So, this happened...
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Dusting over the tops on Rum, Skye and over about 800m on Ben More - we’ll see what the morning brings
Not worried about getting to aviemore on Wed for a couple of days. A bit concerned about the drive back on Sat throught the lakes and Midlands though.
It's my fault. I took the ice tyres off my commute bike last week, and this weekend built some wheels up from a pair of mint Deore XT M737 hubs, which the summer tyres are now on. Ice tyres on old wheels.
Well it’s snowing in Dukestown this morning
Postie round in Wester Ross just going to be tricky today. 2-3 inches came down overnight, snow showers forecast for the whole day. Perhaps I should swap the van fir a fat bike?
Perhaps I should swap the van fir a fat bike?
Coolest postie ever....
Predicted high winds and snowfall today/tonight here in Uppsala. This would be either first or second false spring. Only three more to go before real spring.
My postie van is currently sporting 2 bald front tyres (and another week before they replace them) and too far/big load for my fatbike. Snow forecast for later when I’m attempting to drive over the hill road with lots of hairpins.
@dovebiker managed to get all season tyres fitted to my van, after a 5 year battle.
I have a trailer for the fat bike, but doing the full round (70 miles) could be a struggle.
A few inches here but the sun is out so doubt it’ll last sadly.
Sun has popped out here too but it's currently -2c. Forecast is a high of 0 and dropping to -10 overnight so I expect it'll be sticking around.
According to the Met Office my house is right on the boundary of snow vs rain. I reckon my wife's going to have a snow day tomorrow. Her school is higher up in the Valleys where there's more snow, and lots of tiny steep streets clogged with parked cars, so no chance of a plough. Apparently they close it at the first hint of snow.
I love snow, but the timing of this one is dashed inconvenient, I have to get a train to London on friday so travel disruption will be a bummer and even more so if I end up being away for snowmageddon and don't get to go out and enjoy it.
It's perfect otherwise- the ground is so dry and hard and it's to be cold all the way in so it ought to lie pretty much instantly
I love snow, but the timing of this one is dashed inconvenient, I have to get a train to London on friday so travel disruption will be a bummer and even more so if I end up being away for snowmageddon and don’t get to go out and enjoy it.
MrsMC is getting a train to London right now, into what is forecast to be a southern snowmageddon, and is working in Matlock tomorrow and Friday for the Midlands version.
It's all her fault.....
Snow at my Mum's in SE London.
Not a huge amount, just about the right level to cause total chaos in the morning school run as all the yummy mummy types in their faux-by-faux assume that the vehicle will cope... 🙄
Snow lying on the ground in Pembroke! ‘tis a rare day when this happens.
2 teenagers running around the house like little kids so they can get out and play before the school bus 😂
Predicted high winds and snowfall today/tonight here in Uppsala. This would be either first or second false spring. Only three more to go before real spring.
Yup, i've got 30cm of fresh powder and it's -10 this morning.
Severe weather warning and a "do not drive to work" instruction from both the police and my employer. (Employer decided first!)
On Monday it was 3 or 4 degrees and clear blue skies, no snow anywhere and just a little bit of spring ice on the rock faces round where i live.
Wife is indeed off work, kids are not though in Cardiff. Roads clear but a couple of inches of snow on cars, grass and trees it looks properly wintry. Started snowing again now and is forecast to snow all day.
PArt of me hopes it's complete Snowmageddon... We've got BPW on Sunday... Last time at BPW cost me a set of pedals and a bottom bracket in bearings... along with hours and hours of cleaning. It's going to be bloody horrific this time too. But it's a mates kids birthday, so we can't skip it... but damn i'd be tempted if it was just a lads day out.
please send some here. Its raining in the Alps.
Hiya,
Pretty heavy snow in not so sunny Portishead.
Blanket covering and still falling ;-(
The good news is I have a full wood store and snow socks for the van, if I'm stoopid enough to venture out.
BR
JeZ
Ash/Aldershot/Farnham in Surrey has the usual public transport nightmare on trains and buses when it snows. Too risky to cycle on the roads just now with the part time drivers out there.
Of course 10am is when I scheduled an interview for a new job. Luckily I've managed to get a mate to pick me up. That's gonna cost me a few beers...
Snowmageddon in Warwick
Snowmageddon UK, can still see most of the lines painted on the roads and the kerbstones. Potholes are getting bigger.
Snowmageddon Sweden, can't even identify if the pile of snow next to the road has a car under it or if it's just fallen snow... White lines, kerbs and potholes are invisible.
Cycled to work as usual, what's all the fuss about. Might get to play on the way home.
Just flaky melting sleet here (edge of the Peak District) at the moment but it's forecast to be significant over the hills later.
Coming down heavy in Sheffield city centre but it's not lying. It's disappointing melty crumbs. 2/10 for effort.
A good 3 or 4 " here in Shropshire at the minute and still getting heavier
What snow?
West Yorkshire
Had a good 8 inches here after 24 hours of snowfall. Has now turned to sleety rain and is sliding off the roofs in massive avalanches!
What snow?
West Yorkshire
Yeah - currently in Leeds city centre sitting in a 7th floor office watching the snow come down but it isn't settling at all.
Leamington Spa.
Won't be around too long.
It's that wet snow.
Yeah – currently in Leeds city centre sitting in a 7th floor office watching the snow come down but it isn’t settling at all.
I've always said, that 'extreme' weather is something that happens around Leeds...
ads678, LS26, no snow on the ground.
Very underwhelming in Chesterfield at 8am, although is coming down a bit heavier now.
But it seems too warm for it to settle properly.
Wet snow in E Mids so it's settling on gardens but not on paths or roads.
Disappointing.
1/10.
Wet snow in E Mids so it’s settling on gardens but not on paths or roads.
Disappointing.
Daughters school closing at 1.30 here in the Arctic wastes of Ilkeston.
To be fair, it has a big catchment area, and the natives can't drive in good conditions, let alone with 1cm of slush
Odd snowflake in Oldham/Rochdale. Small child is in N Wales on a school residential in N Wales though...
Yep kids secondary school just closed. The roads are completely clear and the paths have some minor slush on them.
Reasonable catchment area but I'd guess that 99.9% are urban. Wife's school sent everyone home at lunchtime as they're in a village on higher ground. But she said that all the main roads were clear.
Prawn crackers falling from the sky now.
Started snowing again here. 5cm in an hour. Looks like my trip to Stockholm might be hanging in a thread. Might have to save the journey until Saturday night or sunday so I am fresh for the wingsuit tunnel.
You can have our rain and headwind I've got for the commute home ! Manchester !
A Leeds village a couple of hours ago. Pretty, but harmless - although it's getting quite spicy in last hour as it's now settling on roads.
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Just back from a walk - photo taken half an hour ago but it's bloody leathering it down with the white stuff now.
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Travelling home from Summerbridge to Skipton at 6pm and had to turn around just past Menwith Hill as cars were getting stuck all over the road and everything ground to a halt. Terrible to Harrogate but then fine through Otley and Ilkley before getting worse before Skipton. 2hrs for a 30 min journey.
bear - looking at your two photos, I'm envious!
Yeah, definitely snowy now!
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We had a very light dusting during the early hours of Wednesday in Southampton, but it melted by lunch. Dry for now, but quite a windchill in that NNE wind to approx feels like -3C.
More concerned about family on North Wales coast, pavements might be lethal with ice and they have two dogs to walk.
Some, but not a great deal of snow in my bit of Leeds. Sandys gonna get a cold bum though!
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Just had a message that kids high school is closed. Assume that's because teachers can't get from places where there is more snow on the ground.
Still coming down.
It’ll be interesting to see how many colleagues who live in Saddleworth etc. manage to make it in.
Maybe an inch in my part of the borders, stil clear dry pavements under the trees. My 82yo mother will be tramping to the papershop with her spikes on her shoes. Meanwhile half the staff won't make it to work.
It's finally coming down properly in central Sheffield. Just waiting for an email to say work is closed and then we'll be playing outside hopefully. Otherwise it'll be a tough walk in.
Woken up on a Narnia-esque Calderdale this morning. Love snow TBH but could do without a day off work, Might go out for a mince on the bike instead.
Last night our snow started to melt massively, but woken up today and probably another 4 or 5 inches and it’s being blown in quite a vicious wind
I've come back to STW after years away just for this thread! A solid nine inches here in Huddersfield.
Actually got a decent covering in Blackpool, it never snows here!
A solid nine inches here in Huddersfield.
And what about the snow?
Sheffield this morning
About 6-7 inches of snow in Chesterfield. Dog enjoyed himself.
Sprinkling of wet snow near Ripon. Looks pretty but already melting.
Saw the photos of people stuck on the M62. Prats. "I'll just drive my BMW* with performance summer tyres over the highest motorway in England while it's bucketing down with snow. It'll be fine, I'm an elite driver and will apply copious power to solve the problem". Also HGV drivers who could have taken the time to glance up from the TV in the cab to observe that driving 20 tonnes up the hill to Saddleworth last night was not a bright idea.
Might happen less if people were sent a bill for setting up their metal tents on the motorway.
*watches in maximum smugness as the one time every 18 months my winter tyres get to earn their keep comes around*
Had a load more last night and this morning.
Kids at school, but not driving into Göteborg as visibility was terrible and the roads hadn't been ploughed at 7am.
Also, was warm yesterday (around zero) and cold last night (-10) so all the packed snow in the wheel arches had frozen and needed hammering out before i could drive anywhere (i dunno about you, but steering and suspension really brings the road to life), and last nights snow had frozen all over the car too...
Any more reports from north Sheffield?
Mrsmidlife leading brownie pack holiday at Hesley Wood this weekend. Kids and leaders heading in from Doncaster. The camp is indoors at the guide house and they can modify the itinerary for the weather but it's the travel in and out which could be the problem. Schools and buses cancelled in Doncaster as we've had well over an inch of wet snow overnight.
We're South Sheffield, well Dronfield, and we've got 8-9". Having lived in Leicester all my life till June last year I think this is the most snow I've ever seen!
@midlifecrashes Friend who lives NE ish Sheffield has abandoned getting to work in Chesterfield.
For your Brownie camp I think the main issue will be access on the site due to tree cover. Plus it's going to get to something like -4 tonight so all the half melted slow and slush will be horrible.
Personally I'd be sacking it off
Pretty snow (4”) up around Leeds Bradford airport. However, roads are already slushy. What worries me more is the -9C forecast overnight freezing all this into a total ice rink. Just got to see if I can get the van out of the lane, as need to get to see my grandmother who got taken into hospital last night (typically whilst my parents are abroad on holiday!).
Having lived in Leicester all my life till June last year I think this is the most snow I’ve ever seen!
I grew up in Leicester, and we definitely had some good snows in the 80's. I've got fond memories of sledging at old John in braggy park and beacon hill. Sliding down the grass slope at primary school in Beaumont Leys, crashing at the bottom and putting my top teeth through my bottom lip less so....
For your Brownie camp I think the main issue will be access on the site due to tree cover. Plus it’s going to get to something like -4 tonight so all the half melted slow and slush will be horrible.
What does the risk assessment say? 😎
Decent couple of inches here near Ilkeston. Daughters school was the only secondary closed yesterday afternoon, when we had half an inch, today its the only one open but no school buses running.
The number of parents on the school run who have failed to clear their windscreens and been surprised when it slides forward off their roofs is embarrassing frankly.
@ads678 maybe I'm just not remembering very well, though you grew up not far from me by the sound of things. I do remember going up Braggy & Beacon but never 8-9" worth!
@fathomer - TBF I'm probably bigging it up in my mind a bit. There was definitely more when I moved to Halifax early 90's.
Saw the photos of people stuck on the M62. Prats. “I’ll just drive my BMW* with performance summer tyres over the highest motorway in England while it’s bucketing down with snow. It’ll be fine, I’m an elite driver and will apply copious power to solve the problem”. Also HGV drivers who could have taken the time to glance up from the TV in the cab to observe that driving 20 tonnes up the hill to Saddleworth last night was not a bright idea.
Or it could just be that companies put pressure on people to turn up to work / do their jobs regardless of what the forecast says, and people dont want to risk loosing their jobs?
Oh and I always found my high powered BMW fine in the snow, it was people in cheap underpowered font wheel drive cars going to slow that caused the issues.
Is there a different knack to driving rear wheel drive cars in snow? I've always had front wheel drive cars, and have driven a lot in snow, but now have a rear wheel drive Merc Viano.
About 6cm here in Beamish. Some poor sod managed to have an off in their ducato on the road the runs around the back of Beamish Hall this morning, ending up in the ditch. Can only assume they were pulling over to let an oncoming car past.
Very little traffic on the way to school. I think a lot of people have played it safe and decided to stay at home.
Saw the photos of people stuck on the M62. Prats
Baffles me as well. There was an amber warning in plenty of time to warn people not to travel but they do anyway. Maybe some journeys were essential but most journeys could have been avoided.
Any more reports from north Sheffield?
Mrsmidlife leading brownie pack holiday at Hesley Wood this weekend. Kids and leaders heading in from Doncaster. The camp is indoors at the guide house and they can modify the itinerary for the weather but it’s the travel in and out which could be the problem. Schools and buses cancelled in Doncaster as we’ve had well over an inch of wet snow overnight.
I'm in Worrall, so north west sheffield. Between 30 and 35cm of snow. Penistone is very bad apparently
From the BBC news website , According to the RAC .-10 Wear comfortable footwear !!!
If I was to go out driving in the snow I would probably wear my M+S Tarten slippers , as they is well warm and comfortable.
Broomhall, sun is out so hopefully a melt on the way but cars are still sliding all over the place. No papers in Tesco, gah!
Oh and I always found my high powered BMW fine in the snow, it was people in cheap underpowered font wheel drive cars going to slow that caused the issues.
Worst humblebrag ever. Power and price of the vehicle has nothing to do with any of it, it's up to the fleshy blob behind the wheel.
Back in 2010 when the whole country was a mess I had a Nissan Micra which had all of 51bhp, didn't get stuck once. Same goes for Beast from the East, 90bhp Berlingo was fine. I drove to Ayr from the North East during the worst of it but others at work couldn't manage to get their BMWs/Mercs off the drive to do the 3 mile drive in.
Lovin it here in the midlands, bit of snow yesterday, panic! Then it all went away, when it rained
Bit of snow again today, all the schools closed... the snows been gone since 10am.
Blue skies in Leeds now, snow pretty much gone!
West side of Sheffield - we had 8-10" this morning, but melting rapidly.
Up on the tops it's reyt deep. Took my bike for a walk this morning and it was knee+ deep off road; waist deep where it had settled in hollows or drifted.
Nice when the sun came out though!
Cheers all. Camp is on, roads cleared up nicely during the day and they can struggle up the lane or manhandle the supplies up, the guide house itself is well equipped and heated, so game on.
