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Still here I'm afraid, but I did have fun watching people trying to get out their driveway this morning with their wheels spinning then giving up. When I say people I mean my neighbour :) I know that's bad but it was fun to watch.

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Bitterly cold here but at least its dry.

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Why do people forget how to drive in snow?

I have never lost control of my car in snow/ice, and I've driven in front, rear & four wheel drive cars.

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They never learned.

It's amazing how many people think that the conditions that prevailed on the day they passed their test, and the characteristics of the car they were driving at the time, are the only thing they ever need to know.

(When we had a Zafira I was forever pointing out to Mrs T that a large, diesel-engined car with a six speed gearbox could not be expected to perform the same way as a five-speed, petrol Nissan Micra, and should not be driven as if it was one).

We see some right clowns along the road here, which is a long, remote, rural access route that only gets gritted if icy weather lasts more than a couple of days. The poor farmers are forever replacing stretches of fence where cars have just slid off the road.

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snow here in Medway as well will please the wife she hates it,mind you she is out driving my car

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When there's 400+ BHP to put down it's twitchy bum time!

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+1

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Some numpty crashed his car on the M11/A120 road, which meant I had to go cross country to get to work.

Personally people who crash in bad weather should be done for driving without due care, and those that don't clean their car of snow.

Side note: Why can't drivers let you turn right when you are at a junction, are they scared you might be wanting to go left.

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Light fall overnight, 1/2" at the most. Sleet at the moment.

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Rain and sleet here but its still bloody cold.

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The first snow of winter has just started to come down hard 8 miles north of Cambridge.

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About 2 cm Wokingham, cleared by 10 am.

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it was all white at 9am here which didnt last long as well. not that im complaining. im not really a fan of slipping over.

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It came, it settled (for a short while), it went.

I guess I wait for the next lot now.

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Well we have had a couple of snow showers down here but nothing has laid so far.

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A few cm of snow near Wokingham

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Not that much at home

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Light snow this morning. Was laying but no amount.

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Snowed overnight here, about 3cm laying in Andover this morning, just walked the dog and the usual stupid idiots are driving around in their igloos because they can't be bothered to clear their car windows properly!

Now with no more snow forecast will I bother to clear the snow off the drive, or is the sun going to do it for me??? :-)

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My Mum and Dad both said it takes time to get used to how to drive a new car. Even if it's the same make and model as your old car. They said that every car has it's own idiosyncrasies.

Not sure I'd go that far, but even I can see that different models of cars behave differently..

Same where I live, although I live in a suburb of London. We have two particularly dangerous roads. One zig zags through a golf course, and while it's only a few hundred metres long, it has two almost 90 degree bends in it. While it is quite well let, has all the appropriate warning signs and markings, people still insist on speeding down it, and we regularly see cars that have lost control and veered off into the golf course.

The other road is again only short, but has quite a long, very shallow curve to it. Because the road is quite wide, and visibility is usually very good, people seem to forget (or not notice) the curve. So, they speed. Then get to a point where they suddenly realise they are about to go into the railing around my local leisure centre and by that point, it's too late. They slam on the brakes, which inevitably leads to a skid, and they are a couple of metres away from the pavement, heading for it and still doing at least 30.

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More random snowfall here again, lasted for at least 30 minutes !

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More arctic weather and snow possibly on the way, nice.

Mind you it's blimmin cold up here. I turfed a big lump of ice out of the bird bath a couple of days ago and it's still lying there on the ground frozen solid.

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So far the predictions of Artic weather have fallen flat, at least around here anyway.

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12 hours predicted starting at midnight in Stevenage. On the one hand don't want it but on the other hand would like it so I don't have to go to the Jobcentre.

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A snow flurry near Wokingham, as the temperature is 1.5 degrees and is for cast to rise to 4 degrees it will not lay.

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Had 4 hours of heavy snow, quite thick on ground and traffic at standstill on main road. Called JCP and have to attend within 5 working days otherwise they will shut my claim down.

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Ever thought of volunteering to help out with Ebola, if you have time on your hands?

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No chance. Not risking my life to help bleeding heart do good liberals who have to get involved in every disaster that doesn't impact on this country and expect us to give money to help these other countries. Why should we give aid to foreign nations? If the tables were turned and they had the money and we needed it, would they give to us? No.

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-18°C here this morning, with a further 1" of snow on top of the 14" we had earlier in the week.

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pictures Cobby :)

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There you go

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...6&d=1423329171

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...7&d=1423329171

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Your car looks naked without a plate.

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In some States, like Michigan, you only need a rear licence plate. Other States, like Texas, you need one front & back.

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ah. very plump ;)

nice but the temps are too damn low!

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So WW2 £31 Billion Lend-Lease and the 1976 IMF £4 billion bail-out of UK never happened, then?

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You can say that again, -18°C Wednesday morning. This winter's warmer than the last one as well!

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My daughter is in New York for a week (flying home tonight) and has said it's too cold to do the touristy stuff - it's minus 6C at the moment, but -15C with the wind chill factor.

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And us Southern softies complain as soon as we get a short cold snap.:bigcry::Yikes::bigcry:

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And I am in Tromso and it's flippin' raining!

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Had some snow last night in Swinton, which quickly turned to sleet.

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Two of my brothers are going to Carlisle tomorrow and by all accounts its going to be as cold as it would be in February in the pit of winter.:Yikes::eeek:

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Sleet this morning and a very cold wind.

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Not all of us..Speak for yourself..:p:

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Snowing when I woke up this morning, I had plans to go out shopping this morning. Luckily by 8 it was raining, and now it is sunny. Apart from a few places that sun and rain can't get at, no snow left on ground. You wouldn't know we'd had any snow here in Stevenage.

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Apparently we had snow overnight yesterday, but it had all gone again by the morning.

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Couple of inches here in Michigan.

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I'm in Shropshire and we're having a full on blizzard, its pretty crazy. Anyone else got this random weather attack?

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The same in North Leeds

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Well being down here in the milder South West we have some bouts of heavy hail showers thus so far this morning.

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Blustery rain so far but there's a storm front about to come through. Getting really dark now.

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Yeah my day off work and saw all this snow when I woke up, doesn't look like it will be around much though...gritters don't look like they have been around seacroft though sludge all over the roads

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We are expecting snow showers on Friday in South East

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Snowing nicely in Leeds, has been for a few hours. Makes the view out of the office window a bit nicer than normal :).


Cheers


Grim

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Further north than you Grim and its been snowing since 3am. Getting my sledge out ;)

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You can keep it as we do not want the snow in Berkshire!

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Well it was positively balmy, 10C this morning on the Costa-Geriatrica. Only snowflakes were wearing hoodies. :D

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Well where I live we don't get bad snow, yet go 5 miles outside this and its a standstill.

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You could have got your swimsuit out yesterday afternoon down here Mr K.:)

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One of my external thermometers is showing 21.5C atm. It is in the sunlight tho. :Sun:

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Had a bit of snow in Rutherglen on Tuesday, as well as other parts of Glasgow.

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it is -35 today in my hometown

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And it is a rather pleasant +11 down here.:)

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Where on earth is that :shocked:

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What is everyone using to scrape ice off their windscreen?
This morning I used a discount card from my wallet, but it was no good. I only got 20% off.

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Ouch me sides :p:

Apparently, the new plastic fiver is a useful scraper but............[insert clever, witty or vulgar punchline here]

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CD Case, used them for many years now.

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Rain is just turning to snow down here, temperature is 1.1C and falling fast.

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No snow yet, don't want it either!

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Snowing 10 miles away on the moors but whether it comes into the city remains to be seen.

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Steady snow now, 0.7C doesn't seem to be laying yet.

Now laying on cars and grass.

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Bexleyheath, SE London.....coming down thick and settling.
I'm told that the same is happening in Sevenoaks.

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Nothing here :(

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Snowing like a B stard here.

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Any cockneys know how long it's in for down there? I'm traveling down for the week on Monday :erm:

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Snow falls south of Watford, world ends

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All we ever get is rain where i am even when snow is everywhere else takes a lot of snow for us to get a dusting but I'm hopeful we will i always like looking out at a snow covered town.

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Snowing where we are now, and it's sticking!

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Had sleet on the way into London to work, whilst working got a call from my favourite manager and she goes it's snowing heavy in Stevenage. Get back, and there is barely even a centimetre of snow on the ground!

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No snow here in Cornwall but hailstones thundered down late last night.

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None here on the border of Devon either but its very icy and chilly though.

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Pretty much melted now. Pavements are treacherous though.

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Little bit left on cars and shed roofs, thick white frost though. They say there's another small dose for the SE around lunchtime today.

Edit.

Something nasty this way comes:

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The school run was a nightmare this morning. Yesterday's snowfall has frozen hard onto the road, the first three miles of which are ungritted, winding and hilly. We got about a mile and a half and then met a lorry stuck on the same slope where missus rolled a car in icy conditions a few years ago. Waited 20 minutes for the driver to shovel out some salt from one of the piles the council leaves out here for us, then we were on our way. It's still pretty hairy now though, and unless the temperature lifts and stays up it will be horrible again tonight. All the worst bits are under tree cover so don't get much direct sunlight on them at any time of day.

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Another lot of hailstones just minutes ago.

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This bit from JC's column today had me laughing:

Entire piece here

:rofl:

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Drove to work in a small blizzard this afternoon.

Only lasted for about 30 minutes, and didnt settle. :(

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Settling here Paul !

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It will slightly warm up in the next few days but beware as it will turn much colder again later next week Mr K.

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Are you in Moscow, Mr K? :D

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Snowing in Stevenage, which I guess is ideal weather for me, given my latest nickname at work. Sucks because unless it eases up a little in the next couple of hours I will have to cancel my plans for visiting family.

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Snow in Winnersh but has stopped now and turning into slush.

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Snow in Abingdon so of course there are no buses running in Oxford and Abingdon and none to London.

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Lots of snow at home.... bit of a covering in Addenbrooks too but at least I get to see it all from the warm.

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No snow down here as all we have down here now is a bit of wind and a nice bit of wintery sunshine yet one of our family members has had plenty of snow up in the black country.

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Loads here all the traffic maps have the major routes in red.

Hopefully I can get up my hill.

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Bloody weather. Didn't get to go to my mum's today, went out for some shopping and spent the entire time trying not to fall on my backside. Hopefully, we get some hard rainfall overnight which will clear most of the snow or I will be unable to get to work. Buses don't come down my end of Stevenage in snowy and icy conditions, and as I can hardly walk 2 steps without sliding then I may be forced to pull out.

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Was raining earlier but is now turning to snow, temperature +1.4C but falling.

I shall have to fnish putting fleece on my banana palms. Stems are done, just the crowns to finish now the fronds have got scorched by the cold.

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Absolutely freezing out there this morning as with that wind it feels like one has gone into the chiller.

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No snow here atm but it's certainly cold enough for it.

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It started snowing here early yesterday, and it was cold enough for it to settle.

We ended up with about 1/2 inch by lunchtime. Its still here, allthough we have claer skies and sun today.