Snow?!

[GroovyCarrot]

I just looked out the window and it's snowing. Really, properly snowing, not just nasty sleety rubbish. I'm in the south east, well inland and it's been a mild if extremely wet day. Anyone else having a weird bout of snow at the moment?

[Petrified]

It was snowing near llanelli around 3pm today!

[carmadaaron]

im in Scotland....no snow......yet!

[Nelson_Wilbury]

I wondered why on the drive home my -4* warning buzzer came on (this was at about 6pm).

Can't be bothered to look outside, especially as I know it won't settle.

[M@Turner]

I'm in Sheffield (which is pretty much in the middle of the UK) and its been snowing since 5pm. There's about an inch of snow on the cars outside.

When i was driving home from work at 5.30, the temperature was 1'C.

[Josh_PoloGTi]

This is what my webcam saw at 4pm today:



And it's much deeper now...

Gotta love living in the Peak District

[Tahrey1043]

puts mine to shame josh! looks nice!

people over the past four days: "apparently it's going to snow on thursday"
me: "yeah right"
me this lunchtime: "well maybe - that type of dark cloud is kind of snowlike"
by 4pm: "goddamn its cold in here.. lets close them windows... whaddya mean they dont open?"
at exactly 6.07 on the train, to random Shopping Lady: "well i'll be damned.. it IS snowing!" (verbatim: after doing a double-take at a well-frosted car park)

lasted all of about 60 minutes, good thick fall of nice big fat flakes, a real chiller and made the drive back quite a slow one even though that was only halfway through. then it stopped about as suddenly as it began and the kids chucking barrel-scraping snowballs about outside melted away about as quickly as the quarter-inch ground covering.

got a nice camphone piccy though... fear it might be a bit orange
we'll have to see how the b'ham councils handle it if it does turn to an ice crust maybe time to go skatin' in the street again

[CalvinGTI]

I guess us Southerners get the best of british weather

*points and laughs* haha

Calâ„¢

[Josh_PoloGTi]

Well, this was my car this morning after 15 minutes of scraping through frozen snow.

In the end I almost passed out (thanks BP tablets!) so I gave up and had a lie down!





Isn't snow great?

[jon_poloV]

we had half a foot of snow ,
menal.
jon

love the pics josh!

[mikegti]

no snow in lancaster! up north isn't all bad...

bloody cold though, doors were frosted shut.

last time it snowed in Rugby it took me 2 hours to drive home 2 miles, everyone suddenly became completely incompetent at driving !

[CalvinGTI]

well everytime i have gone to Birmingham for my the company i work for, EVERY single time it has rained, and ive been about 15-20 times in the last 3 years.

I have yet to see Birmingham without rain, itz madness. lol

Calâ„¢

[jon_poloV]

it no better in the dry mate!
jon

[carmadaaron]

well still no snow!

[GroovyCarrot]

Snow's gone here, to be replaced by sheet ice. I live right next to a ford, so the whole road is covered in ice from where people drive through the ford and trail water all the way up. Means I can do a bit of ice skating, which is always fun Bit worried about leaving the car on the road though.. only this morning a van came down the road too fast, locked up on the ice and went sideways outside my house Just lucky the polo was in the drive at the time, but the drive's full now, and I doubt my dad would appreciate me putting his MG out there
Just better hope everyone's sensible on the ice tonight..