Based on the entirely scientific approach of ‘holding my hand up to it and then measuring when i got home’, the snow in north east surrey was 7, maybe 8 cm an hour or so ago. It’s been a bit bitty since.
We’re on the greensand ridge, I’d imagine the top of the Downs will have more.
its actually snowing in essex.. expect everything to stop round here
Symonds Yat
Couldn’t be arsed to go outside today, but I took a photo out of the kitchen window to try to get a shot of the starlings squabbling in my Acer, but it wasn’t very good.
Redhill this evening - looking proper! Can’t wait to ride the north downs in the morning!
Snowing heavily here in London Essex/Herts borders!
Still nothing round Stirling/Falkirk...plenty slippy paths with ice starting, but nae snow and I'm not happy!
Kids always make thing happier eh? Our two having snowball fights in the garden coming in soaked with numb hands but giggling away, fun times!
Nearly an inch so far at crystal palace. The ridge here always gets more, just a mile away at the bottom of might be none
The ridge here always gets more, just a mile away at the bottom of might be none
Snowing in Sw19, snowmagedon!!!!!!
Symonds Yat
Clever dog that!
Symonds Yat
Clever dog that!
I hope it's a small snowman.
It's even snowing here in London!
Well my daughter’s happy as her school is closed. My son less so as his remains open, full teenage flip-top head going on….
About 6cm in Brentwood - the town will now shut down
No one seems able to drive in the snow here
Usual numpties out - who's VW bus is this?
https://twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1602020921040113666?t=X2FbNoQM6xR6T8F9YgqT4Q&s=19
Managed the first ski tour of the season in the Pentlands yesterday morning which was nice! Not much of a one for the downhills but good to get out and remember how stuff works.
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Whistler Glentress yesterday all powder.
Dog was LOVING LIFE
Currently -13c here.
And the CH boiler has jacked it in.
Send blankets!
Currently -13c here.
And the CH boiler has jacked it in.
Oh bugger.
I bet the Old Bridge Inn is warm...
It’s hovering just below freezing in Rochdale.
No more snow, which is good as I’ve got to get to Salford tomorrow on a day there are no trains so the roads will be awful.
South Lanarkshire here, a dusting of crispy snow and currently -8.3 outside.
Looking at the Met Office app it’s not forecast to get above freezing all week here in the East Lancs hills (-7 overnight)
At least we’ve not had any more snow. The main roads are all gritted and clear. Everywhere off the main roads is an ice rink
matt_outandabout
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Usual numpties out – who’s VW bus is this?
Classic example of why winter tyres or even 4 season are so much better - just because you can get your 1-2 ton car moving doesn't mean you should. They're just passengers. Not too much snow around here but I'll not be going out in the 4wd e-SUV on wide summer tyres if I can help it as wife's knackered old hatchback has cross climates on.
what's it like around Oxford / M40 and up to Warwick/Leam - have to go and get daughter from University today.
That crunch clip was Leckhampton Hill, Cheltenham. No surprises there!
A good 5cm or so in Bedfordshire.
I walked the dog and am not planning on going out in the car. No decent parking areas without bollards to play in
Usual numpties out
We live at the bottom of a 25% gradient.
Every year when it snows they put a 'road closed' sign out to shut the road
Every year when it snows someone moves the 'road closed' sign and tries to drive down the hill
Every year when it snows the person who moved the 'road closed' sign and tried to drive down the hill, bounces off the walls all the way down then comes to a halt as they demolish the wall at the bottom (again!) normally having collected a couple of parked cars en route
The road then remains closed as theres no way they can get recovery trucks up to move the wreckage
It is ALWAYS somebody in a BMW X5, or similar, who think that having 4WD means that the laws of physics no longer apply to them 🙄
Great twitter video - and there is a chap on a bike riding no problem !
Rishton East Lancs minus 5 and freezing fog this morning. Luckily house was a toasty 18 Celsius so that got boosted to 21, probably cost £20 for that half an hour.
Pavements and side streets resemble Blackburn ice rink. Main roads not too bad.
There appears to be an extended version available on youtube
Funny how one of the commenters focuses on the mountain bike rider having no issues at all.
They’re just passengers.
Aye - wheelspinning merrily until they realise they're out of control, and which point they brake and carry on sliding with the wheels not turning.
I think one of the roads police officers on Twitter has suggested most of the driving in that video would meet the criteria for "driving without due care & attention"
Watching that clip it's reassuring that no matter the weather or conditions you'll always see some @@@@ on a bike 👍😁
Funny how one of the commenters focuses on the mountain bike rider having no issues at all.
...have we got the video of him sliding on his arse on the way back down!! 🤣🤣
I remember 2010 when I was just about the only person to make it to the office. We'd had about 6" of snow in a short space of time. Got up, went outside, and the neighbour said, we're going no-where today ! I said, I'll get my bike out. I was about 30 mins late for work, hard going through 6" of fresh snow. Just about thawed out, and work decided to close for the day, so I phoned home and said I'll be late back - took the long route home ! That's when I ordered Snow Studs !
My wife had Cross Climate's fitted last month. Got to use them properly on Saturday - miles better than standard tyres in the snow - you just stopped, and started like there was none !
Aye, in the Pennines we usually have winter tyres on Nov-Mar. Not deep snow but various boring family cars have got through safely when people in SUVs are sat there with wheels spinning.
Found him/her but wasn't quite expecting this
We’re not on mains gas but have a Butane cyclinder that sits outside behind our kitchen wall with a feed through to the hob. I learned the hard way today that the boiling point of Butane is around -0.5C and below that it remains in liquid state. First time it’s stopped working since we’ve been here. Cyclinder now sitting in the house warming up.
The golf might have stopped with the abs switched off. A locked wheel builds a big heavy triangle of snow which acts like a brake.
The Mercedes, well, thw wheels aren't even pointing away from the crash site but almost at the near side kerb.
The bus almost makes it but ypu gotta question the H and S of leaving the depot in a 8t hammer with the handling characteristics of a narrow boat
We live at the bottom of a 25% gradient.
We have two roads out from our estate - one is maybe around a 10-15% gradient but shorter, one is 5% gradient and longer. Every time it is icy and snowy half the vehicles head out or in the steep way - so much so that the council have installed bollards at the bottom of the hill. Every winter a few cars bounce off the bollards.
Yet for 30 seconds more, they could head out the less steep way (which is gritted first as it is a lane out to more houses).
TBH I used to love taking the fat bike to work in snow.
I never really get the people driving boggo cars in snow with boggo tyres and wonder why they are bouncing off everything.
I get being caught out but setting off in it unprepared seems a tad dense.
A lot of SUVs aren't 4WD, have wide low rolling resistant tyres which are low on tread so worst of all worlds. I use cross climates permanently here, equally good in the summer during the torrential down pours that flood the roads on the hills.
It's all about the tyres though, I'm in a borrowed 4WD Sportage at the moment with normal tyres on it (owner was going to put winter tyres on it on Saturday but decided it was too snowy!), my wifes 2WD fiat 500 made a better job of getting up our residential road than the 4WD.
People don't seem to get 4WD can still slide downhill very easily.
my wifes 2WD fiat 500 made a better job of getting up our residential road than the 4WD.
Also, Fiat 500 = around 1 ton on narrow tyres.
LandRover Discovery = around 2.5 tons on wide tyres.
The physics is simple. A heavier car will take a LOT more to stop and steer compared to a light car. I have 3 times seen a LandRover Defender slide into the ditch while trying to stop - while my Yaris had already stopped..
My old winter beast on the single track road that was my commute for 5 years:
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My wife had Cross Climate’s fitted last month. Got to use them properly on Saturday – miles better than standard tyres in the snow – you just stopped, and started like there was none !
I was waiting for that comment. You will have still slid it was an ice sheet underneath the snow.
Only the little red car got it right. No brakes or little braking and keep going. Only danger is that it can go all very very wrong.
I often wish they wouldnt grit roads before snow. All that happens is that the salt melts the falling snow, the melting snow washes away the grit, the water then freezes and snow falls on top.
Normal tyres will work just fine on snow if people learn how to drive on snow
I’ve got a good an inch in the back
😯
Normal tyres will work just fine on snow if people learn how to drive on snow
I was waiting for that comment ;->
No brakes or little braking and keep going.
And if there's a T junction at the bottom of the hill......?
Have you driven on snow on winter tyres...it really is night and day difference.
Have you driven on snow on winter tyres…it really is night and day difference.
i agree but this wasnt snow it was an ice sheet covered by snow. You would only get grip with spikes.
Please, pray for London… 🤭
I have just cleared our cul-de-sac with the neighbours in Dunblane: 18cm on the bins, using the ruler of truth.
Seems 'our' A9 junction is the poster child / images of the chaos from BBC today.
Surprisingly little snow when I was over at Corrour Station yesterday ( at least compared with Speyside).
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Dropped my skis off at the workshop for some repair work, so best you all prepare for the greatest snowmaggedon we've ever seen. Until about lunchtime on Weds when I pick them up.
bit of snow last night north of glasgow. then it sleeted, then rain. snow is still here but it's wet mushy slush.
made getting back up my drive from the burger king lunch run a bit difficult.
hard times..
I was waiting for that comment. You will have still slid it was an ice sheet underneath the snow.
IF you've driven with winter or all season tyres you'd know that they work pretty well on ice. The sipes cut into the blocks grip the ice as the tyre deforms with thousands of sharp little edges. It's not as good as spikes, but a thousand miles away from summer tyres.
That's the closest I've been to getting stuck in the snow for a long time.
We left friends in Bridge of Allan in rain.
By the time we got to the station it was white, by Kier roundabout it was pretty spicy visibility and depth, by our A9 turn the car was struggling to move at all...
(This is a 3 mile journey)
Not quite the Millennium Falcon...Mair speed required!
Loch Morlich was a giant infinity pool for our NYD dip.
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Snowing in the Derbyshire Dales lowlands. Only a light covering so far though
We were not on the yellow area for snow and ice today - woke up to 3cm of fluffy, cold snow over hard frozen ice...
Tomorrow, with more yellow warnings of snow and ice not over us, could be 'interesting'....
Commute to work in Wester Ross was definitely fat bike territory today.
We got a dusting last night, lovely, went out for a walk at 4am just in case it had melted by morning. It hadn't, but it's all turned into hilariously deadly ice, the sort that you can't even really see.
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I had to smash a channel through the ice to reach the only wet patch at Loch Morlich this afternoon.
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Had to sweep the snow off the car this morning (North Tyneside of all places 😱). Then again, it's only snowed because I've travelled to Glasgow today for work. When I have to travel you can guarantee 'weather issues'. I should be banned from travelling (🙏🙏) 😂😂
@Drac where is that? looks fabulous
@scotroutes stop bloody showing off - people will call you an Alpha 😜
Northumberland. The snow just makes it look good, it’s shit really
An Alpha? Far from it. I only went in at the insistence of Mrs S, who hasn't been dipping in a week!
You can’t be Alpha if you were willing to not avoid the wet patch.
I only went in at the insistence of Mrs S, who hasn’t been dipping in a week!
Have you checked your life insurance recently......?
it’s shit really
Can confirm. Nothing to see here...
Beast from the East V2?
https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2023/02/07/are-we-expecting-a-sudden-stratospheric-warming/
Sorry ,that's my fault,I have been telling everyone it's warming up 😆 🤣
Covered at lot of ground in that long range forecast, you can’t really go wrong if you include most possibilities. Proper hedged their bets with:
The current extended range forecast for mid-February suggests that the most likely scenario is for broadly changeable weather with westerly conditions and influxes of wind and rain at times, particularly in the northwest. Temperatures are likely to be around average through mid-February
They should have said “yes, we expect weather for February”
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Looks like some cold weather incoming this week - apparently Scotland due a couple of days of snow next weekend.
We had a couple of flurries yesterday down by Loch Ericht. Watching this week with interest though. That -10C looks to be hitting us midweek.
Got snowed on very briefly on Dartmoor this afternoon.
We had a couple of flurries yesterday down by Loch Ericht. Watching this week with interest though. That -10C looks to be hitting us midweek.
