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I’m in Reykjavík right now. A dusting on the hills but just p***ing down with rain. And warmer than uk
Should the stw snow channel not point at this thread?
3m of snow in the last few days across parts of Europe + 100mph winds.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46835677
Had over 50cm here in Munich in the last few days.
Quite a lengthy list of snow related deaths in the last couple of days.
Friends in Tirol posting videos of massive powder days.
I'm still waiting for the lakes to freeze so I can go snowkiting.
Due to get a little warmer next week. 🙁
Nice gentle covering here this about an inch so enough to cause the south to panic while we walk around in t-shirts.
No snow on Baildon moor. Must try harder.
Cycle season is a long way off
Looking lovely round Rothiemurchus this afternoon
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double awesome Scotroutes
double awesome Scotroutes
Ta. One of the days I feel privileged to have this as my local playground!
Have another one 🙂
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It's alright I suppose.
Drac - I can see it from myPad.
Blizzard for the last few km of my ride today as I headed back into Macclesfield. Still coming down now.
Drac – I can see it from myPad.
By iPad do you mean your office window?
Just started in beautiful downtown Burnley. 🙂
White flakes, thousands of them.
They appear to be falling from the sky.
Roughly the same time as last year, there must be some sort of connection......
Tiny dusting on our road with steep hill one end and shallow hill the other end. It's been sub zero all day. Mrs_oab is out with a friend in a Tesla. What could possibly go wrong?
Ohh I can finally join in! It never snows where I live, but it was quite deep at the top of Grizedale yesterday:)
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I give up.
Just having a light fluttering in sunny Twickenham. It's not settling, but I expect train carnage due to "exceptional weather conditions" for the next 7 days.
We got snow an hour ago. Falling on to warm, wet mud. Boooo!
chilterns - car-nage
good news is im off work tomorrow for a mates birthday bike ride - woo.
We have snow in Stroud, Glos. (well, a dusting).
I'm in New Milton, Hants.
I need to pedal back home.....
a light dusting on the Downs near Eastbourne, just a smattering
#isurvived
A good whole 1/2cm of snow here in Shropshire this morning.
All gone now
Quite a bit this morning:
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Nice photie - I thought about going up there myself this morning until I got a last minute call from work.
The Cobbler?
Certainly is. Didn't climb the true summit though. Bloody freezing!
@qwerty, the ‘light dusting’ resulted in a six car pile-up on Bear Hill this morning. There was a pretty good blanketing in the Woodchester valley, gone by the afternoon though.
Having spent 3.5 hours navigating snow, unpleasant near invisible country lanes due to Sat Nav, an M25 wjth settling snow and an average of 8mph yesterday to get home, i turned up in a different office today to find everyone talking about winter tyres.
must be like deja vu all over again
follow the white rabbit ( but keep on valueing your privacy)
Yesterday . . .
Today . . .
Looks like swindon, behind the nationwide ?
A picture from yesterday afternoons stroll up Holcombe Hill, with a full cloud invert rolling in from Manchester. It was a pretty spectacular day to be out.
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The South Downs frost melted today, it was very, very grim.
Still a bit thin in the Cairngorms despite a fresh fall overnight.
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Top of Long Mynd yesterday
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Finally found some pow!
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Where is that like button?
A New covering of snow on the hills around Shrewsbury this aft.
@funkyDunc.. I’m 10 mins north of you and we had nothing. Shaftesbury has is own climate!
Light smattering in West London.
Been out in mega snow tonight can't be arse trying to load pics but they're on my Strava
Check out my activity on Strava: https://strava.app.link/X460oECJST
Bugger all snow here in Chesterfield 🙁
Pretty brutal in Edinburgh
Samba? You headin' for the bookies already? 🙂
All gone in west lundon
🤣🤣
Fair bit round Manchester area. Roads were ice rinks this morning. Cracking out the Ice Spiker Pro's later
Doesn't bode well. Flying into MAN on Friday, then driving up the M6 in a rental as I didn't want Northern to leave me stranded again.
Plenty on the tops even before last nights fall.This is Hambledon on the way to the Fairy Steps last night.
Off to Holcombe tonight and it's just started to snow again
We maybe had 1-2” this morning. All but disappeared by this afternoon.
Wife made it to work without issue, got on the road when it was fresh snow and quiet. I got a set of Michelin Crossclimate+ fitted in December so I can be STW smug.
Some more fresh snow overnight. Trails are superb at the moment.
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Nowt in Baildon, north of Bratfud
Plenty around Hope/Edale/Ladybower etc for the past couple of weeks.
Came down from Whinstone Lee Tor to Ladybower Inn via Cutthroat Bridge ce soir on my todd with my lights on. Was great 🙂
Seen as Scotroutes was a no-show... The REAL Glen Feshie 😉
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Literally the world's most pathetic snow shower just drifted through Harrogate.
Driving down to Heathrow tonight. Not looking forward to the incompetence on the roads. About time insurance companies started refusing to pay out on claims caused by snowy weather when the driver doesn't have winter tyres fitted, and drivers prosecuted for negligence.
About time insurance companies started refusing to pay out on claims caused by snowy weather when the driver doesn’t have winter tyres fitted, and drivers prosecuted for negligence.
Yes, yes all very "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" but realistically I don't think we're really in the same league of annual; snowfall as countries where Winter tyres are mandatory, and for the ten minutes of snowmaggedon we see in an average year is it really necessary/proportionate? It's not like they'd be in rotation for more than a couple of months, maybe 16 weeks? But then everyone has to payout several hundred quid on a set of winter tyres they barely ever use, plus store tham, and get them swapped over twice a year... or we could just grit the roads a bit more and all drive a bit more carefully.
If it snows here tommorow (Berkshire) I'm just leaving the car on the drive and cycling (mostly offroad/on bike lanes) in to avoid everyone else playing bumper cars, or "Working from home"...
realistically I don’t think we’re really in the same league of annual; snowfall as countries where Winter tyres are mandatory, and for the ten minutes of snowmaggedon we see in an average year is it really
Winter tyres aren't just for snow. They are more effective as soon as the temperatures drop to +6c. A significant part of the UK will experience those temperatures for several months.
Sitting here in Cardiff waiting for the precipitation to start.
It’s not like they’d be in rotation for more than a couple of months, maybe 16 weeks? But then everyone has to payout several hundred quid on a set of winter tyres they barely ever use, plus store tham, and get them swapped over twice a year… or we could just grit the roads a bit more and all drive a bit more carefully.
I'm not calling for mandatory winter tyres (although that would be nice), just an acceptance that as a driver you're effectively uninsured without them in wintry conditions and that it might be better to stay at home.
If you really *need* your car then you should have the appropriate tyres fitted. After all, we'd castigate anyone who willingly went out in a car knowing that they had no brakes, which is basically what many people are doing now.
But if you are trundling about at 5mph on a snowy un-gritted cul-de-sac on summer tyres is that really a problem? I don't think we're unique in that our side-street isn't ploughed or gritted, but once you get onto the slightly larger street it is.
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Lovely out today.
But if you are trundling about at 5mph on a snowy un-gritted cul-de-sac on summer tyres is that really a problem?
No, not really, provided you accept that if you prang something you'll have to pick up the bill for the damage to your own car. My objection tends to be motorways, where someone is either doing about 80mph on summer tyres in ignorance, or 15mph in utter terror, and HGVs are using all three or four lanes to get up hills and then blocking the whole road when they lose traction.
Last year I was able to plough my own lane to get past slow traffic, but obviously there needs to be space and dryish snow to do it.
we’d castigate anyone who willingly went out in a car knowing that they had no brakes, which is basically what many people are doing now.
Holy hyperbole batman. MASSIVE exaggeration alert. Unless there’s actually compacted snow on the ground, the difference in performance between boggo tyres and winter tyres is marginal, at best. Drivers should always drive appropriately for the conditions, which it is entirely possible to do 98% of the time in the U.K. on normal tyres. There’s also an argument that having winter tyres on would give some drivers a false sense of security, like the 4x4 effect that sees Range Rovers on their roofs every time it snows in Surrey.
The 7cm of snow that fell in Marple yesterday is still around. It's so cold that the trees and bushes are still covered and it looks beautiful from my attic workroom window (with views across the surrounding hills).
Unless there’s actually compacted snow on the ground, the difference in performance between boggo tyres and winter tyres is marginal, at best.
Is bollocks - but is covered in the regular Winter Tyres thread so I'm not up for more spoonfeeding.
Is bollocks
Is self evidently NOT bollocks; and is selective quoting. The differences on non icy/snowy tarmac are, by definition, marginal. You may feel that the margins are sufficient to be worth it, and that’s fair enough. But it’s perfectly possible to drive safely 95% of the time in a U.K. winter on bog standard tyres, driving appropriately to the conditions. Notwithstanding severe weather events and very wild corners of the country.
Back on topic, **** all here in Eastbourne, the old Man has advised that it is snowing heavily in Bude.
It's treacherous here.
are those Polar Bear footprints?
Busy watching snowmeggdonon reports on the news in a brisk clear north London wondering if I’m in a different time zone to everyone else.
7cm in Marple, someone can't measure. I was up there last night with my Ice Spikers - it's slushy mush (before it froze overnight). I left work early to go play - it was rubbish.
Londoners told to be home by 9pm due to the cold conditions.
Meanwhile in Newcastle.
Not much snow really, but chuff me it's a cold up Loch Tay tonight. Car says -8, but halfway up the hill it felt properly nippy - I've only felt that a few times that cold up the hill before.
Still nothing in Baildon
Brother in law just spent 4 hours stuck on the a30 on Bodmin moor. Was in a hi-lux with proper tyres on, but doesn’t matter when everyone in front of you isnt..
Yes my mate is stuck on Bodmin Moor too. Set off from Exeter at about 3.30, got stuck on the Moor, managed to get into the Jamaica Inn for a couple of pints and then set off again when they thought it was clear, only to get stuck again at Temple!