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Loads of it in leicester this morning!

You know it's cold when you trip over dog poo instead of stepping in it :dozey:

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That's 'cos Harry Redknapp hasn't been at home much and turned his heating down.... :D

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Just wet here in Swansea

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Dry now in Plymouth and actually pretty mild as well.

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I do feel very sorry for those who got caught out on the roads but everyone should have known the snow was coming and at least been carrying some emergency kit like warm clothes, snacks, drinks etc. to see them through a good few hours if the worst happened. I've been hearing the usual complaints from a few motorists about the lack of assistance but the emergency services have been citing access problems due to blocked roads, abandoned vehicles, obstructed hard shoulders etc. As usual, others have reported crazy driving, speeding etc. by those who just won't slow down for anyone or anything. Madness! The truth is there are always going to be major problems on our roads when weather like this strikes and the best way to mitigate its effects is for drivers to use some common sense and avoid non-essential journeys and/or causing obstructions wherever possible.

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Now the question how comes the UK is always so panicky when it snows its not like its a foot of snow or anything like that that you can find on the mainland

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I'm going to Leeds tomorrow - customer just off the M1 / J46...I'm 200 miles away down south...

What's the weather / roads like up there now?

I see that Church Fenton (12 miles away) have reported 6 inches of snow up there!

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We have had a fair amount here in sunny Cambridge...
I don't make a habit of taking pictures of wheelie bins :)
Just to give an idea how much fell during the night

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They knew the snow was coming yet most roads were not gritted/salted which was terrible getting home last night.

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Same here Hal. Just walked to my local sainsburys and the main road still had snow on it typical **** poor planning and poor execution

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so is that is for the snow or is there more on the way today ?

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No thats about it according to the latest weather forecasts.

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I live in Harlow and snow is forcast for tomorrow

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Wonder if I'll see the same as I did last year. Workmen at Lewisham Station on the tracks pouring water on the points in sub zero temperatures.

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So do I, but I'm not too bothered. :cool:









... I work from Home. :D

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Every year Cheshire Highways get caught out by the same problem :(

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/02/45.jpg

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Only very fine snow but with the wind it soon piled up mate. ;)

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The neighbours where out this morning clearing all paths and a route up the hill but put the snow in front of some cars including mine so I spent an hour clearing my car of snow 6", and a bit in front so I can get my car out and reverse up the hill.

Better now than 7am tomorrow morning.

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It's because most people don't have a clue how to drive in the snow. So they wheel spin, and turn it to ice. Then the roads turn into a death trap.

This morning was ok, because there was very little traffic on the road. So the snow had time to melt rather than being packed down hard.

I gave myself an hour and a half to get to work this morning, but it only took half an hour, including a stop at the garage.

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Just spoke to my brother in Halifax, and he said there is only about 2 or 3 inches up there.

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The snow here in Potton wasn't too bad but Natalie's loving it I think :)

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I kind of enjoy driving in the snow and once had to drive back from Ammanford South Wales to Liverpool on the A483 during blizzard, if you know the road then you will know that it is a fantastic road up the backbone of Wales.

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Grit doesn't really start to work until it gets ground into the snow by the traffic

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Lucky you!!!

In my job I can't take a day off. I have to get there whatever it takes.

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What, giant robots getting tangles up on overhead power lines?

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<geek mode on>
It's an AT-AT, not a robot.....
<geek mode off>

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Looks like that thing on the Atari star wars game to me.

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It would, because it is....

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Cool.
where's the rest of them?

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My son could have told me that, but hey I'm not a geek...lol ;)

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Probably caught up in other power lines :D

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The roads round by me are clear due to the temp been around 6c today a lot of the snow has melted.

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I had an early night, so I didn't see any of it coming down, the amount was a bit of a surprise this morning though. If it was the wind I will take your word for it. I knew I shouldn't have had baked beans for tea :)

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Well I'm only 30 miles from you. And to start with it was fine snow that was drifting. Then later on the wind dropped, and it came down very heavy.

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So it wasn't the beans then, thanks for clearing that up :tu:

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Knowing Lewisham, that probably makes a nice change from drunks and grafitti artists peeing on them.... :D

and just for those who think gritting our road networks is straight-forward:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8420755.stm

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It could have been. But the effects may have worn off by 1am...:D

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I'm sure it isn't straight forward. But neither is trying to drive an 18 tonne truck as fast as possible on untreated roads. In fact it really can be time to change your pants when you get there :shocked:

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began snowing about an hour ago here in London, its now coming down heavily

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a dusting in Croydon, nothing too heavy. Should be good fun as I am off home tomorrow... in the car :O

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Had a light dusting here in MK, about a 1cm!!!!!!!!!!!one!!!111Eleventy!!11

[/Alan Fry]

;)

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Well its raining down here in Plymouth but its still quite cold.

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Oh dear none in Portsmouth so my brother will not be happy as he loves the snow.

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Sleeting here at the moment :rofl:

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Raining here in Fareham l am afraid.

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Peeing down in Poole too

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Sleeting in North Leeds

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its been raining all day but its now snowing here in north london

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It's been bright and sunny all day here. :cool:

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Fareham?

I'm pleased to see the rain..We need it.

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Yes up here for a family reunion with family members we have not seen for twenty years so a awful lot to talk about and healing old wounds at the same time as well.:)

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It is snowing outside my front window right now. :erm:

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Commiserations.:(

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It's probably just the wrong sort of rain. :D

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Bloody hell!!:erm:

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Stopped now. :D

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yep ,had a flurry near glasgow this afternoon and a blizzard in newcastle ,expecting a dusting on the ground in the morning

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There has been snow visible on the hilltops north of us for a couple of days now, but catching the view with the clouds sufficiently lifted to see anything has been a bit tricky. This is the best pic I've got so far of Beinn Narnain:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1351852387

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It's all Salmond's fault! :D

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Possibly dude, even if it's not....:monkey:

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l bet this was a shock for some residents in the South West this morning.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20197064

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Snow on the M3/A34 today around 11am.

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Was there? I'm about 3/4 the way up the A34 and we had nothing!

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Coldest winter in 100 years on way.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...0-years-on-way

Lets hope not.:shocked:

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It's always cold in winter - what's the issue?? :p

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-20 ? I find it hard to reply to that without using at least one swear word

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This is the guy who said we where going to have a long hot summer.
They have him on morning TV as a comedy act.

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On go on...use two!! :D

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have done on the safety of Facebook lol lol ( but I guess you knew that lol )

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not just him saying it


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ear...c-Sea-ice.html

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You will generally find in the last 10 to 20 years that British winters have been generally mild so if the cold weather develops to those low tempertures then there are likely to be considerable transportation problems as usual and the country will highly likely come to a standstill as we are not very good with coping with severe spells of weather.

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Ugh it's a nightmare getting around here when it snows. We've invested in 4wd for this winter.

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Had a job last night up to Inverness via Dundee ,didn't see any snow but plenty of gritters on the A9 .Wish i had been able to do that run in daylight would have been some spectacular scenery ,

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We have snow in the south west highlands - lying from about 600 metres upwards. It was sleeting down at our level briefly this afternoon.

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I'm going to Cairnryan ferry port tonight across to Belfast so will i see some north of Stranraer or am i not going far enough north ?

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IIRC the snow wasn't forecast to be anywhere south of Ben Lomond last night, but I wasn't really paying attention to the map south of here. I'm not sure there's anywhere high enough where you're going to have caught any. Also, it comes and goes very quickly at this time of year.

Probably not, but you never know ...

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I'll PM you from my phone if i end up in a ditch :D

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I go up that way pretty regularly and the scenery is outstanding. It almost makes up for the A9 being a deathtrap and appalling joke of a road.

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That i can imagine ,late last night early this morning it wasn't too bad ,a few artics but not much else i imagine day time being completely different and up in the tops by Aviemore i noticed that delineators have been installed so you must get some snow up there

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I ignore reports like this, every year its going to be the "hottest" summer, or the "coldest" winter. Rarely is it either.

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hottest 1 I normally ignore as well as we live in the UK and the chances seeing a blue sky in the summer are normally pretty slim ( I mean over the weekends as during the week it has been known to be scorching and come friday afternoon the rainclouds come in)

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bit of a late reply, yea was west of Silverstone on the higer parts. As the elevation rose it went from rain, to sleet to snow.

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Well, clearly hell has already frozen over. They have a sensible reply from someone who appears to know what they are talking about in the comments section. That reply being the one from the UKMO where they say they can't acccurately predict the weather that far ahead (it's debabatable how accurate the close range forcasts are as well).

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The school bus has failed to reach us for the second morning running - yesterday because of fresh snow, this morning because the rapid melt yesterday became a rapid re-freeze last night and the council don't grit the last 3 miles to our house.

Naturally the children aren't remotely upset by this. They made a snowman instead. :D

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1354619618

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Well look at it this way.Your children get to use their imagination,get some exercise and develop new physical skills and have some fun as well.Oh and develop their team work skills as well.

Win,win.;)

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And they fall over which results in a lawsuit? Don't you just love elf 'n safety?

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A lawsuit against whom?:confused:

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Lovely big fluffy snowflakes here in Tonbridge, Kent atm.....:)

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Where did this white stuff come from. It never featured in any forecast I saw or heard. Rain yes, but snow in Surrey was not part of the game plan. That was all supposed to stay well north of here.

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Reminds me of the forecast we had down here of light scattered snow showers once and we ened up with a blizzard for most of the day.:)

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I was knocking around Faversham and then across to the 02 arena yesterday and it was bright blue skys when i started for home about 2.30pm.Amazing how quickly things can change

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During the BBC weather report around midnight there was an off the cuff remark that there might possibly be some minor snow showers in the south east but the majority were likely to be in the Midlands.

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was snowing heavily this morning in NW London much to my surprise as there was nothing on the forcast yesterday about it...

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There was but at a very late hour.

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had about 3mm of snow in newcastle and it's been gridlocked all day ,no buses ,no taxis .My wife had to walk 3miles home from work at 9.30pm :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

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Turning even colder next week.

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-...der-next-week/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-respite.html

Brrrrrrrrr.

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Apparently there's a cold blast from Russia coming over the next few days so heads up to anyone concerned about elderly/infirm relatives and friends in the impending cold snap, instead of spending money on grit for icy paths etc, (unused!) cat litter does exactly the same job and is a hell of a lot cheaper and you normally get much more in a bag too. Even the supermarket's cheap 'value' brands do the job.

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Example - Grit from Asda (£2.49 for 2kg)

Smartprice Cat Litter (£1.58 for 10lt)

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good call for small areas but you can get 25 kg bags of rock salt for between £10 and 15 quid :)

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http://www.homebase.co.uk/webapp/wcs...Cprd%3A1546795 homebase have it very cheap

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That does work out cheaper but 25kg may be a little heavy for some elderly people...

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agreed :-) I was surprised to find it so cheap might pick up a couple myself

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We buy a few 25kg bags from either Wicks or B & Q depending on where is cheapest and split them up between our neighbours. Us 'younger' ones do our own drives and paths plus the areas around our 'older' and less able neighbours homes. It only cost us a few quid each and keeps everyone safe. The lot we have now we bought a couple of years ago after the last big freeze depleted our stock and I'm hoping we won't have too much cause to use it this year.

Wikes are selling it at £4.99 (25kg) at the moment.

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Well according to the Daily Fail jog its looks like for the North there are several cold weeks ahead from the weekend.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...d-country.html

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Fingers crossed that though it may get colder we should escape the freezing snow. Our area of the Cheshire/Lancashire Plain tends to escape a lot of the harsher weather conditions as we are protected, to some extent, by the surrounding higher ground when the prevailing weather comes from the north and east. Our main weather influence is from the north and west and that is the reason we have our reputation of being Wet Manchester. :D

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I love Manchester.

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So do I Arthur. :)

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anything happening down south?