Sick of the incessant snow updates

Started frosty and 0°C last night but was 8°C and raining hard with a solid SW blowing when I got up. Very grim drive to work this morning. Suns broken through now. Very jealous of the snow reports.

Wahey! We've got some and almost at the depth to call snow.

None.

Cold as a witch's fridge though and ice on the ground early doors.

Raining now.

Started frosty and 0°C last night but was 8°C and raining hard with a solid SW blowing when I got up

The snow we have (at street level) hasn't shifted for a few days now. I guess we're just getting used to it being here. It's not very deep but we are likely to get a top-up later today.

I'm due to be in Glencoe for Hogmanay - in the campervan. So glad we have a heater 🙂

How's Teesside? Got to drive up to Middlesbrough today.

Started frosty and 0°C last night but was 8°C and rainin

Was like that when I rode out of princetown last night, was great along the nuns cross track, ten minutes later and the wind started to pick up from the SW, by the time I got to nuns cross it was about 5 Deg warmer and raining hard. Turned round and went back to the van..

Just north of Glasgow. Woke to 2 inches or more of fresh snow. I walked a mile and a bit to pick the car up from the pub. A few vans and trucks stuck on local main roads. Doing a run to Glasgow Airport shortly. Erskine Bridge closed so it's Clyde tunnel.

Glad it's a holiday for most to keep roads quiet. With all seasons on the car I'll get there Ok if not blocked by other traffic.

Driving to Inverness tomorrow so keeping an eye on the A9 but I guess it will be plowed and gritted first before anything else.

West Yorkshire has snow 2-3inches - been out and done 14 miles - was good fun

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Just north of Glasgow. Woke to 2 inches or more of fresh snow. I walked a mile and a bit to pick the car up from the pub. A few vans and trucks stuck on local main roads. Doing a run to Glasgow Airport shortly. Erskine Bridge closed so it's Clyde tunnel.

Glad it's a holiday for most to keep roads quiet. With all seasons on the car I'll get there Ok if not blocked by other traffic.

Driving to Inverness tomorrow so keeping an eye on the A9 but I guess it will be plowed and gritted first before anything else.

Whereabouts? I'm in Lenzie and it's been fun again today

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I left home this morning to start work on remodelling a flat in Edinburgh. I came home in a blizzard past half a dozen road accidents. I was on a mission from God with the Deposition in the back of the Land Rover so felt safe

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It’s all gone slushy here in S Yorks but I guess it will freeze again now.
I’d passed 4 cars in ditches within 3 miles of Home this morning on the way in.
When will people learn about winter tyres in the uk? 😕

I came home in a blizzard past half a dozen road accidents.

Boom, it is back...

Only about an inch at Stirling this morning, a bit more at home. More showers due.

2 - 3 inches in Lanarkshire / West Lothian this morning. Still battering down. Two upside down cars in a field next to the West Calder to Blackburn road.

I'm eyeing up an early exit if it keeps up.

Can you hear that?
It's the sound of all the Scandinavians laughing at way we cope with our winter weather. 😉 😛

Laughing in Scandinavia? Not so much. They all have higher suicide rates than the UK.

Well that's a surprise,what with all thier Hygge and wood chopping.
Maybe the weather keeps them trapped indoors for too long.

It's the sound of all the Scandinavians laughing at way we cope with our winter weather.

Not in my experience. They know how much money and effort it costs to keep their roads clear, and they understand they wouldn't bother for a few days a year.

I've said this before, but every country budgets for the norm, and writes off the few exceptional days. So in Scandinavia the exceptional days might be 12" of snow, in the US it might be 24" of snow, here it's 3". Makes perfect sense.

Did I imagine a few snow or sleet flakes in Southampton just before 0700 this morning?

I swear there were a few tiny snowflakes in Cardiff a minute ago, even though it's 7C. Sky looks wintry.

There was a bit of slushy stuff in Otley this morning. And some thin wet snow coming down as I drove over Timble moor to Blubberhouses. Nothing in Ripon yet

Going to do my biking in the velodrome tomorrow AM where it's nice and dry 🙂

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#fatbiketime

Think I should move to Scotland.

Can't see Baildon Moor because of the snow flurries.....and its dark.

Been snowing off and on all day here it’s finally starting to lie.

Couple of short flurries at Kinver today

This is getting serious.

I've had to abandon the trip to the pub quiz.

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Can you hear that?
It's the sound of all the Scandinavians laughing at way we cope with our winter weather.

Used to work with a Norwegian lad who said for the first few days of winter in Norway it wasn't much different from the UK.
Utter chaos until they fitted Snow/Ice tyres and remembered how to drive on the white stuff.

I moved up to Cheshire in 95 & couldn't believe how few of them had driven in snow as having lived in the Cotswold's for 15 years was used to at least 2 weeks of challenging conditions every year.

Only an amber warning for snow and ice.

And some ones arranged a Fiat 4X truck for me to drive up the North Coast to just shy of Wick...

What the chances I make it there and back, eh? 😀

As you can imagine, it was rubbish.

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molgrips - you'd have hated it.

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Looks shite....

We’ve just had the now standard sight of the total cockwombles ignoring the huge signs saying ‘Caution! Road impassable in ice and snow!” And the 25% gradient sign above it, on our road.

There are now 3 cars embedded in the wall at the bottom. Amongst them one woman’s who, having narrowly missed taking out our neighbours kids walking home from school, as her locked-up vehicle slewed down in a straight line on sheet ice, expressed total incredulity as [b]‘I’m Driving a 4x4!!!’[/b]

Does it not over-ride the laws of gravity then love? You need to be having a word with Volkswagen’s marketing department about that. 🙄

Love it 🙂

That's been a big fall last night for much of west coast of Scotland. We've 15-20cm in Dunblane.

M74 was pretty tasty yesterday morning as I headed South. Didn't stop some utter bell end in a Volvo tailgating me as I waited for a truck to pull back into lane 1. I only laughed a little bit when I saw him standing on the hard shoulder with half his bumper missing and his nearside wheel hanging off five minutes later.

I hear it was really bad overnight though. Hopefully it's back to normal when I drive home this afternoon.

Sister-in-law left Glasgow last night at 16:45 and reached Carlisle at 06:00. Grabbing some sleep at local hotel then off to Newcastle.

34cm in the Aviemore area apparently. Guess who has to go to Inverness today?

Long distance Fat Bike training?

Fair ol' dump here in the Borders.

On the phone with the boss this morning - taking a lieu day instead of going in, will get sorted for tomorrow instead.

To bike, or not to bike... ❓

Long distance Fat Bike training?

I’d still be drafting!

And I hear low tyre pressures work well in the snow.

That was an interesting drive up the m74 yesterday afternoon. It took 4 hours to get from Gretna to Larkhall, should have been about 1.5hrs.
Although to be fair it looks like I faired a lot better than those going southbound.
Felt sorry for those that were breaking down / getting stuck. Less sorry for those who binned it because they were driving like a ****.

I've postponed the Inverness trip. The car was being covered by snow as fast as I could clear it.

To bike, or not to bike...

Like you need to ask...

WindyWilson saying tonight into Thursday will be even more...

Well despite the whole 1.5cm of slush, A6038 into Shipley was queuing all the way back to Otley. People driving in the opposite direction at walking pace on a flat piece of road with no snow , slush or ice. There’s caution and then there’s timidity

Decided to snow in Yeadon yesterday, just as I left the house to go for a run. Typical!!

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25cm of pow at street level

pfft, I made it over the hill to Culbokie and then all the way to Lybster and back. Its a bit wet kind of snow now. Felt a bit wild at 6.45am though 🙂

scotroutes - POW indeed!

For those not on the Ski/Snowboard thread, here's the view from my mates chalet in La Plagne:

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Not a lot of skiing happening!

Currently sat in Southampton airport waiting to fly back to Edinburgh, followed by a drive home into the borders... think I'll pick up some emergency snacks from WHSmiths!

10pm tonight the borders is going to be snowmagedon according to WindyWilson

Elected to get train back to edinburgh from Birmingham having looked at weather

Yup, flight lands at 10.30... I've already warned one of the partners that they may find me asleep on the office sofa in the morning!

I hear it was really bad overnight though.

Yeah a colleague was stuck on the m74 overnight until it started moving about 5.30am, problem was there was no warning on overhead gantries etc that traffic ahead had been stationary for two hours already so more and more traffic was piling on from behind. Police were trying to keep a lane clear for the gritters/rescue trucks etc but bmws etc kept trying to use it to overtake and getting stuck. Apparently one prize plum trying to drive along the central reservation too. SOunds like mountain rescue were doing a great job though.

Snow biking last night, then tonight up to Glenmore on the XC skis, loads of sled dog teams on the tracks- it was fantastic!

Did I ever mention I LOVE WINTER!

Well, made it home OK but it's coming down fairly steady near West Linton now. Fingers crossed there's enough to justify a snow day tomorrow...

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There's a road in there somewhere, pic lifted from the Traffic Scotland camera at Crocketford on the A75 which is closed to all traffic, We've only got a couple of inches here in Kirkcudbright but it's just started snowing very heavy again so i figure i'll be heading on the Quadbike t'morn to practice some 4wheel drifting fun on the roads 😀

edit : bugger...no linking to Traffic Scotland cameras, that's spoiled all the fun 😥

Well, that was fun.
It has laid 3" down in Dunblane in a couple of hours...

Just had texts telling me the kids are getting sent home from school due to "forecast worsening weather"

WTAF? It's sunny blue skies.

perchy - looka the met office weather radar, lots incoming from the west.

Stirling just announced schools closed as of lunchtime - I can't see it on their FB site, but mrs_oab is currently handing over children to parents having been told this and two mini_oabs texted to say they are being sent home immediately.

I now want a set of these......

Where is the line in the country that says you will get snow in winter?
It must be 10 years since we've had proper snow in Surrey.

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It must be 10 years since we've had proper snow in Surrey.

My Facebook feed popped up with one of those automatic "memories from n years ago" thing this week. It was pictures of a massive snowfall from 2013. I'm in Surrey BTW.

just had to advise staff they can go home :

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It is snowing rather heavily in South Lanarkshire at the moment though, and both South and North Lanarkshire shut all Primary and Secondary schools at lunchtime

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Actually properly snowing here in Laaandan

The snow we had earlier had turned back to rain. Which is odd as the car says it’s 0degC out there. Baildon, West Yorkshire

Light snow in London.  Slightly annoying to cycle into without glasses.

0002hrs - light flurries in Brum. -3deg

We can’t let this thread die.

2” here.

Eh? We’ve got two other threads going too...

Which one shall it be ?

Formthe sake of following Dracs fashion..

Clear,  no snow, cold and sunny on the Solent.

At least 2 others.

Google alerts has been warning me of severe weather for the last two days, was reluctant to get out of bed this morning for fear of what lay in wait.  -3ºC and blue skies - hardly severe.  Off for a hilly two hour ride once I've found my gloves.

(Basque coast)

Original and best thread ftw.

The child in me still rejoices in the fact we are just winding up the OP.

Thousands of Londoners devastated by a terrifying inch of snow 🌨😫😱

Pray for London 🙏

A couple of cm in Saddleworth...as expected causing road chaos. The beast from the east was no match for the trusty Brompton though and Northern Rail is running like clockwork (sort off).

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