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you need to be southern and soft to appreciate the abnormality of it 😉
ah..... OK
it will end civilisation as they know it
what tyres for comuting in london tomorrow?
panracer razer mxs or cinders?
-14 here last night.
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Going riding tomorrow in the Surrey Hills, supposed to be -12 there overnight! 😯
Pffft!
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There's a patch of blood appearing on my shirt just to the left of the middle of my chest.
I think my heart is bleeding for you.
-16.3 here in Liverpool at 9am this morning! we usually escape the worst of it so quite surprised!
Another snow dump tomorrow late afternoon in S.E. Rail & road will grind to a halt again... How DO they manage in Scandinavia?
Driving home from Castle Combe at 4.30 the dash temp thingy said -6.5. A bit brisk. Out in the open walking to a friends hotel to drop off a card it was very fresh around the end of my nose. Nice though.
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Another snow dump tomorrow late afternoon in S.E. Rail & road will grind to a halt again... How DO they manage in Scandinavia?
They don't always cope, scroll down a wee bit in the link below.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11897825
minus 8 in Londinium tonight !!!
Is that it? Sounds quite warm...
Jeez its been -16 here for many nights, are you southerners such puffs that you need a thread about a snow flurry and a cool wind!
Yes... it's mainly Antipodeans down here, we're tropical birds really...
soft
southern
poofters
end of thread.
bigoted
dour
jingoistic
northerners
start thread up again.
my daytime ride on sat was -9.
🙄
Shrewsbury:
-11 in the car @ 9.00am this morning. Stayed fairly low all day - went for a bike ride (though felt like i wore ALL my bike clothes)
Metcheck predicts -20 at night in Shrewsbury and still that at 6.00am.
No way I'm getting up at 5.00am to get the train to London. All the southerners won't make it in
without being dour..........just got in from walking the dog.
minus 10 at the mo in the metropolis of leeds.
feels quite nice tho.
Thread started again then
I'll see your 'soft southern poofter weather got the better of me' and raise you one 'MTFU'
It would appear that it is 'de rigeur' to start a thread the millisecond one gets a weather phenomenon that seems out of the ordinary - jeebus, we had sunshine for the first time in months last week - only 5 minutes, but bloody hell it was bright - and that meant that we turned from blue (the natural colour of those inhabiting the lands north of the border) to a wishywashy white and ginger - almost tanned.
Did i start a thread about it, no! 🙂
what crisps for cold weather?
chilli doritos
This clear cold sunny weather is far better that the usual just above freezing cold rain that has typified many a winter!!!!
niiiice, get 'em in ton.
what crisps for cold weather?
"Grannie's Toenails" or "Fanny Fingers" ?
(our charming local names for Pork Scratchings or Scampi Fries 🙂 )
Balmy -6c in Staffs.
Spawling Lichfield metropolis crippled by 1.78cm of snow.
Situation improved by finding a tenner by the airline at the Shell garage. 🙂
You jessies. Put more clothes on, go riding.
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I'm ooop north and loving it! I'm never door! (although I'm not from here originally).
I did live in London for years and I think that everything is so tightly packed in (esp transport) it takes any even small problem to throw the whole shooting match into chaos.
Up here it's causing havoc with my work though (self employed) and even with extra time off the snow is too deep to cycle in atm.
Our forecast for the next 3 days (Celcius mins) - Mon -10, Tue -9, Wed plus 1 (but with more snow). So the shorts go back on on Wed 🙂
Edit - And Stuartie I've told you before about fixing that thermometer!
It'll be fairly tedious tomorrow getting into work and leaving in the evening. It's not all bad though - no planes so it's relatively peaceful.
-14 degrees in Benson, Oxfordshire, currently. 😯
that is cold!
Did i start a thread about it, no!
That's because hardly anyone would be interested, tbh. As opposed to 7+ million Londoners, and the other 7 million or so that come here to work, plus all the millions of others in the surrounding areas who depend on London for their livelihoods/income etc. So probbly roughly 20 million people or so affected by weather conditions not common in this part of the World. A third of the UK population.
London being affected by adverse weather conditions has an [i]global[/i] impact in terms of trade and commerce and that. Hence why it makes headline news, even nationally. And why bad weather in most other regions generally doesn't.
But then, I wouldn't expect someone who can do little but resort to tired homophobic old stereotypes to understand something quite so complex. There you go.
Amused that you still felt compelled to post on a thread about it though....
-8 to -6 in the sunny Geordieland now ... wahey! 
We're struggling to cope in Finland! Last year the government sent people to Russia to work out how to keep the trains etc running as we had record snowfall and cold temps (most nights below zero in a row, longest continuous snow cover, deepest snow in helsinki metropolitan area etc for 50 odd years or so). We also ran out of storage space for snow! They have huge snow pits within and around the capital, all full (and so full that there was still snow in them this September!). Then they started dumping in the sea, but if you have too much it accumulates and freezes and you can't keep the ice hole open. Then under bridges across rivers, as the ice is thinnner and the river takes it away, but again it accumulates and freezes. The we ended up with huge snow piles everywhere, on roundabouts, roadsides, railway platforms etc... (2 or 3 times my height).
Last year it only really started snowing and settling around this time of year - first XC ski was exactly a year ago today, and there were quite a few thin or bald patches. This year we're already up to nearly 50cm snow depth, continuous for 4 or 5 weeks now, with pretty much minus temps all that time too, so who knows how we will cope by March!
It's great for skiing though, I can ski to the shops, to the XC ski tracks (which are everywhere), and after an overnight dump of snow before they get around to ploughing everywhere, can ski door to door to work over about an hour through forest and on frozen rivers. Love it! (Need to get a fat bike though as biking has been severely reduced).
Oh yeah, only minus 9 today, worst we've had this year has been -18 overnight, -30s predicted between Xmas and New Year though...
We also ran out of storage space for snow!
ha ha - thats pretty incomprehensible to a soft sothern puff of a Londoner - what about a compacter or sell it to some Arabs in Abu Dhabi?
-11.5 here at the moment according to the nearest weather station
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/yh/leeming_latest_temp.html
Just back in from a run, normally I'm warm after he first mile or so but today it took 4 or 5 miles
It was -13 in Ealing at 7:00am. this morning
Am I the only one who still has their bedroom window open at night?
Did hear the fox last night! Footprints in the garden too.
-19.6C in Chesham, Bucks overnight.
That is seriously cold 😯
-12 this morning, still have our bedroom windows open at night.