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I have just been looking out the window.
No snow today.
Today a local bloke who crashed into someones garden during an icy spell a month or two back, who we felt sorry for at the time, crash in the same place today on a dry road. Turns out he is just a $hite driver.
A friend just sent me a photo of it snowing in Carbondale, I know it’s in the Rockies but very late in the season.
I have just been looking out the window.
I can still see snow looking out of mine 🙂
It feels as if it might be a while before the next snow update
The Guardian: UK weather: London mayor orders emergency response to heatwave.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/13/met-office-extends-danger-to-life-warning-for-heatwave-in-england-and-wales
Personally I'm starting to get sick of incessant heatwave updates.
I found some last week. In 29*c.
Braeriach still has some
out flying today
#humblebrag
😎
Wheeeee!
Pics or it didn’t happen
Expecting a little here in sverige at the weekend. Will update!
Winter is coming!
First snowfall of Autumn and bloody cold this morning it was too!
As a southerner this is the time of year when I start to get very jealous of all the snowy landscapes you lucky lot have access to on a daily basis. Hiking and camping in the hills when they're covered in snow might be one of the most life affirmingly amazing things you can ever do
As a southerner this is the time of year when I start to get very jealous of all the snowy landscapes you lucky lot have access to on a daily basis. Hiking and camping in the hills when they’re covered in snow might be one of the most life affirmingly amazing things you can ever do
What people think what living in the mountains is like in winter:
When the reality is:
We were pretty well snowed-in for a week as the local farmer/snow plough driver was pretty rubbish leaving 6ft drifts across the road that set like concrete.
We were pretty well snowed-in for a week as the local farmer/snow plough driver was pretty rubbish leaving 6ft drifts across the road that set like concrete
That sounds like a good excuse to buy a pair of these bad boys
That sounds like a good excuse to buy a pair of these bad boys
Nope, that’s an ice tyre, which would struggle in any meaningful snowfall. Ideal snow bike conditions - -25C on a frozen river with groomed trails:
In 12 years my ice tyres have been useful exactly once.
The main track through the park had compacted snow due to all the walkers. It was like an ice road. Even dogs were having trouble standing on it .
I just cruised through in complete control. Just don’t stop as your feet aren’t as grippy.
To this day I have a 26er in the shed just in case I need to put my ice tyres on something.
Nope, that’s an ice tyre, which would struggle in any meaningful snowfall. Ideal snow bike conditions – -25C on a frozen river with groomed trails:
Is that you?! It looks amazing!!
To this day I have a 26er in the shed just in case I need to put my ice tyres on something
Haha! Sounds like the sort of thing I'd do!!
Once the frosts start, I switch to some studded Schwalbe tyres on my commuter. The noise becomes more than a bit wearing, but the studs mean that the untreated tarmac cyclepath that I commute on is rideable even when unstandupable on.
When it's really icy the dog walkers all take their dogs elsewhere to defecate, and it is bliss...
A bit of a wild week according to MWIS (of course, half term for many up here).
However it looks like snow on the tops a few times as the gales blow through.
😎
4/6 versus 5/300
That's scary and depressing. We're ****ed.
To this day I have a 26er in the shed just in case I need to put my ice tyres on something.
One of the reasons I still have a 26er! When the snow gets compacted to ice it was the only way I could commute to work
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Will it actually hang around this time?
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I was always told when new York gets snow we get it 4 weeks later buffalo just had 6ft (,US measured) in one night. I love a bit of snow
@pk13 You might. I don’t.
Decent snowfall means watching the work rota explode as people either can’t get in, or the schools are shut…
Gritters are oot!
I was hoping this thread would pop up. Rainy and wet here down south and temps of 4C are forecast, so I'm wondering if even some of our hills will have a dusting.
I'm just realising, this is the first full winter where I live on a boring flat street instead of a steep one that turns into absolute chaos when it snows. This makes me sad. I won't be able to smugly snowtyre my way up it or tow people out or go and help push and throw grit around and all that other stuff and the odds of there being an upside down car in someone's garden are way down. Sad face.
On with the winter tyres and a topup of sheep juice tomorrow I think
The scariest thing about this thread is the fact it's 9 yrs old!! I could've sworn it was only about 3!!!!
Went to sleep with a little bit on the ground (~10cm).
Woken up to 30-35 cm and had to dig the car out...
Just been out and spent another hour clearing the path and drive.
Got two sets of spiked tyres. The Schwalbe Snow Studs will be going on the commuter 26er shortly, as most of my 10 miles is ungritted and will be icy soon - I just leave them on. Also got Ice Spiker Pro's for the FS - blooming great laugh they are !
I must admit, I always wish for snow but probably not this year. People are really struggling with money and cold as it is.
I love the snow but could do without the weeks of constant sub-zero temperatures we had a couple of years ago when even the rivers were frozen over. Apart from anything else, it makes swimming really difficult when you're having to wield an ice axe or sledgehammer first. There's a lot less bike cleaning to do though when the trails are frozen solid.
Long range forecast may really liven this thread up if it runs true.. it might be a good time to put the winter tyres on
It's a year to the day since our first snowfall here. I am basically staring out the window, tapping my watch, and tutting.
It snowed today in NE Scotland, that's all.
Just realised this thread hadn't made an appearance today and that needed rectifying...
Family near Aberdeen have snow, a colleague from India who is over here in Edinburgh has snow...absolutely nothing where I am. Not impressed is an understatement.
Glenshee, Lecht and Cairn O'Mount roads were all closed this morning. Cairn O'Mount still shut.
https://www.snowgatecameras.co.uk/
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A little bit of snow up in the Valleys this morning, I'm told. But there's a chance of some big snow in the south next weekend.
Just enough to look pretty and to do some skidz in the car here. A good, well-judged amount for everything but bikes
Bit of snow falling as I drove past Manc airport on the way home from work.
Llandegla is shut first thing tomorrow until the access road and car park is cleared.
Interesting week ahead.
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I'm supposed to be bivvying with @metalheart on Friday night.
got it in one.
Not jealous at all. Nope. Not one bit...
😭😭😭😭😭😭
That's about 17km from my front door. Uphill most of the way of course.
This was just a couple of weeks ago.
Forecast says 1 degree in Cardiff all night, with some rain. However it's already rained a bit and the wet ground has frozen slick so it seems colder than that. Might get snow after all.
Snowed on me riding over the Black Mountains today.
@scotroutes - which weather app is that you’re using? I’d like to have a look at it.
which weather app is that
AccuWeather
Thanks
I’m supposed to be bivvying with @metalheart on Friday night
I love a crisp, winter's night bivvy but that looks pretty chilly!
NE Derbyshire South Yorkshire border has snowed overnight and still snowing now.
Looks like a Christmas card right now.
3-4cm here about 30km east of Bristol. Still coming down.
It's coming down really heavy outside my window in central Sheffield. I haven't seen it like this for a few years this close to town.
Pretty white in hawick now. We'd avoided it yesterday pretty much scuppers my NBD(y) ride. Well it doesn't but I've got a load of things to do and Mrs100th is giving me that look.
and Mrs100th is giving me that look
Aah yeah, giggity!
No snow in Leeds.😤
Snowed yesterday in Rochdale. Now expecting it to freeze solid.
Mini Downhill event in the Forest of Dean cancelled due to snow. We are on our way there for our normal sunday ride anyway. Funny as there is zero snow here in the brecon beacons (a dusting on the tops maybe)! That doesn't happen very often to be clear.
Pretty close to Onzadog by the sounds of it, with a light shower of snow overnight just to the east of the Peak District. Warmer than the last few days when I took the dog out for his morning walk.
Had about 6" lay between 6am - 9am this morning in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
Had about 6″ lay between 6am – 9am this morning in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
About an inch of fluffy white stuff here in Herefordshire/Worcestershire border.
Looks like snowmaggedon has hit Kent and Sussex. Google traffic showing hundreds of miles of slow roads from the kent coast to the M23 /A24 corridor.
Probly 2cm but enough to bring the se to a standstill.
Got snow tyres on the volvo but they dpnt help with the roads blocked by hapless drivers who are stuck already.
Looks like we might get some positive temperatures for a short time on Wednesday, otherwise it should be below freezing until next Sunday/Monday.
A good 30cm of snow up at Glenmore today.