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What, no super super snow thread! #1616522
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Shocked not to have seen one!
Share your snow pictures! THUNDER SNOW! SAVE the children, run to the shops and buy all the bread... because the BEAST FROM THE EAST is here!

You would think were all about to die by the way the media is going on, there is enough salt on the roads up here to recreate the dead see locally next time it rains.

It does raise some interesting points however about the destabilisation of the jet stream over the UK and just how much we as a country are protected from the cold both in terms of the jet stream (air) and the gulf stream (water) both of which could be affected by the melting of ice.

Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616530
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Careful Mate. This snow must be radioactive or something equally dangerous the way the hysterical PC brigade carry on!


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Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616531
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Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616538
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Danger Snow! Run!! Save yourselves!!!

3 inches of the stuff here-panic! Panic!

Oh I forgot-I can drive. So it took an extra 20 minutes to travel this morning.

The country really does need to man (woman and transgender) up.

The media do sensationalise every single little thing.

And sadly people believe what they are told...Brexit, Trump, War etc.

Stay calm, turn off the tv - and deal with it. It will soon be sunny and warm again.

Regards

MM

Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616541
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The problem is that there's an entire generation (or maybe even two) that doesn't have the slightest idea how to drive in modestly slippery conditions.

Add in an public transport infrastructure that's forgotten how to cope and we're left with a pitiful excuse of a country when the snow gets past a couple of inches deep

I certainly don't recall ever having a day off school because the snow was too deep - I definitely remember walking to school with snow over 6" deep and when I got there, the teachers had arrived early and cleared the paths. The only thing that was forbidden was snowball fights in the classroom....

I'm planning a road trip to the snowiest bits of Wales for some photography - might as well enjoy it!


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Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616542
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Add to that people buy 4wd cars with the thinnest of UHP tyres, all sorts of electronic aids masking what is really happening and wonder why they suddenly end up in a ditch.


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Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616546
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I watched a BMW going backwards today and marvelled at it's total inability to get traction with it's rear wheel drive in snow and ice.

Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: Master_Mariner] #1616547
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Originally Posted By Master_Mariner

Oh I forgot-I can drive. So it took an extra 20 minutes to travel this morning.


My office started clearing out at midday when it started snowing. Sun was out by 2pm and now it's mostly melted. Seems like everyone in the area had the same idea - my sat nav is reporting 15 minutes faster to get home.

4WD and slippery conditions yipee driving


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Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: Trappy] #1616549
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What snow?


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Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616550
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We had a fresh dusting in the morning, it went, then we had a blizzard, then it went again, not an issue. I have no where to be and no need to leave the house!

I would not like to share a road in rush hour with other people and snow.

Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616557
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Yellow snow warning!

Don't eat the yellow snow!


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Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616565
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In the Highlands no-one seemed to notice until there was a foot of the stuff.

I have two snow shovels in the shed!

Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616566
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The only snowflakes in my part of Leicester are those who get offended by trivial issues... laugh


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Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616607
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Originally Posted By samsite999

I would not like to share a road in rush hour with other people and snow.


This. It is horrendous watching them. Pootling up to the bottom of a large snow covered hill then stopping at the foot of it to wait for the last person who did the same and is now stuck 20 feet in front one minute, then doing 60-70mph on a ice / slush covered motorway the next.

The Golf R performed admirably. I overtook the queue up the hill in snow twice as deep on that side of the road laugh


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Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616609
28/02/2018 09:07
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Driving in winter conditions....how to we train for that?

We don't have the predictable climate to guarantee a snowy period within which we might gain a small certificate for "Vehicle Control in Snow and Ice".

I can't see centres equipped with skid-pans popping up around the country.

It's ironic that we spend time learning to drive but are denied the critical techniques of motorway driving and cold weather driving, although with the former at least there is now talk about tackling this.

"Give the boy a catapult" .....but tomorrow he's in the trenches.....


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Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616613
28/02/2018 09:54
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I hear you all chaps,

A good 6 inches plus today.

I made it in to work - currently the only one here.

The journey in took an extra 2 hours - and the reason were the people who were clearly incapable of driving, blocking roads and slithering in to one another at 1 mph.

Its not the snow that bothers. Its the idiots waiting to T-bone your car.

Apparently the heavier snow will be Thursday...

Regards

MM

Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: Edinburgh] #1616615
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Originally Posted By Edinburgh
Driving in winter conditions....how to we train for that?

We don't have the predictable climate to guarantee a snowy period within which we might gain a small certificate for "Vehicle Control in Snow and Ice".

I can't see centres equipped with skid-pans popping up around the country.

It's ironic that we spend time learning to drive but are denied the critical techniques of motorway driving and cold weather driving, although with the former at least there is now talk about tackling this.

"Give the boy a catapult" .....but tomorrow he's in the trenches.....


Valid point Simon, for the amount of "bad weather" we get you could argue there really is no point in skidpan training and it would be very unnecessary expense to an already very expensive process, learning to drive.

Where it occurs each and every year its a worth while investment as the stipulation the vehinal must be equipped with winter tyres.

You could argue that money would be better spent on teaching people better road discipline, motorway driving ect.

I think its just an expected consequence, the occurrence is so low that its not worth programing for. People with a vested interest will make there own arrangements and let the none vested fight it out them selfs

Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616626
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Blazing sunshine here, flurries of snow periodically, bloody cold though, a very dry cold at that.... snowman


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Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616642
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The best read for today, totally agree with all of you, the news channels here (Spain) already have name for the 15cm of snow: Beastie weather

Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616646
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It's all right for you, Avtokrator - I'm booked for a flying holiday starting the 10th March in Algodonales... and it looks like the bottom half of Spain is solid rain - 2cm a day - for the next ten days.

Which is as far as my forecasts go.


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Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: barnacle] #1616659
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Originally Posted By Edinburgh
Driving in winter conditions....how to we train for that?

We don't have the predictable climate to guarantee a snowy period within which we might gain a small certificate for "Vehicle Control in Snow and Ice".

I can't see centres equipped with skid-pans popping up around the country.

It's ironic that we spend time learning to drive but are denied the critical techniques of motorway driving and cold weather driving, although with the former at least there is now talk about tackling this.




You could go to Norway/Sweden though and drive around a frozen lake and learn different techniques on how to control a car laugh I did this in a Subaru the first time and a Hyundai Coupe the second time.
Excellent fun, even though I was crap at it laugh

We've had a couple of inches of snow in my part of North Wales, but no problems getting around so far.

Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: Theresa] #1616661
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Originally Posted By Theresa

You could go to Norway/Sweden though and drive around a frozen lake and learn different techniques on how to control a car laugh I did this in a Subaru the first time and a Hyundai Coupe the second time.


Now you're talkin' cool

Club sponsorship? tongue

we've had a 4"/100mm fall overnight.... snowman

They've done the right thing closing schools etc. up here in my opinion - breakdowns and accidents put far too much strain on emergency services.


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Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: Edinburgh] #1616664
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Originally Posted By Edinburgh
They've done the right thing closing schools etc. up here in my opinion - breakdowns and accidents put far too much strain on emergency services.


That sounds like putting a plaster over a bigger problem to me. What makes cars break down in snow? The current temperatures we're seeing (down here in Essex anyway) are no lower than they are at this time of year with no snow. I'd have thought rain would cause more problems, especially large puddles.

The accident part is because people aren't 'driving to the conditions'. You should never develop processes and procedures around incompetence.

Persoanlly, I think it's a shame that schools close when it snows. I have fond memories of walking in to school in thick snow as a nipper. It's part of growing up in this country!!


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Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616668
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Not looking like the coupe is coming out to play anytime soon :

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Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: ] #1616670
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That looks awesome! Where are you? (don't say behind the camera)

Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616674
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Near Glasgow IIRC?


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Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616678
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On the south coast it's just soggy. A few flakes this morning and nothing really since.

Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: ] #1616681
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Originally Posted By GrahamL
Not looking like the coupe is coming out to play anytime soon :

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How on earth did you fit the coupe in there?


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Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: Trappy] #1616685
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Originally Posted By Trappy
Originally Posted By Edinburgh
They've done the right thing closing schools etc. up here in my opinion - breakdowns and accidents put far too much strain on emergency services.


That sounds like putting a plaster over a bigger problem to me. What makes cars break down in snow?



Yep I can't disagree with your snipe at inadequate ability to deal with the types of road conditions we're experiencing.

In defence of the decision though there are factors such as house prices in Edinburgh being so ridiculous that many teachers have to live several miles out (and the capital's not that big) along roads which the highways dept simply cannot control with one blizzard following another. This is also true of parents who live above the snow line.

Interesting from a social point of view that in rural areas, especially further north, farmers assume the responsibility of clearing the most remote locations, or are even expected to. Maybe this is also true dahn sarf?


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Re: What, no super super snow thread! [Re: samsite999] #1616687
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Interesting, I have seen loads of broken down cars in the last few days.
The weather has been exceptionally cold, its likely components that are not greased of looked after picking up salt and dying or people not looking after cooling systems and freezing.

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