Sick of the incessant snow updates

A cm or two of snow here in Surrey. Gone in a couple of hours as the rain washed through…

A good 5cms in West Yorks may be more, and still snowing – looking good for an interesting bike to work tomorrow morning.

20cm up here in Norf Yorkshire. The smugness I’ve been wearing for a week after getting winter tyres fitted to the car has evaporated as the snow is deeper than the bumper. 🙁

The smugness I’ve been wearing for a week after getting winter tyres fitted to the car has evaporated as the snow is deeper than the bumper

And then it will have all melted too in a few hours

Snowmageddon here, I’ll be letting a few others go up and down the (steep) road I live on before I try to drive anywhere!

Difficult to tell how deep it is as it’s blowing, parts of the drive are clear, parts have snow drifts. It’s very dry fine snow and forecast to continue until tomorrow lunch time. Pretty windy so guessing the main road over the tops will be blocked. Rossendale, East Lancs, but high up, no the valley bottom.

North West Sheffield.  A good few inches.

This is Doncaster Town Field, near me, another cup of tea in bed before I walk the dogs I think.

Six inches here at Scapegoat Hill. Still snowing.
Willow loves snow!

Looks like proper snow in places.

Now’t here, just the usual grey skies and dampness 🙁

“North West Sheffield. A good few inches.”

I’d be more worried about the Velociraptor than the snow.

We didn’t get much and it’s thawing fast (South Herefordshire). I reckon there will be lots on the Malverns and Black Mountains tho. Took the dogs out before the slush and they had a good time.

Slush in Manchester. Rubbish.

South Lanarkshire, a bit below zero and barely a fine dusting. It has added some grip to the slipperiness which was welcome on early dog walk.

Bad in Rossendale on the tops, 5 to 6 inches of snow, but hard to tell as it’s drifting a lot. Had to dig the cars out of a 4ft drift. Even the main roads have snow across them. Going to be fun  getting to the airport tomorrow morning.

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!

I reckon there will be lots on the Malverns

Two inches at most, now turning into slush at our level ( 750 ft asl)

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.

We are close to Leeds Bradford airport. I can attest to it being shut (it is lovely and quiet!). Melting now but still several inches on the garage roof.

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

I woke up this morning to find a visitor in the garden. And then found out that my eldest went sledging at 1am!

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.

welshfarmer

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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.  ?