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I hope not!

We're supposed to be going to Glencoe for the w/e.

The webcam at the King's House is amusing at the moment:

http://www.kingy.com/

But the ones down the road are a little more promising:

http://www.trafficscotland.org/lev/index.aspx

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You may well be stuffed, north of here has had it far worse than we have. But if you fancy coming to our part of the west Highlands instead, you could always drop in for a cuppa. ;)

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took me longer to get to work today than Tuesday and the snow is clearing now.

Does anyone know if TFL \ South Eastern are offering a refund. It now seems that not only do I have a standing only, not at weekends and not late at night travelcard, it also doesn't work during the snow.

My friend from eastern Europe was why don't we just fit studded tyres every winter, sure we might not get this type of snow every year, but it would help for the cold mornings with ice and black ice and the times when we do get snow

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:Yes::Yes::Yes::Yes::Yes::Yes:
I`m green with envy,half dozen times over.

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Snowing here again in North London, heavy aswell...

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6" or so here, and still falling - it's knocked out the Sky!!!!! Oh Noes - the world is ending :D

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Well after staying open up to now both my children's schools are shut. :dozey:

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Clear as a bell round here..:)

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A light dusting on the roof tops here. With heavy snow forecast for 9am, I'm off to Tesco now just in case.

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Lots of snow in Nottingham!!

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Hope the Brother-in-Law made it OK. He was travelling from West Oxfordshire to the West Midlands at 6am to get home (right through the middle of the the snowbound area). :Yikes:

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Well, because I was due to go away this week we didn't do any shopping at the weekend.

We've now run out of food.

One way or another I'm going to have to get to the shops :erm:

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rob you should be able to get something, just out of interest where you going and how?

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See if your local supermarket is still delivering and shop on-line ;)

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Not sure yet.

Can't get to the local Tesco, that's a 5 mile drive - probably end up walking to the garage (about a mile and a half) or the nearest supermarket (a Rainbow) which is about 2 and a half miles away.

Can't drive, the local roads here are knackered - people have been leaving for work this morning in their cars and then coming back about 20 minutes later.....

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Rained last night so really icy across all the roads. Have no idea if college is on or if the trains are running. Might just go back to bed with a cuppa.

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Yep, loads here,kids are off, going to be fun going to work :)

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We're virtually back to normal now. There's still some snow on grassy areas, but since it's raining lightly now I expect that will all go today. Side roads might be a bit slushy, but it's now safer to drive than walk given the ice still on some pavements. Seems like the northern rather than sourthern home counties got the snow last night.

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Survived the walk - this is our main road, as you can see it's been really well gritted :erm:

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A couple of shots from here in sunny Potton.

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It is snowing but not sticking.

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Snowed here overnight starting about 4am

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Brother-in-law got back ok (he was driving a 40' wagon).

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Arent we supposed to get more snow tonight?

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Yep.

They're predicting more of the same across the bottom of the country, it's completely scuppered my plans for the week - normally that wouldn't be an issue, but it's putting some extremely critical work in jeapordy :(

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Didn't have much hassle with the snow we had on Sun\Mon. Car was icebound on Tues so I couldn't get to work, Wed was ok clear roads, but today, well. Snowing when I got up and in 2 minds to try and get to work (17 miles each way) Thought I would give it a go but said to my wife that if it was still snowing at 9am I would leave work and go home.
1hr 15 to get to work, no gritters out from Mansfield or Nottingham councils. Still snowing at 9 so clocked out and 1hr 30 to get back home. Roads were terrible traffic was ok going out of Nottingham but the A614 was extremely dodgy. So I'm sat here waiting to see if I'll be going in tomorrow.

We have had about 3-4 inches this morning and more is expected.

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yep, just as hubby and I were getting up & ready to go over and anticipate the arrival of the newspapers and magazines for the papershop (opens at 6am) - but they didn't get here til 11am! At least 3 inches of snow a top farley hill, thwarting all traffic coming up to the estate - by order of the police just incase anyone was silly enough to contemplate it..

this afternoon some (contracted) council workers were shovelling a clear path from whipperley way to the shops. finally. :rolleyes:


toothache is killing me, couldn't face work this evening and am very grateful for evening off. dreading tomorrow morning!

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We took the doggies over to Warden Hill for thier usual run Wednesday morning and found the local kids sledging down the hill on an upside down Corsa bonnet ;)

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I shudder to think what happened to the rest of the Corsa...

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I got stuck on a bus half way down Skerry Hill this morning, ended up walking into Mansfield from there. Never did get to work(I work in Kirkby-in-Ashfield).

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I'm going up that way on the 6th March, to Edwinstowe, hope it's cleared up by then :D

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For anyone in Oxford at least one bus will be running in the area (my neighbour has gone off to work this morning) ;)

Hubby had all sorts of problems this morning getting home and there was only one weather related absentee because their bus did not show up.

Children are already in the garden building :D

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hope you took some pics of that moment :)

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Sorry...didn;t have my phone on me... :(

Anyway the snow's still coming down think and fast this morning..

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This mornings snowman, built in the back garden to avoid the vandals

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/02/85.jpg

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Went to work this morning as the roads were clear (ish)- by the time I'd been there an hour or so the roads were a state again and getting home was less than fun :(

---------- Post added at 11:58 ---------- Previous post was at 11:54 ----------

None of the roads here have been gritted - not good.

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Well they opened the school for the first time this week and the weather is much worse than it has been since Monday. :mad: Pressure from the local paper to open.... Another school my colleagues daughter goes to had two broken noses from people throwing ice balls, this site is an accident waiting to happen today....:rolleyes:

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Nice and sunny here, just like a spring morning :)

The snow that fell on Monday, went on Tuesday; had another sprinkling yesterday, which went the same day. :)

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had fun and games this morning, hail at 4am, snow at 6am. hubby decided to try and get to work in mk. HA! slow crawl, got there eventually, worked for 1.5hrs to be told to go home early.

then my bosses couldn't get in - 7 inches of snow outside their house! so had to go open the other shop, where we had a surge for bread and milk as the co-op had none... good grief. while the manic panic buying was going on, people came in and said that it had been reported on BBC three counties that Luton town centre had been closed for the 2nd day running. They actually closed the arndale?! Bizarreness. What a palava.

I have suggested to my bosses that they get their own cows in their garden. ;)

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The forecast for overnight is clear, so what's this stuff falling from the sky then...

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Locally they actually got the forecast right. Even Hubby's night shift was cancelled! The road is so iced up that only the frozen ruts give the surface any grip at all.

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Back from taking another 100+ images of snowy stuff. In Singleton Park as the sun was coming up, strangely I was the only person in the whole park, can't imagine why. ;)

Up on Flickr now, along with a few others:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3379/...7cdcddc8_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deltawh...7613437950149/

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Lovely shot DW

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Bright and sunny here.

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Thank you, I'm a sucker for panoramic images. The sun's out now so most of the snow has gone already.

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Was that one photo or several stiched?

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Still nice and sunny here :)

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It was a set of eight images stitched together with the free demo version of autostitch: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

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We have just had about an inch of snow in the last hour and its still snowing.
Mansfield.

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Coming down hard now in Lincoln. Looks like another bad morning on the way.

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Had some snow in the evening but it has now stopped. It may come back in the night.
Yet another slippery icy Monday start to the week.

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It's snowing here in Bellshill again, got 3 - 4 inches so far and it's falling fast.

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Currently here in Glasgow

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Do you think Santa will come again if it keeps snowing????

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I doubt it but later on tomorrow you may see some rain dear. https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2009/02/2.gif

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Finally, a week after everyone else, we have some decent snow here. 2 inches or so, been snowing constantly since about 3.30pm and still going now, although it's slackened off a lot.

And it fell on top of cold, hard, icy ground and un-gritted roads (around here, but we never get grit here). The one bad thing about working from home, of course, is that I can't get snowed in ... :cry: :D

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It's raining here, no snow left on the ground.

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We are officially snowed in; the police have closed the road several miles from here at the point where the gritter stops. Unbelievably there were still people driving up and down until well into the night last night. When our local school bus driver came up in a Land Rover to tell us there would be no school bus today, he said several of those cars are now lying abandoned where they slid off the road.

So, the boy is off school, but he's struggling with the fact that we're insisting he does some school work before he gets to play in the snow (we wouldn't be so strict except he's only just back from a two-week chicken pox break)!

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A light covering in Stockton overnight.

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The road approaching my house ... and the reason why I'm snowed in!

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You can still see the tarmac in that photo. I thought you were talking about having a lot of snow :confused:

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LOL, just off out for a bit, I'll try and find a pic of the 'busy' A3 from Monday gone, not to dissimilar to that one :D

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There are a couple of spots that are shaded by trees - we are in the middle of a forest here. There isn't normally snow on the road at all, mainly for that reason. There's about two inches lying on untouched ground. It's well packed down on the road now because there's an unusually high proportion of Land Rover owners around here.

You can't really tell from the photo, but that's quite a steep slope heading down from our house, and just beyond the picture there's a sharp turn in front of a very steep gully. I wouldn't chance it personally. Several people did last night, and the local farmers are busy this morning removing cars from ditches at several trouble spots between here and where the gritted road begins.

The road is officially closed off by the police a few miles back towards civilisation from here.

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Its been raining and snowing since yesterday in north london.... its mostly rain now though

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Bah, the council have sent a gritter for the first time in many, many months. We are no longer cut off.

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A welcome sight at the end of a long drive on Thursday: Lagangarbh hut at the foot of the Buachaille by moonlight with Orion keeping watch.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/02/76.jpg

Friday started fine but deteriorated slowly but seriously. We had to reign in our plans several times. Here we are skinning up on skis towards Meall a Bhuiridh before the wind really picked up. Eventually we gave up and went for a hot chocolate at the ski centre.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/02/77.jpg

Saturday started with snow and wind so we decided to go to the pub. Someone suggested going via Beinn a Chrulaiste. I'm glad they did because the weather cleared up and we we treated to some glorious views. Here we are approaching the King's House.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/02/78.jpg

After a swift pint we trudged back along the military road and were treated to another fine moonlight view of the hut.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/02/79.jpg

Sunday was supposed to be a short day. We walked down to Jimmy Saville's house at Allt-na-Reigh then up onto Am Bodach and back along the ridge. I actually needed my crampons for the first time in several years. Here's Mrs A on here 50th birthday looking out down Glen Coe.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/02/80.jpg

We didn't actually get back to the hut 'til gone 5 then packed up and went to the King's House for food. John used the internet connection there to look up the weather forecast - blizzards affecting the whole country! The journey back was very slow in places so we didn't get home 'til gone 2 this morning!

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wow altis, that's awesome! am very jealous, but very unfit so would never be able to do such a trek. be lucky if I could ski again tbh... one day, one day..

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If you do get involved in snowball fights watch who you throw them at :erm:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...st/7879596.stm

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Bah! The amount of rain we have had today I'd rather have snow.The former 3 inch deep puddle in the staff car park is now a 6 inch puddle and there is no way to avoid wading through it to get in and out of the school building.

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Snowing quite heavily here now, and sticking too.

The sky is so thick with it that the Sky signal just cut out.

Must be time for bed.....

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Will it NEVER stop raining? :(

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It's just started slightly snowing after about 36 hours of near constant rain....

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Brilliant isn't it - an inch of snow and the country grounds to a standstill...

Still, I hear many teachers had "snow days" lucky them.

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Our school wasn't closed due to people not being able to get it, it was all health and safety. It's all well and good parents arguing that kids should be at school no matter of the weather, but what if their child falls over and breaks a bone, you can't win. We have had one member of staff break their wrist in two places, and a local school which was open had numerous injuries.

BTW im not a teacher so i didn't get as much time off, as soon as i could walk to my office without falling over i was in.

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It's fairly belting down here now. And Sunday night's lot has only just thawed! Worse, it's falling on top of ground that is frozen hard after days and days of sub-zero temperatures, including -5c last night.

But despite all this, yesterday afternoon (which was bright and sunny, although bitterly cold) I checked the control panel for our solar panels and found them generating about 66c. :spin: It's nice to be able to get free hot water even in the middle of winter ... :D

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Pah -5'C, is that it?

-21'C here!

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Coming down thick and fast, laying as well :(

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I bet your house is lovely and warm (as well as beautiful from your photos!) too isn't it?

I can see the mist when I breathe in our flat. :(

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Only when the wood-pellet stove is burning constantly! The walls are quite thin and badly in need of insulating work. The solar panels generate lots of hot water for the cylinder, which does make it easier to warm the house because all the stove's heat can go to the radiators.

Well, if you're ever in our part of the world I can offer you a nice hot cuppa ...

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cheers Chris! :)

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Looks like its snowing here in East London. It isn't settling yet though.

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Had about an inch here in teh last hour, and it's still coming down fast.

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about the same in Lincolnshire. Looks like another morning with the snow shovel.

:(

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it is snowing here in Isleworth. Middx

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Nearly an inch here in CM20 (Harlow)

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According to Sky news, the snow will clear overnight in London, and turn to rain, here is Isleworth, Middlesex it is not laying.

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I want it to hurry up and go as I'm fed up of cycling in it lol

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About an inch here in CM1 Cambridge.

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Just a dusting in RH 1

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We have snow in Essex

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2 inches in CB4 Cambridge again.

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Do you have panels or tubes and do you mind if I ask the manufacture?

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only a little bit of snow and took ages to settle down in Bromley so if the transport system can't cope with this then they don't deserve to still be running it

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Turning to rain here in CB1 SnoopZ, what about where you are?

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Well the snow started settling at 4pm and stopped around 9.30pm. I thought it was light drizzle at that time but now i can't tell, but it's falling off the cars, so i think it's melting.

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it's pretty much melted ontop of the hill where I live in Luton, save for the usual couple of inches of snow and thick ice left around *our block*!!! bah! :rolleyes:

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Snowing heavily here in North Lanarkshire :D

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Wish we had had the snow rather than the strong winds and heavy rain we did earlier, made my night hell trying to photograph a job! Ah well.

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After a vile night of heavy winds and lashing rain we now have brilliant sunshine..:)

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Woke up and the snow mostly all gone and blindingly bright sunshine.