The Official Winter Snow Thread 2014/2015
Discussion
funkyrobot said:
1 degree, wet and ever so slightly frosty in near Spalding this morning.
Roads are really mucky at the moment. Using plenty of screen wash.
It's a lot cheaper on screenwash this (and last) year; temperatures are rarely below freezing so the can be much more dilute. I remember a couple of years ago using about 30 litres of the Lidl stuff. Last year I bought three x 5L and still had 7 litres of the neat stuff left come this winter, where I've bought another 15 litres as well.Roads are really mucky at the moment. Using plenty of screen wash.
Incidentally - us northerners always notice that when the south gets a light dusting of snow (ie. you can see through it, it's so thin) the roads grind to a halt, press goes hysterical, schools close etc etc. Yesterday we had over a foot fall (I measured) - not a mention!
Dog Star said:
funkyrobot said:
1 degree, wet and ever so slightly frosty in near Spalding this morning.
Roads are really mucky at the moment. Using plenty of screen wash.
It's a lot cheaper on screenwash this (and last) year; temperatures are rarely below freezing so the can be much more dilute. I remember a couple of years ago using about 30 litres of the Lidl stuff. Last year I bought three x 5L and still had 7 litres of the neat stuff left come this winter, where I've bought another 15 litres as well.Roads are really mucky at the moment. Using plenty of screen wash.
Incidentally - us northerners always notice that when the south gets a light dusting of snow (ie. you can see through it, it's so thin) the roads grind to a halt, press goes hysterical, schools close etc etc. Yesterday we had over a foot fall (I measured) - not a mention!
Mine is Halfords stuff which is supposedly good down to -30.I agree with the comment about a dusting of snow in the south. As soon as anything hits London, the world ends.
Puggit said:
All aboard the snowlercoaster! Keep an eye on the end of the month...
There's more than a whiff of deja vu, though. Charts look stonking 8 / 9 days out, Atlantic backs off, cold sinks in from the North, big depression to bring blizzards. Until its at T+60, I won't buy into it at all. The charts are simply shocking at predicting anything other than west based mush. 
With regard to these temperatures - for a start they aren't very cold. Even though we've had a big dump of snow the temperatures are still relatively warm (Rossendale) with -1C the coldest I've yet seen. Last year I never saw lower than +1C all winter.
But the really odd thing is the huge variations from day to day - +10 and 0 the next. I swear this is a recent phenomenon. Or is it just me? They're all over the place.
But the really odd thing is the huge variations from day to day - +10 and 0 the next. I swear this is a recent phenomenon. Or is it just me? They're all over the place.
Dog Star said:
With regard to these temperatures - for a start they aren't very cold. Even though we've had a big dump of snow the temperatures are still relatively warm (Rossendale) with -1C the coldest I've yet seen. Last year I never saw lower than +1C all winter.
But the really odd thing is the huge variations from day to day - +10 and 0 the next. I swear this is a recent phenomenon. Or is it just me? They're all over the place.
I was thinking the same,but I think it is just down to having so much information now, when I wake up the time and temperature is projected onto the ceiling, downstairs I have a mini weather station, its on my phone the television and in the car, once over we would have just said its cold, now we know to a decimal point the temperature and any variations that take place.But the really odd thing is the huge variations from day to day - +10 and 0 the next. I swear this is a recent phenomenon. Or is it just me? They're all over the place.
onyx39 said:
Puggit said:
All aboard the snowlercoaster! Keep an eye on the end of the month...
Don't listen to him..He keeps doing this.
Getting our hopes up, then dashing them.
I hate him.Its like being told you have won the lottery and then finding out your are a one number out when the time comes to claim.
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