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Quick rush out and strip all the shop shelves (that's not easy to say) of bread, beans and chocolate. Panic buy (joke).
It does actually sound as though there could be some proper lying snow, not just the few flakes that settle for an hour or two, turn to slush and ice, causing misery on our roads.
Keep warm everyone. Monday evening seems to be the start of ice locked Britain.
I love snow, me. Yet the effect on the populist press is astonishing. A few promised flakes of snow unleashes a torrent of extreme weather warnings, scaremongering, soothsaying and shyterbolic pseudo-claims of Biblical scale. No wonder they think that climate change is bullshit, thieves are always afraid of being robbed....
Sledges at the ready.
Whoop! Can’t wait
I love it, can’t wait.
Just got a brand new Nissan Navara i will be able to drive around all the BMWs and T5s or sit in the queue more likley
Well.. nice timing.
No work for me, could do with the roads being passable cos I might want to go surfing.
So we will get to see plenty of motorists playing curling with thier cars on the school run then 💁♂️
Hopefully but the reality will probably be a bit sleet.
At last my Winter tyre purchase might pay off! I'll be driving my BMW past all the 4x4s spinning their Summer tyres.
Or maybe just stuck in a queue on a hill watching one of the buggers sliding backwards towards me.
I just looked on Wunderground and yr.no.
The headline snowfall is on top of Pennines and other hills - Londonium and East Anglia are only in line for 2-3cm, not the 10-15cm the papers are panicking about.
I am sure that with the number of folk living down there, lack of ploughs and gritters etc, it will be travel mayhem.
However I do look forward to seeing the pictures of Buckingham Palace with deep drifts, should it be as bad as foretold in the Express and Mail...
should it be as bad as foretold in the Express and Mail…
Well, they're usually so calm and understated, maybe this one's for real....
This could actually be a good amount of snow - North East was likely to be hit hardest last time I looked, South West / Wales easiest.
Its been brewing for weeks, getting more and more likely to hit us every day (bar last week for a moment it looked like it was going to head south to the Alps).
i don’t like snow and I hate being cold, but at least when it lifts about 5 days after it arrives we should jump almost immediately into Spring!
Bit of a sad weather watcher as well mainly for work but because I want to go sledging. Chances of good snow early Tuesday morning and if things stay as tbey currently full on snowmaggedon come friday....
Ha!
The Express, what a crock of shit.
But B&Q and Homebase have no sledges left 😭
OK, maybe I am changing my mind. The [s]messiah[/s] amateur forecaster, Windy Wilson, says it is gonna be snow, snow, snow for Perthshire.
what plus tyres for snow 🤣
We've had no substantive snow in the South of England for about 8 years - I have the choice of studded CX tyres, studded MTB, 4 or 5" fatbike or even spend an evening putting studs in my fatbike tyres - decisions, decisions
Jesus. It's February. It might snow a little, but probably not much. Hold the front page.
Well it's an easterly, and I'm in West Cumbria, so I'm looking forward to a week of blue skies.
Might get chance to use my Ice Spiker Pros.
I'm with AndyK (literally, West Cumbria too) any chance of a few days without rain is a blessing. The trails and surrounding countryside is/are drying out nicely.
It's been wetter than an otters pocket....
OK, maybe I am changing my mind. The messiah amateur forecaster, Windy Wilson, says it is gonna be snow, snow, snow for Perthshire.
You do know that he's quite an unsavoury character?
Ach well, what the Southerners call blizzard conditions are coming. Might not put my warm jacket away yet.
I’m still in shorts. I believe it when I see it. That said the -5° we’re seeing at night is making for some cracking early doors rides.
You do know that he’s quite an unsavoury character
Sauce?
Help!
What is the best way to try and keep a steep farm track clear?
I am the only house / user of said track, but I am moving house and have a van booked for Thursday morning. It is fairly steep with a few turns, about a mile in total from the main road. In the snow at the end of January I couldn't make it up in my Mitsubishi 4x4... (Perthshire)
Do I get a few sacks of salt and put it down? Will salt alone keep it clear or do I also need to keep driving it? Any ideas welcome...
EDIT - I love snow too... just not this week.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/120000-boss-who-beat-up-960711
There's a bit of other stuff too, but the sectarian singing, does it for me.
I am the only house / user of said track, but I am moving house and have a van booked for Thursday morning. It is fairly steep with a few turns, about a mile in total from the main road. In the snow at the end of January I couldn’t make it up in my Mitsubishi 4×4… (Perthshire)
I'd be looking to book someone to plough and grit it Thursday morning. Their are private contractors that do this sort of work. Whereabouts are you? I could give you the details of someone just north of Perth who might be able to help, or speak to a local farmer?
Old tennis is that Windy in the record story?
Yes
The Express, what a crock of shit.
Most of it is a chap called Nathan Rao, who has been making up weather reports for years.
The Daily Mash, however, is surprisingly accurate:
@ oldtennisshoes
Hadn't considered that, thank you. I'm probably a bit too south (muckhart / dunning) for your contact, but I will have a Google of other options.
This place is rented, so I could possibly stay an extra week if needed. Was partly the inconvenience - time already booked off work, work appointments make down south the week after. But also I have limited finances, a gritter sounds expensive.
I was just wondering if it was worth trying to salt the steep bits, or if that made no difference unless it was used (thinking about the outside lane of a motorway). Also didn't know if I could salt on top of the snow, or if it would need doing before the first fall... it's only a Luton van, a big one wouldn't get round the corners.
Will keep an eye on the forecast before I panic too much...
EDIT - Aye, I guess the estate might help, though in the past they've been better at pulling stuck vehicles out, rather than doing anything to clear the track in advance .
Down here in the balmy south-west the forecast up to the 11 of March shows a mixture of wintery sleet and sun, nighttime temps around freezing and six degrees during the day, so I’m not bothering to go find a sledge in the shops.
Me, taken a week ago in Finland - knee-deep once off the snowmobile tracks and -25C. It'll just be a novelty in these parts - as my employer has possibly decided to discontinue my employment, I know what I'll be doing if it does snow!
Well it was a stunning day in deepest Sarf Carst, temps just about freezing all day but about an hour ago it rose to 3C.. ideal snow falling conditions.
I’m not usually a fan of the stuff, but for some reason I’m looking forward to this dump.
Hmmm, I wasn't aware of that oldtennisshoes.
Time to unsubscribe I think.
Thursday into Friday looks heavy round here, and typically I have a flight to catch.
Admittedly that’s a way off in forecasting terms so will hopefully change, snow can **** right off!
Sorry.
I’ve said this before on here, but I’m on my third 4wd with mud and snow tyres in five years and it’s never snowed properly since before my first.
It hail stoned once enough to cover the roads for three hours, the year after barely enough snow to make a snow ball.
I’m that desperate to bring the sledge out of retirement I may go back to summer tyres tomorrow.
I’m supposed to be running the Cambridge Half Marathon on Sunday. Looks like I’d better sort out my crampons!
rachel
Snowmageddon.... is THAT what the BBC means when it says 20% chance of precipitation then?
You didnt watch the Countryfile 7 days forcast then ?
There's a splodge of snow coming down on Mon/Tues and a low crossing West-East on Friday. The variables are how much of a splodge on Tuesday and the exact track of the system on Friday. A couple of hundred miles variation in its track is the difference between mild and wet or continued snow. So it's still all to play for.
I really hope it does come , our manager decided we are not going to have any more bad weather this year So<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;"> didn't order any more salt.</span>
It's gonna be fun 😀