Author Topic: It's snowing! (Read 639480 times)

Vince · « **Reply #3975 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.

bumper · « **Reply #3976 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.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3977 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.

woollypigs · « **Reply #3978 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.

tiermat · « **Reply #3979 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.

mcshroom · « **Reply #3980 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

woollypigs · « **Reply #3981 on:** 27 March, 2013, 10:47:50 am »

Fluffy snow for an hour now, sadly not frosty enough to stay

Noodley · « **Reply #3982 on:** 27 March, 2013, 12:09:45 pm »

F*cking snow.

Andrij · « **Reply #3983 on:** 27 March, 2013, 05:10:53 pm »

Some folk are enjoying it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21938673

matthew · « **Reply #3984 on:** 27 March, 2013, 06:04:55 pm »

Quote from: 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.

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.

SteveC · « **Reply #3985 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.

bumper · « **Reply #3986 on:** 27 March, 2013, 06:56:25 pm »

I should be on Mull in two weeks time. I hope its buggered off by then!

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3987 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

	Jan	Feb	Mar
2011	8	13	19
2012	12	13	24
2013	10	4	2

woollypigs · « **Reply #3988 on:** 27 March, 2013, 10:29:16 pm »

Quote from: matthew on 27 March, 2013, 06:04:55 pm

Quote from: 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.
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

Vince · « **Reply #3989 on:** 29 March, 2013, 05:34:47 pm »

Cold north easterly wind and lots of big fluffy flakes falling out of the sky.

Bledlow · « **Reply #3990 on:** 29 March, 2013, 05:59:12 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 27 March, 2013, 06:58:39 pm

The following table shows the number of days the temperature ventured above 10°C for the past 3 years

Jan Feb Mar
2011 8 13 19
2012 12 13 24
2013 10 4 2

That's impressive.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3991 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.

Wobbly John · « **Reply #3992 on:** 29 March, 2013, 07:35:10 pm »

Well, that's the first time I've planted potatoes in the snow.

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.

hellymedic · « **Reply #3993 on:** 30 March, 2013, 03:41:32 pm »

I saw SNO while doing the washing-up today at 15.00 GMT 30 March 2013.

Andrij · « **Reply #3994 on:** 30 March, 2013, 05:00:05 pm »

A colleague posted on FaceAche earlier today that there is snow in Greenwich.

cycleman · « **Reply #3995 on:** 30 March, 2013, 09:36:40 pm »

just a icy rain shower this afternoon in slough . not enough to make the ground wet

Canardly · « **Reply #3996 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=

Asterix, the former Gaul. · « **Reply #3997 on:** 31 March, 2013, 12:11:11 pm »

Quote from: 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=

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.

rafletcher · « **Reply #3998 on:** 31 March, 2013, 04:19:36 pm »

My wife will be pleased - she lands in Lanzarote later today, and returns in 2 weeks.

Bledlow · « **Reply #3999 on:** 31 March, 2013, 09:02:47 pm »

Please, please, please let it be true!