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Thats it, an ice cream van and a burger bar in summer as well. I hear that the council intend to upgrade the car parks and vistors centre soon. It is about 30 mins walk from the Clarence ( big pub ) roundabout, which is close to what appears to be a church on that map, if you cannot make it up to the car park (pay & display) next to the reservoir.

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:tu: thanks iadom.

I'll let you know how we get on.

Someone drop him a greeny for me - I need to spread it about more!

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:blush: ...Nice picture of the reservoir and hills .https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2005/02/4.jpg

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done ;)

it has been cold, windy & wet all day here - but no snow :)

- as I left work the combination of high tide & a stiff onshore wind was sending waves over the sea wall. :erm:

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I was not impressed before, trudged through the snow/slush/blizzards to Argos to buy a suitcase (NYC here I come :hyper: ) and was told I couldn't collect from the back door for "health and safety reasons" :erm: Did they seriously expect me to trudge through the snow with a really heavy box to get back to my car. Yes they did :rolleyes: Quick chat with the manager and they said they would on this occasion. Gee thanks very much.

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Deadbrains report on the snow :D

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Snows crap in Stoke... woke up to find a light blanket.. deep in parts. Snowed all day, continually... yet it had all but dissappeared off the ground after midday.

However, a few miles up the road there's still loads of the white stuff ;) Great fun in a car :D

http://www.asfz49.dsl.pipex.com/photos/road.gif

Dovestones snow report
 

Altis, I decided to have a wander round Dovestones reservoir this afternoon. It is amazing how easy it is to take for granted such breathtaking scenery when it is on your own doorstep. I took these pics at 12 50PM . The main road and the access road to the car park are clear, however if you look at the picture of the car park you may be able to see that some of it is fenced off. In fact less than a third of the normal space is available due to refurbishment taking place. There is another less well known carpark (free) a short distance up the main road at Binn Green which is shown on the A to Z. Speaking to one of the hardy souls I met today, he said that Sunday was always much busier than Saturday. There is a small carpark at the Clarence Hotel which is a 20 to 30 minute walk from the reservoir. At the moment the temp is just above freezing, with sleet in the air. I should think that there will still be enough white stuff up there to make it interesting unless we have a dramatic change in the weather.

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Whats at the bottom of that hole in pic#3? :erm:

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That's the overflow vent, absolutely huge. One or two idiots have tried to climb inside it. you can just see in the bottom of the picture a large metal construction, that is a flood release barrier. I found a picture of the overflow vent in operation on picsearch, I will try to find it for you.

Edit. here you go.

http://www.go4awalk.com/userpics/pix...ak/dleak_1.jpg

What the drunks threw up (Re: [Merged] Snow !)
 

bit late I know, but a couple of 3am Thursday morning shots of something the drunks threw up overnight :)

Sorry for the out of focus but I was parked on the junction (directly across from the local nick)

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Very many thanks for that Iadom.

As it happens, Mrs A came home early this afternoon so we went to Meltham via Greenfield to borrow some skis for her. We must have gone through Greenfield at about 5 o'clock but I didn't recognise you anywhere ;)

The snow did look a bit wet mind so I think we need to look for some height. Our current plan is to meet up at the top of Woodhead on Sunday morning and, if the conditions are okay, glide our way over to the Snake Inn for lunch. Gliding back after lunch should be fun :D

Still, thanks again for the info. It saved us a long trudge up to the N Yorks moors.

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Well, we got there and had a great time. We could have done with more snow - especially when we got a bit lower and ended up breaking through it into the heather beneath. Otherwise conditions were excellent. Nice and cold with intermittent strong sunshine. Our lunchtime picnic was very 'alpine'.

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Tons and tons of snow. So much it must have done something to the power lines which caused a surge at my end :erm:

Lukily everything I have is on a surge protector, but even with that it caused my router to crash :(

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got some lovely big flakes here in selly oak. its even settling onto my road with an inch-thick layer of grit on it.... interesting :erm:

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Strange weather today...sunny, yet cold and it kept on trying to snow. :)

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Well yesterday and today we had hailstones that settled on the car windscreen to look like snow - horrible thunderstorms yesterday too - and it was sooooooo cold!

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The snow only lasted for few minutes at a time (it kept trying through the day), yet it was a really sunny day, which made it seem strange. :)

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It's bluddy freezing in Hyde and was trying to snow before

Thunderstorms, hail and sun yesterday :shrug:

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it snowed in the town i work in this afternoon....
was quite amusing my friend was working upstairs and we called her down to see the snow... no sooner had she got down the stairs the snow stopped... think she thought we were lying. lol

so much for british summer :erm:

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It was very windy today - really cold, too, we had one flurry of snow that was just being blown horizontally past the windows:eek:

When I left work the high tide was just starting to be blown over the 'sea wall' :erm:

It is supposed to get better over the weekend :)

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There was an inch or two of snow on the hills above us this morning, and as I was getting my take away from the local Italian tonight, a large gritter lorry went past with the lights flashing..so much for global warming.:(

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snowed in cambridge for all of ten minutes then stoped.
still cold

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It's -1.6 C here atm .....

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Been snowing on and off all day. Bloody perishing at the moment. Sat here looking like a refugee :D

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Yeah its freeeeeeeezing here in the midlands at the moment !!!

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Had a flurry of snow here on the south coast :shocking:

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A snap taken earlier today in Hyde :eek:

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Yep, we had almost 2 inches of the white stuff in the garden yesterday morning.:shocked:

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I'm on the A66, going to Ireland, there's some snow on the hills, not a lot mind you. Beautiful day mind, all the same.

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the A66 doesnt go to ireland does it :confused: , sorry i couldnt resist :D :D :D

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Thats what I thought but because I'm up early was sure it was me going even more daft :erm:

Snow in your area
 

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...466620,00.html

And I want pictures, people!!

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I wish it was snowing here !!! I love it when it snows !!!
Here in Leicesershire its freezing, and lots of ice near where I live.
Perfect conditions for my driving lesson this morning lol.

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there is nothing here, except a large blanket of frost and ICe

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traces of snow might be found in Kate Moss's purse.........

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Well, it might be snowing here, but I can't see anything out of the window...

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Anyone else notice how, at the first mention of the word 'snow', idiots like myself and Nugg suddenly become 6 year olds?? :spin:

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As my Mum has always said:

It's too cold to snow :Yikes:

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Well, London, being 2 degrees warmer than anywhere else due to all the bricks, has had snow once since I've lived here. None today, although it was damned frosty first thing. My temperature gauge is reading 4.2 C which is probably a bit higher than ambient, since it's rather near the boiler exhaust. Must move it.

Heathrow is reporting -1, so it's definitely possible that we might have some snow sometime. I can't be more certain than that.

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Probably 'cos, when you're 30 (ish ;) ) and bald like what we are, it's the only time you can really get away with it :D

Re: Snow in your area
 

i used to work with an aussie in @1995 who had never seen snow in real life. I remeber it snowed one day and he was out in the middle of baker street running standing in a snowfall, calling his mates in oz and south africa on his mobile, grinning from ear to ear. Made me think about what we take for granted. I think he was 30 at the time

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You know it's cold, when on the inside of the office windows, there is ice!!!

Came in this morning and the office heating was off - thermostat's were saying 4 deg C :disturbd: Heating programmer was saying it was Sunday, not Monday :dozey:

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The first time I can remember seeing snow.......I was 13 yo:D

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100% chance of snow!?! Bring it on!!!

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It's a "no snow" here. :D

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When I lived up't North between Oldham and Halifax i wasn't a question of "if" it would snow, it was a question of how deep will the snow be and will it be gone before Easter !

Re: Snow in your area
 

The article is a little misleading though.

It's just the coastal areas that are expecting it....

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I doubt we will see it here. We rarely see snow.

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Funnily enough... when I checked the weather this morning (www.accuweather.com) it was forecasting snow fri/sat/etc and when I checked at lunchtime there was no suggestion of any.

Just had the Met Office "severe weather warning" in and it gives us (Midlands) 40% chance of snow from thurs-sat.

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Yeah it is certainly going to get colder throughout the rest of the week.
Possibly reaching -3 celcius so be careful of ice !
The cold winds are coming down from the arctic with snow definately possible.
I'm sure however that at onepoint we will have the very annoying (especially when waiting for the bus at an un-sheltered bus stop), freezing cold rain and wind which is just awful.

Re: Snow in your area
 

What are you, Michael Fish? :p:

Go on, try running that back through your head in his voice ...

We already had a taste of cold weather up here. Last Friday night got down to -4, although we're quite sheltered and they had -6 down the road. It stayed surprisingly mild last night even though the skies cleared for part of it.

Time to lob a few more coals on the fire!

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It was -3 this morning according to my car. Had to use the de-icer for the first time this winter.

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We're having -6 on Wednesday night and -5 on Thursday night, apparently :erm:

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I remember back in the days when it used to snow proper snow.
There would be times when we couldnt get to school or actually had snow that blocked half the windows up.
Please bring back this quality snow mr Snow and leave the slush behind.

Re: Snow in your area
 

Well no snow in Manc but you cant see where you are going for the pea soup fog that has been hanging around all day. Perhaps some snow would help us all to see :D :LOL:

Re: Snow in your area
 

All it needs is 3 flakes and the country grinds to a halt!

If this snow they're forecasting actually arrives in any quantity, we'll have more dramas for the media. I mean, what's wrong with cars/trucks/trains etc. over here that at the first hint of snow everything stops moving? (Or starts sliding uncontrollably into a ditch, thereby causing the sensible drivers to be held up while the idiots get dragged out.)

Driving in snow isn't that hard - it just requires a bit of care and patience - and losing the lead foot, and leaving more space between cars.

Of course too many drivers have trouble with those concepts, as they demonstrate every morning in any and all driving conditions.

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Ooh, I bet you feel better for that rant ... :D

You're right though, I remember there being a snap snowfall the last winter I spent in Hemel that caught all the gritters off guard. It took me about three hours to crawl home from Watford that night and we weren't even the worst affected area.

I'm off to Stockholm later this week. I'll be packing some warm gear, but if there is snow while I'm there I'm not anticipating the city grinding to a halt!

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Not really, because I know they'll keep doing it anyway.

Instead of all the roadworks, they could do a lot more to improve the traffic by making it more likely for the idiots to get caught. Maybe if they had to start driving lessons again they'd learn how to drive properly. (Of course this would require the standard of driving tuition to be raised considerably. Like including motorway driving, night driving and skid pan work.)
Me too. No gritting, idiots driving too fast and traffic at a standstill.

I was lucky to find a back road which saved me 2 hours of tailback traffic, but it was very hairy indeed - hence 3 cars in the ditch within a mile of each other. And considering the way my car was behaving at 15mph, I have a pretty good idea how they ended up in there.

Re: Snow in your area
 

After a couple of hours behind the wheel, I got within a mile of my house and then stopped dead in gridlock. I u-turned and tried to go through Picotts End and up the back lanes into Grovehill, but when I got up there I came across white van man and his mate, who had just run their vehicle into a snowdrift and blocked the way. I had to give them a lift back down the lane (as far as a farm where they found a willing farmer with a Land Rover), where I then rejoined the queue and spent another hour getting home. If I'd been dressed for it I'd have abandoned the car on the verge and walked home in about 15 minutes. :fit:

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i consider myself to be a decent driver but boy did i get caught out a few years back when it took me 8 hours to drive from hatfield, down the a1 to central london. Deflating the tyres slightly, and taking off in 2nd gear , and leaving my rear wheel drive car at home next time it happened were 3 of the best tips I was given (after frantically calling some "advanced" drivers), but I dont recall reading those in the Highway code or during mey lessons (Fair point considering its not often we used to have those conditions) I think on the onset of winter and freezing weather people should actively get tips on how to drive in extreme weather conditions (i.e snow and ice), as not many people know how to do it.

Re: Snow in your area
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=3144

nothings going to happen down my way.... :(

Re: Snow in your area
 

About two years ago I got stuck for the entire night on the motorway around Paris as the conditions just got so bad all traffic was stuck on the motorway. No one got out their cars as it was freezing.
All mobile networks were flooded and it was chaos. Seeing as I had been traveling since morning and thought I was going to arrive in the evening, I had the worst time ever having to spend the whole of the night in the car.

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Thankfully...but then I'm in Lee-on-Solent so I never see the stuff...:D

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Yeah, SWW, although I do love the white stuff, I know what you mean... last year we had a sudden snow storm here in Swindon - couldn't have been more than a couple of inches at most, but it fell very suddenly. Took me hours to get home, despite living about 2 miles away from where I worked :(

It's fine if it snows overnight, cause then you just phone your boss to say you're staying at home all day, and then you don't get caught up in all the problems. Luckily, my boss now lives in a secluded village about 15 miles from the office, so he'd not be at work in any case :D

Re: Snow in your area
 

My wifes from canada, the first time she was here and it snowed she couldn't believe the effect a smattering of snow had.

Re: Snow in your area
 

Scunthorpe officially ground to a halt when it snowed at the start of this year - my usual 30(ish) minute journey to work was fine until I got to Scunthorpe. It then took me 2½ hours to drive 2½ miles, purely because none of the morons driving had a clue about how to cope in snow.

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LOL That must have beeen fun for you.
Everyone should be given a day off work when its like that.

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FUN!?!?!?!?!?!

The only saving grace was that, even though I didn't get to work until nearly 11 o'clock, I still left at 5 ;)

Re: Snow in your area
 

Know the feeling, that said when I was in Canada over winter a few years ago I had an interesting journey with someone who was under the assumption that using the handbrake was an accepted way for turning corners on un-ploughed roads.

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They weren't from Scunthorpe were they?

:D

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There's a bit here:

http://www.chamonet.com/webcam_pan.php

Oh, I can dream...

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Hows about you pay us a forum holiday ski-ing out there Altis. :)

Re: Snow in your area
 

I went to Shaw last week and noticed all the road signs saying if these lights are flashing the road is blocked by snow, I thought they must get it bad up here. Mind you I was right up in the Sky.

Re: Snow in your area
 

Is this a good place to say I'm looking forward to the warmth of Egypt next week, diving in the Red Sea :Sun: :D

I'll be thinking of you lot, trying to motivate yourselves to ventrue into the icycle that is the UK :angel:

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You very lucky person !!! Have fun !
And send some sunshine towards the UK.

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Yeh, these valley dwellers and city slickers don't know what it's all about ;)
We mountain men know how to survive when the going gets tough. :p:

Re: Snow in your area
 

I'm not bothered by any amount of snow, as i'm out of work.

(where I worked my boss lives near Stevenage and won't be able to get in if the weather is to bad. I live around the corner from the place.)

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I hope you get burned as red as the rep I'm about to give you...! :grind:




















:jk:

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I cant wait, i love the stuff, its up to belmont moors with the sledges if it comes :D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4457744.stm

Re: Snow in your area
 

Well exaclty. we dont get snow in this part of the country..

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I must live in the coldest place in the country... We've been having -3, -5 for the past week now already... :erm:

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^^^ Ditto

Peanut smuggling weather :)

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Bloody cold here this morning, -4 and lots of fog.

Re: Snow in your area
 

Same here. No snow. But as I opened my window (Im in the loft so can see over the city) its as if the city is drowned in a huge swimming pool of fog.

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And how exactly are you smuggling them, young man? I trust it's not in your underwear ;)

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Young man .... OoooOooo Get you.

... and No, just conkers down there :)

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Conkers :shocked:

Well, I suppose that, in this weather, they'll definitely need baking in the oven :disturbd:

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In this weather they are just hard to find ... LOL

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:sick:


:D

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Indeedy. Thick jumper and good bras required this time of year.

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I don't think it's very nice suggesting that Si needs a bra ;) :p:

Although I must admit that Nugs woolly hat collection has come out of hibernation :)

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Whoops! Sorry Nemmy - wasn't suggesting you, but me... :blush:

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Dare I ask what makes a bad bra, and why you'd ever wear one? :erm: :disturbd: :D

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I'd have thought a pair of pants would make a bad bra (well, unless you were a really weird shape :disturbd: )

:p:

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Below 16C one hour after normal start of work, go home. Health and safety and all that.

(Exemptions like meat factories, fridges etc, and outdoors of course)

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I guess a bad bra would be one that, in cold weather, fails to conceal - shrapnel dip (anag). :)

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Why would you be concealing pline shards :confused:

:disturbd:

Re: Snow in your area
 

So if my heating fails to come on in the morning I can stay in bed (I work from home):D :D :D

No snow yet but the sky looks like snow is certainly on the agenda and will be discussed in due course.

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erm a peep hole bra ? I could certainly suggest why someone might wear one but in this weather, exposed nipples :Yikes: :Yikes: