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

[vernon]

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.

I spent nearly an hour and a half on the Stanningly bypass trying to get to work in Buttershaw before the school decided to close. I never reached Bradford. The irony was that I was on clear roads for the seven mile one and three quarter hour outward leg.

 

[paddypete]

its about 4-5inches in glasgow,need to get my raleigh 4x4 out

 

[Cuchilo]

The sun is out in London

 

[I like Skol]

its about 4-5inches in glasgow

It must be the cold, I've got 6" in Manchester. Oh wait, are we talking about the snow

 

[ColinJ]

It must be the cold, I've got 6" in Manchester. Oh wait, are we talking about the snow

The rest lost to frostbite, eh?

 

[potsy]

Are we talking about length, of hair?

 

[Globalti]

It's just taken me 4 hours 15 to drive a 45 minute commute. Up on the tops near Accrington the road was sheet of water ice; you could have chipped off bits for your G&T. They aren't gritting the roads.

 

[Cuchilo]

Might go for a ride in Richmond park at lunch time . Anyone fancy a picnic ?

 

[paddypete]

Might go for a ride in Richmond park at lunch time . Anyone fancy a picnic ?

sausages

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Well it tried showing here but failed. We now have light rain.
And as I look up it is trying again.

 

[Cuchilo]

sausages

Not for me , bloody kill you those things will !

 

[totallyfixed]

Not often I get to hijack a snow thread with an earthquake, so I'm going to milk it a teeny bit.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31032930

I have to agree with the link that @slowmotion posted about the Met Office / BBC being alarmist, it is a rare day when there isn't a weather alert issued by the Met Office for somewhere in the UK. It's January, it's winter, what exactly are we expecting? Not an earthquake that's for sure.

 

[mybike]

Barometer lowest its been this month, fell fast, & precipitation expected. Sun has warmed things up tho'.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

The Cheshire gap is well known for having its own weather system that is totally different to all areas around it.

Not an earthquake that's for sure.

Growing up in the potteries in the 70's and early 80's we grew used to earth tremors caused by frequent collapsing of old mining tunnels and it was not unknown for plates and pictures to fall off the wall of their own accord, roads to disappear etc

 

[TVC]

Sky News have just reported that it is snowing in Aviemore.

Wow, if it is snowing at the national ski centre in January then things must be bad.