Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

[Shadow]

6 hours ago, ckn said:

That’s just jealousy from infantry folk with their little pop guns.

Drop short

[Kayakman]

3 hours ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

We haven’t had snow (settled on the ground) for over 1000 days in bedford.  Tomorrow looks like that will change.  

Guess who’s driving to work at 7am and will be the first onto the roads...

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until its gone...I know...I know...its a song lyric but true.

 

2 hours ago, Ullman said:

Funny you should ask. I was only watching the River Hull tidal barrier keeping us safe last night as it was lowered to keep out a very high spring tide pouring in from the Humber. The city still floods though, just nowhere near as much as it used to before the barrier was built.

The mural on the side of the pub shows the height of the water during the 2013 North Sea storm surge.

Hopefully all the hoses to the kegs in the basement were leak proof,,,if not... well,,,, that would be a real tragedy!

[Bedford Roughyed]

 

[tim2]

Pretty lame stuff so far in North Derbyshire. I was promised several inches when I woke up..... (*)

This site is usually a good guide to what's happening elsewhere and the general direction of the precipitation.

https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar

(*) that's what she said etc.

[westlondonfan]

Snowing in West London . That’s a three rest from digging my mum’s pond then!?

[ckn]

A decent landing of snow out the back of ours in deepest Suffolk. 

 

[ckn]

That pic, I thought I'd put the wrong one as the first one I took was with the window shut but it looked daft with all the melted snow obscuring the window, those blobs against the sky are actual snowflakes...

This is the first snow that's landed and lasted here for more than 20 minutes since 2012.

[Kayakman]

24 minutes ago, ckn said:

A decent landing of snow out the back of ours in deepest Suffolk. 

 

That is not a snowfall...that doesn't even qualify as a whisp of snow.

The upcoming week here is an average forecast but it has the potential to hammer us if the squalls remain stationary for a long period of time...we'll probably get a couple of feet this week but it could be as high as 4 feet this week, all depends on the movement of the squalls...I figure about a meter this week..

 

Issued: 5:00 AM EST Sunday 10 December 2017

 

date	Detailed Forecast
Today	Flurries and local snow squalls. Local amount 5 cm. Wind becoming west 30 km/h gusting to 50 this morning then becoming north 30 gusting to 50 this afternoon. High minus 2.
Tonight	Flurries and a few local snow squalls ending this evening then mainly cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Local amount 2 cm. Wind north 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming light late this evening. Low minus 9.
Mon, 11 Dec	Cloudy. 40 percent chance of flurries in the morning. Snow beginning in the morning. Amount 5 cm. Wind becoming south 30 km/h in the morning. High minus 3.
Night	Snow. Low minus 5.
Tue, 12 Dec	Cloudy with 70 percent chance of flurries or snow squalls. High minus 5.
Night	Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries or snow squalls. Low minus 11.
Wed, 13 Dec	Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries or snow squalls. High minus 8.
Night	Cloudy with 40 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 9.
Thu, 14 Dec	Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. High minus 4.
Night	Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries or snow squalls. Low minus 9.
Fri, 15 Dec	Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. High minus 5.
Night	Cloudy with 30 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 6.
Sat, 16 Dec	Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. High minus 2.

 

[Bearman]

3-4” here

[Bearman]

[ckn]

20 minutes ago, Kayakman said:

That is not a snowfall...that doesn't even qualify as a whisp of snow.

The upcoming week here is an average forecast but it has the potential to hammer us if the squalls remain stationary for a long period of time...we'll probably get a couple of feet this week but it could be as high as 4 feet this week, all depends on the movement of the squalls...I figure about a meter this week..

 

Issued: 5:00 AM EST Sunday 10 December 2017

 

date	Detailed Forecast
Today	Flurries and local snow squalls. Local amount 5 cm. Wind becoming west 30 km/h gusting to 50 this morning then becoming north 30 gusting to 50 this afternoon. High minus 2.
Tonight	Flurries and a few local snow squalls ending this evening then mainly cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Local amount 2 cm. Wind north 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming light late this evening. Low minus 9.
Mon, 11 Dec	Cloudy. 40 percent chance of flurries in the morning. Snow beginning in the morning. Amount 5 cm. Wind becoming south 30 km/h in the morning. High minus 3.
Night	Snow. Low minus 5.
Tue, 12 Dec	Cloudy with 70 percent chance of flurries or snow squalls. High minus 5.
Night	Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries or snow squalls. Low minus 11.
Wed, 13 Dec	Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries or snow squalls. High minus 8.
Night	Cloudy with 40 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 9.
Thu, 14 Dec	Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. High minus 4.
Night	Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries or snow squalls. Low minus 9.
Fri, 15 Dec	Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. High minus 5.
Night	Cloudy with 30 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 6.
Sat, 16 Dec	Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. High minus 2.

 

The level of snow we have here is almost apocalypse levels compared to normal. 

[Kayakman]

33 minutes ago, Bearman said:

That looks like good snowman making snow!  Get out there Bearman!  Then send a picture of the finished product!

Edited December 10, 2017 by Kayakman

[Bearman]

2 minutes ago, Kayakman said:

That looks like good snowman making snow!  Get out there Bearman!  Then send a picture of the finished product!

Yes, snow looks lovely through the window and thats as close as I intend to get!

I might top up the bird feeders later but I will leave the snowman making to my Grandsons tomorrow if the forecast rain doesnt wash it away. 

[ckn]

Have you seen the state of this country?  Just watching on the news about the M25 (the London orbital motorway for our non UK members) being closed in a few sections with pictures of cars all over the place, skid marks everywhere and a right old mess.

The area I saw had had under an inch of landed snow.

Oh come on, that's beyond disgraceful that one of our major roads has been closed by an inch of snow.  There were zero signs of gritting activity and the temperatures are at warm enough that a light salt gritting should have cleared it in a few minutes.

[ckn]

3 minutes ago, Bearman said:

Yes, snow looks lovely through the window and thats as close as I intend to get!

I might top up the bird feeders later but I will leave the snowman making to my Grandsons tomorrow if the forecast rain doesnt wash it away. 

I've been out, defrosted the bird bath and put out some bird food, that'll do for me.

[Kayakman]

4 minutes ago, ckn said:

I've been out, defrosted the bird bath and put out some bird food, that'll do for me.

Artillery...this proves it...certainly Artillery.

[Phil]

Not a great depth of snow up here but bitterly cold, just had to chase some sheep out of our garden, bloody dog no use at all

 

 

 

 

[Kayakman]

4 minutes ago, Phil said:

Not a great depth of snow up here but bitterly cold, just had to chase some sheep out of our garden, bloody dog no use at all

 

 

 

 

Are you crazy?  Don't chase them away welcome them in...nothing better than lamb chops on a cold frosty evening.

[Phil]

4 minutes ago, Kayakman said:

Are you crazy?  Don't chase them away welcome them in...nothing better than lamb chops on a cold frosty evening.

They’re sheep not lambs, they sh*** all over the garden 

one of em even dropped dead in the garden a few weeks weeks ago bloody things ?

Edited December 10, 2017 by Phil

[Kayakman]

10 minutes ago, Phil said:

They’re sheep not lambs, they sh*** all over the garden 

one of em even dropped dead in the garden a few weeks weeks ago bloody things ?

You can eat mutton...just got to be cooked right thats all (Ha! Ha!)...helps if you are really hungry too with lots of ketchup and bread!

Probably costs alot to get rid of an animal carcass over threre with all the rules and such...just bury it...instant fertilizer.

[Bedford Roughyed]

[Phil]

10 minutes ago, Kayakman said:

You can eat mutton...just got to be cooked right thats all (Ha! Ha!)...helps if you are really hungry too with lots of ketchup and bread!

Probably costs alot to get rid of an animal carcass over threre with all the rules and such...just bury it...instant fertilizer.

I actually prefer mutton but I’m not about to slaughter and butcher a critter in my own kitchen am I? ?

[ckn]

34 minutes ago, Phil said:

They’re sheep not lambs, they sh*** all over the garden 

one of em even dropped dead in the garden a few weeks weeks ago bloody things ?

Call the RSPCA

[Just Browny]

Couple of inches here in south London and still coming down fairly heavily. Sticking but not really settling at any depth.

I wouldn't mind at all, but it is happens to be the only day I can move house so I am shipping all my worldly belongings five miles up the road, and my heavily pregnant better half can't help. Wish me luck - if I don't break my neck I will see it as a good outcome.

[gingerjon]

2 minutes ago, Just Browny said:

my heavily pregnant better half can't help

Is this an announcement?

Should I have been paying attention to your posts more closely?

Have you booked the stable already?