Page 1 of 2

Snow?!

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 7:59 pm
by 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?

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 8:04 pm
by Petrified
It was snowing near llanelli around 3pm today!

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 8:13 pm
by carmadaaron
im in Scotland....no snow......yet! :P

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 8:17 pm
by 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. :cry:

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 8:17 pm
by 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. :shock:

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

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 9:13 pm
by Josh_PoloGTi
This is what my webcam saw at 4pm today:

Image

And it's much deeper now...

Gotta love living in the Peak District

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 2:31 am
by 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 :D
we'll have to see how the b'ham councils handle it if it does turn to an ice crust :D maybe time to go skatin' in the street again

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 8:10 am
by CalvinGTI
I guess us Southerners get the best of british weather :)

*points and laughs* haha

Calâ„¢

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 10:51 am
by 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!

Image

Image

Isn't snow great? :(

snow!!

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 11:01 am
by jon_poloV
we had half a foot of snow ,
menal.
jon

love the pics josh!

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 11:06 am
by 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 !

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 11:46 am
by 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„¢

birmingham

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 11:49 am
by jon_poloV
it no better in the dry mate!
jon

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 7:08 pm
by carmadaaron
well still no snow! :x
:lol:

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 8:16 pm
by 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 :shock:
Just better hope everyone's sensible on the ice tonight..