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Sorry no pictures. But a couple of inches here in Chesterfield, fairly wet and it's kinda drizzling so slowly turning to slush. My concern is for tomorrow if it freezes overnight it will be a right mare.
I love a bit of snow as much as the next person. But hate it when it turns to wet slush and you have to keep the sheep happy. Makes such a mess...
should have had pics!
Just down the road from you in rammy @stumpyjon. We’ve had loads. Someone is properly making the most of it and has just skiied past our house 😀
Priceless image on the BBC article, got to love the driving gods who thought their 4x4s would be handy in the snow and ice! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg9ygvqw75o
Much prancing and snow zoomies.
Oh such happiness when we woke up this morning in Salford to what looked like more snow than we've had in years! Turned out to be about 1" deep and rapidly turning to slush as it's been drizzling rain most of the morning. Ho hum. Still, the kids had a bit of fun and built a solid ice grey/brownish snowman mutant thing.
Loads in Leeds, more than I've seen for ages. In open areas away from trees we've got at least 5 inches
Just been out for a walk in it - hard going!
Heavy going and wet snow up on the hills above Hayfield and by the time I was coming home, the trails lower down were just slush.
The roads - certainly the minor ones - initially were nearly impassable and there were obviously a few idiots who'd tried to drive anyway. However everything has cleared enough for it just to be really really wet now.
A bit disappointing up here in Brampton. There was about an inch, but it's turning to slush now.
Line of people being towed up the snow-covered hill out of Morrisons car park this morning, only to be pulled over by the police for not clearing the six inches of snow off the roof.
With the slush here, at least the forecast is to rain quite a bit before it gets below zero again. A few years ago we had light snow + light rain + hard freeze = a thick layer of lethal glassy ice over everything that lasted for days. The hospital was busy!
A glance at the local Friendface groups reveals the usual utter ****-wittery as people try and drive around on snow and sheet ice. Lots of roads now closed with stranded, crumpled vehicles. I live at the bottom of a 25% hill and it’s the same every time it snows. The bloke at the bottom of the hill has given up rebuilding his wall as there’s just no point. Despite the massive signs saying ‘ROAD IMPASSABLE IN ICE AND SNOW’ this is how it ends up every single time
Hope it settles down. Old man's gotta get from Midlands to Manny airport for a flight to Oz on Saturday. Fingers crossed an all that.
A glance at the local Friendface groups reveals the usual utter ****-wittery as people try and drive around on snow and sheet ice.
But he's got a BMW X-thing! They're exempt from speed limits, road closed signs, no parking signs, and weather warnings.
Greggs McSausageface
But he’s got a BMW X-thing!
Well, he had a BMW X-thing until a few mins previously. Shame, innit.
15-20 cms here, very wet, heavy. It'll take a couple days to melt before it goes below zero later in the week.
Number 2 son outside digging out the parking now
Ugh it's horrible out there now, 1 degree, raining but still plenty of wet snow on the side roads to make it difficult.
@Binners, is that the lane down from junction 1 of the M66? trouble with 4wd cars, they still slide as easily as 2 wheels on ice, I found that out a good few years ago, luckily I avoided hitting anything but lesson was learned.
Edit: it's bottom of the Rake isn't, a hill famed locally for being stupidly steep (in an area known for hills) and he thought it might be a good idea to drive down it in this weather.
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But hate it when it turns to wet slush and you have to keep the sheep happy. Makes such a mess…
Not a mental image I wanted....
Good covering in Halifax, abandoned the bike and went for a good walk instead!
is that the lane down from junction 1 of the M66?
That'll be Bass lane towards Summer seat.
it’s bottom of the Rake isn’t
Yep just below where it splits towards Rammy.
The driver did well to make it that far down assuming they started at the top of the rake and not the top of Dundee lane?
I reckon these mistakes will raise the car insurance premiums for the area? The insurers will think that the town is full of drivers who can't read or follow instructions. ?
The insurers will think that the town is full of drivers who can’t read or follow instructions. ?
It is Ramsbottom, after all...
Edit: it’s bottom of the Rake isn’t, a hill famed locally for being stupidly steep (in an area known for hills) and he thought it might be a good idea to drive down it in this weather?
It is indeed the bottom of the Rake, the renowned 25% gradient that’s so steep it has a handrail. It was a woman who not only ignored the 2 enormous signs saying ‘IMPASSABLE IN ICE AND SNOW’ but she actually got out of her car at the top to move the ‘ROAD CLOSED’ sign and the barrier that had been put in the middle of the road, then set off down what was literally sheet ice. I mean, this looks totally safe….
I suspect that invalidates your insurance. The car sat there for days until things had thawed enough to get a tow truck up to move the wreckage
I suspect that invalidates your insurance.
Hope so. I'd also like to see all the "I've got a 4x4" dickheads stranded on Wrynose Pass to be charged full whack for their rescue and the subsequent recovery operation to clear the road. And then have to pay for any damage to the vehicles from their own pocket too.
It's all melted around here now so the roads are just slushy and very very wet - which means the drivers have gone from being extra specially cautious (first thing this morning, in the snow) to "I'll drive as normal, 5-10mph above the speed limit" in the space of about 4hrs.
On that note I thought I'd take my mx5 out for a completely antisocial and ill thought out slide about. But luckily it vetoed me and ended up completely stuck on my slopey driveway. A reminder to me of just how bloody awful some high quality summer tyres are in snow.
Does anyone else take it really personally when you get a temporary thaw or rain in the middle of a spell of snow? I always feel basically attacked. It's now snowing pretty nicely but if this afternoon's sleet and rain had just held off a little bit then the old snow would have stayed nicer and there'd be more new stuff. It's a terrible use of a scarce resource and I demand to see the manager.
I’m up at the top of the hill in Harrogate. We were in Whitby this weekend but had to get back for school tomorrow - barely any snow for most of the way home, a bit more as we reached Harrogate but but by the time we got to the higher point the snow was fully covering the road and our street was very difficult (especially for my BIL in a twin-turbo RWD Mercedes convertible). Managed to get back, the snow relented a bit and he got back to his house but it’s started again and I reckon we have about 10 inches now.
Bit more this morning. ….
Clent hills yesterday morning. Loads of snow, and almost zero traction. Ridiculous amount of fun had, not laughed that much in ages.
Was lovely on the Kerridge Ridge this morning ?
Snows all gone here in the Rhondda - I must say that this area is very dissappointing for snow considering it is fairly high up.
I feel robbed. We had slush.
I should have swept the remaining slush off the car last night. Went out to it this morning and the car is encased in about 3-4cm of rock solid ice.
I decided against driving to the office on Monday due to the weather, said I'd try and get in today.
Gave up on that idea after only a couple of minutes trying to scrape through the ice fortress, I'll just WFH again!
Normally I get the train but they're not running this week due to engineering works.
Not snow related, but walking the dog this morning and similar to crazy legs above lots of cars with ice on windscreens. On at least three separate occasions I saw people trying to clear their windscreens using the wipers!
It's not like we've had lots of warnings about the weather to remind people that they may want to purchase an ice scraper or some de-icer. I mean even tepid water helps.
Madness I tell you.
What is people's allergy to a £3 plastic scraper and a light touch of elbow grease?
I see high value cars left on drives / on the street with engines running and noone in sight. Both the theft risk and environmental cost are far from insignificant.
See also "tank drivers" with their letterbox view out (although they won't see you).
The side roads (and all paths) in Harrogate are a bloody mess now – they are frozen solid sheet ice or semi-trampled snow which is like the surface of the moon. Some schools are closed for a third day but others (including the one our girls go to) are open. My wife dropped them off in the car this morning and said she saw several kids fall flat on their backsides trying to walk in.
The Ilson Alps had a light dusting of snow showers about 5pm last night which promptly melted and then froze. Lots of reports of accidents and cars struggling this morning.
Obviously nothing as bad as the Peak which is only an hour up the road, but doesn't take much to show up the idiots.
The side roads (and all paths) in Harrogate are a bloody mess now – they are frozen solid sheet ice or semi-trampled snow which is like the surface of the moon. Some schools are closed for a third day but others (including the one our girls go to) are open. My wife dropped them off in the car this morning and said she saw several kids fall flat on their backsides trying to walk in.
Yep, Harrogate is a mess now with lots of snow & ice. I don't think I've seen any gritters anywhere but I guess that's a consequence of losing Harrogate Borough Council. It's the worst I've seen it in many years.
Lots of folk I've met are also complaining - most of the footpaths are just sheet ice and most of the side roads are impassable. Cost cutting eh!
Waist deep on lee slopes in the north Dales. Still powder, little consolidation happening.
