Snow.........is coming

[rich p]

What, you call that weather!!!111!!!

Tch, you soft southerner!

I never said it was bad weather, you long haired git.

 

[Accy cyclist]

All the big build up, then a short hailstorm shower followed by a few millimeters of snow which disappeared after the rain fell! It's a bit breezy out there but nowhere near as cold as they said it'd be. Talk about panicking over nothing!

 

[jhawk]

Sorry, I laughed at this. Living in Canada, ya'know. Zero degrees is shorts and t-shirt weather! "Snow." Well, that's this:

The Bay of Fundy's tidal flow is partially frozen.

 

[slowmotion]

Martin Kettle in the Guardian called it "Weather Porn". I think he may have a point.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/18/weather-forecast-british-warning-cold

BTW, don't Google "Weather porn" as I did trying to find the piece I read in The Week.

 

[Twinks]

Traffic stuck in snow outside on Chunal right now. Off to do horses now before going to work, where's the gritter? It was running about like a blue arsed flea yesterday in the rain!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Some one had a very lucky escape last night

A missing woman was found after a three-hour search in blizzard conditions in the Scottish Borders.

The Tweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team was called out at 17:00 on Wednesday to help in the search for the woman in the Innerleithen area.

Despite the atrocious conditions, a Royal Navy Seaking helicopter from HMS Gannet was also scrambled and used its infrared camera to assist in the search.

The woman, who was unconscious, was eventually found by a search and rescue dog about 10 metres off a forest track and airlifted to hospital

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

These captions can be amusing, when we get some snow, cyclists are reported as 'venturing out' while at the same time the poor motorists are 'battling Arctic conditions'. .'

Don't forget the dog walker who was apparently enjoying the conditions!


No snow here this morning btw.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Not much here, just half an inch or so. Very cold though, only about 1 degree daytime yesterday, currently minus 1.5.

 

[nickyboy]

Traffic stuck in snow outside on Chunal right now. Off to do horses now before going to work, where's the gritter? It was running about like a blue arsed flea yesterday in the rain!

No traffic in Simmondley either, no gritting last night. School bus cancelled so we've told son#2 to get over to the train station. He's not happy, thought it'd be a sledging day

 

[summerdays]

Nothing here and it doesn't look as though we will get any much to my disappointment especially as I'm not particulary busy at the moment so could enjoy a day off! And I'm not sure it looks any snowier in London this weekend either.

 

[nickyboy]

= about 50mph on the tops. I'm betting on the Snake Pass closing around 10pm tonight and not reopening until Sunday at the earliest.

I was spot on re timing, I'm getting better at this. Twitter full of stories of folk stranded in Snake Pass Inn. Taking that road (which tops ou at more than 1600ft) was a bit stupid last night

 

[Piemaster]

Sorry, I laughed at this. Living in Canada, ya'know. Zero degrees is shorts and t-shirt weather! "Snow." Well, that's this:

The Bay of Fundy's tidal flow is partially frozen.

A lot of years ago I worked on ships going up the St.Lawrence to Montreal. Had the pilot walk out to the ship over the ice a couple of times .
I used to get odd looks from the stevedores by standing on the deck in T-shirt and shorts when it was snowing. They didn't realise I was standing in front of an engine room door in a blast of hot air coming through it.

 

[potsy]

We got the snow now, traffic on the main road is at a near standstill

 

[nickyboy]

Don't think my 23mm slicks would be much use today

 

[MarkF]

1" deep here, god knows how many are under there, schools shut, roads blocked (drivers kitted out they are auditioning for Ice Road Truckers), funny as owt.