The official winter 2013/2014 snow thread

[Puggit]

Sorry people, it is seriously that time again.

A pretty vicious low pressure north of Scotland brings a chance of snow in the Scottish mountains next weekend!!!

Wind map: http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric...

Edited by Puggit on Monday 23 December 16:11

[Afanc]

Don't do it!!!

[s p a c e m a n]

la la la la I can't hear you I can't hear you la la la la

[Happy82]

[A.J.M]

No. Too early!

We still have some sunshine happening here.

[Faust66]

This thread has cheered me right up after the bank holiday weekend!

I can’t stand the summer: too hot in the day – and you can’t sleep at night, flies and wasps getting in your face, lobster red, wobbly fat flesh on display everywhere you look, can’t get a seat outside my local to have a smoke in peace as it’s full of loud fair weather drinkers and their screeching children, pictures of people crowded on to every square centimetre of every beach in the country in the paper (they always look like sausages under a grill to me), grown men wearing sandals and shorts... No, you can keep your summer as far as I’m concerned.

Give me a bitterly cold winter’s day and I’m a happy (well, marginally less miserable) chap!

(Darkness it shall be).

[krisdelta]

My winter wheels / tyres are all ready to go, I am hoping I wont need them before the end of November. Hope is a wonderful thing eh?

[5potTurbo]

krisdelta said:

My winter wheels / tyres are all ready to go, I am hoping I wont need them before the end of November. Hope is a wonderful thing eh?

Mine are in the garage on stands, as they are EVERY year at this time....

I don't fancy clearing snow in our temporary rental house as the drives long and on a slope. My new house, under construction, only has a short, flat drive.


It's odd at this time of year (for me) to see pics from a mate who lives in Victoria that he and his family go skiing every weekend at the moment.

[LiamB]

Hopefully it's just cold this winter, fk rain.

[anonymous-user]

LiamB said:

Hopefully it's just cold this winter, fk rain.

+1

Don't mind cold.

Don't mind a bit of frost, ice or snow.

Rain can fk off.

[Hooli]

fk off with the snow for a few months. We're still trying to get a completion date for our new place & it needs a LOT of work doing to be ready for winter.

[Charlie Foxtrot]

LiamB said:

Hopefully it's just cold this winter, fk rain.

Rain i can live with. Snow and ice can ps off.

[phil1979]

Charlie Foxtrot said:

LiamB said:

Hopefully it's just cold this winter, fk rain.

Rain i can live with. Snow and ice can ps off.

Extreme weather in general can fk off! And lets not get those tedious bds on PH started, who every winter pray for crap weather so they can test out their special tyres - it's akin to wishing for a nasty illness so that you can test out the effectiveness of a drug to battle it - most odd.

[beko1987]

I have a different car now to last year, the old ZX plodded on fine through all sorts of crap weather on pretty worn stty tyres. Hope the XM will cope just as well, even with its automatic gearbox...

Maybe I will work from home more if it snows

[Podie]

Winter wheels and tyres in the garage ready and waiting.

Bulk pack of rock salt purchased

Bring on the snow!

[phil1979]

Podie said:

Winter wheels and tyres in the garage ready and waiting.

Bulk pack of rock salt purchased

Bring on the snow!

Yay! Baseball bat under my bed. Doors locked. Alarm set.

Bring on the burglars!

I like a bit of snow for the fun factor every so often, but looking forward to using special tyres and rock salt? Really??

[Podie]

phil1979 said:

Podie said:

Winter wheels and tyres in the garage ready and waiting.

Bulk pack of rock salt purchased

Bring on the snow!

Yay! Baseball bat under my bed. Doors locked. Alarm set.

Bring on the burglars!

I like a bit of snow for the fun factor every so often, but looking forward to using special tyres and rock salt? Really??

Until recently our driveway was a 45 degree, north facing slope. Last year I parked the car on the drive, went in the house and it slid onto the road... rock salt was a requirement!

We purchased winter tyres for the first time last year and they were great. The vast majority of roads are now cleared where we live, so it's worthwhile if you want to keep moving.

[NoVetec]

Puggit said:

Sorry people, it is seriously that time again.

A pretty vicious low pressure north of Scotland brings a chance of snow in the Scottish mountains next weekend!!!

And a blanket of snow covering the SW from November to April?

Thanks.

[METHS]

My plan:

Buy a range rover whilst they are cheap

Wait for snowmagedon

Drive down to England and sell it to the people who can't drive for about 3k profit.

[Ikemi]

Work has bought one of these, along with a plough, a salt spreader and a trailer!

Mod note: I've removed the pic as it was throwing a malware warning.

The one we've bought is a 400cc - Interestingly, I was approached (even though I'm in IT!) to find the right quad for us. The deal was, I find it, I'm allowed to ride it too. The quad is on it's way to us now

Well, I don't need any snow to have some fun on it in the surrounding fields!

Edited by Bill on Friday 6th September 12:39