Snow 2012/13

Well it seems it's started already:

First signs of snow

And the media are already going into panic stations :



(bolding copied direct from website)

Just waiting for the stories now of stuck handbrakes, blizzard-like conditions as perhaps a whole 1.5 inches of snow falls

And lest we not forget the tale of the little Punto who could, going where 4x4's dared not tread to rescue a small child

Batten down the hatches, it looks like it's going to be a bad one

http://www.fiatcoupeclub.org/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1138399

Well Thursday night I went out to do a bit of mountain biking, it was raining at home but snowing on the tops. Bit grim but good fun. Today its snowing at home. Quite heavy.

Well, Bristolian Facebookers are already abuzz by the 1-2 inches we have received here.

I will have to make not of the women's names if that gets them excited. I may have found my ideal woman

Absolutely nothing here. Not a flake. And me with all the emergency stuff in the car!

Just started here, nowt much to report, its white and wet

Nothing to report here yet. All the emergency gear packed.......and then left at the front door!!! GRRRR!!

Been snowing on and off here all night....nothing to be worried about though.
Not going be enough to stop me getting to work though, unfortunately.

Top of the Pennines, massive let down. Scabby bit of snow, not more than an inch. Bloody UK - it's just one massive let down after another - I wanted a snow day!

2-3 inches in Bristol now and still coming down.

Busses are cancelled and i'm going to work from home

Falling heavy here in High Wycombe now, covering everything fast too!

Typical, due down at L&M in the hour to get the oil pressure checked....grrrrrr

We didn't get much

Really.... a thread on snow?! AGAIN!

We English love talking about the god dam weather, if I can be sure of anything today, its that Im going to get told how much its snowing everywhere!

My gardens today.

Coming down thick and fast here in Warwickshire

It's raining here. We rarely get snow. Too close to the sea

It's causing mayhem in Stoke and still coming down. Might be able have the night off work.

Man up

The problem is Marion if I do go in I've got go your neck of the woods and who wants too go there really?

Well, made it to work, then go told to go home again....

About 6 people managed to make it.

Just come back in from the beach, still nothing here......I'll check the forecast for tomorrow though.

MrsC left Swindon at 9.30 this morning heading home to Cambridge. She texted me from an M25 traffic jam just before 1pm. Looks a bit crap, though Cambridge itself has had nothing like proper snow.

It can be easy to dislike you at times Jim

Simon, our postman, has the day off today. Yesterday he said he was off to the coast today to go windsurfing if the roads were clear.

Somehow I doubt if he has made it.



I had a good snowball fight in the back garden with my grandson too.

No tools coming out today.

The BM has been though and it was er......challenging/fun

i was dreading taking the coop out today, i fitted some uniroyal rainsport tyres a couple of months ago and wow the traction they gave was brilliant had no trouble at all even on the back roads cant say they same for my wifes corolla. She got stuck on a hill where as i just ploughed my way up the hill and straight into my garage.

I'm still waiting for this blizzard to come?.......

I got home and I think that is where I am staying for a couple of days!

The coupe did well to get me home tonight... much better than the MX5 I followed

Coupe got me home safely too A few slides, due to my crap tyres, but we're home

Went out in my friends mx last, let's just say it was actually quite funny

I haven't touched my coop. It's currently sat under about 3-4 inches of the white stuff.Purely because I'm using the works van due to having been working away.I can't believe how, even in these conditions, how badly people still drive.Tailgating, driving too moving out into the 3rd lane while it's covered in 3 inches of snow due to not being used.The amount of crash damaged vehicles abandoned on the side of the m4 is ridiculous!

2 hours to get from Coventry to the sleepy town of Alcester.
I made it to Stratfoed with no problem, but then the roads were gridlocked. So I decided to go the back lanes .

As I turned off the main road, all I saw was fresh virgin snow, thinking I may have made the wrong decision I noticed a Clio and a Focus were following me.

Now the road we were on is 4 miles long and no side roads off it. I was having fun trying to work out were the road was but then noticed that the Focus was no longer there. 2 miles later just at the brow of a hill I noticed that the Clio had stopped half way up.

I but was a bit worried when I exhaust was catching in the drifts but luckily the snow was still soft.

I love my Coupe

Don't think we had any snow here yesterday, but Friday's didn't melt, and it has started again this morning...

Same here, about 2cm

About 3" (in old money) here on the top of Bluebell Hill in deepest Kent and still snowing. The main roads are OK at the moment but the side roads are interesting and if it freezes tonight entertainment abounds!!

We ended up with more than we had on Friday, its drifting and deep, now the main roads are like glass

What's it like now Rich? Forecast? ? I'm due to be working back down in Marlow again tomorrow...

Pretty much all roads clear/drivable in Marlow, just a light dusting today barely 1cm. Still coming down but very fine. Where abouts are you working in Marlow?

Not a single flake down here, sun was out today!

All looks to be going icy now....the fun of it all!

Thanks for the heads up

I'm up at Marlow international, literally just off the A404..Was up there for a few weeks in November and again for the last week and this week..Do you by any chance drive along the A404 towards the M4 in the mornings? As I saw a black one briefly last week...Also followed a yellow 16v p reg heading up towards Birdshills golf centre too..Didn't post in the spotting section as unsure which area to post in? Lol

Been snowing on here since Thursday, mainly light snow, with the odd heavy shower.

All main roads were clear, but Friday night, heavier snow came down and it was freezing too, making for very slippery conditions.

Has snowed lightly since, until around 10am this morning and has been coming down heavier and steadily since.

The snow was sticking to uncleared surfaces, but didn't start sticking to cleared surfaces until around 3pm.

We had about 3 inches here up until today, but looks like we've got a total of around 4 - 5 now, looking at the untouched surfaces.

Still snowing too.

7 inch on my drive - same again forecast to fall during the day. Even visco drive cant save me now!!!

"I can't get in work today boss Ive got 12" as this time is true" lol.

Just brushing the sledge off for some air Bourne action lol.

I love the snow.

Pretty good round here at the mo, most main roads are fine, I made it over to Slough no probs...

No snow here at all. We had a very small flurry in November but that's been about it. I'm still on holiday, no doubt we will eventually see the white stuff, but for now not a flake....

I've just cleaned out the wood burner & put the ashes outside. I'm still in my dressing gown & bare feet. (not a pretty sight I know) Not that cold here. In the sticks where I live can be quite sheltered.

We've had another 2 inches over night here with ice underneath.

17cm here in Rugby. Swept it off the beemer and drove 23miles to Warwick. Had some 'interesting' moments

Sat in the office on my own for an hour and have now driven back home. The main roads have a layer of ice under the slush and are lethal in places.

Take care anyone venturing out today.

Well its very bad in sheffield. the coupe can stay where it is

About 8 inches total here now and still snowing.

I've never known snow to fall for so long.

8" inchs T you are happy then.

The snow is great.

Had today off as no point in trying to kill yourself to get to work for the sake of s few penny's.

Takecare all.

Snow is great, you get to meet your neighbours, ever one is happy, dads/mums get to have time with the children. I know its a massive pain in the ass for some people but I do think it brings out the best in people.

I get to work from home - yay, actually nay... means I have to work while the wife and kids play out.

Still falling with weight here. Very wintery, some great sledging hills all round me too!

Most I've had here for a while Shaun

I won't lose money if I don't go to my job this evening, but I'll be there, as I don't like letting people down.
Haven't decided whether to take the Coupe yet though.




All it brings out around here, are the kids who aren't in school that decide to throw snowballs containing stones, at cars and trains, etc.

Parents around here can't be bothered spending their time with their kids and kick them out onto the streets. Today will be no different.

well that's depressing

It is as Sam said outside the kids are making snowman, sledging and having a good old snowball fight. Shame I've got too try get into work later.

Just pushed not one but two mercs off a flat car park at work...

Lol can't beat RWDs for getting stuck. I've seen the odd BMW doing pirouettes on the road outside.

I am hugely regretting swapping my MTB tyres for road "slicks" last autumn. I've had a couple of big offs whilst people on crappy bikes with knobbly tyres have sailed by quite happily!
Thought I'd knackered my knee in one fall last Friday, but it seemed ok this morning.
Yesterday it was all about happy, rosy-cheeked kids, today was all angry motorists and scared cyclists...!

And we've only had a meagre 3-4 inches

If they actually said to people 'get out there and drive' instead of 'ooh, snowflakes, you're doooooooooooooomed' then perhaps we wouldn't have such issues...

And requiring - or at least encouraging - snow tyres would not be a bad thing... I discovered this weekend that qwikfit will store tyres for sixty quid a set; that's not even the cost of getting a dent knocked out.

Why not put the MTB tyres back on? It's not like it costs much or takes very long?

That said, you know its £60 quid people just wont spend, as it never happens to "them"

Yes around 7 inch of the white stuff around Coventry but the LE has been performing perfectly. 2nd gear pull off to eliminate wheel spin NP.... Only issue I had was getting back up my drive but got there in the end. Oh ... and did I mention the locks froze

I meant swapped as in the old tyres died and I threw them away and bought new road tyres. Now that I have a road bike too, I suppose I should just keep knobblies on the MTB, but it's easy to be wise after the event...

It's quite deep here in certain parts of stoke on Trent especially where I live, I'd say around 8inches, but I've not had any major problems in my 20v vis, no frozen handbrake, no frozen petrol cap, locks only froze twice but easily fixed with some warm water, driving wise not one problem on the ice and snow, even with my old tyres, I've even driven past new cars stuck reversing and just pulling out of the same streets as myself!

I am very happy with my coupe she's done me proud so far

Just a note to say the Audi has been a great car to drive around in the snow. The thing kicks out so much heat it melts everything around it, and the quattro doesn't mind the odd snowcovered road. ESP isn't too aggressive either if your driving normally.

I've cleared the snow off my car 3 times now and the drive took ages to clear. Hasn't snowed here since last night though and its melting. Main roads are now clear but probably re-freeze again tonight.

Been snowing here all night....doesn't seem to have got very deep though, so another fight into work....

MrsC had to return to Swindon today. A colleague told her it was snowing last night, so she opted for the train. Hope it works out!

Another few cm's here overnight again too, so off out to clean it off the car again shortly

Blazing sunshine here today so I'm heading off for a spin. Still on holiday so taking things very easy indeed.
I can't help but think we're getting off too easy in the snow department in my neck of the woods......

It snowed here again yesterday evening and has just started once more.

Sod all up here after a dusting a couple of days ago, any dregs from last week thawing oot

I am totally, utterly, fully and continuously fed up of this weather - I hate the snow, I hate ice and hate anything less than 20 degrees temps.

With the supposed thaw this coming weekend and the band of rain accompanying it, i fully expect yet another automated phone call late at night from the environment agency telling me to move my stuff upstairs as i'm about to be flooded.

Happy New Year my arse

I hope that's not the case, I prefer snow over rain massively. I would rather it -5 than raining as at least you can still move about outside when its cold.

Was fun trying to get out of my driveway at 04:30 this morning.

Besides the obvious stuff to keep in the car, take a set of trainers, I found it was my feet that felt the cold the worse and just changing from my boots to trainers felt good, stuck on the motorway for 13hrs a couple of years back.

wish all you guys/girls good luck and hope your finished with the snow

If you have to travel there is no contest Sam, snow and the freezing cold are a nightmare, rain is just a nuisance and depressive unless it leads to flooding that is.

Ah the weather, got to love it.

I agree for any level of driving rain is better than ice.
I like cold and dry over warm and raining.

I hope we get a summer this year.... I have a panda to attend to

Another thing we don't have here at the moment is wind. The chill factor that the wind causes at this time of year can be quite exhausting if you're out & about for any length of time.

Not exactly tee shirt weather here but not a million miles away.....

Yep, the wind and the cold is sore on the chubby cheeks.

We are having it pretty easy at this point compared with the guys down south, last couple of winters I've had a bucket of grit in the van.

Long may it continue.

Bill Clinton

God bless him

the usual amount of snow in Stockport ....... 2mm

I live and usually work in Marlow but the coupe only comes out at weekends so not me on the A404. My girlfriend works near birds hill and sees the broomy every day, no idea if they're on here or not.
Back on topic, snow has all but gone from Marlow

Rather a lot of snow dumped here tonight lol

I made the decision to walk to work, but was regretting it when I saw how clear the roads were on the way in.

The snow got worse though and I was very glad the Coupe was sitting safely at home, while I struggled to walk home

Takes 40 minutes to walk to work, which I expected, but then took me nearly an hour to walk home.

Should burn some calories off though and compensate for my well deserved beers when I got home

We've had a good 6-8 inches, had too wake the kids up too come do some snow shovelling so I could get on the drive.

Erm and the wife to be got her backside out of bed to help you!

Did the same job this morning, Paul. And almost every morning this week Looks like its melting fast though ... so hopefully it'll be gone by tomorrow

Shame it didn't come a few days earlier

I was up for going round Oulton in the snow. I don't think the organisers were so keen though

Sick of it now

Got about a foot of it here at the moment and it's still snowing heavily.

I've walked nearly 10 miles to get to both my jobs and back today.
Got the same to do tomorrow and possibly Sunday too.

My feet are killing me and I'm knackered lol.

On the plus side, I can have a few beers, as I won't be driving in the morning and I've got a nice bar of Cadbury's chocolate to eat after my bath, just to make sure I don't dip below my daily calorie allowance

Snow? Am I reading an old post?

Lol, no, afraid not

While I'm here, can I just mention a big thanks to the inventor of the snow shovel

For years, I've always used just a hard bristled broom, which is usually ok for clearing most snow, as long as people haven't trampled all over it.

I cleared my path with it this morning, with the intention of clearing the drive and Coupe when home from work.

The broom finally gave up on me and decided to snap

On the walk home, I needed to go to the cash machine and thought I'd pop to the local hardware store and get a new broom to carry home with me

I saw they had snow shovels and decided to buy one of those instead.

Walked even faster to get home, as I was so excited and couldn't wait to try it out

It's great, a godsend, I don't know why I've gone all these years without one!

Out goes the broom, in with the snow shovel

Along with dodging cars with decent tyres who can venture into the snow and jumping on and off pavements, today is up there with the greatest of days

By far the best thing for removing fresh snow is a floor squeegee.

A foot of snow with a floor squeegee? I'm with Theresa - you can remove HUGE volumes of snow with a snow shovel - I have 2

It has been snowing here since 6am.

No snow here but bitterly cold. The wind chill has started to blow.....

An inch here in Medway... it has been coming down since 7am. Hockey could be entertaining this afternoon

Honestly. If it's fresh snow and a good surface it just glides. I cleared works yard with one yesterday with minimal effort. 40ft lines, one after another.

My dad use to use a 4ft by 6ft board to clear the road to the driveway. Back in "the day".

An inch in Hemel... nothing worth speaking of but no doubt there will be a few 4x4s in the ditches.

Snow tyres still on...

One way of dealing with the pink roof

Just had fun going pick my lad up drifts upto 20 ft high in parts.

Tonking down here all morning

We've had fine powder falling all morning - more like frozen thin mist than snow. The snow from the beginning of the week hasn't gone either - I'm really bored of winter now.

We've finally had enough snow to get my 4WD Mazda 6 MPS stuck. I did drive it into fresh unbroken snow on purpose which was well above the sills A quick foot cleared either side and we were off again.

The garden has about a foot in it, more where it's drifted. Couldn't open the conservatory door

I have one very interested two year old

Anita is flying back from Brazil today and hopes to build a snowman. I trust it will be better than her last attempt...



Brazilians are *rubbish* at making snowmans.

A good foot here on top of the peninies, I have a drift of over 4 feet in my garden and have spent nearly 2 hours clearing behind the coup. It started snowing Thursday night and hasn't stopped yet!

T? Is that you?!

Lol

Add a bit more weight around the body and yes, we could be twins

Went out for a wee gander in the snowy hills earlier...(Didn't see the road closed sign honest Guvnor!)

Ok Tim time to dig in and make a start on those rations





Jim, what did you type in the Search box

<ahem> old woman clearing snow...
But don't tell T.

Not too much snow here this time;

Beer and e-cig?

A pic from my brothers house.

Ecig in the back pocket and beer at the side of the road I've just cleared

A fresh 3-4" for us overnight. This must be the better weather the BBC have been forecasting....

Only a light dusting for us again, but this was my round just a couple of days ago;

Hail stones , yes bloody hail stones. Just back from a wee blast in the Coop & was going to do some outdoor jobs. Ah well beer time it is.

Try this Jim

Aye Simon , blazing sunshine now so beer & I'm painting the side of the house bottom plinth if you know what I mean, not a big job but wife's gone for afternoon nap & I'm probably having one too many beers...... Don't drink a lot these days but on odd times....