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Back on with a vengence in Glasgow. That and the icy roads made driving 'fun' :Yikes:

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and mine too!

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Evidently the low lifes who emptied the grit bin on our hill the other day are doing a roaring trade in this area clearing private driveways using the council's grit. :mad::mad:

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more snow in SE London and a biting wind too. Doesn't seem to be settling much at moment though can't make up it's mind if it wants to do sleet or proper snow at moment

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At least they left the bin and just took the grit!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...st/8448134.stm

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Now why doesn't that surprise me? :mad:

We had some fairly major road works nearby recently and the trenches dug byt the workmen were cobvered with heavy guage steel sheets to allow vehicles to pass over them. One of my elderly neighbours spotted a couple of guys trying to life one of these onto a pick-up for scrap probably but fortunately all they got for their trouble was back strain... :D

These people have no consideration for anyone and couldn't care less about creating a major hazard for everyone else!

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Well, we had about an inch of snow yesterday, which froze solid overnight. So now we're snowed in. I just tried to get out and the spot where the beer lorry was stuck the other day is absolutely treacherous. Fortunately I was only doing 10mph max when I came across an Audi estate skidding all over the place, and was able to stop reasonably easily. But that was enough to suggest I probably shouldn't go any further, given that my journey wasn't essential.

Now I'm sitting at my desk, looking out the window and watching the occasional car whizz by. The sad thing is, they'll go home tonight and tell people that the road up here is 'ok', or 'passable' or 'not that bad'. In fact, it's none of those things. If two cars meet on the bend half-way up that slope today, there's going to be a nasty accident. They don't know the danger they're in, but what can I do about it? :erm:

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Its a balmy 0 degree's here with the odd bit of snow in the air and a bit of a thaw going on, warmest its been for about 2 weeks I think.

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I just finished making a snowman with the kids :D

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Seems to be thawing out here - hope it keeps on doing it.

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Thawing here too :) Fed up with it now

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It is thawing a bit here but we have had so much of it that it will take ages and I have heard there may be more on the way.

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Nearly all melted here, and it was raining for quite a while last night.

Now we're at the horrible messy dirty slushy stage :(

At least my dog didn't bring loads of mud through the house with the snow.

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Thawing here too in Milton Keynes. Not used my car in a week having used public transport. Saved me a few quid too, except I have been late for work every morning....

Will get a new bus pass tomorrow :)

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Our front lawn grass is rapidly appearing.

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Apparently a good way of getting around in this slippy muck is to wear an old pair of socks over your footwear. Looks a bit odd, but easier than lugging around spare shoes. :shrug:

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Coming down like a blizzard here...

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The only safe place to walk around here now is in the middle of the road as the pavements are now very treacherous.Drivers will wait while you step to the slush at the sides..:)

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Snowing hard here now...

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Was going to venture to the Uplands tonight but now I think not...

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Thawing up here as two oxygen thieves found out last night.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8454242.stm

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Thawing nicely here as well. We even had our bins emptied for the first time in a month :)

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brain dead morons i hope they get billed for the car recovery aswell ....

and for stealing our oxygen ...i love that :D

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They shout get two hours 'WOO'

Red Dwarf joke :D

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According to some Twitterers the town is gridlocked because of the snow.
http://twitpic.com/xteet

welcometogower tweeted 35 mins ago:
Blizzard conditions in Swansea - cars abandoned and heavy traffic jams

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My mate by the Hendrefoelan student village has just facebooked something similar about cars being abandoned :erm:

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I've lost my home broadband connection, on the Mobile broadband now. Another pic from Twitter http://twitpic.com/xthvt

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Though I live in Bristol,Swansea is my home city.On the news the impression was given that it was only Cardiff and east Wales that would get the snow.

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Yes apparently bus service in Swansea also stopped as the Depot u cant get in/out of.

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What crime had they commited? I know it's reckless conduct. but given the circumstances and all. what law had they actually broken?

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Woohoo it's RAINING...as long as it doesn't snow or freeze...I may get the car moving tomorrow.:)

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Culpable and Reckless conduct.

One of these nice Scottish catch-all laws where basically if you act like a twonk and cause danger to others you can get done. The Canal isn't a road (obviously) so they can't be done for traffic offences.

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Ok. I take it that it was the twonks own car?

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Dunno. I've not seen or heard anything about them being charged with theft or taking without consent so I'd imagine it was.

Would love to see the insurance claim for it if it was their own car!

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i'd love to see daddy's face if they'd borrowed it for the night:D

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Nope, but British Waterways has powers to make byelaws. I bet they broke the canal speed limit for starters. :D

Besides that, the canal byelaws have plenty to say about causing a nuisance. Although I don't imagine BW will bother to get involved if the police are already dealing with it.

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Sheet ice on roads in NW Leeds - very treacherous.

Just left my car at the road-side, and walked the rest of the way.

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http://u2783.direct.atpic.com/32843/0/1678328/600.jpg
Looks like the 5 foot snowman the kids made a week ago has been partying too hard!

Roads and pavements treacherous again this morning and trains cancelled. Working at home again.

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Well, I looked out the window last night at about 11pm and it was snowing, but I didn't think it would stick as the flakes were tiny. Got up this morning at 5am and we'd had about 3 inches of new snow on top of that left from last week. At 8am I logged on at work and told them I was working from home today.

Outside I could see people queued up on an ungritted road to get to work. This time last week on a gritted road it was empty. So, people have obviously thought, "Well, I had a couple of days off last week, I must get in this week." Reports from people at work say the roads are terrible this morning, hardly any gritted except motorways. What a state where we've run out of grit and salt except for motorways after less than a week.

It's still coming down now at a fair rate, although the flakes are still quite small, but if it carries on all day as it's forecast, we'll be back to where we were last week.

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The thaw had started to set in, and we have seen our road this morning for the first time in what feels like weeks, and now it's snowing again. If this were a game I would be taking my ball home in a huff.

I want it to stop now. https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/01/26.gif

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They probably have been done for littering and fly tipping..:D

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In Australia my aunt and uncle (who live there) have said that people have been sleeping on the beach as its 34c at night.

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tried to go to work, roads fairly empty, but cars were slow. Get to East Croydon, little or no trains, and those that are running are jammed.
Come home - take 70 minutes to travel 2.5 miles. over 2 hours to try and get into work, only actually travelling 2 miles down the road.

working from home today.

Seems like the snow has caught the councils and rail companies by surprise. Maybe they should try watching the weather forecast in the evening - everyone else knew it was going to snow

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Met Office knew it was coming lol

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I've never relied on the Met Office for the weather. they said it was going to be light snow here. right up until they changed it to heavy snow when me and them could see the heavy snow.

even Metcheck are saying it's sunny/fair. no mention of snow at all.

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I think maybe we could do with a bit more of this snow. We've had 3-4 inches overnight and have just returned from a 6 mile walk taking our youngest to school. We were struck by the extreme consideration shown by motorists as we went on our way. Normally it'd routine for us to be stuck in a pedestrian refuge or junction whilst a stream of cars whizzed by seemingly oblvious to our presence but today all the drivers we came across were far more considerate and let us cross roads with no problem whatsoever. Perhaps the realisation that nobody in a vehicle is going anywhere fast accounts for this positive change of attitude but, whatever it is, I hope some of these people carry on the good work and show just a bit more consideration to pedestrians when the weather improves.

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It's thawing here...but across the north of us is another matter.Good old Portsdown Hill for protecting us.:)

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The Met Office is institutionally racist, and therefore can't be trusted.

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Well, yesterday the BBC weather said light snow all day today for Woking. Today, when it is snowing outside and has been all night, it says either grey clouds or rain!?!?

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Spoke too soon.Literally just noticed flecks of snow..

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Checked the weather report for the area which suggests we are due 'light rain'.:rolleyes:

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Roads have been awful round here today, Mansfield was gridlocked this morning due to black ice.

They've suspended the bus service use to get from where I live into Mansfield.

At home at the moment, another day of unplanned annual leave.

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About 4 or 5 inches of snow in Hungerford area last night and thus I cannot get the car up the hill and out of our cul-de-sac. I can do some work stuff from home fortunataly.

And it's just stopped snowing - come on - where's this thaw everybody's been talking about?!!

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The thaw is right here. :wavey: :D

The roads are black, the fields are green ... and it's raining.

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My mother always used to say "it has to snow again to take it away"

Oddly there seems to be some logic in this "old wives tale". We have a cold spell initiated with snow fall. We then wait for a warmer air front to come through so a thaw can set in. As this warm front pushes it's way in their is often a further snow fall which doesn't last. Looking at the forecast for much of the South of England, temperatures are now set to rise as todays snow ebbs away.

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Snow stopped and didn't even lay.I think I will driving out this afternoon.;)

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Back to how it was after the original snowstorm here.

Some muppets have taken one of the few trains from Brighton into London. Wonder if there are going to be any to take them back home this evening?

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Well just to rub it in...:(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/8453744.stm

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Just cold and wet here... hoping it stays that way, can't do the whole snow/ice thing.

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Really weird ice all over my car this morning, almost crystal clear, and broke up like glass when I started to remove it.

Pavements are like an ice rink - played dodge the pedestrian driving into work this morning as they were all over the roads.

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Yes. I was one of those dancing pedestrians. Even with a pair of substantial boots on, my own street was the slippiest I've ever experienced. I was like Bambi (without the cuteness;)) for about 50 yards until I hit the bit of the road that has a suggestion of grit on it. Hopefully that's the end of it though since conditions seem to have improved greatly today.

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Was hoping to get out today in the car, first time since a week ago last Monday but there is not a hope Torvell and Dean would be at home on the roads and streets round here.

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Well I drove to the local Asda which was surprisingly empty but plenty of green veg which is in short supply down my high street..got back safe though I had to wait for a parking space outside my house so I could unpack the shopping.:)

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I saw about 7 people thud onto the floor this morning when i took son to school lol. I had the pushchair to cling onto though :p: Not easy pushing it though, for every 5 steps my legs take, i move about one :rofl:

Same ice as Paul M on my car too, my windows looked fine but when i turned on the ignition and moved the wipers i realised they were actually covered in ice so i had to scrape it off. The de-icer stuff didn't even touch it :shrug:

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Tell me about it.. A friend of mine moved back to Australia a couple of years ago. She has been moaning to me about it..

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:shocked: I'd rather have the snow i think :Yikes:

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http://www.algeos.com/acatalog/PRO1med.jpg

http://www.yaktrax.com/ProductsPro.aspx

http://www.algeos.com/cgi-bin/sh0000...MB2618#aMB2618

I was given some of these to test a while back and had forgotten about them until this recent cold snap. Now I've been using them on the bottom of my Scarpa Mantas to try and get some grip on the snow and ice that lays about.

They're made of rubber in a diamond pattern (like chains) with some springy metal wound round them. You just stretch them over the soles of your shoes / boots and then there's a velcro strap over the top to hold things tight. The spring bites into the snow and ice and the rubber on your soles.

Well, they seem to work excellently! There's loads of grip, even on the icy bits where the cars have compressed the snow, and they don't seem to get clogged up when I walk on snow. They also fold up quite small and weigh only 75g each so they'd be fine for popping in a sack when not required.

Other similar products are available ;)

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Son has borrowed daughters cricket shoes & hubby is wearing his golf shoes :rofl:

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Police officers sledge using riot shields :D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8458844.stm

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Gotta love this:

How refreshing to see these coppers getting a swift, appropriately pitched slap on the wrist and then sent straight back to work, especially in an age when we have become accustomed to seeing public sector managers suspending staff on full pay for weeks at a time while investigating incidents of momentary high-jinks that find their way onto Youtube.

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Its absolutely chucking it down here with rain in CM20

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LOL. can't do anything when Youtube is watching :D

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Looks fantastic to me :D

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Well, it snowed steadily all morning, then rained and washed most of it away. Now it's snowing heavily. So we have about half an inch of horrible, wet slush everywhere. Not nice to walk on, not nice to look at, not nice to play in. :td: Boo!

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That vid made my morning hence my :D with my link.

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it must be getting better, had a parcel delivered, post and my bins were emptied today - 1st time since last tuesday!

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The bin lorry came down our road today too, although it's pretty bad with rain on top of frozen ridges. Didn't stop though, which is fair enough since the council have told us to keep our rubbish safe till our due day next week. Not sure what I'll do when the safe's full.

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Would have been better with the long shields IMO :D

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I noticed the potholes were ridiculous on the roads when it was thawing on Monday. Council had already been out to fill them by Wednesday :tu:

Also the binmen have been every week even though our street is tight and very slippery. Postman missed a few days i think but i didn't really notice.

Snowed again last night but only a little bit, just want it all to go away now. I can't wait til i can take my dog out without her coming back through the house wet, stinky and muddy.

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This stupid idiot should have been banned

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-...olice_In_Devon

She was using the small hole.

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LOL! What an idiot. I notice the police only had a word with her and then gave her a free ice scraper. I wonder if they'd have done the same if it was a 20 year old male :rolleyes:
She should have been done, there's no excuse for that at all :Yikes:
I spend ages clearing my car, it bugs me so much for any windows to be covered, even the back passenger ones. Also bugs me when people don't clear their lights but you can just about tell they've got them on. Might aswell have not bothered and saved the battery :rolleyes:

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Or the people who forget that if you don't clear the roof off, your windscreen will be covered in snow as soon as you brake. :dozey:

Hissing it down with rain here & still very icy & slippy.

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She was probably a lovely little old lady. doesn't have a clue what she's done wrong. poor dear. :)

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Its pouring it down with rain here and i can actually see grass!

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Loads of potholes and cracks are now becoming visible round here. It was obvious 2 years or more ago that there was a lot of damaged road surface that would deteriorate catastrophically if not repaired. This was ignored by the local authorities and last winter the inevitable happened - potholes everywhere. In the spring our local repairers were told to give priority to patching the roads at the expense of everything else and managed to fill the major potholes. Most of the cracks were left and of course what happens this winter? Back to square one.

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Come the warmer weather they'll be repairing the roads all through the year. there's loads of them. I've never seen so many.

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They should employ me to cycle round the country. My front wheel is very adept at finding the very deep hidden ones. :(

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Always seem to be the worst potholes just where cyclists ride. :fit:

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Maybe they need to lose weight......;)

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More tales of weather-related woe - only this time a bit more serious!

At ten past one this morning I heard an ominous scraping down the roof directly above me. It went quiet and I scrunched my eyes. Then, sure enough, tishhhhh... as 1/4 of a brick fell through the skylight into the room we use as an office. Tiny shards of toughened glass everywhere - including inside the printer. I've not been up to check yet but I assume it's been loosened from the chimney by freeze/thaw weathering.

Fortunately, there are some bits of wood about still left over from the kitchen renewal and I managed to wedge some of it in the gap. Spent an hour clearing up the worst of the mess and went back to bed. Perhaps another hour later there was another tishhh as some of the rest fell in.

Fortunately, there was very little rain in the night and there was just the smallest of puddles this morning. Spent all morning perched at the top of a ladder pulling out the rest of the glass and chipping out hardened putty. Still 1/3 to go. Looks like we're not going to get out this weekend after all. Still, the rain is holding off for now...

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Good luck Altis. Hope you can get it sorted (or at least under control) before the next weather front comes through.

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According to the met office there's more on the way for Wednesday and Thursday. Hopefully it'll be a case of them getting it very wrong again although they use the "moderate risk" disclaimer as their get out of jail free card.

We were out walking in Shropshire on Sunday and there were still remnants of some deep drifts and ice/slush on the roads above 300masl.

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Grr, after a few days of not having to spend ages clearing the car, it was icy this morning.

I wouldn't mind but it was really thin ice and the scraper wasn't getting it off. And my car takes a decade to heat up, it's only a 15 min drive :rofl:

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Its chucking it down with snow here! where did it come from!

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its stopped now.

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Met Office Advisory of Heavy Snow for Wales valid from 1207 Sat 30 Jan to 2359 Sat 30 Jan
http://bit.ly/a2Ih8l

"Sleet and snow showers affecting western parts on Saturday evening become widespread across Wales overnight, continuing into Sunday morning. With temperatures falling below freezing there is a risk of widespread ice on untreated roads and pavements. The public are advised to take extra care and refer to Traffic Wales for further advice on road conditions."

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Not just us, then.....

North Rhine-Westphalia

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Woke up this morning to a thin white blanket over everything. It's all melting fast but I still managed to spin the van on the way into work this morning - ooops!

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Huge great lumps falling down now here in Runcorn with a big white carpet forming outside.

Typical, we're off to Pitlochry tomorrow. I hope we get there in one piece!

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I'm sat watching my car going white. The snow is settling down onto damp ground, doesn't bode well as it's due to freeze again to-night.

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More snow indeedy, the 24hr forecast says it's coming down even more heavily at 6