Sick of the incessant snow updates

Started frosty and 0°C last night but was 8°C and rainin

Was like that when I rode out of princetown last night, was great along the nuns cross track, ten minutes later and the wind started to pick up from the SW, by the time I got to nuns cross it was about 5 Deg warmer and raining hard. Turned round and went back to the van..

Just north of Glasgow. Woke to 2 inches or more of fresh snow. I walked a mile and a bit to pick the car up from the pub. A few vans and trucks stuck on local main roads. Doing a run to Glasgow Airport shortly. Erskine Bridge closed so it's Clyde tunnel.

Glad it's a holiday for most to keep roads quiet. With all seasons on the car I'll get there Ok if not blocked by other traffic.

Driving to Inverness tomorrow so keeping an eye on the A9 but I guess it will be plowed and gritted first before anything else.

West Yorkshire has snow 2-3inches - been out and done 14 miles - was good fun

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Just north of Glasgow. Woke to 2 inches or more of fresh snow. I walked a mile and a bit to pick the car up from the pub. A few vans and trucks stuck on local main roads. Doing a run to Glasgow Airport shortly. Erskine Bridge closed so it's Clyde tunnel.

Glad it's a holiday for most to keep roads quiet. With all seasons on the car I'll get there Ok if not blocked by other traffic.

Driving to Inverness tomorrow so keeping an eye on the A9 but I guess it will be plowed and gritted first before anything else.

Whereabouts? I'm in Lenzie and it's been fun again today

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I left home this morning to start work on remodelling a flat in Edinburgh. I came home in a blizzard past half a dozen road accidents. I was on a mission from God with the Deposition in the back of the Land Rover so felt safe

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It’s all gone slushy here in S Yorks but I guess it will freeze again now.
I’d passed 4 cars in ditches within 3 miles of Home this morning on the way in.
When will people learn about winter tyres in the uk? 😕

I came home in a blizzard past half a dozen road accidents.

Boom, it is back...

Only about an inch at Stirling this morning, a bit more at home. More showers due.

2 - 3 inches in Lanarkshire / West Lothian this morning. Still battering down. Two upside down cars in a field next to the West Calder to Blackburn road.

I'm eyeing up an early exit if it keeps up.

Can you hear that?
It's the sound of all the Scandinavians laughing at way we cope with our winter weather. 😉 😛

Laughing in Scandinavia? Not so much. They all have higher suicide rates than the UK.

Well that's a surprise,what with all thier Hygge and wood chopping.
Maybe the weather keeps them trapped indoors for too long.

It's the sound of all the Scandinavians laughing at way we cope with our winter weather.

Not in my experience. They know how much money and effort it costs to keep their roads clear, and they understand they wouldn't bother for a few days a year.

I've said this before, but every country budgets for the norm, and writes off the few exceptional days. So in Scandinavia the exceptional days might be 12" of snow, in the US it might be 24" of snow, here it's 3". Makes perfect sense.

Did I imagine a few snow or sleet flakes in Southampton just before 0700 this morning?

I swear there were a few tiny snowflakes in Cardiff a minute ago, even though it's 7C. Sky looks wintry.

There was a bit of slushy stuff in Otley this morning. And some thin wet snow coming down as I drove over Timble moor to Blubberhouses. Nothing in Ripon yet

Going to do my biking in the velodrome tomorrow AM where it's nice and dry 🙂

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#fatbiketime

Think I should move to Scotland.

Can't see Baildon Moor because of the snow flurries.....and its dark.

Been snowing off and on all day here it’s finally starting to lie.

Couple of short flurries at Kinver today

This is getting serious.

I've had to abandon the trip to the pub quiz.

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Can you hear that?
It's the sound of all the Scandinavians laughing at way we cope with our winter weather.

Used to work with a Norwegian lad who said for the first few days of winter in Norway it wasn't much different from the UK.
Utter chaos until they fitted Snow/Ice tyres and remembered how to drive on the white stuff.

I moved up to Cheshire in 95 & couldn't believe how few of them had driven in snow as having lived in the Cotswold's for 15 years was used to at least 2 weeks of challenging conditions every year.

Only an amber warning for snow and ice.

And some ones arranged a Fiat 4X truck for me to drive up the North Coast to just shy of Wick...

What the chances I make it there and back, eh? 😀

As you can imagine, it was rubbish.

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molgrips - you'd have hated it.

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Looks shite....

We’ve just had the now standard sight of the total cockwombles ignoring the huge signs saying ‘Caution! Road impassable in ice and snow!” And the 25% gradient sign above it, on our road.

There are now 3 cars embedded in the wall at the bottom. Amongst them one woman’s who, having narrowly missed taking out our neighbours kids walking home from school, as her locked-up vehicle slewed down in a straight line on sheet ice, expressed total incredulity as [b]‘I’m Driving a 4x4!!!’[/b]

Does it not over-ride the laws of gravity then love? You need to be having a word with Volkswagen’s marketing department about that. 🙄

Love it 🙂

That's been a big fall last night for much of west coast of Scotland. We've 15-20cm in Dunblane.

M74 was pretty tasty yesterday morning as I headed South. Didn't stop some utter bell end in a Volvo tailgating me as I waited for a truck to pull back into lane 1. I only laughed a little bit when I saw him standing on the hard shoulder with half his bumper missing and his nearside wheel hanging off five minutes later.

I hear it was really bad overnight though. Hopefully it's back to normal when I drive home this afternoon.

Sister-in-law left Glasgow last night at 16:45 and reached Carlisle at 06:00. Grabbing some sleep at local hotel then off to Newcastle.

34cm in the Aviemore area apparently. Guess who has to go to Inverness today?

Long distance Fat Bike training?

Fair ol' dump here in the Borders.

On the phone with the boss this morning - taking a lieu day instead of going in, will get sorted for tomorrow instead.

To bike, or not to bike... ❓

Long distance Fat Bike training?

I’d still be drafting!

And I hear low tyre pressures work well in the snow.

That was an interesting drive up the m74 yesterday afternoon. It took 4 hours to get from Gretna to Larkhall, should have been about 1.5hrs.
Although to be fair it looks like I faired a lot better than those going southbound.
Felt sorry for those that were breaking down / getting stuck. Less sorry for those who binned it because they were driving like a ****.

I've postponed the Inverness trip. The car was being covered by snow as fast as I could clear it.

To bike, or not to bike...

Like you need to ask...

WindyWilson saying tonight into Thursday will be even more...

Well despite the whole 1.5cm of slush, A6038 into Shipley was queuing all the way back to Otley. People driving in the opposite direction at walking pace on a flat piece of road with no snow , slush or ice. There’s caution and then there’s timidity

Decided to snow in Yeadon yesterday, just as I left the house to go for a run. Typical!!

Rachel

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25cm of pow at street level

pfft, I made it over the hill to Culbokie and then all the way to Lybster and back. Its a bit wet kind of snow now. Felt a bit wild at 6.45am though 🙂

scotroutes - POW indeed!