Who got SNOWED in then?

[JKD]

54 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

Yup, that's one of my neighbours 😎🫡🤣

[marsh man]

Just think how long this thread would be if we did get a decent covering of the White stuff , what a change around in a few hours , just got back home and it was 12 degrees in my motor and you can now see the nights are slowly pulling out , onwards and upwards may I say .    MM

[amateur]

I put our Scottish Terrier out into the garden late last night for her final wee of the day, and she came back in two-tone with a confused look on her face.

When she went out this morning, she was equally confused because all the white stuff had gone.

[Aled]

Missed us completely! On the weather map We were a green V in the middle of snow fall! 

[gmm243]

Had a very light dusting last night before 11. Most of it was gone when I went into town at 5am this morning.

Fantastic sunset though.

[Jonty]

11 hours ago, old'un said:

Its cold here but the wife is just getting the fire going.

 

Crikey, I remember my mum doing that, 9/10 it worked a dream, but every now and then there was the ‘frantic throwing the blazing newspaper back into the fireplace before the house went up’ episode.

[steve1066]

2 minutes ago, Jonty said:

Crikey, I remember my mum doing that, 9/10 it worked a dream, but every now and then there was the ‘frantic throwing the blazing newspaper back into the fireplace before the house went up’ episode.

😂😂😂 I have also done the same.

[shaun4860]

12 hours ago, mel b3 said:

You had curtains????.

You were lucky. We didn't even have glass in the windows 😄 

You had windows????

We didn’t even have walls to put windows in 🥶

[mel b3]

4 hours ago, shaun4860 said:

You had windows????

We didn’t even have walls to put windows in 🥶

😄😄😄

[Old Boggy]

18 hours ago, London Best said:

 

Off the top of your (metric) heads, without using a calculator, can either of you Europhiles tell me how many litres per 100 kilometres your car does? 
I rest my case.

 

I’m with you on this one LB.

All our road signs are shown in miles per hour, so why on earth have they changed the distance signs to kilometres?

I’ve yet to see any gun advertised with barrel lengths and LOPs other than in inches.

My car tells me when one of its tyres is underpressurised (normally when the temperature drops) but registers it in KPa whereas my electric pump is calibrated in PSI, so a quick calculation is required to convert from metric to imperial.

Being old school, I really have to think hard in converting centimetres into feet and inches, still in the 20th. Century for me.

On the subject of depth of snow, does anyone remember the female TV presenter on one of those morning programmes a few years ago turning to a male weather forecaster and asking,

”What happened to that 8 inches that you promised me last night”

The laughter of all the crew could be heard as she clearly didn’t realise what she said.

OB
 

 

[ditchman]

7 hours ago, shaun4860 said:

You had windows????

We didn’t even have walls to put windows in 🥶

we had pelmets..........aaannnd a 240volt door bell...which was in the sitting room and when it went off the entire contents of the world would drop out of your bottom

Edited Monday at 07:26 by ditchman

[old man]

3 hours ago, Old Boggy said:

I’m with you on this one LB.

All our road signs are shown in miles per hour, so why on earth have they changed the distance signs to kilometres?

I’ve yet to see any gun advertised with barrel lengths and LOPs other than in inches.

My car tells me when one of its tyres is underpressurised (normally when the temperature drops) but registers it in KPa whereas my electric pump is calibrated in PSI, so a quick calculation is required to convert from metric to imperial.

Being old school, I really have to think hard in converting centimetres into feet and inches, still in the 20th. Century for me.

On the subject of depth of snow, does anyone remember the female TV presenter on one of those morning programmes a few years ago turning to a male weather forecaster and asking,

”What happened to that 8 inches that you promised me last night”

The laughter of all the crew could be heard as she clearly didn’t realise what she said.

OB
 

 

Simply they are trying to inch us back into the euro zone.

I'm all for imperial as no confusion possible? 13/64"ths is the same world wide, silly metric, one mistake over the place of the decimal point means pain?

[Jonty]

We’ve still got quite a bit.  This is Pen y Ghent in the Yorkshire Dales this afternoon.

[marsh man]

38 minutes ago, Jonty said:

We’ve still got quite a bit.  This is Pen y Ghent in the Yorkshire Dales this afternoon.

That look like a Christmas card scene , very nice , that must be well above sea level , we are very unlikely to see a scene like that as where I was born it is below sea level , mind you it do get cold with the Eastly winds blowing straight off the sea , this morning it got up to 9 degrees and in my motor half an hour ago it had dropped down to two degrees with a very cold strong wind .     MM

[Jonty]

11 minutes ago, marsh man said:

That look like a Christmas card scene , very nice , that must be well above sea level , we are very unlikely to see a scene like that as where I was born it is below sea level , mind you it do get cold with the Eastly winds blowing straight off the sea , this morning it got up to 9 degrees and in my motor half an hour ago it had dropped down to two degrees with a very cold strong wind .     MM

marsh man, where I was stood when I took the pic at the bottom of my garden is at about 750ft, the summit is about 2,300ft.  I was up on the top a few day back up to about 7pm and it was savagely cold once the sun had gone down.

[Minky]

On 05/01/2025 at 12:22, Minky said:

Well... down here in the tropical south. Last night I did see something on the cctv monitors that was slowly floating down but when it hit the ground it just melted in.  I didn't bother to go out and inspect.  It's out there and I was in here.  There's been a fair bit of wind and a lot of rain.  I went out to move one of the cars into shelter of a garden shed and a tall hedge to avoid any wind blown stuff.  I've got no intention of going out anywhere.  We are well Horded up with stuff and I went out shooting clays the other day with one of the son in laws. so everything sorted.  The Mrs took all of the Christmas decorations down this morning so I got instructed to put them up in the attic.  job done.  We don't get snow much if at all down here.  if there is a dusting of snow it's usually gone by lunch time if not mid morning.  Roll on global warming.

As I wrote...  Yesterday on the 6 o'clock weather forecast they showed that there was going to be a band of reasonably heavy snow across the whole of the South during today...Tues..  I looked at the BBC forecast at lunchtime and there is no indication of any snow fall.  AND The sky is BLUE.  I can see that the general direction of the wind is from the south west.  Now I can see down to the coast direction and there does seem to be a heavy bank of cloud possibly out over the channel but that isn't anything out of the ordinary. So we don't generally get much if any snow down here.

[Penelope]

Just now, Minky said:

As I wrote...  Yesterday on the 6 o'clock weather forecast they showed that there was going to be a band of reasonably heavy snow across the whole of the South during today...Tues..  I looked at the BBC forecast at lunchtime and there is no indication of any snow fall.  AND The sky is BLUE.  I can see that the general direction of the wind is from the south west.  Now I can see down to the coast direction and there does seem to be a heavy bank of cloud possibly out over the channel but that isn't anything out of the ordinary. So we don't generally get much if any snow down here.

You might get a bit tomorrow, when that bank of cloud rubs up against the cold air.

[Minky]

Possibly but the cloud looked to be going in an Easterly direction, by tommorow it will be somewhere over the continent. I just had another look at the forecast and no rain or snow today.  A bit of rain tomorrow afternoon.  Sun all the next day and some rain the next day.  All of the predicted snow must have been absorbed or gone up the channel or dusted off over le froggo.  I was a bit surprised by the minimal amount of flash flooding out on some fields that have a tendency to flash flood, and there was  small bit of standing water but that will soon go when the rivers dump it out to sea and the rivers and dyke levels drop.  I have known some very reasonably nice weather in late January.  The weather down here gets worse in late feb and early March.  

[Penelope]

7 minutes ago, Minky said:

Possibly but the cloud looked to be going in an Easterly direction, by tommorow it will be somewhere over the continent. I just had another look at the forecast and no rain or snow today.  A bit of rain tomorrow afternoon.  Sun all the next day and some rain the next day.  All of the predicted snow must have been absorbed or gone up the channel or dusted off over le froggo.  I was a bit surprised by the minimal amount of flash flooding out on some fields that have a tendency to flash flood, and there was  small bit of standing water but that will soon go when the rivers dump it out to sea and the rivers and dyke levels drop.  I have known some very reasonably nice weather in late January.  The weather down here gets worse in late feb and early March.  

BB often reffered to 'butterfly weather' in January, in his books about his fowling trips north of the border.

[Minky]

It's quite common to see birds starting to build nests.  I heard that it's something to do with the hours of daylight.  I suppose that it is all what you get used to.  Some people from right up the top of Scotland came down here and one COLD day they were in T shirts.  We were in holly hats and coats.  When the weather did get hot they were overwhelmed by the heat.  As the headlines state " Phew what a scorcher".  It hot when the road tarmac gets all soft and sort of trenched out on corners etc.  I've seen the council have to come out and dust the roads with sand although this turn the soft tarmac into a sort of sludgy gloop.

[Edtwozeronine]

The snow came and went in sarf wayooz over the weekend, same happened today, snow in the morning, gone by the afternoon.

[Minky]

Well;  there were conflicting forecasts and bothways on the bbc weather.   This afternoon rain started to fall, then it turned into sleet then snow.  This fell fairly hard until we had about an inch and a half.  The cars were covered and the slip road and eventually the main road.  The traffic slowed down to a few hardy souls trying to get to where they needed to get to. A bloke that I know over the road is a black cabby who travels up to London.   I sent him a wattsapp warning him about the snow.   He replied that he was on his way back home.... slowly.  He said that driving speed was down to about 15 mph.  I just had a look outside and some of the snow has slump melted but it looks as if it has now frozen.  It is cold out there. 

[marsh man]

30 minutes ago, Minky said:

Well;  there were conflicting forecasts and bothways on the bbc weather.   This afternoon rain started to fall, then it turned into sleet then snow.  This fell fairly hard until we had about an inch and a half.  The cars were covered and the slip road and eventually the main road.  The traffic slowed down to a few hardy souls trying to get to where they needed to get to. A bloke that I know over the road is a black cabby who travels up to London.   I sent him a wattsapp warning him about the snow.   He replied that he was on his way back home.... slowly.  He said that driving speed was down to about 15 mph.  I just had a look outside and some of the snow has slump melted but it looks as if it has now frozen.  It is cold out there. 

What a contrast from one county to the next , I have just walked my dog around our crescent and it is certainly a lot milder than last night , no frost on the pavements or on my motor , you know it isn't that cold as the weather girl didn't mention the met office Yellow weather warnings not once , normally any threat of a frost and we get warned not to step outside and would you believe we are now in the second week of January