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Bugger all snow here in Chesterfield 🙁
Pretty brutal in Edinburgh
Samba? You headin' for the bookies already? 🙂
All gone in west lundon
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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!
A throbbing 1 cm or so in deepest darkest Newbury.
My CrossClimates + Quattro will laugh in the face of such adversity on the 3 mile trip to drop off MsBeej, unless she decides to walk to work like last year. Me, I've stocked up on hot chocolate for a hard day working from home.
managed to get into the Jamaica Inn for a couple of pints and then set off again
Maybe you should give him a call and tell him to get back in off the road and stay the night for everyone elses sake.
Over an inch here in the Cotswolds and its still falling.
A wee bit chilly on tonights ride (-10C)
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On the coast, we have a light smattering of snow. My neighbour had made some rather fetching car tracks in the cul-de-sac, looks a bit Bridget Riley’esque....
I expect the whole of the South to become gridlocked in about 11mins.
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All white then.
i see the police are begging those with renault zoes to come out and help keep england moving.
oh no the other one
A wee bit chilly on tonights ride (-10C)
Looks like it caused you to blow a seal.
A good few inches in Bristol overnight. Might be a sledging day.
I am dismayed by the inability of this country to cope with a little snow. The one that made me laugh was it was too dangerous for the kids to go home from that college in bodmin but the asda delivery driver managed to deliver supplies to them to make their overnight stay more pleasant!!!