Seeing as April was also very cold this year, its like we've only had a 6 month break from Winter.
Wetter than an otter's pocket here on the Somerset-Devon border. My road has flooded. Fortunately my house is two metres above the road but it's not looking pretty generally
It's snowing
I'm near scotroutes this week and it is indeed snowing
Driving town to Torquay this morning to pick up a couple of cars, and the rain on the A30/M5 was just biblical, we were stopped just outside Honiton for nearly an hour by an accident, no sign of any vehicles apart from the Highways cars when we finally got past, but there must have been nearly a couple of centimetres of water across the carriageway, so I reckon someone hit it and spun. On the way back up I saw a Mercedes facing the wrong way on the hard shoulder with the front ripped off, a 4x4 pickup that had reversed at speed into a traffic island, using a sign for a brake, with at least one front alloy totally wrecked, and lots of other stoppages and blue lights all over the place.
Glad to get home, picked up a Fiat 500 at 1.00pm, didn't get home until 6, approx 130mile trip.
I did stop to grab a coffee part way, though, to relax a bit! Like driving in thick fog, with the heavy rain, low cloud and heavy spray, with the addition of so much water across the carriageways making it 'interesting' driving...
I decided to wait til next week to fit winter tyres to the car so obviously this happened
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tricky, slightly epic commute home tonight - basically I cycle through 9 miles of rivers which had replaced roads
[quote=NZCol ]I'm near scotroutes this week and it is indeed snowing
Cool.
Furryboots?
Currently icy rain and just above zero south of Glasgow, however have early flight in morn to Southampton, where it appears I will need shorts and flip-flops 😀
Slighty damp outside in Hudds.
Of course it's normal for November, what we have experienced for the last 18 or so years as autumn and winter are abnormal.
Look at the footage of UK rallying when it was sponsored by Lombard, every November, regular as clockwork, the RAC would hit town and it would be a whiteout
Unless the new temperate autumn winters we are now experiencing are the result of climate change, but as that ain't real.....
Look at the footage of UK rallying when it was sponsored by Lombard, every November, regular as clockwork, the RAC would hit town and it would be a whiteout
True, but then they redefined RAC to mean Rally Around Cheltenham and they stopped coming up north.
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I decided to wait til next week to fit winter tyres to the car so obviously this happened
I felt a little hysterical fitting mine last week wearing shorts and a t shirt in 18c temps. It's very wet here now but by no means cold yet at about 8c, but I'm off up to the Lakes tomorrow which should make the whole exercise a bit more worthwhile.
Just cold and wet today, rather than cold and very wet.
Overshoes, shoes and gloves were still soaked from yesterday. Need to get some spare shoes.
