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Based on the entirely scientific approach of ‘holding my hand up to it and then measuring when i got home’, the snow in north east surrey was 7, maybe 8 cm an hour or so ago. It’s been a bit bitty since.
We’re on the greensand ridge, I’d imagine the top of the Downs will have more.
its actually snowing in essex.. expect everything to stop round here
Symonds Yat
Couldn’t be arsed to go outside today, but I took a photo out of the kitchen window to try to get a shot of the starlings squabbling in my Acer, but it wasn’t very good.
Redhill this evening - looking proper! Can’t wait to ride the north downs in the morning!
Snowing heavily here in London Essex/Herts borders!
Still nothing round Stirling/Falkirk...plenty slippy paths with ice starting, but nae snow and I'm not happy!
Kids always make thing happier eh? Our two having snowball fights in the garden coming in soaked with numb hands but giggling away, fun times!
Nearly an inch so far at crystal palace. The ridge here always gets more, just a mile away at the bottom of might be none
The ridge here always gets more, just a mile away at the bottom of might be none
Snowing in Sw19, snowmagedon!!!!!!
Symonds Yat
Clever dog that!
Symonds Yat
Clever dog that!
I hope it's a small snowman.
It's even snowing here in London!
Well my daughter’s happy as her school is closed. My son less so as his remains open, full teenage flip-top head going on….
About 6cm in Brentwood - the town will now shut down
No one seems able to drive in the snow here
Usual numpties out - who's VW bus is this?
Managed the first ski tour of the season in the Pentlands yesterday morning which was nice! Not much of a one for the downhills but good to get out and remember how stuff works.
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Whistler Glentress yesterday all powder.
Dog was LOVING LIFE
Currently -13c here.
And the CH boiler has jacked it in.
Send blankets!
Currently -13c here.
And the CH boiler has jacked it in.
Oh bugger.
I bet the Old Bridge Inn is warm...
It’s hovering just below freezing in Rochdale.
No more snow, which is good as I’ve got to get to Salford tomorrow on a day there are no trains so the roads will be awful.
South Lanarkshire here, a dusting of crispy snow and currently -8.3 outside.
Looking at the Met Office app it’s not forecast to get above freezing all week here in the East Lancs hills (-7 overnight)
At least we’ve not had any more snow. The main roads are all gritted and clear. Everywhere off the main roads is an ice rink
matt_outandabout
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Usual numpties out – who’s VW bus is this?
Classic example of why winter tyres or even 4 season are so much better - just because you can get your 1-2 ton car moving doesn't mean you should. They're just passengers. Not too much snow around here but I'll not be going out in the 4wd e-SUV on wide summer tyres if I can help it as wife's knackered old hatchback has cross climates on.
what's it like around Oxford / M40 and up to Warwick/Leam - have to go and get daughter from University today.
That crunch clip was Leckhampton Hill, Cheltenham. No surprises there!
A good 5cm or so in Bedfordshire.
I walked the dog and am not planning on going out in the car. No decent parking areas without bollards to play in
Usual numpties out
We live at the bottom of a 25% gradient.
Every year when it snows they put a 'road closed' sign out to shut the road
Every year when it snows someone moves the 'road closed' sign and tries to drive down the hill
Every year when it snows the person who moved the 'road closed' sign and tried to drive down the hill, bounces off the walls all the way down then comes to a halt as they demolish the wall at the bottom (again!) normally having collected a couple of parked cars en route
The road then remains closed as theres no way they can get recovery trucks up to move the wreckage
It is ALWAYS somebody in a BMW X5, or similar, who think that having 4WD means that the laws of physics no longer apply to them 🙄
Great twitter video - and there is a chap on a bike riding no problem !
Rishton East Lancs minus 5 and freezing fog this morning. Luckily house was a toasty 18 Celsius so that got boosted to 21, probably cost £20 for that half an hour.
Pavements and side streets resemble Blackburn ice rink. Main roads not too bad.
There appears to be an extended version available on youtube
Funny how one of the commenters focuses on the mountain bike rider having no issues at all.
They’re just passengers.
Aye - wheelspinning merrily until they realise they're out of control, and which point they brake and carry on sliding with the wheels not turning.
I think one of the roads police officers on Twitter has suggested most of the driving in that video would meet the criteria for "driving without due care & attention"
Watching that clip it's reassuring that no matter the weather or conditions you'll always see some @@@@ on a bike 👍😁
Funny how one of the commenters focuses on the mountain bike rider having no issues at all.
...have we got the video of him sliding on his arse on the way back down!! 🤣🤣
I remember 2010 when I was just about the only person to make it to the office. We'd had about 6" of snow in a short space of time. Got up, went outside, and the neighbour said, we're going no-where today ! I said, I'll get my bike out. I was about 30 mins late for work, hard going through 6" of fresh snow. Just about thawed out, and work decided to close for the day, so I phoned home and said I'll be late back - took the long route home ! That's when I ordered Snow Studs !
My wife had Cross Climate's fitted last month. Got to use them properly on Saturday - miles better than standard tyres in the snow - you just stopped, and started like there was none !
Aye, in the Pennines we usually have winter tyres on Nov-Mar. Not deep snow but various boring family cars have got through safely when people in SUVs are sat there with wheels spinning.
Found him/her but wasn't quite expecting this
We’re not on mains gas but have a Butane cyclinder that sits outside behind our kitchen wall with a feed through to the hob. I learned the hard way today that the boiling point of Butane is around -0.5C and below that it remains in liquid state. First time it’s stopped working since we’ve been here. Cyclinder now sitting in the house warming up.
The golf might have stopped with the abs switched off. A locked wheel builds a big heavy triangle of snow which acts like a brake.
The Mercedes, well, thw wheels aren't even pointing away from the crash site but almost at the near side kerb.
The bus almost makes it but ypu gotta question the H and S of leaving the depot in a 8t hammer with the handling characteristics of a narrow boat
We live at the bottom of a 25% gradient.
We have two roads out from our estate - one is maybe around a 10-15% gradient but shorter, one is 5% gradient and longer. Every time it is icy and snowy half the vehicles head out or in the steep way - so much so that the council have installed bollards at the bottom of the hill. Every winter a few cars bounce off the bollards.
Yet for 30 seconds more, they could head out the less steep way (which is gritted first as it is a lane out to more houses).
TBH I used to love taking the fat bike to work in snow.
I never really get the people driving boggo cars in snow with boggo tyres and wonder why they are bouncing off everything.
I get being caught out but setting off in it unprepared seems a tad dense.
A lot of SUVs aren't 4WD, have wide low rolling resistant tyres which are low on tread so worst of all worlds. I use cross climates permanently here, equally good in the summer during the torrential down pours that flood the roads on the hills.
It's all about the tyres though, I'm in a borrowed 4WD Sportage at the moment with normal tyres on it (owner was going to put winter tyres on it on Saturday but decided it was too snowy!), my wifes 2WD fiat 500 made a better job of getting up our residential road than the 4WD.
People don't seem to get 4WD can still slide downhill very easily.
my wifes 2WD fiat 500 made a better job of getting up our residential road than the 4WD.
Also, Fiat 500 = around 1 ton on narrow tyres.
LandRover Discovery = around 2.5 tons on wide tyres.
The physics is simple. A heavier car will take a LOT more to stop and steer compared to a light car. I have 3 times seen a LandRover Defender slide into the ditch while trying to stop - while my Yaris had already stopped..
My old winter beast on the single track road that was my commute for 5 years:
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