@convert - Rothiemurchus Forest, looking at Lurchers Crag (so Lairig Ghru to the right).
Aye, balling up is a problem with the current snow. I've always used flats on the fatbike but it can still happen. The obvious answer is not to take feet off the pedals but sometimes need must.
Bit of snow here in Chesterfield. Not deep but had settled for the time being.
Little smattering here in Warwick this morning. It's turned to that wet rain now though 😐
A good covering of dusty powder in the Ochil's at dawn this morning.
Fair chunk overnight and early morning around Hayfield which is starting to melt quickly.
However the little back roads up to Kinder Reservoir and around Birch Vale are incredibly treacherous and every moron in a pseudo 4x4 is now stuck.
The standard entertainment of watching the Great British Public attempting to drive in the snow.
Little smattering here in Warwick this morning. It’s turned to that wet rain now though
the only snow in Warwick this morning was on the roof of the van that came with me from home.
We've had on and off snow since the 23rd - couple of inches / rain thaw / repeat - road was ungritted / an ice rink for a few days so couldn't even get the car out. Due some more again overnight.
Was nice in the Pentlands this morning. Small rant - all you flipping trail runners and walkers - take some gear with you. I stopped to help a runner who had slipped and done his ankle. There was 11 people there - not one had a turkey bag or a spare set of layers. I know it’s within sight of town but if it takes you 2 hours to be scooped up (as it did someone later this afternoon) you’ll be hypothermic or dead. I gave him my spare layers, wrapped him up in a bag and he was helped down by his group, well actually 2 of his group as the rest buggered off once they realised they were all cold (Shorts today - really?). That’s the 4th time I’ve had to render aid since April and on only one other occasion did someone have either a first aid kit or a emergency bag. It’s a worry. End of rant, no swearing and nonCaPs 😂
@NZCol - you're obstructing Darwinism with your Good Samaritan deeds!
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@nzcol, I posted this a few weeks ago...
https://testedtodestruction.blogspot.com/2020/02/go-outside-sit-down-wait.html
Ta Scotroutes, pretty much what I would say. Ironically I had a tent, sleeping bag, stove and sleeping mat with me today as well - not that I planned to use them, I am training for something and we will need to carry all that anyway.
my mate used to go out to tow 4x4 poseuers out of the snowdrifts
one caveat - they had to have their own tow rope.
One stuck Evoque owner without a rope demanded he went home to pick his up, as he had gone out in his ego - i am betterer than yao - chariot, in thick snow , wearing his slippers.
One of the best snowy days I've ever had in the pentlands- not actually that much on the ground really but enough, and all the lockdown crowds mean it's beautifully pisted. And sure it's busy, but everyone's super happy and smiley, just lovely to be out in it.
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All capped off with a pretty amazing sunset/full moon combo that was just outright Tatooine, amazing colours and weird shadows. Which was awesome but meant I wasn't totally paying attention to the sunset and ended up navigating home using moonlight and supersonic sonar radar.
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I love snow, it's just the best, but if I didn't already think that then today'd have convinced me- I've spent thousands of hours in the pentlands probably, but it all felt so fresh and reinvented today. I wish like hell I could go to Glentress or the Golfy or Kinlochleven but, this'll do.
Pretty boggy and foggy and a bit thin but found some snow right near the top of Devon.
Not long in from a fabulous night ride. Snow conditions are near perfect.
Well, I think that'll be winter over now with a rapid melt predicted across much of the UK. In other words, I've just ordered some touring skis - apologies everyone.
More than I expected this morning on Dartmoor. Was great conditions, fluffy snow, no wind. Sun.
when we got back to the car park it was all a bit mental.
We had more snow overnight, which made todays ride very tough for its short distance.
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Starting to regret leaving my fat bike in storage...
As it was fresh snow over a firm base, it was just passable - tomorrow, probably not
A fresh 4cm or so here this morning, on top of the hard frozen ice that's been on the floor all week.
It's feeling a little
Properly white, top to bottom
Perfect powder snow conditions up on my local hill - thigh deep so progress is hard going
A decent amount has fallen overnight in North Cumbria. Made driving back from night shift interesting. Positive note: I've added 70 miles on my range due to driving at 30-40 mph. Negative point: I live up a hill on a country road, my car has no interest in going up said hill. Car is now abandoned.
A good couple of inches fell last night here in Aberlour so a half day off has been taken for some essential splitboarding up Ben Rinnes this afternoon 😀
Well after the BBC forecasting snow last night and all day today the temperature increased overnight and it's now wet and overcast. No snow today in grey Chesterfield ☹️
Absolutely bucketing it down with snow here in North Yorkshire. Couple of inches in the last hour. Snow tyres went on the car on Tuesday. I have never been so smug.
light dusting on dartmoor this morning.
Sent my manager a snow angel pic I made to prove it was snowing
About 3 inches here in the southside of Glasgow
you're not one to overexaggerate, are you? looks about 3 feet in the picture
Canny bit of snow in Newcastle. Winter tyres stacked up in shed, car on drive and wife on bus! Oops 😬.
First year in a long time I haven’t bothered. I’m WFH in my cosy little office..
A good 6 inches or so in Harrogate right now
Lecht, Glenshee and Cairn O'Mount roads were all closed this morning
http://www.snowgatecameras.co.uk
It’s been snowing pretty much since 9am in Baildon. Not really settling though.
Fair dollop in Huddersfield at moment - settling well too!
Swavis, Awesome powder up there but I can’t see your tracks on Ben Rinnes - there’s a big chunk of wind slab on the east side - be careful.
Dog decided to start wee-ing blood at 4pm so had to make a quick visit to the vet in Aberlour which is 6 miles direct or 12 miles on bigger roads. About 4 inches of snow fell in 2 hours which made the drive back fun/interesting as there was plenty of sideways action.
Had 2 Typhoons from Lossiemouth fly down the Glen at tree height when walking the dogs - 😎
Started snowing at 9.00 in my bit of Leeds and still coming down
Harrogate Stray at midday today. I have just measured it at our house (at the top of Otley Road where the World's circuit went up several times in 2019) and it's 7.5 inches and still snowing.
This lunch walk:
Humph....been nothing but glorious all day sunshine yet still freezing for the previous 7days here in kirkcudbright
Perfect topup last night for us- ground must be seriously cold, we got maybe 5cm tops where I am but it all just lay perfectly, there's mad ice snakes all over the road from last night's tyre treads... And up in the hills all the death-ice is grippy again. Glorious stuff, never usually works out like that- usually you get right into the manky horrible part of the thaw before it tries to snow again and it's all just really sad and anticlimatic.
Ah snow you are the best I love you snow.
Poor old OP, did a micro rant that he was sick of incessant snow updates and got 7 years worth of snow updates, so far.
Failedest thread ever!
End of day report - still snowing (lightly) but just measured it at 9 inches! Built a snowman and then a sledging ramp on the street outside our house (we might need to put up warning lights for that one) LOL!
Had about four inches overnight, and then it's been snowing all day here at Scapegoat Hill. Dog and I ventured up to the top of the moor this afternoon, and were passed by a couple of guys on bikes up by Rocking Stone Quarry, one with a Vitus and a magnificent beard.... anyone on here?
This afternoons wee splitboard tour up Ben Rinnes. Loads of snow!
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I was up at the Cas car park earlier. One side of the ski road has been ploughed and gritted. The other side is now basically a ski run for all the tourers/boarders.
Fab pics Swavis - I was looking through my binoculars to see if I could spot anyone skiing - 3 pairs of skiers plus a dog skinning up from this side. My dogs a bit poorly so wasn’t up for wading through thigh-deep powder
Envy.
We had 2-3mm drifts yesterday.
Poor old OP, did a micro rant that he was sick of incessant snow updates and got 7 years worth of snow updates, so far.
Failedest thread ever!
Yeah, I do try to keep it alive in the quieter months as we still have snow when most folk don't.
Had a bit of snow overnight and sub zero temps all day.
Gathered up the bairns and went for a slide on the powder covered sheet of ice just behind the Pyramids at J4A on the M8. Insta link below
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I hate the Pentlands, boring, boring, boring. But even I must admit that they were not looking three bad today...
Southern Hants update:
looks like another MASSIVE frost tonight. Roads will be slightly slippy 'til at least dinnertime
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !
Snow has closed several airports here in Spain. Due to reach us tonight I believe . . .
I made good use of my new Schwalbe studded tyres for a spin around the Loch Leven Heritage Trail today. They were impressively grippy on the ice.
Fab pics Swavis – I was looking through my binoculars to see if I could spot anyone skiing – 3 pairs of skiers plus a dog skinning up from this side.
Cheers. Aye there was plenty of ski tourers on the hill today. Unfortunately there seemed to be an organised group of about 7 of them, 1 guiding and 6 guests, no distancing at all. No idea how they get away with it and will keep us locked down forever 😕
-17 in Biggar last night, oaft, we touched -8, that was cold enough.
@scaredypants Read there was snow up your neck of the woods* yesterday around Stock's Lane. Did it stick? Any sign of an ice rink up on the Old Winchester / Butser Hill plateau like Xmas 2017?
* Thought you lived near Hants/ West Sussex border for some reason.
Sorry matey - more Romsey way for me. None of your alpine experience like East Meon. Even the frost failed to materialise
Amazing conditions up high on Dartmoor today.
Wirral & Liverpool nothing, hardly ever is though 😉
Nice Brocken Spectre there Jambo.
Clearest I’ve ever seen.
Even more snow at lower levels again as the wind has been drifting it off the exposed bits.
No need for the Snow Factory today!
That's the ski road from the Sugar Bowl car park. Left hand side is now nicely "pisted"
Well I'm always jealous of these pics - we had about ten flakes in Cardiff. However, I do like a bit of weather watching. There has been (or is underway) a Sudden Stratospheric Warming event which can lead to a very cold snap, including a Beast from the East pattern, although not always. The following graph is the GEFS ensemble plot for Cardiff. The numbers are the temperature at an altitude where the pressure is 850mbar which would be about 1500m of altitude ish, that's where the temps are not affected by day or night. When the graph goes below -10, it means it's a decent cold snap (by UK standards). The lines are individual forecast runs, and where they are close together there is a lot of agreement and hence high confidence. The numbers at the bottom are the numbers of runs that forecast snow (any snow at all) on that day.
I've been watching it, and since the SSW the trend has been for the temps to drop towards the end of Jan, and there are more and more runs dipping into the proper cold part of the graph, and the number of runs that forecast snow has been climbing.
Get your location from the links to cities at the bottom of this page: https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twodata/gefs.aspx
We had 6c and rain most of yesterday afternoon/evening which all but cleared the snow on the roads and pavements but its been snowing heavily again for tè past few hours so we're back to it being white everywhere. There must be an amazing amount on the mountains now.
Managed some early morning ski tours up the Pentlands - some fantastic poder, sadly all melting now!
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Oh my, that looks nice.
@elshalimo
That top pic was about where you passed me (if that was you!)
The bottom pic, is that from the bottom of the golf course looking up towards Round Ings?
Were you on a white MTB? I was having a sandwich sat on the wall with my wife
2nd pic - yep spot on!
A good layer this morning, perhaps 6-8cm.
More snow. 🙂
Twice in one lifetime here in Knaresborough. Going for a walk to watch people on non-essential journeys crashing their cars slowly and expensively on the A59.
Seems to be a thing that when it snows in the UK half the population develops an uncontrollable urge to get in their cars and drive somewhere.
Can we get some please? The rain was bouncing last night but my relief got snowed in...
...would be awful if he got stuck at work.
Maybe an inch so far here in the southside of Glasgow and still snowing heavily
Baildon, West Yorkshire 09:10 today:
110m above sea level
