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Loads of snow here in HX4.
Snow in chesterfield but the roads are clearing quickly.
We have had snow the last few days, got up this morning it’s all gone and it’s 8ish degrees
At garden/street level I think we've had one week without snow since mid December.
Thick snow north Sheffield. Most I've seen on the garden in years. Means the schools are closed - even for home learning! Not quite sure how that works...
Another four inches of snow in North Yorkshire this morning and still coming down. This is the third time this year and the roads are in exactly the same condition every time, very definition of insanity.
There's a great corner where you can watch cars slowly slide down the hill and bounce expensively off the solid stone wall at the bottom.
A good 6" here in north west Leeds, and I can't see Baildon Moor because it's snowing so much!
It's blowing around, but not settling (unless you're running directly into it, and it settles on your hat...
at last its arrived in the east of the M25. Not settling much but still going..Hoping for a snow day tomorrow
Down here in Kent, we get as much snow as you northerners get summer (1 or 2 days a year), we don't have mountains or even big hills, and now we can't even have our own snow thread 😭😭😭
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Rained most of yesterday in Sheffield but turned to snow late afternoon and 4” or so in a couple of hours. Dry and cold today but more to follow tomorrow hopefully.
Same here. I'm in Huddersfield / Kirklees, and I'm fed up of constant snow updates. I don't actually see the point. All we need to know is when it is going to clear up. Having 'who has the biggest layer of snow' competitions is boring and has no novelty appeal when it happens every year.
It's been every week since Xmas, I think it's something to do with it being winter and that West Yorkshire is very hilly.
Do you need a hug? I'm just the other side of the M62. 🤗😘
Just a frosting here on the edge of Edinburgh, but enough to make me want to go for a ride tomorrow.
Bloody oodles of the stuff here and more falling. In fact I had to drag my bin through it just a couple of minutes ago. We've had snow at street/garden level since Xmas eve.
Look how much fun it is!!
@ian_french - Glad to see you're getting into the spirit of the OP 😁.
We've currently got an amber weather warning for our area. Snow consists of a very light covering and roads are all clear. But underwhelming TBH.
Definitely underwhelming here in Baildon
Still looking good around Inverness.
Just a dusting here but on top of some surviving snow from the last falls so it's pretty random. Some trails very very slippy, some snowdrifts that you can walk over like an elf then you step too hard and fall through to your thighs... Gorgeous still day, blue skies, pretty bloody hard riding though
Positively alpine above Hebden Bridge today. Totally unrideable, but that hardly mattered.
@ian_french
Having ‘who has the biggest layer of snow’ competitions is boring and has no novelty appeal when it happens every year.
- nah, it's great fun to both get excited about snow and wind up anyone who disagrees, the OP particularly.
This is the snowplough that got stuck on our road on Friday - spent an hour helping to dig him out - that's a big tractor, those wheels are over 1.5m diameter. If he doesn't come out each day, we're stuck as the drifts blow in about a metre deep across the road. I have to dig the wheelie bins out in the morning as they get covered. I managed to step across a 5ft high 5-bar gate today to walk into a field. -15C forecast for later in the week which means this lots not melting in a hurry.
Even if I could get my fat bike out of storage, it would be pretty useless as we've simply got too much snow!
It's not as deep as I expected this morning - perhaps only a couple of inches.
Surely others have more, unless this is press panic again.... 🤔
I was thinking of you @dovebiker whilst battling my way through some 1.5m drifts on Ben Rinnes with the splitboard, and that plenty folk up the glens will have monster drifts!
-12C when I got in the car this morning 🥶
Seem to have a decent covering here, been quite windy I think as it's drifted a lot so hard to judge actually cover with out heading out. Hopefully get out on the skis again.
About another 6 inches yesterday evening and overnight in Angus; like Scotroutes, we've had frozen ground and/or snow since before Hogmanay. Very light, cold, fluffy powder snow. Heading out for a wee ski shortly, go and find a forest to do turns in..
Bugger all here in S Oxon, hardly a dusting. Windy in the night but even that has died down. Dried out Froze the mud so I’ll wander out for a walk later.
A pretty decent covering at the edge of Glasgow.
A wee spot of sledging at lunch time is in order.
Aaargh, legs are completely dead after yesterday's battle with drifts and ruts but screw it, I'm going out anyway. Was not expecting last night's dump, we got probably another 4 inches and it lay instantly.
Not long back from a mini lunch time ski tour in the Pentlands. Some fantastic powder around where it's drifted, though still need to pick where to go. Hopefully more overnight and tomorrow then hopefully get a longer trip in Thurs morning.
@Northwind - good luck, it's pretty deep in places!
That was ace, ride of two halves- very heavy snow and bad visibility at maiden's cleugh (got almost to the bottom, decided my route was a bad idea, pushed back over- the west side was quite stomped down but I think everyone had turned left and gone around harbour hill instead of over to glencorse as it was almost untouched on that side). Then a spell of lovely blue skies while playing around in the woods at the reservoirs, got almost home, decided to do one more climb and descent and back in a snowstorm... Puggled now but absolutely ace.
Also got my first crash of 2021 out of the way. And the second one. And arguably the third though I think it was more a full body dab since we never actually stopped moving.
Bloody horrific walking round Loch an Eilein today. There is a very shiny layer of ice and a thin powdery layer of snow over it. Normally that would work well but it's been so cold (highs of - 4c, lows of - 12c) that the snow won't bond to the ice.
Snowplough guy couldn't make it through yesterday as the snow has frozen and the 'walls' on either side means there's nowhere for it to go. He turned up in his digger today to finish off yesterday's job. Took about 30 minutes to dig the car out - weird driving single track roads with the snow banked higher than the car.
It's about a metre deep around the edges of the fields - I climbed up onto the fence and jumped in! Might try wading my way up to the top field tomorrow.
There's been some avalanches today on some of the south facing slopes on the hill where they've caught the sun. Watched someone doing some lovely linked turns through the powder on Ben Rinnes - not at all envious 😍
dovebiker
Full Memberweird driving single track roads with the snow banked higher than the car.
It's when you meet someone coming the other way and think hmm, how far will one of us have to reverse? About a mile?
If only there was someone running along with a broom in front....
Round the corner from my old office. Every time there is snow some fanny thinks they have a magical car which can defy gravity... 🤣
It’s when you meet someone coming the other way and think hmm, how far will one of us have to reverse? About a mile?
It's about 2 miles end-to-end - all the pull-ins are banked-up so not even any room to squeeze by. The farmers and gamekeepers just stop, go off into the field so normally you have to reverse and go back around to the main road.
About a mile?
That's the record at my old outdoor centre - just under a mile.
With minibus and trailer....
Had a lovely ski on the xc kit around the farm at lunchtime yesterday and then up onto the wee hills on the north side of the Sidlaws. Great stuff in deep powder, then it absolutely dumped all afternoon. At dusk, took the Fatty out for what turned into an epic slide around in what is now about 15-18" of the lightest powder. Amazing fun riding a steep hill in the trees, guessing where the trail is (or might be..) all the way down. Not so fun the push up before that though, almost knee deep powder on top of a base of older snow that's mostly resilient enough not to break through. Heading out shortly to (try to) drive the Mrs to work; think she's planning on running home off-road later; wish I had the time for that sort of silliness today.
Had a lovely ski on the xc kit around the farm at lunchtime yesterday and then up onto the wee hills on the north side of the Sidlaws. Great stuff in deep powder, then it absolutely dumped all afternoon. At dusk, took the Fatty out for what turned into an epic slide around in what is now about 15-18″ of the lightest powder. Amazing fun riding a steep hill in the trees, guessing where the trail is (or might be..) all the way down. Not so fun the push up before that though, almost knee deep powder on top of a base of older snow that’s mostly resilient enough not to break through. Heading out shortly to (try to) drive the Mrs to work; think she’s planning on running home off-road later; wish I had the time for that sort of silliness today.
Hmmm, this sounds familiar - I think we might know each other!
Anyway yea, just NE of Dundee there's been a fair old dump the last couple of days:
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