Drago's now traditional Winter 2024-25 murder deathkill slaughter annihilation apocalypse chaos mayhem insanity nastiness weather thread

[ebikeerwidnes]

So its the middle of winter and it might snow on the top of the mountains??

I'm at sea level (plus a bit) so I don;t think I will need the ice axe just yet

anyway - Met Office says its going to be windy tonight
I will be watching next door's posh canopy thing with interest!!!

(best thing would be if the sycamore in the woods at the back falls down - as long as it falls the right way!!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Just back from first Solstice ride

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

According to someone, presumably not used to snowfalls, this was described as "heavy"
See 4th photograph, Portmahomac (above Inverness, on the east coast)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3104v552jo

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Blimey it’s hit bad

 

[fossyant]

According to someone, presumably not used to snowfalls, this was described as "heavy"
See 4th photograph, Portmahomac (above Inverness, on the east coast)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3104v552jo

Probably a Londoner !

 

[Drago]

When I were a lad heavy snow meant 5 or 6 feet, halfway up the ground floor windows, and the RAF dropping in bread and tinned food via helicopter.

Today the media think heavy snow means 2".

 

[Windle]

Winters always seemed to be worse years ago, with far more snow than now, perhaps it seemed worse / better (?) because we were kids.
The worst snow we've had where we live now was back in 2001, our first winter living here, February 28th to be precise. We're nearly 800 feet up and completely exposed to the North, so when the wind & snow comes from there we get hammered by it. It had started blowing a gale the night before, then came blizzards, the power went off about 8pm (and wasn't back on until the following tea time). By the morning all was silent, the road past us is quiet but there're always some vehicles coming past on a morning, not that day though. When I ventured out of the front door there was about a foot and a half of snow laid in front of the house ~ only because that was the sheltered part. Once out of the village end where the snow had a clear run to blow in it must have been over three feet deep, completely filling the road between the hedge line to the north and the wall of Raby castle estate to the South, a giant snow drift. It was nearly over the garden wall out the back and the field behind had huge wave like crests that must have been three or four feet deep in places. The road was eventually cleared by about 2 - 3 pm, two JCBs had worked their way up from the main road, about a mile east, shovelling the snow away. I heard them way off in the distance when I was out in the garden. Luckily it's never been as bad again!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

When I were a lad heavy snow meant 5 or 6 feet, halfway up the ground floor windows, and the RAF dropping in bread and tinned food via helicopter.

Today the media think heavy snow means 2".

to be fair you did grow up somewhere near the North Pole!

 

[grldtnr]

A little bit of frost overnight, and a false impression of a light snow shower, In reality it was Chris Rea whooshing through in his Porta Potty, shedding Dandruff every where , he won't use Head & Shoulders

 

[fossyant]

A little bit of frost overnight, and a false impression of a light snow shower, In reality it was Chris Rea whooshing through in his Porta Potty, shedding Dandruff every where , he won't use Head & Shoulders

Poor Chris Rea, all these fibs.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I went for a walk yesterday and when I came back there was some of those little balls of snowey stuff falling
I think I have heard them called "snow rice"

which was the worst it got - unless you include rain

 

[Drago]

to be fair you did grow up somewhere near the North Pole!

We used to get regular snow there from October through to April or even May, but while it was frequent it was rare that it was any real volume. Little and often.

 

[grldtnr]

Poor Chris Rea, all these fibs.

Which is the whole point of the thread, about Chris, I don't damnedest to cross thread it with 'real' ones.
Nothing like disinformation, it's the modern way!

 

[Dogtrousers]

Winters always seemed to be worse years ago, with far more snow than now, perhaps it seemed worse / better (?) because we were kids.

Well, that and the fact that they were worse.

Today the media think heavy snow means 2".

Well, relatively speaking 2" is heavy. If "heavy" means "close to the maximum that you are likely to get".

It's definitely a bit nippy today.

 

[Alex321]

Well, that and the fact that they were worse.

I'm not so sure they really were that much worse. Though I think that depends a lot on where you live(d) in the country.

In our last house, where we lived from Jan 2000 to Dec 2019, we would expect to have at least a few days every year when we could not get out (even with winter tyres) unless we had moved the car to the top of the hill before or soon after the snow started. And usually with enough snow on the hill behind the house for me to be able to ski on it. One winter the snow did not completely clear from the ground from late December until early March.

Admittedly, that was just inside the Brecon Beacons national park, but only at an altitude of about 300m. About 20 miles direct line from the nearest bit of coast.

Well, relatively speaking 2" is heavy. If "heavy" means "close to the maximum that you are likely to get".

It's definitely a bit nippy today.

I have never thought of the depth of lying snow being a determinant of how "heavy" a snowstorm is.

I have always thought of that as determined by how much is actually falling at any time.

If you can hardly see through it, then it is "heavy", but if it only lasts half an hour, it will probably only have left a couple of cm on the ground, while a "light" fall that carries on for 12 hours may well leave 15-20cm on the ground by the end.