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Mar 8, 2018 8:44:54 GMT
Post by scouse on Mar 8, 2018 8:44:54 GMT
Finally arrived in west lancs
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Mar 8, 2018 10:53:52 GMT
Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Mar 8, 2018 10:53:52 GMT
Talking to a colleague in Leeds and they've just had the more snow dumped on them in the last few hours than the whole of the last month.
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Mar 8, 2018 14:13:32 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 14:13:32 GMT
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Mar 8, 2018 14:35:19 GMT
Post by Tim on Mar 8, 2018 14:35:19 GMT
Ha. I was out for a walk at lunchtime and it was almost warm enough to dispense with a coat.
It's grim dahn sarth!
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Mar 8, 2018 15:31:25 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 15:31:25 GMT
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Mar 8, 2018 19:57:33 GMT
Post by ChrisM on Mar 8, 2018 19:57:33 GMT
It's grim in t'middle bit. ... and in NYC too..... a lady at work got back from a long week-end there yesterday and today there's been snow of several inches that has caused around 3000 flights to be cancelled in the NYC area (that was as of our lunchtime). She was shocked to learn of the dramatic change in weather there
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Mar 14, 2018 17:05:44 GMT
Post by alf on Mar 14, 2018 17:05:44 GMT
Yellow warning for snow here on Sunday now! This is the winter that will not stop giving.
I had a good run out in both cars in the snow a couple of weeks ago. The Cross Climates on the C Max (helpfully brand new) were incredible for a tyre that - on that sort of car - feels like a summer tyre the rest of the time. Mine was predictable hilarious on winter tyres, and got the usual wild eyed stares from local drivers unable to comprehend how a heavy RWD car was moving on snow. And doing the odd random 180 for fun...
I established at the Jaguar thing last week (where tyres were mentioned on the skid pan bit) that people here still have no concept of winter tyres...
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Mar 14, 2018 17:34:22 GMT
Post by LandieMark on Mar 14, 2018 17:34:22 GMT
Plenty of people where I live swap tyres or run all season tyres. Doesn’t stop other numpties wondering why others are moving and they are blocking the road.
I wish it would fuck off and warm up a bit. I desperately need to fertilise (ordered this morning) but can’t until it warms up and the grass starts growing. 😡
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Mar 14, 2018 19:57:55 GMT
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Mar 14, 2018 21:55:13 GMT
Post by Boxer6 on Mar 14, 2018 21:55:13 GMT
Just have mud here. Lots of mud... ETA. Just looked at the BBC weather forecast for Sunday. Gives the same yellow warning for snow, yet the predicted chance of precipitation is 8% max and all the little symbols are clouds with the sun peeking out from behind them! The BBC weather app has been utterly useless for at least a year now, probably longer, and the online version is almost as good! I had Accuweather on my phone but that was even worse; I use XCWeather usually these days, which isn't as easy to read but a lot more accurate, especially re winds speed & direction.
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Mar 17, 2018 9:52:20 GMT
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Post by racingteatray on Mar 17, 2018 9:52:20 GMT
Odd weather today. Blizzarding outside now for a couple of hours but with the curious visual effect that the snow is settling on the trees, cars and the sides of high walls (basically anywhere raised in the wind chill) but not on the ground or rooftops, presumably because after the 15 degrees and sunshine we had yesterday morning there is too much latent warmth in the ground.
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Mar 17, 2018 9:54:30 GMT
Post by LandieMark on Mar 17, 2018 9:54:30 GMT
It has been ridiculously wet all week and it started snowing last night. As it got colder, all the wet stuff froze to solid ice and the snow is on top of that. It is lethally slippy outside.
I couldnt actually get in the Land Rover this morning as the locks have frozen solid.
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Mar 17, 2018 10:47:16 GMT
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Mar 17, 2018 11:09:57 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2018 11:09:57 GMT
A few flurries but nothing substantial. Microsnot weather was forecasting snow all next week but that has since changed to rain.
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Mar 18, 2018 9:45:34 GMT
Post by Martin on Mar 18, 2018 9:45:34 GMT
Not a huge amount right now, but more is forecast.
You’d have thought people would be used to it by now...but no. We live at the bottom of a hill and a neighbour was making a right mess of trying to get up it in his Passat, way too much wheelspin and stopping on the slope so his wife can throw salt in front of the car.
Lindsay wanted to get to the gym, so I suggested he go right back to the flat section at th bottom and she went out in front of him. No issues at all, but the Passat is still struggling (and just making the road worse....), and an S Max is stuck further up.
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Mar 18, 2018 10:42:45 GMT
Post by PG on Mar 18, 2018 10:42:45 GMT
..I established at the Jaguar thing last week (where tyres were mentioned on the skid pan bit) that people here still have no concept of winter tyres... This +1. And it is not just tyres and their effect. Any sort of automotive "thing" seems lost of most people. People just follow fashion / the latest thing.
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Mar 18, 2018 10:54:37 GMT
Post by Big Blue on Mar 18, 2018 10:54:37 GMT
as a motorcyclist I struggle to understand the concept of not having a clue about tyres. In the summer I switched to Michelin's on the R1 and it was like I'd bought a new bike! The front tyre profile and feedback was like night and day in terms of leaned-over confidence compared to the Contis that were on there.
I have a similar issue with the Gorilla in the Spring when a set of Michelin PS4s beckons to replace the (wrong if you're an Alpinista!) Hankooks that have been on there since I collected it. They were new and I couldn't justify swapping them then but this summer, even though they're still within the regulation depth, it's OEM tyres and an £800 lighter wallet. If W2.0 would put up with cross continent driving I'd get winter tyres for Nov-April no issues and her next tyres will be all seasons no matter whether it's the E46 or some new car (she just realised her car is feeling a bit baggy).
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Mar 18, 2018 13:27:07 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2018 13:27:07 GMT
A light covering of snow but the grass/moss area may get up to 2" in places, definitely cold enough to get more if the cloud cover get any heavier. Heat on this afternoon and putting out an extra helping of bird food. Dried fruit seams to be a hit with the Robbins sitting on my fingers while I fill the coconut shells.
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Mar 18, 2018 16:34:31 GMT
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Mar 18, 2018 17:52:51 GMT
Post by ChrisM on Mar 18, 2018 17:52:51 GMT
We had a light fall yesterday afternoon whilst I was up in the Midlands, nothing much at home except the snow froze so when I got back to the trainstation I could scrape the car windows clear but not clean the roof or bonnet as it was frozen solid. HoweverI woke this morning to about 4 inches of the stuff overnight - maybe more than we had last month? The roads are now clear but not gardens or parked cars, and it's started snowing lightly again in the past half hour.
Worst bit is that the council have not refilled the grit box on our hill despite several of us who live nearby phoning the council to report it, and no nearby roads were gritted last night or today.
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Mar 19, 2018 9:15:46 GMT
Post by Roadsterstu on Mar 19, 2018 9:15:46 GMT
We had a light fall yesterday afternoon whilst I was up in the Midlands, nothing much at home except the snow froze so when I got back to the trainstation I could scrape the car windows clear but not clean the roof or bonnet as it was frozen solid. HoweverI woke this morning to about 4 inches of the stuff overnight - maybe more than we had last month? The roads are now clear but not gardens or parked cars, and it's started snowing lightly again in the past half hour. Worst bit is that the council have not refilled the grit box on our hill despite several of us who live nearby phoning the council to report it, and no nearby roads were gritted last night or today. There seems to have been a lot of complaints this winter over councils not gritting roads. I'm not sure if this really is the case, main routes are being prioritised or there is a totally unrealistic explanation of what grit does and how it works. Maybe a combination of all of that. I've certainly seen lots of gritters out and wgen the roads dry you see from how white they are just how much salt has been put down. And yet our local Arsebook group is still full of whinging about a lack of gritting!
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Mar 19, 2018 9:24:15 GMT
Post by PetrolEd on Mar 19, 2018 9:24:15 GMT
The fact that I got back from Birmingham to home yesterday on Cup 2 tyres is all the evidence needed that the good folk of the highways agency had done some great work on the main carriageways.
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Mar 19, 2018 10:52:43 GMT
Post by alf on Mar 19, 2018 10:52:43 GMT
Around here it was totally different this time. Temperatures had been far higher before the snow came in and the sun had been out, it did not settle for long on tarmac and was slushy. Last time temperatures had been well below freezing for days before it snowed. We still have a few inches on grass but the roads - bar the odd icy bit - are OK.
From memory, what made the situation so bad in those years around 2010 was that the snow (which tends to come from a combination of warm and cold air mixing) came at the start of the really cold period, so it snowed hard then remained below freeing for ages. It was also so cold then that gritting stopped working, plus then a lot of councils had reduced their gritting, since then they have been ready for bad weather, or as ready as it makes economical sense for them to ever be. That has happened in the north east and especially in Scotland this time, but the rest of us have avoided such a long drawn out cold period with lying snow.
It;s been fun though - I hate a winter without snow!
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Mar 19, 2018 11:09:21 GMT
Post by Tim on Mar 19, 2018 11:09:21 GMT
It was weird up here as the cars were clear but the ground was white. I presume that due to strong winds the snow simply got blown of the cars - apart from the low-pressure area at the base of the screen, there were a lot of cars driving round yesterday with a bit of snow there.
I've survived all winter on 'normal' tyres, just like we all used to manage 20 years ago.
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Mar 19, 2018 11:47:30 GMT
Post by racingteatray on Mar 19, 2018 11:47:30 GMT
We ended up having 1-2 inches in our part of London after it snowed for quite a while on Saturday evening and again from about 4pm onwards yesterday.
Bitterly cold wind this morning.
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Mar 19, 2018 12:49:06 GMT
Post by Big Blue on Mar 19, 2018 12:49:06 GMT
In Cheam, where T4 goes to school, the pavements were iced up at 8am drop off this morning. Like a skating rink. Loads of snow on the cars; all gone on the roads.
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Mar 19, 2018 16:46:22 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2018 16:46:22 GMT
It was weird up here as the cars were clear but the ground was white. I presume that due to strong winds the snow simply got blown of the cars - apart from the low-pressure area at the base of the screen, there were a lot of cars driving round yesterday with a bit of snow there. I've survived all winter on 'normal' tyres, just like we all used to manage 20 years ago. People do not want to drive around the weather and road conditions though, new tech has to allow folk to drive like it was summer. What happened for example, in the 1940's and 50's? There were plenty of bad winters and bad road conditions then and folk drove round the situation. I rode my Kawasaki Z-250 up and down the A1 throughout the winters of 79-81. Funnily enough I did not fall off, run myself off the road or into the back of another vehicle, perhaps wider tyres have some effect on the higher powered vehicles.
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Mar 19, 2018 22:15:03 GMT
Post by Boxer6 on Mar 19, 2018 22:15:03 GMT
It was weird up here as the cars were clear but the ground was white. I presume that due to strong winds the snow simply got blown of the cars - apart from the low-pressure area at the base of the screen, there were a lot of cars driving round yesterday with a bit of snow there. I've survived all winter on 'normal' tyres, just like we all used to manage 20 years ago. Pretty similar with us, too. My car is currently parked at the side of the house, and only the house-side half of the screen and a bit of bonnet had snow on. The other car I am using at present is parked in my usual spot on the driveway and the screen was totally covered! Ditto with the tyres too, just like every other year since I've owned it.
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Mar 24, 2018 13:45:48 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2018 13:45:48 GMT
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Mar 24, 2018 17:19:25 GMT
Post by Boxer6 on Mar 24, 2018 17:19:25 GMT
Is that right that a second Beastie is incoming some time next week? Not to us, allegedly, and it would be Number 3 anyway!
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