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Been coming down hard for the last 3 hours in north west london pilling ontop of the old snow. its been snowing here everyday, on and off for the last week.
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The crunchy snow ice is now setting rock hard.... no way am I going to drive now...
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I took a trip down the lochside and into town this morning ... I don't know which was worse, the three days' accumulation of sheet ice at our end of the road, or the several inches of drifting snow at the other end.
I just love it here, microclimate in action. One day I may go back to school and do a degree in meteorology. Fascinating stuff. |
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Coming down thick and fast here now, if this keeps up there'll be trouble on thr back roads in the morning.....
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Raining now here in Cambridge, Maybe we`ll get some more tonight if the forcast`s right. ;):rolleyes:
Hate driving 15 miles to work in it.:td: |
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A lot of it has thawed out already. The trees are dripping water.
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She tried to go out herself but gave up. |
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Tell me about it. Left work at 1630 yesterday, got home 14 miles away at 1950. Couple of flakes of snow and the roads go to hell and people suddenly find out that not looking after their cars properly really isn't a good idea.
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Nearly lost the car on a roundabout this morning. It looked clear (unlike the rest of the roads around here) - I guess I underestimated just how slippy it would still be.
In other news.....I'm the only person in the office so far (which is unusual to say the least) so I guess I'm spending the day on my own today. |
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Upside, more time to spend on CF? :)
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Spend too much time on here as it is :D :D
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Never a bad thing for our resident AntiSpammer Ninja :spin:
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That's Dilli's job, I'm the Padawan Spam Ninja :D :D
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Working from home today - due to the compacted snow ice I cannot get the car up the hill and out of our road.
It came down yesterday - started at 1pm and didn't relent until the early hours. Took me just over 3 hours to do 15 miles from our office to home. The sun is now starting to peek through so hopefully a thaw soon! |
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At home it was snowing heavily and our street is like an ice rink. The van was sliding all over at the slightest provokation.
Here in Runcorn, a mere 6 miles away, it's sunny and the roads are clear or have a little slush on them! |
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Snow?? What snow? Absolutely clear here.Sunshine,clear blue skies.:confused:
However north of Portsdown Hill is another matter...the rest of Hampshire is snow bound.:erm: |
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It's thawing here but where we're going tonight with loads of radio gear and antennas it might be another story and someone might have to come and dig us out ;)
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It's been snowing pretty heavy here in Glasgow city centre for quite a while so it's probably even worse out in the sticks. :(
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...and then it came down heavy again and I can't get me car up the hill. Confined to home for the night it is then.
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Anyone using the A1307 between Cambridge and Haverhill, For gods sake watch out!!!! Freezing patches of Black ice everywhere!.:(
Why have the council not been out gritting for the last 2 days!???????:mad: |
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Ah, yes, Cambridgeshire County Council :rolleyes:
It's been great fun walking to & from work this week, on those lovely icy pavements... And going into the "Historic City Centre" on Saturday was awesome... I mean, who needs the Parker's Piece ice-rink, when you can slip & slide for free on the icy pavements all the way to the Grafton & onwards from there to the Centre... :rolleyes: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_n....asp?ID=472523 |
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-10'C and my girlfriend wants to go for a walk on the ice... I think she's crazy!
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Most of the roundabouts around here are an absolute disaster, no gritting being done and cars crashing all over the place.
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Well my good deeds for the day
Well I was up early this morning, to pick up my nephew and niece for the day, outside it was -6c. As was trying to open my dads car door to get out the child seats, I saw an eldery neighbour trying to walk her way up our hill, I told her to becareful. I then realised WTF am I doing. I stopped and walked over to her took her trolley and let her grab hold of my arm and walk her up the hill. She said that in her 82 years she didn't remember it being so cold, snowy. |
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Just looked out the window and boy is it snowing here in Warrington at the moment.
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Raining in Harlow.
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Snow coming down thick and fast in Liverpool, kids out everywhere :D
On the negative side, there has been three crashes outside mine on the main road in the last hour :( |
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Tried to build a snowman today but wrong type of snow, just not sticking together. Anyway, will try again in mornng with the new snow that is just falling now.
Thus thread is 5 years old in 2 days is this the oldest live thread ? |
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seems to be moving north ,i think this is the most snow in newcastle i've seen
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absolutely been chucking it down here over in widnes, thought it wouldn't lay as it's been wet witht the drizzle but my god has it stuck. edit......just looked out and it's stopped....bah humbug, could really do with a bit more as could do with not having to go to the office in the morning. ---------- Post added at 23:00 ---------- Previous post was at 22:54 ---------- Quote:
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Not really got snow here, but ice, ontop of ice, ontop of ice, putting out the bin was fun... wheeeee! Crocs really aren't designed for icy conditions.
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heavy snow in newcastle at the moment it's laying heavy ontop of already frozen snow we had through the week
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It was snowing here this morning,
Luckily im in a position now where I can work from home without too much disruption and its my last day till the 11th of Jan whoohooooo I have a poorly 4x4 which is only 2 wheel drive at the moment and its next to useless now :( Ahh well. |
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We have had a white Christmas in Leeds :D
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All snow melted, cold as hell outside.
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Was raining about an hour ago, but still snow on the ground, and very cold. Boxing Day will be lethal.
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Its sheer ice here just walked to the shops for a paper doing my impression of a giraffe on rollerskates.
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Hmmmm, according to the BBC weather site there should be sunny intervals in Glasgow right now.
Looking out my flat window into a blizzard makes me think they might have got it wrong a bit. Hopefully it'll go off before I head to work. |
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Also, I recieve pictures from the NOAA polar orbitting satellites, they painted an entirely different story, silly really, £300 of equipment can forecase percipitation better than a goverment funded organisation. Montage/composite of last recieved pictures: http://weather.m1cbh.co.uk/noaa-2009...cir-precip.png |
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quite correct ,i've said it for years ,the weather forcasters should try just looking out the window sometimes |
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Met Office Warning for snow overnight in North West England, the joy!
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We have had a light snow fall in my corner of Manchester (M41). Everywhere looks very pretty but it's really lethal as it's sitting on a layer of ice and very few roads around me have been gritted. I just hope it doesn't go down to -9c again here tonight.
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It was so cold here that I had to scrape the inside of my front screen.
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Snowing quite thickly now. Just looked out of my workroom window and all my garden is blanketed in white. Think I'll draw the blinds, at this rate I'll spend all night watching the snow falling instead of getting on with my work. :(
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---------- Post added at 00:52 ---------- Previous post was at 00:47 ---------- Just thick frost here..which has been with us for the last three nights.One benefit has been the brilliantly sunny if rather chilly days. When I think we were getting fresh raspberries from Scotland this time last year one realises that this is like the winters we used to get. We have been spoiled in recent years and as a consequence have forgotten how to cope. |
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OMG i just woke up after a nap and thought "why is the sky orange" then i saw the snow! its so gorgeous! its gonna be so thick!
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Snow has been falling here in Salford (on and off) for most of yesterday and today. Life, for some, is going to be mayhem. Absolute mayhem I tell you!
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If this is global warming I'm going to put some more coal on the fire.
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Shot this at 6:00am - Notice the heavy telephone lines! I've just looked out of the window and it's still falling.
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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/01/128.jpg About 3 cars broke down all at the same time! poors guys. ---------- Post added at 08:57 ---------- Previous post was at 08:48 ---------- Oh and now a bus is stranded |
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That looks like it does up here, and it's snowing heavy again, just talked to someone on the A1 southbound, and it's down to 2 lanes with the ploughs out at Wetherby, so take it easy 'if' you 'have' to go out today.
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Leicester has about 2 or 3 inches of the stuff - looks nice too :)
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Spent a week up in Scotland last week. The snow was amazing - lots of it, proper crisp snow, not slush. Loved it.
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It was still snowing here when I went to bed to bed at 6am and we still appear to be getting a light downfall although it's nearer to rain than snowflakes now.
The sparrows have remembered we had loads of fat ball strung on our trees so they seem to be happy. The railway station is doing a roaring trade ...well for the one stopping train an hour that uses our line. Seems strange to see all the commuters arriving on foot rather than risk driving to the station, so far there have only been a couple of cars that have braved the roads around me. The roads are, in the main still pristine snow. |
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We have had our first significant snowfall of the winter overnight. There has been plenty down the road from here, but where we're located, the Loch keeps things a couple of degrees warmer than everywhere else, and that's been enough to keep it clear. Not any more though, and last night's snow has fallen on top of ice, which is sitting on top of an un-gritted road...
Needless to say we got the Jimny out to do the school run this morning. :D We left our camera at the in-laws on New Year's Day, but after our fuel delivery has arrived I may take the video camera up the hillside and then post you all a clip. |
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Look what i made! who said snow was for kids! :D his name is Fred... Fred the snowman :D
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years ago I had a phoneline come down on my head that was caused by snow lol |
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It seems the council are closing all the schools in the area, their twitter feed is going mad with details. http://twitter.com/SwanseaCouncil. There is some snow falling here in the town center but it doesn't appear to be sticking, I'm told the outlying areas are much worse.
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We've not had this amount of snow for over 30 years my village has stopped the local shop's shelves are empty no newspapers no Sky (the dish is full of snow) and it's forecast it to continue. HELP!!! P.S. Good job we've got global warming or we would be in a mess!!
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Been sent home from work early due to the snow. Cycling home through 6 inches of the stuff was fun :D
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Really bad were I live in Leeds and no sign yet again of any gritters!
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I`ve not seen it like this in a while, the cat won`t go out in it... http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/3816/img0868t.jpg http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3338/img0863aj.jpg http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/8205/img0870e.jpg Near Manchester Airport! |
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Just been to the shop in case I can't make it into town again due to the snow. Hope it doesnt get too bad here though.
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Down it comes again, heavy at the moment. So much for light snow showers, thanks once again met office and thank heaven for VPN
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Can you all keep it please, looks lovely but I don't want it.
We just have ice on top of ice with a bit more ice and a tiny skiff of snow. |
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Huge big lumps of it coming down here in Poole... but the ground is wet... from the rain 5 minutes ago...
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Couple of inches overnight here in Mansfield, made it to work ok and my wife phoned just after 11 to say how bad it was where she worked and that its really bad in Mansfield. Left work at 1 and got home at 3.40 & weather permitting I wont be at work tomorrow :D
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The snow alert for the London area is on the danger level for the next 2 days, the rest of the UK looks to be on a moderate to low warning.
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but they say 40cm or more could fall locally in London which is pretty bad for London. |
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p.s. its very light and off/on here in east London. |
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Let's hope you southern softies get your fair share. I'll bet there'll be some wingeing if you do!!!!
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The A617 between Blidworth\Rainworth & the Widdicome fair was quite bad earlier and the idiocy of some drivers beggars belief. Tesco was deserted, it was quite nice to scoot round in a couple of minutes. |
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well it's stopped here for now, outside is like a bleedin ice rink - which i doubt will get much better with temps of -5 due tonight.
so not looking like i'll get anywhere near the office tomorrow. i left the office in wirral at 2 and got home about 5, a grand total of 30 miles. and the smeggin idiots were still out. on the m53 it filters down from 3 lanes to 2 just before ellesmere port - 2 inside lanes heavy with slush and lane 3 with slush and fresh snow. so as everyone slows down to filter (well as slow down as you can from 30-35) a bloody car transporter flies past in the fast lane doin 50-60 leaving my van covered in dirty slush (it was nice white snow). trouble was everyone else started then. |
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Oak Tree Lane was just standing slush. Jubilee Way, was(and still is) awful. |
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We went into the village this afternoon and it was eerily quiet. It looked so nice we went back for cameras and tripod. Here's my attempts to capture the ethereal feel:
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/01/118.jpg https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/01/119.jpg https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/01/120.jpg https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/01/121.jpg https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/01/122.jpg https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/01/123.jpg https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/01/124.jpg https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/01/125.jpg It was well weird to be able to set up my tripod in the middle of the road and casually take several pictures - during the rush hour! Just as we arrived, Mr Norbert stuck on a very slight slope and was unable to go forwards or back. Unfortunately he was right across a junction - and with a full load of something noxious. On the other side of that fence is the Manchester Ship Canal. For the first time in my memory it was frozen over completely - and we've lived here over 25 years. |
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I am surprised as this village usually is sheltered geographically from the worst of the snow.But it's here and it's 3 inches thick and it's still snowing.:erm:
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I can't believe that they've already thrown in the towel and cancelled loads of tommorrow's train services in Surrey. We've only just about got a dusting of snow. Pathetic.
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No snow here yet (in 'The East'), although we're probably not due it until tomorrow afternoon anyway.
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Well in Harlow (CM20) the 16" of snow has yet to appear.
Mind you it will proberly dump it over night. I will trek my way to sign on tomorrow, and if they ain't open I will raise hell. |
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Coming down thick in Tonbridge.....
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Thanks for the kind words folks.
Now here's the view thru Mrs A's eye. She prefers detail to 'views'. Note that these are all hand-held - pretty impressive! Unfortunately, her camera is still running on summer time. https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/01/111.jpg https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/01/112.jpg https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/01/113.jpg https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/01/114.jpg https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/01/115.jpg https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/01/116.jpg |
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All I can say is that you've both got amazing eyes for pictures.
Very nice shots, both yours and Mrs A's :) |
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Well, just put me bins out. Got maybe a couple of inches of snow..
Oddly, this afternoon/evening (when the weather was no worse than it's been for a couple of weeks), the trains were totally messed up. Now we have heavy snow and when I last checked (about 30 minutes ago), the trains on my local line were fine.. |
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No new snow here yet :(
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well we got about 2 inch off snow in south herts atm and its still snowing
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We have had another 2" overnight I don't think its worth my while spending maybe hour or more trying to get my car off the estate and onto some reasonable roads.
Therefore a day off today :sleep: May even venture out with the camera. |
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Judging by the layer on top of the table cover in the garden we had around 6" (carefully tries to avoid being Nanny Ogg). :rofl:
Schools are shut yet hubby managed to get to work this morning by car. :shrug: Tomorrow looks like being very icy as temperatures drop to -5. |
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More snow overnight, not a lot here in the center of town but the council are already Twittering school closures around the area.
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I've just texted my boss and put a days holiday in. Saw a Transit trying to pull of our side road earlier, he didn't make it, the van's back end was dancing around all over the place. |
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None at all here in sunny Potton. Just about to get a bus to Bedford (I hope).
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Yea heard that on the news about the buses, snowing quite heavily in Newark at the moment. I'll phone in at 9am when someone will be there to answer the phone. My wife managed to get into work, only because her mates other half has a 4x4. I'm not even gonna try and get either car going today. Its was quite funny looking at yesterdays weather forecast's from the BBC for the Mansfield\Chesterfield area "light snow showers" LOL not so light me thinks. I think that this calls for a fry-up :D |
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