No snow in southern Hampshire
I repeat; no snow in southern Hampshire
(unrelated to "the beast" I'm not actually waiting in for, but may just receive a pair of new skis today 🙂 )
Deep, crisp and even in beautiful Burnley.
Good snow too.
Off to slide down a big hill on a groundsheet in a bit.
🙂
I'm going to train part-way home and ride 35miles off road the rest of the way on Thursday. Nice route but it's a muddy slog fest until it dries out - usually April/May, so I'm taking the opportunity while it's frozen solid.
The correct tool for the job is the fat bike: podgy mud with frozen hoof and boot holes is not cx territory. Downside is having to ride though central London on it with just a few flakes falling out of the sky - I'm going to look a little desperate!
Looks like the promised snowpocalypse in London will have to wait a day...
Totally snowpocalalyptic in London right now.
Nope. Sorry.
It was, but it stopped again.
Light dry smattering on the Solent coast now. It’s all gone a bit dark too..
Totally snowpocalalyptic in London right now...
Excellent,that's the wall to wall BBC news sorted for tonight 😉
Scots have been told not to put away the winter vests just yet 🙂
puking in Farnborough but absolutely refusing to stick! better not bobbins my drive back up North on Thursday...
Sporadic light flurries in west London.
Just wait a minute muppetwrangler. Another wave of snowmageddon is on its way over.
Please can we have pics of baby robins in the snow?
Whiteout in Cheam
Just started to properly snow in central London, about time!
stopped again, kilo. blue sky headed your way.
I know what a rubbish snowmageddon I blame the eu.
Looks like there's another bank of cold, white death rolling in, though.
- ned
Tower Hill Lookout.
The South Downs earlier?
If my commute in tomorrow isn't like this, I will personally paint the Scottish travel minister Red and Orange for the warnings he keeps using...
Typing from the snowy Highlands, I find the press coverage of winter weather, especially when occurring in the south, pathetic.
Yesterday mornings Today on radio 4 was so bad I will be ceasing to listen to the program after some 25 years*. News it was not.
*I am aware no one cares.
I find people stopping listening to the Today programme because of coverage of infrequent cold weather, pathetic.
I had loads of reasons for stopping listening to the Today programme, and I encountered them almost daily, throughout the year, not just a couple of times a winter.
Well, here in sunny Ripon we had two or three inches overnight. The same over in Thirsk, but that thawed through the day. Got back to the farm and it's stayed all day. Just started shitting it down again and the dog wants to go out in it. Bloody thing.
A couple of sleet showers today, giving things a light dusting of white. Not exactly snowmageddon here in North Wiltshire, or at least the lower elevations, there might have been more up on the Marlborough Downs.
Bit grim in Burnley now - risked the pub quiz in Colne but a bit dodgy on the way back.
Looks like it might be a day off work tomorrow, even the main roads are getting unsafe with the drifts.
Southern Hants update - our back garden is like ****ing Narnia !
(by which I mean at least a full half inch laying on the ground - looks like it'll be there all night. As they say, what a time to be alive !)
Meh, a fluffy couple of inches here, drifting slightly .
All the East coast local authorities are closing schools in Scotland - once Stirling, Borders and West Lothian announced last night, I predicted thay all would.
Time to walk or bike to work - a colleague is up here from the Hampshire Alps to do some work with me, so best not let her down....
Oooh! We got some more about 5” here now so we can almost call it snow.
We’re all very excited in Surrey this morning, we’ve woken up to a foot of snow!
okay.....it’s probably more like an inch! 🙁
Mr Frosty came around and sprinkled all the cars with fairy dust last night, it’s lead to a stunning pink sunrise..
Solent coastline,
Blimey.
The lightest of dustings in SW surrey, at 130m.
And 2" in London! Entertaining ride across the bridge, but I was not expecting that!
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Outside midlifetowers just now.
Since Teachers are public servants if the schools are closed couldn't they be put to work for the public good. There's plenty of snow that needs shovelling off elderly people's paths for eg. Come on teach, get to work and pick up that snow shovel ;op <<wink tongue out.
(where have the smileys gone?)
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OK, more than 2" here then. Lovely ride in.
Just a dusting in Cardiff, like icing sugar on an almond croissant, but it's cold so it's just lying there and blowing around. Definitely going out riding today. Question is, should I put the ice spikes on the FS or the rigid?
At home, didn't fancy it.
Replaced the worn out CrossClimates last week with some bargain Firestones. Bah.
Time to make like a mole and dig, I want to get to the bikes. Might take the BMX round the estate, see if I can remember where the roads are. 🙂
A mere 5 inches this morning. Took me an extra fifteen minutes to drive to work.
Having said that, it turns out that an 8 year old S-Max isn't the ideal vehicle for the scandinavian flick.
I'd have stayed in bad with that amount !
It was a bit drifty at the Kissing Trees
Half inch fell overnight, was bright and clear this morning so mostly gone from any non shady areas.
More news updated as it occurs from West London Weather Watch.
Absolutely loved the commute in this morning!! It's so rare that you get to do this sort of thing in London 🙂
Now that is a lovely bicycle.
Red weather warning issued by the Met Office for this afternoon....
need to get back to the north west from Surrey tomorrow. deliberating whether to piss off today instead... bound to meet some disruption at some point all that way...?
Red weather warning issued by the Met Office for this afternoon….
We have just been told to b*gg*r off home asap due to this - looks like the whole business park and Stirling Uni is shutting.
Between blue skies it is a tad breezy and snowy.
The ride home will be fun - wind at my back!
Our management's response has been a disinterested shrug.
Despite being slap bang in the middle of the red area.
Our management’s response has beeen a disinterested shrug.
Despite being slap bang in the middle of the red area.
Balls!
Balls would be somewhere between the pink and brown areas, Shirley?
Proper cold up here and very windy.
Lots of layers on but still chilled trying to wade through the park.
Tea and the radio sounds good.
I'll drift off to the Archers, nothing exciting ever happens in Ambridge.
And hour or two of snow in London earlier. Now swapped for a new onslaught of SUNNYBLUESKIESANDFLUFFYCLOUDSMAGGEDON!!!
Yikes, I'm smack in the eye of the storm.
I'm not sure if this video link will work
Sat here deiberating whether to go to a show in Nottingham tonight, from Doncaster. A1 & M1 have both been closed in the last hour, but might clear up. Would be a shame to waste the tickets, but worse to end up stuck on the motorway.
I'm using the international measure for snow conditions. Ride home scores a 5.9 on the "Narnia scale"
This was Glasgow Airport this morning.
Needless to say nothing went anywhere and after hanging around the airport for 3 hours my Heathrow flight was cancelled and I went home
Not sure what I was thinking heading to the airport in the first place...
I seem to be living in a micro climate all of my own..
Facing the sea, to my left down the coast is Brighton and that has had snow, to my right Weymouth and Devon/Cornwall again have had snow. Even if I stand on tip toes looking at the IoW all I see is normal brown land, even the Hill near Newport looks decidedly green.
To balance this up the wife is in deepest Harrogate’shire and has had 5” to worry about, and the BiL has been driving the tractor up and down the road with the bucket on clearing the drifts..
Me, well the heating is on melting the skirting boards, the sun is out, there are some puffy clouds but my it’s bitterly cold wind..
Had this on the way in, looking forward to cycling home although it is a bit nippy and windy around Sheffield.
SW Edinburgh. Bit of snow last night, i got home about 11:45pm and it was proper nasty. A few flurries this AM then WHAM big dumpola between 1 and 2.
Kids school cancelled tomorrow, anxious couple of hours waiting to find out if my wife's work is also cancelled so I can get out riding in the snow. And it is! Yes!!
Boulmer reporting 21cm of snowfall today at around 2.30pm
I hope all you Edinburgh and Glasgow area peeps make it home from work ok! I've never seen a red warning on the Met Office before. Erg...
Is it as bad as it sounds?
I’ve not made it home, but I’ve blagged my way into a B&B that doesn’t accept pets with a dog.
Any bets on what time I get home tomorrow.
Conveniently there’s a Papa Johns just over the road. If I can find a beer it’ll be a good night out!
#prayforpiemonster
"the wife is in deepest Harrogate’shire and has had 5” to worry about,"
DANGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#payforpiemonsterspizza
I think there might be a beer fail. The first shop is closed and the other option, according to google review;
Stinks eh b.o the man stinks the shop out!!
I think there might be a beer fail. The first shop is closed and the other option, according to google review;
Stinks eh b.o the man stinks the shop out!!
I'd still be going! lol
I hope all you Edinburgh and Glasgow area peeps make it home from work ok! I’ve never seen a red warning on the Met Office before. Erg…
I made an executive decision and left work just before two and was home by three.
Others who stayed are still not home.
Currently have 7 or eight inches on the flat and drifts a couple of feet deep in the garden.
It's still stoating down.
Well then, I see all the MrMagoo types have cleared the shelves of bread and milk from my local Waitrose 🤦♀️🧚♀️
Horrendous conditions up here in Edinburgh. We've had literally the heaviest snow fall since last year, panic buying has seen Waitrose shelves stripped bare of organic hummus, the only activity on the streets is cross country skiers desperately trying to get on the news and houses are getting slightly dusty because the cleaners can't afford 4x4s. On the plus side though the council have called in SAS trained cello teachers to ensure Charlottes and Olivers don't fall behind.
I made an executive decision and left work just before two and was home by three.
Others who stayed are still not home.
That's why you get paid the big bucks! lol
I feel we're not discussing the real issue here.
I've just been out in the back garden that's awash with snow. Gloves on and welcoming fire inside for when I'd finished my childish endeavours to build a massive gender neutral snowbeing. Could I make a one? Could I chuff - just trying to roll a small starter snowball was like trying to heard tiny polystyrene balls. What is this stuff? There's not bloody moisture in it!
*puts carrot away* 🙁
The main coastal road, which is pretty much at sea level, between Kirkcaldy and Kinghorn was closed. A few foolhardy drivers thought the the Jaw Banes and Kissing Trees singletrack roads were a viable alternative. The Kissing Trees road has three 12% climbs on it. When I drove along it before noon the drifts were Land Rover bumper deep. Those that failed got stuck and abandoned their cars. Those still mobile thought they'd try their luck along our hill. SIx to seven hundred feet above sea level the winds and snow had drifted the snow to Land Rover headlamp deep. Some made it to the end of our drive and struggled to turn through two foot drifts.
The windchill is supposed to be -10C and it's blowing a gale with more snow expected through the night.
We had a couple of bad winters here in the late 70's. One when I walked home in my school uniform through three miles of waist deep drifts. This may be potentially worse.
Red status in W.Yorks
Dog needs to poop, owner unimpressed.
Fence sets itself alight to keep warm.
Haha!
And the Solent awakes to a light dusting and pale grey.
Im calling it a human disaster zone, so I’m off to Waitrose to clear the shelves of olives and humus.
Harrogate in the last dump of snow..
I’m adjusting my expectations to will I get home this week.
How long do I need to work through the entire Papa Johns menu?
