Sick of the incessant snow updates

No snow in southern Hampshire

I repeat; no snow in southern Hampshire

(unrelated to “the beast” I’m not actually waiting in for, but may just receive a pair of new skis today 🙂 )

Deep, crisp and even in beautiful Burnley.

Good snow too.

Off to slide down a big hill on a groundsheet in a bit.

🙂

I’m going to train part-way home and ride 35miles off road the rest of the way on Thursday.  Nice route but it’s a muddy slog fest until it dries out – usually April/May, so I’m taking the opportunity while it’s frozen solid.

The correct tool for the job is the fat bike:  podgy mud with frozen hoof and boot holes is not cx territory.  Downside is having to ride though central London on it with just a few flakes falling out of the sky – I’m going to look a little desperate!

Looks like the promised snowpocalypse in London will have to wait a day…

Totally snowpocalalyptic in London right now.

Nope. Sorry.

It was, but it stopped again.

Light dry smattering on the Solent coast now. It’s all gone a bit dark too..

Totally snowpocalalyptic in London right now…

Excellent,that’s the wall to wall BBC news sorted for tonight 😉

Scots have been told not to put away the winter vests just yet 🙂

puking in Farnborough but absolutely refusing to stick! better not bobbins my drive back up North on Thursday…

Sporadic light flurries in west London.

Just wait a minute muppetwrangler.  Another wave of snowmageddon is on its way over.

Please can we have pics of baby robins in the snow?

Whiteout in Cheam

Just started to properly snow in central London, about time!

stopped again, kilo. blue sky headed your way.

I know what a rubbish snowmageddon I blame the eu.

Looks like there’s another bank of cold, white death rolling in, though.

– ned

Tower Hill Lookout.

The South Downs earlier?

If my commute in tomorrow isn’t like this, I will personally paint the Scottish travel minister Red and Orange for the warnings he keeps using…

Typing from the snowy Highlands, I find the press coverage of winter weather, especially when occurring in the south, pathetic.

Yesterday mornings Today on radio 4 was so bad I will be ceasing to listen to the program after some 25 years*. News it was not.

*I am aware no one cares.

I find people stopping listening to the Today programme because of coverage of infrequent cold weather, pathetic.

I had loads of reasons for stopping listening to the Today programme, and I encountered them almost daily, throughout the year, not just a couple of times a winter.

Well, here in sunny Ripon we had two or three inches overnight. The same over in Thirsk, but that thawed through the day. Got back to the farm and it’s stayed all day. Just started shitting it down again and the dog wants to go out in it. Bloody thing.

A couple of sleet showers today, giving things a light dusting of white. Not exactly snowmageddon here in North Wiltshire, or at least the lower elevations, there might have been more up on the Marlborough Downs.

Bit grim in Burnley now – risked the pub quiz in Colne but a bit dodgy on the way back.

Looks like it might be a day off work tomorrow, even the main roads are getting unsafe with the drifts.

Southern Hants update – our back garden is like **** Narnia !

(by which I mean at least a full half inch laying on the ground – looks like it’ll be there all night.  As they say, what a time to be alive !)

Meh, a fluffy couple of inches here, drifting slightly .

All the East coast local authorities are closing schools in Scotland – once Stirling, Borders and West Lothian announced last night, I predicted thay all would.

Time to walk or bike to work – a colleague is up here from the Hampshire Alps to do some work with me, so best not let her down….

Oooh! We got some more about 5” here now so we can almost call it snow.

We’re all very excited in Surrey this morning, we’ve woken up to a foot of snow!

okay…..it’s probably more like an inch! 🙁

Mr Frosty came around and sprinkled all the cars with fairy dust last night, it’s lead to a stunning pink sunrise..

Solent coastline,

Blimey.

The lightest of dustings in SW surrey, at 130m.

And 2″ in London!  Entertaining ride across the bridge, but I was not expecting that!

Outside midlifetowers just now.

Since Teachers are public servants if the schools are closed couldn’t they be put to work for the public good. There’s plenty of snow that needs shovelling off elderly people’s paths for eg. Come on teach, get to work and pick up that snow shovel ;op <<wink tongue out.

(where have the smileys gone?)

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OK, more than 2″ here then. Lovely ride in.

Just a dusting in Cardiff, like icing sugar on an almond croissant, but it’s cold so it’s just lying there and blowing around.  Definitely going out riding today.  Question is, should I put the ice spikes on the FS or the rigid?

At home, didn’t fancy it.

Replaced the worn out CrossClimates last week with some bargain Firestones. Bah.

Time to make like a mole and dig, I want to get to the bikes. Might take the BMX round the estate, see if I can remember where the roads are. 🙂

A mere 5 inches this morning. Took me an extra fifteen minutes to drive to work.

Having said that, it turns out that an 8 year old S-Max isn’t the ideal vehicle for the scandinavian flick.

I’d have stayed in bad with that amount !

It was a bit drifty at the Kissing Trees

Half inch fell overnight, was bright and clear this morning so mostly gone from any non shady areas.

More news updated as it occurs from West London Weather Watch.