Reply to: Friday Whiteout

[BlasterBates]

Enjoy it while it lasts....

Snowdon will be snow-free in 13 years, scientists warn - Climate Change - Environment - The Independent

[Pondlife]

Just popped out to Waitrose. Roads are fine but almost empty. Still plenty of white stuff on the pavements that will be well dodgy tomorrow after it freezes tonight.

Took the dog out for a walk and she came home with a nose like Daniella Westbrook.

[NickFitz]

Only took me one-and-a-half hours to drive the one-and-a-half miles home. (Well, that's walking distance; with the one-way system, probably more like one-and-three-quarter miles.)

That's all city driving, too: I was parked in a city centre car park, and I live on one of the main roads into the city centre.

[BA to the Stars]

Been snowing in Leeds since 4 but not heavy

[Runs With Scissors]

Snowless in Glasgow, not a bad day here actually, a bit cold but plenty of sunshine.

[Sysman]

I was a baby then, less than one year old, and almost died of pneumonia that winter. My parents were among the few people on their road who'd had the foresight to lay in a stock of coal, but almost ran out due to less well-organised neighbours begging for the loan of a bucket of it at times when the coalman couldn't make it through.

Perhaps it was my father's experience of the winter of 1947, but he had built a coal bunker big enough to take a ton of the stuff.

That reminds me of the current discussion of winter tyres. My father had a set of "Town and Country" tyres he would get fitted every winter, even back then. I think they probably fell out of favour when radials took over from cross-plies.

[NickFitz]

Britain faced 76 days of below-zero temperatures in the early months of 1963 fifty years ago

All I can remember is that we had 6 foot snowdrifts on the hill above us and the sledging was good.

I was a baby then, less than one year old, and almost died of pneumonia that winter. My parents were among the few people on their road who'd had the foresight to lay in a stock of coal, but almost ran out due to less well-organised neighbours begging for the loan of a bucket of it at times when the coalman couldn't make it through.

[NickFitz]

ClientCo manager is now stood at the office window, looking down at the junction below and giving a running commentary on bad driving, skids, and near-collisions as people misjudge their braking when the lights change

[Dallas]

stopped in london

[Advocate]

Re: Friday Whiteout

"If you don't need to be here you can go"

To be fair most of the permies are still here!

Sent from my tweeting foot massager.

[vetran]

Not the met, it's Gav!

Gavsweathervids

Why when I first read that did I think of a homosexual with a big Handle - Bar moustatche in a yellow oilskin coat ? I suspect association.

Then I read it again its gaV's

[Troll]

I think we need a "Minister for snow"

[OwlHoot]

BBC News - LIVE: Snow disruption across UK

HTH

@birdyjon

J tweets: Snow getting bad in East Croydon, delayed trains and lots of Network Rail people looking at tracks and shaking their heads.

FFS - They seem to manage fine in Russia when it's -60, with six feet of snow on the line!

[Platypus]

BBC News - LIVE: Snow disruption across UK

HTH

Yes, ta!

[Troll]

Just started snowing in mid Kent

Stopped snowing in mid Kent