into an ice rink. It then snowed all night but thankfully hasn't made much difference.

It's now very icy and very windy, I'm even sick of looking out of the window at it!

Luckily I got my mileage in last week before it started but this week looks like it'll be a struggle to meet any targets :(
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Post by: numbnuts on 24 March, 2013, 11:11:29 am
I give up still no snow in Southampton
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Post by: Giraffe on 24 March, 2013, 11:15:56 am
Here it's not snowing per se (WOCAL) but, with the wind from the East, there are flurries of powder from the railway bank - especially if the powder has built up a bit and then a fast train goes by.
At least the embankment protects us from the wind.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 March, 2013, 11:33:42 am
It seems that my predictions of the coldest March on record are likely to be wrong. It wasn't March 1963 that was so bad (I remember that one being quite nice after the record-breaking cold Jan & Feb) but March 1962! The mean temperature for the month was 2.8°C. Currently ours stands at 4.4°C in our garden, but that of course is in balmy Saarfend. I would imagine that when T'Frozen North is taken into consideration the whole country's monthly mean temperature will be rather lower than that.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/24/snow-britain-travel-chaos refers.
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Post by: andrewc on 24 March, 2013, 11:55:43 am
It seems that my predictions of the coldest March on record are likely to be wrong. It wasn't March 1963 that was so bad (I remember that one being quite nice after the record-breaking cold Jan & Feb) but March 1962! The mean temperature for the month was 2.8°C. Currently ours stands at 4.4°C in our garden, but that of course is in balmy Saarfend..

It's 5°C in my bathroom.......   :o   Like camping at home.....
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Post by: hellymedic on 24 March, 2013, 01:39:13 pm
There is still white stuff on the grass of my Londonton garden.
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Post by: peliroja on 24 March, 2013, 05:14:06 pm
We just had a lovely 7km walk to Wycoller from Winewall via some absolutely huge snowdrifts!  It took us double the usual time. Local lanes are completely blocked by several feet of drifted snow, or have been somewhat cleared by local farmers.
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Post by: ferret on 24 March, 2013, 05:38:01 pm
no more snow here yet!, the thermometer hasn't moved off -3 all day, but it does feel much colder with the wind.
I must admit this really is becoming rather tedious
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Post by: Kim on 24 March, 2013, 07:08:17 pm
I think it's thawing a bit, in as much as the snow left after I kicked a route clear on our front path seems to have melted.

Temperature still slightly below zero, and the rain gauge hasn't thawed out yet.

8km of comedy snow trike adventuring in the "Have you been out today?" thread. (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10.msg1447768#msg1447768)  Even in these urban areas, the depth of snow was very variable - presumably on account of strong winds.
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Post by: Vince on 26 March, 2013, 10:31:10 pm
On the bright side, the grass still isn't growing and I don't need to get the mower out.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: bumper on 26 March, 2013, 10:53:31 pm
Snowing in N-U-L area, again!

I've just returned from a ride. It's the hard snow that feels like grit when it hits you in the face.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 March, 2013, 01:28:25 am
There's a strong possibility that March will end up being even colder than February. Feb finished with a mean temperature of 3.8°C. March, as of now, has a mean temp of 3.9°C. THe Met Office are forecasting a maximum temperature of 4°C from now to the end of Saturday. That really is spectacularly grim.

Since this cold weather is coming from the east, and that's making the wind cold, then presumably the wind was warmer before it got to Siberia or wherever, and it is warming Siberia up.

I wish it would hurry up about it.
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Post by: woollypigs on 27 March, 2013, 08:57:22 am
I forgot to post last night.

It was nice crispy frost with a little dusting of snow coming down and no wind, lovely winter weather. More please.
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Post by: tiermat on 27 March, 2013, 09:14:45 am
Cold this morning, with a covering of light snow when I got up (about 6AM).

By 8Am it had gone.

By 8:30 it was snowing, lightly, again! Not laying now, though as the ground appears to have warmed enough to repel any advances from the white stuff.
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Post by: mcshroom on 27 March, 2013, 10:42:54 am
Light snow this morning but it didn't settle (in fact the roads seem dry). I'm going to have to rethink my Easter Monday ride though as there's little chance of the current snow inland melting and I don't think riding over Hartside Pass and Caldbeck Common is going to be sensible really :(
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Post by: woollypigs on 27 March, 2013, 10:47:50 am
Fluffy snow for an hour now, sadly not frosty enough to stay :(
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Post by: Noodley on 27 March, 2013, 12:09:45 pm
F*cking snow.  :facepalm:
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Post by: Andrij on 27 March, 2013, 05:10:53 pm
Some folk are enjoying it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21938673
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Post by: matthew on 27 March, 2013, 06:04:55 pm
I forgot to post last night.

It was nice crispy frost with a little dusting of snow coming down and no wind, lovely winter weather. More please.
Woolly, you should have been here all winter not galavanting round the Kiwi summer. Most of us are getting fed up to the eye teeth of the cold, damp and snow because we want to be back out on our bikes.
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Post by: SteveC on 27 March, 2013, 06:48:30 pm
It is even snowing down here on the flat dampish bit of Somerset where I live (not the really flat really damp bit).
We're not supposed to get snow.  :-[
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bumper on 27 March, 2013, 06:56:25 pm
I should be on Mull in two weeks time. I hope its buggered off by then!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 March, 2013, 06:58:39 pm
To be fair, this year has been quite dry in this part of the world. Bloody cold though.

Our weather station, whose web page DNS is currently buggered, shows mean temperatures of 4.7°C for Jan, 3.8°C for Feb and 3.9°C for March. Putting that into context, we started recording data in December 2010 and the coldest month by mean temperature during 2011 and 2012 was Feb 2012 at 4.8°C.

The following table shows the number of days the temperature ventured above 10°C for the past 3 years

JanFebMar
201181319
2012121324
20131042
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 27 March, 2013, 10:29:16 pm
I forgot to post last night.

It was nice crispy frost with a little dusting of snow coming down and no wind, lovely winter weather. More please.
Woolly, you should have been here all winter not galavanting round the Kiwi summer. Most of us are getting fed up to the eye teeth of the cold, damp and snow because we want to be back out on our bikes.
I haven't had winter since '92 and as for winter I mean snow for 4-6 weeks or more, crisp snow around 2-3 feet high, months of under -10c. I have only had two white xmases since 1981, there was a weak attempt at a white one in 2011 and the other one was 1981, a good 3-4 feet over 2-3 days :)  The closest to a "winter" since I moved to London in '94 has been a night of -1c with a feeble attempt of snow that is gone before hitting the ground, mainly 5-10c, rain,  grey etc etc.

So having snow that lasts more than 24 hours, with snow that piles up above 5 inches, I even shovelled snow for the first time since '91-92, and I even have had to get some long leggings which I haven't since '94.

Oh and I haven't been on a bike since the 2nd of December 2012 either, so I'm as desperate as you lot to get back on my bike.

But please let this wee boy have his enjoyment just for a moment :)
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Post by: Vince on 29 March, 2013, 05:34:47 pm
Cold north easterly wind and lots of big fluffy flakes falling out of the sky.
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Post by: Bledlow on 29 March, 2013, 05:59:12 pm
The following table shows the number of days the temperature ventured above 10°C for the past 3 years

JanFebMar
201181319
2012121324
20131042
That's impressive.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 29 March, 2013, 06:28:55 pm
Those two days were the only ones during which the temperature ventured above 9deg C as well.
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Post by: Wobbly John on 29 March, 2013, 07:35:10 pm
Well, that's the first time I've planted potatoes in the snow.  :facepalm:

Very light but almost horizontal snow after I had got everything ready to plant, drawn out a trench and about to start putting them in.  >:(
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Post by: hellymedic on 30 March, 2013, 03:41:32 pm
I saw SNO while doing the washing-up today at 15.00 GMT 30 March 2013.
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Post by: Andrij on 30 March, 2013, 05:00:05 pm
A colleague posted on FaceAche earlier today that there is snow in Greenwich.
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Post by: cycleman on 30 March, 2013, 09:36:40 pm
just a icy rain shower this afternoon in slough . not enough to make the ground wet   :)
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Post by: Canardly on 31 March, 2013, 10:39:43 am
According to this, things should pick up in  a  wee while....

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=jetstream;sess=
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 31 March, 2013, 12:11:11 pm
According to this, things should pick up in  a  wee while....

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=jetstream;sess=

That's excellent news!  Around Tues 9th if they are right, I have not been looking forward to returning to UK weather in a fortnight or so.  Altho' cool here it is definitely spring and not winter.
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Post by: rafletcher on 31 March, 2013, 04:19:36 pm
My wife will be pleased - she lands in Lanzarote later today, and returns in 2 weeks.
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Post by: Bledlow on 31 March, 2013, 09:02:47 pm
Please, please, please let it be true!
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Post by: woollypigs on 31 March, 2013, 09:06:23 pm
Please, please, please let it be true!
Snow where do tell me :)
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Post by: Bledlow on 31 March, 2013, 09:21:54 pm
I was referring to this -
According to this, things should pick up in  a  wee while....

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=jetstream;sess=
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Post by: rafletcher on 01 April, 2013, 09:31:18 am
Well the met office see no great improvement until third week of April.  :(
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Post by: Wowbagger on 02 April, 2013, 03:17:11 pm
The mean temperature for March ended up at 3.6°C. I saw lots of Met Office reports reckoning it would be the coldest March since 1962, when the national mean was 2.8°C, but I haven't heard what the national mean was this March. It hard to say how Southend would have fared. Normally we expect to be warmer and sunnier than most places, but when the wind's in the east it can be bloody bitter. Mrs. Wow and I have just completed the journey home from Bath and the wind was noticeably colder and stronger when we got off the train.

Oh, and a flake or two of snow fell yesterday afternoon at the Bath YH.
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Post by: Basil on 02 April, 2013, 04:21:24 pm
On Friday I noticed them cutting the square on Llandysul cricket pitch.  :D
Today I arrive in Brum to find my front garden (north facing) still full of snow.   >:(

Thank god I'll only be here for two days.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Wowbagger on 02 April, 2013, 04:22:32 pm
On Friday I noticed them cutting the square on Llandysul cricket pitch.  :D
Today I arrive in Brum to find my front garden (north facing) still full of snow.   >:(

Thank god I'll only be here for two days.  :thumbsup:

If you get your roller out you can turn it into a skating rink.  :D
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Post by: Basil on 02 April, 2013, 04:25:12 pm

If you get your roller out you can turn it into a skating rink.  :D

Not sure I'd be able to talk the boys into pulling it all the way up here.
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Post by: Basil on 02 April, 2013, 07:38:29 pm
I have already seen two gritters out this evening in Brum.
Is there no bloody end   to this?
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Post by: Riggers on 04 April, 2013, 11:37:21 am
Last night, 3rd April, snowing in Brighton. Big flakes. Didn't settle much, but it still counts.

This morning. Periodic swathes of pea-like snow. Again, not settling, but it's the thought that counts, as they say.
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Post by: mattc on 04 April, 2013, 11:53:03 am
The mean temperature for March ended up at 3.6°C. I saw lots of Met Office reports reckoning it would be the coldest March since 1962, when the national mean was 2.8°C, but I haven't heard what the national mean was this March.
MetOffice/BBC say 2.2'c for March:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22010852

(3 below the "long-term monthly average" )
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Coldest March temperatures

    1 1962 - 1.9 °C
    2= 2013 - 2.2 °C
    2= 1947 - 2.2 °C
    4 1937 - 2.4 °C
    5 1916 - 2.5 °C

Average temperature for month. Source: Met Office
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Post by: teethgrinder on 04 April, 2013, 11:55:12 am
Is there no bloody end   to this?


The good news is yes.

The bad news is that it'll be when hell freezes over. ;D
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Post by: clarion on 04 April, 2013, 12:53:30 pm
Just walked up to Borough High Street and back in continuous snow.  Not heavy, and not settling, I'm pleased to say, but snowing in April is dashed unsporting, what?
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Post by: Snakehips on 04 April, 2013, 12:57:21 pm
I didn't believe it at first , I thought it was just more bits of white paint drifting down from next door where they have some exterior decorators plying their trade.
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Post by: L CC on 04 April, 2013, 01:04:35 pm
Snow in one end of Suffolk, and hail at the other. It settled a bit on roofs. Mostly just cold wet and horrible. No change there then.
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Post by: numbnuts on 04 April, 2013, 01:28:00 pm
We had sleet this morning (southampton) only lasted a few minutes, feels very cold now only 1.5c
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 04 April, 2013, 01:34:15 pm
Snowing quite impressively in SW3 for the past 2 hours.
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Post by: hellymedic on 04 April, 2013, 01:35:54 pm
It is snowing AGAIN in north-west Londonton.
Nothing appears to be settling - yet.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 04 April, 2013, 01:37:48 pm
The mean temperature for March ended up at 3.6°C. I saw lots of Met Office reports reckoning it would be the coldest March since 1962, when the national mean was 2.8°C, but I haven't heard what the national mean was this March.
MetOffice/BBC say 2.2'c for March:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22010852

(3 below the "long-term monthly average" )
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Coldest March temperatures

    1 1962 - 1.9 °C
    2= 2013 - 2.2 °C
    2= 1947 - 2.2 °C
    4 1937 - 2.4 °C
    5 1916 - 2.5 °C

Average temperature for month. Source: Met Office

It's quite impressive, this March matching 1947's.

March 1947 Wiki entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_1946–1947_in_the_United_Kingdom#March)

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On 4–5 March came heavy snow which left drifts across much of the country with some lying 7 metres (23 ft) deep in the Scottish Highlands.[4] On 5 March one of the worst British blizzards of the 20th century occurred.[5] Food supplies were again affected by the snow-bound roads and in some places the police requested permission to break into delivery lorries stranded by the snow.[5]

On 10 March milder air of 7–10 °C began to move north across the country from the south west, rapidly thawing the snow lying on low ground.[4] After such a long frost the ground stayed frozen, causing much surface run off which resulted in widespread flooding. Further heavy snowfalls occurred as the milder air pushed northwards. On 14 March the deepest ever recorded depth of snow lying in an inhabited location was measured at Forest in Teesdale in County Durham at 83" or 211cm. On 15 March a deepening depression moved in from the Atlantic, bringing heavy rain and gales.[4] It was the start of the wettest March for 300 years.

I think we should count ourselves lucky!
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Post by: matthew on 04 April, 2013, 01:42:02 pm
Yep, nice large flakes of SNOW here just east of Reading, not settling thankfully as I have not refitted the winters to the bike and wouldn't fancy riding to the station home otherwise.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 April, 2013, 01:44:05 pm
Can I suggest you all come to Fort William?  For the first time this year, I reckon, this week I feel warm!
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Post by: Jurek on 04 April, 2013, 01:44:48 pm
It's giving it snieg in the Lea Valley.
It's not settling.
Does that mean it's unsettling?
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 04 April, 2013, 01:48:36 pm
No. It's not unsettling, it's just not settling.

HTH

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Post by: Quint on 04 April, 2013, 02:19:16 pm
Light flurries of snow in north Oxfordshire, struggling to reach 2c, I am cuddling the telly before I trikle to work cos the Basque race is showing and there is Sun, remember Sun  ::-)
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 April, 2013, 04:07:45 pm
I was surprised to feel a few flakes of cold white stuff on my face as I rode down Cheltenham Road today (and even more surprised to find the road totally closed - a fire I think). Pathetic snow but eee it's a cold wind today!
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Post by: Bledlow on 04 April, 2013, 04:48:15 pm
Light flurries of snow in Reading on & off since ca 10 am.
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Post by: cycleman on 04 April, 2013, 06:28:44 pm
flurry's of snow in slough this afternoon melted as it hit the ground of course . blown horizontally by a gentle cool ne breeze . :)
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Post by: SteveC on 04 April, 2013, 07:04:55 pm
The odd flake down here in South Somerset and I believe AndyGates was tweeting about snow in Exeter earlier in the day.
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Post by: Kim on 04 April, 2013, 07:40:17 pm
The last of the snow outside our kitchen window melted this afternoon.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TheLurker on 04 April, 2013, 07:46:14 pm
I think we need an, "It's not snowing." thread.
I'm just a wee bit bored by this weather now. *sigh*
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Post by: bobb on 04 April, 2013, 08:06:21 pm
The Cricket season starts tomorrow!  :P
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Post by: peliroja on 04 April, 2013, 10:32:21 pm
We had a relatively warm day today in Winewall/Trawden: 5.2c with bright sunshine, blue skies and No Sno.

There are still deep snowdrifts alongside the dry stone walls which make navigating stiles interesting, and Boulsworth is still very white.

Woolly and I had great fun trudging across Barden Moor through thick white stuff from Embsay to Burnsall earlier this week. Though the wind was bitter!
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Post by: Basil on 04 April, 2013, 11:08:13 pm
The last of the snow outside our kitchen window melted this afternoon.
Still snow cover in my front garden in Bournville.
My, but it's cold in Brum.  I had to go up for two days and it's bloody freezing up there.  As I pulled out of work this afternoon the car informed me that it was 4 degrees.  By the time I hit the M50 it was up to 7.  Still 7 as I passed Swansea in the evening.  Prolly close to 0 at that time in Brum.
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Post by: drossall on 05 April, 2013, 08:12:55 am
The extra three degrees probably leaked through the heat shield.
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Post by: matthew on 05 April, 2013, 10:02:57 am
Can I suggest you all come to Fort William?  For the first time this year, I reckon, this week I feel warm!

You've been standing to near the Muir burn wild fire.  :demon:
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Post by: Riggers on 05 April, 2013, 10:15:01 am
The Cricket season starts tomorrow!  :P


The IPL crash-bang-whollap twenty-twenty stuff has just started again, and I've missed a couple already.

Oh, and it's been sleeting down here this morning in sunny warm Brighton.
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Post by: Ashaman42 on 05 April, 2013, 01:36:18 pm
Drove from Eastbourne to Tonbridge and back. Sleeting and snpowing the entire way, starting to settle on fenceposts and road signs but other wise melting on impact.

Meant to be getting a few miles in on my day off but inclined to tidy up the spare room and drink more tea instead  :-\
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Post by: Oaky on 05 April, 2013, 05:30:40 pm
It was snowing at Killhope cross earlier (I was in the car, not on the bike)
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Post by: LindaG on 09 April, 2013, 07:21:06 am
Snode a bit in Toytown yesterday.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 April, 2013, 08:27:31 am
Can I suggest you all come to Fort William?  For the first time this year, I reckon, this week I feel warm!

You've been standing to near the Muir burn wild fire.  :demon:

(http://sphotos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/547603_10151498426651839_100956676_n.jpg)
It did get quite close....

Still very chilly in York, but none of the white stuff for a while.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 09 April, 2013, 01:39:23 pm
Big WSW blowing s. of Limoges right now and it's WARM, first time since I got here mid-March.  I guess it might arrive in the UK in a day or so.
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Post by: tiermat on 09 April, 2013, 01:45:24 pm
Big WSW blowing s. of Limoges right now and it's WARM, first time since I got here mid-March.  I guess it might arrive in the UK in a day or so.

Tell it to turn 90degrees to the East and head further South, if you would, ready for next week :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 10 April, 2013, 03:05:56 pm
The temperature reached 10.1°C in our garden this afternoon. That's the first time over 10°C for 34 days.
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 April, 2013, 04:39:01 pm
David says it's 16C in the garage/home gym.
First time >10C this year!
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Post by: Bledlow on 10 April, 2013, 05:37:36 pm
The temperature reached 10.1°C in our garden this afternoon. That's the first time over 10°C for 34 days.
We got >10 on Sunday, & >11 today.
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Post by: Canardly on 10 April, 2013, 07:42:31 pm
Has Spring sprung?
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Post by: woollypigs on 10 April, 2013, 07:48:23 pm
noooooo let it sno' :)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 11 April, 2013, 12:16:27 am
noooooo let it sno' :)

You stop that!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Littlesox on 13 April, 2013, 04:46:08 pm
Good grief, went out in shorts today !

The legs have finally seen the light of day.

(I think the sight distressed some little lambs as I pedalled by, and as I passed a group of people in Audlem, I swear I could hear them titter).

Ho, hum.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 April, 2013, 06:28:49 pm
Can we please put this thread away until December at the earliest?
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Post by: IanDG on 02 May, 2013, 06:46:51 pm
Can we please put this thread away until December at the earliest?

No, it is currently snowing in the Western Isles - ok, more sleeting but white stuff is falling (horizontally) from the sky!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 02 May, 2013, 07:44:37 pm
Can we please put this thread away until December at the earliest?

No, it is currently snowing in the Western Isles - ok, more sleeting but white stuff is falling (horizontally) from the sky!

Yeah, but that's a Very Long Way from Southend, so Never Mind, eh?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 02 May, 2013, 07:45:20 pm
I crossed the Lecht on June 3 one year and got hit by frozen precipitation.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bairn Again on 02 May, 2013, 09:47:58 pm
Can we please put this thread away until December at the earliest?

No, it is currently snowing in the Western Isles - ok, more sleeting but white stuff is falling (horizontally) from the sky!

Yeah, but that's a Very Long Way from Southend, so Never Mind, eh?

Lots of snow today on Skye. 

Reminded me how truly wonderful it is to be so far from South end. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nuttycyclist on 02 May, 2013, 10:33:03 pm
Cor - what I'd do for snow right now.    I've got two arms like lobsters thanks to being outdoors a little while today.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 15 May, 2013, 03:40:20 pm
Even had some snow in Devon/Salop today

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-22536139
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 16 May, 2013, 06:17:00 pm
If it had been a wee bit colder outside this hail/slush would have been snow, damn you spring for coming here and heating the air up  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 September, 2013, 02:26:23 pm
Just thought I'd drop in to say how lovely and warm and sunny it is here today - 21°C!

Actually, just like the central heating, I'm testing the thread to make sure it still works for when it's needed...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 24 September, 2013, 02:32:25 pm
Our first trailer-load of wood arrived this morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 September, 2013, 02:33:42 pm
We are having a new boiler fitted next Tuesday.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Vince on 24 September, 2013, 04:50:34 pm
Our heating has just been pronounced fit for the winter. They did get the gas pressure turned down and apparently we have had a leak in our meter cupboard for sometime. It smells different to British gas so we didn't recognise it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 08 October, 2013, 06:06:36 pm
I was at a union meeting yesterday and one of the stewards in roads was talking at length about a disagreement going on between roads services drivers and management to do with the terms and conditions of the gritter drivers. At one point he said "if they don't get this sorted out before Friday the gritters will be going nowhere and the city will be at a standstill." Yes, apparently there is a forecast requirement for gritters to be used at the weekend - and someone told me today that the local hospitals were gritting this morning.  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 October, 2013, 06:37:38 pm
We were enjoying 22.5 of your degrees Celsius this afternoon. Bluddy luvvly it was.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: drossall on 08 October, 2013, 07:24:06 pm
It does seem to me that the kerfuffle over some non-gritted roads a couple of years back has made councils so fearful that they grit as soon as it goes under 10 degrees.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: interzen on 08 October, 2013, 07:38:50 pm
It does seem to me that the kerfuffle over some non-gritted roads a couple of years back has made councils so fearful that they grit as soon as it goes under 10 degrees.
Probably 10degF in the case of York council (motto: gritting is something that other people do)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Morrisette on 09 October, 2013, 09:46:55 am
It does seem to me that the kerfuffle over some non-gritted roads a couple of years back has made councils so fearful that they grit as soon as it goes under 10 degrees.
Probably 10degF in the case of York council (motto: gritting is something that other people do)

Cambridge's motto is: We bought some grit in 2003, what more do you want?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 09 October, 2013, 12:10:40 pm
Or Ceredigion's excuse.  "You only live half a mile from Carmarthenshire.  Surely you can make it that far?"
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 09 October, 2013, 01:35:52 pm
Our grit bins and heaps (Aylesbury Vale) were replenished about 2 weeks ago. Pigeons love it!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 09 October, 2013, 07:15:08 pm
I suspect if the current weather set-up was happening in January, there would be a lot more traffic on this thread right now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Canardly on 09 October, 2013, 08:35:35 pm
A metre of snow in the States last week. Lots of berries ......we are all DOOOMED...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Morrisette on 10 October, 2013, 09:11:19 am
A metre of snow in the States last week. Lots of berries ......we are all DOOOMED...

I've often wondered how the trees know it is going to snow, well in advance, like the previous spring when they are actually producing the flowers that become berries....if the Met Office could solve that mystery their 'bbq summer'-long-term weather forecasts might actually be right sometimes!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 10 October, 2013, 10:12:33 am
A metre of snow in the States last week. Lots of berries ......we are all DOOOMED...

I've often wondered how the trees know it is going to snow, well in advance, like the previous spring when they are actually producing the flowers that become berries....if the Met Office could solve that mystery their 'bbq summer'-long-term weather forecasts might actually be right sometimes!

Easy answer, they don't!

The excess of berries this year is due to the long wet spring followed by a long dry summer, with no great nasty periods of gales and storms, perfect conditions for trees and shrubs to produce fruit.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: interzen on 10 October, 2013, 10:25:08 am
A metre of snow in the States last week. Lots of berries ......we are all DOOOMED...
Might be time to pull Pugsley out of hibernation ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 10 October, 2013, 10:33:37 am
A metre of snow in the States last week. Lots of berries ......we are all DOOOMED...
Might be time to pull Pugsley out of hibernation ;)

Bring it on!

Hibernation?!? I've been riding my Pugsley all summer!

My only dilemma is when to sell it to make space for its successor ???
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrew_s on 12 October, 2013, 03:50:55 pm
Might be time to pull Pugsley out of hibernation ;)
æstivation, surely
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 12 October, 2013, 08:39:43 pm
Might be time to pull Pugsley out of hibernation ;)
æstivation, surely
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 October, 2013, 10:36:18 pm
Might be time to pull Pugsley out of hibernation ;)
æstivation, surely
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is that the habit of spending the entire summer in a remote village in the forests of Central Southern Scotland?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ferret on 19 November, 2013, 08:08:20 am
we had snow this morning, not much but it has settled on the fields.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Gattopardo on 19 November, 2013, 08:20:01 am
Don't panic....DON'T PANIC.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 19 November, 2013, 08:28:07 am
It's sort of snowing here at the mo.  (SA39)  A cross between soft hail and sleet.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 November, 2013, 05:04:56 pm
Well, that was a good start. Get home from a weekend away to find a teeny sprinkle of snow. On my way out to pick up the cats from Borstal I fall down our steps (I was heading for the shed to get some clearing implements). It feels like I've broken my arse.
Not leaving the igloo again til April  >:(.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 19 November, 2013, 05:23:43 pm
We just had a heavy sleety shower. Temperature now close to zero under a clear sky - with wet roads and pavements. Hmm... time to fit the studded tyres. Or stay indoors.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Gattopardo on 19 November, 2013, 06:07:04 pm
Meh its warm -London no where else matters.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 19 November, 2013, 07:50:50 pm
Cycled past some patches of white frozen stuff lying on the grass verges this evening on the way home through the High Peak....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 19 November, 2013, 10:23:46 pm
Frosty in Reading. Mrs B had to scrape her windscreen this morning, & it's a safe bet she'll have to again tomorrow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: cycleman on 19 November, 2013, 10:30:05 pm
-1 in slough at the moment no snow though  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 19 November, 2013, 10:36:05 pm
The minus sign just lit up on my wossname.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: cycleman on 19 November, 2013, 10:38:50 pm
 :o ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 19 November, 2013, 11:02:00 pm
My rooftop erection is claiming that the temperature is 1°C at present. There are no clouds and there is ice on the parked cars outside.

It's the lowest temperature here since 7th April.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Von Broad on 20 November, 2013, 12:15:23 am
Well I guess here we are at the beginning of it all.
We've got -5.5 (http://www.metdesk.com/cheshamdata/) here in FrostPocket Chesham at the moment.
Yes, that's Chesham, Bucks, not Chesham somewhere in Siberia.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Gattopardo on 20 November, 2013, 01:47:46 am
This is a snowing thread not its a bit nippy.   ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Guy on 20 November, 2013, 11:43:18 am
We've just had a short sharp shower of shi sleet.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 20 November, 2013, 12:16:23 pm
It was -3°C in Norway a week ago and is -3°C here in Slovakia now. There's snow on the mountains but not yet in the town; it usually arrives at the start of December.
I'm surprised it's that late. The first snow is usually mid-November in Poland. I guess the Tatry keep you sheltered for a while!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: interzen on 20 November, 2013, 12:17:42 pm
Squally hail/sleet shower this morning, now bright sunshine and a sky that looks like something out of a toothpaste advert.

Freakin' cold, though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: peliroja on 20 November, 2013, 01:08:28 pm
It snowed in Burnley yesterday. Pendle Hill was lovely and white.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Riggers on 20 November, 2013, 01:24:14 pm
Not snowing in Brighton. Nonetheless, it has been hailing like billy-o, and more blustery than the blustery day you could imagine here in Brighton. I think it was Philip Avery on BBC's R4 just before 1pm this afternoon who said it should be clearing the southeast. Pah!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bumper on 20 November, 2013, 02:39:04 pm
Lots of hail here in N-u-L, it's been dark most of the day. It's currently raining heavily and still dark :D

The bike is ready for the snow that's been predicted so I'm ready for it!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 20 November, 2013, 03:20:59 pm
Reading had horrid hail earlier. Now sunny. so I'm popping out to the shops.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: peliroja on 20 November, 2013, 03:55:55 pm
It was trying to snow in Keighley just now. A little sprinkle.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 November, 2013, 05:32:40 pm
There was very heavy rain with some hard bits in it around lunchtime near Basildon. As I cycled to Leigh this afternoon there was a sliver of melting slush at the base of a north-facing wooden fence, so it must have snowed a little earlier.

On checking, I've notices that at about 3 am today there was an air frost, and the minimum temperature was -0.2°C!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 20 November, 2013, 10:00:40 pm
Good going Blizzard here in Sheffield at the moment. Everything sliding about on't road outside.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 21 November, 2013, 07:44:20 am
Woke up to it this morning, nothing much: about an inch of wet snow that had already melted off the pavements and road. Between that, the VAT return and the dentist it's going to be a great day.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 November, 2013, 07:15:29 pm
Snow all gone now, but thanks to what was here on Tues my arse is still broken and I couldn't sprint a few meters to catch the bus and had to wait another half hour. Bah.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Vince on 28 November, 2013, 11:04:38 pm
A Spanish colleague tells me there was snow in Madrid this morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 05 December, 2013, 02:03:55 pm
Hmm - horizontal snow!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adam on 05 December, 2013, 06:11:42 pm
Getting a bit chilly.  For commuting, I might have to start wearing a long sleeved jersey under my jacket!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 05 December, 2013, 10:55:31 pm
Some horizontal snow today, but it didn't lie. The temperature dropped during the day and I had to de-ice my tyres for the commute home.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bumper on 23 January, 2014, 07:18:58 pm
It's snowing here in N-u-L. It was a hard sleet but it's turned to fluffy stuff. Wasn't forecast, hope it buggers off soon!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 11 February, 2014, 05:20:24 pm
A couple of snow showers on my commute home this evening, mixed in with the hail and the sleet. :)

Unlikely to amount to much though
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ruth on 11 February, 2014, 05:22:25 pm
I've been told it was snowing here at 6am.  And the temperature has just dropped significantly in the past hour.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 11 February, 2014, 05:37:27 pm
Snow storm in Skipton - I counted 5 flakes in 2 minutes, shocking !!! Let's see how bad it will get over night as the weather moves over us.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: interzen on 11 February, 2014, 05:46:08 pm
A couple of snow showers on my commute home this evening, mixed in with the hail and the sleet. :)

Unlikely to amount to much though
Pity ... just had an email from the LBS to say that Pugsley's new rear wheel is ready.

For fat-biking purposes, snow >> mud.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Canardly on 11 February, 2014, 06:44:33 pm
Snake pass is closed 50 cars trapped up there or thereabouts.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bumper on 11 February, 2014, 06:47:52 pm
Snowed here this morning, stuck to about 10mm deep. The sun then came out all afternoon and melted it. I got fairly excited at the prospect of my ride tonight.

It's now blowing a gale with horizontal heavy rain :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 11 February, 2014, 11:12:39 pm
We got about a cm snow/hail right now. Looks like it will be falling for a while yet but I'm sure it will not stay with us for long.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 12 February, 2014, 11:06:43 am
Nothing in Cambridge, yet, but it feels cold enough and the grey clouds are lurking like chavs on a street corner.

Apparently, oop north (NTR) they had snow yesterday, dunno if it is still there, has gotten worse, or has melted.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: interzen on 12 February, 2014, 11:08:29 am
Nothing in Cambridge, yet, but it feels cold enough and the grey clouds are lurking like chavs on a street corner.

Apparently, oop north (NTR) they had snow yesterday, dunno if it is still there, has gotten worse, or has melted.
There was a light dusting on the 'hill' up to the top of the village, but only a few icy puddles down my way.

It's raining in York ATM.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 12 February, 2014, 11:11:26 am
There was snow on the higher fells this morning (probably 500m+ at a guess) but it's raining heavily down here at sea level
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 12 February, 2014, 11:34:20 am
Well we finally had some (very wet) snow on the Wolds yesterday morning and a light dusting overnight, All gone in the rain now. I was beginning to think we would have a winter with no snow at all,
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 12 February, 2014, 12:00:34 pm
Snow & hail in the Central Belt yesterday. Snow lying between Stirling and Perth.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 12 February, 2014, 12:05:10 pm
Well we finally had some (very wet) snow on the Wolds yesterday morning and a light dusting overnight, All gone in the rain now. I was beginning to think we would have a winter with no snow at all,

Same weather conditions in NTR, which is hardly surprising!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 12 February, 2014, 12:10:11 pm
Utterly weeing down here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bumper on 12 February, 2014, 02:11:27 pm
Glad I'm not stuck here

http://kingy.viewnetcam.com/CgiStart?page=Single&Language=0
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andrij on 25 November, 2014, 12:00:19 am
Hope you don't get as much as they did in the US the other day.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 25 November, 2014, 09:53:42 am
About a fortnight late, I'd say, road-runner (I noticed the first snow - that doesn't settle, obv - in Poland usually falls to mark Independence Day! But maybe it takes a bit of time to cross the Tatry)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 25 November, 2014, 11:12:57 am
Hope you don't get as much as they did in the US the other day.
Bloody scary apocalyptic levels, those. Where was that place that got a year's snowfall in a couple of days?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 25 November, 2014, 12:11:39 pm
Hope you don't get as much as they did in the US the other day.
Bloody scary apocalyptic levels, those. Where was that place that got a year's snowfall in a couple of days?

Buffalo, or parts thereof, courtesy of what's called the "lake effect".
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ferret on 25 November, 2014, 10:18:59 pm
we had snow well ok sleet here in Trecastle today, minus 5 last night here at ferret acres ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 26 December, 2014, 08:45:52 pm
Heavy and settling snow here at my parents' house in the Socialist Republic

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-fehm1f3l5zA/VJ3MfVUjQTI/AAAAAAAAIOc/5dfIJVbdiYM/w737-h553-no/20141226_205646.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 26 December, 2014, 08:59:20 pm
Been snowing here in North Wales since early evening.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 December, 2014, 09:08:37 pm
Just rain in Surrey, for about seven hours.

Bah!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 December, 2014, 09:45:41 pm
Quite a cold night with a ground frost, but I haven't recorded an air frost since January, and in Jan there were only two, -0.6 and -0.1.

That compares to 34 air frosts in 2013, 24 in 2012 and 9 in 2011.

The temperatures has risen to about 7°C now, and it has been raining this evening.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 26 December, 2014, 09:58:19 pm
9h30 pm: Almost 3" here in the Pennine foothills with heavy snow predicted for the next 4 hours.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Canardly on 26 December, 2014, 10:01:59 pm
Heavy rain East Anglia.
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Post by: Marj on 27 December, 2014, 12:23:09 am
Snowing here in Tean, we were out visiting but managed to get home safe and sound.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 December, 2014, 01:12:16 am
Still raining, 9°C now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 27 December, 2014, 01:18:21 am
Temperature at NW3 Weather has dropped from 8.7 to 4.6C in the past hour...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 27 December, 2014, 01:37:12 am
No.  No snow here thankyouverymuch.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 27 December, 2014, 07:32:57 am
Started snowing here some time between 3 am and 6 am.  Temps currently ca 1°C. The woman in the village shop said it took her an hour to get there from Cleebourg, which is about 10k away.

Dogs went bonkers when I let them out this morning, wonderful to watch.  Everything has its compensations.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 27 December, 2014, 08:12:06 am
None here, in the North Yorkshire hinterlands. It is cold, though.

TLD will be disappointed.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 27 December, 2014, 08:40:24 am
Light dusting on hills around town, nothing in town :( Come on winter show us what you can do, this is just being lazy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 27 December, 2014, 08:52:11 am
View from our bedroom window half an hour ago:

(http://www.pbase.com/image/158641756.jpg)

Dunno what the party with the snow shovel is hoping to accomplish, it'll be ankle deep again by 11.

View across the back meadow:

(http://www.pbase.com/johnewing/image/158641238.jpg)

Sorry about colour balance, couldn't be arsed fixing it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: essexian on 27 December, 2014, 09:04:15 am
About 2cm here in Stafford....which isn't too bad.

However, the roads have not been gritted: even the main roads*, meaning that my five mile drive to do the weeks shopping and back was quite "interesting." I saw three cyclists out all with the wrong tyres including one who came off on a corner. He was okay and just looked a bit sick of it all.






*This is a bit of a moan.... "they" knew it was going to snow a few days back and yes, it is Christmas but "they" should have had the gritters out doing at least the main routes/bus routes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: lou boutin on 27 December, 2014, 09:35:01 am
It snowed last night but it's sunny now and the snow is melting.  There is more predicted but we will see.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 27 December, 2014, 09:39:46 am
Temperature at NW3 Weather has dropped from 8.7 to 4.6C in the past hour...
Dropped from 8.1C (the peak yesterday, about 11pm) to 6.1C here in Reading in the half hour before I went to bed last night.

Heavy rain until ca 11pm, then it petered out & the temperature started plummeting. Cold & bright now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 27 December, 2014, 09:43:47 am
Cold snd bright here now. I can get my full index finger unto the snow so it's around 8-10 cm deep
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 December, 2014, 09:53:07 am
A few, several and lots of inches of snow in Huddersfield depending on how high up the valley you are. Station concourse disgracefully icy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 December, 2014, 09:59:38 am
(Iz jealous of T42)
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Post by: T42 on 27 December, 2014, 10:52:43 am
Stopped now.  I shovelled off pavement an hour ago and 15 minutes ago the snow-plough came through and shovelled it all back again. Damned if I'm doing it twice.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 27 December, 2014, 11:44:32 am
Nearly all gone in Liverpool,   it's due to freeze overnight though, so we should have some lovely, slippy roads.
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Post by: Vince on 27 December, 2014, 11:47:14 am
About 2cm in The Hague over night. Doesn't seem to be going.
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Post by: hellymedic on 27 December, 2014, 01:25:31 pm
Temperature at NW3 Weather has dropped from 8.7 to 4.6C in the past hour...
Dropped from 8.1C (the peak yesterday, about 11pm) to 6.1C here in Reading in the half hour before I went to bed last night.

Heavy rain until ca 11pm, then it petered out & the temperature started plummeting. Cold & bright now.

NW3 Weather reports a max of 8.7C at 00.15 and a min of 1.9C at 02.54, which is precipitous.

It's around 3C there now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 27 December, 2014, 01:26:00 pm
Raining now. More snow tonight and Sunday, temperatures 1°C to -6°C for the rest of the week.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 December, 2014, 05:31:51 pm
3°C in Saarfend atm. Not expecting an air frost.
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Post by: Panoramix on 27 December, 2014, 06:04:17 pm
20ºC and sunny in Bogotá.  ;)
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Post by: Deano on 27 December, 2014, 10:33:57 pm
There's been some slush and rain in Darlo - sure to turn to ice before morning.
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Post by: L CC on 28 December, 2014, 11:53:26 pm
Ice here that didn't really clear all day but nothing expected to fall. Bit disappointed, really.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 29 December, 2014, 12:02:47 am
Ice here that didn't really clear all day but nothing expected to fall. Bit disappointed, really.

Similar in Middle Earth, though I'm grateful for the absence normal background levels of transport chaos.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 December, 2014, 09:37:03 am
Serious ground frost in GU22 and a thick coating of ice on my motor-car.  But no SNO chiz.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 December, 2014, 09:51:00 am
A white frost in SS2 as well, but the air temperature reached its nadir at 8.26: 0.3 deg C
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 29 December, 2014, 10:56:30 am
Very light sleet on Saturday evening in the Severn Vale. I don't think many people noticed, except for the few others cycling in it.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 29 December, 2014, 11:18:37 am
View from parents' garden on Saturday:

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7541/15951019787_8d615a6f0a.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qix9sx)

It was already thawing fast then.
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Post by: mcshroom on 29 December, 2014, 11:40:21 am
This was late on Boxing day in Rotherham: -
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-fehm1f3l5zA/VJ3MfVUjQTI/AAAAAAAAIOc/5dfIJVbdiYM/w737-h553-no/20141226_205646.jpg)

I have been informed it's still there, but I'm back in frosty but snow-less West Cumbria
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Post by: Wowbagger on 30 December, 2014, 10:11:10 am
Another white frosty morning, but at least there was an air frost in SS2 today! Minimum temperature -0.1°C at 5.05 am. Looking at the day record, the temperature rose again to 0°C by 6am and then dropped like a stone back to -0.1°C for the next hour.
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Post by: T42 on 30 December, 2014, 10:30:27 am
Just above zero here, up from -2°C at 7 am.  More snow during night, village plough (i.e. attachment on Hansi's tractor) was through, roads are pretty well clear but not bike-navigable AFAIC. Druther lose one week's condition than six.
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Post by: sg37409 on 30 December, 2014, 10:30:45 am
rose again to 0°C by 6am and then dropped like a stone back to -0.1°C for the next hour.

...quite a small, lightweight stone then  :P
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Post by: Wowbagger on 30 December, 2014, 10:33:51 am
rose again to 0°C by 6am and then dropped like a stone back to -0.1°C for the next hour.

...quite a small, lightweight stone then  :P

Indeed!
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Post by: Quint on 30 December, 2014, 10:44:46 am
minus 5 overnight in sunny Shipton on Cherwell and minus 8 the night before, clay soil round here so once the road in the village is frosty it stays it, no snow yet although the sky has looked ready to dump.
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Post by: Andrij on 30 December, 2014, 07:28:37 pm
Finally a half-hearted attempt at snow in this part of USAnia. I am still  disappointed.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 January, 2015, 03:43:40 pm
First snow I've seen in Furrybootoon this winter.
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Post by: IanDG on 12 January, 2015, 06:06:45 pm
Snowing here, white over now.
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Post by: mcshroom on 13 January, 2015, 03:27:44 pm
It's just had a go for about 20 minutes here. Doesn't seemed to have managed to settle anything
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Post by: spesh on 13 January, 2015, 07:25:52 pm
There's a yellow snow warning for the south coast tonight. Better watch out where the huskies go then...
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Post by: bumper on 13 January, 2015, 07:30:16 pm
There was a light flurry in Crewe this afternoon, soon turned to sleet. I was out working in it, got soaked through.

Hope it snows here overnight, got the fatty ready. Here's hoping  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Bledlow on 13 January, 2015, 09:29:00 pm
There's a yellow snow warning for the south coast tonight. Better watch out where the huskies go then...
Don't eat . . . .
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Post by: rafletcher on 14 January, 2015, 06:40:36 am
Didn't even rain here (South Bucks) night, despite the dire warnings.
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Post by: russellm on 14 January, 2015, 07:02:57 am
That's my fault for putting the winter tyres on the bike last night. It'll be mild for the rest of the winter now.

Sorry!
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Post by: Wombat on 14 January, 2015, 08:26:02 am
There was some snow mixed in with the rain in Gosport this morming.  Not sleet, but a mixture of fluffy snow, and rain.  Its stoppped doing it now.
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Post by: Dibdib on 14 January, 2015, 08:49:28 am
A light dusting on the car this morning in SN2, but very little else.

Apparently much heavier just up the road in Cirencester, for whatever reason - I can't figure it out, Ciren is at (broadly) the same altitude and is further north so I would have expected them to get less of it, not more.
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Post by: andrewc on 14 January, 2015, 08:50:47 am
Nothing in Liverpool, a few frozen puddles in the shade , but the roads are clear.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 14 January, 2015, 09:57:28 am
Minimum temperature of 3.7°C here. No precipitation in the past 20 hours. Bright and sunny now, but cold.
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Post by: Riggers on 14 January, 2015, 11:31:51 am
Can't tell you the temperature down here in Brighton, but lovely and sunny, clear blue sky (roughly Pantone 277C I'd say) though a little breezy.
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Post by: David Martin on 14 January, 2015, 12:24:59 pm
Driving back from Edinburgh to Dundee last night was *not fun* (™) Driving snow, roads covered so you can't see the lane markings, navigating by judicious use of the rumble strips.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 14 January, 2015, 12:38:21 pm
A little hail and snow overnight.
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Post by: lou boutin on 14 January, 2015, 12:58:22 pm
White over this morning in Shropshire, however it's going now.
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Post by: tiermat on 18 January, 2015, 10:15:14 am
Just started here, n NTR, huge flakes and it is laying. Just what I need as I a) need to go and collect TLD from the 'rents (who live on a farm) and b) need to drive to NCL in the morning (early) to fly to Brizzle.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 January, 2015, 02:44:04 pm
Watching the foopball last night there was a goodly quantity of SNO banked up around the pitch at Rochdale.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 19 January, 2015, 05:05:43 am
No snow her but this morning has been the coldest I have recorded since 7th April 2013. Today -0.7 deg C, then -1.3.
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Post by: L CC on 19 January, 2015, 12:53:31 pm
I was riding in a little pretty flurry on Saturday, and there might have been a whole 5 mm here this morning at dark o-clock. All mushed up and gone from the ground, mostly, by 9, except on the paths when I walked to work.
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Post by: Dez on 19 January, 2015, 01:06:15 pm
I was in the Peak District at the weekend and we had snow on Saturday evening.

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8683/16310893551_9e7f3b85ee_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qRkAoB)
Robin (https://flic.kr/p/qRkAoB) by Denis Walker (https://www.flickr.com/people/39578261@N06/), on Flickr

More photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/deniswalker/sets/72157649945822849/
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Post by: T42 on 24 January, 2015, 01:07:32 pm
Started half an hour ago, but that's fine because I've caught some kind of virus & feel crappy.
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Post by: Chris S on 27 January, 2015, 11:11:38 am
So - it's not just our Met Office that can over-hype things.

Looking a lot like the widely announced Snowpocalypse of New York and Boston has been a bit of a no-show.
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Post by: drossall on 27 January, 2015, 07:32:04 pm
All our forecasts these days seem unduly pessimistic in the light of the actual weather that arrives. Inevitable consequence of years of public complaining that the weather-people didn't tell us about this or that storm. They are predictions on best evidence, not certainties. Complain too much and of course people will slant it towards the worst case.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 January, 2015, 01:53:51 am
So - it's not just our Met Office that can over-hype things.

Looking a lot like the widely announced Snowpocalypse of New York and Boston has been a bit of a no-show.

I'm watching the USAnian headlines ATM - NYC "only" had 10" of SNO but Long Island had two feet with even more further north.  Also 75+ mph winds and storm surges causing flooding.  And another lot said to be on the way.

Ten inches of SNO in most of BRITAIN south of the Antonine Wall would be SNOmageddon,, and we'd all1 die.

1: Except Teethgrinder, obv.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 January, 2015, 11:32:56 am
Snowing here. Not sticking. Nobody cares.
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Post by: Chris S on 28 January, 2015, 11:50:26 am
Thunderstorm with hail here - niiice  :thumbsup:. People in the street most definitely seem to care!
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Post by: Ruthie on 28 January, 2015, 10:00:43 pm
Darlo's gone all white.  Nice. 
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 January, 2015, 08:16:56 am
About half an inch here.
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Post by: Si_Co on 29 January, 2015, 08:49:03 am
No snow when I left, really coming down now, slick tyres..........bugger
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Post by: mcshroom on 29 January, 2015, 09:18:42 am
Looks like I'm about 100-150m too low for snow :(

Some of the higher fells will be looking pretty when the clouds clear I'd imagine but other than a few non-settling flurries there's nothing down at sea level.
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Post by: Jaded on 29 January, 2015, 09:40:22 am
Lots of blizzard showers round Manchester.
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Post by: pdm on 29 January, 2015, 09:44:35 am
The view out of our back door this morning...

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-qC5AnytUCw0/VMn7n6_3MJI/AAAAAAAABG8/6mNQuLyd47I/w525-h700-no/20150129_092129.jpg)
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Post by: Chris S on 29 January, 2015, 09:45:10 am
Lordy!
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Post by: hulver on 29 January, 2015, 10:48:02 am
Really coming down here in south Sheffield now. Interesting ride in this morning, had to stop and let some air out of my tyres to get better grip in the slush.
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Post by: Jaded on 29 January, 2015, 11:38:48 am
Manchester airport closed. Photo to follow :)
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Post by: Kim on 29 January, 2015, 12:45:29 pm
Lots of the white wet stuff coming down now in Middle Earth.  Too warm for it to amount to anything other than slippery pavements when it gets colder.
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Post by: Guy on 29 January, 2015, 03:11:57 pm
The Fluttering White Ghastliness started at 1500 o'clock and already everything is covered
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Post by: tiermat on 29 January, 2015, 03:34:12 pm
It has been snowing here (in SA6), but the snow was preceeded by copious amounts of rain, thus it didn't settle.

The Black Mountains are looking a little, white, though (we can see them from the production floor)

PHEW!
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Post by: spesh on 29 January, 2015, 03:38:09 pm

I'm watching the USAnian headlines ATM - NYC "only" had 10" of SNO but Long Island had two feet with even more further north.  Also 75+ mph winds and storm surges causing flooding.  And another lot said to be on the way.

Ten inches of SNO in most of BRITAIN south of the Antonine Wall would be SNOmageddon,, and we'd all1 die.

1: Except Teethgrinder, obv.

It needs a SNOpocalypse at all points north of Portsdown Hill before Portsmouth Mos Eisley spaceport ever gets a decent covering, chiz.

Accordingly, it has been merely wet today.
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Post by: Guy on 29 January, 2015, 03:39:33 pm
It's stopped. Away to the NW is a brighter patch of sky. Beyond that... :o  Looks like SG17 is in for a shedfull tonight.
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Post by: Bledlow on 29 January, 2015, 03:44:19 pm
Heavy snow falling in Reading - & settling, despite being wet & slushy.
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Post by: Jaded on 29 January, 2015, 03:49:48 pm
None in Gloucestershire south.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 January, 2015, 03:51:45 pm
The half inch in Edinburgh central has melted in the sun and will no doubt turn to icy ice (baby) overnight.
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Post by: mcshroom on 29 January, 2015, 04:06:55 pm
Just wet here. The snow has tried a few times and failed to get a foothold on the coast. Probably had better luck inland.
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Post by: matthew on 29 January, 2015, 04:07:17 pm
Heavy snow falling in Reading - & settling, despite being wet & slushy.

It fell for all of 5 minutes at Winnersh and has put a thin layer of white on the ground but not on the roads. For a few minutes it was an impressive white out.

I'll see what it's like when I come to head home in a couple of hours.   :-\
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Post by: simonp on 29 January, 2015, 04:10:31 pm
Snowing here.
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Post by: woollypigs on 29 January, 2015, 04:25:41 pm
Heavy snow here between 1pm and 2pm but gone by 4pm because the sun came out and being +1c. Though local radio are saying much snow and ice in them there hills around us.
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Post by: bumper on 29 January, 2015, 05:00:01 pm
Snowing on and off in N-u-L.

There's about 1" left from the big flurry this afternoon. Tyre pressures lowered for tonight's ride in the woods, I can see lots of snow still left in the trees. It's started to snow again too:thumbsup:
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 29 January, 2015, 05:14:49 pm
Got home to find an inch of wet snow in the garden. That's an inch measured horizontally, it was only a couple of mm deep. All melted now.
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Post by: Riggers on 29 January, 2015, 05:33:56 pm
Sleety rain showers in sunny Brighton.
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Post by: rafletcher on 29 January, 2015, 05:49:16 pm
14 miles SW of MK we had wind driven snow shower for about half an hour around 4. Maybe another due around 7. Clear and quite calm now, around 1C.
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Post by: Pancho on 29 January, 2015, 07:59:05 pm

I'm watching the USAnian headlines ATM - NYC "only" had 10" of SNO but Long Island had two feet with even more further north.  Also 75+ mph winds and storm surges causing flooding.  And another lot said to be on the way.

Ten inches of SNO in most of BRITAIN south of the Antonine Wall would be SNOmageddon,, and we'd all1 die.

1: Except Teethgrinder, obv.

It needs a SNOpocalypse at all points north of Portsdown Hill before Portsmouth Mos Eisley spaceport ever gets a decent covering, chiz.

Accordingly, it has been merely wet today.

"Merely" wet? I presume you were tucked up in an office at 1500-very-cold-and-very-wet-practically-sleet-o'clock then.

My correspondent in Petersfield tells me there was brief snowfall this evening. Which is about as close to snow in Pompey as you'll get.
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Post by: matthew on 29 January, 2015, 09:15:33 pm
I just took a walk in Bracknell, the footways are becoming lethal. Where teh snow didn't completely melt and run off it has now frozen as either black or white ice. Tomorrows commute is going to be interesting.  :-\
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 January, 2015, 11:02:44 pm
Manchester airport closed. Photo to follow :)

Dr Larrington tells me that when JFK was all but closed the other day there was one flight not cancelled - the one to Reykjavík.  Complete with a hand-written sign reading "Call THIS a snowstorm?"
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Post by: Wowbagger on 29 January, 2015, 11:16:27 pm
A heavy hail shower in Maidstone around 4.30 pm.
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Post by: Jaded on 29 January, 2015, 11:20:01 pm
Manchester airport closed. Photo to follow :)

Dr Larrington tells me that when JFK was all but closed the other day there was one flight not cancelled - the one to Reykjavík.  Complete with a hand-written sign reading "Call THIS a snowstorm?"

The photo isn't very exciting. It is from the operation offices. The receptionist said "Oh, it is snowing. I don't think the airport is closed though"I said that there wasn't much chaos amongst the departure desks I passed, but that the Sky TV in the reception areas had a banner saying "Manchester Airport Closed".
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Post by: Wowbagger on 29 January, 2015, 11:22:29 pm
Perhaps they were blaming the airport's closure on muslims? Or was that Fox?
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Post by: Jaded on 29 January, 2015, 11:26:32 pm
I didn't see a fox.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 January, 2015, 05:28:56 am
The fox was disguised.

As a Muslim.
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Post by: Guy on 30 January, 2015, 09:41:34 am
A lickle bit more sno last night, but nowt special. Slushy this morning. Sun's out now.
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Post by: T42 on 30 January, 2015, 09:43:13 am
Sleet, ~1°C, gritting trucks out. :(
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 January, 2015, 12:53:56 pm
The half inch in Edinburgh central has melted in the sun and will no doubt turn to icy ice (baby) overnight.
As predicted.
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Post by: T42 on 30 January, 2015, 03:36:24 pm
Heavy wet snow falling now, everything in garden was muddy before now it's mud under an inch of the stuff. Daft dog lying out in the middle, demolishing a plastic flower-pot while the snow turns to slush'n'mud beneath him. Cracked, that one.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 30 January, 2015, 03:41:23 pm
We had a fall last night/this morning. <1" lying when I got up, it had mostly gone, as snow, by the time I took the dog to the park around 11.30am. There was enough of it still lying to prevent the puddles that had formed on the grass from draining away, so I stayed on the tarmac paths rather than wandering around the grassy areas.
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Post by: bumper on 30 January, 2015, 08:23:40 pm
It's snowing heavily here. My footprints that were in the garden thirty minutes ago have vanished already.
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Post by: numbnuts on 30 January, 2015, 09:04:57 pm
And still no snow in my area  :(
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Post by: Bledlow on 30 January, 2015, 09:23:00 pm
I'm told that it snowed quite hard in the Corby/Kettering area last night, soft & wet stuff, & this morning Mrs B's windscreen was crusted with frozen snow.

[She was on a course]
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Post by: rafletcher on 31 January, 2015, 07:29:58 am
First laying snow of the year here in South Bucks. About 5mm so far  :)
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Post by: Steph on 31 January, 2015, 07:33:13 am
Had some on Thursday evening. Just ridden in from work; snowing lightly and lying.
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Post by: T42 on 31 January, 2015, 08:32:35 am
Slush splatter muck salt shit grit bugger.
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Post by: hellymedic on 31 January, 2015, 09:04:17 am
Here in outer Londonton, there was rain, then sleet, then SNO which just started to settle.
Precipitation has now ceased and there is a very light dusting of whiteness.
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Post by: Pingu on 01 February, 2015, 10:51:11 pm
Most sno of the season so far in furryboottoon.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7436/16234489410_b1e4ed8236_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qJA16Q)
IMG_4800 (https://flic.kr/p/qJA16Q) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 February, 2015, 06:30:49 am
Still no SNO in York, but temperatures is well below freezing and there is black ice in the street.  That'll be a no-tandem day and a doubly disappointed SmallestCub....
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 February, 2015, 08:50:17 am
There is SNO on the windscreen of my motor-car but not on the roads.  Which is good coz I need to go ahopping later.  The USAnians have a second dose of SNOpocalypse from Nebraska to Maine; they have had to postpone the New England Patriots' open-topped double-decker ride through Boston with their equivalent of the FA Cup.
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Post by: ian on 03 February, 2015, 09:45:53 am
There's snow here on the North Downs. About a half-inch and still dusting, though I think we're down to the dandruff now. Though still very grey down the valley. Quite nice but not quite US SNOpocalypse (that stops being fun the second time in two days when you have to dig through six feet of snow to find your car and then you have to spend six hours shivering in your car overnight at -13 because it's just too dangerous to go any further).

The view from my office balcony.

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn190/ianp_photo/IMG_0465.jpg)

The North Downs have faded to grey.

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn190/ianp_photo/IMG_0464.jpg)
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Post by: Guy on 03 February, 2015, 10:41:18 am
It snoed quite heavily for a while last night. I walked in today cos the roads were rim-deep in part-frozen slippery slushy crap.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 03 February, 2015, 10:48:09 am
A fair bit of snow met snow melt yesterday here on the Wolds.  Last night quite a lot and they didn’t grit the roads. Mrs Pcolbeck set off for work and came back half an hour later as the hill into Malton was impassable without a four wheel drive. Its thawed again now and she has gone to work.
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Post by: cycleman on 03 February, 2015, 07:18:07 pm
A light dusting of snow in the slough area this morning. All gone by lunchtime  :)
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Post by: Jakob on 06 February, 2015, 02:17:21 am
Snow on the tracks? Who cares!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yja2VmZOfdA#t=80
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Post by: andrewc on 06 February, 2015, 08:51:02 am
All the public bikes had a thick layer of frost on their saddles! I had to scrape it off & now have a cold arse!
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Post by: De Sisti on 06 February, 2015, 06:04:08 pm
When weather forecasters say, for example; "the temperature will be 5 degrees celsius, but with a wind chill it will
feel like 2 degrees celsius". Surely if it feels like 2 degrees celsius then the temperature is 2 degrees celsius. I can't
get my head around situations like this.
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Post by: woollypigs on 06 February, 2015, 06:15:14 pm
Temperatures are measured in a box where there is no draught/wind e.g. the ambient temp. Wind chill is when you are standing in the "gale" without any cover. Well that is how I understand it.
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Post by: andrew_s on 06 February, 2015, 08:12:55 pm
Wind chill is about cooling rates.
A thermometer cools down to the same temperature as the air, but your body tries to keep itself at a constant 37 deg C. If there's a -5 wind chill, your skin is losing heat at the same rate as it would at -5 in nearly still air.

When I worked in the Antarctic, we used to call it "bullshit factor", as the numbers on the temperature/windspeed charts then in use gave not very realistic, but impressive sounding numbers. I did crack the -100 barrier on a couple of occasions. The charts have been changed since, and I think it's more like -70 on the current scales. Still cold enough to get minor freezing of the skin round my wrists when working overhead, getting the ice off the anemometer.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 23 February, 2015, 10:38:54 am
Rain turned to sleet an hour or so ago, which got heavier and almost became hail. A better effort than Saturday's surprise sleet (the surprise being "Oh, gosh, there's sleet on my legs") but still a long way from snow.
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Post by: Ruthie on 23 February, 2015, 01:48:14 pm
A spattering of snow this morning in Darlington, at walking to work time.  It's gone now.
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Post by: Ruthie on 02 March, 2015, 10:31:37 am
A further shattering of slidey stuff this morning. Not quite enough to hide the dogshit paving the streets of Darlo at the moment  >:( >:( >:( :sick:
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Post by: andrewc on 02 March, 2015, 11:15:19 am
Ruthie, the last thing you want is _hidden_ dogshit !
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Post by: andrewc on 02 March, 2015, 11:39:57 am
Cold, windy with a few flurries of sleet, but nothing that lasted.
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Post by: pdm on 02 March, 2015, 12:38:28 pm
Plenty snow showers all morning here in the Eastern Peak - Not really settling but very pretty.
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Post by: mcshroom on 02 March, 2015, 07:01:59 pm
Ruthie, the last thing you want is _hidden_ dogshit !

Frozen dogshit might be preferable to sticky dogshit thoughbut  :sick:

Nothing settling, but lots of hail sleet and sno showers this morning out here.
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Post by: woollypigs on 02 March, 2015, 07:11:22 pm
Just back from Denmark now't to be seen there. Driving back from airport, last night, saw some sleet and hail on parked cars. Saw out of windows the same on rooftops today.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 March, 2015, 08:49:00 pm
Snow falling, starting to stick.
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Post by: Aunt Maud on 02 March, 2015, 08:58:26 pm
Still no snow in Denmark, been sunny, dryish but a bit breezy. :thumbsup:
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Post by: madcow on 02 March, 2015, 09:02:43 pm
Wet and sleety stuff in Perth,might settle later if temp drops .
Hope I can get out of here tomorrow.
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Post by: woollypigs on 31 March, 2015, 08:22:54 pm
Sleety snowy thing fell from the heavens above today here.
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Post by: Pingu on 26 April, 2015, 06:55:35 pm
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8781/16658918353_43b8596367_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ro6j3e)
IMG_5021 (https://flic.kr/p/ro6j3e) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
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Post by: David Martin on 26 April, 2015, 07:09:18 pm
Snow? I got caught in a hailstom today
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Post by: Pingu on 26 April, 2015, 07:31:18 pm
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7722/17278952411_b7ea21c600_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/sjT9yB)
IMG_5035 (https://flic.kr/p/sjT9yB) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
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Post by: Riggers on 27 April, 2015, 04:10:04 pm
You think you have it bad. We had drizzle down here yesterday!!! I know! Terrible isn't it!!
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Post by: Bledlow on 27 April, 2015, 05:03:32 pm
Last snow I saw was April 8th - in Tokyo, which is further south & usually warmer than southern England. Cherry trees in full bloom, covered in snow, were all over the news.
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Post by: mcshroom on 27 April, 2015, 06:00:16 pm
No snow for us in the borders yesterday, but plenty of hail, and there was ice on the tents this morning
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 27 April, 2015, 06:14:30 pm
Bit of snow here today, though mainly sleet and hail. I want last week's weather back! >:(
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 November, 2015, 12:51:39 pm
Some very wet sleety snow is falling on Niddrie.
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Post by: bumper on 13 November, 2015, 03:45:09 pm
no photos but it was snowing when I crossed Rannoch yesterday.

I was on my home from Abigail's Party, what a super time that was :o
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Post by: Kim on 20 November, 2015, 11:28:35 pm
Starting to snow in Birmingham...
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 20 November, 2015, 11:36:59 pm
And in Glasgow.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 November, 2015, 02:49:39 am
no photos but it was snowing when I crossed Rannoch yesterday.

I was on my home from Abigail's Party, what a super time that was :o

It must have been bad if you set out in 1977 :P
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Post by: bumper on 21 November, 2015, 09:54:54 am
no photos but it was snowing when I crossed Rannoch yesterday.

I was on my home from Abigail's Party, what a super time that was :o

It must have been bad if you set out in 1977 :P

most of Scotland is still stuck in 1977 ;D
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Post by: David Martin on 21 November, 2015, 10:44:22 pm
It was snowing as we left the Caird Hall tonight, and laying as soon as we passed Stalag Tay.
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Post by: Chris S on 21 November, 2015, 10:57:59 pm
Just noticed the passing cars are covered in snow, and the pavements are all sparkly. OK bikes... weekend off!
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Post by: Pingu on 21 November, 2015, 11:41:26 pm
Snow in Furryboottoon this morning and in deepest, darkest Fife tonight.
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Post by: mcshroom on 22 November, 2015, 11:56:11 am
Bit snowy on the top of the A66 this morning while I was driving home: -
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/12243342_10156511118290643_1349969251604379587_n.jpg?oh=fc8aea950ff05845aed8c7dfe52f83b1&oe=56EAF763)

(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/12278799_10156511118365643_6379010281164071224_n.jpg?oh=1ad3df1670a50b028ce5f7fe117be9c7&oe=56F4E999)
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Post by: Kim on 22 November, 2015, 02:28:41 pm
Bit snowy on the top of the A66 this morning while I was driving home: -
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/12243342_10156511118290643_1349969251604379587_n.jpg?oh=fc8aea950ff05845aed8c7dfe52f83b1&oe=56EAF763)

See, that's what Cumbria's supposed to look like.  None of this warm, dry, midge-infested rubbish.
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Post by: zendog on 22 November, 2015, 08:20:06 pm
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/606/23190586645_93ca5a7920_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/BkgPsM)November snow (https://flic.kr/p/BkgPsM) by steve.palmer24 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/16817419@N05/), on Flickr



My garden last night.

Unusual to get sticking snow in Norfolk this early.
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Post by: Ruthie on 30 November, 2015, 10:04:36 pm
It's forecast here overnight as well.
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Post by: Ruthie on 12 December, 2015, 11:55:10 am
Ooh it just started snowing in Darlo!

I'm so excited!
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Post by: Ruthie on 12 December, 2015, 11:56:43 am
<dusts off forum sledge>
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Post by: mcshroom on 16 January, 2016, 12:09:45 pm
Just started lightly snowing here in Egremont. Not helping with my motivation to get out on the bike this afternoon.
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Post by: Andrij on 16 January, 2016, 12:26:13 pm
Received a grumble from Rutherglen informing me it is snowing and not melting.
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Post by: TimC on 16 January, 2016, 12:31:33 pm
Bloody hell, what have you lot been doing to the country while I've been away? It was 9 degrees when I left on Wednesday!
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Post by: Andrij on 16 January, 2016, 12:37:59 pm
Bloody hell, what have you lot been doing to the country while I've been away? It was 9 degrees when I left on Wednesday!

Austerity.  We have to share those 9 degrees across the whole country, so they get spread rather thinly.
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Post by: Vince on 16 January, 2016, 02:35:51 pm
We had hail this morning. Pieces the size of garden peas. I'm glad I wasn't out on the bike!
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 16 January, 2016, 04:30:07 pm
It's been snowing for most of the day here. No cycling for me this weekend, then. :'(

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1616/24417515495_f9c29be834_z.jpg)
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Post by: TimC on 16 January, 2016, 04:39:38 pm
Bloody hell, what have you lot been doing to the country while I've been away? It was 9 degrees when I left on Wednesday!

Austerity.  We have to share those 9 degrees across the whole country, so they get spread rather thinly.

;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 January, 2016, 05:24:36 pm
Jealous. Want snow.
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Post by: ElyDave on 16 January, 2016, 05:36:33 pm
Bloody cold here, but no snow yet. I'll not be out in the morning if its that cold here, ungritted roads.

Was out on the morning errands today and the inside of my nose nearly froze   :facepalm:
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Post by: bumper on 16 January, 2016, 05:47:53 pm
I've just performed the snow dance and sacrificed a bottle of beer to the snow gods. It's got to happen, I've got all of my kit ready  :-\

Plus, if it snows enough I haven't got to go to work on Monday. That'll give me a whole day of fat riding  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 January, 2016, 05:52:00 pm
I've just performed the snow dance and sacrificed a bottle of beer to the snow gods. It's got to happen, I've got all of my kit ready  :-\

Plus, if it snows enough I haven't got to go to work on Monday. That'll give me a whole day of fat riding  :thumbsup:

I've had years of that. It's not all it's cracked up to be.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 16 January, 2016, 05:53:20 pm
I'm so glad that I wasn't supping tea just now.   :D
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Post by: bumper on 16 January, 2016, 05:55:46 pm
 ;D I wondered who would be the first
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Post by: peliroja on 16 January, 2016, 06:09:13 pm
Snowing in Colne and Skipton! I do like a bit of snow.
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 16 January, 2016, 06:11:30 pm
Hoping to get some on the edge of Exmoor.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 January, 2016, 06:17:52 pm
Slow, gentle snow here.
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Post by: peliroja on 16 January, 2016, 09:14:48 pm
We have about two inches now. Our local builders are sliding down our front street (it's very steep) on a wheel less skateboard. The dog isn't happy and is barking at them all to go away.
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Post by: rafletcher on 16 January, 2016, 09:41:22 pm
Just a few lazy flakes here in Bucks right now.
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Post by: Andrij on 17 January, 2016, 01:20:06 am
Nothing in London.   :(
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Post by: bumper on 17 January, 2016, 05:44:52 am
YES!!
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Post by: Andrew Br on 17 January, 2016, 06:29:13 am
I don't share your sentiment bumper.
There's several inches of snow on the car (South MCR) and I'm supposed to be setting off into town to get a train to Crewe.
After that it's a ride to Cholmondeley* to meet up with friends for a ride around Cheshire and Shropshire.
I'm thinking about going down there in the car ................


*We're staying at the Cholmondeley Arms. Dry January is taking the weekend off.

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Post by: Si S on 17 January, 2016, 06:31:32 am
Hope you've got studs on Andrew
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Post by: Andrew Br on 17 January, 2016, 06:35:34 am
No ............
Winter tyres on the car mind.

After a quick walk around outside (crunch, crunch, crunch) I think driving is the sensible option.

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Post by: Auntie Helen on 17 January, 2016, 06:42:46 am
Snow here in NRW.

I bought a new car on Thursday but it doesn't have winter tyres so I can't use it today. Fortunately I have a Velomobile! Don't have to scrape the snow off that either, bonus!
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Post by: bumper on 17 January, 2016, 07:54:03 am
I don't share your sentiment bumper.

You need a fat bike.

2hrs out in fresh powder around my local woods. Just a few rabbit tracks and my trail. I'll be out again tonight.

I may need to sacrifice more beer to the snow gods, it worked last time. Plleeeeaaassseee snow tonight/tomorrow so I can abandon work  ;D
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Post by: mcshroom on 17 January, 2016, 08:54:21 am
Loooking out of my bedroom window this morning it was disappointingly not-white. Looks like nothing much settled here.
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Post by: Jurek on 17 January, 2016, 09:09:13 am
Nothing in London.   :(
Maybe not in your part.....
SE had cars, roofs and bins covered in a thin smattering at 03:30 this morning.
That smattering remains.
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Post by: cycleman on 17 January, 2016, 09:45:55 am
And Slough 
(http://i1333.photobucket.com/albums/w626/cycleman1081/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160117_073443_zpswncozry2.jpg) (http://s1333.photobucket.com/user/cycleman1081/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160117_073443_zpswncozry2.jpg.html)
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 17 January, 2016, 10:26:28 am
Just the merest dusting in Warwick, and that's melting...
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Post by: lou boutin on 17 January, 2016, 10:35:11 am
Ditto in Shropshire.
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Post by: peliroja on 17 January, 2016, 11:07:10 am
Four inches in Skipton.
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Post by: Torslanda on 17 January, 2016, 11:24:07 am
Nothing in London.   :(
Maybe not in your part.....
SE had cars, roofs and bins covered in a thin smattering at 03:30 this morning.
That smattering remains.

When does the cabinet declare a State of Emergency?
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Post by: Kim on 17 January, 2016, 01:45:39 pm
Nothing in London.   :(
Maybe not in your part.....
SE had cars, roofs and bins covered in a thin smattering at 03:30 this morning.
That smattering remains.

When does the cabinet declare a State of Emergency?

When it starts interfering with trains north of the river.


(Some sleet last night in middle earth, all gone by morning.)
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 17 January, 2016, 03:46:58 pm
Oh no it isn't..
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 17 January, 2016, 04:09:09 pm
Nothing in London.   :(
Maybe not in your part.....
SE had cars, roofs and bins covered in a thin smattering at 03:30 this morning.
That smattering remains.

When does the cabinet declare a State of Emergency?
A sleet of emergency?  :D
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Post by: Jurek on 17 January, 2016, 04:19:43 pm
Nothing in London.   :(
Maybe not in your part.....
SE had cars, roofs and bins covered in a thin smattering at 03:30 this morning.
That smattering remains.

When does the cabinet declare a State of Emergency?

When it starts interfering with trains north of the river.


(Some sleet last night in middle earth, all gone by morning.)
Wait! You mean there is something north of the river?
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Post by: peliroja on 17 January, 2016, 05:11:47 pm
Tilley dog quite enjoyed crazying about off lead in the snow this evening (https://www.facebook.com/vicky.greaves.587/posts/10153571113716645). She dives head-first into it, snorts, tries to eat it. Pees on snowmen. The normal dog-in-snow stuff.
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Post by: Vince on 17 January, 2016, 05:13:23 pm
Strange. Only a bit of frost outside out house and the surrounding streets. Off the estate though there was about an inch of snow the a kilometre further on nothing.

First really cold day of the year though.
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Post by: hellymedic on 17 January, 2016, 05:21:03 pm
There was some frozen precipitation in this corner of NW Londonton.

The evidence has mostly disappeared.
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 17 January, 2016, 05:55:37 pm
Horrible mizzling rain all day in Somerset  :-[
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Post by: matthew on 17 January, 2016, 06:03:20 pm
There was a dusting of snow on the ground, and a light flurry falling, as I left home this morning. From the train it became clear that the whole way into about Ealing Broadway had had a thin coat (e.g. 1cm) however it had all gone by the time I came home this afternoon.

At 07:45 I wasn't the first cyclist to put tracks in the snow on my local road  :'(
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Post by: DrMekon on 17 January, 2016, 10:22:54 pm
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/946117_10101553542450640_1315195374074494589_n.jpg?oh=bd3297f6bbb14216a80c153212bfd56b&oe=5735A4FF)

Dropped the pressure to 8psi. Really wouldn't have known there was snow beneath my tyres. The grip level was bonkers.
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Post by: TimO on 18 January, 2016, 01:13:07 pm
Nothing in London.   :(
Maybe not in your part.....
SE had cars, roofs and bins covered in a thin smattering at 03:30 this morning.
That smattering remains.

(http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/stuff/small.php?size=500&file=IMG_20160117_025752.jpg) (http://balius.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~timo/stuff/IMG_20160117_025752.jpg)

I had some snow at 3am too, in deepest Croydon.  Most of that on the ground had gone by 10am when I went out shopping, and I think the remainder on cars and shed roofs had melted by midday.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 January, 2016, 01:20:46 pm
Tilley dog quite enjoyed crazying about off lead in the snow this evening (https://www.facebook.com/vicky.greaves.587/posts/10153571113716645). She dives head-first into it, snorts, tries to eat it. Pees on snowmen. The normal dog-in-snow stuff.
Just like a two year old!
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Post by: Kim on 18 January, 2016, 02:26:04 pm
Tilley dog quite enjoyed crazying about off lead in the snow this evening (https://www.facebook.com/vicky.greaves.587/posts/10153571113716645). She dives head-first into it, snorts, tries to eat it. Pees on snowmen. The normal dog-in-snow stuff.
Just like a two year old!

I'm sure I've mentioned before the circumstances of my brother (who was at that point used to roaming about naked in a tropical climate) discovering snow for the first time...
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Post by: Quint on 18 January, 2016, 02:29:24 pm
Poor sod :o
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Post by: Guy on 18 January, 2016, 02:49:52 pm
Tilley dog quite enjoyed crazying about off lead in the snow this evening (https://www.facebook.com/vicky.greaves.587/posts/10153571113716645). She dives head-first into it, snorts, tries to eat it. Pees on snowmen. The normal dog-in-snow stuff.
Just like a two year old!

I wasn't allowed to pee on snowmen when I was two.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 January, 2016, 03:20:19 pm
Tilley dog quite enjoyed crazying about off lead in the snow this evening (https://www.facebook.com/vicky.greaves.587/posts/10153571113716645). She dives head-first into it, snorts, tries to eat it. Pees on snowmen. The normal dog-in-snow stuff.
Just like a two year old!

I wasn't allowed to pee on snowmen when I was two.
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Never mind, you can make up for it now.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 January, 2016, 03:24:54 pm
Tilley dog quite enjoyed crazying about off lead in the snow this evening (https://www.facebook.com/vicky.greaves.587/posts/10153571113716645). She dives head-first into it, snorts, tries to eat it. Pees on snowmen. The normal dog-in-snow stuff.
Just like a two year old!

I'm sure I've mentioned before the circumstances of my brother (who was at that point used to roaming about naked in a tropical climate) discovering snow for the first time...
Not that I remember, but I suppose it was something similar to my mother's school friend who had grown up in Nigeria. Who, waking up to see a world covered in cotton wool, could resist running barefoot in it?
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Post by: Kim on 18 January, 2016, 05:47:29 pm
Tilley dog quite enjoyed crazying about off lead in the snow this evening (https://www.facebook.com/vicky.greaves.587/posts/10153571113716645). She dives head-first into it, snorts, tries to eat it. Pees on snowmen. The normal dog-in-snow stuff.
Just like a two year old!

I'm sure I've mentioned before the circumstances of my brother (who was at that point used to roaming about naked in a tropical climate) discovering snow for the first time...
Not that I remember, but I suppose it was something similar to my mother's school friend who had grown up in Nigeria. Who, waking up to see a world covered in cotton wool, could resist running barefoot in it?

More a case of encountering the combination of  a) an open door to the outside world  and  b) a full bladder,  running outside stark naked (he'd yet to be presuaded to keep clothes on) to do what came naturally, and then stopping very suddenly, doing that calm-before-the-storm pause thing that toddlers do, and SCREAMING.

This is, of course, embarrassing parental anecdote gold.


(I was older, more inclined to wear clothes and thoroughly toilet trained, so my first experiences of snow were a lot less traumatic.)
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Post by: iddu on 02 March, 2016, 11:09:11 am
Yay - Snow in (not sunny) Swindon :thumbsup:

Bah - not cold enough to settle thobut, and it's the horrible shitty sleety slush that's gonna make the commute home GRIM if it keeps up...
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Post by: peliroja on 02 March, 2016, 11:17:46 am
Quite a thick dusting here in Skipton, just under an inch has settled.
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Post by: MagnusOpus on 02 March, 2016, 11:37:26 am
Loads of it north of Brum, but not sticking

Hoping to catch a few on my tongue at lunchtime
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Post by: Basil on 02 March, 2016, 01:06:31 pm
I can only apologise.  It's my fault for taking the winter marathons off the sno bike a couple of weeks ago.  (The boy wanted to use it but wasn't keen on snow tires with no snow)
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 02 March, 2016, 01:21:24 pm
A quick flurry in CV4, but the sun came out straight after...
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Post by: ElyDave on 02 March, 2016, 02:55:22 pm
not snow here, but there was an almighty darkening of the skies followed by a big hailstorm.

I was alright though, I was indoors talking about bikes.
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Post by: woollypigs on 02 March, 2016, 03:12:41 pm
Quite a thick dusting here in Skipton, just under an inch has settled.
And it is gone
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Post by: Pingu on 02 March, 2016, 03:27:09 pm
Snowing but not lying at sea level in Furryboottoon.
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Post by: Jaded on 02 March, 2016, 03:33:07 pm
We had a blizzard of sleet this morning. That was all.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 02 March, 2016, 03:38:59 pm
No snow here. Blue skies and sun! :thumbsup:
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Post by: Kim on 02 March, 2016, 05:23:19 pm
We've had most kinds of weather here this afternoon, for up to 2 minutes at a time.
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Post by: cycleman on 02 March, 2016, 07:39:49 pm
Gone to Iceland Kim :D .
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Post by: fuzzy on 03 March, 2016, 01:54:42 pm
Got shot blasted with a couple of flurries of what looked like meringue granules (not light enough for snow but not hard enough for hail) during the pick up traffic control yesterday. Was bracing.
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Post by: Quint on 03 March, 2016, 02:03:34 pm
Not snow but a severe and prolonged blast of sleet and hailstones  (coupled with a tree being blown down by me) in rural Northern Oxfordshire, neatly timed when I was nowhere near any cover at all of course.
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 04 March, 2016, 07:08:12 am
Not snow but a severe and prolonged blast of sleet and hailstones  (coupled with a tree being blown down by me) in rural Northern Oxfordshire, neatly timed when I was nowhere near any cover at all of course.
Gosh, you have strong breath!
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Post by: ElyDave on 04 March, 2016, 07:45:51 am
Being dazzled by bright sunshine in north Cambs this morning
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Post by: Riggers on 04 March, 2016, 09:24:17 am
Clear Robin-egg blue sky down here in Brighton. Just checked out the front and back – not a cloud in the sky. Smug mode!
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Post by: Si S on 04 March, 2016, 12:12:54 pm
Properly coming down in Manc, having submitted my DIY entry for tomorrow that includes high points in Wales I really really could do with it stopping now. There are main roads alternatives for most of it but that will make for a lot of over distance and even I think twice about riding on the A483 on a Saturday afternoon.
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Post by: ElyDave on 04 March, 2016, 03:03:03 pm
I've been oot in the garden this lunchtime
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Post by: peliroja on 04 March, 2016, 04:28:01 pm
We woke to a good amount of snow this morning which made the cycling bits of my commute interesting! Now it's just slushy, sleety, windy and miserable.
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 04 March, 2016, 05:47:36 pm
Snow today in Niederrhein
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Post by: Kim on 04 March, 2016, 06:53:29 pm
Minor case of sleet as I cycled home from the shops earlier.  Only happened because I'd got on a bike.
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Post by: woollypigs on 10 April, 2016, 10:17:52 pm
Snowed last night before we left for home, so car needed a scrub. This AM the hills were still covered.
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Post by: Jakob W on 16 April, 2016, 07:13:38 am
Heavy snow falling here in Walsall, though it's not really settling. I went and turned the central heating back on.
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Post by: iddu on 16 April, 2016, 08:45:00 am
White stuff in Lambourn - settle, ya bugger, and there'll be fatbikin'  :)
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Post by: Cpt Sisko on 16 April, 2016, 08:56:11 am
Snowing in Shropshire. Melting quickly but was white over when I got up at 6.30.
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Post by: ElyDave on 16 April, 2016, 09:21:56 am
melted snow falling in Cambs, had been for three days.

Stavanger by contrast was blue skies and about 18C earlier in the week.
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Post by: TheLurker on 16 April, 2016, 11:36:47 am
Five or so minutes of sleety snow in the bottom r.h. corner of Glos at about 9 this morning.  I *think* that's the first snow I've seen since winter 14/15.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 April, 2016, 11:43:03 am
Was white at 0630, all melted now but just had a hail shower, which the kittehs were less than impressed by.
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Post by: bumper on 16 April, 2016, 12:09:35 pm
I drove back from the west highlands overnight, it snowed most of the way home.

Yesterday afternoon at 5.00pm it was sunny and hot at Glencoe, it was also snowing ???
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Post by: orienteer on 16 April, 2016, 04:40:55 pm
Drove from London down to Ross on Wye this morning, mainly into driving snow.

South of Cheltenham it had actually laid, covering the the trees and fields, a real winter scene.

By the time I returned at lunchtime it had all thawed.
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Post by: Gus on 25 April, 2016, 07:07:45 pm
It snowed yesterday and again now  :'( it's supposed to be spring, but I suspect we will go from winter to summer without spring this year  :'(
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Post by: pcolbeck on 26 April, 2016, 05:26:40 am
Snowed here Saturday afternoon and yesterday and this morning !
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Post by: Basil on 26 April, 2016, 06:37:17 am
Mrs B informs me that it is currently snowing.  I'll take her word for it.  *snooze*
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Post by: Chris S on 26 April, 2016, 09:08:34 am
Middlesbrough - this morning.

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1478/26626576296_faa5e72a8a_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/GyUatE)Grim up north (https://flic.kr/p/GyUatE) by Chris Smith (https://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/), on Flickr

BTW - For anyone stressing about me taking pictures with a phone while operating a moving vehicle should relax. "Moving" was not any kind of description for any of the traffic in that picture - and wasn't for quite some time.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 26 April, 2016, 10:31:01 am
It is 26th April and at 10 am the temperature was 3°C, despite there being bright sunshine.
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Post by: Jaded on 26 April, 2016, 10:31:54 am
We just had a good hailstorm.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 26 April, 2016, 10:47:35 am
We are now having a worn out hail shower. Jaded must have got the best of it.
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Post by: Guy on 26 April, 2016, 10:50:15 am
It's probably the leftovers from my ride home yesterday afternoon
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Post by: Guy on 26 April, 2016, 01:44:57 pm
Quote
Snow go: With just three days to the Tour de Yorkshire, this is what part of the route looks like
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environment/snow-go-with-just-three-days-to-the-tour-de-yorkshire-this-is-what-part-of-the-route-looks-like-1-7872983 (http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environment/snow-go-with-just-three-days-to-the-tour-de-yorkshire-this-is-what-part-of-the-route-looks-like-1-7872983)
WINTRY April showers left part of this weekend’s Tour de Yorkshire route under several inches of snow this morning.

The moorland roads between Castleton and Rosedale in the North York Moors were covered as temperatures plummeted to 1 degree.
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Post by: mcshroom on 26 April, 2016, 02:23:10 pm
Dark cloud just rolled over with snow falling out of it here. Nothing settling
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Post by: woollypigs on 26 April, 2016, 02:28:50 pm
Yeah we just had a five minute snowstorm here
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 26 April, 2016, 03:23:42 pm
We had another hail storm, a proper one. Must have escaped Jaded!
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Post by: Vince on 26 April, 2016, 03:30:22 pm
Probably not. It came through here as well.
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Post by: Si S on 26 April, 2016, 03:42:52 pm
Bugger -  slick tyres and three quarters, this could be fun.

Edit; took the lights off this morning  :facepalm:
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Post by: hatler on 26 April, 2016, 03:44:28 pm
Fluffy hail here in SW London this afternoon, very briefly. I wouldn't quite call it snow, but it wasn't far off.
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Post by: Guy on 26 April, 2016, 03:48:41 pm
It must be nearly time to go home. It's snowing!
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Post by: Gus on 26 April, 2016, 05:17:52 pm
It seems to be the same in UK.

(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/gus69/spring_zpsaheqc9ce.jpg) (http://s20.photobucket.com/user/gus69/media/spring_zpsaheqc9ce.jpg.html)
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Post by: Quint on 26 April, 2016, 05:59:21 pm
Tour of Yorkshire this week, I have been looking forward to this, we have a week off and looking forward to, well, a spot of sunshine, Hah, the sky is battleship grey and a North Easterly wind is throwing hard white stuff at us.
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Post by: madcow on 26 April, 2016, 06:27:57 pm
It was snowing around Sutton Bank at 7a.m. today.
The cloud tends to hang around the edge of the Moors.
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Post by: Andrij on 26 April, 2016, 09:17:22 pm
Snow in London ... and TfL was handing out bottles of water at Bond Street Station this evening.  ???
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Post by: perpetual dan on 26 April, 2016, 10:59:20 pm
A few flurries here on the south coast but nothing that stayed for more than a minute once on the ground.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 28 April, 2016, 11:17:44 am
Big snowflakes coming down here. Last night we had some sort of weird snow/hail hybrid, too. ???
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Post by: hatler on 28 April, 2016, 11:44:18 am
Slail, or sneet I would imagine.
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Post by: Si S on 28 April, 2016, 01:09:36 pm
You'd have probably noticed snails  :D
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 28 April, 2016, 02:15:26 pm
You might expect that in Egypt, just after the frogs and the water turning to blood.  :D
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Post by: woollypigs on 28 April, 2016, 06:47:55 pm
Well we have clearly fecked up the weather ...

Woke up to sun and -1c now it is snowing and +5c, eh?!?
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Post by: Canardly on 28 April, 2016, 08:35:33 pm
For those that can remember we once had snow in June. And then a blazing hot long summer followed.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 28 April, 2016, 09:35:32 pm
There were gritting lorries on the M2 last night.

For info, here are the summaries of the past 6 Aprils in Southend:-


                                        HEAT   COOL         AVG
      MEAN                               DEG    DEG          WIND                  DOM
YEAR   TEMP   HIGH  TIME    LOW   TIME    DAYS   DAYS   RAIN  SPEED   HIGH  TIME    DIR
2011      13.3   26.1    23     5.5    11   242.3    0.0     4.1  4.8    37.0    30    NE
2012       9.0   17.4     2    -0.7     6   478.1    0.0    82.9  6.0    46.7    26    SW
2013       8.5   23.6    25    -1.3     7   509.5    0.0    27.0  6.7    46.7    18    NE
2014      11.9   20.6     1     3.0    15   323.8    0.0    34.0  4.6    35.4     8    SW
2015      10.2   26.8    15     2.7     7   419.2    0.0    15.6  5.2    41.8     1    ENE
2016       9.2   17.7    19     1.4     1   429.7    0.0    44.6  4.7    38.6     6    SW


So 2012 and 2013 were colder. I think this is probably the coldest last week in April I have recorded.
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Post by: David Martin on 28 April, 2016, 11:05:44 pm
Has 2 inches of snow tonight. Spring has sprung (a leak).
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Post by: Bledlow on 28 April, 2016, 11:23:57 pm
For those that can remember we once had snow in June. And then a blazing hot long summer followed.
4th June 1974? I woke up shivering, got up to shut my bedroom window, & saw the Chiltern hills gleaming white in the early morning sunshine. Went back to sleep, & woke up a couple of hours later to go to school, wondering if it had been a dream. Snow had gone. Switched on the radio & they were reporting it on the news, so it was obviously true.
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Post by: Ham on 28 April, 2016, 11:39:37 pm
Yesterday I was cycling in short sleeves in Catalonia. Today I am in Edinburgh. Snow.

I am SERIOUSLY not impressed.
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Post by: Torslanda on 29 April, 2016, 08:55:31 am
So it's all your fault!

You and that Tiermat . . .
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Post by: Si S on 29 April, 2016, 09:01:23 am
It's not even vaguely amusing anymore, I'm knackered  :(
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Post by: woollypigs on 29 April, 2016, 09:04:18 am
Well its been snowing for the last hour or so, sadly the ground is too warm.

Come on UK weather get your act together; nice crisp frost for a week or so + snow for a few days = nice covering and staying snow, kthxbye.
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Post by: bumper on 29 April, 2016, 01:23:00 pm
Looks like all of the winter riding gear will be back in service for a few days.

The light dusting of snow is melting but it's freezing, wet and blowing a gale.
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Post by: Jurek on 29 April, 2016, 04:06:25 pm
Just been sleeted on on my way back from the stupormarket.
Now I see blazing sunshine through the window.
Unimpressed is me.
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Post by: fuzzy on 29 April, 2016, 05:04:49 pm
During the weeks and months between the clocks going forward and then back, I wear shorts to work in the bike shop. I think I might need long johns under my shorts this weekend :-\
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 30 April, 2016, 12:34:32 am
I was on the Promenade in Morecambe early this (Yesterday) evening. It was a beautiful, clear and sunny day and the snow covered hills across the bay were made more exciting by the contrast.
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Post by: T42 on 06 October, 2016, 08:32:05 am
Go away. Last week I was still riding in summer kit.
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Post by: TimO on 06 October, 2016, 08:43:16 am
Go away. Last week I was still riding in summer kit.

Likewise.  Mind you, he's cheating.  Slovakia doesn't have proper weather, like the British Isles do. :)
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Post by: fuzzy on 06 October, 2016, 09:32:18 am
I got snowed on last month in Cody, Wyoming.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 06 October, 2016, 09:39:16 am
That's very early, r-r. I don't remember it ever snowing earlier than late October. Tradition is the first snow falls on either All Saints or Independence Day (11/11)!
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Post by: Canardly on 06 October, 2016, 09:59:35 am
Things to come?

http://www.ukweatherforecast.co.uk/uk-winter-weather-forecast-201617/
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 October, 2016, 02:35:03 pm
I got snowed on last month in Cody, Wyoming.

Andrij otp kindly informed me that US-212 not too far from Cody had been blocked by SNO in mid-August and advised me to pack a jumper.  Mind you, that's the BEARtooth Highway which tops out at 1/3 of a cricket pitch under 11,000 feet.  And when I went over it last month it was clear blue skies, double-digit temperatures and the normal-for-Wyoming mighty rushing wind threatening to blow 2D Thomas and me into Canuckistan a day earlier than planned.
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Post by: ElyDave on 06 October, 2016, 10:54:17 pm
I'm in Aberdeen this week (again) and ran tonight in shorts and short sleeved top.  Only put a jumper on to go out to dinner.

It's positively balmy.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 October, 2016, 12:32:01 pm
Don't tell Stuart MacBride.  The Logan McRae books wouldn't be the same without rain ;D
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Post by: ElyDave on 07 October, 2016, 03:24:53 pm
I was fully expecting dreariness by now, but pleasantly surprised
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Post by: Quint on 07 October, 2016, 03:39:21 pm
For those that can remember we once had snow in June. And then a blazing hot long summer followed.
4th June 1974? I woke up shivering, got up to shut my bedroom window, & saw the Chiltern hills gleaming white in the early morning sunshine. Went back to sleep, & woke up a couple of hours later to go to school, wondering if it had been a dream. Snow had gone. Switched on the radio & they were reporting it on the news, so it was obviously true.

     We once had light snow on our Wedding Anniversary (6th June) obviously it didn't lay and sorry but I cannot remember the year.
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Post by: hellymedic on 07 October, 2016, 06:36:05 pm
For those that can remember we once had snow in June. And then a blazing hot long summer followed.
4th June 1974? I woke up shivering, got up to shut my bedroom window, & saw the Chiltern hills gleaming white in the early morning sunshine. Went back to sleep, & woke up a couple of hours later to go to school, wondering if it had been a dream. Snow had gone. Switched on the radio & they were reporting it on the news, so it was obviously true.

     We once had light snow on our Wedding Anniversary (6th June) obviously it didn't lay and sorry but I cannot remember the year.

I did a solo LEJOG in 1986 and had a variety of frozen precipitation when I went over the Lecht on 3 June that year.
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Post by: Canardly on 07 October, 2016, 07:50:51 pm
'75 I think, cricket matches were cancelled due to snow.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/i/1/Snow_in_June_-_2_June_1975.pdf
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Post by: hatler on 07 October, 2016, 07:52:21 pm
Wasn't there snow at an England Aus test match at Lords one time ?
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Post by: Bledlow on 07 October, 2016, 10:03:04 pm
'75 I think, cricket matches were cancelled due to snow.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/i/1/Snow_in_June_-_2_June_1975.pdf
I remember waking up very early because of the cold, getting up to close the window & seeing the Chiltern hills white with snow. I went back to sleep. Woke again a few hours later & thought I'd dreamed it, especially when I looked out of the window. It had gone. But when I switched on the radio, they were talking about it - as were those people who travelled in from the villages out that way, when I got to school.
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Post by: rafletcher on 06 November, 2016, 03:04:52 pm
Not snow, but heavy sleet in the Chilterns right now.
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Post by: L CC on 06 November, 2016, 07:40:03 pm
My mum sent me this:

Presumably as a 'I can't believe you took me on a night ride over the North York Moors in November'

https://www.facebook.com/tanhillinn/posts/871560919610171
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Post by: T42 on 08 November, 2016, 07:57:46 am
Snowing here now.  There was a light dusting in the night but now it looks a bit more serious.  It's actually the kind of snowfall - lightish, settling on gardens but not on the road - I rather enjoy riding in, but if I tried the missus'd flatten me before I got my tights on.  Anyway, the cardio forbade rides at < 5°C and it's a few ° less than that.
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Post by: Chris S on 08 November, 2016, 08:39:06 am
Similar here - steady light snow (mixed with rain) for the last hour which has suddenly got heavier. We're promised more tonight.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 08 November, 2016, 09:10:25 am
My mum sent me this:

Presumably as a 'I can't believe you took me on a night ride over the North York Moors in November'

https://www.facebook.com/tanhillinn/posts/871560919610171
Maybe she was suggesting going to tan hill next month.
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Post by: ElyDave on 08 November, 2016, 11:07:52 pm
Not here, effing cold this morning tho
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Post by: woollypigs on 09 November, 2016, 02:39:37 am
no :(
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Post by: pcolbeck on 09 November, 2016, 07:12:21 am
Sleet all night here on the Wolds but it has changed to proper snow in the last half an hour.
Dog walking this morning will be fun ....
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Post by: Wowbagger on 09 November, 2016, 07:16:49 am
Pissing down here. Mind you, it's 8°C so no surprise that there's no snow.
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Post by: peliroja on 09 November, 2016, 07:25:03 am
Not looking forward to skidding my way to the station shortly. :(
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Post by: madcow on 09 November, 2016, 07:38:23 am
White stuff covering the ground in North Yorkshire.
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Post by: Ruthie on 09 November, 2016, 07:49:08 pm
A very slight covering this morning at 0630 in Darlo this morning, but pretty much gone by lunchtime. 
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Post by: andrewc on 18 November, 2016, 09:00:18 am
Woke up to flashed of lightning and the gentle patter of sleet & hail.

Liverpool is greyish White this morning.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 18 November, 2016, 09:18:01 am
This weekend I may try some bike fettling - putting butterfly bars on the mercian so I can ride it. Why am I posting that in this thread?

It has Marathon Winter tyres on it. I can't afford to take a fall.

Might turn up at Malham on that bike.
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Post by: Quint on 18 November, 2016, 12:21:19 pm
This weekend I may try some bike fettling - putting butterfly bars on the mercian so I can ride it. Why am I posting that in this thread?

It has Marathon Winter tyres on it. I can't afford to take a fall.

Might turn up at Malham on that bike.

         I love triking around that area
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Post by: woollypigs on 18 November, 2016, 12:24:45 pm
@quint and @mrcharly do let one know when you are out pootling near Malham as it is only a short ride away from one self :)
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Post by: Quint on 18 November, 2016, 12:27:02 pm
@quint and @mrcharly do let one know when you are out pootling near Malham as it is only a short ride away from one self :)

                   Absolutely, we normally stay in/near Settle and my local there is The Talbot, me and Barbara are not fast but we try.
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Post by: woollypigs on 18 November, 2016, 12:31:55 pm
Slow is the way to go :)
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 18 November, 2016, 12:40:16 pm
@quint and @mrcharly do let one know when you are out pootling near Malham as it is only a short ride away from one self :)
I should hope you know already. End of January.
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Post by: woollypigs on 18 November, 2016, 12:42:28 pm
I do, but if you should get the crazy idea to do it any other day :)
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 18 November, 2016, 01:43:30 pm
Time between now and then will be taken up attempting to regain some fitness and possibly attempting to ride a bike further than 2-3miles, but thank you.
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Post by: Jaded on 18 November, 2016, 02:30:53 pm
It's snowing here.
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Post by: Jaded on 13 January, 2017, 07:57:53 am
It's been snowing here.
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Post by: peliroja on 13 January, 2017, 07:59:20 am
It's been snowing here, too. What a scintillating ;) thread!
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Post by: T42 on 13 January, 2017, 08:22:17 am
We're due snow & strong winds this morning.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 January, 2017, 08:38:48 am
An inch or so covering everything here. Tilly dog is very excited as its the first proper snow she has seen.
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Post by: T42 on 13 January, 2017, 08:53:26 am
Occasion for photos.
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Post by: Guy on 13 January, 2017, 09:17:47 am
Blizzard-ish conditions in SG17 area now. Though, thankfully, it doesn't appear to be settling.

edit: Me and my big mouth. Bah!
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Post by: bobb on 13 January, 2017, 09:37:28 am
Snowed a bit last night, snowing some more now. Time for some MTB mayhem  :)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 January, 2017, 09:44:17 am
Naff-all left on top of Mount Crystal Palace.  Money back please!
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Post by: Basil on 13 January, 2017, 09:56:25 am
Nothing at all here in Llan-dismal.
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Post by: cycleman on 13 January, 2017, 10:50:34 am
and slough is damp and grey as normal  ::-)
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Post by: Quint on 13 January, 2017, 12:25:32 pm
We had a sprinkle late last night (12/01/2017) I'm more than happy t'was a sprinkle, sun is out now and I'm off without need of a snow plough
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 13 January, 2017, 01:18:07 pm
Snow early this morning in York. Very slidy.  All gone now :thumbsup:
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Post by: bumper on 22 January, 2017, 09:51:53 am
Just started to snow in Staffs.

Hopefully it'll be at least a foot deep by tonight so the fat bike can have an outing.

Working at home tomorrow so it can be 2ft deep, I couldn't care  :thumbsup:




In reality it'll only be a quarter inch covering :-\
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Post by: bumper on 22 January, 2017, 10:05:50 am
it's stopped already, bugger :(
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Post by: Guy on 09 February, 2017, 02:09:37 pm
Little white things keep falling from the sky. Just a few. Just now and then. There's no seagulls up there so I'll have to assume it's snow.
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Post by: Kim on 09 February, 2017, 04:40:26 pm
There was a flurry.  It stopped.
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Post by: woollypigs on 09 February, 2017, 04:57:53 pm
Two snow flakes! eeeek, panic, batten down the hatches, emergency, chaos, run for your life, the end is nigh, mayhem in the supermarket aisle ...
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 09 February, 2017, 05:12:13 pm
I normally really want snow but I'm also half thinking of nipping out for bike ride and overnight camp this weekend so . . .
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Post by: woollypigs on 09 February, 2017, 06:08:14 pm
I normally really want snow but I'm also half thinking of nipping out for bike ride and overnight camp this weekend so . . .
If it is nice and frosty with a few inches of snow. That will give a much better ground for camping than the swamp we are now having.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 09 February, 2017, 07:10:25 pm
30kpm winds, -1 during day with rain and snow, that's the forecast. I'm not really kitted out for that weather.
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Post by: ElyDave on 09 February, 2017, 08:31:51 pm
a very light, chilly drizzle
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Post by: Basil on 09 February, 2017, 10:39:34 pm
No snow here please.  Mainly because this.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20170208_130347_zpsg0rp9fwx.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20170208_130347_zpsg0rp9fwx.jpg.html)

Two perfectly dry days so far. One more needed.
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Post by: Guy on 10 February, 2017, 10:14:43 am
I've just been outside. It's like being lightly sprinkled with very cold caster sugar.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 10 February, 2017, 10:24:59 am
No snow here please.  Mainly because this.


Two perfectly dry days so far. One more needed.
Felt and reslate job? The timber looks in excellent condition.
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Post by: ElyDave on 10 February, 2017, 11:04:25 am
a very light sprinkling here, looks bloody cold from my office window
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Post by: Guy on 10 February, 2017, 11:29:37 am
I humbly beg to report there are proper big snowflakes amongst all the smaller stuff now. :hand:
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Post by: Basil on 10 February, 2017, 12:14:20 pm
No snow here please.  Mainly because this.


Two perfectly dry days so far. One more needed.
Felt and reslate job? The timber looks in excellent condition.

Exactly that.  There was no original felt, so even that addition will make a vast improvement.
The state of the joists and rafters was a joy and much relief financially.  Not bad for 127 years.   :)
Obviously, the battens in the photo all came off and were replaced.  I now have enough kindling for years.
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Post by: Guy on 10 February, 2017, 01:20:41 pm
Just walked back from the Orificer's Mess (fishn chips) in proper snow.

Now I'm going to ride home (Yay) in the snow (Boo chiz mone drone)
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Post by: matthew on 10 February, 2017, 03:16:28 pm
Light snow flurries that are not currently settling here in Berks, I now have to ride home.
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Post by: Bledlow on 10 February, 2017, 03:23:34 pm
Yep, I've been watching 'em. Stopped for the moment.
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Post by: ElyDave on 10 February, 2017, 04:38:29 pm
It's been lightly drifiting down all day here in the Fens, but not enough to do anything.

Actual real snowing predicted overnight.  Good job my car passed it's MOT today, which means I can get it dirty again tomorrow
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Post by: cycleman on 10 February, 2017, 06:37:01 pm
i call snow that does not settle sleet and it has been sleeting lightly most of the afternoon :)
 
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 February, 2017, 08:28:03 pm
Proper snowing here too :(
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 February, 2017, 08:42:50 pm
Very scant precipitation here all day.
High humidity, temperature around 1C and traces of Frozen too scanty to reach the ground before vaporising.
Most unimpressive.
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Post by: ElyDave on 10 February, 2017, 08:49:32 pm
i call snow that does not settle sleet and it has been sleeting lightly most of the afternoon :)

sleeet is very wet snow. This has been very dry, but just very gentle.  The snow equivalent of a light drizzle that can't even be bothered to get you wet
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Post by: Gattopardo on 10 February, 2017, 08:51:54 pm
Don't panic....
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 February, 2017, 10:08:06 pm
i call snow that does not settle sleet and it has been sleeting lightly most of the afternoon :)

sleeet is very wet snow. This has been very dry, but just very gentle.  The snow equivalent of a light drizzle that can't even be bothered to get you wet

That's MOAR than I've had! My 'SNO' can't even be bothered to land!
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Post by: spesh on 11 February, 2017, 01:43:41 am
What is this SNO of which so many speak?

Sincerely,

Portsmouth
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 February, 2017, 09:32:21 am
Looks like there was a very very tiny amount in leafy Surrey overnight but it's only settled in the flower pots.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 11 February, 2017, 09:37:55 am
i call snow that does not settle sleet and it has been sleeting lightly most of the afternoon :)

sleeet is very wet snow. This has been very dry, but just very gentle.  The snow equivalent of a light drizzle that can't even be bothered to get you wet
Exactly. Sleet is snow that is half melting as it falls, so it soaks you. It's the most miserable of weather to be out it and really dangerous if you aren't dressed to cope with it. Quite different from snow that is melting when it hits the ground.
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Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 11 February, 2017, 09:45:52 am
Looking out of the West Coast Mainline train over the Big Onion Canal. It is starting to look very chocolate-boxy.
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Post by: vorsprung on 11 February, 2017, 10:21:37 am
Been snowing here on the Blackdown Hills, east Devon for a couple of hours.

Not heavy and not pitching

Looks like it will become rain/ sleet later
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Post by: numbnuts on 11 February, 2017, 10:23:03 am
Nothing here in North Baddesley  :(
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Post by: ElyDave on 11 February, 2017, 10:51:18 am
i call snow that does not settle sleet and it has been sleeting lightly most of the afternoon :)

sleeet is very wet snow. This has been very dry, but just very gentle.  The snow equivalent of a light drizzle that can't even be bothered to get you wet
Exactly. Sleet is snow that is half melting as it falls, so it soaks you. It's the most miserable of weather to be out it and really dangerous if you aren't dressed to cope with it. Quite different from snow that is melting when it hits the ground.
We did not have sleet, it was very fine snow, not enough to settle
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 11 February, 2017, 10:58:13 am
Proper settled snow here, but in two days it should be around 11 degrees and sunny! I am looking forward to that.
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Post by: rafletcher on 11 February, 2017, 12:01:22 pm
Here in leafy bucks we got a smattering overnight, enough to settle on the cars and fence tops. Still drifting desultorily down, but +1 and sliding off the cars now.
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Post by: spokenword on 11 February, 2017, 01:25:45 pm
(http://i1288.photobucket.com/albums/b496/22xjR2Udt/YACF/2429night_zps1wi3tc8v.jpg)

(http://i1288.photobucket.com/albums/b496/22xjR2Udt/YACF/2434day_zpspybpgtjw.jpg)

It snowed for 2 nights and 2 days but has now eased up to almost nothing.
Are they the Tatra's in the background? I've just booked a holiday there for July
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 February, 2017, 05:00:44 pm
Snowed from about 8.00-8.30 this morning. Did not settle, obvs.
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Post by: cycleman on 11 February, 2017, 08:32:29 pm
has been sleeting for about an hour this evening and yes i got wet  ::-) :)
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Post by: Si S on 28 February, 2017, 08:57:17 am
Its appears to be quite serious about it.
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Post by: bumper on 28 February, 2017, 12:44:13 pm
I'd arranged a bit of work Buxton way today. It was going to be a maximum of 2hrs, then a few hours with the cameras.

They've shut the road I was heading to so I've had to work all day, the horror :o
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 April, 2017, 01:31:50 pm
Snowing in Poland today.
http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/c7/a5/14/z21649863IH,Snieg-w-kwietniu.jpg
In the mountains, by the sea and in inland regions in the north-east.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 April, 2017, 06:19:22 pm
Professor Larrington is off to do some Professoring in Poland any day now...
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 April, 2017, 06:23:37 pm
Should be warmer next week, but still probably rather cold for April. Normally it's shirt sleeve weather...
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 April, 2017, 07:59:56 pm
Should be warmer next week, but still probably rather cold for April. Normally it's shirt sleeve weather...

Too late; she's just arrived in Krakow.
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Post by: T42 on 20 April, 2017, 08:15:26 am
A few flakes yesterday. -2°C this morning.
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Post by: Pingu on 24 April, 2017, 04:54:35 pm
Snow on the commute home.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 April, 2017, 05:01:36 pm
That was pure dead bollocks, that was.
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Post by: woollypigs on 24 April, 2017, 10:18:38 pm
Hail here, snow up the road from here earlier. Just saw gritters out and about. That was a short summer.
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Post by: Jurek on 24 April, 2017, 10:39:37 pm
Hail here, snow up the road from here earlier. Just saw gritters out and about. That was a short summer.
Frikkin cold on tonight's commute home.
No snez. Thank F*.
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Post by: nikki on 25 April, 2017, 01:17:15 pm
Just had our traditional April snow here in Birmingham, albeit less and later than I was expecting.
Just as I was about to go for a walk around the park, too - might take a few extra layers!
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Post by: Kim on 25 April, 2017, 01:30:34 pm
Just had our traditional April snow here in Birmingham, albeit less and later than I was expecting.

It reached Silly Oak a few minutes ago.
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Post by: mattc on 25 April, 2017, 03:47:28 pm
Bonkers. It was a short sleeves and sun-lotion lunchtime in Oxon!
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 25 April, 2017, 03:48:13 pm
Mega hail today whilst I was at work. For 3 minutes the car park turned white.

Hail is a bit more of a thing here in continental Europe. It is not uncommon for car rooves to be destroyed by hail and that's part of the standard insurance details.
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Post by: pdm on 25 April, 2017, 04:09:57 pm
Coating of Snow when I left for work this morning - roads clear, though.
Now (4pm) is dark and hailing a lot; ground going white.... Might be interesting going home if it keeps it up...
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Post by: woollypigs on 25 April, 2017, 04:43:53 pm
So the saying goes - if you are tired of the weather wait about 20min. Well today you only had to wait 2min. Snow, hail, rain while the sun was shining, then wind, grey, hail and no wind and glorious blue skies - rinse and repeat in what ever order you fancy. Made today's walkies fun, anywhoo.
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Post by: Kim on 25 April, 2017, 05:20:59 pm
Confirmed.  I just rode to the station (to collect some Orange Cardboard) in glorious sunshine, then back via the shop in freezing headwind with ominous clouds.  At some point while I was inside my saddle got rained on.

ETA: And now it's gone dark and the hail has arrived.
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Post by: Jaded on 25 April, 2017, 05:24:33 pm
Went on a long walk wearing a fleece. Took the fleece off after 2 miles. Put a shower jacket on after 3.5 miles, for the snow storm.
Had my meeting
Set off in just a shirt. After 1.5 miles put my snow jacket back on, for the snow storm.
Shivered all the way home.
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Post by: PaulF on 25 April, 2017, 05:30:41 pm
Bonkers. It was a short sleeves and sun-lotion lunchtime in Oxon!


Whilst just a little later - about when you posted - it was sleeting!
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 25 April, 2017, 07:51:05 pm
Hail here.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 25 April, 2017, 07:52:51 pm
Hailing REALLY HEAVILY now!
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Post by: mattc on 25 April, 2017, 07:57:21 pm
Bonkers. It was a short sleeves and sun-lotion lunchtime in Oxon!


Whilst just a little later - about when you posted - it was sleeting!
I'd call it full-on hail. In waves ever since I posted.

Luckily I managed to ride home during  a gap, but overall I am deeply regretting my post!
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 25 April, 2017, 07:58:43 pm
And now it's stopped.
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Post by: ElyDave on 25 April, 2017, 09:09:41 pm
from riding around in 17C at home on Sunday, a bit showery yesterday and now up in Aberdeen 1.5C and hail.
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Post by: Chris S on 26 April, 2017, 08:47:15 am
I can never get too much of snowflakes the size of sherbet flying saucers  :thumbsup:
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Post by: pcolbeck on 26 April, 2017, 03:10:56 pm
Proper heavy snow for half an hour this morning! It didn't lay and now its sunny and cold.
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Post by: fuzzy on 26 April, 2017, 04:04:53 pm
We have just experienced the most bodacious hard snow/ soft hail downpour! Garden pea sized nuggets of ice, soft enough to compress between my fingers but hard enogh to bounce and provide that slight frisson of impact sting.
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Post by: Pingu on 12 November, 2017, 08:49:27 pm
It snowed in FurryBootToon today, but it was light and didn't lie.
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Post by: David Martin on 12 November, 2017, 10:33:51 pm
We ahd snow in Corrie Fee yesterday. For some of our students on the amble it was the first time they had ever experienced real snow.
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Post by: Ruthie on 25 November, 2017, 09:28:41 am
A smidge here in Stafford this morning.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 25 November, 2017, 09:44:05 am
An early light dusting in Rugby already long gone.
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Post by: Basil on 25 November, 2017, 10:16:18 am
Rapidly disappearing dusting on the lawn this morning.
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Post by: PeteB99 on 25 November, 2017, 11:37:19 am
Light covering of hail, snow and sleet overnight. Seems we must have a large proportion of autonomous vehicles in Cheshire and Wirral as the local papers are full of the carnage caused by cars becoming out of control ::-)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 30 November, 2017, 10:18:49 am
Snowing this morning here. A light dusting has laid.
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Post by: Chris S on 30 November, 2017, 10:33:18 am
Getting some flurries this morning - probably a couple of cm so far.
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Post by: T42 on 30 November, 2017, 10:51:00 am
A few flakes here. Some snow, too.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 30 November, 2017, 11:53:58 am
Rode into town in first a knife-like wind then a knife-like blizzard.  My sealkinz hat did a great job altho I guess it looked a bit odd in Waitrose.  People tended to keep out of my way more than usual.
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Post by: ElyDave on 30 November, 2017, 02:39:44 pm
a very small flurry when I parked outside the tool suppliers, now looking out of my window, large fluffy flakes. the wind has been bitter all day long.
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Post by: Flite on 30 November, 2017, 03:37:39 pm
Proper blizzards on and off since lunchtime up here in the North Pennines. Hope nobody is doing the C2C, though they would have the bitter NW wind behind them!
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 30 November, 2017, 03:51:56 pm
I'd really, really like to see some proper snow. Tempted to put cyclocross tyres on the bike and try to get out this weekend somewhere. What are the north york moors like?
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Post by: pcolbeck on 30 November, 2017, 04:27:20 pm
NY Moors are covered in snow (I can see them from my front door). Rains predicted tonight though so all the snow might be washed away by then.
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Post by: Pingu on 30 November, 2017, 07:45:39 pm
View from the Igloo this morning:

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4570/38749387381_3e54b697bd_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2239JRT)
IMG_0118_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2239JRT) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: ElyDave on 30 November, 2017, 08:17:12 pm
I recognise that (generic) view.  Been coming down here for an hour or so now, but I think a bot too warm and wet to amount to much
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Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 30 November, 2017, 08:31:29 pm
reminds me of a line from 'Chubby Brown'...............................................''I like  the snow,.....it make my f*^"king garden look like everybody else's''
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Post by: Feanor on 30 November, 2017, 08:44:43 pm
The view from Feanor Towers this morning, as posted on the commuting thread...

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4565/37852316715_8c565d2fdf_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ZET21g)
Morning commute (https://flic.kr/p/ZET21g) by Ron Lowe (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62966413@N04/), on Flickr

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Post by: Morat on 30 November, 2017, 10:06:47 pm
NY Moors are covered in snow (I can see them from my front door). Rains predicted tonight though so all the snow might be washed away by then.

Very slushy still in the Howardian Hills with what feels like ice underneath - extremely slippy on tarmac :(
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 01 December, 2017, 08:42:37 am
ditto in York.  Our road isn't gritted now because we are being austere.   Going to be a few cyclists and pedestrians hitting the deck I am afraid.


http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15693318.PICTURE_GALLERY__Snow_causes_treacherous_driving_conditions/#gallery4
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Post by: T42 on 01 December, 2017, 08:43:41 am
Decent snowfall here last evening: dogs love it, went bonkers chasing each other round the garden.  Watching snowfall in the dark with the Cree headlight set to flash is quite amusing.

Don't have to go anywhere - think I'll have another cuppa.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 01 December, 2017, 08:48:27 am
Decent snowfall here last evening: dogs love it, went bonkers chasing each other round the garden.  Watching snowfall in the dark with the Cree headlight set to flash is quite amusing.

Don't have to go anywhere - think I'll have another cuppa.

We are the lucky ones!  I'll be building shelves in my newly insulated loft-room.
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Post by: Aunt Maud on 01 December, 2017, 08:51:23 am
Me too. I'm inside with the wood burner going, building stud walls and plastering.

No snow, just loads of mud, ugh!
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Post by: T42 on 01 December, 2017, 10:08:24 am
Building, yeah. Walls, yeah. I'm supposed to be turning out wall-panelling for the hall because the dogs have turned the wallpaper black with rubbing against it, but it's 5°C in the workshop and the heating isn't worth tuppence.  "The glue's got a minimum setting temperature of 10°, darling".
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Post by: woollypigs on 01 December, 2017, 10:18:40 am
Light dusting over night that melted and froze into a skating rink. Made it fun on walkies on cobblestone with a pulling dog :)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 December, 2017, 06:00:07 pm
Trying to walk to the main road to get a lift from my colleague was type II fun this morning, especially the humpty bridge over the railway. I basically draped one arm over the brick wall and hoped for the best.
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Post by: Cpt Sisko on 08 December, 2017, 06:38:20 pm
7" in Shropshire and although it's eased off a lot now it's still falling slowly. And it's due to freeze overnight.
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Post by: ian on 08 December, 2017, 06:55:01 pm
A couple of centimetres in San Antonio. Then it rained it all away today. Proper Texans would have shot the sky, goddamn liberal snowflakes.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 December, 2017, 08:06:48 pm
My chum Professor Guthrie has just posted a pic of a shivering shorts-wearing Texan filling his Jeep with "gas" in the middle of a SNOstorm in Houston.
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Post by: Feanor on 08 December, 2017, 08:22:29 pm
My chum Professor Guthrie has just posted a pic of a shivering shorts-wearing Texan filling his Jeep with "gas" in the middle of a SNOstorm in Houston.

I've had similar reports from Houston.
Last time I was in Houston and it snowed, it was only the slightest dusting, but the motorised carnage brought the place to a standstill.

They don't adjust their driving style in the slightest.
They still tailgate each other at 70mph around the 610 loop, which is on raised flyovers in many places.
These don't have the benefit of the heat capacity of the ground, and so freeze over quickly.

A happy hunting ground for the news channel helichoppers looking for some mayhem to report.

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Post by: pcolbeck on 08 December, 2017, 11:13:55 pm
I love it when it snows down south ie anything below BirminghM. It's suddenly newsworthy and the whole country grinds to a halt.
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Post by: Quint on 08 December, 2017, 11:23:01 pm
that's because the sun always shines on the righteous   ;D
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Post by: Wowbagger on 08 December, 2017, 11:56:23 pm
I love it when it snows down south ie anything below BirminghM. It's suddenly newsworthy and the whole country grinds to a halt.

Quite cold tonight but crystal clear. My car registered -1°C when leaving a church on a slope. Slightly less cold in central Saarfend.
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Post by: Quint on 09 December, 2017, 12:17:47 am
minus 3 so far in rural North Oxfordshire, snow flurries earlier, damn good frost
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 09 December, 2017, 07:29:45 am
(https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/24852536_1538020189620323_5737391259660927653_n.jpg?oh=f1d338f4b3dec6c311c6c2cb2f7a0390&oe=5A8FF92E)
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Post by: T42 on 09 December, 2017, 08:34:55 am
Had the curious experience last night of watching Orion, Gemini & C° to the east, then turning west into a snowshower.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 09 December, 2017, 09:05:56 am
(https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/24852536_1538020189620323_5737391259660927653_n.jpg?oh=f1d338f4b3dec6c311c6c2cb2f7a0390&oe=5A8FF92E)

 :o GWS!
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Post by: ElyDave on 09 December, 2017, 10:13:21 am
-2 and slidey on leaving the house this morning, even in a 4x4.  Will leave it a bit before going out on two wheels.
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Post by: Wombat on 09 December, 2017, 11:38:01 am
Haven't been outside yet!  Looking out the window at two snow covered cars and a quarter mile long upward sloping snow covered driveway.  Mid-Wales.
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Post by: iddu on 10 December, 2017, 08:48:54 am
(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r200/iddu/IMG_20171210_083551_zpsgl1mrtw7.jpg)

Happydance  :D

SNObike time on the tracks for few hours ;D
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Post by: Polar Bear on 10 December, 2017, 08:50:31 am
Looks like a couple of inches here in Rugby.  Due to keep topping up all day.

Gonna get my walking boots out so that I can go cor a walk before it all melts.
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Post by: bobb on 10 December, 2017, 08:53:30 am
*Opens curtains*

Fucking hell! I wasn't expecting that! A few inches already and still dumping it down....
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Post by: Ruthie on 10 December, 2017, 08:55:49 am
(https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/24852536_1538020189620323_5737391259660927653_n.jpg?oh=f1d338f4b3dec6c311c6c2cb2f7a0390&oe=5A8FF92E)

 ;D Excellent.

No SNO in Darlo. Tut.
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Post by: SoreTween on 10 December, 2017, 09:04:29 am
Just about covering the ground in my part of the Forest, higher up they have a few inches.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 10 December, 2017, 09:10:14 am
We have had a little here. There was none at first light but now it's settling, nowhere near an inch yet.
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Post by: rafletcher on 10 December, 2017, 09:12:01 am
5cm and increasing in leafy Bucks, just near the Chilterns. Wettish tho, papers have got here on time. Glad I sorted the logs and bird feeders out yesterday.
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Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 10 December, 2017, 09:12:25 am
Looks close to 5cm thickness on the armrests of our garden bench in west London and lots of starlings bickering over food that they've turned their beaks up at for the past couple of days.
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Post by: hellymedic on 10 December, 2017, 09:41:57 am
My cousin in North Finchley is hosting a family gathering today to celebrate his parents' Diamond Wedding.
His parents are staying in some Central London hotel, as they are visiting from Copenhagen.
I expect the Danes will mock the Brits.

As they should.

I hope I can join them and that London's Hackney Carriage drivers don't disappoint me by wimping out.
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Post by: Basil on 10 December, 2017, 09:50:59 am
We must be right at the edge of the snow zone.  It's been snowing all morning but not really settling.
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Post by: MikeFromLFE on 10 December, 2017, 09:59:30 am
A very good covering here on the western edge of Leicester, and it's still chucking it down.
Apparently they've cancelled the CTC DA Carol Service near Twycross on 'safety grounds' - seems that CTC round here isn't made of the stuff it used to be !


Tapatalk puts this signature here, not me!
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Post by: tatanab on 10 December, 2017, 10:04:22 am
We must be right at the edge of the snow zone.  It's been snowing all morning but not really settling.
Just 20 miles or so south and we have about 5 inches (English inches not these short measure centithings) with more falling steadily.  Some rural roads are closed.
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Post by: T42 on 10 December, 2017, 10:09:21 am
Tipping down here too.  Just been out throwing snowballs for the dogs. They either chase them and search round wildly when they disintegrate on impact, or catch them, whereupon they explode in their teeth. Then they come back for more.

The annoying thing is that The Law makes us responsible for keeping the pavement clear outside our house.  If someone slips and breaks a leg on it we're liable. :(
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Post by: T42 on 10 December, 2017, 10:10:25 am
Just 20 miles or so south and we have about 5 inches (English inches not these short measure centithings) with more falling steadily.

Five English inches is about average, I believe. Falling steadily? Damn.
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Post by: Quint on 10 December, 2017, 10:11:00 am
OX5 a couple of miles East of Woodstock, blearily opened the curtains and expletive deleted, about 4 inches and coming down fast, 7 month old puppy looked through the cat flap making grumbling noises and reluctantly went out for a poo, 10 minutes later asked to go out again and was running around in it excitedly. Radio on coffee in hand life is good.
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Post by: Quint on 10 December, 2017, 10:12:42 am
Tipping down here too.  Just been out throwing snowballs for the dogs. They either chase them and search round wildly when they disintegrate on impact, or catch them, whereupon they explode in their teeth. Then they come back for more.

The annoying thing is that The Law makes us responsible for keeping the pavement clear outside our house.  If someone slips and breaks a leg on it we're liable. :(
                 I thought the law was that if you DID clear anything then and only then were you liable
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Post by: jsabine on 10 December, 2017, 10:13:55 am
Damply lying in SE London - maybe an inch, or two at most. But it's stopped falling and started melting in the past 20 mins.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 10 December, 2017, 10:26:44 am
Non here at all :(

Watching the weather on TV it was like in inverted world in that everything below eh Humber was getting loads of snow and everything above wasn't.
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Post by: bobb on 10 December, 2017, 10:35:02 am
I love it when it snows down south ie anything below BirminghM. It's suddenly newsworthy and the whole country grinds to a halt.

It doesn't quite grind to a halt. But I've got to go out soon, so I've got to go up into the loft to dig out my ski gear, as this is getting serious!  :P
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Post by: Jaded on 10 December, 2017, 10:37:09 am
We’ve got sleet now, on top of a couple of inches of snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 10 December, 2017, 10:39:15 am
Tipping down here too.  Just been out throwing snowballs for the dogs. They either chase them and search round wildly when they disintegrate on impact, or catch them, whereupon they explode in their teeth. Then they come back for more.

The annoying thing is that The Law makes us responsible for keeping the pavement clear outside our house.  If someone slips and breaks a leg on it we're liable. :(
                 I thought the law was that if you DID clear anything then and only then were you liable

That's English law.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 10 December, 2017, 10:40:23 am
Big fat flabby flakes in NE cambs, warmer than I expected. Settling, but damply so and only up to about an inch or so, so far.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 10 December, 2017, 10:42:58 am
Tipping down here too.  Just been out throwing snowballs for the dogs. They either chase them and search round wildly when they disintegrate on impact, or catch them, whereupon they explode in their teeth. Then they come back for more.

The annoying thing is that The Law makes us responsible for keeping the pavement clear outside our house.  If someone slips and breaks a leg on it we're liable. :(
                 I thought the law was that if you DID clear anything then and only then were you liable

That's English law.

      Ah
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: essexian on 10 December, 2017, 10:43:21 am
Very good covering here in Stafford, indeed, it is still snowing and has covered my car.... not surprising you may say but the car is under a carport.

Our six cats have been out and back seconds later...they no longer think snow is as interesting as they did when they were kittens, while our stray cat "Eric" has moved into the summer house as we left the heating on in there for him. Not seen our other stray "Albert" so I hope he has found somewhere comfortable to sleep.

Indeed, let's hope everyone without a roof over their heads is safe and warm.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jsabine on 10 December, 2017, 10:50:46 am
I thought the law was that if you DID clear anything then and only then were you liable

That's English law.

Mythically, I thought.

The passer-by would have to establish that you'd done it, that you'd been negligent in how you did it, and that you owed them a duty of care.

I suppose it's just possible, if you were spectacularly negligent - mantraps in a snowbank, using water to clear the snow so it later froze, that kind of thing - but any attempt to sue just because you'd done a crap job of snow-clearing would fall over.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 10 December, 2017, 10:56:35 am

Happydance  :D

SNObike time on the tracks for few hours ;D

Meanwhile the other side of the hill I beat you to it ;D

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Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CAMRAMan on 10 December, 2017, 11:11:57 am
A good 4" in Warwick and still falling. Snow, that is.

I am pondering whether to fit the Ice spikers onto the ebike for work tomorrow, or the Marathon Winters onto the Orbit. Either way, it'll be a cold job outside.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cunobelin on 10 December, 2017, 11:14:16 am
only very light sleet here in Southampton

Not even that in Portsmouth!

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 10 December, 2017, 11:16:35 am
I thought the law was that if you DID clear anything then and only then were you liable

That's English law.

Mythically, I thought.

The passer-by would have to establish that you'd done it, that you'd been negligent in how you did it, and that you owed them a duty of care.

I suppose it's just possible, if you were spectacularly negligent - mantraps in a snowbank, using water to clear the snow so it later froze, that kind of thing - but any attempt to sue just because you'd done a crap job of snow-clearing would fall over.
Yes. I've seen statements from assorted people who one would expect to know, e.g. the HSE, & they all agree that you have to be "spectacularly negligent" before it's an issue.

The HSE calls it one of the 'Twelve Myths of Christmas' - number 10. Unfortunately that's an old page & the link to the details is broken, but I think it's still clear.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/xmasmyths.htm (http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/xmasmyths.htm)

This one has details -
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/snow-clearing-health-and-safety-myth-shattered (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/snow-clearing-health-and-safety-myth-shattered)


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Chair of the Health and Safety Executive Judith Hackitt said:

Anyone can clear ice and snow from public spaces, so don’t be put off because you’re afraid someone will get injured. Remember, people walking on snow and ice have a responsibility to themselves to be careful.

Health and safety legislation is designed to protect people where there is a genuine danger that someone could be killed or seriously injured, not to stop people from getting on with their lives and certainly not to stop people from reducing the risk for themselves and others by clearing snow and ice.


Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 10 December, 2017, 12:11:12 pm
It was the law in every part of the US (and I think Canada) I lived in that you had to clear the space outside your house, apartment whatever. The police would actually check. But people mostly did it anyway. I was set up to grit the hill last year when it snowed but the local councillor chap beat me to it (thanks). Odds on, none of the other 50-odd houses back there would have bothered.

Anyway, no snow here on the North Downs, just rain, rain, rain.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 10 December, 2017, 12:32:32 pm
only very light sleet here in Southampton

Not even that in Portsmouth!

More like a baby's bottom. Wet and windy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 10 December, 2017, 12:45:27 pm
We're due for that. It's still thick in the garden and on the dratted pavement but the stuff falling is now rain and we're due hefty winds this evening.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 10 December, 2017, 12:50:09 pm
we missed out on the fun :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 10 December, 2017, 01:04:37 pm
Never made it to Danish family gathering.
Booked cab for 10.45 no cab available.
Kept trying.
Gave up 12.15.
Don't want to transfer into a minicab in this!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 10 December, 2017, 01:05:35 pm
Remember, the vast majority of H&S legislation governs the employee/employer relationship, to stop employer's exploiting their employees and endangering them in doing so. Very few pieces of hse regs, other than perhaps occupiers liability are to do with potential effects on the public, and even that has some limitations.

You as a householder, Vs a random passed by would be governed by general torts on negligence such as Rylands Vs Fletcher, man on the Clapham omnibus etc.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 10 December, 2017, 01:11:26 pm
We must be right at the edge of the snow zone.  It's been snowing all morning but not really settling.
Still snowing.  Solidly through the night and all day so far.  Still not settling. 
 :(
Or
 :D
I'm not sure which.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 10 December, 2017, 01:15:23 pm
Take care in that there London I hear that there is riots erm SNO! in Hackney - utterly pandemonium and chaos!

I wouldn't be traveling in London when there is snow. That is taken from 15+ years living there: only once it really snowed there (as in it stayed longer than 4:30PM) and around 2-3 times where there was a dusting lasted a few hours. Looking at how people drove around there I ain't going back out in that in London when snowing.

Heck even oop here in the NORTH, I have seen some right nutters.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andyoxon on 10 December, 2017, 01:45:58 pm
3-4" here in Oxon.  Went for a local walk, came across a beamer driver being reminded why RWD is not so good in snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wombat on 10 December, 2017, 01:54:43 pm
Around 250mm here in Caersws, and its still lobbing it down.  No chance of getting any sort of wheeled vehicle up the quarter mile long uphill driveway... Still, we've got food, beer, coal wood fuel, oil for the boilers, we just hope we don't get over snow loaded electricity wires coming down.  We have a relation supposedly coming from Stoke by train tomorrow.  If the train does run (todays seem to be cancelled) then we'll all have to walk down to the village with spare wellies for her, to help with her luggage and get it back here.

If we had actually moved into the house we're allegedly buying, we'd definitely be stuck there.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: De Sisti on 10 December, 2017, 02:22:04 pm
It was the law in every part of the US (and I think Canada) I lived in that you had to clear the space outside your house, apartment whatever. The police would actually check. But people mostly did it anyway. I was set up to grit the hill last year when it snowed but the local councillor chap beat me to it (thanks). Odds on, none of the other 50-odd houses back there would have bothered.

Anyway, no snow here on the North Downs, just rain, rain, rain.
About two hours ago I cleared the path leading up to my front door, the pavement outside the front of my property
and all of the snow off my car (in preparation of driving it to our evening concert; which has since been cancelled).
All of that effort is wasted, as the continuous downfall of snow has replaced the stuff I cleared away.



Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 10 December, 2017, 02:35:58 pm
First time the winter tyres have encountered sno.

Marvellous.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: iddu on 10 December, 2017, 02:45:14 pm

Happydance  :D

SNObike time on the tracks for few hours ;D

Meanwhile the other side of the hill I beat you to it ;D


Bag. 5 falls, no submissions, one torn jacket, and a grazed elbow stinging like buggery - good fun...  :P
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 10 December, 2017, 02:48:22 pm

Happydance  :D

SNObike time on the tracks for few hours ;D

Meanwhile the other side of the hill I beat you to it ;D


Bag. 5 falls, no submissions, one torn jacket, and a grazed elbow stinging like buggery - good fun...  :P

Fun though isn’t it? Fortunately I’d recovered from my only fall just before the shepherd came up in his 4x4 to check the flock. Riding in his track made the going a lot easier.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 10 December, 2017, 03:25:28 pm
Apparently the skijumping in Titisee-Neustadt is being interrupted by rain.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 10 December, 2017, 03:26:36 pm
I have never seen brummies driving so carefully...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CAMRAMan on 10 December, 2017, 03:29:19 pm
I did switch to the Ice Spikers and venture out, but the snow was too deep. It took longer to get togged up than I actually spent in the saddle.

Still snowing as dusk approaches.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 10 December, 2017, 03:53:25 pm
We had a dusting while out walkies now log fire on and awaiting the marvelous Peli to finish the roast she working on. Could nearly call this winter :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jakob W on 10 December, 2017, 05:12:13 pm
I expect the Danes will mock the Brits.

As they should.

This always ticks me off a bit, as does the related 'lol southern softies' stuff you get whenever there's unusual snowfall like this. I don't remember snow like this for what, five years or more? Of course we're not geared up for it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 10 December, 2017, 05:23:27 pm
3-4" here in Oxon.  Went for a local walk, came across a beamer driver being reminded why RWD is not so good in snow.

           I drove a Ford Granada as a licenced Private Hire Vehicle for several years, no proble in snow as long as you 1. used common sense and 2. knew what you were doing (as in knew how to drive, try getting out of High Wycombe in a blizzard and you will know what I mean)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 10 December, 2017, 05:26:03 pm
I expect the Danes will mock the Brits.

As they should.

This always ticks me off a bit, as does the related 'lol southern softies' stuff you get whenever there's unusual snowfall like this. I don't remember snow like this for what, five years or more? Of course we're not geared up for it.
Exactly!   Pees me off as well when people start citing Nordic and Canadian preparedness.  Of  course they're prepared.  There's no question they need to be.
You want Ceredigion to invest in all that plant that will only be needed 2 or 3 times in 5 years?  You prepared to  pay the extra council tax to fund it?
Last year it would have sat in the depot unused as it never actually snowed.
Personally, I think they do a good job within a realistic budget.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 10 December, 2017, 05:28:16 pm
I expect the Danes will mock the Brits.

As they should.

This always ticks me off a bit, as does the related 'lol southern softies' stuff you get whenever there's unusual snowfall like this. I don't remember snow like this for what, five years or more? Of course we're not geared up for it.

It's the Daily Mail mentality. The same people who vote over and over to pay less taxes and for less services but can't believe the council won't grit their street. Like a third world country, innit. Yeah, we should have an entire fleet of snowploughs and gritters available 365 days a year, for the one day each year they might be necessary. Take a day off, the world won't end.

(and for the record, even in snow-prepared places, roads gets blocked, trains and flights get cancelled...)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 10 December, 2017, 05:31:14 pm
Not sure if this is the right thread :)

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One of the best things about travelling when it snows in the UK is watching horrified foreigners realise quite how badly we cope. You can see them thinking ‘Leave the EU? You can’t even make it out of Tottenham Hale.’

https://twitter.com/AlistairBarrie/status/939839163532300288

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 10 December, 2017, 06:10:12 pm
Having audited Stansted airport, I know they keep, literally, shedloads of snow clearing equipment maintained throughout the year. It's generally a case of accumulating quicker than removal plus landing.

Two weeks ago Oslo did no better and I spent a night in the baggage hall.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jakob W on 10 December, 2017, 06:31:07 pm
Well, for airports it's possibly safety-critical so it makes a bit more sense.

Woolly: made oi laarf.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 10 December, 2017, 06:43:00 pm
Non here at all :(

Watching the weather on TV it was like in inverted world in that everything below eh Humber was getting loads of snow and everything above wasn't.

Nothing here, either. :( Very cold, but no precipitation.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: cycleman on 10 December, 2017, 06:49:00 pm
Snow was falling till about 2.30 pm in slough. It is melting away quite fast at the moment . I had a fun ride to the shops this morning .  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 December, 2017, 08:03:28 pm
I slept through it.  Looks like about an inch in E17, buses running on Larrington Towers Road and no car-crash-stylee Noises Off.  As SNOpocalypses go, this one's a bit of a Rubbish.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 10 December, 2017, 08:43:09 pm
Sunny in FurryBootToon today  :)

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Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hatler on 10 December, 2017, 11:41:18 pm
Mini-hatler chose today as his first go at competitive cyclo-cross. It was snowing quite a bit as he set off. Still, at least he stayed warm. I was bloody freezing standing around watching.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 11 December, 2017, 07:14:02 am
Not sure if this is the right thread :)

Quote
One of the best things about travelling when it snows in the UK is watching horrified foreigners realise quite how badly we cope. You can see them thinking ‘Leave the EU? You can’t even make it out of Tottenham Hale.’

https://twitter.com/AlistairBarrie/status/939839163532300288

Quote
Why would anyone want to get "out of Tottenham Hale"? There's a Pizza Hut, a KFC,   a Gregs and Subway. (There's also Burger King, but you'll need a sleeping bag waiting to get ordered )

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 11 December, 2017, 07:21:46 am
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Why would anyone want to get "out of Tottenham Hale"? There's a Pizza Hut, a KFC,   a Gregs and Subway. (There's also Burger King, but you'll need a sleeping bag waiting to get ordered )

4 out of 5 of them being American and the other misspelt.  Just sayin'. ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mattc on 11 December, 2017, 08:44:35 am
Roads are mostly quite usable in South Oxon (they were ploughing them yesterday, and probably all night  :thumbsup: )

However, it will be grey-n-chilly all day today, and -6'c overnight. I foresee quite a lot of ice on the roads  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 December, 2017, 09:08:54 am
Snowploughs: I'm pretty sure the snowploughs used in Poland, where they can be sure of getting regular use for at least three and usually four months a year, are not dedicated, single-purpose vehicles. They're just small trucks loaded with grit, a spreading attachment on the back and a blade (with rubber bottom) fitted on the front bumper. And it still leaves the problem of what to do with all the piled up snow. It also doesn't get rid of ice.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 11 December, 2017, 09:45:01 am
In Connecticut, they'd fit ploughs to refuge trucks so they could empty the bins and clear the roads.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 11 December, 2017, 10:08:06 am
One of the features I recall from New England was the number of pick-ups with plough (or plow) attachment points on the front. Used for clearing mall car parks etc. Also the frost heave and lack of cats eyes on I95.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 11 December, 2017, 10:27:20 am
Cats aren't allowed in New England as they attract witches.

Yes, it's common for generic pickup trucks to be turned into ploughs. My apartment management did just that to clear the parking lots.

But unlike the UK, you're guaranteed some heavy snowfall throughout the winter so there's cause to be prepared. Even with that, they'd still regularly declare snow days (mostly to stop people rolling their top-heavy SUVs, I think).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: matthew on 11 December, 2017, 10:48:01 am
Well that was an interesting drive round the M25 this morning. J8-J5 was a constantly changing precipitation from wet sleet to fluffy flakes of SNOW. Driving was not fun and the roads were turning a slushy grey colour.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CAMRAMan on 11 December, 2017, 11:18:27 am
My ride in was fine on the roads, but the cyclepaths were treacherous. My Ice Spikers are designed for, well, ice, not slush. Slush was what I endured for 3 miles; compacted slush too. I gave up and walked stretches until I got to bits with virgin snow which I could traverse a little quicker. My 27-minute ride took 65 minutes. I shall re-route on the way home.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 11 December, 2017, 11:31:11 am
Well that was an interesting drive round the M25 this morning. J8-J5 was a constantly changing precipitation from wet sleet to fluffy flakes of SNOW. Driving was not fun and the roads were turning a slushy grey colour.

My wife will have fun then, she's just landed at Heathrow.

Snowing quite heavily here in the mountainous jungles of Easterly Snurrey, though it's mostly turning to soggy wet slush on the ground. It'll be 'interesting' when that freezes given the usual local driving standards. At least someone gritted the steep hill outside, though the flow of water might wash most of it away.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Riggers on 11 December, 2017, 11:35:50 am
We have sleet here on the south coast. Move along.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 11 December, 2017, 11:55:26 am
I think all this talk of snowmaggeddon is fake news.

We have clear blue skies here in Yorkshire.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 11 December, 2017, 12:07:13 pm
I think all this talk of snowmaggeddon is fake news.

We have clear blue skies here in Yorkshire.
OOI, does anyone know if that includes Leeds? Asking for a friend...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 11 December, 2017, 12:35:18 pm
Well that was an interesting drive round the M25 this morning. J8-J5 was a constantly changing precipitation from wet sleet to fluffy flakes of SNOW. Driving was not fun and the roads were turning a slushy grey colour.

My wife will have fun then, she's just landed at Heathrow.

Snowing quite heavily here in the mountainous jungles of Easterly Snurrey, though it's mostly turning to soggy wet slush on the ground. It'll be 'interesting' when that freezes given the usual local driving standards. At least someone gritted the steep hill outside, though the flow of water might wash most of it away.

Temperature here is nearly 3C and it's sleeting lightly.

Heathrow is about 15 miles away.

I imagine your wife will arrive to miserable cold wetness but little snowmageddon.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 11 December, 2017, 12:45:25 pm
Apparently was no snow at Heathrow. Slushy everywhere else. Still snowing here, but it's soggy stuff mostly already slush by the time it hits the ground. Cats unimpressed.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: essexian on 11 December, 2017, 01:28:34 pm
CBH just sent me up the shops (I say up, as our local shop is half a mile away up hill) to get some cat food..... yes, I know who is in charge here.... and frankly I am at a loss to know why most of our local schools are closed as while there is ice on the side roads, the main estate roads are passable with care.  I suppose it must be down to teachers not be able to travel....it can't be due to the little ones not being able to get to school as surely they walk.......  :facepalm:


I do fear for tomorrow however as we are supposed to be having -7 here tonight meaning everything will freeze and the roads will become very tricky unless they are gritted.....

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Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 11 December, 2017, 01:36:13 pm
I think all this talk of snowmaggeddon is fake news.

We have clear blue skies here in Yorkshire.
OOI, does anyone know if that includes Leeds? Asking for a friend...
Yes - I'm in Leeds centre now, it is cold (not got above 0 all day) but clear blue skies.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 11 December, 2017, 02:31:25 pm
The havoc a few snowflakes can wreak..
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hulver on 11 December, 2017, 02:52:33 pm
I'm just south of Sheffield, this was my local Aldi on Saturday, before it even started snowing.

(https://i.imgur.com/Sw4HSkC.jpg)
(Image shows the bread shelves at Aldi, empty except for 2 loaves of bread)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 11 December, 2017, 02:56:49 pm
Yes - I'm in Leeds centre now, it is cold (not got above 0 all day) but clear blue skies.

Thanks for that.  Barakta is on a train heading north as we speak.  The pavements are nasty and advanced ice-gripper tactics were required for the trek to the local station (buses seem to be a mess), but the local trains were no more rubbish than usual[1], and the chaos level at Mordor Central is lower than expected.

Meanwhile I was helping my friend get his car moving.  This required a SHOVEL and more than a little pushing (the local roads are now compacted sheet ice, but the car was parked before the snowpocalypse, so it had to mount the ice to get moving).  Gritted main roads are fine.

I'm now watching how various cars cope with the ice rink that is the junction of the two minor roads I can see from my window.  So far the worst have been a small VW (down to spectacularly incompetent driving) and some sort of SUVish thing with silly low-profile tyres.  Interestingly, a Pruis seemed to manage fine (I suppose traction control makes up for high-efficiency tyres).  I assume the RWD BMWs are all stuck in their driveways.


[1] They share track with trains heading between Mordor and the south-west, so tend to get shafted every time the intercity services are delayed.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 11 December, 2017, 04:59:09 pm
RWD or |FWD, if you know how to drive you can handle the conditions, (for what it is worth we now own a 2003 Volvo V40 fwd) I have driven over 1,000,000 miles over 30 odd years professionally a lot of them on RWD, trouble is a lot of drivers just jump in and play with the pedals instead of learning how to cope with adverse conditions. Hey ho.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jakob W on 11 December, 2017, 05:05:29 pm
Bah, school closed for a second day tomorrow.

Anyone have recommendation for crampon thingies? I vaguely recall someone on here getting some a year or two back (possibly nikki?). It occurs to me it will be worth while trying to get some in in a couple of weeks once they've hopefully come back into stock and keeping them in the boot cupboard for the next big freeze...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 11 December, 2017, 05:13:10 pm
Good idea, same as a studded rear tyre for my trike
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 11 December, 2017, 05:51:07 pm
Bah, school closed for a second day tomorrow.

Anyone have recommendation for crampon thingies? I vaguely recall someone on here getting some a year or two back (possibly nikki?). It occurs to me it will be worth while trying to get some in in a couple of weeks once they've hopefully come back into stock and keeping them in the boot cupboard for the next big freeze...
I have some Bergsteigers
They are a bit tight getting them on the shoe (Medium on size 8.5/9 UK shoes)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Aunt Maud on 11 December, 2017, 06:09:44 pm
It's snowing here and the plastering sand has gone like iron.   >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mattc on 11 December, 2017, 06:25:00 pm
RWD or |FWD, if you know how to drive you can handle the conditions, (for what it is worth we now own a 2003 Volvo V40 fwd) I have driven over 1,000,000 miles over 30 odd years professionally a lot of them on RWD, trouble is a lot of drivers just jump in and play with the pedals instead of learning how to cope with adverse conditions. Hey ho.
I think RWD (assuming front-engined!) only really suffers when pulling away in very low friction conditions. Once you're moving - as you say - it's more swings and roundabouts.

I had a pre-gadgets 3-Series which wasn't very good at this; BMW helpfully provided floor mats which they said were tough enough to use under the drive wheels in slippery conditions!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 11 December, 2017, 08:47:57 pm
I used to practice skidding in my Renault 4.  We had a a succession of severe winters. There was next to no traffic on the E. Anglian roads when they were snow-covered and being rural the edges were soft.  A front skid was easy to recover from but a rear wheel skid was another matter. It started a pendulum effect that got worse the more you tried to get out of it - quite scary if you didn't know what to do.  My brother had a rear wheel drive Talbot and couldn't go anywhere in it when the roads were icy.  Even tried putting sandbags in the boot but to no avail. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 11 December, 2017, 08:56:05 pm
I think all this talk of snowmaggeddon is fake news.

We have clear blue skies here in Yorkshire.

Same here (well, not now - it's dark - but blue skies earlier). I don't think it's gone above zero all day, but it's been dry and bright.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bobb on 11 December, 2017, 10:06:56 pm
Jesus fuck - I've just been to the shop and it's more slippery out there than any ice rink I've ever been to.

I did treat myself to a bag of Bobby's Onion Rings for 39p though. Damn they're good  :P
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Post by: nikki on 11 December, 2017, 10:41:53 pm
Anyone have recommendation for crampon thingies? I vaguely recall someone on here getting some a year or two back (possibly nikki?).

I have some cheapy things from some high street discount chain or other.

Something thusly for about £7 or similar and they make a noticeable difference

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41TeLQ6Cy%2BL._SY300_.jpg)
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Post by: Jakob W on 11 December, 2017, 10:50:06 pm
Ta! I took a punt on something similar on eBay; I figured for 3 or 4 quid it was probably worth a shot.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 12 December, 2017, 07:51:26 am
Very cool this morning, -3C.  That's about it really. 
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Post by: rafletcher on 12 December, 2017, 08:15:16 am
CBH just sent me up the shops (I say up, as our local shop is half a mile away up hill) to get some cat food..... yes, I know who is in charge here.... and frankly I am at a loss to know why most of our local schools are closed as while there is ice on the side roads, the main estate roads are passable with care.  I suppose it must be down to teachers not be able to travel....it can't be due to the little ones not being able to get to school as surely they walk.......  :facepalm:


I do fear for tomorrow however as we are supposed to be having -7 here tonight meaning everything will freeze and the roads will become very tricky unless they are gritted.....

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4639/38984250041_2251ba0767_m.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/22oUtm6)2017-12-11_01-35-02 (https://flic.kr/p/22oUtm6) by essexian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/26068282@N07/), on Flickr

More likely is the bus companies that trek a lot of students in will not be running.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 12 December, 2017, 08:40:20 am
-4.2 here
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Post by: rafletcher on 12 December, 2017, 09:17:17 am
Local-ish tennis club weather station has a low of -8.7, now up to -8.3.  That's a known frost hollow in Chesham, so probably -6-ish here. Bright and crisp.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 12 December, 2017, 01:02:18 pm
My outdoor thermometer reads 5.9C, the sun is shining, the roads are clear though there is some residual SNO on the lawn.

Sainsbury's have suspended all local deliveries until Friday.

David wonders why I keep high levels of Stuffs in stock.

My hoard of cat food tins means the cats won't starve; they are putting a LOT down!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 12 December, 2017, 01:19:33 pm
Anyone have recommendation for crampon thingies? I vaguely recall someone on here getting some a year or two back (possibly nikki?).

I have some cheapy things from some high street discount chain or other.

Something thusly for about £7 or similar and they make a noticeable difference

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41TeLQ6Cy%2BL._SY300_.jpg)
    Try a pair of wooly socks over your boots, screws the socks but traction massively improved.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 December, 2017, 01:19:56 pm
Mr Sainsbury's House Of Toothy Comestibles has been lacking certain essentials, such as Marlboro Gold, since at least Friday.  Which they therefore cannot blame on the SNO.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 12 December, 2017, 01:23:41 pm
Mr Sainsbury's House Of Toothy Comestibles has been lacking certain essentials, such as Marlboro Gold, since at least Friday.  Which they therefore cannot blame on the SNO.

[Marie Antoinette moment]

But the Stroopwafels are on Special Offer, if that's any consolation...

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jsabine on 12 December, 2017, 01:24:52 pm
Mr Sainsbury's House Of Toothy Comestibles has been lacking certain essentials, such as Marlboro Gold, since at least Friday.  Which they therefore cannot blame on the SNO.

They can, however, blame it on the wholesaler going into administration (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/28/wholesaler-p-and-h-goes-into-administration-loss-of-2500-jobs-palmer-and-harvey-tesco), so fags are currently being shipped out by means that are i) not used to it, and ii) not necessarily equipped to handle the detail.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 12 December, 2017, 01:25:13 pm
RWD or |FWD, if you know how to drive you can handle the conditions, (for what it is worth we now own a 2003 Volvo V40 fwd) I have driven over 1,000,000 miles over 30 odd years professionally a lot of them on RWD, trouble is a lot of drivers just jump in and play with the pedals instead of learning how to cope with adverse conditions. Hey ho.
I think RWD (assuming front-engined!) only really suffers when pulling away in very low friction conditions. Once you're moving - as you say - it's more swings and roundabouts.

I had a pre-gadgets 3-Series which wasn't very good at this; BMW helpfully provided floor mats which they said were tough enough to use under the drive wheels in slippery conditions!

         03-00 on a snowy morning in Oxford (several years back) coming up New Road in a black Ford Granada I decided to have a play no one else about so blipped the throttle, the back swung out kept the throttle on so she did a complete circle eased it off and carried on my way, only then did I spot a police gently shaking his head as he stood sheltering from the snow in the library doorway. All good fun
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 12 December, 2017, 01:47:11 pm
Try a pair of wooly socks over your boots, screws the socks but traction massively improved.

I've seen it done to good effect, but it only makes sense if you can steal suitable wooly socks from someone with giant man-feet.  If you've got to go out and buy them specially, you might as well get grippers.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 12 December, 2017, 02:15:37 pm
Except that you can go into eg Primark and get a pair of humongous woolly (or fluffy acrylic with bobbles on the bottom) socks for a few pence, whereas grippers will have to searched for.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 12 December, 2017, 02:17:37 pm
Except that you can go into eg Primark and get a pair of humongous woolly (or fluffy acrylic with bobbles on the bottom) socks for a few pence, whereas grippers will have to searched for.

I think I bought the ones barakta's currently using from Adsa for under a fiver, on "that looks like a good way to avoid a debilitating arm injury" impulse-buy logic.  I didn't realise they were particularly hard to find.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 12 December, 2017, 02:21:24 pm
They might be easy to find if you look for them, but I've never had to! And I've never seen them without looking for them, at least not that sticks in memory. For all I know, they might actually sell them in Primark, next to the woolly socks! (which I'm sure aren't actually woolly in Primark but hey)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 12 December, 2017, 02:31:04 pm
Santa gift stocking?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Torslanda on 12 December, 2017, 07:42:59 pm
Mr Sainsbury's House Of Toothy Comestibles has been lacking certain essentials, such as Marlboro Gold, since at least Friday.  Which they therefore cannot blame on the SNO.

They can, however, blame it on the wholesaler going into administration (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/28/wholesaler-p-and-h-goes-into-administration-loss-of-2500-jobs-palmer-and-harvey-tesco), so fags are currently being shipped out by means that are i) not used to it, and ii) not necessarily equipped to handle the detail.

<Slightly OT> reasons cited 'cashflow' and 'failure to restructure' the business. Step forward the boards of Tossco and Teh House of Toothy etc. Pushing your suppliers from 30 days to 60 or 90 or even 120 days credit is only going to end badly. Suck it up cupcakes, you fucked it...

<Back OT> Nth Mancunium is remarkably SNO free . . .

OTOH it's pissing down. So no change there then.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 December, 2017, 06:14:37 am
Mr Sainsbury's House Of Toothy Comestibles has been lacking certain essentials, such as Marlboro Gold, since at least Friday.  Which they therefore cannot blame on the SNO.

They can, however, blame it on the wholesaler going into administration (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/28/wholesaler-p-and-h-goes-into-administration-loss-of-2500-jobs-palmer-and-harvey-tesco), so fags are currently being shipped out by means that are i) not used to it, and ii) not necessarily equipped to handle the detail.

That could be it, though I managed to source some from Morrisons, and fir less money too.  As to the Stroopwafels, they are, alas, not on offer in my branch of Mr Sainsbury's House Of Toothy Comestibles.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 13 December, 2017, 07:05:14 am
A whole 0.2 Feb c in my gym/shed yesterday. I did my warm up in a fleece with the hot air blower directed to my feet. I think that's the longest I've left it on
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 13 December, 2017, 02:31:31 pm
It's currently 6C and pish in Brummingham.  This is turning the snow and ice to dirty slush at an accelerated rate.  I'm remaining indoors.
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Post by: cycleman on 13 December, 2017, 06:13:40 pm
Good trike weather  :demon: , just saying  :)
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Post by: Kim on 13 December, 2017, 06:21:32 pm
Last time I rode a trike in conditions like this, the council helpfully gritted my face.   :hand:
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Post by: Quint on 13 December, 2017, 06:56:22 pm
Good trike weather  :demon: , just saying  :)

                   Chris,
You've seen that photo with my trike under 4 inches of sno after coming out of Oxford at 04-00 in a blizzard
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: essexian on 13 December, 2017, 08:14:48 pm
GGGGRrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... its snowing again! About 1cm in the last hour.

Not best pleased about that as I thought it was improving around here.  :facepalm:
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Post by: Aunt Maud on 13 December, 2017, 08:34:18 pm
Pleased to say that I arrived this afternoon for plastering in Essexshire, without a sno related incident.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 13 December, 2017, 10:20:25 pm
Still no snow. However, thanks to icy rain earlier today and yesterday we now have black ice all over the pavements. My walk home took twice as long as usual because I was sliding all over the place. From what I can gather, the roads and cycle paths are not great either.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: essexian on 17 December, 2017, 09:17:52 am
Thankfully, we in deepest Stafford are no longer cut off from the outside world as firstly, we had our first post for 8 days yesterday and then this morning (Sunday) the recycling was collected (due six days ago).  ;D

Okay.... I am being a little arsey here as I can understand why you would not wish to bring a large truck down an icy unsalted road which is on a noticeable slope, but for the life of me, I can't understand why Royal Mail failed to manage it given that we had loads of deliveries from other sources last week. If I was to be charitable (which I am as I am due a reasonably large Post Office pension), I would say its down to the loss of a lot of staff due to the company being given away cheaply a couple of years back...well profit must come first.   :facepalm:  Indeed, our post was brought by a bloke wearing a "Manager" badge.



Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 17 December, 2017, 05:27:18 pm
Still ice on the back lanes in the fens at midday yesterday.

Raining today and looks cold, but not windy tomorrow, which is good for my 50km each way to addenbrookes for a last long ride of the year.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hbunnet on 17 December, 2017, 07:43:54 pm
Mrs Hbunnet realised the banging noises were not coming from the DIY bozo acroos the road but from our Grit Bin.  Small pickup, loaded it up and drove off.
Here in rural Aberdeenshire we are still suffering from last weeks snow, low temperatures with some thawing during the day have left the minor roads in a terrible state.
Grit bins are empty in many places but ours had some left, which I was husbanding.

The gritting and ploughing services are at full stretch and the bins haven't been replenished  Clearly grit is a local competitor to BitCoin. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feanor on 17 December, 2017, 07:49:47 pm
Our dead-end street in Culter has not been treated, and was basically a skating rink of pure verglas.
There is a yellow bin for grit, but it's empty.

Today, I took the Land Rover to the Garden Centre, and bought several bags of grit and put it down myself.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 December, 2017, 09:09:05 pm
Mrs Hbunnet realised the banging noises were not coming from the DIY bozo acroos the road but from our Grit Bin.  Small pickup, loaded it up and drove off.
Here in rural Aberdeenshire we are still suffering from last weeks snow, low temperatures with some thawing during the day have left the minor roads in a terrible state.
Grit bins are empty in many places but ours had some left, which I was husbanding.

The gritting and ploughing services are at full stretch and the bins haven't been replenished  Clearly grit is a local competitor to BitCoin. 

Somebody stole the grit bin? ???
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 17 December, 2017, 09:25:31 pm
I assumed just the grit.....
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Post by: hbunnet on 17 December, 2017, 10:20:32 pm
The whole bin. 
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 December, 2017, 10:22:45 pm
You in Hatton? Just seen the same thing posted on Fubar News...
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Post by: hbunnet on 17 December, 2017, 10:30:16 pm
Yes Hatton. I made a rare Facebook post about it on the local page.  Fubar is unknown to my aged person.
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Post by: Kim on 26 December, 2017, 09:55:06 pm
Soggy snow beginning to settle in Middle Earth...
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Post by: Jaded on 27 December, 2017, 02:21:56 am
We’ve got an inch or two here and it’s lovely, no car tracks or footprints.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 27 December, 2017, 10:09:34 am
We've a bit here and there. Not cut off yet.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2017, 10:13:20 am
Bollox. This isn't getting that mileage before the end of the year done....
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Post by: Andrij on 27 December, 2017, 10:54:41 am
Some of the white stuff fell in East London, but it all melted upon landing.
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Post by: Aunt Maud on 27 December, 2017, 11:25:30 am
It's raining and a fetching shade of Bismarck grey in Jutland............. as usual.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 27 December, 2017, 11:32:53 am
We appear to have dodged the worst of it here in the shadow of the Chilterns. It’s been sleeting, with various snow content, since around 2am and continues so to do in a brisk north-westerly. It’s yuck.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 27 December, 2017, 11:35:03 am
Started snowing in Bristol about 2330 and to my surprise some of it has settled, in a slushy way. Sunny now but not warm.
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Post by: clarion on 27 December, 2017, 11:36:42 am
Bizarrely, this morning, there was much more snow within the West Midlands conurbation than in the small valley where we were pretty much cut off last snowfall.  Doesn't usually happen this way round.
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 27 December, 2017, 11:47:06 am
Several inches deep here in Warwick, though it is turning to a horrible slush as I write.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 December, 2017, 05:39:46 pm
Not even raining by the time I got back to E17.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 27 December, 2017, 06:14:30 pm
I saw more cyclists on my trip to the wild southeast today than I have on any previous day. It seems snow brings people out to play on their bicycles. At least once it's almost all melted.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 28 December, 2017, 07:03:37 am
Stansted, under an hour away was closed yesterday/overnight, here in the fens, sogginess, snow, hail, sleet, nothing settling. A hard frost when putting the bins out this morning.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 December, 2017, 08:48:56 am
I was wondering about that too.  Stansted is even closer to here and no sign of anything other than wind-propelled drizzle when I got to these parts.
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Post by: hellymedic on 28 December, 2017, 01:58:10 pm
Cousin Facebooked photos of Stansted in SNO yesterday.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 29 December, 2017, 08:18:12 am
Snowing heavily here this morning. Normally I'd quite like it, but I was rather hoping to get the remaining 101km of my Festive 500 today, and I don't fancy it in this weather!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: De Sisti on 29 December, 2017, 09:15:16 am
Bought some Yaktrax Pro  (https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/yaktrax-yaktrax-pro-B9244016.html?channable=e15806.NDQxNTBfMTgw&colour=180&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIj5Ou2_Cu2AIVbpPtCh01VwCCEAQYASABEgJ6r_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)ice grips for for walking on compact snow and ice-ridden pavements.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: numbnuts on 29 December, 2017, 09:34:12 am
Bought some Yaktrax Pro  (https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/yaktrax-yaktrax-pro-B9244016.html?channable=e15806.NDQxNTBfMTgw&colour=180&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIj5Ou2_Cu2AIVbpPtCh01VwCCEAQYASABEgJ6r_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)ice grips for for walking on compact snow and ice-ridden pavements.  :thumbsup:
I have a pair of those gathering dust in the bottom of the wardrobe, don't get snow in the sunny south.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Beardy on 21 January, 2018, 02:24:56 pm
Sunny Suffolk is currently snowy Suffolk. It’s been snowing for the past 3 hours and there’s a whole half an inch on some surfaces. The road is remaking stubonly unsnowed on.
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Post by: tiermat on 21 January, 2018, 02:39:35 pm
Snowing here, started about 5 minutes after I got the smoker started and a slab of brisket sat on it.

Oh well, at least the cook will be very low and very slow (3 chicken breasts are still not cooked through after an hour!)

If this keeps up I may get to have a sleep in tomorrow!
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Post by: hellymedic on 21 January, 2018, 04:28:58 pm
Sleety earlier today here in Outer Londonton.
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Post by: Steph on 21 January, 2018, 04:43:05 pm
Proper snow in Surrey/Sussex border all morning, but nothing lying.
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Post by: ElyDave on 21 January, 2018, 04:47:58 pm
Drifting down from about 10am to 2pm here, settling, but now getting washed away by drizzle
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 22 January, 2018, 07:57:22 am
Snowed y'day, then it rained, now there are hidden patches of ice. Luvverly..
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Post by: Canardly on 11 February, 2018, 05:18:46 pm
Impressive hail/sleet storm here today. Glad I was not out there.
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Post by: Kim on 11 February, 2018, 05:25:33 pm
Impressive hail/sleet storm here today. Glad I was not out there.

+1
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Post by: Basil on 11 February, 2018, 05:27:42 pm
+2
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Post by: ElyDave on 11 February, 2018, 06:28:51 pm
+3
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Post by: cycleman on 11 February, 2018, 06:47:20 pm
+4   :)
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Post by: mcshroom on 11 February, 2018, 07:19:47 pm
It's been snowing on and off here all afternoon - some of it pretty heavy. There's only a little settled on cars and wheelie bins, but it looked impressive as it came down.

Ridiculously, an ice cream van came round in the middle of one of the snow showers!
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Post by: Basil on 11 February, 2018, 08:14:24 pm
I also saw an ice cream van yesterday.
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Post by: Deano on 11 February, 2018, 10:51:42 pm
The snow shower that caught me on the tops between Wensleydale and Swaledale today was quite intense.
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Post by: essexian on 12 February, 2018, 07:25:53 am
Looks like I won't be able to get into work today....

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So, a day in front of the telly watching the Olympics is planned........what do you mean but you work at home... :facepalm:
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 February, 2018, 09:24:53 am
No SNO in Leafy Surrey chiz, just three separate hail incidents.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 12 February, 2018, 03:43:17 pm
+5 on the snow front, oh but I was out there. It was quite stingy at first but turned wet and soft later.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 February, 2018, 05:59:48 pm
If the forecasters are right, East Anglia is in for a tough few days starting from the early hours of tomorrow morning. Shades of 1987?

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/u10mpmvq2#?date=2018-02-27
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Post by: Chris S on 25 February, 2018, 08:17:35 pm
Well, I can tell you - the wind at the top of Roseberry Topping today was chuffin' FREEZING. The muddy bits on the way up, were hard and crunchy on the way down.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 February, 2018, 08:35:41 pm
Roseberry is a far cry from the SE.

My understanding is that E. Anglia will be bearing the brunt of Siberian weather for about 3 days, probably making it the coldest and snowiest part of the country. I believe this to be the 3rd time in my almost 64 years on this planet that such conditions are likely.

The forecast I have seen indicates that the Northern Regions are likely to have to wait until Friday before they get inundated.

Of course, there is still time for all this to change and us get none at all, but the Met Office seem unusually insistent that it is going to happen.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 25 February, 2018, 08:51:01 pm
Have checked pressure in the Nokian W106 tyres.  They're good for snow or hard ice.

On Friday I am supposed to pick up a new car with pimpy 19" wheels and low profile summer tyres.  I have 17" wheels and winter tyres for it but they're in my garage.  At least it's FWD and it's a flat run home!
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Post by: Basil on 25 February, 2018, 09:30:01 pm
Looks like we'll escape the worst of the stuff from the east.  We'll cop it later in the week when the depression moves up from the Bay of Biscay and hits the cold air over Wales.
Meanwhile, looks like the current stuff will cause snow in that London.  This will mean NEWS. 
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Post by: spesh on 25 February, 2018, 09:35:27 pm
<shrugs>

It's not a proper SNOpocalypse unless it actually settles in Portsmouth - it's not done that since 2010.

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Post by: Kim on 25 February, 2018, 10:09:21 pm
Meanwhile, looks like the current stuff will cause snow in that London.  This will mean NEWS. 

Southern appear to have got a head start on the transport chaos by cocking up the bustitution: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/southern-rail-users-furious-as-gatwick-airport-replacement-bus-services-leave-hundreds-stranded-a3775336.html
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 25 February, 2018, 11:17:39 pm
And I'll be driving from Farnham to Ely tomorrow evening rush hour, not in my 4x4 either. 

Cold enough driving here from Birmingham this evening
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Post by: Andrij on 26 February, 2018, 07:58:08 am
Blowing in rather impressively her in East London, and not instantly melting.
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Post by: ElyDave on 26 February, 2018, 07:59:53 am
Started around 7am here in Farnham this morning, drifting around in low winds and settling
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Post by: Torslanda on 26 February, 2018, 08:22:33 am
This is so 'on the money (http://www.southendnewsnetwork.net/news/fucking-hell-its-going-to-snow-in-winter/)' I'm wondering if Wowbagger or Mr Larrington are involved...
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Post by: Beardy on 26 February, 2018, 08:29:15 am
It's sno...
No, its stopped.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 26 February, 2018, 08:34:10 am
Buggerall here at the moment. Met office seem to have revised downwards today’s precipitation. They are still adamant about tonight though.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 26 February, 2018, 08:35:08 am
Since typing the above, it has started...
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Post by: essexian on 26 February, 2018, 08:37:09 am
Just started in Stafford. Its very light but is settling

It looks like today will be fun in town traffic wise what with the snow and the fact that the M6 is closed due to a serious accident.

Me: I am off with the flu so I am going back to bed after feeding the squirrels.


Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Morrisette on 26 February, 2018, 09:45:12 am
No trains for the rest of the week IN CASE it snows.

I would say the country was going to the dogs but we can't actually get there!

Needless to say not a flake so far.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 26 February, 2018, 09:57:13 am
This is so 'on the money (http://www.southendnewsnetwork.net/news/fucking-hell-its-going-to-snow-in-winter/)' I'm wondering if Wowbagger or Mr Larrington are involved...
Excellent!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Torslanda on 26 February, 2018, 10:27:29 am
No trains for the rest of the week IN CASE it snows.

I would say the country was going to the dogs but we can't actually get there!

Needless to say not a flake so far.

That's a joke, right?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 26 February, 2018, 10:34:57 am
Have checked pressure in the Nokian W106 tyres.  They're good for snow or hard ice.

On Friday I am supposed to pick up a new car with pimpy 19" wheels and low profile summer tyres.  I have 17" wheels and winter tyres for it but they're in my garage.  At least it's FWD and it's a flat run home!

If that’s the Mazda6, have fun!  I had 18” low profiles  on mine and it was THE worst car in snow I’ve ever driven. So bad that one day I turned round and came home again rather than press on to work.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 26 February, 2018, 10:36:40 am
I hope the trains are running, I'm on my way to Maidstone for a funeral and hope to get home tonight...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 26 February, 2018, 10:40:39 am
No trains for the rest of the week IN CASE it snows.

I would say the country was going to the dogs but we can't actually get there!

Needless to say not a flake so far.

That's a joke, right?

Would that it were...

https://www.greateranglia.co.uk/travel-information/service-disruptions/severe-weather-warning
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andytheflyer on 26 February, 2018, 10:47:28 am
Just started here - big fluffy things.  20m S of Chester.  Very grey over towards the E.  Hope it doesn't come to much - I've a sax lesson in Chester this evening!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Morrisette on 26 February, 2018, 10:55:12 am
No trains for the rest of the week IN CASE it snows.

I would say the country was going to the dogs but we can't actually get there!

Needless to say not a flake so far.

That's a joke, right?

No, Cambridge has no snow. We haven't seen any at all. This Daily Express panic weather forecasting is getting really irritating.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bobb on 26 February, 2018, 11:21:13 am
Must be right on the edge here. So far this morning it's gone:

Bit of a dusting.
Blue skies.
Heavy snow.
Blue skies.
Blizzard.
Blue skies.
Light snow.
Blue skies.
Blizzard.
Blue skies.
Currently back to light snow...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PeteB99 on 26 February, 2018, 11:30:29 am
Just started here - big fluffy things.  20m S of Chester.  Very grey over towards the E.  Hope it doesn't come to much - I've a sax lesson in Chester this evening!

Chester is a bit cloudy at the moment but no snow yet.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 26 February, 2018, 11:43:32 am
Beautiful sunny day here.  But bloody cold.  A quick ride to the (not very) supermarket this morning was a bit of a wakener.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 26 February, 2018, 02:27:00 pm
I have a chum who used to ride up to the 1000-metre Champ du Feu in -10°C. That was 5 stents ago, though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 26 February, 2018, 02:36:09 pm
David saw some flurries of SNO  earlier though I did not.
The sun is shining, the patio is dry, it's well above freezing and humidity is low.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Aunt Maud on 26 February, 2018, 02:40:46 pm
Lubbly jubbly here.

Currently -5ºC, blue skies, and a stiff Easterly breeze. Fresh!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 26 February, 2018, 03:04:21 pm
Snowing now but outdoor temp is 3C so unlikely to settle.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 26 February, 2018, 03:59:45 pm
-3°C at 4 pm, humidity at 30%, greying over with the odd tiny flake. Nothing forecast before Thurs night, and then going over into rain just in time to make merry Hell of the rush hour.  I shall be asleep. ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TigaSefi on 26 February, 2018, 04:25:35 pm
Overrated! Overblown! Why are people panic buying??
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 26 February, 2018, 05:17:18 pm
Overrated! Overblown! Why are people panic buying??

I was panic buying purely because I needed a bulk shopping trip in the next week or so anyway, and if I did it now while the roads are dry, I could do it without exposing the trike to salty slush.  It hadn't occurred to me that everyone else would have done the same, and Tescos was looking a bit sparse.

There was a decent, if short-lived, blizzard at one point.  Nothing settling though and it's gone back to being sunny.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 26 February, 2018, 05:23:27 pm
There have been flurries of snow here in Kent and it is bitterly cold but the trains are running on time.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nicknack on 26 February, 2018, 05:39:15 pm
Just started here - big fluffy things.  20m S of Chester.  Very grey over towards the E.  Hope it doesn't come to much - I've a sax lesson in Chester this evening!
If you can't get there: long notes and scales.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 26 February, 2018, 05:53:29 pm
Apparently it's just started snowing here in Bristol. Can't see it actually. Temperature is -0.a bit and it's fairly windy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 February, 2018, 06:29:40 pm
Any previous SNO in E17 had utterly gorn, disparu like mother's mink, last time I looked out of the window.  Not even settled on parked cars.

Bah.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 26 February, 2018, 06:48:52 pm
Unimpressed with SNOpocalypse so far. There have been several false starts, but each time it just kinda went "Ah fuck it, I can't be arsed" and the sun came out again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 26 February, 2018, 07:42:32 pm
Unimpressed with SNOpocalypse so far. There have been several false starts, but each time it just kinda went "Ah fuck it, I can't be arsed" and the sun came out again.

pretty much the same in Camberley, Heathrow and points between there and East Cambs
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 26 February, 2018, 09:05:29 pm
Snowed a bit on the North Downs this morning, heavy showers then sunshine. Mostly melted by afternoon despite the frigid temperature. Not exactly Yakutsk.

In an outbreak of public spiritedness I did play the Gritting Fairy (non-tutu version) and gritted the hill outside (and my path and drive).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Thor on 26 February, 2018, 10:22:39 pm
My flight from Stansted to Belfast tomorrow afternoon has been cancelled.  In anticipation.  Of bad weather, forecast by the ever-reliable forecasting services.   >:( 

I note that providers of train services are doing this sort of thing too.  Must be cheaper to call the whole thing off than to try to run a service which might prove to be challenging.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Torslanda on 26 February, 2018, 10:59:18 pm
Just driven back from Sheffield via Stocksbridge & Woodhead. Wasn't the route of choice but some divot had closed the M1, 37-38, so it was that or wibbling around on unfamiliar roads between Penistone & Wakefield.

1500 feet up on Woodhead it was snowing steadily but not settling. The outside temp was -4oC though, so if it gets any heavier... Glad I don't work in Sheffield any more.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andytheflyer on 26 February, 2018, 11:07:58 pm
Just started here - big fluffy things.  20m S of Chester.  Very grey over towards the E.  Hope it doesn't come to much - I've a sax lesson in Chester this evening!
If you can't get there: long notes and scales.

I did get there, but came back without my sax.  It needed some tweaks (register key, long B flat and the L3 (G) key -  so my teacher will tweak it this week.  I'll have to get the Buescher out!  Feels like my right arm's been cut off, or someone's nicked one of my 'bents.....

At least my teacher says that the tweaks are because I practice so much - better than having dropped it I suppose!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 26 February, 2018, 11:09:40 pm
Ah, OK. Properly snowing now, and settling.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 27 February, 2018, 06:44:12 am
Just woken up to snow on the ground in Liverpool.  We've not had that for a few years, so I'd anticipate some minor traffic chaos.   Hope it vanishes soon, they rarely grit the pavements in my part of town  >:(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 27 February, 2018, 06:52:32 am
nothing in North East Cambs
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: cycleman on 27 February, 2018, 07:17:34 am
No sign of snow here but -4 this morning  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 27 February, 2018, 07:59:21 am
-3° and light snow settling.
That's odd, I thought we were on the Thursday/Friday list, not the Tuesday/Wednesday..
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Beardy on 27 February, 2018, 08:00:58 am
It's snowed here, in the east of the Eastern Angles. Not much though, possibly 2 or 3 centimetres, though with the temp at about -4oC its very fine powder. TPTB have gritted some of the roads, but no ploughs have been out and the worst road is the A12 going north from the A14.
It would seem that there are a lot of very sensible people who have stayed at home though because there is a lot less traffic at large than normal for this time of day. (unlike me who HAD to take Dr Beardy (Mrs) into the office this morning!)

I've obviously now completed my transition from home worker to office worker because I chose to come into the office rather than go home after dropping off SWMBO. I'm not sure how I feel about this.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 27 February, 2018, 08:02:59 am
Little bit overnight in the jungles of Surrey. Not enough to please the yeti.

Mysteriously, there's a pair of tyre tracks up the driveway. I didn't think the bears could drive.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nicknack on 27 February, 2018, 08:12:32 am
The Isle of Sheppey is very very white - and getting whiter. It's been a few years since we've had this much snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 27 February, 2018, 08:24:15 am
Didn't settle, obvs. In fact I'm not convinced it really fell. Supposedly -4. Cold wind.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Beardy on 27 February, 2018, 08:26:34 am
It's now 'properly' snowing in the east of the Eastern Angles. Maybe I should have gorn home while I could  :o
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Post by: Polar Bear on 27 February, 2018, 08:32:17 am
A light dusting but more is promised and indeed it is snowing at the moment.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Aunt Maud on 27 February, 2018, 08:45:37 am
Currently about -7ºC and falling to -10ºC this afternoon. Hard wind from the NE and the wind chill is chilly. Brrrrrr!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 27 February, 2018, 08:48:38 am
A small amount of snow in FurryBootToon and a couple flakes on the cycle to work. Nothing on the roads on the commute.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 27 February, 2018, 08:54:29 am
It's now 'properly' snowing in the east of the Eastern Angles. Maybe I should have gorn home while I could  :o

then it's probably heading my way. What started out as a clear blue sky is now looking ominous

My office at home is a balmy 8.9C, and that's with the electric radiator under my desk. #thickjumperday
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nicknack on 27 February, 2018, 09:00:19 am
Just started here - big fluffy things.  20m S of Chester.  Very grey over towards the E.  Hope it doesn't come to much - I've a sax lesson in Chester this evening!
If you can't get there: long notes and scales.

I did get there, but came back without my sax.  It needed some tweaks (register key, long B flat and the L3 (G) key -  so my teacher will tweak it this week.  I'll have to get the Buescher out!  Feels like my right arm's been cut off, or someone's nicked one of my 'bents.....

At least my teacher says that the tweaks are because I practice so much - better than having dropped it I suppose!

This is why n+1 applies to saxes too.

Meanwhile, here in Sheppey:
(https://images2.imgbox.com/8f/1d/tZ4QcCW2_o.jpg) (http://imgbox.com/tZ4QcCW2)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Canardly on 27 February, 2018, 09:16:11 am
Missed us....so far.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 February, 2018, 09:18:14 am
I think you have marginally more snow in Sheppey than we do in Southend. I'd concur with those who say that it's several years since we had snow like this. The really wintry bit is the -4.7°C at 7.56am. -3 now. We rarely get weather that cold.

Having said that, -5 and lots more snow are forecast for the next couple of days.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: madcow on 27 February, 2018, 09:19:10 am
Just had a tweet from our son who is on his way to Svarlbard to poke about on a few glaciers. It’s 4 deg C and raining up there.
I replied ,pointing out that it was 1 deg C and snowing here in North Yorkshire. MTFU.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 27 February, 2018, 09:21:24 am
It's now 'properly' snowing in the east of the Eastern Angles. Maybe I should have gorn home while I could  :o

then it's probably heading my way. What started out as a clear blue sky is now looking ominous

My office at home is a balmy 8.9C, and that's with the electric radiator under my desk. #thickjumperday

Still 19.6 in my remote command centre. That said, the heating went off 20 minutes ago and I can feel the heat ebbing away. As I'm too mean/sensible to run the heating all day in a mostly empty house, it's the electric radiator for me too. And some thermal undergarments, several sweatshirts, and a cat.

Supposed to go to the theatre tonight. That could be interesting. Or not. I wish it would snow properly, there's nothing worse that having to go through the hysterical SNO-A-GEDDON, DON'T TRAVEL, YOU WILL DIE!!!!!!!!!! for a centimeter or two of snow.

Once-upon-a-time in Canadialand, I got up and found 50 cm of snow had fallen overnight and it was -38 degrees. I went back to bed.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Beardy on 27 February, 2018, 09:37:24 am
I have to say that this is the strangest bout of WEATHER I've seen. The temperature is lower than usual for a snowy day in the UK, we're getting repeated bouts of falling snow (as opposed to blizzard) but punctuated by clear blue skies.
I can't recall having seen that in the UK before.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 27 February, 2018, 09:45:01 am
About 2cm overnight in Liverpool,  just above freezing outside though.  More flurries at the moment but not sticking.   I dug the walking boots out rather than cycle in.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pumpkin on 27 February, 2018, 09:51:20 am
I note that providers of train services are doing this sort of thing too.  Must be cheaper to call the whole thing off than to try to run a service which might prove to be challenging.

this was mentioned on R4 this am. Network Rail gave the operators £X amount (cant remember the figure) back due to the track being blocked/frozen and the operators compensated £Y. The difference between X and Y was quite large in the operators favour.

Anyway - quite a bit of snow in North Mcr towards rochdale which got less as one drove to Mcr. Got the bike out of the car and cycled to Salford where the roads are just wet and the sun is out. Side roads are dodgy and I'm guessing black ice will be an overnight issue.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 February, 2018, 10:07:57 am
(https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/28515962_10160123581845241_7724480218806417825_o.jpg?oh=6988e41625390061a0a727b66bc2a1c1&oe=5B03903D)

Taken from Southend Civic Centre a few minutes ago.

Victoria Avenue on the left, Tunbridge Road straight ahead. That's my doctor's surgery just across the road. St. Mary's Church has totally disappeared.
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Post by: Redlight on 27 February, 2018, 10:13:06 am
(https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/28515962_10160123581845241_7724480218806417825_o.jpg?oh=6988e41625390061a0a727b66bc2a1c1&oe=5B03903D)

Taken from Southend Civic Centre a few minutes ago.

Victoria Avenue on the left.  St. Mary's Church has totally disappeared.

With any luck, the shopping centre will soon follow it  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 27 February, 2018, 10:14:07 am
Bright here, thin high cloud and flurries of very fine flakes on the wind.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 27 February, 2018, 10:18:53 am
About 2cm overnight in Liverpool,  just above freezing outside though.  More flurries at the moment but not sticking.   I dug the walking boots out rather than cycle in.

And Ive just read Liverpool airport has been closed...

Meabwhile, in Leafy BucksTM it's bright and sunny. We had <0.5cm last evening, and a few desultory flakes earlier this morning.  Feels cold out tho, and tomorrow it’s forecast to be quite chilly in our area (Aylesbury Vale). At present however it seems there is enough solar energy to thaw the cars.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 27 February, 2018, 10:56:53 am
Snow flurries in North(ish) Oxfordshire, minus 5-4c overnight and a massively grey cloud coming from the North, extra scarf and gloves needed for dog walking methinks
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 February, 2018, 11:16:44 am
Where's ours?  In E17 we have none at all.  It hasn't been and gone coz the roads are bone-dry and it's not sitting on top of cars or nuffink.  Money back, please!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nicknack on 27 February, 2018, 11:40:29 am
Bit more cheerful. Can see the mainland now.
(https://images2.imgbox.com/b6/98/jr37YOAg_o.jpg) (http://imgbox.com/jr37YOAg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 27 February, 2018, 11:49:02 am
Proper blizzard for half an hour here on the Yorkshire Wolds this morning. Unfortunately it coincided with me being stood in the middle of a field watching the dog hurtle around like a loon with next doors lurchers. The dogs really enjoy snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 27 February, 2018, 11:58:00 am
Quite heavy here, came back from the pool looking like a snowman.

The other Grit Fairy (tutu status unestablished) has been out. We must have the best gritted road in Surrey. Knowing Surrey possibly the only gritted road.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cpt Sisko on 27 February, 2018, 12:55:10 pm
Is it just me or my part of the world (Shropshire), but anyone else think this so called 'Beast from the East', is err, lacking some teeth?

Sure it's cold, but it is February!

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 27 February, 2018, 01:08:07 pm
Not according to the midday news
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Post by: hellymedic on 27 February, 2018, 01:16:32 pm
Underwhelming sno shower earlier, now sunny, 3C and much white stuff is vanishing.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 27 February, 2018, 02:09:40 pm
After a few very desultory flurries yesterday, it's now properly snowing in Pompey, and it's settling.

ETA - and half an hour later, the sun's out again.

<shrugs>
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 27 February, 2018, 02:46:22 pm
Hefty frozen precipitation here now. Temperature >3C but dropping.

Don't think much will settle unless it gets MUCH colder.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 February, 2018, 03:01:12 pm
I just looked at the Met Office website and it was predicting something like 10 hours of heavy snow at 80% or greater probability. Given that 3 inches fell in around half an hour this morning, I reckon that is 1987 territory.

The Dez pointed out that I was looking at Thirsk's forecast, and not Southend's!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 27 February, 2018, 04:19:52 pm
My patio is now dry and I'm basking in the sun that shines directly into my SW facing window at 16.15...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 27 February, 2018, 04:22:32 pm
It's gone from blizzard to sunshine about four five times in the last couple of hours.  As the sun's now lower in the sky I suspect this time the meltwater may not completely evaporate.

ETA: Remembered I had a graph...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 27 February, 2018, 04:23:13 pm
Looking out of the (east facing) kitchen window, I notice two things.

1.  The beautiful clear blue sky.

2. The large quantity of fluffy snow coming down.

Eh?  ???

*Wanders to West facing room and looks out and up*

Ah.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Aidan on 27 February, 2018, 04:35:26 pm
I've just driven from Southampton to East Yorkshire, mostly in bright sunshine under a mainly blue sky.   Drove through 3 10 second blizzards between Doncaster and home.  Suns shining here now.   Not quite snowmaggedon ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 27 February, 2018, 05:18:41 pm
Cycled home in a near blizzard. Still not much lying. Tomorrow may be different.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Peter on 27 February, 2018, 05:38:45 pm
North West forecast to escape worst.  So, as you might have imagined, we've got blizzards.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 February, 2018, 06:09:29 pm
Is it just me or my part of the world (Shropshire), but anyone else think this so called 'Beast from the East', is err, lacking some teeth?

Sure it's cold, but it is February!

Definitely a case of SNOpocalypse Not in E17.  Watching various reports on the anbaric distascope with a certain amount of envy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feanor on 27 February, 2018, 06:15:07 pm
Here in EC3 there was a very decent flurry which darkened the entire glass goldfish bowl I am currently working in.
Peering out from the 8th floor towards the Gherkin, it vanished in a whiteout.

But it passed as quickly as it appeared.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 27 February, 2018, 07:36:55 pm
Is it just me or my part of the world (Shropshire), but anyone else think this so called 'Beast from the East', is err, lacking some teeth?

Sure it's cold, but it is February!

Agreed. A few flakes here (Glasgow), but nothing out of the ordinary. I'm underwhelmed.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: jimmea on 27 February, 2018, 07:45:47 pm
Is it just me or my part of the world (Shropshire), but anyone else think this so called 'Beast from the East', is err, lacking some teeth?

Sure it's cold, but it is February!

Agreed. A few flakes here (Glasgow), but nothing out of the ordinary. I'm underwhelmed.

You must be in a different area of Glasgow from me, is been quite heavy on and off here in the north east corner of the city for a while now. It looks like I won't be driving through for this weekends F&T as I think the event must be in doubt now
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 February, 2018, 07:47:43 pm
There's enough lying around, combined with some melty slush, that I'm not really looking forward to the commute tomorrow.  Just nipped over to the audax control and it's getting pretty crunchy underfoot...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 27 February, 2018, 07:50:47 pm
SNOpocalypse!!!!!

Here... the supermarket is out of potatoes and hot cross buns. And some other things.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 27 February, 2018, 08:04:23 pm
We've got a centimetre or so of settled snow, and I had to apply unreasonable force to get the wheeliebin lid to open, so I decided that putting it out for the binmen was likely a waste of time.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 27 February, 2018, 08:07:31 pm
It snowed on me as I was riding home. This was a very pleasant sort of riding in falling snow, completely unlike the wind-whipped, stinging stuff that fell on me a fortnight ago around Faringdon. Of course it melted. But then it snowed again and has only mostly melted. I'm predicting a bit of ice on quiet roads tomorrow morning but mostly clear.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LEE on 27 February, 2018, 08:07:54 pm
Dear BBC News and ITV News and SKY News

I know what the fuck snow looks like.  There's really no need to make your news crews travel to a remote village*, just to tell us not to try travelling to remote villages.

If it's August... and it's snowing in Guildford, fair enough...send a news crew, then I'm interested.... but it's winter.


* Alternatively just show me library footage from previous years (You have about 70 years of identical winter footage to choose from).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 27 February, 2018, 08:24:18 pm
Status in CB6, bugger all SNO,

Alternating bright sunshine,overcast, light snow all day nothing sticking
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andyoxon on 27 February, 2018, 09:56:38 pm
Quote
Maps outage
Due to unprecedented levels of demand on our website we have temporarily replaced some of the less visited pages and unfortunately are currently unable to provide our usual weather and observation maps.

Wrong type of snow for the MetOffice...

What happened to those supercomputers?   :P
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 27 February, 2018, 10:07:39 pm
What happened to those supercomputers?   :P

Probably busy mining cryptocurrency...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 27 February, 2018, 10:08:49 pm
Met Office doesn’t do BBC any more.
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Post by: Chris S on 27 February, 2018, 10:22:30 pm
In fairness, there's a fuck tonne of snow here - but it's Teesside - who the fuck cares?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: SoreTween on 27 February, 2018, 10:23:24 pm
Oh good grief, the BBC has managed to photograph someone skiing down their high street.  How original.  Is it snow, an old bed sheet or a coat of fresh whitewash¿ It really is so thin I can't be sure.  Sad, unimaginative, jerknalism.  Nearly as depressing as the summer pictures that would have you believe only pretty girls can get good A levels or that come autumn it is impossible to get a degree without passing a unit in advanced hat tossing.

Gah!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 27 February, 2018, 10:36:06 pm
In fairness, there's a fuck tonne of snow here - but it's Teesside - who the fuck cares?

True, imagine if it was Cambridge, or somewhere else important :P
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nicknack on 27 February, 2018, 11:21:44 pm
Ooh! We've got thunder and lightning as well as snow now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 27 February, 2018, 11:43:08 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundersnow

With a storm system moving up from the Bay of Biscay and hitting the cold air coming off Siberia/Scandinavia, there's a good chance of more thundersnow later this week.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 28 February, 2018, 01:38:32 am
Met Office doesn’t do BBC any more.

They sort of still do. BBC now uses Meteogroup (like F1) but Meteogroup don't actually have their own supercomputers and data gathering. They are more like a weather aggregator and presentation service (they do good maps and visualisation and can do it for anywhere in the world) and they get their weather data for the UK from the Met Office.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 February, 2018, 01:52:12 am
I measured the snow depth at 5” this morning. It is snowing heavily again now and forecast to do so for most of the night. The temperature is also -6 deg C. That is very extreme for Saarfend.

Oh, that -6 figure is some official assessment as delivered via my phone. My own weather station does not bear this out, reporting a niggardly -3.8 deg C.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 February, 2018, 03:43:31 am
It was making a fairly convincing attempt at it five minutes ago, but got bored quite quickly.  I can still see the double yellow lines outside Larrington Towers through it.  Which is a bit of a Rubbish, really.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 28 February, 2018, 07:36:37 am
It's finally here - woke up to a covering overnight and it's still snowing now.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 28 February, 2018, 07:40:21 am
And...work is closed! Snow day! ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 28 February, 2018, 07:41:52 am
About 8cm in our street (York). Neighbour just set off up uncleared street ok. Must put the bin out...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: canny colin on 28 February, 2018, 07:56:01 am
 125 MM Near prudhoe in Geordieshire & its hoy'ing it down .
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 28 February, 2018, 08:33:27 am
-26 and "light snow" in Prudhoe Bay.  :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 February, 2018, 08:47:13 am
I reckon we've got about 7 inches on our shed roof now. No more forecast for today, so far as I can see, but it's going to be very windy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: cycleman on 28 February, 2018, 09:12:21 am
0.25cm of snow here in slough this morning . :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Giraffe on 28 February, 2018, 09:16:36 am
Here, in Sunny S. Northants, there's been about a dandruffy fart's-worth in 3 days.
I'm off to do me shopping while the buses are still coming throught the village (they can slide in on snow but can't get out - could end up a bit congested!).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: citoyen on 28 February, 2018, 09:27:01 am
Ooh! We've got thunder and lightning as well as snow now.

Blimey. Didn't get that over the other side of the creek in Whitstable. Or maybe I just slept through it. It clearly did snow a fair bit overnight though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: essexian on 28 February, 2018, 09:32:29 am
Only a light dusting of snow here yesterday but its a bit cold....so cold that my central heating boiler outflow pipe has frozen up.  :facepalm:

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 28 February, 2018, 09:33:54 am
Near my work: http://www.seacroftmarine.com/webcams/east/
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Redlight on 28 February, 2018, 09:46:05 am
We had barely two inches overnight here in SE London, it's melting rapidly, but the main primary school in Blackheath is closed. My son's primary school, barely 300 yards away, is open as usual.  He was not happy walking to school past the neighbours' kids playing snowballs  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 28 February, 2018, 09:50:54 am
A good thing about temperatures below about 3 or 4 is no more nose drip.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 28 February, 2018, 10:05:20 am
Near my work: http://www.seacroftmarine.com/webcams/east/

looks a bit breezy.

CB6 is now in range of TBFTE, a dusting overnight, but snowing steadily all morning

maybe half an inch in total now
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 28 February, 2018, 10:07:57 am
An inch or so here in the North Downs, melting in the sun. It was frigid when we got home about about 11.30pm last night. I doubt we'll be seeing the bin men (they are all men, I checked) any ungritted roads (all of them, it's Surrey) will have turned to ice.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 28 February, 2018, 10:36:14 am
Bin, picked up and gone here.  We have 10cm now, easy and the untreated road is still white.   
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PeteB99 on 28 February, 2018, 10:47:24 am
Snow report from Chester.

About 1.5 cm yesterday morning. Sun came out in the afternoon and melted anything that wasn't shaded. Today light cloud and well below freezing.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 28 February, 2018, 10:52:38 am
Near my work: http://www.seacroftmarine.com/webcams/east/

looks a bit breezy.

It is. Some cracking waves over the breakwater though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 28 February, 2018, 10:54:45 am
The office shuts at 12. Snow day!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 28 February, 2018, 11:26:47 am
These:
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4612/40491119332_75c8663c52_n.jpg)

Proved to be very useful this morning.
Useful until the moment I stepped onto the wet marble floor in Highbury and Islington station's ticket hall.
At which point it all went a bit

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2783/4316052401_55d7986ab9_o.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Beardy on 28 February, 2018, 11:27:40 am
We've got SNO here now, about 10cm of the stuff and it keeps having extra flurries to build it a bit higher.

I declined to move the car at 5:20am this morning1, so Dr Beardy (Mrs) being made of YORKSHIRE and being somewhat bloody minded to boot, set off for the railway station. Being early, she completed her train journey before the Greater Anglian management were awake enough to cancel the service.

1. For this, I might be in the dog house  ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: orienteer on 28 February, 2018, 11:40:53 am
About 1/2 inch overnight, now thawed where the sun shines, despite temp not above freezing.

Currently snowing and sunshine, but no sign of a snowbow :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 28 February, 2018, 11:42:09 am
The tiny dusting we had overnight has all but gone, tho temps are well beli2 freezing, and further showers are threatened (soon judging by the clouds). ETA - Yep, just started.
 
Looks like a real do in the Firth of Forth if the Met Office RED warning is to be believed - don’t recall seeing one of those before.

In other news, Gillingham and Chatham snow centre has had to close. Yep, you guessed it, because of the snow  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 28 February, 2018, 12:10:42 pm
An inch or two seems to have settled here.
Temperature's sub zero.
For now.

Looks pretty.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cpt Sisko on 28 February, 2018, 12:49:57 pm
Is it just me or my part of the world (Shropshire), but anyone else think this so called 'Beast from the East', is err, lacking some teeth?

Still no snow to speak of in Shropshire!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 28 February, 2018, 02:11:32 pm
Still snowing here. We've had no heating all morning, as we had someone booked to flush the radiators out today. It's quite chilly. Still, I'm not complaining, because I'm not in work! Back to painting skirting boards...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 28 February, 2018, 02:18:48 pm
Our offices in the Central Belt have closed and will be closed tomorrow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 28 February, 2018, 02:44:48 pm
Just found out that work's closed tomorrow as well. :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 28 February, 2018, 03:02:58 pm
Dark snowstorm at the moment.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: De Sisti on 28 February, 2018, 03:13:21 pm
Left work in time to get home before the snow. Complete white-out at the moment (in the Centre for the Cotswolds).
[edit]
Lasted for about 10 minutes, then sunshine. It's back with a vengeance now and I don't think it's going to stop.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 28 February, 2018, 03:20:06 pm
TfL announcing signal failure on the Ginger Line and Southern Rail announcing cancellations from London Bridge (my only two options for getting home) meant that I left work just before 13:00 and am now home.
Sun's out, but in the 15 years that I've lived in this house, I have never known it to be this cold.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 28 February, 2018, 03:44:45 pm
Just found out that work's closed tomorrow as well. :D

Our The Big Boss is sat opposite (in the pub), and i'm tempted to ask if it's worth coming in tomorrow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Russell on 28 February, 2018, 03:44:56 pm
For the second day running my home town is officially the coldest place in the UK.  -9C!

Just as well that the boiler is working well.  Oh hang on, it isn't.   :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 28 February, 2018, 04:05:32 pm
Just found out that work's closed tomorrow as well. :D

Our The Big Boss is sat opposite (in the pub), and i'm tempted to ask if it's worth coming in tomorrow.


He says "maybe". But they'll let us know either way in the morning. Blizzard conditions outside the pub in Darlo.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Torslanda on 28 February, 2018, 04:17:14 pm
Flurries on and off in Nth Manchestershire at the moment.

Work is definitely on tomorrow! It's only half a mile and there's n2 bikes to mend.

Any more and I'm gonna struggle to move...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Aidan on 28 February, 2018, 04:49:36 pm
I drove to Malton this morning and it was ok, fairly clear, very cold and more drifting than snowing.   Since getting home at lunchtime its been getting grimmer and grimmer, and all that water is going to freeze fairly soon.  we should see -5 tonight with a feels like -10  so not venturing out seems sensible!
Definitely not driving to Milton Keynes in morning!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 28 February, 2018, 04:56:03 pm
There is still snow on my lawn but the patio is mostly clear and dry.
Exterior temperature is just below freezing (-0.4C) and the sun will set soon.
The sun is shining...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 28 February, 2018, 05:01:59 pm
Heating now fixed. Radiators are more toasty than they've ever been! :thumbsup:It's still snowing a bit. We've got about 6" on the ground now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 28 February, 2018, 05:02:54 pm
This snowpocalypse is rubbish.  Make up your mind and get on with it!
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 28 February, 2018, 05:07:57 pm
Snow Studs are now up to £40 each at Planet X: things must be serious! :o
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Post by: PaulF on 28 February, 2018, 05:19:35 pm
Is it actually snowing in that London? Looks like I’m stuck on the tarmac at Milan for an hour before I can get home
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feanor on 28 February, 2018, 05:26:37 pm
Yes. Yes it is.
It's also surprisingly cold.

Looking out the window here at Tower Hill, there's snow on the ground, and it's currently snowing modestly.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Torslanda on 28 February, 2018, 05:31:20 pm
Snow Studs are now up to £40 each at Planet X: things must be serious! :o

If anyone's interested I've got just one pair left. 700x40.

£999.99  ;D 40 quid collected.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 28 February, 2018, 05:34:11 pm
Is it actually snowing in that London? Looks like I’m stuck on the tarmac at Milan for an hour before I can get home

Very minimally, in Edgware: equivalent of 'spitting'.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 28 February, 2018, 05:56:00 pm
Is it actually snowing in that London? Looks like I’m stuck on the tarmac at Milan for an hour before I can get home
It is.
A flurry with little significant settling in LarringtonsvilleTM, earlier this afternoon.
Noticeably more in the Forest Hill of the South East, a couple of hours later.
I've been indoors for three hours.
I'm wearing a hat, a buff and gloves, and I am cold.
This is a first.
I don't think my CH (running on 'constant') is up to coping with this.

ETA - I'm surprised as to how easy it is to type whilst wearing gloves :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 28 February, 2018, 05:56:47 pm
Apparently the local Waitrose shut early today. The end times are here!
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Post by: ian on 28 February, 2018, 06:52:42 pm
Not much here, a flurry earlier that could have been confuse with a bad case of dandruff. Not sure, tbh, why they cancelled the bin collection, the roads are mostly clear and I wouldn't exactly describe the weather here as  severe, a modest chill and occasional snow flurry with, at most, 1 or 2 cm of snow that mostly quickly melted. There's some ice but, hey, it's winter.

I am a little impressed by the thermal retentiveness of the Asbestos Palace, which despite several unheated hours (the CH goes off between 9am and 5pm) and a temperature outside that didn't rise above zero managed to not fall below 16.5 degrees. My office, which benefit from catching the sun stayed toasty enough not to need to leccy radiator.

Mind you, I'm glad the CH is current on and set to Barbados.
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Post by: Aidan on 28 February, 2018, 06:59:17 pm
We've just been for a walk round the village. Jeez it was cold.  Not sure I've felt a wind that cold before.  Just started really snowing hard as well.  Glad we made the decision earlier not to go to York tonight!
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Post by: cycleman on 28 February, 2018, 07:36:12 pm
Just a few flakes here in the form of showers and apart from a few isolated patches of snow it is just cold and windy  :)
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Post by: De Sisti on 28 February, 2018, 07:36:43 pm
Just received a 4 pm email to say that rehearsal was on as normal. I took my own advice that said "if the journey is not essential, then don't attempt it".  I can't answer for the numpty behaviour of other drivers.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 28 February, 2018, 07:39:42 pm
I am a little impressed by the thermal retentiveness of the Asbestos Palace, which despite several unheated hours (the CH goes off between 9am and 5pm) and a temperature outside that didn't rise above zero managed to not fall below 16.5 degrees. My office, which benefit from catching the sun stayed toasty enough not to need to leccy radiator.

Mind you, I'm glad the CH is current on and set to Barbados.
Git! It was 11 degrees in the bedroom when I woke up this morning. Which made me think of Pancho...
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Post by: Wowbagger on 28 February, 2018, 07:48:40 pm
I don't think the temperature has risen above -3°C all day.

Yesterday I swept between 5 and 6 inches of snow off the car. Today, another 4 inches or so. It seems that we are not due any more.
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Post by: ian on 28 February, 2018, 07:55:11 pm
I am a little impressed by the thermal retentiveness of the Asbestos Palace, which despite several unheated hours (the CH goes off between 9am and 5pm) and a temperature outside that didn't rise above zero managed to not fall below 16.5 degrees. My office, which benefit from catching the sun stayed toasty enough not to need to leccy radiator.

Mind you, I'm glad the CH is current on and set to Barbados.
Git! It was 11 degrees in the bedroom when I woke up this morning. Which made me think of Pancho...

The contrary is that it hits 30+ in the summer. It's a sixties era house with solid walls, the last 'executive townhouse' we lived in was made out tissue paper and balsa, and that despite apparently living up to some environmental standard (built in 2008) would shake off any heat like water from a wet dog. Despite some shoddy Everest double-glazing that lets in random drafts, this place seems to retain more heat. The walls have cavity wall insulation, something I was never convinced by, but the previous owner had it done. And we did have insulated panels fitted to roof of my remote command centre (a mezzanine level on the side of the house, where the double-height ceiling is the roof).

Very dry though, the RH reading in the kitchen is 27%.

On the downside, the bathroom radiator is still bust. BG came last week but didn't have the part (of course) because he was only a 'service engineer' (not sure what the part is, it's supposed to come on with the hot water, so I assume some magic in the boiler cupboard is failing to happen). Supposed to be coming tomorrow, though I suspect that's in doubt. Not so bad if we remember to leave the door open so heat from the rest of the house gets in.

Anyway, as a once-upon-a-time Canadian, I'm cold-hardened. I remember the ice storms where everything just ended up covered in a thick layer of ice. Then collapsed. Electricity, who needs it. Our heating as it turned out. Brrrr.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 28 February, 2018, 09:12:37 pm
It's -7 here already, and very breezy.  We are forecast to be totally dumped on over the next two days.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Redlight on 28 February, 2018, 09:28:59 pm
On a positive note,I had to go to Greenwich today so took a walk through the park. It was wonderful to see all the kids whose schools were closed for the day out on toboggans or just having fun in the snow.  And later, when he got home from school, mini-Redlight was out having a massive snowball fight with some of the neighbouring kids on the grass opposite our house* and it was delightful just to hear the sound of them all having such fun.

* having declined my suggestion that we build a snowman in the back garden  :'(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 28 February, 2018, 10:14:27 pm
-3 on my balcony, and the water is off.  Pipes must be frozen again 😠


A few flurries of snow, but not enough to stick.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 28 February, 2018, 11:16:45 pm
My office didn't get above 13C today with the heating ON.

I rode about a mile in total to/from a mates house to borrow a tool, with a merino baselayer, thick jumper and fleece, with lobster mits and a wooly hat.  Bloody hell, I thought my eyeballs were going to freeze.   With the windchill that was worse than -10 in Hammerfest in November
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 February, 2018, 11:47:14 pm
I was very impressed yesterday that Waitrose had a large supply of robust-looking blue plastic toboggans in their foyer. I reckon every Waitrose must have a big box of those stashed somewhere out the back, just waiting for the snow to fall so that they can make a killing.

I didn't buy one.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 28 February, 2018, 11:51:04 pm
In my 58 years, there's only been a handful of occasions when conditions have been such that the blowing snow on the ground was indistinguishable from the falling snow from the sky. Two of those occasions have been in the last couple of days. Mental weather! 

ETA: One of this evening's examples:

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4714/26673770248_eb007ecb68_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/GD53Au)20180228_212952 (https://flic.kr/p/GD53Au) by Chris Smith (https://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/), on Flickr
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 01 March, 2018, 07:49:09 am
Well it's fortunately still pretty thin on the ground here today, though making an effort to snow. Very fine stuff atm. Quite windy and bloody cold.  Off the the supermarket in a couple of hours, hopefully will not be stripped of comestibles!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nikki on 01 March, 2018, 08:26:15 am
We had alternating blue skies and whiteout and everything in between yesterday. Not much in the way of settled snow, so curious to see what will happen today.

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4602/39828743394_e241dc4c85_z.jpg)
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 March, 2018, 09:02:44 am
It actually is snowing in Brizzle today. And windy again. There's ice on the inside of our Victorian sash windows – so 20th century! Glad the rest of the house has double glazing mind (though the Victorian bit is much, much warmer).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 01 March, 2018, 09:02:50 am
I managed to get out for a celebratory run yesterday. There was 8" of snow on the Knavesmire in York". Blimey, it is hard work, slogging through that. My speed was a bit down, and I felt like a hobbit, climbing the mountain pass.

Our boiler isn't really coping (very old, overdue for replacement). It can't get the thermostat above 14C. Fortunately the bedrooms are a bit warmer, or I'd be worried for the health of the invalid.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 March, 2018, 09:07:14 am
Ooh, I can hear whiney groany noises as if cars are failing to get up the hill. I might have to go and look; I'd assumed it was clear and only the side roads icy.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 March, 2018, 09:18:40 am
It's as clear as a clear thing. And it's actually quite warm out there, compared to yesterday.
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Post by: Chris N on 01 March, 2018, 09:20:31 am
Blizzard conditions here in Easton, Cudz. ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 01 March, 2018, 09:25:47 am
We haz SNO here.

I sent Mrs Jaded off in my car with the winter tyres. So it won't have been her struggling up your hill, Cudzo.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 March, 2018, 09:26:27 am
It's always warmer this side of the M32.  ;)

Just got the fateful 'school closing at 10' text. Cue rant...
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Post by: Basil on 01 March, 2018, 09:34:02 am
We've been warned of a major dump on its way here.  Mrs B is working from bed home.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mattc on 01 March, 2018, 10:27:18 am
In my 58 years, there's only been a handful of occasions when conditions have been such that the blowing snow on the ground was indistinguishable from the falling snow from the sky. Two of those occasions have been in the last couple of days. Mental weather! 

ETA: One of this evening's examples:

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4714/26673770248_eb007ecb68_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/GD53Au)20180228_212952 (https://flic.kr/p/GD53Au) by Chris Smith (https://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/), on Flickr
That's a lovely picture - without your introduction I would assume it was a peaceful, still mid-winter night, after everyone has gotten tucked up in bed; no breeze, and no people or animals to disturb the snow. Idyllic  :D
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Post by: Paul D on 01 March, 2018, 10:33:14 am
Only an inch in Dorset. More to come later apparently thanks to Emma. I pity those in their cars...

(https://dgtzuqphqg23d.cloudfront.net/iXNCzJlFuTgxVjN_o6CgZkvJkbWETloWYeinz-0yBb4-1536x2048.jpg)
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 March, 2018, 10:49:43 am
Quite envious.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 March, 2018, 10:50:48 am
Just got the fateful 'school closing at 10' text. Cue rant...
And he's home. Some of the more outlying kids must have spent as long getting to school and back as they did at school today. And what (who) did they find when they got back home?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Peter on 01 March, 2018, 10:53:01 am
In my 58 years, there's only been a handful of occasions when conditions have been such that the blowing snow on the ground was indistinguishable from the falling snow from the sky. Two of those occasions have been in the last couple of days. Mental weather! 

ETA: One of this evening's examples:

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4714/26673770248_eb007ecb68_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/GD53Au)20180228_212952 (https://flic.kr/p/GD53Au) by Chris Smith (https://www.flickr.com/photos/40735552@N05/), on Flickr
That's a lovely picture - without your introduction I would assume it was a peaceful, still mid-winter night, after everyone has gotten tucked up in bed; no breeze, and no people or animals to disturb the snow. Idyllic  :D


Gotten?  GOTTEN!!!!!??????
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 01 March, 2018, 10:55:27 am
Gotten?  GOTTEN!!!!!??????

They talk funny, that end of the country ;).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 01 March, 2018, 11:03:12 am
Gotten is standard where I grew up in the East Mids (and of course in the US).
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Post by: Peter on 01 March, 2018, 11:06:49 am
My apologies!  I'll have to post on "What I have learned today"!
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 March, 2018, 11:15:08 am
Most of the inside ice has melted. Oh yeay.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 01 March, 2018, 11:25:41 am
Water pipes frozen up in our garage. That's a bit of a bugger, because that is where our washing machine is located.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Quint on 01 March, 2018, 11:36:58 am
Snowing in the countryside of OX5, my weather station recorded a low of minus 12c last night, we live by the canal and it is always a few degrees cooler, you can feel the drop as you turn into the lane from the main road.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 01 March, 2018, 11:38:36 am
Had a semi-frozen pipe (prob the HW cylinder vent pipe - caused slow running taps) this morning, but clear now.  Still -5 outside and some v interestingly-shaped drifts.

I went up and rolled back the loft insulation under the cold tank to give it a bit more heat soak from below.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 01 March, 2018, 11:40:28 am
no more SNO in CB6, but bloody cold. 

I switched the electric heater on in my office at 6am, it's now up to 12C.   The snow detritus left in the shed by my feet yesterday hasn't melted

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 01 March, 2018, 12:28:46 pm
Without the benefits of the sun, I'm down to 16.6 degrees in the remote command centre, so might have to fire up the radiator soon. Claims to be -3 in the sheltered carport under the house (or it did when I went for swim a few hours ago). Sprinkling of snow overnight, but not much.

British Gas bailed of course, so I'm doomed to a cold bathroom for another week. After I'd been out and gritted the driveway and hill just for them. Grumble.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: cygnet on 01 March, 2018, 12:42:27 pm
Claims to be -3 in the sheltered carport under the house (or it did when I went for swim


Carport flooded?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 01 March, 2018, 12:51:10 pm
Sadly, no pool. I have to stomp up all 100 steps of the hill for that (and for a bonus, it was actually open and it seems the school too). Anyway, it's where the car lives because the garage is filled with bikes and surplus Ikea furnishing, which is right and proper.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 March, 2018, 01:21:29 pm
A SNOpocalypse that can't generate enough Silly Soft StuffTM even to cover the lid of a wheelie bin is, frankly, a waste of resources.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 01 March, 2018, 01:33:20 pm
A SNOpocalypse that can't generate enough Silly Soft StuffTM even to cover the lid of a wheelie bin is, frankly, a waste of resources.
So was being a snowflake for electing to not travel to E17 today?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 01 March, 2018, 01:37:30 pm
I have been out on an emergency supply run to Malton seeing as the courier has not managed to deliver the dog food I ordered this week (excuses included road diversion and now weather of course).
An interesting trip, some parts of the road were mainly clear of snow, some were completely covered and there was some really nasty drifting in places. Eight foot high drifts covering half the road and the blown snow making it really hard to see. I nearly drove into one drift trying to avoid a car coming in the opposite direction.
Mission accomplished though so the pooch wont starve and we have enougfh supplies to get us through to next week. Not going anywhere again until this calms down.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 01 March, 2018, 02:05:16 pm
My daughters' school in Swindon closed after one hour.  Miss Z the elder said the teachers (some of whom had dragged their sorry arses in from Zummerzet) were not happy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 01 March, 2018, 02:05:37 pm
The snow plough came down our road today.  It's never happened before and the road is probably now one of the cleanest in York.

Other than that, it is 'brutally cold' as they say on the Beeb but no longer snowing.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 01 March, 2018, 02:20:53 pm
It's been snowing, after a fashion, since midday in Pompey, but it doesn't look like being worthy of an amber warning at the moment.

Mind you, when I checked the weather warnings last night on the MetOrifice site, the Solent area was on the edges of the amber zone, so it could change.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 01 March, 2018, 02:21:17 pm
Our offices in the Central Belt have closed and will be closed tomorrow.

And they'll be closed again tomorrow. Soft southerners  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 01 March, 2018, 02:22:18 pm
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4615/40555503231_e729ea254e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/24MKybk)20180301_135027 (https://flic.kr/p/24MKybk) by rogerzilla (https://www.flickr.com/photos/41286375@N07/), on Flickr
It's blowing around like flour.  Too cold for it to stick.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 01 March, 2018, 02:23:50 pm
Snowpocalypse still disappointing in Middle Earth, although there is the novelty factor of the dry powdery snow blowing around on the road rather than sticking.  Not something you normally see in urban areas in the UK.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 01 March, 2018, 02:30:40 pm
Biffa can't empty the bins but John Lewis can still deliver.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 01 March, 2018, 02:35:08 pm
Waitrose was chaotic today. Shutting at 3pm, so there was much panic-buying of avocados and quinoa in evidence this afternoon.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 01 March, 2018, 02:46:31 pm
Waitrose was chaotic today. Shutting at 3pm, so there was much panic-buying of avocados and quinoa in evidence this afternoon.

I'm down to my last shallot  :o

But at least I still have turnips, swede and celeriac - I'll keep the bed warm if nothing else ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nicknack on 01 March, 2018, 02:55:21 pm
Apparently there was ice on the sea this morning, so when it finally stopped snowing (but not the 35mph Easterly) I toddled in the direction of the beach. I got halfway down the cliff and decided discretion was in order and headed home. Horrible, it was.
(https://images2.imgbox.com/70/a7/kYiSZljg_o.jpg) (http://imgbox.com/kYiSZljg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 01 March, 2018, 02:58:44 pm
We are digging through the freezer in survival mode as we didn't go shopping at the weekend. It's a good job we like peas. I ate some halloumi the other day that claimed a sell-by date of June 2017. Weirdly, it melted like ordinary cheese under the grill, but otherwise seemed fine and no one died. I don't believe cheese goes off until it changes colour and adopts a fighting stance when approached.

I can't eat celeriac under any circumstances. It's only one step above Jerusalem artichokes.

I'm not, tbh, sure why this part of Surrey has ground to a halt, there's less than 2cm of snow and despite the temperature it seems to have mostly melted from the roads. Mind you, I'm not going out again today.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: SteveC on 01 March, 2018, 03:12:18 pm
They have closed the office (we are on the edge of the Storm Emma red warning area) and we have to phone tomorrow morning.
So I am now back home and have bled the radiator in the spare room/study/office.

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 March, 2018, 03:37:53 pm
The temperature has risen to -1°C. Positively balmy!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 March, 2018, 03:50:20 pm
It's all about the wind direction. Looking out of the window here, there's nothing more than whirling flakes and a light dusting on the ground. Looking out the other side of the house, there's proper snow on the road. At least, ooh, an inch! Enough for some sledging!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Von Broad on 01 March, 2018, 03:56:15 pm
Can't abide the snow.
Do love a good hand brake turn though ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Beardy on 01 March, 2018, 04:05:59 pm
The falling of SNO has now ceased in the Angles of the East, but according to my weather station the temperature stubbornly remains below the freezing point of water at sea level. And the wind is a bit boisterous. But I'm back home now as the office at the research station was rather a bit chilly this morning.   
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 01 March, 2018, 04:06:46 pm
Sainsbury's online have suspended all deliveries for the next 4 days. This seems fair this time.
They did this in December for several days too, when roads were clear for ages before deliveries resumed.
My cupboards and freezer are well-stocked cos REASONS!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: cycleman on 01 March, 2018, 04:10:39 pm
Yes.  I have been playing on the trice today on the few snowy patches and handbrake turns are great fun as are power slides   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 01 March, 2018, 04:32:50 pm
Currently -1.2 degrees under the house, though the remaining snow seems a bit wet and melty. My ninja gritting skills means we have the most snow-free 25% hill in the entirety of Surrey. Probably.

All a bit unspectacular when you've watched a pylon collapse under the weight of ice and snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andyoxon on 01 March, 2018, 05:13:13 pm
Met Office web servers are still being metereologically challenged.   ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 01 March, 2018, 05:20:04 pm
Currently -1.2 degrees under the house, though the remaining snow seems a bit wet and melty. My ninja gritting skills means we have the most snow-free 25% hill in the entirety of Surrey. Probably.

All a bit unspectacular when you've watched a pylon collapse under the weight of ice and snow.

How are the yeti coping?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 01 March, 2018, 05:25:09 pm
Well after nearly 10 hours of continuous snow we’ve approximately 2cm. Luckily the snow is icy spicules and not the usual wet fluffy flakes! Lovely a dry and powdery, perfect for studded tyres.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 March, 2018, 06:02:51 pm
Currently -1.2 degrees under the house, though the remaining snow seems a bit wet and melty. My ninja gritting skills means we have the most snow-free 25% hill in the entirety of Surrey. Probably.

All a bit unspectacular when you've watched a pylon collapse under the weight of ice and snow.

How are the yeti coping?
There are no yeti round ian's way, they've been scared off or eaten by the bears.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 01 March, 2018, 06:13:47 pm
Tilly is checking out the big drift on the way into our village:

(https://scontent.flhr2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/28471443_10156269637218675_7191725314441180753_n.jpg?oh=4f9bab90d17921aeff328502d63a2c89&oe=5B4479C3)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 March, 2018, 06:15:53 pm
But there are eskimos here. I'm married to one. First thing she did on getting home was turn the heating off. Or perhaps I've just become a Fully Fledged Soft Southern Wuss? Noting that she grew up 0.3 degrees to the south of me!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Canardly on 01 March, 2018, 06:30:00 pm
Cor a dog with traffic indicator ears....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 01 March, 2018, 06:34:51 pm
Currently -1.2 degrees under the house, though the remaining snow seems a bit wet and melty. My ninja gritting skills means we have the most snow-free 25% hill in the entirety of Surrey. Probably.

All a bit unspectacular when you've watched a pylon collapse under the weight of ice and snow.

How are the yeti coping?

They seem fine, venturing out from the usual haunt in the pampas forest at the top of the garden. Not sure what happens when they meet the bears lower down. I think the usual ursine diet of Daily Mail readers may be depleted in the current conditions.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 March, 2018, 06:56:30 pm
A SNOpocalypse that can't generate enough Silly Soft StuffTM even to cover the lid of a wheelie bin is, frankly, a waste of resources.
So was being a snowflake for electing to not travel to E17 today?

If we've had any fresh SNO in the past twenty-four hours it's barely visible to the naked eye :'(  Still bloody cold at ankle level in the Great Hall, though.

Nice weather lady on the distascope says heavy SNO all out to the west of Londonton overnight though still cold.  More SNO creeping up from the south during the day but her mappe seems to think it won't venture norf of the river.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feanor on 01 March, 2018, 07:16:49 pm
I'm in That London, hoping my flights back home to ABZ run tomorrow. The BA app and their webby stuff show the flight as running normally, but we shall see.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 01 March, 2018, 07:20:57 pm
I'm in That London, hoping my flights back home to ABZ run tomorrow. The BA app and their webby stuff show the flight as running normally, but we shall see.

I wouldn’t trust their app! Last night my flight was still showing as being on time despite them having rebooked me on to another flight.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 01 March, 2018, 08:58:20 pm
Approx 6" here in central Edinburgh and more coming down sporadically. I was a bit cross at work yesterday when my line manager sent all the car drivers home but said I had to stay because the buses were still running. When I asked what I was supposed to do if the buses stopped, she told me I'd have a long walk.

I have no objection to walking in the snow, but I don't see why the motorists should be exempt. So I told her I was leaving once I'd finish what I was doing, and I did.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/Holme%20Moss_zpsc2c6soiy.jpg)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 01 March, 2018, 09:08:46 pm
I remember several years ago when we had a huge snowfall in London and my train gave up halfway home and left me with a four mile walk. I was quite tipsy after an evening out (ironically in an ice bar). So while everyone at the station panicked about not being able to get home, I put my headphones in, dialled up some awesome tunes, and stomped off through the snow. It was ace. I jumped in every drift and made a big snow angel in the middle of Anerley Hill.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: meddyg on 01 March, 2018, 10:20:08 pm
Panic buying of bread in Fishguard before the snow came !

Quiet in the GP surgery- I have access rights t’other side of reception counter.
At 520pm no one in the waiting room !

‘They’ve all cancelled!’

Junior partner and lady doctor’s children are playing snowballs in the car park !

No wonder the NHS is in crisis !

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 March, 2018, 10:42:14 pm
I was talking to my daughter-out-law just now. She's Finnish, now living in North Essex, near Colchester. It seems that they have had a fair bit more snow than we have, and we have had the most for years - possibly as far back as 1987.

"I have never, ever, known it as bad as it is now," she exclaimed.

"But surely you must have had snowier conditions in Finland...?"

"Yes, but I was talking about the infrastructure. I have never known the infrastructure fail as abjectly! These roads are mostly impassable and there's only been a foot of snow!"
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Peter on 02 March, 2018, 02:37:51 am
Approx 6" here in central Edinburgh and more coming down sporadically. I was a bit cross at work yesterday when my line manager sent all the car drivers home but said I had to stay because the buses were still running. When I asked what I was supposed to do if the buses stopped, she told me I'd have a long walk.

I have no objection to walking in the snow, but I don't see why the motorists should be exempt. So I told her I was leaving once I'd finish what I was doing, and I did.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/Holme%20Moss_zpsc2c6soiy.jpg)

It was like that on Kiln Lane in Milnrow just up from our house that year.  The stone walls were under several feet of snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: SteveC on 02 March, 2018, 07:20:02 am
Snow day! No work  :thumbsup:
The weirdest bit is the ice which was formed on the outside of the windows facing east.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 02 March, 2018, 07:43:25 am
I was talking to my daughter-out-law just now. She's Finnish, now living in North Essex, near Colchester. It seems that they have had a fair bit more snow than we have, and we have had the most for years - possibly as far back as 1987.

"I have never, ever, known it as bad as it is now," she exclaimed.

"But surely you must have had snowier conditions in Finland...?"

"Yes, but I was talking about the infrastructure. I have never known the infrastructure fail as abjectly! These roads are mostly impassable and there's only been a foot of snow!"

And in this post you have answered her implied question. 1987 is thirty years ago. It's just not worth investing in the equipment and designing infrastructure to cope with an event that happens for a couple of days once every thirty years or so.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 02 March, 2018, 07:56:02 am
You'd be surprised how much snow clearing equipment that airports hold in stock and well maintained "just in case"
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 02 March, 2018, 08:08:31 am
Snow day! No work  :thumbsup:
The weirdest bit is the ice which was formed on the outside of the windows facing east.

Yes.  We've got the iced windows too.  It was very odd when I first looked out of the bedroom window.  It took me several seconds of fuzzy headed waking to work out what it was.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 02 March, 2018, 08:43:48 am
I was talking to my daughter-out-law just now. She's Finnish, now living in North Essex, near Colchester. It seems that they have had a fair bit more snow than we have, and we have had the most for years - possibly as far back as 1987.

"I have never, ever, known it as bad as it is now," she exclaimed.

"But surely you must have had snowier conditions in Finland...?"

"Yes, but I was talking about the infrastructure. I have never known the infrastructure fail as abjectly! These roads are mostly impassable and there's only been a foot of snow!"

And in this post you have answered her implied question. 1987 is thirty years ago. It's just not worth investing in the equipment and designing infrastructure to cope with an event that happens for a couple of days once every thirty years or so.
It’s infrastructure that no one wants to pay for, and it’s a load of entitled humpty wazzocks with summer tyres (and quite likely 4x4s) who think it is possible to drive in any conditions. You can see the results of their actions in blocked roads all over, and news stories “no one is telling us anything!”
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 02 March, 2018, 09:05:49 am
The question that never seems to be asked when they interview motorists stuck in the snow is "What were you thinking when you set out? Why was your journey so necessary?"
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jakob W on 02 March, 2018, 09:25:02 am
You'd be surprised how much snow clearing equipment that airports hold in stock and well maintained "just in case"

Bit hard to just ask an A380 to park up and wait for a tow, we'll be along in a bit with space blankets and flasks of coffee, thobut...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hatler on 02 March, 2018, 09:30:50 am
There's clearly a business case for airports have snow clearing stuff 'just in case'.

I'm not sure, as a council tax payer, I'd be happy with my local authority paying out the sort of money required to buy, maintain and house a bunch of equipment that is used for two days every ten years.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 02 March, 2018, 09:38:11 am
Snow day #3. It's no longer snowing, but having just been out for a short walk to the shops, most of them are closed. It's colder today than in previous days, too - there's an icy wind.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 02 March, 2018, 09:44:34 am
You'd be surprised how much snow clearing equipment that airports hold in stock and well maintained "just in case"

Bit hard to just ask an A380 to park up and wait for a tow, we'll be along in a bit with space blankets and flasks of coffee, thobut...

Plus they got significantly embarrassed by being caught out one year. And the safety (and logistic) implications of diverting aircraft if you can't land them.

I too wonder what goes through those drivers' minds when they do the voxpops about been stuck on the motorway. After days of doom-laden weather forecasts. It wasn't like it snuck up on us.

Snow in the UK is occasional, not worth budgeting for. It's not Canada where snow is a fact of winter. We could do a far better job of gritting pavements and stuff. That's shockingly bad in the UK and frost and freezing temperatures aren't so unusual.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 02 March, 2018, 09:50:09 am
When questioned about the borough-wide absence of grit / salt bins, LB of Lewisham's answer was that they removed them on account of the number of complaints they had received from people who'd had grit / salt thrown into their front gardens  ???
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 02 March, 2018, 09:58:17 am
When questioned about the borough-wide absence of grit / salt bins, LB of Lewisham's answer was that they removed them on account of the number of complaints they had received from people who'd had grit / salt thrown into their front gardens  ???

Peculiar. Tbh, as a former resident of the LBL, I'd expect them to fill up with empty Fosters cans and rat bones in their greasy Alabama Fried Chicken coffins.

Surrey did expediently fill the grit bin opposite us (and the bottom of the hill), but then we do we do live on a short, steep hill (and there's fifty or so houses reliant on it*) and they have no plans to grit it themselves. Most of the local streets are narrow and overparked, so they probably couldn't grit them without people complaining they get grit on their cars. There's no provision for gritting pavements.

*the number of whom help grit the hill themselves = 0, the two grit fairies are me because I can't be bothered with cars slip-sliding outside my house and the local councillor who lives further up.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 March, 2018, 10:00:32 am
How does freezing rain work? That's what we've got now. The car is covered with granular ice. The temperature is -1°C.

(https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/28577481_1960922124226987_4534288836853147687_n.jpg?oh=fb5ebd0285eb554e2bc1b1eb064beb65&oe=5B49E8DE)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 02 March, 2018, 10:08:29 am
Two methods. The rain that falls is below freezing but still liquid. Once it hits a surface with nucleation points, it freezes. Or it's warmer rain falling on a surface that has cooled to below zero. Mostly the former in conditions like this.

ETA: you see the nucleation points in the picture, the bobbles. Probably bits of dust and dirt on the window.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 March, 2018, 10:12:50 am
Thanks. The bit I struggle to get my head round is that there is water, still in a liquid state, that is below 0°C.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 02 March, 2018, 10:17:29 am
Thanks. The bit I struggle to get my head round is that there is water, still in a liquid state, that is below 0°C.

It relies on the water being particularly clean - i.e. lacking dust particles around which ice crystals can nucleate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercooling
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Canardly on 02 March, 2018, 10:19:38 am
I could never get my head around glass being a super cooled liquid.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 02 March, 2018, 10:22:19 am
Thanks. The bit I struggle to get my head round is that there is water, still in a liquid state, that is below 0°C.

Absolutely pure water can be cooled to -48 degrees. But it has to be perfect container, the smallest nucleation point will start crystal formation, and it'll freeze.

Sorry to say that glass isn't any kind of liquid. It's an amorphous solid.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 March, 2018, 10:30:45 am
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXRXgpyX4AAcFAQ.jpg:large)

Nicked off Twitter. Dorset this morning. Blimey.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 02 March, 2018, 10:32:37 am
The question that never seems to be asked when they interview motorists stuck in the snow is "What were you thinking when you set out? Why was your journey so necessary?"

And we have an answer:

(https://s18.postimg.org/zbfd0ez89/2018-03-02_10-31-06.png) (https://postimg.org/image/m79snq76d/)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jakob W on 02 March, 2018, 10:38:35 am
Phase transitions are weird - I'm reminded of these experiments by the historian and philosopher of science Hasok Chang, who re-did a load of 18th/19th-c. experiments to try and determine the boiling temperature of water: http://www.sites.hps.cam.ac.uk/boiling/
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 02 March, 2018, 10:45:51 am
So far this morning I have mopped up the attic where the frozen pipe leaked again (managed to find a shut off for that circuit this time so hopefully that's the last time) and helped a fellow villager digi his scar out of a snow drift where it had been stuck all night whilst I was walking the dog. Four wheel drive doesn't help when all four wheel are in the air apparently.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Beardy on 02 March, 2018, 10:56:26 am
Approx 6" here in central Edinburgh and more coming down sporadically. I was a bit cross at work yesterday when my line manager sent all the car drivers home but said I had to stay because the buses were still running. When I asked what I was supposed to do if the buses stopped, she told me I'd have a long walk.

I have no objection to walking in the snow, but I don't see why the motorists should be exempt. So I told her I was leaving once I'd finish what I was doing, and I did.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/Holme%20Moss_zpsc2c6soiy.jpg)
I remember that winter well because I was an apprentice at the time and was doing my stint with a 'Subs App and Line'1 man who had the area Land Rover2. He was tasked with taking an exchange maintenance man from Otley to Blubberhouses, because LAND ROVER so we piled in and set off over the moors twixt the Wharfe Valley and the Washburn valley. We turned around when we came across an abandoned tractor attached to an abandoned Land Rover, went back to Otley, and then around the low roads via Harrogate.

1. known to the general public as the telephone man or the telephone engineer as he is the face they see when their phones break.
2. Yep, even in rural Yorkshire in the 70s and 80s we only had one Land Rover for the telephone area.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 March, 2018, 11:13:33 am
Approx 6" here in central Edinburgh and more coming down sporadically. I was a bit cross at work yesterday when my line manager sent all the car drivers home but said I had to stay because the buses were still running. When I asked what I was supposed to do if the buses stopped, she told me I'd have a long walk.

I have no objection to walking in the snow, but I don't see why the motorists should be exempt. So I told her I was leaving once I'd finish what I was doing, and I did.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/Flossiesdoll/Random%20stuff/Holme%20Moss_zpsc2c6soiy.jpg)
Great photo! Which one is you?  :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 March, 2018, 11:15:56 am
"Scones, crumpets or bagels?" I asked CdzzmcJnr, whose school is closed until the thaw. "Don't mind," said he. I was saved from making the decision by the complete lack of any sort of bread in the stupormkt. Which is better, really, cos I'll make some, which is what I should have done all along.

There are more sledges than cars on the main road this morning. This is good.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 March, 2018, 11:24:40 am
The Co-Op near me is as empty of staples as a Soviet-era grocer.

The Mazda dealer cannot give me my car, even if I wanted to risk driving it home.  The steep ramp from their underground car park is impassable.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 March, 2018, 11:28:02 am
The Co-Op near me is as empty of staples as a Soviet-era grocer.
Don't be silly, you need a stationer's for staples!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 March, 2018, 11:31:54 am
Snow day! No work  :thumbsup:
The weirdest bit is the ice which was formed on the outside of the windows facing east.
Like so?
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4712/25701057087_36f3634d9d_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Fa7CRV)

That's north-facing, mind.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pumpkin on 02 March, 2018, 11:32:10 am
that photo! Do we even have snow like that now in England? I've cycled in Europe between the snow banks but it's quite amazing to think that was 'only' 40 yrs ago
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 02 March, 2018, 11:44:54 am
"Scones, crumpets or bagels?"

You'll need to let us know which beats which if you want us to play.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Redlight on 02 March, 2018, 11:55:56 am
The question that never seems to be asked when they interview motorists stuck in the snow is "What were you thinking when you set out? Why was your journey so necessary?"

And we have an answer:

(https://s18.postimg.org/zbfd0ez89/2018-03-02_10-31-06.png) (https://postimg.org/image/m79snq76d/)

I was particularly impressed by the couple mentioned on R4 this morning who had decided that yesterday would be a good day to drive from Crewe to Plymouth  :facepalm:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 02 March, 2018, 12:05:14 pm
The news was just full of people who'd been stuck on a motorway overnight. Evidently lots of people thought yesterday was a good day to take a long drive.

With no provisions and not even a blanket or any means to keep warm.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: madcow on 02 March, 2018, 12:32:27 pm
The question that never seems to be asked when they interview motorists stuck in the snow is "What were you thinking when you set out? Why was your journey so necessary?"

And we have an answer:

We are BBC/ITV/Sky and reporting the weather is so important that we see no irony in repeating those “Dont go out “ warnings then sending a reporter out to the M62/80/25 etc. to tell us that it’s cold out there.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Peter on 02 March, 2018, 12:45:05 pm
Excellent!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 02 March, 2018, 12:54:33 pm
Here's just one of many, chap going from London to Somerset, apparently unaware of the prevailing weather conditions or a the media shouting 'don't travel' at him for several days.

Quote
Thomas Hamilton, a 36-year-old sales director, was heading from his home in London to a friend’s farm when he got caught in the queue.

The woman on the radio had to be rescued by the army as she'd not bothered with anything warm and having not contemplated what happens to the car's heating when the engine is off.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 02 March, 2018, 01:03:17 pm
Now there's a woman on the radio, after being rescued,  'who doesn't understand why the country grinds to a halt when there's places with worse conditions.'

I say we hand her the bill.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 March, 2018, 01:50:52 pm
Here's just one of many, chap going from London to Somerset, apparently unaware of the prevailing weather conditions or a the media shouting 'don't travel' at him for several days.

Quote
Thomas Hamilton, a 36-year-old sales director, was heading from his home in London to a friend’s farm when he got caught in the queue.

The woman on the radio had to be rescued by the army as she'd not bothered with anything warm and having not contemplated what happens to the car's heating when the engine is off.
Caught in the queue. This is perhaps a part of the thing. You in your vehicle could complete your journey, but when someone ahead of you can't, everyone can't. See also cyclists with spikey tyres amazing queueing/wheel-spinning motorists by sauntering past them up snowy hills.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 02 March, 2018, 02:27:29 pm
This was on my ride today (https://s26.postimg.org/ywl137bl5/B4_E71560-_CD9_F-491_D-8_CAA-_BDEDB671_BE97.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/pc1egbm91/)

(https://s26.postimg.org/qr2z52ahl/4_D5075_D1-81_C4-4482-93_BD-_BEECD291_AFD4.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/jnv3pg51x/)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 March, 2018, 02:35:17 pm
It's really kicked off again here.  We've had as much snow in the last 40 mins as we had yesterday.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: De Sisti on 02 March, 2018, 02:42:21 pm
The question that never seems to be asked when they interview motorists stuck in the snow is "What were you thinking when you set out? Why was your journey so necessary?"

And we have an answer:

(https://s18.postimg.org/zbfd0ez89/2018-03-02_10-31-06.png) (https://postimg.org/image/m79snq76d/)

I was particularly impressed flabbergasted by the couple mentioned on R4 this morning who had decided that yesterday would be a good day to drive from Crewe to Plymouth  :facepalm:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: citoyen on 02 March, 2018, 02:49:51 pm
We've had freezing rain this morning, which makes a nice change from snow. It's formed a thin crust of ice on the surface of the snow, which is particularly pleasing to walk through - lovely and crunchy under foot. The dog is enjoying it too.

Disappointingly, the piss-up-in-a-brewery event I was planning to attend this evening has been cancelled - I was looking forward to the ride through the woods. Might go out on the bike anyway. Should stick the spike tyres on the bike if I do - it's properly slippery out there.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 02 March, 2018, 03:07:03 pm
Something I'd forgotten I knew until reminded - when it's very windy, not only do you get some spectacular drifts, but the snow gets very dirty; there's all manner of detritus on it that normally wouldn't catch your attention - dust, twigs, dead leaves and so on.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 March, 2018, 03:21:03 pm
I have just shovelled snow off the pavement from the corner of the street to the pub, taking particular care to throw it into the gutter.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 March, 2018, 03:32:11 pm
Nice priorities, EG!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 02 March, 2018, 03:47:23 pm
We’re seeing what is probably the last blast of “proper” snow for this event. Passing north over us for the next hour or two, looks like we’ll end up with a couple of inches worth. Nor nearly as cold, the water we put out for the birds at 10:00 was merely slushy when I changed it just now. Things are likely to get messy tomorrow when it all begins to thaw.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 02 March, 2018, 04:00:49 pm
By weird coincidence, we're seeing what's probably the first blast of proper snow for this event.  It's doubled the existing coverage in about an hour.  Which isn't saying much.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 02 March, 2018, 04:29:41 pm
My favourite sights have been the crowded tractors passing the house.  One of them had so many people packed into the cab that it was impossible to count how many.
I assume it is local farmers from the outlands giving lifts to neighbors in villages with no shops.

Still snowing here btw, and has been all day.  Surprisingly little accumulation though.  It's too cold for the fluffy proper snow flakes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 02 March, 2018, 04:36:25 pm
I've just heard that Mordor Central has run out of electrons and they can't move any trains.  Proper transport chaos, that is.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nicknack on 02 March, 2018, 04:40:48 pm
I've not moved the car since Monday (the roads around here are not good). Where patches of snow have fallen off it the body is now covered with a layer of ice.
I've walked out each day but unless it thaws I'm not going out again. The pavements are terrible. The areas that folk have "helpfully" cleared in front of their houses are now sheet ice.
And it's snowing again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: SteveC on 02 March, 2018, 04:46:56 pm
Our Tesco delivery, due this afternoon, is now coming on Monday.
The only things we may run out of before then are potatoes and beer.  :o

I suspect the local Co-op will be open tomorrow and that is within walking distance, even if we can't get any further.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 March, 2018, 04:50:58 pm
If it's like my local Co-Op, you might be eating a birthday card and an Easter egg for Sunday lunch!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Torslanda on 02 March, 2018, 05:17:40 pm

The Mazda dealer cannot give me my car, even if I wanted to risk driving it home.  The steep ramp from their underground car park is impassable.

FWP, surely*...?



*Yes, I know your name is Roger.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 02 March, 2018, 05:19:09 pm
I've checked our survival rations. We still have at least six cases and a large trunk of beer (aka the 'beer coffin') and 200ish bottles of gin.

We'll survive.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 March, 2018, 05:34:06 pm
I could never get my head around glass being a super cooled liquid.

Don't try.  You'll probably slice your ears off.

(http://legslarry.org.uk/BikeStull/coat_48.png)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 March, 2018, 05:51:44 pm

The Mazda dealer cannot give me my car, even if I wanted to risk driving it home.  The steep ramp from their underground car park is impassable.

FWP, surely*...?
It's more serious when it's your 12-year old's birthday treat in Oxford on Sunday and, if you don't have a car by the end of tomorrow, there will be tears!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 02 March, 2018, 05:55:02 pm
I'm now watching the BMWs sliding around outside.  Two in the last five minutes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jakob W on 02 March, 2018, 06:11:25 pm
We were sat behind one on the ring road just now; the number of people willing to try and whizz past* a car clearly fishtailing its way up a gentle slope was eye-rolling.†

*Well, relatively speaking.
†If unsurprising; this is the West Midlands, after all.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 02 March, 2018, 06:14:32 pm
LWB van digging itself a little hole on the corner...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 March, 2018, 06:38:28 pm
Maybe it's a regional thing, then, cos I was thinking while out today that one of the good things about the LEGENDARY BRITISH UNPREPAREDNESS FOR SNOW is that for one day a year – okay, maybe two days every decade – cyclists and footists dominate the streets, relegating driveists to their rightful subsidiary role.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Vince on 02 March, 2018, 06:47:31 pm
I have just shovelled snow off the pavement from the corner of the street to the pub, taking particular care to throw it into the gutter.
Unlike the neighbour up the road who has cleared his drive leaving a six foot high pile completely blocking the pavement.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 02 March, 2018, 07:11:27 pm
I just panic bought a house litre of milk.  We'd completely run out and I was quite surprised that the local shop still had loads left.  Unlike the newspapers which haven't been seen for days.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 March, 2018, 07:18:57 pm
Just looked out of the winow for the first time since this morning.  We've had enough that I can no longer see the writing on the lid of the wheelie bin from a first-floor window and passing traffic is making a slushy sort of noise.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 02 March, 2018, 07:33:38 pm
I was going to be heroic and go to the pub but my wife expleted a 'but it's fucking cold!' Wuss. I like it when she swears. You'd think someone from Essex would swear a lot, but she's like posh Essex. I know, who knew?

So it's me and Taylor Swift and a glass of Fourpure peach sour.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Ian H on 02 March, 2018, 08:03:56 pm
The entire east wall of our house has a shiny rippled coating.  Quite surreal.  The washing machine in the garage is still frozen. 

Walking the lanes and paths above the town was hard work as the snow has a hard icy crust which shatters at each foot-step.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 02 March, 2018, 08:29:06 pm
We're hoping the sink in our bathroom will empty tomorrow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cpt Sisko on 02 March, 2018, 09:02:10 pm
Is it just me or my part of the world (Shropshire), but anyone else think this so called 'Beast from the East', is err, lacking some teeth?

Still no snow to speak of in Shropshire!

At last. I thought we'd offended the weather Gods or something.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 March, 2018, 09:57:02 pm
The temperature in Southend is 0.2°C. Whoopee! Spring is here!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 02 March, 2018, 10:38:15 pm
A balmy 0° here at 10:30 in the evening.  :thumbsup:
Hoorah!  I reckon we'll be able to use our bathroom sink by tomorrow afternoon.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 02 March, 2018, 10:38:28 pm
CB6 finally sees a bit of action, very fine, dry, powdery stuff. About an inch of it so far

Making my land rover look enthusiastic
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 March, 2018, 11:34:39 pm
I was supposed to be getting a train to Huddersfield tomorrow, but they're not running north of Newcastle.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 March, 2018, 11:54:37 pm
Our device now tells us that it's 1°C.

Dez and I went for a walk and it's amazing how warm a calm 1° feels when you have been used to very windy -5°C.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 03 March, 2018, 07:15:24 am
I was supposed to be getting a train to Huddersfield tomorrow, but they're not running north of Newcastle.

Ironic considering where the railways were born.  Is there anything commemorating the Stockton-Darlington railway?  I've never had time to stop and look around
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 03 March, 2018, 07:51:01 am
Gales broke the pontoon again. Cue dash out to the mooring and 1.5hrs hauling the pontoon arm out of the river, jury-rigging something up. My back will be telling me off today.

I'm not used to that sort of work anymore. Had to keep stopping and putting my hands in my pockets to thaw them out. Holding steel, hauling on frozen ropes in this weather is no joke.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 03 March, 2018, 02:13:12 pm
Something, presumably a RWD BMW with low-profile summer tyres, has collided with the telecoms cabinet across the road at some point overnight.  I'm reasonably sure our phoneline doesn't go through that one, which is just as well, as it's now leaning over at a 45° angle.

I assume Kelly will be along to bodge it up at some point after the thaw.  This weather's about as good for fiddly line work as it is for hauling ropes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 03 March, 2018, 02:39:57 pm
Pretty much over here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 03 March, 2018, 03:00:03 pm
In Pompey, it's mostly thawed already, and it's raining. Better still, the central heating's duty ratio is markedly improved on what it was Thursday-Friday.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 03 March, 2018, 03:27:21 pm
The thaw stared around midnight, looking at the local weather station. It has continued today so road is mostly clear, and everywhere else sodden and slushy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 03 March, 2018, 04:19:21 pm
Oh bugger.  I thought it was all over.  It's now snowing heavily again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 03 March, 2018, 04:35:09 pm
Been very melty all day.  Many *dry* patches now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 03 March, 2018, 04:35:49 pm
We built a snowperson this morning, it's looking quite forlorn already
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: cycleman on 03 March, 2018, 06:35:26 pm
Snow was gone by lunchtime and it got to 3degrees today . Nearly shorts weather  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 03 March, 2018, 06:39:19 pm
I did see someone in shorts this morning. And on Thursday, but not yesterday. Haven't seen anyone in flip-flops recently, which is unusual.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 03 March, 2018, 06:58:18 pm
This is one solution

https://www.independent.ie/videos/watch-when-snow-storm-shuts-down-ireland-trad-sess-in-an-igloo-is-all-you-need-36663387.html#play
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 03 March, 2018, 07:02:32 pm
STILL snowing here  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Thor on 03 March, 2018, 07:50:37 pm
Something, presumably a RWD BMW with low-profile summer tyres, has collided with the telecoms cabinet across the road at some point overnight.  I'm reasonably sure our phoneline doesn't go through that one, which is just as well, as it's now leaning over at a 45° angle.

A work colleague had something similar happen, knocking out his broadband service. Reporting this to BT on his mobile, he was threatened with various punitive charges, should the fault be with his equipment rather than theirs - as he looked out the window at a felled cabinet :-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 03 March, 2018, 07:57:40 pm
Something, presumably a RWD BMW with low-profile summer tyres, has collided with the telecoms cabinet across the road at some point overnight.  I'm reasonably sure our phoneline doesn't go through that one, which is just as well, as it's now leaning over at a 45° angle.

A work colleague had something similar happen, knocking out his broadband service. Reporting this to BT on his mobile, he was threatened with various punitive charges, should the fault be with his equipment rather than theirs - as he looked out the window at a felled cabinet :-)

Indeed, reversing a vehicle into a cabinet or pole is an established ha-ha-only-serious suggestion for persuading our-favourite-telco to deal with persistent line faults.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 03 March, 2018, 08:01:58 pm
My feet got very wet running g earlier, very slushy out there at 3 whole degrees.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 03 March, 2018, 08:14:45 pm
Something, presumably a RWD BMW with low-profile summer tyres, has collided with the telecoms cabinet across the road at some point overnight.  I'm reasonably sure our phoneline doesn't go through that one, which is just as well, as it's now leaning over at a 45° angle.

A work colleague had something similar happen, knocking out his broadband service. Reporting this to BT on his mobile, he was threatened with various punitive charges, should the fault be with his equipment rather than theirs - as he looked out the window at a felled cabinet :-)

Indeed, reversing a vehicle into a cabinet or pole is an established ha-ha-only-serious suggestion for persuading our-favourite-telco to deal with persistent line faults.
But wouldn't it be more fun to invite Aunty Charlotte up for the weekend with her guns n arrers?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Polar Bear on 03 March, 2018, 08:23:44 pm
Subsequent to an aborted mission and after an afternoon of modest thawing, #1 cub spent well over an hour digging out his car this afternoon.  He managed a short trip returning home just as the snow started piling down again!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 03 March, 2018, 08:43:13 pm
I just panic bought a house litre of milk.  We'd completely run out and I was quite surprised that the local shop still had loads left.  Unlike the newspapers which haven't been seen for days.

Milk! :o We can only dream of the stuff round here. We managed to find a solitary pint of skimmed, and that was it. (Bread is similarly unobtainable, though I'm not bothered about that as I don't need bread in my coffee.)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 03 March, 2018, 08:47:33 pm
I just panic bought a house litre of milk.  We'd completely run out and I was quite surprised that the local shop still had loads left.  Unlike the newspapers which haven't been seen for days.

Milk! :o We can only dream of the stuff round here. We managed to find a solitary pint of skimmed, and that was it. (Bread is similarly unobtainable, though I'm not bothered about that as I don't need bread in my coffee.)

Plastic milk cartons freeze fine. I always have emergency milk in my freezer. I have 7 pints delivered in glass bottles every week.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Butterfly on 03 March, 2018, 08:53:04 pm
I just panic bought a house litre of milk.  We'd completely run out and I was quite surprised that the local shop still had loads left.  Unlike the newspapers which haven't been seen for days.

Milk! :o We can only dream of the stuff round here. We managed to find a solitary pint of skimmed, and that was it. (Bread is similarly unobtainable, though I'm not bothered about that as I don't need bread in my coffee.)

Plastic milk cartons freeze fine. I always have emergency milk in my freezer. I have 7 pints delivered in glass bottles every week.

My parents in law always use long life milk so there is plenty of that here and I have powdered milk to use in my tea before I have to resort to the UHT.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 March, 2018, 08:54:53 pm
I have to report that Waitrose's shelves were laden with Good Things when I was there early this morning. I suspect that we in SE England have had rather less snow than many places but that our media has made more fuss about it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Beardy on 03 March, 2018, 09:04:06 pm
Something, presumably a RWD BMW with low-profile summer tyres, has collided with the telecoms cabinet across the road at some point overnight.  I'm reasonably sure our phoneline doesn't go through that one, which is just as well, as it's now leaning over at a 45° angle.

A work colleague had something similar happen, knocking out his broadband service. Reporting this to BT on his mobile, he was threatened with various punitive charges, should the fault be with his equipment rather than theirs - as he looked out the window at a felled cabinet :-)

Indeed, reversing a vehicle into a cabinet or pole is an established ha-ha-only-serious suggestion for persuading our-favourite-telco to deal with persistent line faults.
Ah, my favourite soapbox. The following will be carefully worded because it’s something I have to approach somewhat obliquely even though it is one of my biggest bug bears of utility privatisation.
BT consumer, who you report your faults too, are a communications retailer, and like other communications retailers we are NOT allowed to talk to Openreach. It’s cost millions of pounds and years of my life to separate the processes and systems set up in the name of effectiveness and efficiency all in the name of <fx:DEEP VOICE> "consumer choice". Like all utility privatisations, the splitting off of the physical disruption layer of the infrastructure to allow multiple shyster service provider organisations is completely counter productive and works against quality of service and service provision security. It does however allow FRIENDS OF THE GOVERNMENT to enter the utilities market where it is most profitable and with little investment. Service is further reduced when The City "experts" weigh in and tell the operation companies how to run their organisations, because as you know a city boy knows more about running any given business than those with time and experience doing so. This leads to that other favourite money making scam of the FRIENDS OF THE GOVERNMENT, outsourcing. Once a business has reduced its numbers to city friendly levels there are inveribslly not enough people to actually do the work, so the company concerned has to get more bodies in. These extra bodies are bough in at the cheapest price offered, which will likely be more than it would cost the company to employ them properly, but it’s from a different part of the balance sheet so the city remain happy, but the bodies themselves will be paid less and have worse employment conditions than the main employees. Of course the outsourcing company have no vested interest in the effective running of the purchasing company, and so they squeeze their employees mercilessly to maximise their profits. The bought in bodies have neither the time nor the interest to do a good job, nor in most cases a safe job either.
Meanwhile, the retail provider happily blames Openreach for all your woes, while screaming about the cost of access, we’ll all the retail providers bar one, as we are categorically told NOT to blame Openreach.
Utilities are natural monopolies and in most cases are vital to the health and wellbeing of the country, running any of them in a fractured model for profit while imposing regulation on the whole "to promote competition" is wasteful, expensive and ineffective.
</rant>

Sorry, something I feel passionate about.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 03 March, 2018, 09:13:33 pm
And it's stopped.   Please let that be it for this event.

Shorts next week.    :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Polar Bear on 03 March, 2018, 09:23:26 pm
I just panic bought a house litre of milk.  We'd completely run out and I was quite surprised that the local shop still had loads left.  Unlike the newspapers which haven't been seen for days.

Milk! :o We can only dream of the stuff round here. We managed to find a solitary pint of skimmed, and that was it. (Bread is similarly unobtainable, though I'm not bothered about that as I don't need bread in my coffee.)

Plastic milk cartons freeze fine. I always have emergency milk in my freezer. I have 7 pints delivered in glass bottles every week.

They do indeed.  I have two 1 litre plastic cartons filled with cow juice in our freezer as we speak.  They swell up nicely and defrost over about 8 hours at this time of year.   I am still fascinated by the formation of ice on the outside of the carton whilst defrosting takez place.   8)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 03 March, 2018, 09:27:56 pm
Lactofree milk drink[1] has a long shelf-life, as the bacterial load is reduced as a side-effect of the process.  We've still got several litres in the fridge from last week.

Of course, it's much easier to be un-BRITISH and not drink tea in the first place.


[1] They aren't allowed to call it milk.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 03 March, 2018, 10:22:06 pm
The lacto-free is unBRITISH cos it's Danish...

Ice forms on defrosting milk bottle cos warm kitchen air holds much moisture, which condenses and freezes on the bottle, which is still subzero.

Milk in 2 pint containers takes a whole weekend (60 hours) to defrost in my fridge.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 04 March, 2018, 12:40:18 am
Had a good run east this morning.

Apart from getting stuck in a snow drift two miles from home  :) ;D

Some digging and a passing Land Rover and we were on our way again
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 March, 2018, 01:29:26 am
All gone when I went out just after five pip-emma yesterday.  Raining in Islington an hour later.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 04 March, 2018, 07:46:10 am
It's thawing. Watch out for all that water..
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 04 March, 2018, 10:43:38 am
The lacto-free is unBRITISH cos it's Danish...

Ice forms on defrosting milk bottle cos warm kitchen air holds much moisture, which condenses and freezes on the bottle, which is still subzero.

Milk in 2 pint containers takes a whole weekend (60 hours) to defrost in my fridge.

We defrost it on the draining board. 4pints take about 12hrs. As it’s skimmed I don’t worry If it gets slightly warm, not much fat to go off.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 04 March, 2018, 10:44:41 am
It's thawing. Watch out for all that water..

It certainly is. Visibly so in the last couple of hours. Now up to 6C and climbing.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 04 March, 2018, 12:57:25 pm
Out on the old MTB with road tyres this morning, on the back lanes. Expecting 6-7C but actually 2-3, I came across several areas of road full of about a foot of melting slushdrift resulting in me getting off and walking. 

Lots of big snowballs with carrotsbon the floor in front gardens.
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Post by: Jaded on 04 March, 2018, 02:20:11 pm
A shedload of water about here now we are back. All roads clear but very very heavy showers taking their toll on the drains.
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Post by: Torslanda on 04 March, 2018, 03:36:35 pm
Drains. Yes. I remember them.

Round our way the grids are still at the side of the road but are universally silted up, the meltwater collects at the lowest point - broadly the town centre - and then we kind of pray it doesn't freeze again.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 March, 2018, 06:54:46 pm
Normal service is resumed, mud and shit.
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Post by: Chris S on 04 March, 2018, 07:06:27 pm
Normal service is resumed, mud and shit.

#brexit
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Post by: pcolbeck on 06 March, 2018, 04:59:02 pm
All our snow has melted bar sad piles on the verge left by snow ploughs.
It was bin day yesterday but according to the council they couldn't collect due to the bad weather last week and now they wont collect until our next scheduled collection. So no bin collection for a month due to two days of snow neither of which was our bin day !
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 March, 2018, 07:19:30 pm
According to my farcebook feed it's snowing again inland of here. Hope it doesn't spread out, I've gotta take my b0rked brother half a days camel ride & back to the horsepital tomorrow.
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Post by: ian on 06 March, 2018, 08:04:27 pm
All our snow has melted bar sad piles on the verge left by snow ploughs.
It was bin day yesterday but according to the council they couldn't collect due to the bad weather last week and now they wont collect until our next scheduled collection. So no bin collection for a month due to two days of snow neither of which was our bin day !

Ours too, and we only get a collection every two weeks (rubbish alternates with recycling). Which means much of it will appear as a small mountain of festering black bags in a street near us sometime soon.
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Post by: Chris S on 06 March, 2018, 10:24:49 pm
I didn't put the bin out on Friday as I was sure they wouldn't turn up - but then the buggers proved me wrong.

I'm gonna have to stand in the bin and jump up and down some. Meh - it's mostly beer cans, it'll compress.
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Post by: Jaded on 06 March, 2018, 10:47:30 pm
We get food every week. Alternate rubbish and wine bottlesrecycling. Works well.
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Post by: Feanor on 06 March, 2018, 10:52:11 pm
I always get a pang of guilt as I trundle the Mixed Recycling bin out every 2 weeks.

I try to cover the pile of wine bottles with the cardboard and paper, but I just know they can see it as it is up-ended into the truck :-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 06 March, 2018, 11:25:00 pm
The seeing isn't the problem.

It's the hearing.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 07 March, 2018, 08:29:12 am
Feels like spring today. And yesterday!

It was rubbish and recycling day on Friday, apparently they're going to catch up this week. Maybe even today. Which means they might not take anything because by now it's overflowing and wrongly sorted. Who'd be a bin man? It's a rubbish job.

Do we need a Refuse Collection Thread?!!!!
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Post by: ian on 07 March, 2018, 08:48:28 am
The seeing isn't the problem.

It's the hearing.

Right now, it's my alternate Wednesday morning alarm clock as they empty the recycling wheelie bins (normal rubbish is bags, though we bought another wheelie bin for that). Every day I collect various cans and bottles from the path up the hill and dump them in someone's conveniently placed recycling bin. It's full of Stella empties which makes me sad. No one should have to drink Stella.

It would be nice if people would move their uncollected rubbish off the pavement. It's almost all houses and they could easily move it. It's not going to disappear before next Wednesday.

(My granddad was a bin man, which I was told by my mum not to tell anyone, because we're like that posh. Oddly, he used to be miner and then the pit fell on his head or some other calamity that involved them removing a bone from his leg and putting it in his back along with an LP sized metal plate that he could play a tune on. I say oddly, because I'm sure hefting bins in pre-wheelie days wasn't exactly an improvement over being a miner).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 07 March, 2018, 08:57:17 am
We're hoping for a collection tomorrow.  Actually, we've managed quite well.  Amazon boxes cut up and rolled into tight tubes makes great kindling.
We're still having visits from the great unwashed (literally). Pals from the rural area we lived in 5 miles away needing a shower.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 07 March, 2018, 11:09:32 am
Bugger.  On my way back from this morning's dog emptying walk, I noticed that every house, including ours, has had a crate of water bottles left on the doorstep.  The water is still on at the mo, but they must be expecting problems.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: essexian on 07 March, 2018, 11:15:08 am
Went out for my first ride for 2 weeks last evening....bl**dy flu..... only to find some of the roads around Ranton and Eccleshall with banks of snow still along the side which does not get any direct sunshine.

Indeed, there were a number of small sections where it was not possible to get a bike and a car along side each other....although one car driver did try of course..... :facepalm:

I am heading up towards Milwich later. Its quite hilly around there so I wonder if all the roads are open.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 08 March, 2018, 07:49:03 am
Yes it is. And settled.. >:(
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Post by: Legs on 08 March, 2018, 07:57:43 am
I am heading up towards Milwich later. Its quite hilly around there so I wonder if all the roads are open.

I got snowed out of Church Leigh last Thursday and had to spend the night in my office in Uttoxeter.

One of my colleagues went on a site visit to Stowe-by-Chartley a few days ago, and it was still inaccessible.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 08 March, 2018, 08:01:37 am
Raining at 6am - by 6:50 there is an inch of snow on the ground.

That's going to put a crimp in MrsC's exercise plans (she's supposed to take very short gentle walks each day and can't risk falling).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 08 March, 2018, 09:08:29 am
About 2-3cm in Liverpool overnight, we were not expecting that ! Now turning to slush.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: essexian on 16 March, 2018, 08:33:35 am
Getting rather fed up of this winter as while its not snowing currently, tomorrows forecast is for snow just as I was planning to cycle back from Keele.

Sunday looks completely cancelled: I was going to do the Nova Raiders Reliability Ride what with snow forecast for the morning along with 20mph plus winds. The wind chill is also forecast to be down towards -10c  :facepalm:

I hate winter.  >:(
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 16 March, 2018, 09:11:04 am
You and me both. I love playing in snow, but wet slush, when I have jobs to do, is a right bloody pain.

Seeing as I'm probably not going to Cambridge to check out accommodation, I need to weld a pontoon together again. That's going to be fun in wet sleet. Actually, probably impossible, given the wind forecast.
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Post by: rafletcher on 17 March, 2018, 08:03:46 am
Well we've had a sprinkling this morning, the usual wet stuff this time.
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Post by: essexian on 17 March, 2018, 09:43:52 am
Well, a few flakes falling at the moment but nothing too bad.... more is expected later along with 40mph winds....its going to be fun standing by the side of a football pitch later....if the match is on!

"They" are expecting it to get much worse overnight: the Nova Raiders reliability ride has been cancelled as has the Stafford Half Marathon both due to take place tomorrow.   
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Post by: Palinurus on 17 March, 2018, 09:44:42 am
Light dusting in central Watford
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Post by: cycleman on 17 March, 2018, 10:24:21 am
Have had a snow shower this morning but it has not settled as the ground is to warm  :) very cold wind though  :)
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Post by: Pingu on 17 March, 2018, 10:29:33 am
Very light snow showers here, but nothing lying.
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Post by: spesh on 17 March, 2018, 12:23:48 pm
It's actually snowing quite a bit in Pompey  :o , big fluffy flakes and all, but it doesn't look like it's settling.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 17 March, 2018, 02:04:24 pm
On a train in Cornwall and it's snowing.  YAY!!!    8)
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 17 March, 2018, 03:34:21 pm
A bit here in West Somerset, but not enough to settle.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 17 March, 2018, 03:40:08 pm
Sno has settled on our grass.
My various outdoor weather probes have not detected any subzero temperatures.
There is continuing frozen precipitation that is so light that:
Myopic folk cannot see it without spectacles.
It evaporates on or before contact with the ground so the patio and streets are dry.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nicknack on 17 March, 2018, 04:29:13 pm
Looks a bit like it's setting in for the evening here in North Kent. Which is a bit tedious since I've a gig to go to about 15 miles away. I'd far rather stay in, light the fire and have a few beers.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 17 March, 2018, 05:21:23 pm
Weird day here in Bucks. Been snowing virtually all day, but little lying, indeed the cars thawed, but now have icicles hanging from them. And the road is drying despite the precipitation.
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Post by: Chris S on 17 March, 2018, 05:38:17 pm
Same here in the North East. Blizzard for 10 minutes, then it all blows away and everywhere is dry again. Somewhere down the road, there must be one big pile of snow.
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Post by: Aunt Maud on 17 March, 2018, 05:42:01 pm
-17ºC windchill, but sunny.

Feck moi, c'est froid!
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Post by: ElyDave on 17 March, 2018, 07:07:31 pm
bloody cold in that wind - landrover all over the place in the gaps between the hedges.

Gently snowing all day, now starting to settle
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Post by: Jaded on 17 March, 2018, 09:59:02 pm
We has sno settling.
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Post by: spesh on 18 March, 2018, 01:12:18 am
Now settling in Pompey as well, albeit only on shed roofs, decking and cars when I last looked.
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Post by: essexian on 18 March, 2018, 07:09:13 am
Quite a lot of the white stuff in Stafford yesterday and overnight... looks like todays exercise will either be taken on the MTB off road, or in my Man Cave on the turbo  :(

Yesterday was fun watching the "mighty" Penkridge FC at Keele....a venue on the top of a hill.....

https://twitter.com/PenkridgeFC


Oh and I saw only two cyclists yesterday while driving to the venue....both in shorts and summer tops......MADNESS  :facepalm: (either that, or I am a soft Southerner).
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 18 March, 2018, 07:57:50 am
3" overnight in Warwick. -2.2C too, so it's here to stay in the short-term, at least.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 18 March, 2018, 07:59:37 am
Loads in Swindon.  The cat can't get out until I go and shovel some of it away from the house.  It's drifted, too.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 18 March, 2018, 08:48:32 am
2-3" in the Aylesbury Vale, but everything's still working - the paper has just been delivered.
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Post by: Vince on 18 March, 2018, 08:52:33 am
Three inches overnight and its still snowing. The temperature is Brrrrrr.
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Post by: SoreTween on 18 March, 2018, 09:06:41 am
2-3" in the lower reaches of the Forest of Dean
Reports of 6" on the high ground between Ross & Hereford
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Post by: ElyDave on 18 March, 2018, 09:16:16 am
no more than a dusting in the fens, but bitterly cold with nothing between us and Vlad's minions
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Post by: T42 on 18 March, 2018, 09:23:35 am
A couple of cm of light, powdery stuff overnight, blown onto the front of the house by the NE wind. Front steps (flight of 15) are covered & perilous, flagstones in path mostly blasted free. Around -2.5°C with strong gusting wind for added jolification. No tracks on the pavement yet - folk are staying in.
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Post by: Canardly on 18 March, 2018, 09:43:41 am
Supposed to be a ride today....back  to bed.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 18 March, 2018, 09:47:32 am
It isn't the snow that's the problem here, it is the gales. A friend posted on FB that most of the buses in their area (leeds) have been cancelled.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 18 March, 2018, 09:49:26 am
Supposed to be a ride today....back  to bed.

Same here. Sunday club run cancelled, so I'm staying under the duvet for now.
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Post by: Quint on 18 March, 2018, 09:56:59 am
Under the duvet, I wish, Sadie (10 month Jack Russell) is bouncing up and down making I want to go squeaks.

            Minus 2c with wind chill here in my village (OX5) with about 3 inches of snow, wind is gusting enough to blow the sno off the trees and make it drift a bit.
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Post by: T42 on 18 March, 2018, 10:35:00 am
Supposed to be a ride today....back  to bed.

Same here. Sunday club run cancelled, so I'm staying under the duvet for now.

Big local charity event on today, cycling & walking options. Some hardy folk might turn out to walk, not I.  Missus was due to do 10k morning & 10 in the afternoon, she's staying home too.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wombat on 18 March, 2018, 11:07:30 am
An absolutely massive tractor has just managed to get up our lane, but there's no way any normal vehicle will manage, so us and our guests are stuck here.  I just wish the fine powdery drifting snow would kindly drift OFF our solar PV panels so I can get some free water heating and electricity!  I have not yet sourced a very long pole and a squeegee thing to sweep them off with.  I hasten to add its a bungalow with quite a low roof pitch!
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Post by: PaulF on 18 March, 2018, 11:18:58 am
Put down the first tracks here

(https://s26.postimg.org/yd89nfti1/95024_DBD-4_FAB-4_E7_B-_A02_B-_ECB5_D1_EB0_C3_C.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/977bgls7p/)

It’s hard work!

(https://s26.postimg.org/8ufxaeuih/BD6438_AC-_AB8_A-4_E72-_AE81-42_AA7_A9_D9_C15.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/v6dq3stmd/)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 March, 2018, 11:38:29 am
Nice pogies.
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Post by: De Sisti on 18 March, 2018, 01:33:57 pm
A typical scene from the Centre for the Cotswolds:
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4776/39068268470_0deae932d2.jpg)
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Post by: Jurek on 18 March, 2018, 04:24:20 pm
Put down the first tracks here

(https://s26.postimg.org/yd89nfti1/95024_DBD-4_FAB-4_E7_B-_A02_B-_ECB5_D1_EB0_C3_C.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/977bgls7p/)

It’s hard work!

(https://s26.postimg.org/8ufxaeuih/BD6438_AC-_AB8_A-4_E72-_AE81-42_AA7_A9_D9_C15.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/v6dq3stmd/)

That looks like grin-inducing fun.
More snieg here in Londres Sud.
I hope it Foxtrot Oscars before tomorrow morning.
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Post by: Aunt Maud on 18 March, 2018, 07:01:39 pm
No snow here, just bright and sunny.
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Post by: Jaded on 18 March, 2018, 07:03:30 pm
We had about 4", but it didn't stop me going up to Birmingham.
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Post by: andrewc on 18 March, 2018, 07:22:39 pm
Nothing at all in Liverpool today.
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Post by: Basil on 18 March, 2018, 08:02:23 pm
We had about 4", but it didn't stop me going up to Birmingham.

Bad luck
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Post by: cycleman on 18 March, 2018, 08:05:57 pm
Snow here overnight which had mainly melted by lunchtime .more snow this evening has left a thin layer again and the night is still young   :)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 March, 2018, 08:48:27 pm
More snieg here in Londres Sud.
I hope it Foxtrot Oscars before tomorrow morning.

Just looked out of the window.  E17 mostly sneeuwless.  No excuses, I'm afraid.
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Post by: rafletcher on 18 March, 2018, 09:39:24 pm
Another 10-20mm here in t’Vale. Hopefully a thaw tomorrow.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 18 March, 2018, 09:51:58 pm
A light dusting here by this morning, which was fun for a run up the hill.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYkUtjLW4AAPTjZ.jpg:small) (https://twitter.com/between_beyond/status/975333602924875777)
That melted in the day, and a similar amount fell this evening. I don't think we'll be stuck for long.
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Post by: Basil on 18 March, 2018, 10:01:29 pm
I thought it was all over. No.   It just snew again.
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Post by: Torslanda on 18 March, 2018, 10:21:55 pm
A typical scene from the Centre for the Cotswolds:
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4776/39068268470_0deae932d2.jpg)

Nice grow in that first house!
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Post by: SteveC on 19 March, 2018, 08:18:47 am
We have a snow 'hour and a half'. The office isn't opening until 10.30 (but I bet they expect us to make the time up  >:()
MrsC is at work...
...and she has to drive past my office to get to hers, which is open.  :facepalm:
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Post by: nicknack on 19 March, 2018, 10:40:47 am
Looks a bit like it's setting in for the evening here in North Kent. Which is a bit tedious since I've a gig to go to about 15 miles away. I'd far rather stay in, light the fire and have a few beers.
In the end the roads weren't too bad. The crowd we were playing to were very considerate (for a St Paddy's Day crowd) - they didn't start fighting until we were packing up.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Legs on 19 March, 2018, 10:58:27 am
Down the road in Bramshall, we still hadn't lost the last of the snow from 1/3/18 when the Beast came back... 
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Post by: cycleman on 19 March, 2018, 06:14:27 pm
Snow is nearly all gone , not that there was much of it in the end  :)
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Post by: ian on 19 March, 2018, 10:18:48 pm
Rumbling around in the eastern US, it looks like they might dumping another 8-12 inches of 'wet, gloopy snow' on my midweek travel plans. Which could be interesting. I do so love airport hotels and voucher dining.
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Post by: ian on 20 March, 2018, 10:48:35 pm
And thusly as predicted.

It's not just the UK that cancels everything as soon as someone says the word 'snow.'
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Post by: Beardy on 21 March, 2018, 08:50:17 am
No snow here in the east of the eastern angles, but cold again this morning.
I was a bit concerned about the reports earlier in the week about ilfracombe being cut off due to the snow and the several of drivers who had been stranded thereabouts. Why a boy living in the eastern ankles has to worry about what is going on all the way over in western parts is because I have a holiday cottage booked in Ilfrscome from Saturday. It does seem as if access is now possible, but I shall not be taking any watersport equipment as I had originally planned.
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Post by: ian on 21 March, 2018, 06:34:18 pm
Bigly snowflakes here in NYC.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 March, 2018, 08:00:11 pm
In War-shing-tahn they are allegedly calling it "Storm Daniels", at least according to BBC japester Katty Kay.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 26 March, 2018, 08:13:43 pm
It has not snowed here for a week but I was surprised yesterday at the amount of snow still lying in heaps at the edge of the road and various sheltered places on top of the Mendips. And later, but not late in the day – it was about 17:30 – I was on the high bit beyond the Somerset Levels around Wedmore and was overtaken by a gritter. Doing some spreading. It was getting chilly and yes that is high land at least in comparison to its surroundings (doubt it's actually over 100m asl) but even so, gritting seems excessive.
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Post by: Cpt Sisko on 01 April, 2018, 09:36:23 am
Fresh snow in the Shropshire hills yesterday morning.
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Post by: andytheflyer on 01 April, 2018, 11:43:37 am
The Berwyns, above Llangollen, white over this morning. Again...............
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 September, 2018, 11:18:31 pm
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QQdq6wYsfvc/W6paJTgt0xI/AAAAAAAAAb0/OcI8l2WCS04TcVylARcdap7WgjG_FJ8vQCLcBGAs/s1600/SNO%2Band%2BAl.jpg)

My grate frend Al in Red Deer AB last Friday.  Fortunately it didn't make the 150 km trip south to Calgary before the Shiny Metal Plastic Bird took me back to the tropical climes of That London.

ETA: Red Deer is at the same latitude as Leamington Spa.
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Post by: ElyDave on 26 September, 2018, 06:19:43 am
Snow in Hammerfest this week
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Post by: PaulF on 26 September, 2018, 06:22:23 am
Had to scrape ice off the windscreen yesterday morning.
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Post by: Basil on 26 October, 2018, 04:05:07 pm
A couple of minutes of light compact white stuff.
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Post by: woollypigs on 26 October, 2018, 04:35:47 pm
you lucky git
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Post by: ElyDave on 26 October, 2018, 04:53:13 pm
some hailstorms here
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Post by: Jaded on 26 October, 2018, 07:28:22 pm
I can see sno here. On the mountains.

With added hail showers. It's 4C out there now, will be interesting to see what it is like in the morning.
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Post by: Chris S on 26 October, 2018, 07:30:57 pm
Could be some snow on the tops here by morning.
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Post by: Basil on 26 October, 2018, 07:39:13 pm
The gritters are out in Ceredigion.  I guess the plan is to run out of grit before the real winter arrives so that they won't have to go out on dangerous icey January  nights.
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Post by: ElyDave on 26 October, 2018, 07:48:51 pm
Could be some snow on the tops here by morning.

Cumbria? Where abouts? I shall have to ask my parents in the morning if hey've had any.

Ambient not too cold here today, but chill wind from t'north
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Post by: SteveC on 26 October, 2018, 07:49:36 pm
The gritters are out in Somerset! (I assume only on Exmoor and the Mendips)
Apparently it't the first time since 2012 they've been needed in October.
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Post by: Chris S on 26 October, 2018, 07:54:41 pm
Could be some snow on the tops here by morning.

Cumbria? Where abouts? I shall have to ask my parents in the morning if hey've had any.

Ambient not too cold here today, but chill wind from t'north

Cumbria?  :o Wrong side of the watershed  ;D

We back onto the North York Moors.
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Post by: ElyDave on 26 October, 2018, 08:13:40 pm
Could be some snow on the tops here by morning.

Cumbria? Where abouts? I shall have to ask my parents in the morning if hey've had any.

Ambient not too cold here today, but chill wind from t'north


Cumbria?  :o Wrong side of the watershed  ;D

We back onto the North York Moors.
At least i didn't call you Lancastrian by mistake  ;)
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Post by: Chris S on 26 October, 2018, 08:16:11 pm
Could be some snow on the tops here by morning.

Cumbria? Where abouts? I shall have to ask my parents in the morning if hey've had any.

Ambient not too cold here today, but chill wind from t'north


Cumbria?  :o Wrong side of the watershed  ;D

We back onto the North York Moors.
At least i didn't call you Lancastrian by mistake  ;)

Ah, that's fine - I'm a Southerner through and through; it's all I can do to work out what the fuck people are saying up here, half the time - so the whole East/West thing is largely lost on me - I can't understand what they (points toward Penrith) are saying either  :D
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 October, 2018, 10:35:40 pm
I think we need a Gritty McGritface http://scotgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2de764a9303848ffb9a4cac0bd0b1aab
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Post by: Kim on 26 October, 2018, 11:12:30 pm
Stop talking about snow! I'm in a tent!
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Post by: Jurek on 26 October, 2018, 11:28:37 pm
Stop talking about snow! I'm in a tent!
It'll be an igloo by morning.
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Post by: Andrew Br on 27 October, 2018, 01:51:32 am
I saw my first gritter of the Winter this evening.
It was in Manchester (A34 south of Burnage).

Please, when you're giving further weather info, say where you are everytime. I can't remember where most of you live.

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Post by: ElyDave on 27 October, 2018, 06:47:36 am
Ely, sometimes

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Post by: andytheflyer on 27 October, 2018, 08:25:22 am
Going out to walk the dog shortly.  If there's snow on the Berwyns (above Llangollen) I'll let you know, Andrew.  They get it before anyone else around here.
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Post by: Jaded on 27 October, 2018, 08:25:52 am
There is snow outside.  ;D
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Post by: pdm on 27 October, 2018, 09:45:22 am
First flurry of snow of the season here in West Sheffield this morning before dawn - didn't stick around to be noticed, though...
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Post by: woollypigs on 27 October, 2018, 10:52:29 am
'snot'fair I wanna sno too !!!
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Post by: Jakob W on 27 October, 2018, 11:04:52 am
Massive wet clumps of snow here in Walsall for the past half hour, though it's now turned into rain and is tailing off.
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Post by: barakta on 27 October, 2018, 11:20:17 am
The weather is SO bollocks that even @bollocksweather has been outbollocksed!
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Post by: andytheflyer on 27 October, 2018, 02:09:16 pm
See ^^.  I can confirm that the Berwyns were indeed white over this morning, first time this winter - wonder when will be the last time?), once the cloud had lifted.  But they aren't now as far as I can see (but I'm looking into the sun.....)
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Post by: vantage on 27 October, 2018, 02:39:53 pm
Stop talking about snow! I'm in a tent!

It WAS you!!!
I wondered who owned the bent at the far side of the field. Then Rich turned up and mentioned a Kim going home.
Kim?
Bent?
Tent?
Na it couldn't be!
Then as you were leaving I noticed the Yacf Jersey!

I was the short, bald unsocial chap in the bright blue cycling jacket and stupid hat with a peak.

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Post by: Kim on 27 October, 2018, 09:48:37 pm
Ah-ha!
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Post by: markcjagar on 27 October, 2018, 10:22:36 pm
First flurry of snow of the season here in West Sheffield this morning before dawn - didn't stick around to be noticed, though...

There's none down in Hillsborough
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Post by: T42 on 16 December, 2018, 09:53:29 am
Couple of inches here this morning. Dogs going daft.
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Post by: rafletcher on 17 January, 2019, 08:32:55 am
Sleet, rather than snow, on the Chilterns.
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Post by: andytheflyer on 17 January, 2019, 08:41:01 am
First of the year on the Berwyns this morning. 
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Post by: Wowbagger on 17 January, 2019, 05:21:33 pm
The guy who lives next door but two to me reported seeing snow this morning. I looked outside and couldn't see any.

I mentioned this to Phyllis who then told me an amusing anecdote that perhaps ought to be in a "Child Utterances" thread but it relevant to this one.

Phyllis's (and my dad's) youngest sister, Glenys, was married to Arthur, a keen gardener. Every couple of years or so would see him sprinkling lime liberally over his turned sods. On once such occasion, next door's small child could be hear wailing "It's not fair! They've got snow next door but we haven't got any!"
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Post by: orienteer on 17 January, 2019, 06:09:27 pm
I saw a few flakes in the air this morning here in west London, nothing settled on the wet ground. The temperature was about 2C.
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Post by: markcjagar on 17 January, 2019, 07:07:12 pm
there was about 0.5cm of white stuff on some cars this morning, none on the roads nor any ice
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Post by: L CC on 17 January, 2019, 07:16:23 pm
My nephew from Australia has been in the UK since December 11th and aged 9,has never seen snow. He's been dreaming of a white Christmas. They fly out tonight.
This morning:
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190117/370dcae260985aa119cd1f7d3fcc811e.jpg)
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Post by: Kim on 17 January, 2019, 07:21:33 pm
My nephew from Australia has been in the UK since December 11th and aged 9,has never seen snow. He's been dreaming of a white Christmas. They fly out tonight.
This morning:
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190117/370dcae260985aa119cd1f7d3fcc811e.jpg)

Result  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Adam on 17 January, 2019, 10:33:04 pm
Driving up towards Birmingham today, at around 7 am just north of Oxford on the M40, there was an intensive slushy-snow storm reducing visibility a lot, for about 5-10 minutes, before clearing away.  There was a brief settling of white stuff on the hard shoulder.  Then as the sun came up, it was all blue sky & sunshine.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 17 January, 2019, 10:34:48 pm
Top news for the antipo-boablet!
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Post by: andrewc on 18 January, 2019, 11:43:06 am
Snowing in central Liverpool, but not sticking.
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Post by: PeteB99 on 18 January, 2019, 11:44:49 am
A few flakes in Chester, most are not making it to the ground.
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Post by: pdm on 18 January, 2019, 05:02:42 pm
Proper Flakey stuff up here in upper Sheffield at the moment.... Its turning white - no pic cos its DARK.... :(
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 18 January, 2019, 05:06:30 pm
So send some down to Somerset.  Miserable freezing cold rain and wind here.
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Post by: woollypigs on 18 January, 2019, 06:39:26 pm
White a stuff on hills around here, be gone in the am I'm sure
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Post by: mcshroom on 18 January, 2019, 07:32:49 pm
A few flakes in the rain on my way home tonight but no snow. I'm guessing the fells will have had a dusting.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 18 January, 2019, 07:43:57 pm
A few flakes falling here now, but it's not sticking.
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Post by: Efrogwr on 18 January, 2019, 09:21:42 pm
Blaenau Ffestiniog was cut off from the world this morning.
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Post by: Basil on 18 January, 2019, 09:58:51 pm
Blaenau Ffestiniog was cut off from the world this morning.

No change then?
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Post by: Kim on 18 January, 2019, 10:23:17 pm
Sleety pish in Middle Earth....
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Post by: Basil on 22 January, 2019, 08:57:58 am
Snowing quite heavily in SA44
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Post by: Pingu on 22 January, 2019, 09:52:24 am
My colleague in the Central Belt tells me there's been a couple of cms down there. Nothing here, yet, though.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 January, 2019, 12:41:39 pm
My brother reports snow in Forfar.
Meanwhile I've spent the last 90 mins sitting on a plane at a snowy CDG waiting for it to be deiced, and I'm bloody starving. Breakfast was a long time ago...
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Post by: lou boutin on 22 January, 2019, 02:15:46 pm
We saw a flurry of snow at about 11 ish.  It was wet slushy stuff that disappeared as it hit the ground.  According to the weather we won't see any more today (now i've said that, I'll wake up tomorrow morning to a a foot of the stuff!!)

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Post by: DuncanM on 22 January, 2019, 02:18:00 pm
Snow in Didcot now. Not settling though - was raining earlier.
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Post by: Kim on 22 January, 2019, 02:19:42 pm
Soggy slow (TBAGO) arrived in Middle Earth just in time to get barakta cold and wet on her way home.  It's stopped for now.
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Post by: mattc on 22 January, 2019, 02:22:56 pm
Snow in Didcot now. Not settling though - was raining earlier.
PROPER pretty fluffy stuff in quantity, just to the North of you now.

GN: Scheduled to stop for going home time - no bad thing really.

BN: Forecast sub-zero tonight, so tomorrow morning will be the fun  :-\
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Post by: rafletcher on 22 January, 2019, 03:24:06 pm
Snowing lightly in the Chilterns atop Tring Hill. Not settling atm. Scheduled to last a couple of hours and become heavier. We shall see.
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Post by: Snakehips on 22 January, 2019, 03:56:32 pm
The moderately heavy rain just got whiter and less noisy here.
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 22 January, 2019, 04:00:28 pm
Lucky you!  Still raining here.
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Post by: menthel on 22 January, 2019, 04:09:59 pm
Bloody snowing in New Malden. Bah.
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Post by: mattc on 22 January, 2019, 04:11:31 pm
MET OFFICE just issued snow+ice warning for pretty much every part of the UK overnight. Be careful out there folks  :hand:
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Post by: rafletcher on 22 January, 2019, 04:32:14 pm
Cars are all white in the car park, and some settling on the ground. Hopefully will mean Tesco is quieter tonight!
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Post by: cycleman on 22 January, 2019, 06:58:44 pm
A dusting of snow here in Slough  .could be fun if it freezes tonight   :)
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Post by: Kim on 22 January, 2019, 07:01:44 pm
It's given up trying to snow in Middle Earth, but the ground is wet enough that ice is on the cards.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 22 January, 2019, 07:04:10 pm
Better on the cards than on the roads, I say.









I'll get my skidoo.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 January, 2019, 07:07:01 pm
More in E17 now than for the entirety of the much-hyped "Beast From The East :thumbsup:
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Post by: lou boutin on 22 January, 2019, 07:31:31 pm
I spoke too soon.  We have a covering and there appears to be more forecast through the night  :'(
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Post by: Pingu on 22 January, 2019, 07:33:27 pm
Cold and clear skies in FurryBootToon  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Basil on 22 January, 2019, 07:59:49 pm
Mostly gone now.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 22 January, 2019, 08:04:47 pm
Panic in london and the driving gets worse!!!
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Post by: Jurek on 22 January, 2019, 08:14:29 pm
Śnieg here in Forest Hill.
We are not afraid.
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Post by: woollypigs on 22 January, 2019, 08:15:02 pm
Śnieg here in Forest Hill.
We are not afraid.
Nice knowing you
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Post by: Gattopardo on 22 January, 2019, 08:16:40 pm
What shall I panic buy?
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 22 January, 2019, 08:24:30 pm
What shall I panic buy?
ice cream.
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 22 January, 2019, 10:06:41 pm
What shall I panic buy?
A, prolly very small, Snow Shuvel?
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Post by: rogerzilla on 23 January, 2019, 08:01:10 am
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46967689

Road-runner, Hazlemere's made the news!
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Post by: T42 on 24 January, 2019, 10:46:48 am
Got a new crop of poudreuse coming down.
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Post by: Basil on 29 January, 2019, 11:55:05 am
Snow predicted at 12 noon. At 10 to 12 the big fluffy ones have started to fall.
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Post by: woollypigs on 29 January, 2019, 11:57:08 am
Man, you just can't rely on these forecasts anymore 
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Post by: Steph on 29 January, 2019, 09:44:03 pm
SNO now in South East Surrey.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 29 January, 2019, 11:32:13 pm
Driving rain turned to sleet and snow in the fens. Nice coating of wet slush freezing on the ground. Going to be fun riding on that tomorrow.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 29 January, 2019, 11:43:43 pm
It was raining earlier. Snowing now. Temperature 1°C here in dark, cold Saarfend.
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Post by: Kim on 29 January, 2019, 11:49:21 pm
None of the earlier snow (which was of the large, soggy kind that gets you surprisingly wet when you put the bins out) settled in Middle Earth.  It's now dropped below zero, but without sign of precipitation.

I've left the Ice Spikers on the MTB, in spite of being largely redundant over the weekend.
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Post by: Beardy on 29 January, 2019, 11:56:45 pm
The snowmaggedon has arrived here in the Far East of the Angles. Whether it will manage to survive until the morning remains to be seen.
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Post by: Cpt Sisko on 30 January, 2019, 08:21:42 am
Light dusting in Shropshire this morning, but no more than 10mm and as the sun is shining I can't see it lasting long.
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Post by: andytheflyer on 30 January, 2019, 08:24:34 am
Light dusting in Shropshire this morning, but no more than 10mm and as the sun is shining I can't see it lasting long.
Snowing fairly hard now on Shrops/Chesh border.  Was clear when I took the dog out at 7 - not sure now we'll make it to his weekly class at 1030.  Snowed off last Wednesday too.  He'll be forgetting everything he's learned so far.
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Post by: De Sisti on 30 January, 2019, 08:37:15 am
Only frost in the Centre for the Cotswolds.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 January, 2019, 10:15:48 am
Not even a noteworthy quantity of rain last night in E17.
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 30 January, 2019, 10:22:10 am
Tiniest sprinkling in Somerset.  Mostly gone already
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Post by: rafletcher on 30 January, 2019, 10:26:17 am
The Chilterns got off lightly last night, the snow falling onto wet ground leaving the roads clear this morning, if a trifle icy in places.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 30 January, 2019, 10:27:26 am
Despite the local medials promising/warning of snow for "the whole of Bristol", this morning dawned frosty but sunny and snowless.
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Post by: ian on 30 January, 2019, 11:40:50 am
An inch or so on the North Downs, now disappearing in the sunshine. Not exactly the snowpocalypse. Even the trains are running. I did my civic duty and gritted the hill yesterday evening (then I heard someone else doing it later, so it's probably the most gritted road in Surrey).

Though, of course, the recycling collection lorry has yet to arrive.
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Post by: PeteB99 on 30 January, 2019, 11:56:33 am
Half an inch here in Chester. Liverpool and Manchester airports closed temporarily. White walkers sighted on M56.

Send more Dragons.
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Post by: T42 on 30 January, 2019, 12:47:06 pm
Flipping back & forth between snow & sleet here. Bleh.
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Post by: pdm on 30 January, 2019, 04:00:30 pm
Had a nice dusting of the stuff last night - Out for a short ride in it this morning - looked beautiful!

(https://dgtzuqphqg23d.cloudfront.net/1rEGtTzUGNS0uXsJMQc-Iv8TzwNRywnzPSR60Cxot3Y-2048x1536.jpg)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 30 January, 2019, 04:37:34 pm
Avalanche on Snowdon!
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Post by: JennyB on 30 January, 2019, 04:54:46 pm
Got  caught out unexpectedly  last night in Enniskillen with the cargo bike. Was tempted to leave it there and take a taxi the six miles back home, but cars were moving very slowly so I decided to chance it.

It was easy at first, slow but stable, until I discovered there was ice as well as snow and slid off (it was too gentle to call a fall) for the first of four times. Uphill was never a problem, but descents and sudden adverse cambers were. Downhills were a case of one foot on the ground all the way.

All in all, though, not too bad in suitable clothes and boots. Certainly easier than walking, but not much faster. A lot of time on sidewalks, grass verges, and waiting for cars to crawl past.
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Post by: ElyDave on 30 January, 2019, 05:43:16 pm
Nothing to write home about in the fens, it's stayed on the grass and garage roofs, but gone pretty quickly on the roads.

I still opted for a turbo session though, a) couldn't be arsed to clean the bike and b) un-sunned patches of ice on fenland back roads are not uncommon, and usually lurk around a corner
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Post by: markcjagar on 30 January, 2019, 06:18:48 pm
The main roads between Sheffield & Rotherham were clear, a light sprinkling on the pavements and ice where there wasn't any grit
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Post by: cycleman on 30 January, 2019, 09:24:58 pm
No snow here but an ::-)y ungritted roads were very icey this morning .not a problem with the trice of course  ;) O:-). I will fit my marathon winter tyre on the trice for Friday morning to make it more likely to for it to warm up and rain  ::-)
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Post by: Basil on 30 January, 2019, 09:31:32 pm
A BFO snowplough has just driven past.
It's not snowing.
I assume it is going to.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 31 January, 2019, 12:01:37 am
No snow in Southend, but my day out with a non-YACF pal was re-graded to a walk. I saw the forecast of rain followed by frost, snow and ice so we met at Ingatestone station (Rebecca comes from London) and walked to Stock and back, just over 8 miles. The first few hundred yards on metalled road into Stock were really treacherous and we congratulated each other on our good decision. Cycling on those minor roads would have been impossible.

There was a dusting of snow which first manifested itself in the Hockley area when I came in on the train. It was a lovely sunny day, though, and when I was waiting fro my connection at Shenfield, there was a roof opposite me that was covered in snow, but I was lovely and warm sitting in the sun on platform 3.
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Post by: T42 on 31 January, 2019, 08:20:48 am
About 3 cm here. Dogs love it. I cleared the pavement outside and MrsT salted it. Much jolly bonding with neighbours bent to the same task.
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Post by: chrisbainbridge on 31 January, 2019, 09:43:46 am
Just freezing fog here!
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Post by: Cpt Sisko on 31 January, 2019, 01:06:43 pm
Just freezing fog here!

Same here in Shropshire, but then as the fog began to lift, what was the fog came down as very fine snow, i.e. frozen drizzle. Quite strange.
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Post by: mattc on 31 January, 2019, 02:55:19 pm
is Amber worse than Yellow? Or just less acrid??
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 31 January, 2019, 02:57:26 pm
We had a couple of flakes before lunch.  But it has just got very dark ........
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Post by: Pingu on 31 January, 2019, 03:02:37 pm
No snow here, clear skies and cold. There's a fair bit of ice coming down the river into the harbour just now. That's got the attention of my cow-orkers!

ETA - you may see it here: http://www.seacroftmarine.com/webcams/ or http://www.seacroftmarine.com/webcams/south/
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Post by: Basil on 31 January, 2019, 05:58:05 pm
We've been having dire warnings of the Four Snowploughs of the Apocalypse all day now.
It didn't happen!  Saw a couple of flakes about 3ish and that was it.  :(
There goes my perfect excuse not to go to the gym tonight.
Also, because the bin men are also the gritters and snowplough drivers, they've spent the day parked up on the various high points of the local A roads havin' an fag and looking at their phones while all the recycling bags and food bins are now blowing around the street because they've not been collected.

Bah!
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Post by: Jaded on 31 January, 2019, 06:04:03 pm
We've had some strong flurries here and then it went very dark.

So we can't see anything...
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Post by: ElyDave on 31 January, 2019, 06:05:44 pm
Nowt here today but it's been nippy all day
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Post by: spesh on 31 January, 2019, 06:40:23 pm
It is now snowing in Pompey, though it's not settling.
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Post by: CommuteTooFar on 31 January, 2019, 07:23:57 pm
It started snowing in Radyr, Cardiff this evening. My street is white apart from a couple of inconsiderate car drivers leaving tracks to spoil the pristine snow.
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Post by: matthew on 31 January, 2019, 09:06:02 pm
Snow now falling and settling in Bracknell.
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Post by: Jurek on 31 January, 2019, 09:31:49 pm
It has started, in Forest Hill.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 31 January, 2019, 09:46:53 pm
Just started in Swindon.
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Post by: Jurek on 31 January, 2019, 09:51:51 pm
Let's be honest - overnight we're unlikely to get the 1.5m dumps (not drifts) that the two Hungarian women, with whom I share an office, experience when they go home at this time of year.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 31 January, 2019, 10:31:49 pm
A bunch of lads have spent the last ten minutes pushing, revving and sliding a Skoda Octavia 100m or so up the slight slope on our side street. It looks very wet, soggy snow. Cudzo Jnr has been told (by Cudzo Mrs) that he should wear wellies for his paper round in the morning. He's hoping school (which is even nearer than the paper round) will be cancelled.
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Post by: Jaded on 31 January, 2019, 10:43:19 pm
Let's be honest - overnight we're unlikely to get the 1.5m dumps (not drifts) that the two Hungarian women, with whom I share an office, experience when they go home at this time of year.

There's no doubt that a 1.5m dump is impressive.

Here, in Somerset, we have light fluffy stuff.
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Post by: spesh on 31 January, 2019, 10:54:44 pm
I spoke too soon. - it started settling at some point between my previous post and this one. Not much though, probably a centimetre or so...
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Post by: andrewc on 31 January, 2019, 10:56:23 pm
Nothing in Liverpool , though the pavements near my flat still have a good coating of ice & are pretty treacherous.  The city centre is clear, but I'm about 28 metres higher, and that makes quite a difference.
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Post by: PaulF on 31 January, 2019, 11:08:03 pm
An inch or so here in South Oxfordshire. Just back from seeing a Canadian band who were bemused by our anticipation of the snowfall.
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Post by: Jurek on 31 January, 2019, 11:36:05 pm
Let's be honest - overnight we're unlikely to get the 1.5m dumps (not drifts) that the two Hungarian women, with whom I share an office, experience when they go home at this time of year.

There's no doubt that a 1.5m dump is impressive.

Here, in Somerset, we have light fluffy stuff.
I understand what you are saying.
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Post by: rafletcher on 01 February, 2019, 07:49:00 am
Some 5cm of lovely light powdery snow here in the Chilterns, easy to clear off the car with a brush. Easy driving, but then I do have 4wd and winter tyres. There will be a lot of "working from home" today methinks. Having fun watching people make a hash of parking.
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Post by: PaulF on 01 February, 2019, 07:57:18 am
An inch or so here in South Oxfordshire. Just back from seeing a Canadian band who were bemused by our anticipation of the snowfall.

And overnight it became 3-4 inches. The downside is that as I officially work from home I can't claim that I can't get to the office due to the weather :(
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Post by: Vince on 01 February, 2019, 08:22:58 am
3-4 inches here. A local farmer has been ploughing the residential streets so everything is moving.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 February, 2019, 08:23:06 am
The "school closed" text arrived at 6.44, just two minutes after he'd left (to do his paper round, not go to school!). Why does school have to close? It doesn't seem likely that all or even most of the staff can't get in, and the same for the kids, so surely they could keep the buildings open, lessons cancelled, so kids would have somewhere to go and something to do rather than sitting at home all day or wandering the snowy streets?
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Post by: ElyDave on 01 February, 2019, 08:25:32 am
sweet FA, a few drifting flakes as Jnr headed out to catch the schoolbus [much excitement] but even now it has stopped again.

SWMBO is scathing of my optimism at audaxing tomorrow. I've explained that it's essex, not cornwall
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Post by: rafletcher on 01 February, 2019, 08:27:15 am
Why does school have to close?

Generally because the school buses refuse to operate in anything more than a heavy frost, and the majority of kids don't live within walking distance. Though there are always some local - and it used to be that a teacher (when schools were all local authority) had to go to the nearest school if they couldn't get to their own, to care for local kids who did turn up.
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Post by: Chris S on 01 February, 2019, 08:32:53 am
Why does school have to close?

Generally because the school buses refuse to operate in anything more than a heavy frost, and the majority of kids don't live within walking distance. Though there are always some local - and it used to be that a teacher (when schools were all local authority) had to go to the nearest school if they couldn't get to their own, to care for local kids who did turn up.

Which is a shame, because it robs our young'uns of some tremendous experiences. One tale my boys have is of the school bus, one frosty icy morning in rural Norfolk, descending a slight slope (no real hills in Norfolk) at a 45' angle, gracefully sweeping the line of oncoming cars into the opposite hedge. I can picture a coach full of screaming teenagers filming it all on their phones. See? Priceless memories and experiences that we rob from them when we have to keep them home.
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Post by: Jaded on 01 February, 2019, 08:56:58 am
We’ve got a light covering which we can see from the tree we are in.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 February, 2019, 08:58:05 am
Why does school have to close?

Generally because the school buses refuse to operate in anything more than a heavy frost, and the majority of kids don't live within walking distance. Though there are always some local - and it used to be that a teacher (when schools were all local authority) had to go to the nearest school if they couldn't get to their own, to care for local kids who did turn up.

Which is a shame, because it robs our young'uns of some tremendous experiences. One tale my boys have is of the school bus, one frosty icy morning in rural Norfolk, descending a slight slope (no real hills in Norfolk) at a 45' angle, gracefully sweeping the line of oncoming cars into the opposite hedge. I can picture a coach full of screaming teenagers filming it all on their phones. See? Priceless memories and experiences that we rob from them when we have to keep them home.
Surely it can't be a true Norfolk experience unless it ends with the kids swimming out of the broken windows as the bus lies on its side in a fen broad big watery ditch.
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Post by: Cpt Sisko on 01 February, 2019, 09:20:37 am
sNOw show. Not a single flake in my part of Shropshire, even the frost wasn't that bad this morning.
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Post by: Jaded on 01 February, 2019, 09:27:18 am
Just seen some deer, which stood out because they aren’t white.
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Post by: ian on 01 February, 2019, 09:50:54 am
Nice coat of snow here on the Downs. Enabled me to write YOU PARK LIKE A CUNT on the cars left across the pavements as I walked home from the station late last night. Happy times.
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Post by: Basil on 01 February, 2019, 09:54:28 am
Bugger all here.
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Post by: numbnuts on 01 February, 2019, 10:02:13 am
About an inch here in North Baddesley last night
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Post by: De Sisti on 01 February, 2019, 10:06:15 am
After last night's snowfall two neighbours prepare their cars for journeys into work. First driver
clears windscreens and windows on all doors. Second driver does the same, plus clears snow off
headlights and off the roof of car.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wombat on 01 February, 2019, 10:13:29 am
Bugger all here.

Oh, you surprise me.  I had a right struggle getting my "normal" tyre equipped car back from York to Pontrobert on Wednesday, and its still snowy outside now, and has not melted one iota. 
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Post by: matthew on 01 February, 2019, 11:39:27 am
3-5cm overnight in Bracknell and more falling at the moment. Glad I can walk to a client depot to work from there.
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 01 February, 2019, 11:40:26 am
We had a couple of inches here overnight.  I was very temped to go out for a ride last night, but waited until the morning. A lot of slush on gritted roads and paths but no problems.  But, what really annoyed me, was that the school across the field - and, apparently all the schools in town - are closed.  CLOSED, because of TWO INCHES of the white stuff.  Any excuse for a skive, it seems, by today's teachers.  In my day, we walked to school whatever the weather.  I remember walking a couple of miles then home for lunch, back again and home in the afternoon, during the winter of 1963 in North Devon.  Wimps!
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 01 February, 2019, 11:41:32 am
After last night's snowfall two neighbours prepare their cars for journeys into work. First driver
clears windscreens and windows on all doors. Second driver does the same, plus clears snow off
headlights and off the roof of car.

During which time, you've cycled to work and made a cup of tea!
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Post by: rafletcher on 01 February, 2019, 12:13:44 pm
Any excuse for a skive, it seems, by today's teachers.

I assume that was meant humourously.
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Post by: ian on 01 February, 2019, 12:25:29 pm
Back in the 80s it only took a rumour of snow to send our teachers fleeing for the car park.
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Post by: PeteB99 on 01 February, 2019, 12:41:51 pm
Back in the 60s anyone who stayed off school just because of a foot of snow or because the roads were covered in sheet ice and couldn't produce a parental note explaining their absence got caned.

Mind you kids were viewed as more disposable in those days.
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 01 February, 2019, 12:47:26 pm
That's what happened when I was a kid.  And, much later, when i was  a civil servant, there was a Standing Order that, in the event of snow or other similar issues, all staff  living within three miles of their base, unless they were registered disabled, had to get in to work - on foot if necessary.  Failure to do so was a disciplinary offence.  In the snow of 1975, Our CO drove in about 30 miles from a remote village in a vintage, Mk 1 Landrover.  A lot of staff living within the town boundary 'phoned to say they couldn't get in.  He had them all on a Charge and they were docked pay and annual leave.
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Post by: PeteB99 on 01 February, 2019, 12:55:02 pm
I didn't say it was a good idea.

In the great Norfolk snowstorm of 84 or 85 one of our contractors tried to walk the 5 miles into work because otherwise he wouldn't get paid and nearly died. Found by a passing police patrol unconscious and hypothermic at the side of the road.
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Post by: Basil on 01 February, 2019, 12:59:30 pm
Bugger all here.

Oh, you surprise me.  I had a right struggle getting my "normal" tyre equipped car back from York to Pontrobert on Wednesday, and its still snowy outside now, and has not melted one iota.
Must be the Teifi Valley micro climate.  Last year, while my son was battling through snowdrifts in Cardiff,  we still had bugger all.
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Post by: Butterfly on 01 February, 2019, 01:03:20 pm
Children in state school were rarely driven to school in the 50s and 60s.

We had days off school in the 70s because the roads were blocked and the school heating couldn't cope with the low temperatures.
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Post by: Kim on 01 February, 2019, 01:34:03 pm
Why does school have to close?

Generally because the school buses refuse to operate in anything more than a heavy frost, and the majority of kids don't live within walking distance. Though there are always some local - and it used to be that a teacher (when schools were all local authority) had to go to the nearest school if they couldn't get to their own, to care for local kids who did turn up.

Which is a shame, because it robs our young'uns of some tremendous experiences. One tale my boys have is of the school bus, one frosty icy morning in rural Norfolk, descending a slight slope (no real hills in Norfolk) at a 45' angle, gracefully sweeping the line of oncoming cars into the opposite hedge. I can picture a coach full of screaming teenagers filming it all on their phones. See? Priceless memories and experiences that we rob from them when we have to keep them home.
Surely it can't be a true Norfolk experience unless it ends with the kids swimming out of the broken windows as the bus lies on its side in a fen broad big watery ditch.

Isn't the tradition in hilly areas to turf all the kids out in order to lighten the load so the bus can get up the hill... and then drive off.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 01 February, 2019, 01:39:10 pm
Nope, any hint of snow and the buses don't run, at least around here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 01 February, 2019, 01:39:14 pm
We had days off school in the 70s because the roads were blocked and the school heating couldn't cope with the low temperatures.

When our school heating (which hadn't been properly maintained since the 70s) couldn't cope, we'd shiver until SCIENCE when we could get the bunsen burners out.  Then all the teachers who didn't have access to bunsens would bring fan heaters in from home and overload the mains.  I don't recall the school being closed due to lack of electrons, either, but I imagine IT lessons were unusually productive.

The whole thing being exacerbated by shitty uniform rules, because obviously it's impossible to get an education while wearing a coat.


(Not a flake in Middle Earth, btw.)
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Post by: andrewc on 01 February, 2019, 01:43:22 pm
No snow in Liverpool today , and I don't recall my schools ever being closed due to bad weather in the 70's - 80's.   It was just an excuse for a slide in the playground.
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Post by: tonyh on 01 February, 2019, 01:53:24 pm
....when we could get the bunsen burners out

(or, more rapidly effective, light the gas at the gas taps)
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Post by: hellymedic on 01 February, 2019, 02:08:24 pm
There's about an inch left here in outer Londonton, where it's 2C

Milk delivery cancelled due to 'unforeseen circumstances'. I haz emergency milks in freezer.

David has a Piano Circle meet in Chalfont St Peter tomorrow.

How are conditions in the Chilterns?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 01 February, 2019, 02:20:56 pm
We are about to go out and try and find a pub in the blizzard.

It's Wet Feb  :thumbsup:
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Post by: ian on 01 February, 2019, 02:57:28 pm
The bin lorry came yesterday. It did neglect our bin through. I thought it was just us, but I noticed a few more unemptied. I'm not sure why they were definitely emptying bins.
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Post by: SteveC on 01 February, 2019, 03:55:02 pm
Our Tesco delivery was cancelled ten minutes into its hour-long slot, which I thought was a bit late.
I drove to Morrison's on the way home from work as it is Friday and there was no BEER in the house.
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Post by: Kim on 01 February, 2019, 04:14:16 pm
Or bin lorry didn't come, but that's because they're on strike again (at least it's decent weather for it).  Our bin has now been filled to capacity by ninja students.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 01 February, 2019, 04:20:13 pm
Fairly chaotic here. About 5% of people were in work, and they started going home when it became clear the snow was continuing heavily.  Roads not good - even where salted, they're still frozen and there are lumpy stretches of packed snow and ice which pushed the car around.  Snow is 5" deep where not shovelled or ploughed.

Watched a BMW (notoriously hopeless in snow) take 30 minutes to get out of a parking space outside.  In the end three blokes pushed it.  A shovel and a bucket of salt were also employed.  Goodness knows if it reached home.

It would have been fun on studded bike tyres but I had to go food shopping on the way back, so I took the car (which has winter tyres).
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 February, 2019, 04:56:11 pm
Settling on cars but not the ground at midnight, settled a bit on the ground by 2 am, half of it melted by 4 am, none left anywhere by 2 pm.  Another non-event.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 February, 2019, 05:23:37 pm
I am being sent in to the snow to get the things that glorious Asdals (or is it Asbos?) couldn't deliver.
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Post by: Jaded on 01 February, 2019, 05:30:23 pm
By the time we got back from the pub, (which was closed) it had stopped blizzarding and begun melting.
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Post by: rafletcher on 01 February, 2019, 05:45:38 pm
There's about an inch left here in outer Londonton, where it's 2C

Milk delivery cancelled due to 'unforeseen circumstances'. I haz emergency milks in freezer.

David has a Piano Circle meet in Chalfont St Peter tomorrow.

How are conditions in the Chilterns?

Fine really. No snow since last night. All routes, road and rail, ok.
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Post by: Chris S on 01 February, 2019, 06:52:47 pm
It's always entertaining living near the North Sea in these kinds of conditions. We've had some heavy snow showers on and off. Currently, it's hailing heavily on top of the lying snow. Fingers crossed for some thundersnow later  :thumbsup:.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 February, 2019, 08:16:17 pm
Quite a few hardy Deliverooists out.
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Post by: hellymedic on 01 February, 2019, 08:57:04 pm
There's about an inch left here in outer Londonton, where it's 2C

Milk delivery cancelled due to 'unforeseen circumstances'. I haz emergency milks in freezer.

David has a Piano Circle meet in Chalfont St Peter tomorrow.

How are conditions in the Chilterns?

Fine really. No snow since last night. All routes, road and rail, ok.

Thanks!
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Post by: ElyDave on 02 February, 2019, 05:57:43 am
For some reason, BBC weather forecast has just started telling me its Friday. Aparrently it was snowy yesterday
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Post by: rogerzilla on 02 February, 2019, 09:49:16 am
I was just getting out of the shower and saw the neighbour stuck in the snow with the wheels of his VW Tiguan 4x4 furiously spinning.  He got a shovel and dug himself out (I'd have given him a push if I'd had clothes on).  Shows 4x4 is not all that useful in snow if you have UHP summer tyres on.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 February, 2019, 10:33:28 am
I had a particularly unpleasant drive back from Maidstone last night, with heavy snow settling on the M20 (according to our satnav, Bluebell Hill, the steep dual carriageway from central Maidstone to the A/M2, was closed) and the temperature at -1°C. These conditions persisted until we got past Basildon when the temperture rose to 0° and it was raining.

I just looked at the forecast for tonight/tomorrow: -9°C in Saarfend!  :o
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Post by: Pingu on 02 February, 2019, 11:17:26 am
First proper snow of the winter here, so I DNSd the planned DIY 'cos I am a fairweather cyclist.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4906/46232857974_4b44943610_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2drrtWW)
IMG_2454 (https://flic.kr/p/2drrtWW) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7851/46232853694_b2071e087d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2drrsF9)
IMG_2456_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2drrsF9) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: De Sisti on 02 February, 2019, 11:31:43 am
I've seen weather forecasts and decided (for me) it would be foolhardy to go anywhere by car.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 02 February, 2019, 12:15:45 pm
I've seen weather forecasts and decided (for me) it would be foolhardy to go anywhere by car.

We had a fair bit of communication before setting off for Maidstone yesterday morning, as snow had been forecast for Thursday night. The test was whether my s-i-l could set off for work (35 mile drive to Blackheath starting at 6am). There had been no snow, either there or in Southend, so we set off. At that stage, the forecast was for rain later on Friday. When we actually set off home at about 8.15pm, the temperature had dropped rather more than was predicted.

I think by many drivers' standards it was all OK - most of the lorry drivers were staying around the 50-60mph mark, which I thought was much too much for the conditions. My biggest problem was following the while lines, which on the hard shoulder were becoming obscured by snow, and especially hard to see in the bits where there were no streetlight. The road surface was pretty much OK - a bit of slush in places - but the visibility was the biggest problem.

I do tend to avoid driving when the conditions are anything less than ideal.
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Post by: L CC on 02 February, 2019, 12:41:02 pm
We've had the annual BMW falling to get up the hill.
I'm not going anywhere. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190202/a3dc55a1ffe5974eb26640bfa8e604f0.jpg)
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Post by: hellymedic on 02 February, 2019, 12:50:26 pm
5C here. Some residual white stuff on lawn.
Won't last long.
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Post by: De Sisti on 02 February, 2019, 01:22:21 pm
I've seen weather forecasts and decided (for me) it would be foolhardy to go anywhere by car.
I do tend to avoid driving when the conditions are anything less than ideal.
I remember Rogerzilla offering me some wheels with winter tyres. I thought to myself:
"I don't think I'd ever use them?"
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 February, 2019, 01:29:53 pm
Forecast to be -10°C in Hampshire tomorrow morning.  That's the temperature when road salt loses its effectiveness.
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Post by: rafletcher on 02 February, 2019, 03:34:07 pm
-5C
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Post by: Morat on 02 February, 2019, 03:47:14 pm
After -7C on  Wednesday night there was just a beautiful hard frost. Last night we did have some snow but only about an inch and has mostly melted now. BORING! Ryedale seems to be ignoring winter so far :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 02 February, 2019, 04:44:08 pm
Where we are the snow has pretty much gone. There wasn’t a huge amount anyway.15 miles away in Bruton there’s about 8 inches. A lot still there.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 February, 2019, 05:02:02 pm
Almost all gone here but my son and his friends managed to find a sheltered patch outside the Apple store and have a snowball fight. They got reprimanded by a security guard.
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Post by: iddu on 02 February, 2019, 05:22:32 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/SDAjHNM.jpg)

Mine, all mine...

(https://i.imgur.com/2XnYBr4.jpg)

pwned. Couldn't even get it rolling downhill ::-)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 02 February, 2019, 05:30:39 pm
Heh - a lot like our off-road experiences round here.

"Just took the bike for a walk".
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 02 February, 2019, 05:35:49 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/SDAjHNM.jpg)

Mine, all mine...

(https://i.imgur.com/2XnYBr4.jpg)

pwned. Couldn't even get it rolling downhill ::-)

Love the way the footprints just STOP !  I can see what you did, and its very clever. ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 02 February, 2019, 05:55:47 pm
Mine, all mine...

Looks wonderful!

And I can’t see what you did. I can guess what you did, but I can’t see it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 February, 2019, 05:58:06 pm
It does look wonderful. But I confess I'd have gone for boots over tyres in those conditions.
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Post by: iddu on 02 February, 2019, 06:19:25 pm
It does look wonderful. But I confess I'd have gone for boots skis over tyres in those conditions.

FTFY.  Was still around 8" deep, so alright unladen, but the front just sank in and stopped when riding.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 02 February, 2019, 06:24:41 pm
Mine, all mine...

Looks wonderful!

And I can’t see what you did. I can guess what you did, but I can’t see it.

Walked back up the way you came and down the other side of the undergrowth on the left?
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Post by: mattc on 02 February, 2019, 06:42:20 pm
I took it from inside the pub.

(He didn't mention the pub, did he?)
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Post by: Phil W on 02 February, 2019, 06:48:41 pm
It does look wonderful. But I confess I'd have gone for boots over tyres in those conditions.

Mountain bike tyres are like Velcro on snow, not so hot once it has compacted or thawed and refrozen into ice.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 02 February, 2019, 06:51:35 pm
Not that cold here, a dusting of snow overnight made our lane slippery (Disco on road tyres).

Audax was consistently 0.3-1.7C by Garmin 800, but the wind was absolutely cutting.  Having been home since 5pm, my ears are still cold, even though I had a skullcap under my helmet.  My feet were almost thawed after an hour of land rover binary heating
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: iddu on 02 February, 2019, 08:04:37 pm
Mine, all mine...

Looks wonderful!

And I can’t see what you did. I can guess what you did, but I can’t see it.

Walked back up the way you came and down the other side of the undergrowth on the left?

Nope. ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 February, 2019, 08:07:08 pm
...

I just looked at the forecast for tonight/tomorrow: -9°C in Saarfend!  :o

A work of fiction I'm afraid. I confused Saarfend, Essex, with Southend Argyll & Bute.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 02 February, 2019, 09:01:47 pm
Mine, all mine...

Looks wonderful!

And I can’t see what you did. I can guess what you did, but I can’t see it.

Walked back up the way you came and down the other side of the undergrowth on the left?

Nope. ;D

Photoshit?  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: iddu on 02 February, 2019, 09:27:28 pm
Mine, all mine...

Looks wonderful!

And I can’t see what you did. I can guess what you did, but I can’t see it.

Walked back up the way you came and down the other side of the undergrowth on the left?

Nope. ;D

Photoshit?  ;D

Nope. ;D
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Post by: Kim on 02 February, 2019, 09:37:16 pm
Self-timer and you're the invisible man?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 02 February, 2019, 09:48:49 pm
Mine, all mine...

Looks wonderful!

And I can’t see what you did. I can guess what you did, but I can’t see it.

Walked back up the way you came and down the other side of the undergrowth on the left?

Having looked at the image full-size in a new tab, there is something in the shadow of the bank, level with where the trail of footprints stops, which might indicate disturbed snow.

So my hypothesis is that iddu simply took a shorter route off the trail to get where he took the photographs.

Now I eagerly await a post from iddu saying I'm wrong as well.  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 02 February, 2019, 09:51:36 pm
Looking at it again there's another set of footprints on the left, in the middle distance, as well as the ones beyond the undergrowth.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 February, 2019, 09:57:14 pm
Iddu was pushing his bike through the snow for reasons already explained. But that isn't Iddu's bike. Someone else had already had the same idea but given up and walked home, leaving their bike jammed upright in the snow. Iddu found it and took a photo.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 02 February, 2019, 10:00:54 pm
Regardless of all that, I've just been standing on the balcony bollock naked, a la Wowbagger.

It is cold but nothing like as cold as it is invigorating.

No photos.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 02 February, 2019, 10:04:12 pm
Regardless of all that, I've just been standing on the balcony bollock naked, a la Wowbagger.

It is cold but nothing like as cold as it is invigorating.

No photos.

This adds credibility to the invisible man hypothesis.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 03 February, 2019, 08:20:04 am
A balmy -7°C in Swindon right now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 03 February, 2019, 12:19:51 pm
A bit more today.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7864/46968982351_409b4fd1d4_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2eyuj5x)
IMG_2468_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2eyuj5x) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: iddu on 03 February, 2019, 05:04:03 pm
Mine, all mine...

Looks wonderful!

And I can’t see what you did. I can guess what you did, but I can’t see it.

Walked back up the way you came and down the other side of the undergrowth on the left?

Having looked at the image full-size in a new tab, there is something in the shadow of the bank, level with where the trail of footprints stops, which might indicate disturbed snow.

So my hypothesis is that iddu simply took a shorter route off the trail to get where he took the photographs.

Now I eagerly await a post from iddu saying I'm wrong as well.  ;D

Nope - spot on...by fortune they’re indeed hidden in the shadow...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 03 February, 2019, 05:13:59 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/SDAjHNM.jpg)

Mine, all mine...

(https://i.imgur.com/2XnYBr4.jpg)

pwned. Couldn't even get it rolling downhill ::-)
I. Want. To. Know.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 03 February, 2019, 05:20:35 pm
A bit more today.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7864/46968982351_409b4fd1d4_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2eyuj5x)
IMG_2468_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2eyuj5x) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

I'm heading up there tomorrow, staying in Kingswells, shoudl be fun as it all melts next week
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feanor on 03 February, 2019, 06:29:12 pm
Headed up to Birse Castle, which I'd never even heard of till this week, to do a hill run route which starts from there.

The castle is at the end of a very long and winding road, and the last couple of miles were in deep snow which had no existing tracks on it.  Perhaps the fact that I needed 4WD with diffs locked to get to the starting point should have served as a warning.  The castle is rather magnificent, and has clearly been restored recently.  It appears to be unoccupied at this time of year.

Set off running, and the track, such as it was, disappeared into deep snowdrifts within a k. Navigation was becoming difficult, and running impossible.

Aborted, and did a more accessible 10k up Clachnaben instead.
Well-trodden tourist path made navigation possible, but even that became a wade through deep drifts near the summit!
Beautiful winter mountain conditions, but a bit marginal for hill running :-)

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: iddu on 03 February, 2019, 11:23:06 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/SDAjHNM.jpg)

Mine, all mine...

(https://i.imgur.com/2XnYBr4.jpg)

pwned. Couldn't even get it rolling downhill ::-)
I. Want. To. Know.

Aliens.  I forgot the tinfoil Tricorne ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andytheflyer on 10 March, 2019, 07:57:47 am
White over south of Chester, but very soggy and melting rapidly.  Can't see the Berwyns, covered in clag.  Wonder how my wife's seedlings are doing in the greenhouse?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mcshroom on 10 March, 2019, 09:55:32 am
Bit of a surprise this morning: -
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1SVyaPWwAA9Nf2.jpg)

As I'm pretty much on the coast it's a bit of a surprise. I'll have a look at the webcams in land before trying my planned ride up to Carlisle this afternoon.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: markcjagar on 11 March, 2019, 05:29:24 pm
Flew back from Munich to Manchester last night, everything delayed because of the wind and our taxi driver opted for M62/M1 over Snake or Woodhead Pass to get us back to Sheffield.

Good decision given the snowy conditions going over the top of Windy Hill
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 02 April, 2019, 02:43:05 pm
Currently snowing in Llandysul.

Oh hang on. It's stopped.
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Post by: markcjagar on 02 April, 2019, 09:16:42 pm
SNO on Burbage Edge
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Post by: Basil on 03 April, 2019, 09:32:23 am
Crikey!  Woke up this morning to fields, garden, car, trees etc all covered.
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Post by: woollypigs on 01 July, 2019, 03:38:57 pm
Just been told that over the weekend it snowed in northern Finland while rest of Europe cooked
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Post by: ElyDave on 01 July, 2019, 07:23:32 pm
at least you weren't in Mexico
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Post by: spesh on 01 July, 2019, 08:02:33 pm
at least you weren't in Mexico

Quite: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-48821306  :o
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 July, 2019, 01:06:07 pm
Talking to some USAnians the other day.  Denver had two feet of snow a couple of weeks ago.  Not Normal for June.
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Post by: Basil on 09 November, 2019, 07:46:50 pm
It snowed in Aberwristwatch Aberystwyth today.
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Post by: woollypigs on 09 November, 2019, 08:02:12 pm
Peli said it is snowing, I looked out the curtains and was very disappointed :(
 
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Post by: Wowbagger on 09 November, 2019, 09:45:47 pm
No snow in Saarfend.
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Post by: andytheflyer on 10 November, 2019, 10:49:46 am
First of the winter over the Berwyns:

https://flic.kr/p/2hHEgoV

How do I get the photo to show in the post, like r-r et al upthread?

EDIT:  Thx to raf below!  I tried it and, hey presto!

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49041843213_c4afb6f25f_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hHEgoV)IMG_0016-1 (https://flic.kr/p/2hHEgoV) by AndyFtheflyer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/51992734@N06/), on Flickr
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 10 November, 2019, 11:13:15 am
When you open the image in Flickr there is, at the bottom right of the screen, a curved arrow symbol. Click on that, then at the top of the opened dialogue now choose BBC code. Select the size (I generally use medium) and copy the link. Paste the link into your post.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49041843213_3d09a4ef1a_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hHEgoV)IMG_0016-1 (https://flic.kr/p/2hHEgoV) by AndyFtheflyer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/51992734@N06/), on Flickr

Hey presto  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 12 November, 2019, 10:17:03 am
(https://pics.me.me/thumb_brace-yourselves-memesabout-winter-comingare-coming-livememe-com-imminent-ned-54232712.png)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 12 November, 2019, 10:49:46 am
You can always rely on the Daily Express to help you out with that...

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/1203217/UK-snow-forecast-met-office-weather-snow-warning-rain-floods
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 14 November, 2019, 12:45:39 pm
It was snowing in north-central Bristol this morning as my son did his paper round. His shoes were "destroyed" (his word, they seem fine to me).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andytheflyer on 15 December, 2019, 08:39:23 am
The Berwyns are white over again this morning - to the west of Llangollen and Corwen.
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Post by: andytheflyer on 25 February, 2020, 10:18:40 am
And again today.  Is it really over 2 months since the hills to the west had their white coats on?
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Post by: andytheflyer on 26 February, 2020, 08:54:48 am
And this morning it's down to just above Wrexham.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 26 February, 2020, 09:38:40 am
It's turned the forest out back grey but so far it's not lying down here. Promised heavier this pm. We just got the week's shopping done and the rain was bloody cold.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 26 February, 2020, 04:30:44 pm
supposed to have been soem last night but just a bit chilly.  Forecast for tomorrow AM is sleetageddon, some nasty looking clouds brewing to the north
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Post by: mattc on 26 February, 2020, 07:28:13 pm
And again today.  Is it really over 2 months since the hills to the west had their white coats on?
I've never been to proper Wales in the proper winter, but that sounds unusual; how many snow-free Januarys have you had there?
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 27 February, 2020, 08:35:27 am
The fens are actually receiving snow.

Makes a change from the endless, relentless wind.
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Post by: PaulF on 27 February, 2020, 09:10:38 am
Got some here in South Oxfordshire. It's settling but doubt it will last
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Post by: ian on 27 February, 2020, 09:23:19 am
Apparently also in King's Cross Regent's Quarter. Snowpocalypse!

Not on the North Downs though, where I am today.
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Post by: ElyDave on 27 February, 2020, 09:24:27 am
In my part of the Fens too, but soggy snow
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Post by: orienteer on 27 February, 2020, 09:42:18 am
Overnight rain has turned to snow here in west London, but not settling.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andytheflyer on 27 February, 2020, 09:43:01 am
And again today.  Is it really over 2 months since the hills to the west had their white coats on?
I've never been to proper Wales in the proper winter, but that sounds unusual; how many snow-free Januarys have you had there?
Don't recall, but not many.  We live on the E side of the Dee valley (been here 35 years) so look across to the Welsh hills.  I'd say the Berwyns get a covering every year, near enough, but only for a few days at a time.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Beardy on 27 February, 2020, 10:09:38 am
SNO out here in the Angles of the East, thought the earlier rain and the lack of any sub zero temperatures are contributing to the lack of any settlement 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 February, 2020, 10:13:24 am
It has started snowing here, but the temperature is 3°C. It's just utterly miserable and unpleasant.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 27 February, 2020, 01:18:48 pm
Thick & wet here now, just right for breaking bits off trees.  The dogs love it.
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Post by: Kim on 27 February, 2020, 01:28:37 pm
After a morning of sunshine, it's just gone from sleet to snow to hail over the course of 30 seconds.  This is undoubtedly because I was about to go to the post office.
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Post by: pdm on 27 February, 2020, 03:26:31 pm
The 20 feet of life threatening snow predicted here by the shouty tabloids dramatically failed to materialise at all. Glorious sunshine instead this morning...
I did cycle through a short lived blizzard in the Peaks yesterday, though...  :)
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Post by: matthew on 27 February, 2020, 04:09:19 pm
There was a flurry of snow on the M25 J9 this morning which was a little disturbing as I still had to get to Newhaven. It didn't settle at all and once down to the M23 there was no more.

Still it was bitterly cold stood on top of the reservoir fully exposed to the wind.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: markcjagar on 27 February, 2020, 09:16:28 pm
The 20 feet of life threatening snow predicted here by the shouty tabloids dramatically failed to materialise at all. Glorious sunshine instead this morning...
I did cycle through a short lived blizzard in the Peaks yesterday, though...  :)

There was a little flurry at the very top of Kirk Edge Road earlier, was gonna carry on west towards Strines but the headwind coaxed me down to Low Bradfield.

There was a bit of snow on the verges and on the tops around Ughill
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 28 February, 2020, 02:23:38 am
My spies in Barnet, Welwyn Garden City and NW3Weather all state there was White Stuff on 27/2/2020.
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Post by: rafletcher on 28 February, 2020, 02:59:23 pm
There was a small amount atop the Chilterns this morning.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 29 March, 2020, 11:26:59 am
Snowing like mad here on the Wolds right now. Just got back from walking the dog in time.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 29 March, 2020, 12:17:06 pm
My colleague reports snow in Golders Green

None here yet, but it's a very chilly wind, my run later will be "bracing"
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 March, 2020, 01:21:09 pm
We had hail here earlier and now a few flakes of snow.

If you do decide to build snowpersons, ensure that they are more than 2 metres apart.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pdm on 29 March, 2020, 02:45:22 pm
A few flurries here up north last night but not enough to notice. Odd microflake or two this morning...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 30 March, 2020, 11:12:30 am
blimey, just had to turn the fan-heater on in my office
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Post by: Phil W on 30 March, 2020, 11:20:07 am
Snowed in Herts for an hour yesterday. Right bang whilst we were out getting our daily exercise.
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Post by: Regulator on 30 March, 2020, 11:39:49 am
We had a snow flurry yesterday as we were out walking Jack.  We've just had a few flakes appear this morning but nothing of any substance.
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Post by: Pingu on 10 May, 2020, 07:10:03 pm
We've had flurries today as well as hail.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feanor on 10 May, 2020, 07:23:40 pm
Yes, I totally mis-read the conditions when we set out.
It was sunny and warm, so I set out in shorts, with a thermal top under a short-sleeved top.

The utter folly of this became apparent once the sun went in, the wind picked up and the first flurry came through.
By the time I'd done half an hour into a biting headwind and the third flurry had flayed me, I cut and ran for home.
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Post by: Beardy on 04 December, 2020, 07:57:40 am
There’s white stuff falling from the sky here in the wilds of the Angles. It forecasters have now updated their ‘predictions’ to suggest that it might snow here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 04 December, 2020, 08:03:07 am
the back yard in the Fens is looking festive, with the bonsai covered in white, even the fuscia that is still in flower.

I predict it will all be a slushy mess by lunchtime.
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Post by: Guy on 04 December, 2020, 09:13:06 am
23 miles SW of Cambridge as the pterodactyl flies, all we got was Very Cold rain. :(
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 04 December, 2020, 10:07:07 am
the back yard in the Fens is looking festive, with the bonsai covered in white, even the fuscia that is still in flower.

I predict it will all be a slushy mess by lunchtime.
I have a day off from work today (company holiday). Tipping it down here, the ground will be miserable wet slush very soon.

BN: Planned to go paddling for extended period.
GN: bought neoprene trousers and a paddling cag this week.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 04 December, 2020, 10:11:18 am
Snow in my son's garden near Colchester this morning. A mere 27.6mm rain for us yesterday. Now if that had fallen as snow...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 04 December, 2020, 10:15:23 am
We had snow as we woke this morning but, by the time I took the dog out at 8.30am it had changed from large dry flakes to sleety flakes.

Usual snow numpties and muppets on the road.  Four accidents in less than 1/2 a mile...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 04 December, 2020, 12:25:30 pm
We live somewhere now where you can see orographic snow in action; there's a 120m high bank right in front of our house with a village at the top. They had snow this morning, we didn't. It's proper snowy over the high Pennines; drifts and snowploughs kind of snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 24 December, 2020, 09:54:26 am
Actual snow actually lying on the actual ground this morning.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50754256842_21b573bd7d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kjYQiQ)
IMG_7260_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2kjYQiQ) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50754136671_5c1f662a7b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kjYdzV)
IMG_7257_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2kjYdzV) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Redlight on 24 December, 2020, 10:49:49 am
As it's Christmas Eve, here's a little story about a white Christmas:

https://www.fairlightbooks.co.uk/short_stories/may-your-days-be-merry-and-bright/ (https://www.fairlightbooks.co.uk/short_stories/may-your-days-be-merry-and-bright/)

Wishing you all a peaceful time.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Deano on 24 December, 2020, 11:26:24 am
Mix of sleet and snow in Darlo.
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Post by: Chris S on 24 December, 2020, 11:35:20 am
Bit of a dusting around Durham, before reverting to the usual British slushy goop.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 24 December, 2020, 09:23:06 pm
Some snow in York but no reported fatalities.

Take it easy, y'all.
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Post by: Lightning Phil on 24 December, 2020, 09:39:57 pm
Sleet in Hertfordshire
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Post by: ElyDave on 25 December, 2020, 07:57:57 am
Sno in teh Fens this morning. Sixteen yo daughter very excited and has suddenly forgotten that she's hungry
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Post by: TimC on 25 December, 2020, 11:06:59 am
Yes, snow here (south Suffolk) first thing. It wasn't very much and it's gone now, even though the temperature is only about 2ºC. Far too iffy to go out onna bike, but a lovely day for a walk.
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Post by: Andrew Br on 25 December, 2020, 01:44:05 pm
Snowing gently in Whitefield.
Doubt there will be enough to justify the town's name........

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Post by: Peter on 25 December, 2020, 02:04:20 pm
"Snow in dis street!"  - child in "The Armourer's House" by Rosemary Sutcliff.  Not surprising, since we're not a million miles from Andrew.  Merry Christmas, Andrew!
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Post by: andytheflyer on 25 December, 2020, 08:06:02 pm
Snow on the Berwyns this morning.
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Post by: Andrew Br on 26 December, 2020, 01:32:11 pm
"Snow in dis street!"  - child in "The Armourer's House" by Rosemary Sutcliff.  Not surprising, since we're not a million miles from Andrew.  Merry Christmas, Andrew!

Merry Xmas Peter !

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Post by: T42 on 31 December, 2020, 08:18:32 am
Fine powdery stuff falling fast here. Probably turn to drizzle a bit later.
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Post by: Basil on 31 December, 2020, 12:10:44 pm
Quite a prolonged fall here.  Took the dog to the park this morning and came back with a snow dog.
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Post by: T42 on 31 December, 2020, 04:12:31 pm
We walked to the next village, about an hour's walk there & back.  On the way back the snow turned to sleet, and of course we were walking upwind. Bleh.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2020, 04:29:51 pm
We had our first air frost of the winter this morning but I don't think there's any snow forecast.
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Post by: Adam on 31 December, 2020, 08:42:15 pm
In Bognor Regis on Tuesday, we had a few damp snowflakes for about 20 minutes.  That'll be it for the next 5 years.
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Post by: Jurek on 31 December, 2020, 08:48:16 pm
In Bognor Regis on Tuesday, we had a few damp snowflakes for about 20 minutes.  That'll be it for the next 5 years.
That's the Sussex Riviera for you......
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adam on 01 January, 2021, 09:41:22 pm
True - sunniest place in England.  ;D

Anyone want to buy some surplus used Marathon Winter tyres?
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Post by: Ruthie on 02 January, 2021, 09:50:04 am
We’ve got proper SNO here in Darlo! So pretty  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Chris S on 02 January, 2021, 10:51:26 am
We’ve got proper SNO here in Darlo! So pretty  :thumbsup:

Same here! Definitely a turbo day.
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Post by: Ruthie on 02 January, 2021, 01:15:16 pm
Bubble person and I took the forum sledge out and had some fun.

Even in these cautious times we were able to get a few little random children involved in hurling themselves downhill. Great fun!

It has now been passed on to a family with young children who were last seen making good use of it.
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Post by: Jaded on 02 January, 2021, 02:05:33 pm
Snowing here...
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 January, 2021, 02:45:21 pm
There is a forum sledge?  ?!?!?!?

We've had frost and a bit of ground ice here, which is as close as we get to snow most years.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 January, 2021, 05:02:06 pm
Just to reinforce the presence of ice, I've just had my first slide on ice this winter. But I wasn't riding, I was out for a run. And in fact at the point where I slid, I had as we say "caught up with Jeff". I suspect if I'd carried on running or even if I'd been on a bike, I wouldn't have noticed anything.
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Post by: Blodwyn Pig on 02 January, 2021, 05:28:38 pm
Snowing here...

No point saying that!  Where is ''here''?   ::-) ;)
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 January, 2021, 05:38:06 pm
omigoodness it is SNOWING here too!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 02 January, 2021, 07:24:39 pm
The sky was clear when I came in from my ride. it has clouded over now, but no precipitation is forecast - neither is a frost.
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Post by: woollypigs on 02 January, 2021, 09:43:12 pm
We all should go to here for some sledging and building a sno man or two
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Post by: PaulF on 06 January, 2021, 09:54:55 am
Well sleet here in Oxford
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Post by: ian on 06 January, 2021, 10:14:48 am
Snowed on the North Downs overnight, a fair covering. Already mushy slushy though, so I don't feel bad for forgetting to grit the road.
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Post by: Jaded on 06 January, 2021, 10:52:21 am
Snowing here...

No point saying that!  Where is ''here''?   ::-) ;)
Points out the window  ;D
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 07 January, 2021, 07:05:43 pm
Tomorrow will be very snowy here, they do say.  I'll probably stay home.
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Post by: Pingu on 08 January, 2021, 10:37:31 am
It's nine below zero and three o'clock in the afternoon!*

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50813338966_1a6b758c6c_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kqcDn9)
IMG_9890_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2kqcDn9) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr



*Well, -4°C at 9am really.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 January, 2021, 11:36:07 am
Yebbut if you were on some Australian mountain range instead it'd probably be on fire.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 08 January, 2021, 12:24:12 pm
Snowed all morning here on The Wolds. Just stopped now and seems to be melting a bit. Roads and fields all white over.
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Post by: Giraffe on 09 January, 2021, 08:50:16 am
I was hoping for enough to be pretty; got a head-shake's-worth of dandruff instead.
Here in S. Northants there's often very little snow but Warks. and Beds. get a lot.
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Post by: nicknack on 10 January, 2021, 02:47:54 pm
I thought it had been snowing overnight but, on closer inspection, it's just a bit of frost.
(https://images2.imgbox.com/aa/9a/DCiPL7wh_o.jpg) (https://imgbox.com/DCiPL7wh)
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Post by: rafletcher on 10 January, 2021, 04:18:24 pm
I thought it had been snowing overnight but, on closer inspection, it's just a bit of frost.
(https://images2.imgbox.com/aa/9a/DCiPL7wh_o.jpg) (https://imgbox.com/DCiPL7wh)

Hmm, all I see is a blank box. If I tap on it I get a new page from image box with a banner “go to your image”. Clicking in that - well, goes to a page “strip chat”  :o
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Post by: Lightning Phil on 10 January, 2021, 04:31:32 pm
I think it is just a large image file and low bandwidth. It’s like being on dial up in the 90s.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 January, 2021, 06:18:58 pm
They have had a metric fuckton of SNO in Spaign-o and all we get a thousand miles closer to the North Pole is, er, nothing.  NOT FAIR!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 January, 2021, 06:19:38 pm
Supermarkets would be even emptier then....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Canardly on 10 January, 2021, 06:21:08 pm
They have had a metric fuckton of SNO in Spaign-o and all we get a thousand miles closer to the North Pole is, er, nothing.  NOT FAIR!

Yes but that is EU snow!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 12 January, 2021, 09:06:21 am
We've had a metric fuckbushel or two and it's still coming down. Wee hard powdery stuff that crunches when the dogs roll in it (prior to transferring it to my trousers).  Cars are hushed, next-door's midden is covered. On t'other side, Porschey Pig's big roll-away automatic gate is jammed half-open. Some idiot cleared the pavement outside the post office half an hour ago and it's already an inch deep again.

Natch, there's rain forecast for this pm. :(
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 12 January, 2021, 01:46:53 pm
What's the conversion factor between the metric fuckbushel and the imperial fucklitre?  :D
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Post by: T42 on 12 January, 2021, 02:39:19 pm
It varies with the gullibility of the customer.
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Post by: PeteB99 on 12 January, 2021, 02:53:25 pm
Just in case we weren't all depressed enough at the moment the 'Beast from the East' might be making a comeback UK tour.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/12/beast-from-the-east-weather-might-return-next-week-says-met-office (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/12/beast-from-the-east-weather-might-return-next-week-says-met-office)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 January, 2021, 06:36:56 pm
If Beast From The East v2.0 is anything like the ur-Beast From The East was in sunny E17 then it will be a bit colder than it is now and, er, that's it.
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Post by: Deano on 14 January, 2021, 12:06:26 am
It's starting to lay here in Darlo, better fix the puncture on the MTB.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 January, 2021, 12:43:58 am
(Cocks an ear towards the Big Room)

Nope, just rain in E17.
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Post by: T42 on 14 January, 2021, 08:50:21 am
Just had a clunk'n'rumble from the roof. We have a defunct TV aerial up there, and with every snowfall of any magnitude a bit breaks off and rolls down into the gutter.  Frightens the odd crow, too.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 15 January, 2021, 11:03:52 am
oh hello numpty. I can hear someone outside trying to drive in the sleet that fell last night and froze solid over night. Normal tyres and 1st gear and pedal to the metal. I don't need to look out to know that they are now going sideways. If they mange to move out onto the street they will have fun with the 25% steepness of it :)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 January, 2021, 11:11:32 am
What are the odds they’re driving a Pikey Old Beemer?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 15 January, 2021, 02:00:36 pm
At a company I worked for in Stuttgart, the three top dogs all had BFO RWD Mercs and Beemers.  It was a rare pleasure to watch them trying to negotiate our frozen-over car park while we lowly types all had lowly FWD VWs & Opels.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 January, 2021, 06:40:05 pm
See also “Little old ladies in diesel Golfs driving rings round the fat-tyred prunkwagen when the Autobahn gets a bit damp”.
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Post by: ElyDave on 16 January, 2021, 07:31:44 am
A trivial amount here at present, but its still rattling at the windows, and will be all morning according to the forecast
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Post by: Giraffe on 16 January, 2021, 07:58:40 am
Just enough here to make the grass paler. Should be more just across in that there battery-powered old Ford.
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Post by: T42 on 16 January, 2021, 08:06:18 am
Just enough here to make the grass paler. Should be more just across in that there battery-powered old Ford.
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Post by: Regulator on 16 January, 2021, 08:37:16 am
Just enough here to make the grass paler. Should be more just across in that there battery-powered old Ford.
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Sleety rain in Cambridge....
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Post by: Lightning Phil on 16 January, 2021, 08:49:00 am
Same here, slushy snow and now sleet. So I’ve binned the idea of going for a ride in the snow. Now if it was nice and crisp proper snow...
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Post by: Chris S on 16 January, 2021, 11:16:27 am
We had about 10cm of snow on Thursday, but it was very wet snow - followed by -8c the following night and the snowpack set like concrete.
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Post by: Ruthie on 16 January, 2021, 11:24:11 am
We had about 10cm of snow on Thursday, but it was very wet snow - followed by -8c the following night and the snowpack set like concrete.

Same. Going for a walk was stressful.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 January, 2021, 11:34:14 am
TV's Alina Jenkins:The north wind doth blo
TV's Liam Dutton:And we shall haz SNO!
ML Maire:U LIE! It's been raining on E17 since 3 am! Not a single sodding SNOflake! DIAF!

Here endeth the weather report.
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Post by: TimC on 16 January, 2021, 12:30:34 pm
We have 5cm or so in Suffolk.
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Post by: rafletcher on 16 January, 2021, 01:58:51 pm
An early morning sprinkling of sleety stuff in the Chilterns, long since gone.
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Post by: quixoticgeek on 16 January, 2021, 02:06:32 pm

It started snowing in Amsterdam when I was about 2km away from home on my ride. By the time I am inside, it's coming down pretty heavy. Not settling yet tho.

J
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 January, 2021, 04:56:44 pm
We had a flurry before dawn but it turned to rain and it's now 7°C.
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Post by: TimC on 16 January, 2021, 06:52:02 pm
Still snow lying outside here. The temperature hasn't yet risen above 2ºC.
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Post by: ElyDave on 16 January, 2021, 09:26:51 pm
Mostly turned to rain by about 11am here
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Post by: quixoticgeek on 17 January, 2021, 01:06:03 pm

Snow has now gone from pretty much everywhere.

Few patches of ice remain...

J
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 17 January, 2021, 02:53:22 pm
We had snow yesterday evening, it was all gone by midday.
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Post by: T42 on 17 January, 2021, 04:03:55 pm
Still thick here but temperature's rising. At least it was an hour ago.
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Post by: Chris S on 19 January, 2021, 01:20:43 pm
This may be an even more canonical definition of bad luck than last year's sunniest spring lockdown.

In what must be one of the best snow seasons for Scotland in terms of snow duration and amounts, presumably all the resorts are closed?
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Post by: T42 on 19 January, 2021, 03:35:51 pm
Snow is now melting here, exposing an argosy of dog turds.
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Post by: Feanor on 19 January, 2021, 03:41:09 pm
This may be an even more canonical definition of bad luck than last year's sunniest spring lockdown.

In what must be one of the best snow seasons for Scotland in terms of snow duration and amounts, presumably all the resorts are closed?

Yes, they are.

But there's been a noticeable increase in people using touring kit to access local back-country.
The advantage is you get the place pretty much to yourself, you're not in a queue for a lift.
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Post by: Andrew Br on 20 January, 2021, 11:54:39 pm
It has been pelting down in south Manchester, 3-4cm on the pavement and cars struggling to get up cambers.
It's the cherry on the icing on the cake for those in Didsbury and Northenden whose houses are being flooded.
I've lived around here since 1990 and I've never seen the Mersey so high.

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Post by: Canardly on 21 January, 2021, 07:34:19 am
Does make one wonder about the impact of housing developments and infrastructure on the natural environment. Drove past Northenden recently and hardly recognised the place.
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Post by: Andrew Br on 21 January, 2021, 09:27:17 am
I don't know about this morning but you would have struggled to drive through Northenden last night  :(.

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Post by: De Sisti on 21 January, 2021, 11:49:23 am
I never thought areas of Manchester as being at risk of flooding (despite living there between 1965 -1984).
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Post by: Andrew Br on 21 January, 2021, 01:43:33 pm
Two reasonably sized rivers flow through the city.
Both are relatively short and they form on the (highish) hills and fells to the North (Irwell) and the East (Tame and Goyt which form the Mersey under the shopping centre in Stockport) so they collect a lot of rain.
The Irwell actually flows through the city centre before it becomes the Ship Canal.
A few Xmases ago the Irwell flooded badly taking out several buildings upstream and causing a real mess in the centre of Manchester.

The Mersey flows South of the city centre and the parts between West Didsbury, through Chorlton towards Stretford are heavily engineered to prevent flooding. There are also several run off areas where gates can be opened to collect floodwater. There were some videos on Twitter showing them being opened. The one I saw didn't look like it would retain much water compared to yesterday's flows.
I think the snow last night was a minor blessing. It retained the water on the ground for a while until it melted. Rain would have run straight off into the rivers.

Funnily enough, the Mersey also flows into the Ship Canal but it emerges further downstream to form the river so beloved of Scousers.

If I wasn't WFH and very busy likely to be missed, I'd ride up to Kersal to have a look at Kersal Wetlands. That's a fairly new (to me at least) flood basin which is great to cycle round. Ordinarily. I'd be wary of buying one of the hundreds (literally) of houses that are being built next to the river there.

I fully expect more demands for "engineering" to stop the rich people's houses from flooding; they'll want the water moved down-river to flood the poor people's houses*.

*Bramhall is one area that's been campaigning for this for several years. The people in Didsbury** aren't likely to be short of a bob or two either so no doubt they'll be jumping on that particular band wagon..
** Boorish Johnson is visiting Didsbury today. It's a shame the snow has gone otherwise he'd be bombarded by the locals.

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Post by: Kim on 22 January, 2021, 07:41:08 pm
A snowball fight has broken out in Silly Oak.
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Post by: cycleman on 23 January, 2021, 08:20:14 am
Are you winning? :)
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Post by: ElyDave on 23 January, 2021, 01:54:25 pm
I think we'll be in for a bit today, I went out for a ride today and it was 1.6C when I started out, 90 minutes later it had dropped to -1.6C according to my Garmin, and the sky is very gray. Glad I got out though , as we've just been COVID quarantined for the next ten days
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 January, 2021, 06:29:06 pm
WE had a very small amount of solid stuff about 3pm, but it didn't last long. I had a walk around the park shortly after and it was bloody cold.
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Post by: Andy W on 24 January, 2021, 07:19:03 am
Forecast in North Herts. May have up to several cm of snow in places. I'm sure its difficult to predict snowfall in England with any degree of accuracy, but weasel words like , may,  up to, in places, and finally up to several cm, that's less than an inch. Bring back Michael  Fish, he says it like it is(nt).
I'm only kidding. Funny thing is , back in the late 60s and 1970s I used to pray for snow. Even now, at 60 its a joy to hop on my MTB and head down a bridleway.
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Post by: PaulF on 24 January, 2021, 08:02:23 am
Just started here in Oxford.
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Post by: Jaded on 24 January, 2021, 08:38:06 am
We has loads!
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Post by: Polar Bear on 24 January, 2021, 09:07:57 am
Just starting here. Forecast is for lots more.
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Post by: graculus on 24 January, 2021, 09:29:10 am
Been coming down for about an hour in Wolverhampton, and plenty to come by the look of the sky.
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Post by: PaulF on 24 January, 2021, 09:33:15 am
Just started here in Oxford.

About 2-3” since my last post.
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Post by: De Sisti on 24 January, 2021, 09:41:06 am
Snowing in my part of the Centre for the Cotswolds this morning:



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Post by: orienteer on 24 January, 2021, 09:43:37 am
Breached the M25 in west London now!
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Post by: rafletcher on 24 January, 2021, 09:44:37 am
Started here on the Bucks / Herts Chilterns border about 10 minutes again. Relatively small flakes, and looking at the progress of the front, should be mostly stopped by 10:30-11:00. So maybe 2-3cm worth? We’ll see.
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Post by: Steph on 24 January, 2021, 09:50:14 am
Now tipping it down in Horley
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Post by: Polar Bear on 24 January, 2021, 09:54:29 am
Just starting here. Forecast is for lots more.

Forecast looks to be incorrect.  Very little fell and nothing for the past half hour.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 January, 2021, 09:57:59 am
None here. Quite a white frost though.
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Post by: SteveC on 24 January, 2021, 10:13:36 am
South Somerset. About an inch if that and it's melting now. MrsC and I did get out for a walk first thing to take the obligatory photos.
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Post by: Jurek on 24 January, 2021, 10:26:32 am
We have snieg.
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Post by: ScumOfTheRoad on 24 January, 2021, 10:27:06 am
Nowt in Docklands, though the forecast says light snow.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 24 January, 2021, 10:27:21 am
Woken up at approximately audax o'clock by voices outside. This normally means it's 4a.m. and the drunks are staggering home. But these sounded like children's voices and it seemed light outside... Look outside and there is a streetfull of children playing in two inches of wet, sticky snow. By nine it had almost all gone.
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 24 January, 2021, 10:30:17 am
Good snow in TW1.

I doubt if it will lie, but even if it doesn’t, it looks like a very cold commute ride tomorrow.
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Post by: ScumOfTheRoad on 24 January, 2021, 10:35:42 am
Update - it is snowing in Docklands! Yaay!
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Post by: bhoot on 24 January, 2021, 10:41:41 am
Indeed - it's a rare sight in E14! 
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Post by: ElyDave on 24 January, 2021, 10:45:35 am
Looks very white sky out there and with a hard frost, I think anything that comes down will stick her, forecast for later.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 24 January, 2021, 11:01:54 am
Just starting here. Forecast is for lots more.

Forecast looks to be incorrect.  Very little fell and nothing for the past half hour.

Then suddenly it came.  It's been steadily falling for about an hour now and is settling.  Looks awesome.

Tomorrow's run will be fun.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 24 January, 2021, 11:04:22 am
Classic FM just had John Kettley on!

(cue bad singing)
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Post by: Lightning Phil on 24 January, 2021, 11:12:26 am
Just started snowing here in Hertfordshire
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Post by: robgul on 24 January, 2021, 11:14:35 am
Snow here in Stratford (the upon Avon one) - was light at about 0730 - then heavy at around 0915 - now very light falling - and the family WhatsApp is reporting snow in various locations - Lanacashire (Ribble Valley) had it yesterday, gone now.
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Post by: Basil on 24 January, 2021, 11:19:34 am
Much snowman and igloo construction going on in the park this morning.
Competitive dad syndrome in evidence.
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Post by: andytheflyer on 24 January, 2021, 11:45:47 am
Here on the western margins of Cheshire, overlooking the Dee valley, it started snowing around 8 this morning, lightly at first but it's been getting gradually heavier all morning, but on and off,  and we now have a good covering.  Looking at the weather radar, there's a low centred over Ruthin, and the cloud is rotating around that. We are f/c for snow for an hour or 2 yet.

Will have to venture out shortly for the lab's second walk of the day - of 3.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 January, 2021, 11:48:12 am
Big fat juicy flakes in E17 about half an hour ago and settling on cold things like motor-cars, houses and Larrington Gardens Road.  But seems to have switched to very fine stuff and/or drizzle when I recharged my mug of Brown Drink just now chiz.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 January, 2021, 11:55:56 am
Temperature up to 4°C in Saarfend. Snow looking unlikely.
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Post by: Kim on 24 January, 2021, 12:06:34 pm
Coming down properly and settling in Middle Earth.
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Post by: rafletcher on 24 January, 2021, 12:08:03 pm
Still snowing on the Bucks/Herts border though less heavily, road (linear village dead end) covered, so might be a bit slippery tomorrow morning. We’ve had 3-4cm, but it’s visibly slumping and dripping off the cars. Once it’s stopped I’ll pop out and clear my doors and mirrors for tomorrow’s commute.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 January, 2021, 12:08:49 pm
(Peers out of bathroom window)

Medium-sized flakes settling on things.  w00t!  Scooterboy riding very gingerly along Larrington Gardens Road, has rear wheel lockup slowing at T-junction.
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Post by: Jurek on 24 January, 2021, 12:19:28 pm
I've just walked down to Sainos to do my weekly shop. It is 'ver slippery underfoot.
I was going to follow it up with my usual Sunday visit to Mother - but I'll give it a miss, as I don't want to go over there, and then find that there are issues with getting back.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 24 January, 2021, 12:34:44 pm
All gone around the not-Stratford Avon.
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Post by: Kim on 24 January, 2021, 12:51:21 pm
Impressively, a scooterboy, accompanied by a female scooterboy, just glided past on one of the Voi scooters.  Nominally uphill, in about 3 inches of snow.
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Post by: ElyDave on 24 January, 2021, 01:22:16 pm
Temperature up to 4°C in Saarfend. Snow looking unlikely.
Not been out today, but it's still looking quite frozen out there and started snowing "up here" about 1pm, quite lightly and fine flakes
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Post by: rafletcher on 24 January, 2021, 01:24:56 pm
Mostly stopped here now, road all slushy, only car windscreens & bonnets still covered. We’ve had some drizzle too, just for variety.
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Post by: Jurek on 24 January, 2021, 01:26:25 pm
Now, it rains.
Update: Snows.
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Post by: TimC on 24 January, 2021, 02:01:40 pm
It snowed for about 20 minutes earlier in my part of Suffolk. Then a few minutes of snow grains (SG) - soft hail - now nothing. It's hovering around freezing, so whatever falls will settle. Not going out to check.
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Post by: Kim on 24 January, 2021, 02:33:36 pm
Impressively, a scooterboy, accompanied by a female scooterboy, just glided past on one of the Voi scooters.  Nominally uphill, in about 3 inches of snow.

I don't think it ended well...

(https://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/2021_01_24_13_56_12.sized.jpg)


Meanwhile, preliminary experiments in scooterboy-assisted bin lid sledging show impressive reduction in distance required to achieve speeds in excess of R17, before ending up sliding sideways in a heap:

(https://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/2021_01_24_14_11_30.sized.jpg)

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Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 January, 2021, 05:57:47 pm
SNO.  Gorn.

Bah!
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Post by: Davef on 24 January, 2021, 06:24:45 pm
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210124/89818c2cabb65b29ad6358dee2860a5c.jpg)
Sufficient excuse for spikey tyres to come out from the cellar.
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Post by: cycleman on 24 January, 2021, 08:19:31 pm
Iittle snow here around 10.00am. Most gone by 16.00  :(

https://photos.app.goo.gl/GB6LYcrZHDDaUtNM6
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Post by: Kim on 24 January, 2021, 08:22:09 pm
Iittle snow here around 10.00am. Most gone by 16.00  :(

https://photos.app.goo.gl/GB6LYcrZHDDaUtNM6

Tabby cat looks unimpressed.
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Post by: citoyen on 24 January, 2021, 08:31:29 pm
Making good use of the snow that we find...

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50870631691_a261763bdd_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kvghuK)

(seen by my sister today on Wimbledon Common!)
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Post by: hellymedic on 24 January, 2021, 09:36:48 pm
Better than Wombles official..

https://fb.watch/3dEpXz4JqO/ (https://fb.watch/3dEpXz4JqO/)
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Post by: cycleman on 25 January, 2021, 07:26:29 am
Iittle snow here around 10.00am. Most gone by 16.00  :(

https://photos.app.goo.gl/GB6LYcrZHDDaUtNM6

Tabby cat looks unimpressed.

Yes, tigerlilly stayed out under 1 minute. Drusilla came back later for food  :)
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Post by: grams on 25 January, 2021, 08:04:36 am
(seen by my sister today on Wimbledon Common!)

Poor thing. Get it a hot toddy and a foil blanket.
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Post by: TimC on 25 January, 2021, 08:34:47 am
No snow left, but it's -3C outside and very crunchy!
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Post by: The Family Cyclist on 25 January, 2021, 08:47:24 am
Nothing 20 miles or so North of wow. Icy this morning. Very nearly went posteria over breast this morning
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Post by: Giraffe on 25 January, 2021, 08:55:56 am
About an inch here in South Northants yesterday. Would have been more but some thawing due to mild conditions (+1.5C).
Yesterday the it was -2.5C, with -0.4C in the loft; this morning it was -6C with +1.3C in the loft - snow is a good insulator.
When it uncolds a bit I'll trudge fieldwards to get BEERS. Have boots and anklegators (not to be confused with crocodildoes) at the ready and hoping that the SE-facing slope of a field doesn't thaw otherwise it'll need waders.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 25 January, 2021, 09:04:13 am
Making good use of the snow that we find...

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50870631691_a261763bdd_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kvghuK)

(seen by my sister today on Wimbledon Common!)
That is excellent!

And I'm really impressed that there was enough snow.
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Post by: T42 on 25 January, 2021, 09:28:01 am
+1

We've got soggy stuff falling and weighing down the trees - supposed to go on all day. That's OK, I wasn't going anywhere.
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Post by: ian on 25 January, 2021, 09:34:05 am
A couple of inches yesterday, mostly wet snow which went to slush quickly on the roads. Nice stomp along the downs though. Crunch crunch. A thin, icy coat lingering this morning. The levitating tent is looking a bit the worse for wear, now slumping like a fat man has taken to sleeping in it. Or a bear.
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Post by: citoyen on 25 January, 2021, 09:56:16 am
And I'm really impressed that there was enough snow.

No snow at all here in East Kent - just grey and wet and cold.
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Post by: ian on 25 January, 2021, 09:59:08 am
And I'm really impressed that there was enough snow.

No snow at all here in East Kent - just grey and wet and cold.

West Kent took it all.
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Post by: citoyen on 25 January, 2021, 10:02:26 am
And I'm really impressed that there was enough snow.

No snow at all here in East Kent - just grey and wet and cold.

West Kent took it all.

It's like some kind of metaphor.
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Post by: ian on 25 January, 2021, 10:05:57 am
Maybe it's time for secession. Independence for the Isle of Thanet. Make Margate your capital. All Hail, Emperor Farage the First.
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Post by: robgul on 25 January, 2021, 11:31:10 am
Maybe it's time for secession. Independence for the Isle of Thanet. Make Margate your capital. All Hail, Emperor Farage the First.

I thought there was already a border control post at the Medway - Man of Kent  vs  Kentish Man?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 25 January, 2021, 11:50:38 am
Cleared the snow off the car around 3pm, then we had another 1/2" last night, and temps of -7C. Very crucnhy this morning, and quite a challenge scraping the windows.  The A41 was, um, "interesting" this morning, only 1 lane for most of my journey. Work still has 2" of snow in the car park (ungritted - it's a small industrial estate with shared parking over maybe a dozen enterprises, and the landlord does sweet FA). My car, despit being dark grey and in full sun still have snow on the roof. Its a beautiful day out  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 25 January, 2021, 12:39:47 pm
I was briefly amused watching someone trying to get their Range Rover out of their drive in the snow and failing. I assume they eventually managed.

Top tip for half-wits, shovel your driveway (or pre-emptively grit it, like me) before attempting to reverse out.
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Post by: citoyen on 25 January, 2021, 01:07:39 pm
All Hail, Emperor Farage the First.

That's not even funny.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 31 January, 2021, 01:38:18 pm
Big soft wet flakes falling but not settling for the last half-hour or so in Bristol.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 02 February, 2021, 08:43:18 am
It's like Christmas outside my window. Just needs a few peasants gathering winter fuel.
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Post by: woollypigs on 02 February, 2021, 11:23:03 am
Just to let you lot know that it snowed over night for at least the fourth time this year, yet my social media or MSM isn't going mad about it.

That said, as it is often here never cold enough before to let the ground freeze and cold enough during/after for it to last any time for any enjoyment past 5min. Like the last time it snowed (a little over a week ago) we are due rain later with frost over night, so the outside is going to be fun for the next 24 hours if you are planning to move about.
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Post by: Flite on 02 February, 2021, 04:12:49 pm
In Upper Weardale, it seems to have snowed every time there is a vaccination clinic down the Dale in Crook, so all the oldies have to battle to get there
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Post by: woollypigs on 03 February, 2021, 09:42:43 am
Best sno man I have seen in a while https://twitter.com/ambiej/status/1356777742625345537?s=20
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Post by: Chris S on 04 February, 2021, 11:58:08 am
Grab yer shovels - looks like there's an Easterly on its way.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 06 February, 2021, 03:44:58 am
Yes button down the hutches a Beast from The East is about to hit the country. It's going to look a lot like Christmas. It's name is Mr D'Arcy.

https://news.sky.com/story/uk-weather-storm-darcy-heads-to-england-bringing-up-to-20cm-of-snow-12209987
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 06 February, 2021, 10:40:31 pm
It’s here. Big fluffy flakes in the shadow of the Chilterns.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 February, 2021, 12:43:55 am
(Peers through Venetian blind)

Oooh, it’s all white!

[“That's the net curtain.” – Ed.]
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Post by: quixoticgeek on 07 February, 2021, 01:02:14 am


White stuff falling out the sky here...

https://youtu.be/q9GjoZTbhBI

Am expecting quite a bit by the time I wake up.

J
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 07 February, 2021, 06:10:53 am
Very snowy here this morning in Niederrhein. We are expecting 20cm more today too.
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Post by: Jurek on 07 February, 2021, 06:28:11 am
Zilch here.
So far.
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Post by: nicknack on 07 February, 2021, 08:37:28 am
Recently started snowing heavily in North Kent. :(
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Post by: MattH on 07 February, 2021, 08:53:47 am
Close to Basingstoke, a couple of days ago the forecast was for heavy snow last night, then snow all day, and some more heavy snow this evening.

This morning it is just grey out, and the forecast says it won't quite get to us  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 07 February, 2021, 09:07:30 am
It’s here. Big fluffy flakes in the shadow of the Chilterns.

Which lasted for all of half an hour. This morning, not even a frost, with a brisk drying easterly wind.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: quixoticgeek on 07 February, 2021, 10:36:26 am
Very snowy here this morning in Niederrhein. We are expecting 20cm more today too.

We're expecting the same here. What fell during the night has been blown off the roads in a lot of places, leaving a sheet of ice underneath. Yesterday I tweeted out some advice to Dutch residents on how to drive in the snow.

Don't.

I hope people pay attention.

J
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Auntie Helen on 07 February, 2021, 10:54:33 am
It’s probably around 5cm here, we just took the dog out. It’s still snowing and getting blown all over the place but very, very fine flakes and they don’t make snowballs.

I have to go into work tomorrow after 2 weeks home office. Not fun.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 February, 2021, 11:13:41 am
SNO What A Letdown!!1!  The view from the bathroom window just now was of uninspiring greyness with a few half-hearted flakes milling about.  Another Beastern fiasco ;)  I demand that TV's Louise Lear comes round immediately to apologise in person.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 February, 2021, 11:40:47 am
It's snowing here in Siberia-on-Sea.The temperature is 0°C but the roads & pavements don't seem to be cold enough yet to allow the snow to settle. It's settling on cars and plants though.

Despite last night's forecast, the snow didn't start here until about 8am or perhaps shortly after.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Beardy on 07 February, 2021, 12:14:41 pm
It’s STILL snowing here in the Angles, although the stuff on the ground looks awfully wet. I’m staying inside.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 07 February, 2021, 12:18:23 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtnuZcEWQAA4vV2?format=jpg&name=large)
https://twitter.com/andoradmiraal/status/1358378886355161091
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimC on 07 February, 2021, 01:05:06 pm
Definitely snowy here. Went out for a walk, and into the 30mph wind it was seriously cold!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 February, 2021, 02:53:32 pm
SNO What A Letdown!!1!  The view from the bathroom window just now was of uninspiring greyness with a few half-hearted flakes milling about.  Another Beastern fiasco ;)  I demand that TV's Louise Lear comes round immediately to apologise in person.

Someone on my Twitter feed said the sno was delayed cos it's currently filling in a 300 page form to get in.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andyoxon on 07 February, 2021, 03:46:33 pm
When it comes to the snow forecast, I reckon BBC/MeteoG make something up, then look out the window to update.   Complete fiction around here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimC on 07 February, 2021, 04:01:54 pm
Got probably 10-12cm snow now in Suffolk. the temperature has dropped from +1º at 10 this morning to -1.5º now, so it's starting to settle on the roads. The forecast is for it to drop a bit further and not rise above -2º tomorrow, so it's going to be a bit of a mess for anyone wanting to travel off main roads. Fortunately, I did my 'snow-in' shopping yesterday.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: quixoticgeek on 07 February, 2021, 04:11:05 pm

https://youtu.be/3xb9vvHFaPo

But noone will cycle in the snow...

J
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andy W on 07 February, 2021, 05:06:52 pm
Not a single snowflake in North Herts. Weather warnings galore and nothing! I've put my whole life on hold as well.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 07 February, 2021, 05:14:57 pm
A couple of centimetres on the North Downs. It was a gritty sort of snow, not the fluffy cuddly kind, which in a strong wind was like being sand-blasted. Plenty of SUV-grade snow fun to be seen. Poor traction meet inertia. Loads of people sledging on the golf course, which was the most fun I suspect anyone has ever had on a golf course.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 07 February, 2021, 05:19:01 pm

https://youtu.be/3xb9vvHFaPo

But noone will cycle in the snow...

J
Basketpacking!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 07 February, 2021, 05:19:36 pm
No suspicion of snow here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 07 February, 2021, 05:47:14 pm
Thin covering up here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Steph on 07 February, 2021, 05:55:43 pm
Snowed most of the day here, and things are white, but as the roads were wet, they are unbeSNOEd.

Just put the bins out, and the snow is freezing hard. Icy underfoot. I travel up for the bfuneral tomorrow, so hoping there'll be no hiccups with trains.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 07 February, 2021, 06:55:38 pm
Horrible windchill all day and snow blowing around very lightly, only just starting to settle on the fields in late afternoon
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 February, 2021, 07:04:58 pm
Transparently thin coating on windscreens and BIIINNNSSS.  Booooo!  Money back plz.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 February, 2021, 07:08:44 pm
(https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/147398919_10159567576472638_6203884444340282261_o.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=2&_nc_sid=b9115d&_nc_ohc=TsoaVThKYHkAX-UVopb&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr8-1.xx&oh=802df171069640a98033fdb06124ab75&oe=6046A444)

Southend in the snow. But that was 1987.

The forecast over the next couple of days is pretty horrendous. We've had a couple of inches so far on parked cars, but the temperature only properly got below freezing at lunch time, and of course we've had a pretty mild week, so nothing has so far settled on the roads.

(https://scontent-lhr8-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/148045212_2805175079801683_6437665347153570785_o.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=2&_nc_sid=dbeb18&_nc_ohc=EdvLR93mFYYAX_M-OIg&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr8-2.xx&oh=c08f9574bb697d01a9aa9df3d650820e&oe=604661CF)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 February, 2021, 07:19:42 pm
BBC says much SNO overnight.  The Nogweegies say no SNO.  On recent form I'm inclined to believe them Vikings.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 February, 2021, 07:25:32 pm
BBC says much SNO overnight.  The Nogweegies say no SNO.  On recent form I'm inclined to believe them Vikings.

They say it will snow out here in the far east. But I'm inclined to the view that the Met Office exaggerates greatly any precipitation they forecast. In recent months, there have been several days in which they have forecast heavy rain for hours on end, and mostly we end up with <5mm. There have, of course, been some much wetter days. But the forecast seems the same whether we have 5mm in 12 hours or 25mm in 12 hours.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 07 February, 2021, 07:26:57 pm
BBC says much SNO overnight.  The Nogweegies say no SNO.  On recent form I'm inclined to believe them Vikings.
Yr.No, Ventusky & XC Weather say just about no chance of śnieg here tonight.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nicknack on 07 February, 2021, 07:29:07 pm
Our bubble person who visits on a Sunday left here an hour and a half ago and is still trying to get off the island (Sheppey).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 07 February, 2021, 07:32:02 pm
Our bubble person who visits on a Sunday left here an hour and a half ago and is still trying to get off the island (Sheppey).
Blimey.
Wild country.
My Whitstable Yacht Club Web Cam (http://www.wyc.org.uk/site/webcam) shows much snow coverage.
No footprints.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: cycleman on 07 February, 2021, 07:49:34 pm
No snow here. Just cold east wind.  :-\
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 07 February, 2021, 08:42:06 pm
More like tiny hail than snow but it has finally started in NW London.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 February, 2021, 09:01:16 pm
It as snowing here gently a few minutes ago when I looked out.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimC on 08 February, 2021, 12:24:09 am
BBC says much SNO overnight.  The Nogweegies say no SNO.  On recent form I'm inclined to believe them Vikings.

They say it will snow out here in the far east. But I'm inclined to the view that the Met Office exaggerates greatly any precipitation they forecast. In recent months, there have been several days in which they have forecast heavy rain for hours on end, and mostly we end up with <5mm. There have, of course, been some much wetter days. But the forecast seems the same whether we have 5mm in 12 hours or 25mm in 12 hours.

Well, there's plenty of snow in my bit of the Far East. But, as you know Peter, we get around 500mm of rain a year in East Angular - maybe a little more where you are. Yet we have at least 2m of rain forecast a year. Mainly so no-one (particularly farmers) can't pretend they weren't warned about rain. It gets a bit tedious when you know that most of the forecast rain isn't going to happen, but it doesn't stop anyone getting on with life, so it doesn't bother me.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ScumOfTheRoad on 08 February, 2021, 07:11:50 am
Snow is lying in Docklands.  A thin layer, but it is there!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Regulator on 08 February, 2021, 07:14:01 am
A rather lacklustre dusting here.  Jack is not impressed...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 08 February, 2021, 07:22:07 am
Snow dusting around in Londres Sud I can hear it blowing a gale and my weather station tells me it is -2°C. Brrrrrr....

ETA - Ventusky is showing perceived temperature as -9°C  :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Polar Bear on 08 February, 2021, 07:38:47 am
We've had sub zero temperatures since before midnight and we wake to a scene of a partial dusting of snow.  It is "corrugated cardboard" thick where it lays on horizontal surfaces such as the garden table.  I feel the need to venture out and see whether the pavements are sheet ice beneath the dusting before I make a decision on my exercise for the day.

More snow is forecast throughout the morning but as observed upthread, the MET Office seems to be cautiously overstating the case a lot these days.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 08 February, 2021, 07:58:20 am
Here on the bucks/herts border we had about half an hour driven ice particles around 11:30 last night, this morning revealed to be around 6mm of pure perfect powder snow. Temps of -2C.  The snow just brushed off the car, and absolutely no frost undeneath. The best kind of winter weather.

The most dangerous part was getting down our front path, because the warmth from the house had partially melted the powder, which had then re-frozen.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimC on 08 February, 2021, 08:05:00 am
Just been out to move the car so the builder can get in. I doubt he'll be coming - we have about a foot of snow now, it's still snowing, and it's -3 so it's not going anywhere. The main road is a slushfest, and traffic is creeping along. Duvet day.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: The Family Cyclist on 08 February, 2021, 08:37:38 am
Up thread there is mention of BBC and Met Office weather. Not sure if people are aware but BBC don't use MET Office anymore.

In my part of the East we had a decent amount eventually and at work heading towards the Suffolk end of Essex we have even more. A few mini drifts in the car park of around 8c deep and a good couple of inches across most the car park
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 08 February, 2021, 08:59:46 am
looking out of my office window where it's still drifting gently down, we have <1", the lawn looks like it has a heavy dredging of icing sugar
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Beardy on 08 February, 2021, 09:20:59 am
We have a grocery delivery due at 11am which has me on the horns of a dilemma. We have roughly 100mm of sno in the front garden which while not impassable, will make the wheeling of a sack cart of groceries something of a chore. I’m not normally one for clearing g sno as I am of the belief that sno offers better footing than ice. And of course, if I clear the sno and then some damn fool slips and injures themselves, it’s my fault. But the expected delivery creates a situation, especially as Sarah has decreed that the sno must be cleared for mr Sainsbury.
Pah.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 08 February, 2021, 09:27:32 am
Who else has a shameful and irrational hatred of people who get their skis out when it snows in England?  I mean, if I had skis I'd jump at the chance of using them, but I'm sure there's an element of "Look, I can afford to go on skiing holidays, you povvos!"
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: robgul on 08 February, 2021, 09:48:19 am
Steady snow here in Warwickshire - started about 0800 and continuing . . .   men that were supposed to be digging up the road to install some replacement gas mains dropped off a stack of plastic barriers about half an hour ago and then beat a retreat.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Lightning Phil on 08 February, 2021, 09:55:35 am
Steady snow ❄️ falling and layer of snow in garden now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 08 February, 2021, 09:58:12 am
Light dusting here "down town", but the four hills around us got nothing, it's normally the other way around
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 08 February, 2021, 10:19:44 am
Who else has a shameful and irrational hatred of people who get their skis out when it snows in England?  I mean, if I had skis I'd jump at the chance of using them, but I'm sure there's an element of "Look, I can afford to go on skiing holidays, you povvos!"

There was a lot of lockdown-hate on FB (what a surprise) directed at two skiers photographed on the North Pennines at the weekend. Turned out they were the mountain rescue  ::-).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: quixoticgeek on 08 February, 2021, 10:24:06 am
Who else has a shameful and irrational hatred of people who get their skis out when it snows in England?  I mean, if I had skis I'd jump at the chance of using them, but I'm sure there's an element of "Look, I can afford to go on skiing holidays, you povvos!"

I had a friend in Tonbridge who when it snowed heavily a few years back, dug his skiis out and went out on a long cross country ski trip.

He got his skis when he worked for BAS... who also taught him to cross country ski...

Personally yesterday I broke out my Kahtoona Nano spikes - https://amzn.to/2YQAXEs

They are *FANTASTIC* in these conditions. Makes it so much easier to wander around without worrying about falling over. Esp as the snow is being blown off the roads, leaving behind Sastrugi.

J
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bhoot on 08 February, 2021, 10:28:47 am
I have some winter boots with twist out studs (normally they nestle stud upwards into the sole) which are excellent for icy conditions. I bought them for a winter business trip to Kazakhstan a few years back, and they don't see much action in London, but this could be the week for them.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 08 February, 2021, 10:37:44 am
I've seen people skiing along the street in Poland. Not often, cos the snowploughs are efficient.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 08 February, 2021, 10:42:42 am
And of course, if I clear the sno and then some damn fool slips and injures themselves, it’s my fault.

Only if you do it negligently/with the intention of getting people to slip.

Every house should have a bag of grit with the wellies for times like this.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 08 February, 2021, 10:50:25 am
In other countries (Canada and the USA) it's the law that you have to clear and de-ice any pavement in front of your property, even if no one has walked anywhere in the neighbourhood since 1956.

I live opposite a grit bin, which is handy (I know, I'm stealing a small bucketful, but considering the number of times I grit the hill outside, I figure I've earned a little for my own driveway and path). A woman came out to help me yesterday, which was nice (admittedly she did want to drive her car down the hill and presumably back up it).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 February, 2021, 11:24:38 am
I once had a cow-orker who was staying temporarily in an hotel in central Londonton, having just returned from a couple of years in the Stavanger office and thus being homeless.  When providence dumped a foot of SNO on the place overnight, Dave Mark unstrapped his x-country skis from the top of his motor-car and went up Southampton Row and round Russell Square to the ossif in Tavistock Square.  While this Unit came in from Harrow on his Perfectly Good Gentleman’s Mountain Bicycle.  IIRC we were the only people in that day.

E17 has slightly more silly soft stuff than it did at 3 ack emma but not enough to keep the buses or the pigeon-feeding arsewipe at home.

Edited for nominative accuracy.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 08 February, 2021, 11:28:16 am
My wife knows a Swedish cardiologist. He's in his seventies and cross-country skis 17 km there and back to his office. I'm not sure if that's related to fact that he was still impregnating his far younger wife at that age.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 08 February, 2021, 11:42:18 am
There has been a light dusting of powdery SNO in Pompey, but it hasn't settled on anything at a lower altitude than the decking in either of my neighbours' back yards.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 08 February, 2021, 11:52:41 am

I live opposite a grit bin, which is handy (I know, I'm stealing a small bucketful,

In our village the grit bins are filled to allow us to use them - although it's supposed to be on the road junction and canal bridge, not drives or pathways.

It's been drifting down here all mornig, but the flakes are miniscule, so accumulations are negligible. Even melting on the darker cars.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 08 February, 2021, 12:08:37 pm
Well it just snowed in our toilet, was there minding my own business and then suddenly a gust of fluffy sno things covered me. So I think it's time to close the windows, cause I don't fancy gritting indoors.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 February, 2021, 12:33:45 pm
I'm just going to Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles.  I may be some time.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: quixoticgeek on 08 February, 2021, 12:37:52 pm

I've fitted the spiked tyres. I've had lunch. I suppose the only thing to do now, is put some clothes on and go play in the snow!

J
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: citoyen on 08 February, 2021, 01:16:00 pm
Our bubble person who visits on a Sunday left here an hour and a half ago and is still trying to get off the island (Sheppey).
Blimey.
Wild country.
My Whitstable Yacht Club Web Cam (http://www.wyc.org.uk/site/webcam) shows much snow coverage.
No footprints.

I've not been down to the beach but up here on the inland side of town towards Canterbury, it's been snowing steadily (but not heavily) with a few short breaks since about 7am yesterday. It seems to have stopped now. Don't know if that's the end of it - sky still looks heavy with snow-laden clouds.

Because it has been steady rather than one big snow dump, there's a decent covering on the ground but at least the roads are clear, unlike what happened one Sunday afternoon a few years ago - there was a major power cut, so we went into town for lunch, but while we were there it started snowing very heavily and it was touch and go whether we would be able to get home because of the state of the roads. The drive was terrifying but we did make it back. We didn't get power back until some time on Monday though. Many layers were worn that night.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 February, 2021, 01:46:11 pm
I'm just going to Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles.  I may be some time.

Because temporary traffic lights.  Bah!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 08 February, 2021, 01:49:59 pm
Our bubble person who visits on a Sunday left here an hour and a half ago and is still trying to get off the island (Sheppey).
Blimey.
Wild country.
My Whitstable Yacht Club Web Cam (http://www.wyc.org.uk/site/webcam) shows much snow coverage.
No footprints.

I've not been down to the beach but up here on the inland side of town towards Canterbury, it's been snowing steadily (but not heavily) with a few short breaks since about 7am yesterday. It seems to have stopped now. Don't know if that's the end of it - sky still looks heavy with snow-laden clouds.

Because it has been steady rather than one big snow dump, there's a decent covering on the ground but at least the roads are clear, unlike what happened one Sunday afternoon a few years ago - there was a major power cut, so we went into town for lunch, but while we were there it started snowing very heavily and it was touch and go whether we would be able to get home because of the state of the roads. The drive was terrifying but we did make it back. We didn't get power back until some time on Monday though. Many layers were worn that night.
24 hours without power? Pah! We had a week following a freak snow storm and cold snap in April 1980. Or it could have been 1981. Flooded transformer. A week of cooking on a bottle gas thing (actually I think we went to the chip shop a lot) and no.heating.what.so.ever.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 08 February, 2021, 01:53:57 pm
I've been up since 05:00ish and stuff has been falling out of the sky (albeit in v.small amounts) throughout that time.
I'm about to fit some Yaktrax (https://www.wish.com/product/5c36f195f47c1c71748e983a?hide_login_modal=true&from_ad=goog_shopping&_display_country_code=GB&_force_currency_code=GBP&pid=googleadwords_int&c=%7BcampaignId%7D&ad_cid=5c36f195f47c1c71748e983a&ad_cc=GB&ad_curr=GBP&ad_price=6.00&campaign_id=6493229882&exclude_install=true%7D&guest=true&gclid=Cj0KCQiA34OBBhCcARIsAG32uvP-VVN0CTnCyel8JLquiUNAhZ2tanGKSMYgp31_VDegM5N3DCBXVMcaAsefEALw_wcB&share=web) to my boots and venture out.

ETA - I've had the Yaktrax for five or six years, this is the first opportunity I have had to use them.
i have to say that they are confidence-inspiring. They also leave cool footprints.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 February, 2021, 01:56:09 pm
How do the dragons of Saarrff London cope when it gets this cold?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 08 February, 2021, 01:57:05 pm
Ski wear and Easy Start.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: citoyen on 08 February, 2021, 02:33:55 pm
24 hours without power? Pah!

Well, it was more like 36 hours without power, but OK, you win!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 08 February, 2021, 02:40:18 pm
How do the dragons of Saarrff London cope when it gets this cold?

Curl up inside a bantha and wait for it to pass.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: quixoticgeek on 08 February, 2021, 02:57:36 pm

Went out on the bike with the studded tyres. Even with the proper kit, I fell once. I got my rear tyre caught on some sastrugi and over it went. Slow speed thankfully, but still not ideal. Speed was very low, there were a few areas where the path had been cleared, but then you'd get a bit where the clearing vehicle had turned off and there'd be a bank of ice to try and get across if you wanted to carry on. Other areas the drifts are quite deep. I had to just push the bike a couple of times.

I am very glad of my nanospikes on my shoes.

J
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 08 February, 2021, 03:07:39 pm
Very gentle snow falling here since first thing, adding to what fell overnight, which wasn't much. I don't think we've had as much as 10cm, and anything that fell on roads or concrete before sunset yesterday just melted. It's a different story today and everything outside seems to be covered in ice. I've decided not to venture out.

The maximum temperature so far today has been -0.8°C. It's currently -1.2°C. There is a daffodil in flower though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 08 February, 2021, 05:30:44 pm
Just been briefly outside to the bins.
Very crunchy underfoot.
Mercury is dropping like the proverbial stone.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 February, 2021, 05:48:12 pm
About the depth of my index fingernail on top of the BIIINNNSSS at lunchtime.  Pathetic.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 08 February, 2021, 05:55:58 pm
The potentially scariest fall on ice I've ever had left me totally uninjured, not even a bruise, but with a ground-level view of a car wheel just stopping centimetres from my leg.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 08 February, 2021, 06:58:19 pm
Thought I'd go out and throw another couple of shovels on the hill – a fair amount of grit has disappeared, I assume the people on the private street beyond ours tending to their drives, paths and parking spaces, someone came out to tell they'd someone had been filling a wheelbarrow.

I'm not sure how they figure on getting in-and-out if there's no grit for the hill, there's no other exit.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 February, 2021, 07:01:14 pm
This from a local FB page. I guess it could also have gone on the People Who Park Like Fuds thread. That's the snow gates at the bottom of the Cairn O'Mount.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50923353947_1dc2438c42.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kzVuZa)2021-02-08_06-58-46 (https://flic.kr/p/2kzVuZa) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: cycleman on 08 February, 2021, 07:28:30 pm
Dandruff most of the day and the lightest of dustings on bins cars and grass. Roads and paths totally clear. A little cold 🥶
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 February, 2021, 07:47:32 pm
This from a local FB page. I guess it could also have gone on the People Who Park Like Fuds thread. That's the snow gates at the bottom of the Cairn O'Mount.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50923353947_1dc2438c42.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kzVuZa)2021-02-08_06-58-46 (https://flic.kr/p/2kzVuZa) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Shouldn’t think that wagon would have much difficulty pulling the wankpanzer out of the road.  Or even better, pushing it into the ditch :demon:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feanor on 08 February, 2021, 08:28:43 pm
This from a local FB page. I guess it could also have gone on the People Who Park Like Fuds thread. That's the snow gates at the bottom of the Cairn O'Mount.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50923353947_1dc2438c42.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kzVuZa)2021-02-08_06-58-46 (https://flic.kr/p/2kzVuZa) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Shouldn’t think that wagon would have much difficulty pulling the wankpanzer out of the road.  Or even better, pushing it into the ditch :demon:

Yes, that made the local Parking Like Fuds domain.
And yes, shoving it into the ditch was a popular option!

The place I was skiing from at the weekend is about 500m before those snow gates.
These photos are of the CoM summit, a few k beyond those gates.
Yes, there's a road beneath all that snow. Somewhere.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50922792013_b923c09833_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kzSBWD)
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(These are also the snow gates I almost wrapped myself round at 80 kph on a bike at some point in the past, when this was my commuting route!)

But that truck is not going to be making inroads into 2 or 3 meters of snow further up the hill.
That's going to need snow blowers, or a slower option, JCBs with Shuvvels.
I don't think to cooncil have snow blowers, so JCBs with shuvvels it is.

AFAIK, the only blowers around here are owned by the Lecht ski centre, and are used to keep the access roads to the ski centre open beyond the snow gates at both Cockbridge and Tomintoul, beyond which the cooncil regard as not-our-problem, mate.


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Post by: Wowbagger on 09 February, 2021, 07:36:42 am
We seem to have had some more snow overnight, judging by the view from my bedroom window, but I don’t think it amounts to as much as another inch, giving about 4nches in total, I think.

I shall stay in bed until about 9am and then go and make a good sustains bowl of porridge.
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Post by: Jurek on 09 February, 2021, 07:48:43 am
I did some work at the Glenlivet distillery a few years ago.
We stayed in Tomintoul.
There was snow, but nothing like the amount shown in Feanor's photos.
We've had more overnight, and it continues to dandruff at the moment.
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Post by: ScumOfTheRoad on 09 February, 2021, 07:52:05 am
Snowing lightly in Docklands at the moment.
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Post by: Jaded on 09 February, 2021, 08:22:44 am
Thought I'd go out and throw another couple of shovels on the hill – a fair amount of grit has disappeared, I assume the people on the private street beyond ours tending to their drives, paths and parking spaces, someone came out to tell they'd someone had been filling a wheelbarrow.

I'm not sure how they figure on getting in-and-out if there's no grit for the hill, there's no other exit.

As long as their drives are clear, that’s the council’s problem.  ;D

Gritting private property with council grit is theft.

You don’t need a huge amount to clear ice either, it’s when it rains that there is a problem. Various bits of advice out there say a handful per sq m or a tablespoon per sq m. A shovel will do loads and a wheelbarrow, well, that’ll keep the bears away.

Here the country fills up in Autumn, than tries to refill about now. People used a lot of grit on their drives two weeks ago and there was none available in any of the depots or suppliers. They’ve been refilled now.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 09 February, 2021, 08:23:55 am
The inch or so of snow yesterday morning partly melted in the almost balmy warmth of the afternoon as the mercury clawed it's way up above freezing, just.  It was just enough to put a coating of water atop the pavements and roads before temperatures plunged well below zero creating some spectacular ice rinks around the town.  A further cake-dusting of snow fails to hide fully what is beneath.

I shall leave leg-breaking activities to greater fools than I again today.
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Post by: citoyen on 09 February, 2021, 09:21:35 am
It seems to have stopped now.

Spoke too soon - more snow overnight. Enough to provide a fresh crisp blanket for the dog to roll around in this morning. Still some light flakes floating about in the air. Haven’t looked to see if the road is clear yet but the bin collections have been suspended.

All seems a bit half hearted compared to what Feanor has up his way though.
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Post by: ian on 09 February, 2021, 09:34:43 am
Thought I'd go out and throw another couple of shovels on the hill – a fair amount of grit has disappeared, I assume the people on the private street beyond ours tending to their drives, paths and parking spaces, someone came out to tell they'd someone had been filling a wheelbarrow.

I'm not sure how they figure on getting in-and-out if there's no grit for the hill, there's no other exit.

As long as their drives are clear, that’s the council’s problem.  ;D

Gritting private property with council grit is theft.

You don’t need a huge amount to clear ice either, it’s when it rains that there is a problem. Various bits of advice out there say a handful per sq m or a tablespoon per sq m. A shovel will do loads and a wheelbarrow, well, that’ll keep the bears away.

Here the country fills up in Autumn, than tries to refill about now. People used a lot of grit on their drives two weeks ago and there was none available in any of the depots or suppliers. They’ve been refilled now.

I wouldn't mind, but it's me and a couple of other residents who ensure they can get in and out, and that's the grit we use (and I've no plans to use the car till things thaw, but I'd like the bins to emptied). There is one access road (which belongs to the council), everything beyond that is unadopted. Anyway, I'm not the grit police, I sent a note to the council asking them to refill (one of the benefits is that our nearby neighbours are the district and county councillors, in the same house for convenience and, outstanding for Surrey, aren't Conservatives). I've never seen the council grit the hill, so I wouldn't hold out my hopes.
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Post by: Lightning Phil on 09 February, 2021, 09:47:36 am
A bit more light snow overnight, and a few wisps right now. Everything nice and crisp.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 09 February, 2021, 10:23:23 am
It's so cold and dry outside that the overnight ice on cars is subliming rather than melting.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 09 February, 2021, 10:25:38 am
No snow, but we have an icicle on (the outside of) one window.
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Post by: TimC on 09 February, 2021, 11:03:28 am
It was -4C outside when I got up, and the BBC Weather app shows it going down to -8C tonight. It's official: it's cold. And I am reminded (yet again) why I've never taken a winter holiday anywhere snowy.
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Post by: Pingu on 09 February, 2021, 12:27:42 pm
At last a proper snow shower.

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Post by: Auntie Helen on 09 February, 2021, 02:21:08 pm
Minus nine here but very dry and the wind has dropped so I was outside emptying the bins without a coat and wasn’t cold. The sun is out so some sno is melting now.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 February, 2021, 02:52:22 pm
The feeble dusting we had left at 6:30 this morning has mostly gorn, disparu like Mother’s mink and Larrington Gardens Road, which turns into a skating rink when we get Proper SNO, seems ice-free.  Judging by the way that motor-bicyclist utterly failed to lock both wheels and slide helplessly into the side of a W15 bus just now anyway.

This is a Rubbish.  I demand the SNOS of Yesteryear >:(
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Post by: ian on 09 February, 2021, 04:15:25 pm
Pleasing quilt of snow here on the Northernly Downs. Cats are less impressed.

I grinked the council for more grit. 'We only fill the grit bins in summer,' they say. Cool, if this holds out, I'm getting popcorn and waiting to see what happens. I once saw an estate agent's crapmobile slide past. Sadly, without the estate agent (or for that matter, anyone) in it.
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Post by: Jurek on 09 February, 2021, 04:43:34 pm
Here in Londres Sud the dandruff continues to tumble from the skies at a rate which would leave Mr. Larrington disappointed.
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Post by: ian on 09 February, 2021, 08:16:01 pm
Bin collections cancelled. It truly is the snopocalypse.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 February, 2021, 08:25:02 pm
This lot was a bit loud
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The chemist in me says it looks like NaOH pellets.
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Post by: Pingu on 09 February, 2021, 10:43:12 pm
River Don today:

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Post by: rogerzilla on 10 February, 2021, 07:11:56 am
Pleasing quilt of snow here on the Northernly Downs. Cats are less impressed.

I grinked the council for more grit. 'We only fill the grit bins in summer,' they say. Cool, if this holds out, I'm getting popcorn and waiting to see what happens. I once saw an estate agent's crapmobile slide past. Sadly, without the estate agent (or for that matter, anyone) in it.
Like this classic?

https://youtu.be/7MPRmOUxRMY

"It's ok, I can drive on a bit of ice.

"I think I can save this.

"BALE OUT! WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST!"
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Post by: ian on 10 February, 2021, 09:33:18 am
The idiot had parked on the cusp of the hill (doing double business by blocking the junction). On ice. And then gone to attend to his estate agency business. We were leaving and the empty car slid by. Fortunately, there was enough grit to slow it down (it's a 23% gradient) but it still reached the road at the bottom and pranged another car parked on the double-yellows. I cried a lot for them both. Had it been ice all the way down and there not been a car in the way, it would have been in someone's living room.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 10 February, 2021, 10:30:18 am
This lot was a bit loud
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The chemist in me says it looks like NaOH pellets.

I thought you were a pingu, not a skylark!  ;)

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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 10 February, 2021, 10:37:45 am
The idiot had parked on the cusp of the hill (doing double business by blocking the junction). On ice. And then gone to attend to his estate agency business. We were leaving and the empty car slid by. Fortunately, there was enough grit to slow it down (it's a 23% gradient) but it still reached the road at the bottom and pranged another car parked on the double-yellows. I cried a lot for them both. Had it been ice all the way down and there not been a car in the way, it would have been in someone's living room.
Mistake agent living up to his name.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 February, 2021, 05:17:51 pm
On the spur of the moment I escaped from work and went to build a snow cat in the garden for mental health & outside, but the snow was not good snow beast building snow, chiz.
One of the cats did deign to come out and have a stick game though, so I enjoyed watching her bounding through the fluffy stuff :)

@wowbagger, no wonder I had no idea what you were on about.
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Post by: T42 on 11 February, 2021, 08:09:28 am
Not snowing here any more, but so bloody cold that the bolts in our front door that hold the knocker on had rime on them this morning.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 11 February, 2021, 08:19:08 am
Almost -6 here and incredibly dry.  A good day to get more wood in from outside.
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Post by: Beardy on 11 February, 2021, 08:38:28 am
I wonder if the post will turn up today. We haven’t seen a postal delivery worker since the weekend, so when they do resume deliveries the poor delivery bod is going to have a very heavy sack.
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Post by: TimC on 11 February, 2021, 10:29:41 am
The promised -8 never arrived. The lowest it got to was -3. I assume we had unforecast cloud cover.
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Post by: Beardy on 11 February, 2021, 10:32:38 am
We got down to -5.5 here.
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Post by: L CC on 11 February, 2021, 10:49:08 am
Still -4 here. Full sunshine, powdery snow, bloody freezing. Lovely.
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Post by: T42 on 11 February, 2021, 01:10:48 pm
-13.7 overnight.  When I opened the box to get the post this morning there was a mini-snowdrift up one end where the poudreuse had inveigled its way round the door.
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Post by: cycleman on 11 February, 2021, 05:20:15 pm
-3 in Slough last night 🌙.
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Post by: Basil on 11 February, 2021, 05:50:48 pm
I think we got down to -6.  Previous night was even colder.  Three nights running I have slept with the sash window firmly closed.  Virtually unheard of for me.
Looks like Saturday will be the last cold day for us.  Rapid rise in temperature over Sunday and Monday.  Which of course means rain.   :(
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Post by: Wowbagger on 11 February, 2021, 05:58:32 pm
We had conflicting forecasts for last night. The BBC told us it would be -5°C. The Met Office, -2°C. The minimum was -2.5°, at 10.45pm. I think the clouds moved in then.

The BBC forecast -7°C for South Hanningfield, the nearest to my brother's place. I'm pretty sure it got nowhere near that. The temperature has just dipped below freezing for us.

Either side of midday, the sun is quite strong. I once had a solar-heated shower in the first week of February when it had been frosty all day. This melts the snow on the roads, which then promptly freezes to sheet ice. Lovely.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 February, 2021, 06:00:24 pm
Dunno what it got down to but our cheapo plastic thing said -9.6 when I got up. (I forgot to see what the temp in my 'office' was when I went up there to put the heater on).
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Post by: Wowbagger on 11 February, 2021, 06:31:54 pm
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There's something unusual about this snowman - or so my pal Penny* tells me. Can anyone spot it? The photo was taken not long before sunset so it might be hard. But I think there's a big clue in the picture...

*It's in her neighbour's garden.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 February, 2021, 07:50:52 pm
Apart from the scarf?

See also: using penguins to advertise central heating.
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Post by: TimC on 11 February, 2021, 08:42:32 pm
We had conflicting forecasts for last night. The BBC told us it would be -5°C. The Met Office, -2°C. The minimum was -2.5°, at 10.45pm. I think the clouds moved in then.

The BBC forecast -7°C for South Hanningfield, the nearest to my brother's place. I'm pretty sure it got nowhere near that. The temperature has just dipped below freezing for us.

Either side of midday, the sun is quite strong. I once had a solar-heated shower in the first week of February when it had been frosty all day. This melts the snow on the roads, which then promptly freezes to sheet ice. Lovely.

I think the cloud cover extended to a little north of me. Plenty of places in Norfolk recorded the forecast -8, but the lowest my gadget recorded was -3. It got to +0.6C today, but it's back down to -2.4 now. Looks like we might get a proper thaw on Sunday.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 February, 2021, 09:18:34 pm
Its mouth is cut out of its head rather than drawn on.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 11 February, 2021, 10:10:01 pm
There's something unusual about this snowman ...

It doesn't look snow white nor snow-shaped; I suspect it is not made of snow. Perhaps the bucket of white paint or whatever it is has something to do with it.

Correct! Penny tells me it's made of plastic. The clue is the fact that the snow round about shows no sign whatever of having had a big ball of snow rolled over it.

That family has kids. To me, the whole point about a snowman is the act of building it, not the fact that you can buy one ready-made from Asda or wherever and just put it up in the garden.

I wonder if it will still be there in July?
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Post by: Kim on 11 February, 2021, 10:42:11 pm
That family has kids. To me, the whole point about a snowman is the act of building it, not the fact that you can buy one ready-made from Asda or wherever and just put it up in the garden.

I suppose such a thing would make sense as a Christmas Decoration, in the general absence of actual snow.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 12 February, 2021, 02:08:39 pm
What a bizarre idea! Did they only put it out after the snow fell? If it was there all winter then it would kind of make sense. Can imagine it being popular in, say, Australia.
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Post by: orienteer on 12 February, 2021, 03:11:47 pm
How many kids do they have? Maybe the decoration off a very large Xmas cake  ;D
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Post by: Feanor on 12 February, 2021, 09:07:46 pm
The BBC news reported yesterday that Braemar had recorded -23, the lowest in the UK for 25 years.
So where better to go for a bit of skiing.

We were a bit tardy in setting out, and it was mid-day by the time we got there.
The car was showing a balmy -16 at that point.

It was pretty nippy, and gloves-off activity like messing around with kit needed to be kept to a minimum.

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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 12 February, 2021, 09:13:09 pm
Still no snow here but it is about -4. Having been working all day and then other stuff, I went out about 7:30 and noticed a few things related to cold weather:
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Post by: Basil on 13 February, 2021, 08:27:11 am
Snowing again here.  I doubt it will amount to much.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 February, 2021, 02:12:17 pm
Same here.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 13 February, 2021, 03:20:26 pm
Just horizontal sleet here.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 February, 2021, 03:26:00 pm
It's just windy as feck here, which judging by the local FB news group is causing chaos on the roads outside town due to drifting snow. Why people can't stay at home I don't know.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 February, 2021, 04:22:30 pm
The bottom of the hill is taped off with the addition of a fancy snowflake road sign. Most of the ice has gone but there's enough left to show that was about an inch thick the entire width of the road, including a bit of the pavement (yes, I know the pavement is part of the road).
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Post by: Jurek on 13 February, 2021, 04:32:35 pm
I don't run the CH overnight, but at 06:00am outside  was showing -6°C which, if you include the wind factor, clocks it at -12°C.
Indoor temperature at that point was 12°C.
It took the CH until ~ 14:00 to reach a survivable temp of 19°C
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 February, 2021, 07:06:31 pm
Just got off the phone with Professor Larrington.  They’re spending most of their time at the rural campus of Larrington Collij Oxfod but last week she stayed overnight in their town house.  8 degrees on arrival and reached a heady 13 after she'd switched the heating on and fled to the office for a Several of hours.
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Post by: Flite on 13 February, 2021, 09:33:46 pm
Virtually no extra snow today in the North Pennines.  But the wind is blowing the snow of the fells back into the roads faster than the ploughs and blowers can clear it. So most of the roads have been closed all day, and will be tonight and untill the wind eases
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 February, 2021, 09:39:57 pm
I don't run the CH overnight, but at 06:00am outside  was showing -6°C which, if you include the wind factor, clocks it at -12°C.
Indoor temperature at that point was 12°C.
It took the CH until ~ 14:00 to reach a survivable temp of 19°C

It was about 14C in here when I sat down at about 11am and the CH had been on from 7am. I then loaded the wood burning stove up. It's not normally on so early!
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Post by: Basil on 14 February, 2021, 08:27:21 am
Hurrah!  Its a sweltering 4° degrees outside this morning, and it's raining, not snowing.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 14 February, 2021, 02:05:17 pm
We have 2.9°C, the warmest for 8 days.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 14 February, 2021, 02:17:31 pm
We have rain and almost all of the watering can has melted.
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Post by: Kim on 14 February, 2021, 02:18:39 pm
2.8C and pish.  I'm hopeful for next week.
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Post by: rafletcher on 14 February, 2021, 03:30:09 pm
No rain yet, just a bit of spitting, but strong winds and 45mph gusts since early this morning. Probably around 2C now. But the icicle on our neighbours car is still there.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 14 February, 2021, 04:47:56 pm
Just discovered this archive film of "The sudden attack of winter" in Poland January 1979. It's all in FOREIGN but I think you'll get the idea from the pictures...
https://youtu.be/TuguEdc8TjQ
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Post by: Canardly on 14 February, 2021, 04:54:21 pm
Wimps I tell you, in the good old days.............snow was snowier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DalYSIRU4rQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4pJwcE7JI

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Post by: rogerzilla on 14 February, 2021, 05:43:01 pm
12 deg here tomorrow.  That's shirt-sleeves weather if you're walking, and almost bike shorts weather (my limit is 13).
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Post by: TimC on 14 February, 2021, 07:12:41 pm
1.7C max today, but that's quite an advance on where we've been. Local weather forecast is for windy and 10C tomorrow. As the place is still covered in a healthy layer of snow, I guess it will be a mudbath.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 25 February, 2021, 01:32:30 pm
24 hours without power? Pah!

Well, it was more like 36 hours without power, but OK, you win!
I'm happy to cede my crown to this new entrant. I don't know the year but the location is a village somewhere just south of Sheffield:
Quote
Finally, on the day that the British Gas representative came to sort out whether we could have central heating, the temperature in the lounge when I got up was -5C. It reached a breathtaking +8C by the time he came, with the help of a 2-bar radiator and big Calor heater.
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Post by: T42 on 19 March, 2021, 08:46:40 am
Sleet here this morning and snow up on the ridge behind the house, ~200m higher. Bleh.
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Post by: Pingu on 04 April, 2021, 09:40:50 pm
Snobes in Furryboottoon just now.

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Post by: Legs on 05 April, 2021, 08:27:55 am
Sunshine and snow in Staffordshire atm...
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Post by: rafletcher on 05 April, 2021, 08:49:27 am
Very light snow showers here in leafy Bucks.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 05 April, 2021, 08:55:51 am
1 degree here now but lovely and sunny. Yesterday was sunny too, we ate a roast lunch in the garden. It was windy though.

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Post by: Canardly on 05 April, 2021, 08:56:42 am
Tiny snow flakes Cambs.
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Post by: Regulator on 05 April, 2021, 09:27:36 am
Tiny snow flakes Cambs.


And there was me thinking I’d wash the car today...
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 April, 2021, 09:38:56 am
Tiny snow flakes Cambs.


And there was me thinking I’d wash the car today...

Weirdo.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 05 April, 2021, 09:44:35 am
Next Sunday is the day for washing the car. Always.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 05 April, 2021, 09:55:21 am
Tiny snow flakes Cambs.


And there was me thinking I’d wash the car today...
Somehow not surprised.
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Post by: nicknack on 05 April, 2021, 10:32:48 am
A few flakes drifting down in North Kent.  ::-)
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Post by: Jurek on 05 April, 2021, 10:36:51 am
Flaky stuff in measly quantities floating around the sky in Londres Sud.
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Post by: Jaded on 05 April, 2021, 11:25:00 am
We have sno!!

And a horse has pooed in the street outside.

I don't think these are connected.
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 05 April, 2021, 11:30:35 am
Bright skies, sun, no snow, warm balmy air here, two miles up the road from you.

God hates Nailsworth.
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Post by: quixoticgeek on 05 April, 2021, 12:18:42 pm

A few flakes of snow in Amsterdam, and then a fuck ton of hail...

J
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Post by: Thor on 05 April, 2021, 12:47:58 pm
a fuck ton of hail...

You don't hear that meteorological unit on BBC Weather...
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Post by: Pingu on 05 April, 2021, 12:54:57 pm
Snowing properly here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: graculus on 05 April, 2021, 01:06:18 pm
A few flakes on the way to Pattingham at 9:30 a.m. (and a very cold wind).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 05 April, 2021, 01:10:34 pm
Bright skies, sun, no snow, warm balmy air here, two miles up the road from you.

God hates Nailsworth.

Same here, blue cloudless skies, as it has been for several days.  The only difference is the bitter north wind.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 05 April, 2021, 01:20:20 pm
...but, do you have horse poo?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Auntie Helen on 05 April, 2021, 03:29:38 pm
We had mega hail earlier (I assume the leftovers of QG’s from Amsterdam) and now the sun is shining. We are planning a walk but the weather is so changeable that after I have finished my cuppa and we are ready to go it might be hailing again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 05 April, 2021, 03:50:06 pm
Snow first thing here, now bright blue skies and warm in a sheltered spot, but as soon as you step a few feet sideways, windy as feck and definitely chilly.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 05 April, 2021, 10:33:54 pm
We have sno!!

And a horse has pooed in the street outside.

I don't think these are connected.

Did you collect it for your tomatoes?

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Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: lou boutin on 06 April, 2021, 12:45:34 pm
I awoke to the garden being covered in snow this morning.  Yesterday I was in the garden working wearing just a teeshirt and a cardigan.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 06 April, 2021, 01:23:07 pm
It just started snowing in Middle Earth.  Sort it out, Met Office.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 06 April, 2021, 01:30:14 pm
We had a couple of hours' worth yesterday afternoon but it was apolitical - didn't lie.  Just now it's massing up over the hills to our north for another go.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 06 April, 2021, 02:00:30 pm
We have sno!!

And a horse has pooed in the street outside.

I don't think these are connected.

Did you collect it for your tomatoes?

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For the roses  :)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: matthew on 06 April, 2021, 03:43:51 pm
It's trying to snow in Maidenhead, very fine small flakes that are being blown about in the wind. None of it is settling though.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 06 April, 2021, 04:03:56 pm
Snowing like mad here now on the Yorkshire Wolds.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: tiermat on 06 April, 2021, 06:45:49 pm
Due to other people's hospital appointments overrunning and me having a lie in, I didn't get anywhere near going out on the bike until about 1.30.

About halfway round my planned route I could no longer see Roseberry Topping. "as long as it stays over there, I'll be fine" thought I. Just as I started down a fast hill, there was a whiteout, ish.

I cancelled all plans for the rest of the route and headed straight back home.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wombat on 06 April, 2021, 06:57:26 pm
Knowing I had a shit day ahead (see what have you fettled thread) the last thing I wanted today was to wake up to a world covered in snow, but of course that's what the curtain opening ceremony revealed.  It then threw masses of snow at us at all the times the Met Office told us it would definitely NOT snow. Rodding drains is a pretty poor method of entertainment at the best of times, but in the snow....
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 06 April, 2021, 07:07:18 pm
No snow here, but cold wind. A short burst of hail around midday was all that could be mustered in way of precipitation.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 06 April, 2021, 07:17:12 pm
We’ve got sno

Front

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51099192611_596186abe9_4k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kRsHGg)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/2kRsHGg) by Richard Fletcher (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156993878@N08/), on Flickr

And back

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51099192621_1aa30fb54f_4k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kRsHGr)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/2kRsHGr) by Richard Fletcher (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156993878@N08/), on Flickr
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 06 April, 2021, 07:17:50 pm
But 10 minutes later it’s stopped.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 06 April, 2021, 07:40:04 pm
Got caught in a blizzard..
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: quixoticgeek on 06 April, 2021, 08:09:51 pm

Cycled to physio this morning in snow, came out half an hour later to beautiful sunshine. Cycled to work half an hour after that, snow storm again.

At various points this afternoon the whether has been either beautiful sunshine, or building shaking blizard. Snow often going horizontal, rather than falling.

J
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Chris S on 06 April, 2021, 10:25:58 pm
We had a huge shower of polystyrene balls during the afternoon; I can only assume they all ended up in one massive heap at the end of the road because the wind just fired it all sideways.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 06 April, 2021, 10:58:54 pm
I had a very long drive today.  No snow in Llandysul, but from mile five to mile ten it was absolutely blizzard conditions.  So heavy I nearly pulled over.  A bit worried about spending hours on the M4.
But then it stopped.  And that was it.
Phew.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 11 April, 2021, 08:48:54 am
It is now..
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: robgul on 11 April, 2021, 09:01:15 am
Not exactly of Christmas card proportions - but it is falling here.    I've abandoned the idea of a Sunday bike ride.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 11 April, 2021, 09:24:47 am
We are getting about 1 -2 inches of snow every night, then it is mending during the day.

Really bizarre weather .
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 11 April, 2021, 09:31:30 am
Beautiful sunny day here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 11 April, 2021, 12:15:05 pm
Ditto
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 11 April, 2021, 02:49:32 pm
Just got back from a pleasant ride (medium gloves, leg warmers, unzipped jersey) and it started snowing fairly heavily. Not expected at all!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 April, 2021, 05:05:16 pm
Yeah we also had a layer of snow when I got up at kitty breakfast time this morning. Then it melted by late morning, I sat in the sun wearing a duvet jacket with the cats for a bit, hung out the washing and then it snowed. The forecast alleges it will get warmer during the week. I ruddy hope so, I'm bored of this weather, and I've got painting to do that the low temperatures are holding up.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: De Sisti on 11 April, 2021, 05:19:58 pm
I was with a small group, intending to do a short ride from Cheltenham to Broadway, taking in
Cleeve Hill (on the B4632) and Stanway Hill. As we approached Southam it started to snow, and
was bitterly cold. I decided I wanted none of it, as it would have been worse at the top of those
climbs. I bade my farwells and headed through Southam and up a road through the racecourse
for home. Once inside, I did 3 x 2000 metres on my concept2 rower.



Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adam on 11 April, 2021, 05:31:25 pm
Out with the local CTC group from Chichester, it was a lovely sunny day,  However on the way back, when climbing the A285 at Duncton Hill, there was a big black cloud above us which produced a few drops of rain, which then became sleet and then a mini snow blizzard.  It was too warm for it to settle, and descending on the other side it was soon blue sky again.  Very bizarre.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 11 April, 2021, 08:45:44 pm
Beautiful sunny day here.

We were having one of those, until the blizzard.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Canardly on 11 April, 2021, 09:13:28 pm
Thunder and lightning here violent short hailstorm.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: orraloon on 11 April, 2021, 09:36:27 pm
Had full mix of sun and snow / hail on today's ride including the inevitable full on headwind + hailstorm finale.  Went from thinking too many layers to jings this is bitter.  April eh, dontcha lurve it?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: quixoticgeek on 11 April, 2021, 10:14:44 pm

No snow today, but was bloody cold after 3 hours riding in 4°C.

Can we have spring back please?

J
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: TimC on 12 April, 2021, 02:06:59 am
I have lying snow in my garden right now. My cars are quite well covered. I never noticed it happening - I'm in my studio/shed with lots of windows - but it's definitely there. And it's bloody cold; -1.8 according to my thermometer.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 12 April, 2021, 05:34:59 am
Just started here as well
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: De Sisti on 12 April, 2021, 07:28:17 am
Snowed overnight here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andyoxon on 12 April, 2021, 07:41:27 am
Snowing!  Not forecast that I could see.  Currently have 1-2" here in Oxfordshire.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MattH on 12 April, 2021, 07:41:34 am
Snowing quite heavily here, a few miles east of Basingstoke. Starting to settle too, looks like I'm in the planet slayer today rather than on the bike  :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Giraffe on 12 April, 2021, 07:50:57 am
Went for 2nd. jab yesterday and decided to walk the 4 miles there as it's the least unreliable method.
Had about 30 min. of significant snow, kept out by the windproof Paramo fleece. Cold enough to wish that I'd worn another layer, then turned uphill and with the wind - snow stopped and sun came out. 10 min. later overheating!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Salvatore on 12 April, 2021, 07:54:07 am
Snowing quite heavily here, a few miles east of Basingstoke.
So it is.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Bledlow on 12 April, 2021, 11:14:13 am
An inch or two here in Reading. Stopped by 9am. It's mostly melted now. The sun's come out to finish it off.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 12 April, 2021, 11:26:50 am
Heaviest frost in living memory on my car this morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: matthew on 12 April, 2021, 03:37:49 pm
An inch or two here in Reading. Stopped by 9am. It's mostly melted now. The sun's come out to finish it off.

Just before 8am I should have been commuting but looked at large fluffy flakes of falling snow and decided that I would rather dial into the 8:30 call from home. Cue client remote access servers being down so no access to my calendar and the meeting number.  :facepalm:

By 8:30 it was fine flakes and I left for site at 8:50 when IT confirmed the remote access was out. By then it had stopped snowing and had started melting, by the time I arrived at work no one would have know it had even snowed.  :'(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 05 May, 2021, 12:46:26 pm
Had some snow showers this morning, hailing now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 07 May, 2021, 11:43:54 am
I got caught in a snow shower that quickly turned to hail walking the dog yesterday tea time. Had to shelter under a tree and then again in the gazebo at the pub (which was better than the tree because beer).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 26 November, 2021, 07:59:36 am
Looked out the kitchen window this morning to see the dreaded white stuff already covering next-door's dilapidated trampoline, and one of the youffs of the family drawing a large heart with initials in it on it then taking a photo.

Rats.  I'd been planning to get a ride this morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: De Sisti on 26 November, 2021, 08:04:19 am
Looked out the kitchen window this morning to see the dreaded white stuff already covering next-door's dilapidated trampoline,
Where are you located?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 26 November, 2021, 08:13:04 am
Looked out the kitchen window this morning to see the dreaded white stuff already covering next-door's dilapidated trampoline,
Which part of the nation?

Alsace in France
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 26 November, 2021, 10:15:15 am
Also in Furryboottoon but not lying (yet):

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51706045308_8927b5b84d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mM5ZRN)
IMG_9217_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2mM5ZRN) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 26 November, 2021, 11:04:10 am
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51706714430_0a56b48c59_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mM9qLo)
IMG_9219_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2mM9qLo) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 26 November, 2021, 03:34:36 pm
It disappeared here mid-morning. Managed a ride after all.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: pcolbeck on 26 November, 2021, 09:20:06 pm
Its been snowing here on The Wolds for an hour.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Giraffe on 27 November, 2021, 08:36:00 am
A spittering of wet soggy stuff and now raining. I need to do a 5km walk for essential supplies and some food from the local garage. OK coming back - 2½km with a following gale.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MikeFromLFE on 27 November, 2021, 08:55:09 am
There's about 3 inches of the stuff on my drive on the west side of Leicester. It's only been snowing for about 90 minutes (according to the camera) and is still hard at it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 November, 2021, 10:20:45 am
Blizzard conditions here.  Quite exciting.

Bad joke:

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I'll get my thick winter coat.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: PaulF on 27 November, 2021, 10:34:51 am
Thick flakes in Oxford but not really settling.

(https://i.postimg.cc/mrb5fs2p/3326-B4-CB-B082-4-C3-B-B6-F4-2717-A0-C0-F981.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Js2qZSXj)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 27 November, 2021, 10:36:44 am
We've had 30 minutes of wild blizzard.

It coincided exactly with the ParkRun I was barcode scanning at. Still thawing out!
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 27 November, 2021, 10:49:54 am
There's about 3 inches of the stuff on my drive on the west side of Leicester. It's only been snowing for about 90 minutes (according to the camera) and is still hard at it.

MIL in central Leicester has said the same.  It was a great morning here to start with, now very murky and a fwe sleety showers.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 27 November, 2021, 11:42:36 am
Here the internet fell over and the bins are still standing.

Though since the wind is coming from a non normal direction the chimney is "singing" more than normal and the mutt don't like it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 27 November, 2021, 12:19:52 pm
An inch of soggy wet snow in Middle Earth this morning.  I expect enough slush will hang around to freeze tonight.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: woollypigs on 27 November, 2021, 12:41:06 pm
Just back from walkies and I see that the far and distant hills got a dusting.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 27 November, 2021, 01:03:36 pm
Leafy Bucks has just had gale force sleet. As the wind is hitting the (9” solid brick) gable end, the heating is struggling to get up to temperature. From 13C at 08:00 to 17.5C by 13:00. First fire of the season tonight, that’ll get the chimney breast storage heater going.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andytheflyer on 28 November, 2021, 09:21:11 am
Good capping of snow on The Berwyns this morning.  Winter proper is here.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andrewc on 28 November, 2021, 12:19:37 pm
It's snowing in Liverpool , but not sticking.   A good excuse for not climbing a ladder to replace the piece of plastic drain that was blown off my parents house by Arwen. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MikeFromLFE on 28 November, 2021, 03:00:37 pm
I was having a splendid bonfire at the allotment about 45 minutes ago when it started.
I drove home and by the time I got home visibility was down to about 200m with a good covering on all the roads.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: nikki on 28 November, 2021, 06:24:11 pm


Reporting in from the Derbyshire Dales. Yesterday's snow came in horizontally, but was strongly tending towards slush in places by the middle of the day. Got a few spells of blue sky, but the wind was still giving it some beans and I decided not being near trees would probably be the sensible move.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51709015095_2e16a17025_c.jpg)

A recce walk into town suggested the roads were pretty clear, so I drove to a nearby water feature. Then it started snowing again, but more vertically this time.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51710570696_eb49e17a03_c.jpg)

I was doing significantly less than the limit, but still managed to lose traction at the top of this hill. Did some strategic parking like a fud to avoid a) hitting the car further down in the hedge and b) accelerating into the crossroads.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51710969696_9b0045199f_c.jpg)

Watched a few people get down safely by using the middle of the road and so I backed out and was more successful on the second attempt. Did the last few miles at about 10mph and with a selection of muscles tensed.

Go carefully out there...

Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: orienteer on 28 November, 2021, 06:40:00 pm
After a family get-together at Christmas Common, came out the hostelry at dusk to find it snowing quite fast. Joined the M40 eastbound to find traffic stopping and starting due to gritting lorries ahead according to overhead signs. Turned off at High Wycombe to use A40 instead, though the snow had stopped by then.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Feanor on 28 November, 2021, 06:42:34 pm
Shuvvel, tow rope and snow chains have been chucked in the back of the Carbon Pig.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 29 November, 2021, 03:13:55 pm
Ours always used to be on the 20th. It was 6 days late this year and went away in a couple hours but it's coming down again now, fat white flakes just like Boris.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 29 November, 2021, 03:15:30 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/KBFpO1H.jpg)

I am used to our getting the first snowfall on the 30th November. To wake up to this view on the 29th is close enough.
I see that and I'm thinking how warm and snug it was in flats of that sort.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 29 November, 2021, 03:53:26 pm
In Germany our flat was just above the CH room so we hardly needed the radiators.  At the end of the year the landlord was very suspicious until we explained, and then he suggested we instead make a contribution to some Christian Action bunch he belonged to. Lech mich doch.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 29 November, 2021, 04:14:30 pm
I see that and I'm thinking how warm and snug it was in flats of that sort.

Being on the 2nd floor we never need to turn the heating on because the flat beneath us keeps us warm.
That was my experience too.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: quixoticgeek on 29 November, 2021, 04:21:47 pm
Being on the 2nd floor we never need to turn the heating on because the flat beneath us keeps us warm.
That was my experience too.

Being on the top floor, we don't get enough benefit from downstairs to make up for the fact we have a giant flat roof above us :(

J
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 30 November, 2021, 03:50:48 pm
Today on the Alsace/Lorraine border:

(https://pbase.com/image/172163858.jpg)

Roads just beginning to get a bit skiddy.  OK lower down, this was at 400m.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 November, 2021, 04:06:41 pm
Our friends that moved just after we did, but out into the country have had no electric or water since storm Arwen. I did suggest when we went to see their house and noted that it only had electric heating that maybe they might want to consider a wood burning stove...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: andytheflyer on 30 November, 2021, 09:00:17 pm
No so much the weekend's snow, but more the wind and the cold.  I have a small Calor gas heater for when I'm doing my sax practice in our conservatory when it's cold.  The 4.5kg Calor gas bottle doubles up as the heat source for a picnic stove for when we have a power cut, so at least I can have a brew and a hot meal.

I knew the bottle was about empty, and lo, on Saturday morning when I needed it, it was indeed empty.  Nipped down to the local garage, where I get the refills: sorry sir, we don't have any, maybe Tuesday.  Went into town to a couple of places I thought would have some, but by then they were closing so came home empty handed.

Checked the Calor gas website and found a dozen or so suppliers within 10 miles.  Rang them all.  Only one had any stock and they were a caravan site and would not sell me one.  Turns out there is a national shortage of Calor Gas because they can't get the bottles.  Even if you have a bottle, as I did, you can't get a refill.  The staycationers bought up the UK supply of bottles this summer for their caravans and campervans and they've yet to be replaced.

I did manage to find a supplier on Monday, however.  Sax practice has resumed.  I cant play with cold fingers.....

Who knew?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 01 December, 2021, 08:17:35 am
Our friends that moved just after we did, but out into the country have had no electric or water since storm Arwen. I did suggest when we went to see their house and noted that it only had electric heating that maybe they might want to consider a wood burning stove...

When the power went out for three days after our 1999 hurricane we cooked on the kitchen wood-burning fireplace.  Kinda awkward but the steak was marvellous.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 December, 2021, 08:48:40 am
No so much the weekend's snow, but more the wind and the cold.  I have a small Calor gas heater for when I'm doing my sax practice in our conservatory when it's cold.  The 4.5kg Calor gas bottle doubles up as the heat source for a picnic stove for when we have a power cut, so at least I can have a brew and a hot meal.

I knew the bottle was about empty, and lo, on Saturday morning when I needed it, it was indeed empty.  Nipped down to the local garage, where I get the refills: sorry sir, we don't have any, maybe Tuesday.  Went into town to a couple of places I thought would have some, but by then they were closing so came home empty handed.

Checked the Calor gas website and found a dozen or so suppliers within 10 miles.  Rang them all.  Only one had any stock and they were a caravan site and would not sell me one.  Turns out there is a national shortage of Calor Gas because they can't get the bottles.  Even if you have a bottle, as I did, you can't get a refill.  The staycationers bought up the UK supply of bottles this summer for their caravans and campervans and they've yet to be replaced.

I did manage to find a supplier on Monday, however.  Sax practice has resumed.  I cant play with cold fingers.....

Who knew?
Can you play in pogies?

 ;D ::-) <GDR>
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: yorkie on 01 December, 2021, 12:55:38 pm
Sax practice has resumed.  I cant play with cold fingers.....

Who knew?


One of the good things about playing tuba is that it's possible to play in reasonably chunky gloves - coupled with a plastic mouthpiece, even better!


When it gets really cold, I just break out the bass trombone and ski mittens - one of the bonuses of being a low brass multi-instrumentalist!  ;) :D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: orienteer on 01 December, 2021, 05:24:13 pm
Always wondered why brass bands were popular in The North  ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 December, 2021, 05:39:57 pm
Jan's sister has been without power since Arwen visited. 1000' up in the hills near Burnley.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: yorkie on 01 December, 2021, 05:46:37 pm
Always wondered why brass bands were popular in The North  :-D


Aye, 20-odd of us (some very odd!) huddled together for warmth!  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Beardy on 02 December, 2021, 09:33:15 am
There’s white stuff floating down from the sky here in the Angles of the East. I hesitate to say it’s snowing though, because it’s really rather sparse.

Well, that didn’t last long. I don’t think,I’m going to,need the snow chains.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 02 December, 2021, 10:03:40 am
We had a slight, and unexpected, dusting in the early hours. It did lay a bit, it certainly made our village road very slippery.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: bhoot on 02 December, 2021, 10:05:30 am
Light flakes in London around 0545 while cycling for an early train.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 02 December, 2021, 12:43:35 pm
A few flakes fell onto platform 1 at Forest Hill Station while I waited for the 06:09 to Highbury & Islington this morning.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 02 December, 2021, 04:48:30 pm
Quite a few showers today, snow still lying now.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51720605240_1556def28a_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mNnC27)
IMG_9269_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2mNnC27) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 December, 2021, 10:13:46 am
Jan's sister has been without power since Arwen visited. 1000' up in the hills near Burnley.

We had quite a long natter yesterday evening. She has a diesel generator parked outside providing her with electrons. She opened the curtains to show me her gennie, and it looked to be about the size of a railway truck.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Salvatore on 05 December, 2021, 10:39:30 am
It's been snowing in Finland.
So what?
Someone's done some fantastic selective snow clearing.
https://twitter.com/WidgrenPasi/status/1467149143315562497
It's worth scrolling down for some video of the artist and an idea of the scale of the <i>oeuvre</i>.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 05 December, 2021, 02:10:07 pm
 :thumbsup: :D

Also, whatever "syvyyttä" means, I'm sure it deserves three ys.

(Depth, apparently, in the partitive singular. And partitive, I've just learnt, is, well, kind of similar to genitive in its use.)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/syvyys
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Post by: Salvatore on 05 December, 2021, 02:51:49 pm
:thumbsup: :D

Also, whatever "syvyyttä" means, I'm sure it deserves three ys.

(Depth, apparently, in the partitive singular. And partitive, I've just learnt, is, well, kind of similar to genitive in its use.)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/syvyys
One y is a  y and 2 ys is a long y (like German ü). In Finnish, both vowel length and consonant length are phonemic, and that's reflected in spelling.
The partitive is my favourite case. You can use it to make up for a lack of perfect v imperfect. e.g.
luin kirja (accusative) I read a book (from cover to cover)
luin kirjaa (partitive) I was reading a book (i.e. only part of it at any one point in time)
Genitives invariably end in -n . Poro = reindeer, poron = of the reindeer
Then there's vowel harmony. A word can have front vowels and mid vowels, or back vowels and mid vowels, but not front vowels and back vowels.
On topic, lumi is snow,
sataa lunta = it's snowing (partitive)
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 05 December, 2021, 03:19:30 pm
Seems complex but logical.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: chrisbainbridge on 05 December, 2021, 03:46:48 pm
Seems complex but logical.  :thumbsup:
Seems the sort of language you get when stuck inside a lot of the year with not much else to do.  A bit like knowing all the rules of Monopoly!
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Post by: matthew on 06 December, 2021, 04:54:20 pm
Sax practice has resumed.  I cant play with cold fingers.....

Who knew?


One of the good things about playing tuba is that it's possible to play in reasonably chunky gloves - coupled with a plastic mouthpiece, even better!


When it gets really cold, I just break out the bass trombone and ski mittens - one of the bonuses of being a low brass multi-instrumentalist!  ;) :D

Until it gets cold enough to freeze the valves solid. The soft southern band I used to play with were in Germany one winter (visit to a twinned town) and only the cornets and flugel could play more than five notes as the valves and slides on the rest were frozen solid.
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Post by: yorkie on 06 December, 2021, 05:12:28 pm


Sax practice has resumed.  I cant play with cold fingers.....

Who knew?


One of the good things about playing tuba is that it's possible to play in reasonably chunky gloves - coupled with a plastic mouthpiece, even better!


When it gets really cold, I just break out the bass trombone and ski mittens - one of the bonuses of being a low brass multi-instrumentalist!  ;) :D

Until it gets cold enough to freeze the valves solid. The soft southern band I used to play with were in Germany one winter (visit to a twinned town) and only the cornets and flugel could play more than five notes as the valves and slides on the rest were frozen solid.

A friend of mine in the USA tells the story of the time his university marching band were playing at a football game in sub-zero temperatures (Fahrenheit!) and the entire sousaphone section's valves froze solid, just before half time.
A quick discussion ascertained that different players had different valve combinations set solid and that the full range of different combinations were available - so they played all the notes that they could, a bit like a bell choir. Apparently no one else in the band even noticed that there was a problem!

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Post by: road-runner on 27 December, 2021, 12:18:46 am
(https://i.imgur.com/RvFhldO.jpg)

We are still in lockdown but we are allowed to get out in the countryside.
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Post by: Pingu on 27 December, 2021, 12:21:32 am
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Deano on 06 January, 2022, 11:09:47 am
A dusting in Darlo, but the ground's so cold that it's laying.
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Post by: chrisbainbridge on 06 January, 2022, 12:00:57 pm
A dusting in Darlo, but the ground's so cold that it's laying.
Gone from nothing to relatively heavy in last 5 minutes.
I was planning to cycle to work today but given the amount of water on the roads yesterday and the sharp frost I felt discretion was sensible so drove.  decision vindicated!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 06 January, 2022, 12:19:34 pm
Just started snowing here on The Wolds. Its laying too.
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Post by: chrisbainbridge on 06 January, 2022, 02:25:06 pm
Now raining but some still lying
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Post by: Basil on 06 January, 2022, 04:24:29 pm
Nice sunny evening here.  ???
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Post by: Pingu on 30 March, 2022, 09:26:01 am
Just had a flurry, not lying.
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Post by: Basil on 30 March, 2022, 09:35:42 am
Just had a flurry, not lying.

It never occurred to me that you might be lying, Mr P.
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Post by: Beardy on 31 March, 2022, 09:37:02 am
First snow of the season here, though it’s that horrid wet stuff so I doubt the children will be getting a snow day and going off sledging.
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Post by: Canardly on 31 March, 2022, 09:40:29 am
Pretty strong hailstorm here just now.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 31 March, 2022, 10:43:14 am
Cold and showery here. I got wet when out on the bike yesterday pm. 4°C. We've only had 3mm rain, so still a very dry month overall (23.3mm).
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Post by: Jurek on 31 March, 2022, 11:15:34 am
I went out to Tool Station an hour or so ago - I got sleeted on.
I'm still in shorts.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 31 March, 2022, 01:45:16 pm
Bristol has its first, and probably last, snow of the winter.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 31 March, 2022, 01:45:37 pm
And it's stopped!
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Post by: Kim on 31 March, 2022, 01:50:43 pm
Sudden blizzard in Brum.  Won't amount to anything, I'm sure.
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Post by: andrewc on 31 March, 2022, 04:08:54 pm
Some tiny flakes of white stuff falling from the sky. Not really big enough to call snow, and not dense enough to call hail.   It won't stick though.

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Post by: cycleman on 31 March, 2022, 06:16:22 pm
A couple of snowy showers but nothing settled 😕. Just cold and windy
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 March, 2022, 06:32:00 pm
The Beeb just wheeled out a weather presenter to Explain.  Her name: Sara Blizzard.
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Post by: SteveC on 31 March, 2022, 06:51:07 pm
There was a proper blizzard here, with driving winds and horizontal snow.

For about five minutes. Then it all melted.
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Post by: Basil on 31 March, 2022, 07:15:28 pm
Dog walk o'clock: Clear blue sky, sun almost risen. Beautiful, but bloody cold.
Breakfast time.  Sunny sunny sunny 🌞
Lunchtime.   Blizzards!
Dinner time.   Sunny sunny sunny.  And bloody cold.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 March, 2022, 08:47:20 pm
No SNO in E17 at least while I was looking but a bit nippy when I went out just now to fight teh Horble Spiky Bush ov Doom that guards the cupboard with the gas meter in it.
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Post by: nicknack on 01 April, 2022, 07:36:06 am
Woke up to a patchy white garden. Snowing now (North Kent).

Can we go back to spring, please?
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Post by: rr on 01 April, 2022, 07:49:32 am
Snow in the garden in mid Essex

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Post by: Pingu on 01 April, 2022, 09:16:48 am
Checked Graun & Beeb and there was no mention of teh Snowpocalypse!  :o
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Post by: toontra on 01 April, 2022, 03:58:30 pm
Flurries in central London.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 01 April, 2022, 07:33:45 pm
My recently rediscovered pal from primary school used an expression today I hadn't heard before: a "blackthorn winter". Love it!
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Post by: bhoot on 01 April, 2022, 10:22:51 pm
That was one of my grandmother's expressions. And I used it today myself as it seems very apt right now.
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Post by: Pingu on 05 April, 2022, 12:47:05 pm
Furryboottoon today

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51983899316_00a78c3c14_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2ncD5b9)
IMG_9735_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2ncD5b9) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 September, 2022, 03:38:17 pm
Had SNO at the top of Sonora Pass in not-very-sunny California on Sunday afternoon, though it wasn’t settling.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52367941303_352a592692_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nMzotH)
P9180093 (https://flic.kr/p/2nMzotH) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
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Post by: Pingu on 07 December, 2022, 07:15:18 pm
Snobes in Furryboottoon.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 08 December, 2022, 09:46:25 am
Snowing here!
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Post by: De Sisti on 08 December, 2022, 10:13:43 am
Snobes in Furryboottoon.
Location?
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Post by: matthew on 08 December, 2022, 10:18:53 am
Snobes in Furryboottoon.
Location?
Aberdeen
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 10 December, 2022, 09:01:58 am
More snow this morning. Stopped now, though.
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Post by: De Sisti on 10 December, 2022, 10:03:37 am
More snow this morning. Stopped now, though.
Location?
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Post by: rogerzilla on 10 December, 2022, 10:36:58 am
Meanwhile, in Swindon

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52554582915_73b3bdeb29_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2o54Ywx)20221210_091615 (https://flic.kr/p/2o54Ywx) by rogerzilla (https://www.flickr.com/photos/41286375@N07/), on Flickr
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Post by: Lightning Phil on 10 December, 2022, 10:39:23 am
Meanwhile, in Swindon

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52554582915_73b3bdeb29_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2o54Ywx)20221210_091615 (https://flic.kr/p/2o54Ywx) by rogerzilla (https://www.flickr.com/photos/41286375@N07/), on Flickr

A ghost?
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Post by: PeteB99 on 10 December, 2022, 11:03:17 am
Snow showers in Chester this morning (by the sound of it over the rest of Merseyside as well). Sticking for the moment.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 December, 2022, 11:14:21 am
Meanwhile, in Swindon

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52554582915_73b3bdeb29_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2o54Ywx)20221210_091615 (https://flic.kr/p/2o54Ywx) by rogerzilla (https://www.flickr.com/photos/41286375@N07/), on Flickr

I see you have yetis in Swindon too.  Not just ian's garden then.
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Post by: rafletcher on 10 December, 2022, 02:58:22 pm
More snow this morning. Stopped now, though.
Location?

Their profile says Edinburgh.
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Post by: T42 on 10 December, 2022, 03:10:46 pm
A brief shower here, nothing much. More promised for next week. :(
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 10 December, 2022, 04:33:31 pm
More snow this morning. Stopped now, though.
Location?

Their profile says Edinburgh.

Yep. It didn't last, and has turned to rain now. :(
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Post by: D.A.L.E. on 10 December, 2022, 05:00:35 pm


Yep. It didn't last, and has turned to rain now. :(
It was really nice for about 30 minutes.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 December, 2022, 06:46:55 pm
Yellow warning for SNO Sunday night/Monday morning in this corner of the BRITONS' In-Ger-Lund, though not a warning for yellow SNO.
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Post by: ElyDave on 10 December, 2022, 06:58:23 pm
A warning for yellow SNO should be taken very seriously!

Here, nothing yet, but when I was out for a ride earlier, it went from +2 to -0.5 in about 20 minutes as the sun neared the horizon and i was lucky to get home with all extremities intact
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Post by: Jaded on 11 December, 2022, 08:29:27 am
Thick sno here!
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Post by: robgul on 11 December, 2022, 09:07:27 am
A dusting at 0700 but now falling steadily like a Christmas card scene here in Stratford-upon-Avon . . . . looks like the Victorian Christmas Market that's taken over the town with 300+ stalls will be buggered today.
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 11 December, 2022, 09:08:48 am
6" here and still falling
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Post by: Basil on 11 December, 2022, 09:23:56 am
A light covering, but the view is just beautiful 
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Post by: rafletcher on 11 December, 2022, 10:05:11 am
Hmm. Freezing fog and -3 in the Vale of Aylesbury.
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Post by: mzjo on 11 December, 2022, 10:12:38 am
S-i-L messaged us to say it was snowing chez-elle (Vienne dept, just s-w of Poitiers), as she went out to pick the last rose in the garden. Just -5° at Limoges this morning. That's all in the plains, not at skiing altitude!
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Post by: TimC on 11 December, 2022, 10:34:11 am
-5° in that Suffolk this morning, and the frost is looking more and more like snow as the freeze goes on. We’re promised actual snow tonight, so I shall look forward to that for tomorrow morning. When, of course, I have to go out - unlike almost any other morning. Bah!
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 December, 2022, 10:57:20 am
Dead misty and murky in normally-sunny E17 but no SNO.  Any silly soft stuff plz to wait until after I've visited Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles tomorrow, m'kay?
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Post by: Basil on 11 December, 2022, 11:18:18 am
Boo. The Santa Run is cancelled.
No, of course I wasn't going to do it.  I don't own a santa suit.  ::-)

I just enjoy watching quite a large host of santas flooding past the house.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 December, 2022, 11:23:45 am
Too wintry for a Santa Run?  No wonder we lost the Empire.
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 11 December, 2022, 11:28:02 am
About 1cm in CV47. That's Warwickshire to you, ma'am.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 December, 2022, 11:36:38 am
yr.no is promising us the full 5-SNOflake treatment from midnight to hours 06:00 tomorrow while the BBC can only give a percentage chance of precipitation.  Bloody Nogweegies, with your highly-detailed free weather forecasts, comin' over 'ere!  We don’t want your pretty diagrams!  What’s wrong with just looking out of the cave?
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Post by: rogerzilla on 11 December, 2022, 11:51:58 am
6" here and still falling
Should try Viagra
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Post by: Basil on 11 December, 2022, 11:53:16 am
Too wintry for a Santa Run?  No wonder we lost the Empire.


They don't run on closed roads.
I expect insurance say NO
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Post by: rafletcher on 11 December, 2022, 12:15:14 pm
yr.no is promising us the full 5-SNOflake treatment from midnight to hours 06:00 tomorrow while the BBC can only give a percentage chance of precipitation.  Bloody Nogweegies, with your highly-detailed free weather forecasts, comin' over 'ere!  We don’t want your pretty diagrams!  What’s wrong with just looking out of the cave?

Assuming the precipitation measurement is in mm we’re in for 1 whole mm of snow. Possibly.
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Post by: Basil on 11 December, 2022, 12:23:17 pm
Oh. They did run. Waited till midday to allow it to warm up (?!) a bit.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 11 December, 2022, 02:18:43 pm
Met Office now predicting 10 hours of precipitation for us from 6pm, some rain, some snow, with the temperature no higher than 2°C. The snow is forecast to fall after midnight.

Who knows what tomorrow brings?
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Post by: Jaded on 11 December, 2022, 04:23:08 pm
We had sno

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/yellow-snow.jpg)
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Post by: robgul on 11 December, 2022, 04:34:55 pm
Snow falling on and off through the day but now not settling . . .  road outside is still covered in snow with some slushy tyre tracks but the traffic wardens have been up and down a couple of times??? WTF - presumably as the market (see up thread) was cancelled today there's nobody in town to nick (we're about 1/4 of a mile from the town centre)

Interesting question: if you can't see the yellow lines how can you be expected to know where you can't park (there are some signs on posts but they aren't very specific or precise relative to the yellow lines)?
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Post by: rafletcher on 11 December, 2022, 04:45:17 pm
Snow falling on and off through the day but now not settling . . .  road outside is still covered in snow with some slushy tyre tracks but the traffic wardens have been up and down a couple of times??? WTF - presumably as the market (see up thread) was cancelled today there's nobody in town to nick (we're about 1/4 of a mile from the town centre)

Interesting question: if you can't see the yellow lines how can you be expected to know where you can't park (there are some signs on posts but they aren't very specific or precise relative to the yellow lines)?

In what way are the signs not specific? I’m assuming it’s to do with the extent of th3 restriction, as they’re generally very specific about the type and timing of them.
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Post by: Andy W on 11 December, 2022, 06:29:04 pm
Here in North Herts we experience less snowfall than anywhere in mainland Britain. Not near any coast, and unlike much of East Anglia and Kent were not that influenced by near continent weather, not very high up at around 250 ft above sea level, my poor kids growing up were hard done by according to them.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 December, 2022, 06:46:55 pm
Interesting question: if you can't see the yellow lines how can you be expected to know where you can't park (there are some signs on posts but they aren't very specific or precise relative to the yellow lines)?

Dunno, but if you can’t see a mini roundabout because it’s covered with SNO it ceases to exist, at least by the “thinking” of the bonehead who nearly T-boned me at the top of Larrington Towers Road a few years ago.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 December, 2022, 07:02:27 pm
It's been blue skies all day here, but what with the residual ice and it pissing with rain last night we remained indoors.
Looks like Tuesday there might be more, but that's ages away.
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Post by: Jurek on 11 December, 2022, 07:04:58 pm
It is snowing here in SE Londres.
But really it is just pissing about.
Nothing of any substance.
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Post by: nicknack on 11 December, 2022, 07:14:16 pm
Snowing on Sheppey. Was supposed to be going to a panto tonight. Got a little way down the road in the car. It then decided to slide the rest of the way. Turned on a flat bit and tried going back up. Not a chance, so I left it there. No gritting, no traffic and some steep bits - so no panto for the nicknacks.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 December, 2022, 07:25:24 pm
Might have to find my winter gloves tomorrow!
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Post by: robgul on 11 December, 2022, 07:35:45 pm
Snow falling on and off through the day but now not settling . . .  road outside is still covered in snow with some slushy tyre tracks but the traffic wardens have been up and down a couple of times??? WTF - presumably as the market (see up thread) was cancelled today there's nobody in town to nick (we're about 1/4 of a mile from the town centre)

Interesting question: if you can't see the yellow lines how can you be expected to know where you can't park (there are some signs on posts but they aren't very specific or precise relative to the yellow lines)?

In what way are the signs not specific? I’m assuming it’s to do with the extent of th3 restriction, as they’re generally very specific about the type and timing of them.

It's where the lines start and stop - it's a residential area with short bursts of yellow lines here and there, primarily where some of the roads are a bit narrow and on corners - the signs on the posts aren't all where the lines are.
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Post by: Jurek on 11 December, 2022, 07:54:31 pm
It is snowing here in SE Londres.
But really it is just pissing about.
Nothing of any substance.
Stuff is covered in snowfall.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 11 December, 2022, 07:55:42 pm
It had a bit of a snow here this afternoon, and now back to freezing. Enough for school to send a “check your email in the morning” message, but not enough to go and find the sledge.
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Post by: The Family Cyclist on 11 December, 2022, 08:04:44 pm
It had a bit of a snow here this afternoon, and now back to freezing. Enough for school to send a “check your email in the morning” message, but not enough to go and find the sledge.

We got the same type of email but no where neer enough for a snow day at the moment
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Post by: Adam on 11 December, 2022, 08:33:50 pm
Apparently, Gatwick was closed for a short while around 6pm due to "unexpected snow"??!!

Compare that to Anchorage Airport, featured regularly on the Smithsonian Channel (Ice Airport Alaska), which despite getting between 60 to 135 inches of snow every year has never closed in over 70 years.

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Post by: bobb on 11 December, 2022, 08:39:21 pm
I would imagine if Gatwick got 60 to 135 inches of snow every year without fail, it would never close either...
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 11 December, 2022, 09:21:10 pm
Of course Anchorage airport remains open. Its the 4th busiest cargo airport in the world. Because of its position at top of globe, airlines can maximise fuel weight to cargo weight ratios making it economical.  Its designed to deal with heavy snow . Gatwick isn't because its a rarity. Horses for courses.
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Post by: ian on 11 December, 2022, 09:46:27 pm
Snowmageddon in the Surrey jungles. Had to grit the entire hill so anyone could get up it (including us). Doesn’t the council do that? says some passing joker. Then we had to push a stuck car up enough hill to get traction.
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Post by: Adam on 11 December, 2022, 09:52:20 pm
I would imagine if Gatwick got 60 to 135 inches of snow every year without fail, it would never close either...

Possibly true.  But the today's snow was forecast, and a UK international airport should be able to cope with a mere inch or two of snow.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 December, 2022, 10:01:15 pm
The last time I tried pushing a car up a slidey hill I ended up flat on my face. Fortunately the car didn't slide back towards me. Don't think I will do that again.
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Post by: Basil on 11 December, 2022, 10:15:53 pm
Well the gritters are out. The ploughs have been positioned.
Who are these teams that must sit around drinking tea and smoking for ten months of the year?
It's the bin men, that's who.  So please can we moderate the ranting at the council if the bins aren't collected tomorrow?  They'll go later in the week.  It's not a big deal.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 December, 2022, 11:44:42 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52557516696_ca5abb2e2f_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2o5k1CY)
SNO… (https://flic.kr/p/2o5k1CY) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

View out of Larrington Towers' bathroom window just now, with bonus fox.
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Post by: hellymedic on 12 December, 2022, 12:22:03 am
About 2 inches settled at 00.20 here.

Methinks Mr Sainsbury's comestibles delivery scheduled for tomorrow won't happen.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 December, 2022, 12:49:43 am
Certainly not looking forward to using the Perfectly Good Gentleman’s Mountain Bicycle for shopping tomorrow.  Iffen it had proper knobbly tyres it might be OK, but it hasn’t and I don’t think there’s a pair lurking under the stairs either.
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Post by: Kim on 12 December, 2022, 01:05:43 am
I fitted clicky winter tyres to not one but two of my bicycles yesterday.  This ought to ensure a mild winter, but the weather gods obviously aren't paying sufficient attention.
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Post by: hellymedic on 12 December, 2022, 01:45:59 am
The temperature on the patio has been creeping from 0.2 to 0.5C over the past 4 hours.

Suspect settled snow won't last here in Lunnon...
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 12 December, 2022, 05:37:38 am
Plummeted from -2 to -4 here. Later it’s forecast to soar to -3, which will be nice. Snow is to be on Sunday, but it won’t hang around because the heat wave predicted for Monday will see sweltering temperatures of 12C.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Andy W on 12 December, 2022, 06:10:02 am
The snow finally arrived in North Herts, about 3" deep. A ride down some quiet bridleways on my mountain bike today. Wife concerned that ill fall off and never be found. The experience is worth it , so rare an event these days. This really does take me back to my childhood in the 60s.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 12 December, 2022, 06:41:56 am
Here in the Vale of Aylesbury we got about  2" around 11pm, but that’s it.

ETA It's not often snow comes now, so a novel experience of driving on slushy roads in the dark. Not fun.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ElyDave on 12 December, 2022, 07:28:13 am
I would imagine if Gatwick got 60 to 135 inches of snow every year without fail, it would never close either...

Possibly true.  But the today's snow was forecast, and a UK international airport should be able to cope with a mere inch or two of snow.

Same with Hammerfest Airport, chuck grit on the snow, drive up and down with a big heater on the back of a truck, embed the grit in the snow and hey presto. Oslo, on the other hand, same day, utter chaos, and I ended up sleeping in the baggage hall.

Here, a mere dusting, maybe half an inch, but still cold
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 12 December, 2022, 07:39:40 am
A dusting here, but probably enough to block a few roads once the muppets get out in their cars.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Lightning Phil on 12 December, 2022, 07:51:33 am
A couple of inches here in Hertfordshire
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Giraffe on 12 December, 2022, 08:35:37 am
About ¼" S of Northampton - only parts of the concrete path covered. Temperature up to 0.5ºC, so the most uncold for several mornings now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 12 December, 2022, 09:11:01 am
I fitted clicky winter tyres to not one but two of my bicycles yesterday.  This ought to ensure a mild winter, but the weather gods obviously aren't paying sufficient attention.
I spaffed £400 on ice tyred spare wheels for my commuter and am gutted that this preventative weather protection hasn't done its job. We're unlikely to get above freezing till next week.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 12 December, 2022, 09:26:43 am
Just to buck the trend, not only is it not snowy up in Hebrides (although it did sleet it down when I walked the dog yesterday), it is warmer than most of the UK.

The hilltops are covered in snow of course, and look very pretty.

[edit] Just checked the traffic cams. Loads of snow on the west side. It is just the east that is clear.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: robgul on 12 December, 2022, 09:39:52 am
Just to buck the trend, not only is it not snowy up in Hebrides (although it did sleet it down when I walked the dog yesterday), it is warmer than most of the UK.

The hilltops are covered in snow of course, and look very pretty.

[edit] Just checked the traffic cams. Loads of snow on the west side. It is just the east that is clear.

IIRC the Hebrides have some freak weather patterns as a result of the gulf stream???   On the couple of trips I've made there we've had 4 seasons in an hour
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 12 December, 2022, 10:08:58 am
The West Coast (of the mainland) doesn't get a lot of snow, and it doesn't last a lot.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 12 December, 2022, 11:04:59 am
I would imagine if Gatwick got 60 to 135 inches of snow every year without fail, it would never close either...

Possibly true.  But the today's snow was forecast, and a UK international airport should be able to cope with a mere inch or two of snow.

Passengers may complain but ultimately they don't want to pay more for the one or two days a year (increasingly fewer) when there is snow. Running a proper all-weather airport in a place like Alaska is a very different proposition. International airports around the world regularly close or have a lot of delays and cancellations when it snows because clearing runways is logistically difficult. You can't land a plane on a runway when you're gritting it and fancy heating systems are expensive for a big airport.

There's always a bit of British exceptionalism, but really, airports in the snowier parts of the US would be disrupted as hell the moment it looked like snow (that's you, Logan). Foreign countries also have things like leaves on the line too.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 December, 2022, 11:15:21 am
SNOpocalypse no deterrent to wildlife i.e. bloody pigeons practicing their ice dance routines on the roof of Larrington Towers at hours Way Too Early  >:(

OTOH the bloke who drove past in a full-on 555-liveried Scooby Impreza was doing so very gingerly indeed.  Colin McRae would not have been impressed.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 12 December, 2022, 11:24:14 am
Judging by the paw prints, the foxes, bears and yetis have been having some fun in the snow. Judging by the lack of pawprints from the cat flap and the smell from the litter tray, I'm guessing the cats have yet to be enticed outside.

From the snow on the balcony rail, it looks to be about 6-8 cm here on the North Downs. Heavy, wet, potentially melty stuff, though it started off powdery yesterday, hence the wheel-spinny roads.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 December, 2022, 11:28:15 am
About to poke my head out of the bathroom window again to see whether I dare cycle to Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles.  Larrington Gardens Road was a skating rink two hours ago and I doubt any of the other minor roads en route are much different.  And as for getting a laden Perfectly Good Gentleman’s Mountain Bicycle up the ramp from the Crooked Billet underpass…
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Polar Bear on 12 December, 2022, 12:30:33 pm
For those of us who enjoy a good dump ☺️ the early morning dusting is both pitiful and disappointing. 

I was looking back at some pictures from a decade or so ago recently and marvelling at the knee high settled snow and the roads made impassable to motorized vehicles.

I can but hope ... 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 12 December, 2022, 12:42:19 pm
From the snow on the balcony rail, it looks to be about 6-8 cm here on the North Downs.

What is that in a proper measurement?  ;)
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 12 December, 2022, 12:53:03 pm
Waist deep on a small squirrel.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 12 December, 2022, 01:02:14 pm
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Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: The Family Cyclist on 12 December, 2022, 01:28:58 pm
From the snow on the balcony rail, it looks to be about 6-8 cm here on the North Downs.

What is that in a proper measurement?  ;)

60 to 80 mm
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 December, 2022, 01:38:18 pm
Started the SNO equivalent of drizzle while I was in Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles – I bottled out of cycling there today – and is now coming down rather nicely again.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: De Sisti on 12 December, 2022, 01:43:21 pm
Cars attempting to drive in snow in Cheltenham.
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1601988289891909634
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 12 December, 2022, 01:50:01 pm
Cars attempting to drive in snow in Cheltenham.
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1601988289891909634
I like the cyclist on an MTB - @ 0:29 & 0:36 making his way uphill unhindered  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 12 December, 2022, 01:58:22 pm
Cars attempting to drive in snow in Cheltenham.
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1601988289891909634
When I was a kid we used to say, "Oi cain't read and oi cain't write but that don't hardly, cos Oi do be from Gloucestershire and Oi can droive a tra'or" but these motorists are obviously incomers...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Canardly on 12 December, 2022, 01:59:44 pm
Have the days of LA provided bins and grit to hilly residential areas gone?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 12 December, 2022, 02:02:47 pm
14.00 GMT Outer Londonton
T 2C
Snow on concrete patio has vanished put about two inches/5cm remains on plastic garden furniture.
Snow has mostly persisted on trees.
Sainsbury's receipt has arrived, 16.30 delivery has not (yet) been cancelled.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 December, 2022, 02:07:34 pm
I think there’s still a grit bin at the bottom of the hill on the road on which Fort Larrington is situated.  Whether it actually contains any grit, salt or other useful anti-SNO Stuffs is another matter entirely, it being Leafy Surrey where everyone is expected to have a Range Rover.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 12 December, 2022, 02:09:30 pm
Have the days of LA provided bins and grit to hilly residential areas gone?

Yes. Austerity.

(most Highways departments no longer fill them up and it seems to be up to Town/Parish to do so)

There are several problems with this, including people stealing grit for their own drives, and having no idea about how much grit is actually needed.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 12 December, 2022, 02:35:37 pm
Have the days of LA provided bins and grit to hilly residential areas gone?

Yes. Austerity.

(most Highways departments no longer fill them up and it seems to be up to Town/Parish to do so)

There are several problems with this, including people stealing grit for their own drives, and having no idea about how much grit is actually needed.

We get one refill a year – not sure whether it's the district council or Surrey (The Asbestos Palace is atop a short, sharp 25% hill, there's a bin at the top and bottom). At the moment, everyone on the street behind is emptying it to do their parking spaces and drives. Not sure what they're planning to do if there's none left for the hill. Same story every year. We keep a couple of bags of grit/salt in the garage for emergencies, as the council won't do refills even if the hill is dangerous (not actually sure of their liability, it's a council road).

Of course, if it snows we can walk to the shops (we can do it even if it doesn't snow), something that seems broadly unknown to most people around here, who would probably drive from the sofa to the toilet. Probably a sad indictment of a society that most of the people I saw walking were old people on treacherously ungritted pavements while the gritted roads were busy with younger people in big cars doing important things.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Socks on 12 December, 2022, 02:54:44 pm
Our street (fairly quiet because it isn't a through road) has been covered in snow and ice for the last two days.  Obviously  a sensible driver would slow down and take  care.  Not the prawn in a big white car who has just driven past at a speed which would be dangerous even on clean dry tarmac.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: hellymedic on 12 December, 2022, 05:34:22 pm
My Sainsbury's delivery happened on time. (Well, 5 minutes early but that's OK.)
Temperature a steady 1.6C.
Road seems clear but white stuff persists elsewhere.

Might refreeze overnight.

D is off to Uxbridge on bike & Tube.

Should be OK...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Polar Bear on 12 December, 2022, 05:52:33 pm
I saw a gritter just now.  First one that I can recall since last winter.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 12 December, 2022, 05:55:45 pm
Have the days of LA provided bins and grit to hilly residential areas gone?

Yes. Austerity.

(most Highways departments no longer fill them up and it seems to be up to Town/Parish to do so)

There are several problems with this, including people stealing grit for their own drives, and having no idea about how much grit is actually needed.

We get one refill a year – not sure whether it's the district council or Surrey (The Asbestos Palace is atop a short, sharp 25% hill, there's a bin at the top and bottom). At the moment, everyone on the street behind is emptying it to do their parking spaces and drives. Not sure what they're planning to do if there's none left for the hill. Same story every year. We keep a couple of bags of grit/salt in the garage for emergencies, as the council won't do refills even if the hill is dangerous (not actually sure of their liability, it's a council road).

Of course, if it snows we can walk to the shops (we can do it even if it doesn't snow), something that seems broadly unknown to most people around here, who would probably drive from the sofa to the toilet. Probably a sad indictment of a society that most of the people I saw walking were old people on treacherously ungritted pavements while the gritted roads were busy with younger people in big cars doing important things.
There's an urban legend that dead cats found on the highway should be put in the nearest grit bin, possibly as a form of mummification.  I doubt they do much for traction on icy hills, however.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 December, 2022, 06:39:57 pm
Cars attempting to drive in snow in Cheltenham.
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1601988289891909634

Lol. Those bollards were getting a lot of use.
Also why do bus companies keep sending buses up big hills in unsuitable conditions? Fails every time.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Hot Flatus on 12 December, 2022, 07:01:40 pm
Particularly enjoyed the guy mansplaining  how to drive in snow and criticising others' driving whilst being too chickenshit himself to drive in snow.

On another note, am I imagining it or did the cars of the 70s and 80s handle the snow much better than modern saloon cars with wide low pro tyres, or am I just getting old and shit at driving in the snow?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: spesh on 12 December, 2022, 07:19:21 pm
On another note, am I imagining it or did the cars of the 70s and 80s handle the snow much better than modern saloon cars with wide low pro tyres, or am I just getting old and shit at driving in the snow?

Yes. :demon:

Joking apart, skinny tyres should work better, plus they didn't have all those gizmos that lull people into thinking that they can drive in lousy weather conditions the same way they do when it's warm and dry.

WRT the latter thing, there may be a bit of "the fear" creeping in, plus we don't get proper snow* often enough to retain familiarity with how to drive in such conditions.



* The 2010 snowpocalypse was probably still considered by the Finns as just a light sprinkling.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 12 December, 2022, 08:32:35 pm
The Fiat Of The Apocalypse was surprisingly good in the snow.  Assuming it would start.  I attribute that to light weight, sensibly-shaped (if not actually grippy) tyres and a general lack of gizmos[1].  The Brompton-esque brakes didn't actively hinder, either.

Modern cars have silly wheels and are all far too heavy.


[1] The sum total of its bad weather driving features was the rear demister, which was broken.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 12 December, 2022, 08:33:29 pm
I had no issues driving a Metro in the deep snow of March 1987.  A modern car would get stranded in such conditions.  Traction control is useless when there's no traction to be had.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 December, 2022, 08:36:22 pm
A rally car on SNO tyres looks like an elephant perched atop four dustbin lids.  And its offspring help keep the car clean.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: orienteer on 12 December, 2022, 08:49:38 pm
Old fashioned narrow tyres cut through the snow, while over-styled, wide, low profile tyres stay on top of it.

I recall the wild winter of 1962/3, when even the buses kept running with few problems.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pickled Onion on 12 December, 2022, 09:16:53 pm
It was a bit tricky getting ashore this morning. The boat abeam mine has no non-slip paint on the gunwales and a cratch on the foredeck so nothing to hold on to. I had to climb across carrying my bike, it was a little sketchy but I remain dry.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 December, 2022, 08:21:23 am
Another layer overnight. Just heard a gust of wind and now it's horizontal.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Polar Bear on 14 December, 2022, 08:26:42 am
Another gentle sprinkling of icing sugar.  It's sodding cold here though and there is a lot of ice outside.

mllePB has just succumbed to firing up the boiler.  I'll not complain.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 14 December, 2022, 08:32:42 am
It's been colder outside but warmer inside the last two days.  Must depend on wind direction.  The stove got the lounge from 14.2oC to 20oC in two hours (it also heats the rest of the house to a lower temperature - the layout of this house is fortuitous in that respect, with stairs off the lounge), which is quicker than the heating could do it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 14 December, 2022, 08:37:45 am
No more here, but unusually the village road is still mostly covered in snow and ice. Speaking to a neighbour yesterday, they’d been out on Monday night, and the taxi back refused to come into the village, leaving them with a 200m walk on the ice.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 14 December, 2022, 08:39:44 am
Snow offers relatively good grip.

Ice is poorer.

Wet ice is terrible.

A 'really bad, wild winter' usually results in constant supply of new snow (which offers similar traction to tarmac with a bit of sand on it).

What we have here is a bit of rain, a bit of sleet, below zero overnight. Worst of all worlds.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 14 December, 2022, 08:45:55 am
It's been colder outside but warmer inside the last two days.  Must depend on wind direction.  The stove got the lounge from 14.2oC to 20oC in two hours (it also heats the rest of the house to a lower temperature - the layout of this house is fortuitous in that respect, with stairs off the lounge), which is quicker than the heating could do it.

Same sort of thing here, with help from two electric heaters.  Annoying thing is that our chimneys are so tall that while we have a terrific draught we also get a hell of a lot of creosote in the top third, which means that we can't stoke up as well as we'd like to really heat the place. We've had a couple of chimney fires in the last 30 years and MrsT is scared stiff of them.

Anyway, with a whole centimetre of snow on the road we've just had the municipal snow-plough round.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jurek on 14 December, 2022, 09:23:38 am
It took 6 hrs for my CH to raise the temperature here from 14°C to 20°C  yesterday.
Much of the snow which fell on Sunday is still present without any fresh snowfall.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 December, 2022, 10:20:54 am
Sunday night/Monday morning's SNO still seems mostly present and correct on the roof of my porch and Sheds.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 14 December, 2022, 04:13:50 pm
Snow's still there but this afternoon it changed to light rain which has now frozen. Traffic proceeding very gingerly.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 14 December, 2022, 04:40:30 pm
Got a grit refill (probably a benefit of having a councillor living up the road) – partly a shame, because I wanted to see the idiots who nicked the last lot to do their drives and parking spaces die a horribly slidey death trying to get down the subsequently ungritted, iced hill.

As a plus, we don't have to use our salt stash, from which I usually subsidise the idiots (not entirely altruistic, we like to be able to get our car up and down the hill).
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 December, 2022, 06:12:48 pm
This year I haven’t actually heard anyone sliding through the end of the skating rink that is Larrington Gardens Road and having their progress rudely arrested by a vehicle on the main road but there’s still time before things warm up a bit.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 14 December, 2022, 07:34:30 pm
Horizontal sno again. Sounds like type 2 fun on the roads in the shire with drifting accross roads.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 15 December, 2022, 08:29:14 am
Another few cm overnight. Caught sight of the village gritter this morning: a farm tractor with a blade on the front and a seed dispenser on the back.

Glad they didn't get confused with the muck spreader.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 15 December, 2022, 09:42:47 am
More wet snow today.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 15 December, 2022, 10:04:45 am
Law here says that householders have to clear the footpath in front of the house by 07:30, otherwise we're liable if someone slips and injures themselves.

Cardiologist says "snow clearing? At your age? Are you mad?"

MrsT & I just cleared our bit of pavement.

Conclusion: yes.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: De Sisti on 15 December, 2022, 01:15:48 pm
Law here says that householders have to clear the footpath in front of the house by 07:30, otherwise we're liable if someone slips and injures themselves.
Which country does that apply to?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 15 December, 2022, 01:46:27 pm
Law here says that householders have to clear the footpath in front of the house by 07:30, otherwise we're liable if someone slips and injures themselves.
Which country does that apply to?

T42 is in France.  Similar rules apply in the USA.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Auntie Helen on 15 December, 2022, 02:38:12 pm
Law here says that householders have to clear the footpath in front of the house by 07:30, otherwise we're liable if someone slips and injures themselves.
Which country does that apply to?

T42 is in France.  Similar rules apply in the USA.
and in Germany.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MattH on 15 December, 2022, 04:33:31 pm
Whereas here, I believe (could be wrong, this was told to me many years ago...) that if you clear the nice grippy crunchy snow and it leaves a patch of frozen ice e.g. where the remnants of snow melted then refroze, you then become liable, whereas if you'd not touched it you're fine.
Would actually be vaguely interested to know if that's true.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 15 December, 2022, 05:23:12 pm
I definitely know that getting up at bollocks o'clock in the morning to shovel snow when I would otherwise be warm in bed is liable to result in bad swears, if not actual injury.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 December, 2022, 06:51:37 pm
What if you work nightshift and you don't get home til after 0730?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: CarlF on 15 December, 2022, 07:16:17 pm
Whereas here, I believe (could be wrong, this was told to me many years ago...) that if you clear the nice grippy crunchy snow and it leaves a patch of frozen ice e.g. where the remnants of snow melted then refroze, you then become liable, whereas if you'd not touched it you're fine.
Would actually be vaguely interested to know if that's true.
No. It's bollocks.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Adam on 16 December, 2022, 06:47:13 am
When I lived near Luton, being on top of a hill we often got snow, and I always cleared about 100m of pavement, including the bit around the corner shop.  Once the sun came up, even the feeble rays would then melt away any remaining bits leaving it completely clear and free from ice.  I always assumed it was because the black tarmac absorbs the small amount of energy from the sun and turned it into just enough heat to be useful.

None of the neighbours on the other side of the road bothered doing any clearing, meaning their pavement was lethal with all the icy ridges caused by people walking in the snow, whilst everyone on my side was very appreciative of not slipping.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: quixoticgeek on 16 December, 2022, 09:06:33 am


No snow here. Had a little bit of rain yesterday. Footpaths are a death trap of ice.

I'm glad I wore my spikes to get from the bus stop to the front door of the office.

J
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 16 December, 2022, 09:52:09 am
No snow.

Temps of about -6 and light drizzle, though.

It is lethal out there. Absolutely bloody lethal.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 16 December, 2022, 10:54:47 am
Here in the Vale of Aylesbury it is, after early fog, a sparkling winters day. Temps slowly rising, probably be -1 or 2, as Chesham is up to -6 from a low of -12 overnight.

Our village road is still mostly sheet ice/packed snow though. I'm glad I'm off work Monday and can stay at home until it's all melted again after the predicted snow/sleet/rain on Sunday.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 December, 2022, 11:16:54 am
Don't know where my phone gets its data from but it thinks it’s still below freezing.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: The Family Cyclist on 16 December, 2022, 11:20:42 am
Whereas here, I believe (could be wrong, this was told to me many years ago...) that if you clear the nice grippy crunchy snow and it leaves a patch of frozen ice e.g. where the remnants of snow melted then refroze, you then become liable, whereas if you'd not touched it you're fine.
Would actually be vaguely interested to know if that's true.

Government website gov.uk/clear-snow-road-cycleway says you are unlikely to be held responsible if you have cleared carefully
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 16 December, 2022, 01:56:22 pm
Whereas here, I believe (could be wrong, this was told to me many years ago...) that if you clear the nice grippy crunchy snow and it leaves a patch of frozen ice e.g. where the remnants of snow melted then refroze, you then become liable, whereas if you'd not touched it you're fine.
Would actually be vaguely interested to know if that's true.

We salt our pavement after clearing.  It's still legal but every year we expect that'll change, and if it does I suppose we'll retain the liability without the means to do anything about it.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Auntie Helen on 16 December, 2022, 02:00:38 pm
Cycled to work and discovered when I arrived it was minus 10 degrees. Was ok in the velomobile though.

It snowed whilst I was at work so the velomobile looks a bit whiter than normal.

Durano plus tyres are really slow in minus temperatures.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: MattH on 16 December, 2022, 02:08:05 pm
Whereas here, I believe (could be wrong, this was told to me many years ago...) that if you clear the nice grippy crunchy snow and it leaves a patch of frozen ice e.g. where the remnants of snow melted then refroze, you then become liable, whereas if you'd not touched it you're fine.
Would actually be vaguely interested to know if that's true.

Government website gov.uk/clear-snow-road-cycleway says you are unlikely to be held responsible if you have cleared carefully

So just "unlikely", rather than won't :-)

FWIW I do clear around our house, and do the path to the door of the old chap across the street from us too, just never looked into the legality/liability.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: ian on 16 December, 2022, 03:43:51 pm
What if you work nightshift and you don't get home til after 0730?

You get your neighbour to do it.

In the US and Canada, in my experience, generally someone just does the entire path and/or parking, rather than just their own. Making a patch in front of your own place would be a bit cheeky.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Little Jim on 16 December, 2022, 04:17:55 pm
Whereas here, I believe (could be wrong, this was told to me many years ago...) that if you clear the nice grippy crunchy snow and it leaves a patch of frozen ice e.g. where the remnants of snow melted then refroze, you then become liable, whereas if you'd not touched it you're fine.
Would actually be vaguely interested to know if that's true.

Government website gov.uk/clear-snow-road-cycleway says you are unlikely to be held responsible if you have cleared carefully

So just "unlikely", rather than won't :-)

FWIW I do clear around our house, and do the path to the door of the old chap across the street from us too, just never looked into the legality/liability.

This is one of those urban myths that crops up whenever it snows.  You wont be sued if someone falls over on the path that you have cleared, even if it is a public access.  You might be if you have made the path a lot worse by, say, packing the snow down hard to make a sheet of ice, but if you have simply shovelled or brushed the snow off you will be fine.  Anyone walking on snow has a duty to keep themselves safe, not you.  It is perfectly reasonable to expect that a path covered in snow or ice might be slippery, so don't complain if it is and you fall over is the basic principle.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 December, 2022, 04:24:58 pm
It's only recently that the Southend Council has seen fit to remove snow and ice from cycle paths, and to keep them gritted. When I went for my first Covid jab, in Feb 2021, I walked over a mile to the Cliffs Pavilion, thinking I didn't trust the roads enough to cycle: there was quite a bit of lying snow. As it happened, the pavements were so bad I walked mostly on the road. I would definitely have been better off riding.
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Post by: Bledlow on 16 December, 2022, 11:01:30 pm
Whereas here, I believe (could be wrong, this was told to me many years ago...) that if you clear the nice grippy crunchy snow and it leaves a patch of frozen ice e.g. where the remnants of snow melted then refroze, you then become liable, whereas if you'd not touched it you're fine.
Would actually be vaguely interested to know if that's true.

Government website gov.uk/clear-snow-road-cycleway says you are unlikely to be held responsible if you have cleared carefully

So just "unlikely", rather than won't :-)

FWIW I do clear around our house, and do the path to the door of the old chap across the street from us too, just never looked into the legality/liability.

This is one of those urban myths that crops up whenever it snows.  You wont be sued if someone falls over on the path that you have cleared, even if it is a public access.  You might be if you have made the path a lot worse by, say, packing the snow down hard to make a sheet of ice, but if you have simply shovelled or brushed the snow off you will be fine.  Anyone walking on snow has a duty to keep themselves safe, not you.  It is perfectly reasonable to expect that a path covered in snow or ice might be slippery, so don't complain if it is and you fall over is the basic principle.
I can't help wondering about sheets of ice left by people washing cars, or using hot water to melt frost off car windows.
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Post by: Slave To The Viking on 17 December, 2022, 01:17:20 am
Whereas here, I believe (could be wrong, this was told to me many years ago...) that if you clear the nice grippy crunchy snow and it leaves a patch of frozen ice e.g. where the remnants of snow melted then refroze, you then become liable, whereas if you'd not touched it you're fine.
Would actually be vaguely interested to know if that's true.

Government website gov.uk/clear-snow-road-cycleway says you are unlikely to be held responsible if you have cleared carefully

So just "unlikely", rather than won't :-)

FWIW I do clear around our house, and do the path to the door of the old chap across the street from us too, just never looked into the legality/liability.

This is one of those urban myths that crops up whenever it snows.  You wont be sued if someone falls over on the path that you have cleared, even if it is a public access.  You might be if you have made the path a lot worse by, say, packing the snow down hard to make a sheet of ice, but if you have simply shovelled or brushed the snow off you will be fine.  Anyone walking on snow has a duty to keep themselves safe, not you.  It is perfectly reasonable to expect that a path covered in snow or ice might be slippery, so don't complain if it is and you fall over is the basic principle.

I'm convinced I heard a radio phone-in years back, in which the landlord of the Snake Pass Inn (or somewhere near there) in Derbyshire said he no longer clears his car park, as he was sued by an old bloke with two false knees and two walking sticks, who slipped in the car park and blamed it on the slickness of the shovelled-snow-substrate, despite his own inherent instability.

I'm not said landlord. I can't easily find a record of the case. But my memory is of a first-hand story, not a "this bloke said" myth.

So, of course, I actually have nothing more than urban myth to offer, effectively, but I feel like there's a chance there may be something in this...
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 December, 2022, 08:00:07 am
The snow code
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/seasonal-advice/your-home/clearing-paths-and-driveways
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: The Family Cyclist on 17 December, 2022, 08:30:13 am
The various weather apps give different temps but saw one claiming -7 early this morning and could believe it. I've put a curtain over the front door and this had unintended consequences. It's kept the hall warmer but must have kept door colder as was a bit frozen this morning. Needed a firm tug to open it.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 17 December, 2022, 08:50:05 am
What if you work nightshift and you don't get home til after 0730?

You get your neighbour to do it.

In the US and Canada, in my experience, generally someone just does the entire path and/or parking, rather than just their own. Making a patch in front of your own place would be a bit cheeky.
At a previous house, on top of a hill, we had a couple of very snowy (for Sussex) winters. Our little close connected to a well gritted bus route. So after a few days clearing it seemed desirable and plausibly useful. So a group of us went out with shovels. Except one house. The house that’d fly tip your skip. All that snow has to go somewhere, right?
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rafletcher on 17 December, 2022, 08:53:53 am
Well the promised slightly less cold night didn’t materialise, was still around the -6 mark. But now we have a strengthening south-westerly and the very beginnings of a thaw.
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Post by: Kim on 17 December, 2022, 05:02:44 pm
Can confirm that the canal is now frozen enough to support  a) geese  and  b) traffic cones.  I suspect this will not be the case for much longer.
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Post by: Jaded on 18 December, 2022, 10:04:30 am
There’s a BMW stuck in what remains of the snow outside our house.

Rear wheel drive really is useless in a tiny amount of ice.
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Post by: Pingu on 25 December, 2022, 11:33:33 pm
And it's a white (ish) christmas in FurryBootToon (it snowed for about 5 minutes).
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Post by: Flite on 26 December, 2022, 08:48:12 am
Snow in the North Pennines overnight
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Post by: Basil on 17 January, 2023, 01:09:41 pm
As thread title.  :D
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Post by: Basil on 17 January, 2023, 01:44:13 pm
As thread title.  :D

Very heavy. Settled on roads and everything.  But very brief. 
Blue skies and sunshine now.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: T42 on 21 January, 2023, 07:56:31 am
Quite a lot in the night. Municipal snowplough, natch, came through at 5 am.

ETA just come in from clearing the pavement on our side of the road. Not enough on our side to warrant the snow shovel, but the far side has around 10 cm on it. Dunno how that worked but ;D

BTW I was born in January 1947: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_1946%E2%80%9347_in_the_United_Kingdom
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 06 March, 2023, 12:35:52 pm
Snow and hail in Furryboottoon today, but it's remained honest so far.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 07 March, 2023, 06:56:06 am
Everything is white this morning.

About 1" on the ground.
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Post by: rafletcher on 07 March, 2023, 08:20:23 am
For once the forecast for us was correct - "95% chance of little or no accumulation", and that's what we got.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 07 March, 2023, 08:24:52 am
Forecast here was for snow to start around midnight and continue all night.  At 7.00 am my phone said that it was currently snowing.  I took a look.  Nothing.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: De Sisti on 07 March, 2023, 08:35:48 am
Forecast here was for snow to start around midnight and continue all night.  At 7.00 am my phone said that it was currently snowing.  I took a look.  Nothing.
Where's here? ???
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Post by: Jaded on 07 March, 2023, 08:44:23 am
Basildon.
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Post by: Basil on 07 March, 2023, 10:29:50 am
Forecast here was for snow to start around midnight and continue all night.  At 7.00 am my phone said that it was currently snowing.  I took a look.  Nothing.
Where's here? ???

SW Wales
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Post by: Basil on 07 March, 2023, 10:30:14 am
Basildon.

 ;D
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 07 March, 2023, 10:37:54 am
Forecast was for "heavy snow" here according to a weather warning the other day.

Blue skies and sunny, not a cloud in sight. ???
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 07 March, 2023, 10:44:28 am
Forecast was for "heavy snow" here according to a weather warning the other day.

Blue skies and sunny, not a cloud in sight. ???

Yes. We had a Met Office Yellow warning ⚠️
Ne're a flake.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 March, 2023, 10:58:20 am
We also had a Met Office yellow warning.  It rained.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 07 March, 2023, 11:01:21 am
It's sunny in Swinedun.
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Post by: quixoticgeek on 07 March, 2023, 11:08:04 am

Snowing here in Dutchland. At one point we had rain, snow, and hail, all at the same time. Not settling tho.

J
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 March, 2023, 11:08:27 am
WE've had 5.6mm rain in the past 24 hours. The forecast was that bad that Jane and I decided to postpone a ride we had planned - 3°C with heavy rain in the Chelmsford area. It's still looking as though there's likely to be heavy rain around noon, so perhaps it was a good idea to postpone, but the afternoon is looking a lot better.
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Post by: Jaded on 07 March, 2023, 11:08:31 am
'tis drizzling here.
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Post by: rafletcher on 07 March, 2023, 11:16:14 am
The tops in Wendover Woods (perhaps 200m higher than us) were white this morning, and there was maybe an inch on the ground, but from what I can see out of the window thats all gone, probably due to the earlier fog. No rain. Overcast.
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Post by: Pingu on 07 March, 2023, 11:37:19 am
Furryboottoon this morning:

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52731788649_852f128c8b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2okJcBP)
IMG_3340_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2okJcBP) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 07 March, 2023, 03:28:52 pm
Forecast was for "heavy snow" here according to a weather warning the other day.

Blue skies and sunny, not a cloud in sight. ???

Now it's half-heatedly trying to sleet...
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Post by: Jurek on 08 March, 2023, 05:29:55 am
We have snow.
It doesn't look like it is settling.
0°C.
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Post by: Jaded on 08 March, 2023, 06:39:42 am
Snowing and settling here.

South of Cheltenham. ;)
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Post by: MattH on 08 March, 2023, 06:49:52 am
Settled here near Basingstoke.
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Post by: ScumOfTheRoad on 08 March, 2023, 07:23:15 am
Snowing in SE London. To be honest wet sleet. It is lying in thin patches and probably will melt soon.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 08 March, 2023, 07:28:55 am
Similar amounts to pingu's (happy penguins, dancing in snow?)

Currently -3 and clear skies.

If we get more snow today, it will start to build up quite a bit.
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Post by: JellyLegs on 08 March, 2023, 07:40:36 am
Snowing, 1 degree and settling in mid Essex.  I haven’t ventured out but it looks the wet variety from the way it has stuck to the north and east faces of next door’s chimney stack.  Weather forecast is now for 10 wet days in a row, most of them just above freezing.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 08 March, 2023, 08:01:04 am
There was some settled overnight here in Sussex. Though when I went out to do the bird food it felt pretty wet.
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Post by: felstedrider on 08 March, 2023, 08:01:10 am
Snowing, 1 degree and settling in mid Essex.  I haven’t ventured out but it looks the wet variety from the way it has stuck to the north and east faces of next door’s chimney stack.  Weather forecast is now for 10 wet days in a row, most of them just above freezing.

Got into Chelmsford for the train OK.   Roads are fine although I was driving.   Wet snow in the City.
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Post by: T42 on 08 March, 2023, 08:06:01 am
Umpteen weeks of drought and all of a sudden we're getting heavy wet snow dumped on us. I wanted the car washed. :(
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Jaded on 08 March, 2023, 08:13:04 am
It’s not snowing now.

South of Cheltenham.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 March, 2023, 08:17:56 am
Weather forecast looks OK for Furrybootoon today which is good cos I'd quite like to make it home from France. More snow forecast for Thur-Fri which will be a PITA being as I need to take the car for its MOT and service on Friday.
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Post by: cycleman on 08 March, 2023, 08:21:36 am
Wet snow here thats settling on grass and roofs. Roads are wet .lowest temperature 1c
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Post by: matthew on 08 March, 2023, 09:13:55 am
2cm in Bracknell but apart from the most local of roads everything was clear. A few flakes falling, but from the office you would think it was Monday or Friday. My boss in Hazelmere reports 10cm of snow so I understand his not commuting.
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 08 March, 2023, 09:21:57 am
Got a bit in Somerset.  Not enough to be fun, but looks ok.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 08 March, 2023, 09:42:45 am
It's always "snow tomorrow", here.   I think the last snow we had was 10 December, a mere sprinkling.   
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 08 March, 2023, 11:16:05 am
Wet settling stuff in Bristol. Quite surprised really.
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Post by: rafletcher on 08 March, 2023, 11:38:18 am
Snowing on and off in Leafy Bucks/Herts borderlands. We had maybe 2cm on the cars and shed rooves this morning, but nothing on the roads anywhere around. It's now melted off all the parked cars, and isn't settling. We're supposed to get another 3-4cm overnight.
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Post by: Pingu on 08 March, 2023, 11:44:40 am
-4C when I got up this morning, +1 now. The snow's not melted much  :) Beautiful sunny day, thobut.
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Post by: Pingu on 08 March, 2023, 11:54:52 am
...happy penguins, dancing in snow?...

You need to walk like a penguin on the pavements here at the moment  🐧🐧
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Post by: T42 on 08 March, 2023, 01:42:51 pm
12°C now. So much for snow.
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Post by: PeteB99 on 08 March, 2023, 01:47:05 pm
Light snow in Chester. Winds blowing around too much for it to settle.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 08 March, 2023, 01:54:26 pm
My Dear Wife and I have booked 3 nights in Matlock from Friday. Today and tomorrow it's graced with hours upon hours of heavy snow. Then down to about -6°C on Saturday night.
Oh deep, deep joy snow.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Pingu on 08 March, 2023, 02:00:44 pm
My Dear Wife and I have booked 3 nights in Matlock from Friday. Today and tomorrow it's graced with hours upon hours of heavy snow. Then down to about -68C on Saturday night.
Oh deep, deep joy snow.

 :o
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Kim on 08 March, 2023, 02:09:30 pm
The lumpy wet[1] non-settling snow that's been going most of the morning has been replaced by the finer blizzarding kind.  No sign of any of it settling.


[1] None of that carbon dioxide snow that they get in Matlock.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: rogerzilla on 08 March, 2023, 02:11:35 pm
Wet crap here.  It's just below zero but it's falling as sleet and turning straight to water or slush.
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Post by: chrisbainbridge on 08 March, 2023, 02:19:42 pm
falling in Burton upon Trent but not settling
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Post by: Wowbagger on 08 March, 2023, 02:19:52 pm
The lumpy wet[1] non-settling snow that's been going most of the morning has been replaced by the finer blizzarding kind.  No sign of any of it settling.


[1] None of that carbon dioxide snow that they get in Matlock.

We'll have to keep an eye on what is happening. The forecast is clearly for loads of snow but the temperature just above freezing. That can often mean quite deep accumulations anyway.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 08 March, 2023, 04:57:46 pm
An absolute blizzard in York, 10.45 to 11.15. By 12 the ground was bone-dry again. More forecast for Friday.
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Post by: Kim on 08 March, 2023, 05:10:31 pm
It's finally thinking about settling, with a waffer-thin layer beginning to accumulate on bins and cars.
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Post by: robgul on 08 March, 2023, 05:26:26 pm
Sleety sort of rainfall here in SuA - limited settlement of slushy white stuff on the shed roof and greenhouse .... nothing on the ground . . . just wet.    Club(s) rides today and tomorrow cancelled.
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Post by: Kim on 08 March, 2023, 06:12:25 pm
The students have managed to scrape together enough snow from various bin lids to have a mini snowball fight.
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Post by: cycleman on 08 March, 2023, 06:18:42 pm
Nothing but rain here all day  :)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 08 March, 2023, 06:32:06 pm
The lumpy wet[1] non-settling snow that's been going most of the morning has been replaced by the finer blizzarding kind.  No sign of any of it settling.


[1] None of that carbon dioxide snow that they get in Matlock.

We'll have to keep an eye on what is happening. The forecast is clearly for loads of snow but the temperature just above freezing. That can often mean quite deep accumulations anyway.

I just phoned the B & B. No snow accumulated so far. it's mostly fallen as rain.
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Post by: Basil on 08 March, 2023, 07:06:40 pm
Sister in Matlock Bath says 'no accumulation'.
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Post by: ian on 08 March, 2023, 08:04:06 pm
Couple of inches in the jungle hills of Surrey this morning, though the pointless wet stuff that was swiftly despatched by the subsequent rain. There was another flurry of fat flakes this afternoon but they didn't stick around.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 08 March, 2023, 08:06:43 pm
Pretty good settle on the higher parts here. Some impressive snowcreatures on the Downs and Kings Weston. Turning slushy now.
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Post by: Snakehips on 08 March, 2023, 08:47:43 pm
Holy cr@p! This weather is enough to drive anybody to drink.
Even on a Wednesday!
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 09 March, 2023, 07:27:37 am
Forecast tells me it’s snowing here but my eyes tell me it isn’t. Not a trace.
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Post by: robgul on 09 March, 2023, 07:47:35 am
Now snow falling at Christmas card volume . . . and settling here in SuA.   Mrs robgul is supposed to be going to London this afternoon on the train, back tomorrow - we'll see.
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Post by: cycleman on 09 March, 2023, 08:07:15 am
Rain again  ::-)
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Post by: Polar Bear on 09 March, 2023, 08:10:44 am
Holy cr@p! This weather is enough to drive anybody to drink.
Even on a Wednesday!

That is almost exactly what happened to us yesterday.  We had arranged to meet some friends for a drink yesterday evening and then the snow started late afternoon and has persisted.  We still walked to the pub (almost 1 mile).  Still snowing when we walked home, still snowing now.

It's not heavy but there is a settled inch or so in the garden and on the rooftops.  We know it's heavy when the street becomes impassable except by loons and couriers but at present the road is just damp tarmac.  In fact, it is clearer than it was at 11:00 p.m. yesterday evening.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 09 March, 2023, 09:16:06 am
Light Drizzly sleet. Snow f'cast until Friday morning.  Severe Weather Alert in force.  Cat planning to spend a second day indoors.
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Post by: pumpkin on 09 March, 2023, 10:48:57 am
Sacked the bike off today jic. not going on 10 miles of road IF the weather turns. Public transport today  :(
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Post by: Wowbagger on 09 March, 2023, 12:44:32 pm
Wet, miserable and 5°C here in not-so-Sanny Saarfend.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-64883505

Bugger. OK, they are all tending towards the west side of the peaks and we are heading to Matlock - hopefully. Looking at -7°C there on Saturday morning. All the roads we might use are open at the moment (A127, M25, M1, A6). Tomorrow should be easier, I think.
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Post by: Flite on 09 March, 2023, 12:51:17 pm
It's moving North.
The police have posted that the A66 will be closed at the snow gates at 2pm.
Steady snow all morning here in the N. Pennines, settling but not a big accumulation   -  yet

Everything that can be charged has been done, AGA on flat out, thermoses filled.
No, you really can't expect us to trust you, Northern Powergrid.
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Post by: chrisbainbridge on 09 March, 2023, 02:18:03 pm
Thick lying snow with more falling and roads covered in slush on the A6 in north derby.

person from ulverson said it was totally clear until he turned off M6 at newcastle!
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Post by: Wombat on 09 March, 2023, 03:48:40 pm
About 150mm of it here in the middle of Powys, the farmer behind us has semi-cleared the road with his tractor and snowplough (the local authority certainly aren't ever going to do it!) so folk in 4x4's can get about, but we are still snowbound, not having a big chunky 4x4.  He needs to get it clear so the milk tanker can get through. 

Forecast to get down to -10 tomorrow night.

We have plentiful stocks of wood for the stove, and food, as we have to do these things, living in the sticks as we do.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 09 March, 2023, 06:10:19 pm
No snow here, just a bit of rainy sleet. The forecast says it’s snowing now but no precipitation of any kind.
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Post by: diapsaon0 on 09 March, 2023, 08:24:13 pm
Warm today in Somerset - lots of rain and mizzle though.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 March, 2023, 12:03:28 am
Cold, wet & horble in That London though at least it stopped raining while I was on the subterranean hometrip blue line.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 10 March, 2023, 05:23:25 am
I’m quite surprised how mild it is here, considering what is going on Oop Noorth. The temperature is currently 8.3°C, having reached a positively tropical 8.8°C at 1.50am.

-10°C forecast for Matlock for 24 hours’ time.
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Post by: Polar Bear on 10 March, 2023, 06:34:00 am
Rugby has had more snow overnight filling in the thaw gaps and it is now lightly topping up.  The forecast says that this top up dose will continue for the next few hours.

There was a lot of surface water yesterday evening so I suspect that beneath the pristine surface of snow lurks many an icy patch. 
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 10 March, 2023, 07:10:12 am
Snow overnight. A thin layer did settle so I just took a picture for the record because it is melting away fast. No more is forecast. In fact Monday might be 13C, they say.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: L CC on 10 March, 2023, 08:00:33 am
About 15cm here. No chance of me getting to swim this morning, RWD vans don't like snow.
Reckon it'll be gone by mid afternoon.
Title: Re: It's snowing!
Post by: Basil on 10 March, 2023, 08:22:19 am
The weather gizmo on my phone tells me that it is currently snowing.
It isn't.
It's been telling me it's snowing for several days now and, appart for a couple of hours earlier in the week, this has not been correct.
This, I believe,  is because the information is for a weather station 6.5 km away at 181 metres elevation.  Llandysul is only at 70 meters.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 10 March, 2023, 08:37:03 am
No more snow here, just white dusting (maybe 1, 2cm) from the past few days, melted in patches. Below zero every night, so it is crisp and crunchy out there.
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Post by: Canardly on 10 March, 2023, 08:48:16 am
Bit of a blizzard here atm due to wind - Cambs. Hopefully higher temps later will improve things.
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Post by: Basil on 10 March, 2023, 08:50:18 am
Sunny blue skies here.
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Post by: Flite on 10 March, 2023, 08:59:35 am
Proper snowdrifts in the Durham Dales this morning
Just had to cancel oh appointment for eye injection (AMD) in B.Auckland, hope he doesn't have to wait too long for another
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Post by: Basil on 10 March, 2023, 09:22:02 am
Sunny blue skies here.

Well that changed completely, very quickly.
Good old Llandysmal. :-\
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Post by: Beardy on 10 March, 2023, 10:08:21 am
This mornings rain has now turned to snow, but it’s obv not settling. With the current cloud cover it’s unlikely to get cold enough for the weather to be anything other than wet and miserable.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 March, 2023, 10:18:29 am
There was a teeny tiny film of snow here over night but it's lovely and sunny now.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 10 March, 2023, 10:46:37 am
All gone here and the sun is out. The severe weather alert has been cancelled.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 10 March, 2023, 10:48:23 am
I’m quite surprised how mild it is here, considering what is going on Oop Noorth. The temperature is currently 8.3°C, having reached a positively tropical 8.8°C at 1.50am.

-10°C forecast for Matlock for 24 hours’ time.

Since I wrote that, the temperature has dropped to 2.3°C and it has started to snow. Not settling, of course.

We've postponed our trip to Matlock. Jan would have risked a massive asthma attack going out in -6°C, which is what is forecast for 7pm Matlock. Then there's the sheet ice to deal with as the temperature is forecast to drop 5° in an hour around sunset.
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Post by: Beardy on 10 March, 2023, 11:00:22 am
Contrary to my earlier post, the snow is now settling on roofs and grass, but is still not settling on the road or garden path. My weather station is now reporting a temperature of 0.8*C
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 March, 2023, 11:06:37 am
To the great surprise of absolutely no-one it is still raining in E17.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 March, 2023, 11:18:16 am
Me and Pumpkin are sunning ourselves on the patio, looking at the snow on the garden and listening to the starlings popping and squeaking.
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Post by: Salvatore on 10 March, 2023, 01:18:21 pm
My sister and my cousin, who are in Scotland at the mo, reported snow on the Mournes this morning.
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Post by: TimC on 10 March, 2023, 01:30:31 pm
Quite a snowstorm in my bit of Suffolk this morning (around 10). It accumulated to about 2" depth in half an hour, and had all melted by 1pm.
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Post by: De Sisti on 10 March, 2023, 03:49:37 pm
I woke up this morning here
(click to show/hide)
to watch the falling snow stick. By mid-morning it had all melted away,
although you can still see some on the surrounding hills.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 10 March, 2023, 05:38:42 pm
Lovely sunny afternoon in York despite the news stories.
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Post by: campagman on 11 March, 2023, 08:40:10 pm
Pleased to see that the snow melt has refilled my water butt. I had drained it to repair a crack. The repair seems to be holding too.
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Post by: T42 on 12 March, 2023, 08:55:31 am
A bit of snow on the roof this morning. Tomorrow the forecast is for 20°C and thunderstorms.  :o

The forecast-reliability index for the next week is all over the shop too.
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Post by: Jaded on 12 March, 2023, 09:10:26 am
There was more lying snow in Cumbria yesterday than in Scotlandland. Almost nothing by the Beeftub road.

Last night there were some flakes. Today, wind. Apparently it will be 9 degrees today.
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 12 March, 2023, 09:15:53 am
It's going to shit it down later
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 12 March, 2023, 05:32:58 pm
We expect to be lashed by Storm Larissa :smug:.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 14 March, 2023, 08:06:30 am
It snowed overnight.
Temp plunged from high of 4 yesterday (all snow melted in the rain and sleet), to about -3.

Fields and trees currently looking very pretty in the snow. Not sure if we'll get more.

It is lovely, but this is the start of lambing season, so not very welcome. Better than wet sleet of course.
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Post by: rafletcher on 14 March, 2023, 08:42:34 am
It snowed here atop the Chilterns - for about 10 minutes.
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Post by: Pingu on 26 March, 2023, 12:15:32 pm
Truthful light snobes in Furryboottoon just now.
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Post by: hatler on 26 March, 2023, 02:45:17 pm
It's apparently snowing quite heavily in the Alps.

All a bit irritating as my latest jaunt has had to be postponed. Bah.
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Post by: Pingu on 28 November, 2023, 06:45:00 pm
First snow of the season in Furryboottoon this afternoon ❄️❄️
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Post by: T42 on 29 November, 2023, 08:52:37 am
Here too this morning. Couple of cm, probably won't last.
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Post by: quixoticgeek on 29 November, 2023, 12:40:57 pm


We got snow. But it didn't settle and was soon replaced by rain.

J
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Post by: T42 on 29 November, 2023, 12:47:09 pm
Here too this morning. Couple of cm, probably won't last.

Rats. Still falling, big fluffy flakes that usually mean it's about to turn into rain. But it's been like that for the last 3 hours now.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 29 November, 2023, 05:55:13 pm
Awaiting the London snow maggeddon.
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Post by: Auntie Helen on 29 November, 2023, 06:02:57 pm
Was a bit surprised to find sno outside this morning. The velomobile commute was fine except for a couple of minor drive wheel traction issues.
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Post by: ian on 29 November, 2023, 08:12:14 pm
No snow forecast, but much cold. I did dedicate 30 minutes to my civic duty and gritted the entire hill. Not entirely altruistic, the lady of the house requires use of the car tomorrow, and she has nice hair again.
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Post by: Flite on 29 November, 2023, 09:49:07 pm
Yep - enough to make me wonder if I will be able to get the cat to the vet in the morning.
It's just for a check up and blood tests, so if we cant go it's not desperate.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 30 November, 2023, 05:02:51 am


Snow forces closures of main roads near Scarborough - latest on A171 and A169
Both the A169 Whitby to Pickering Road and the A171 Scarborough to Whitby Road were closed overnight.

 (https://www.thescarboroughnews.co.uk/news/transport/snow-forces-closures-of-main-roads-near-scarborough-latest-on-a171-and-a169-4426932)

We had planned a trip to Whitby today, but decided we’ll go out in York, instead.
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Post by: Regulator on 30 November, 2023, 09:56:05 am
No snow here - we've got freezing fog and very icy roads.  We've had one car crash in the village already this morning (dickhead driver jumping a red light and skidding on an ice patch).
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Post by: Efrogwr on 30 November, 2023, 09:16:02 pm
Y Wyddfa is living up to its English name today.
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Post by: ElyDave on 01 December, 2023, 07:46:42 am
Very light dusting of snow over the ice on the car this morning, very tricksy on our single track ungritted lane even with the 4x4 grip of the Xtrail, all four wheels can happily go sideways at once in those conditions.
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Post by: nicknack on 01 December, 2023, 10:38:37 am
Snowing in north Kent.
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Post by: JefO on 01 December, 2023, 11:25:55 am
Fortunately in South Essex... Snow going, sun is out, according to SWMBO.
I am in full on December mode, bah-humbugging every couple of minutes.
Refusing to look out the window, heating on and turned up, sore throat and as miserable as I can muster.
Not a fan of snow.
Not a fan of Christmas.
Roll on January
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Post by: TimC on 01 December, 2023, 12:04:42 pm
The only advantage of January is Christmas is over. It tends to be snowier and colder than December, so bugger that. Roll on May.
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Post by: JefO on 01 December, 2023, 06:01:29 pm
Training starts 3rd week in January. I don't ride indoors. Praying my Achilles injury is fixed by then. 
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Post by: Feanor on 01 December, 2023, 07:25:28 pm
First winter hike of the season, Morven in Aberdeenshire.

The snow level was right around the car park, and it got progressively deeper the higher we climbed. The paths were all in-filled, and not very obvious. It helped to know where you were going. There was not a breath of wind, and the low cloud on the Howe of Cromar burned off by the time we were half way up, allowing for panoramic views in every direction.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53368155062_352a134f0f_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2piXKbw)
Morven 1-12-23 (https://flic.kr/p/2piXKbw) by Ron Lowe (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62966413@N04/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53368155202_c61b244f84_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2piXKdW)
Morven 1-12-23 (https://flic.kr/p/2piXKdW) by Ron Lowe (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62966413@N04/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53369057971_1fa5fdaa06_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2pj3nzV)
Morven 1-12-23 (https://flic.kr/p/2pj3nzV) by Ron Lowe (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62966413@N04/), on Flickr
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Post by: Wowbagger on 01 December, 2023, 08:00:23 pm
I am informed that it snew in Southend this morning, but we were in Nottinghamshire so didn't witness it. I was told around 9am that it was snowing, but the weather station didn't record any precipitation until after 11, so I would imagine that by that time it was thawing and had turned to rain.

We are just on the edge of the yellow "severe weather warning" area for the east coast, but the forecast for our location is for no snow, so I would be surprised if we got any.
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Post by: JellyLegs on 01 December, 2023, 11:37:20 pm
All of half a dozen tiny flakes seen while heading north on the A12 at Witham this morning.  The Daily Fail will no doubt say Essex was blanketed in snow.
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Post by: FifeingEejit on 02 December, 2023, 12:48:03 pm
Good 7cm on one of my door steps, not progressed to a state of being able to stray further yet as it's scuppered my plans.

Sent from my IV2201 using Tapatalk
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20231202/cad07b4548c9541e68edf712b4f51354.jpg)
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 03 December, 2023, 06:36:53 am
Snowed lightly all night by the look of it. Pavements are going to be slippery. The 10 day trend is for warmer weather I’m glad to see
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Post by: MikeFromLFE on 03 December, 2023, 08:51:04 am
Fairly heavy fall between 2-3am (according to the camera) giving what looks like a few cm coverage that's now starting to thaw.
(just west of Leicester)
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Post by: JonBuoy on 03 December, 2023, 09:28:00 am
I'm just north of Leicester and was resigned to a drab, cold Sunday and a session on the turbo.
When I pulled back the curtains I found an inch of snow to go and play in on the MTB :thumbsup:
Further inspection showed it was soggy stuff and probably not going to last long with rising temperatures and rain forecast.  Its back to the turbo  :(
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Post by: barakta on 03 December, 2023, 01:52:42 pm
We had maybe a centimetre of light snow at about 1-2am last night in Silly Oak, Middle Earth (Birmingham). The students (who probably haven't ever seen proper sno) were scraping it off cars to have a snowball fight, which I couldn't begrudge them.

My mum's sent photos of my neiphews playing in the snow at her house in Disley (Cheshire) where they're near the top of a great big hill so often get several cm of snow a year and have a large lawn for snowball fights and such.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 03 December, 2023, 05:02:09 pm
Not a single bit of snow here, but really impressive frost.

Crystals growing on everything (including our roof, stupid cat had real problems coming back down).

I wanted to clean the gutters today; no chance, they are full of solid ice to the brim.

The sea lochs have a skim of ice, in some places it has formed little jagged iceburgs. I suspect this is fresh water from streams freezing on top of the salt water.
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Post by: road-runner on 04 December, 2023, 12:04:07 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/O3jBk38.jpg)

The view from our balcony this morning. On the other side of the mountains is Poland.

We have a had a few snowflakes here and there. Last night was -18°C.
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Post by: matthew on 08 January, 2024, 06:07:02 pm
Nothing settled but we did have a couple of good flurries earlier this afternoon in the Reading area.

More water into the already flooding Thames...
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Post by: SteveC on 08 January, 2024, 06:17:37 pm
Snow here in Somerset. Wasn't laying when I popped out to the garage just now, but the patio table had a light covering.
I need to drive in tomorrow whatever as I have an appointment in town at lunchtime.
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Post by: Pingu on 14 January, 2024, 10:56:15 am
We have the white stuff in Furryboottoon.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 14 January, 2024, 12:34:34 pm
This morning it's been blue skies and sunshine with temp a little above zero.  I was a bit surprised when very fine snow started to fall out of nowhere. It didn't last very long. Not the slightest chance it could settle.
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Post by: De Sisti on 14 January, 2024, 03:35:03 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/O3jBk38.jpg)

The view from our balcony this morning. On the other side of the mountains is Poland.

We have a had a few snowflakes here and there. Last night was -18°C.
Where?
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Post by: rafletcher on 14 January, 2024, 03:43:55 pm
Slovakia I believe.
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Post by: road-runner on 14 January, 2024, 04:20:27 pm
Where?
Slovakia I believe.

That is correct. To be more precise, the mountains are the High Tatras.
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Post by: T42 on 15 January, 2024, 08:58:10 am
A dusting of powder, still falling, due to continue all day.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 15 January, 2024, 09:10:08 am
Just a dusting here. White and pretty, but it is only just covering the grass.

More sprinklings on the way though, so we might get enough to sledge.
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Post by: Regulator on 15 January, 2024, 12:05:05 pm
Where?
Slovakia I believe.

That is correct. To be more precise, the mountains are the High Tatras.

There's a couple of interesting pilgrimage trails around there I believe (although I'm not sure if they're more in the Carpathians than the Tatras).
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Post by: road-runner on 15 January, 2024, 02:41:45 pm
There's a couple of interesting pilgrimage trails around there I believe (although I'm not sure if they're more in the Carpathians than the Tatras).

The High Tatras are the taller end of the Carpathian mountains. The tallest peak is pretty much in the centre of my photo, the one with a more rounded top, on which I see snow for 10 months of the year.

As for pilgrimage trails, I haven't a clue. Sorry.
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Post by: andrewc on 16 January, 2024, 07:14:56 am
Snow in Liverpool. Looks like a couple of inches overnight.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 16 January, 2024, 08:46:01 am
Bit more overnight. looking at the picnic table, I reckon we have about 8-9cm 11cm lying, with a lot more on the way (looks at dark clouds). Just been and checked. Really decent snow, makes great snowballs.

It is remaining below zero, so any snow that falls is staying.

Roads are well gritted, but our car is starting to look a bit buried. No need to go out though.
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Post by: T42 on 16 January, 2024, 02:42:32 pm
It went on all day yesterday, was crunchy this morning, melted away from roads & footpaths now.

The Law here says that we're liable if someone is injured in falling on pavement that we haven't cleared. Great: cardiologist won't let me ride if it's less than 5°C but the Law says I've got to shovel snow in -6°?  Verily, the Law is an Arse.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 January, 2024, 02:53:22 pm
So if you're prevented from clearing the pavement by your cardiologist, he's liable if someone falls on it. Solved!

Waddaya mean, "pas selon la loi"?*

*I'm sure the French is bad too.
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Post by: ian on 16 January, 2024, 09:24:44 pm
It went on all day yesterday, was crunchy this morning, melted away from roads & footpaths now.

The Law here says that we're liable if someone is injured in falling on pavement that we haven't cleared. Great: cardiologist won't let me ride if it's less than 5°C but the Law says I've got to shovel snow in -6°?  Verily, the Law is an Arse.


In the US, my elderly neighbours solved this problem by making their neighbour – me – do it.
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Post by: Snakehips on 17 January, 2024, 05:42:28 pm
I think here you would be more liable if somebody injured themselves on a bit of pavement that you had cleared. If it was the only clear bit it would be obvious who was to blame.
I once made the mistake of clearing the pavement outside my house. After the damp snow had refrozen my cleared bit became a sheet of ice. Local kids came to play on it.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 17 January, 2024, 06:14:07 pm
The government advice:

https://www.gov.uk/clear-snow-road-path-cycleway

So, they can’t get you if you do nothing. Otherwise..
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Post by: Flite on 17 January, 2024, 07:50:05 pm
This morning all around was sheet ice.
We didn't need to go out the front door, but as we were expecting delivery of a small parcel, we gritted the path from the gate at the road to the front door.
Silly sod of a delivery driver jumped over the wall instead of using the path!
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 18 January, 2024, 08:20:05 am
Forecast was for 3mm of snow overnight, 2C.

Reality is another 3CM of snow and -1.

Currently 18cm according to the picnic table gauge. Would have to shovel snow to get car out.

Would be quite happy with this, but we are running out of heating oil. Ordered it over a week ago, might not get a delivery for another 7 days.

Oh well, if it comes to it, I can relocate my office in the living room and keep the peat fire going during the day.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 January, 2024, 08:28:29 am
Snowed another couple of cm here overnight. I was concerned my taxi was going to struggle but it was bang on time. Now I'm just delayed at the airport by an hour so far, let's hope it's not longer than that...
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 18 January, 2024, 09:52:18 am
About 3mm of lying snow. Falling from an almost blue sky with the sun shining.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 February, 2024, 07:44:46 pm
Snowing here. Fckoff.
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Post by: De Sisti on 07 February, 2024, 08:37:33 am
Not snowing here.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 07 February, 2024, 08:58:31 am
Forecast - 3mm snow, rain in morning

Reality - 3cm of snow, no rain.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 07 February, 2024, 10:49:47 am
We have a yellow warning for 24 hours Thurs 0600 - Friday 0600.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 08 February, 2024, 09:05:26 am
No snow, changed to light rain warning.
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Post by: andrewc on 08 February, 2024, 09:35:10 am
A few snowflakes amidst the drizzle, but it's not going to stick.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 08 February, 2024, 11:04:01 am
Now it’s snowing and starting to settle but the temperature is forecast too high for it not to melt PDQ.  Will precipitate til Friday night by which time it’ll be 8C.

Took a picture for posterity.
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Post by: chrisbainbridge on 08 February, 2024, 11:59:47 am
We started with rain, turned to sleet, then snow.  Lay for about an hour and a half, now turned to slush but looking increasingly icy.

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Post by: Jasmine on 08 February, 2024, 02:14:40 pm
It's not snowing - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2qewvnn5rko

Flintshire council decided yesterday to close all schools today die to predicted snow. It didn't snow at all, and now parents are angry.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 08 February, 2024, 04:12:22 pm
Sleety snow stopped here about an hour ago. Just barely a centimetre on parts of the ground.
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Post by: Flite on 08 February, 2024, 04:20:18 pm
Been snowing in our bit of the N. Pennines since about 9am.
Somewhat half-hearted, but beginning to accumulate now, and visibility on higher roads getting poor.
Due to stop sometime tomorrow...
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Post by: Ruthie on 08 February, 2024, 04:21:35 pm
It’s properly laid here in Castleton and is ver’ pretty and cold.
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 08 February, 2024, 09:30:57 pm
Snow warning cancelled due to lack of snow,
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 February, 2024, 11:46:24 pm
It started snowing halfway through the first lesson this morning. The kids were so engrossed in their stop motion animation work that they *didn't* run to the windows, shout, make a fuss, get distracted etc and many of them didn't even notice! And second lesson the next class came in high as kites and somewhat soggy, and then got interested enough in binary and game states that they settled down and just got on with the lesson.

Weird!
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Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 09 February, 2024, 07:37:25 am
Rain seems to have been falling all night and still falling. If it had fallen as snow as originally forecast it’d be pretty deep.

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Post by: JonBuoy on 09 February, 2024, 07:48:03 am
The promised snow in the Leicester area never happened - falling as rain.  The local river level gauge (https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/station/2142) is 'High' and still rising.  We also have more rain forecast today so I am expecting the return of the floods.  Must remember to check that they don't impact the weekend's club rides.
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Post by: L CC on 09 February, 2024, 09:28:14 am
There's still snow here, despite the stuff falling being liquid. 230m ASL
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Post by: Jaded on 02 March, 2024, 07:44:55 am
We have snow in deepest Gloucestershire. Won’t last, though.
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Post by: De Sisti on 02 March, 2024, 07:58:41 am
We have snow in deepest Gloucestershire. Won’t last, though.
Not in the Centre for the Cotswolds at the moment.
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 02 March, 2024, 08:32:12 am
Some of my friends have packed from the March Madness audax they were riding. One, after his chain and cassette frozen.  It heads its way into the Forest of Dean, which is pretty high up.
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Post by: Rod Marton on 02 March, 2024, 08:50:25 am
Some of my friends have packed from the March Madness audax they were riding. One, after his chain and cassette frozen.  It heads its way into the Forest of Dean, which is pretty high up.
I didn't even get that far. Had planned to ride to the start, got as far as the road outside my house and realised it would be silly to ride in those conditions. It might have been better in the lowlands of Tewkesbury, but I am fairly high up and would have another lump to get over before reaching the start.
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Post by: toontra on 02 March, 2024, 11:36:00 am
Settled snow in Wiltshire but melting rapidly.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 March, 2024, 03:26:03 pm
Snow in east Bristol but less in the western and central regions. None in south Bristol. All gone now, it's been raining solidly all morning.