The Official Winter Snow Thread 2014/2015

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'Vent en rafales @ 10m et barbules [noeuds]' = Wind gusts a 10m in knots

1 knot = 1.151 mph

So for NE Scotland 150 knots = up to 172.65 mph...CRIKEY !

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As per Puggit, some interesting wind speeds this Friday...



Though the MET only show winds of 60-90mph...

Edited by v8250 on Tuesday 6th January 15:06

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IanCress said:

Thank f*** for that. I was starting to wonder how to protect the greenhouse from 220mph winds.

Arse, that's brought much humour to the v8250 household this evening...in fact, I'm still laughing at such a public dropping of the proverbial bk Will post correct wind speeds another time...

...220mph greenhouse protection...suggest subterranean concrete bunker

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y2blade said:

Blame the OP, he started the "SNOW" thread waaaay to early...as per 2013 and look what sort of winter we had then! Cold, wet and windy.

I accept full responsibility for the extreme lack of UK winter snow, the grey wintery clouds, Friday's due onslaught of much gusting about...and utmost apologies to the peoples of Santorini and the Cretans of Crete

But it's brought a most active thread to PH, with much good banter, some excellent photographs...and our earnest schoolboy hopes that we'll all see a good dumping of the 'WhiteStuff' in the coming weeks...

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Tuesday and Wednesday look interesting for most parts of the UK at some stage...

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MentalSarcasm said:

IanMorewood said:

More snow due midweek for much of the UK. Should miss the SE.

Nooo, the south east is sorely neglected

Don't worry, most of UK snow falls in February so plenty of time yet...

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DrDoofenshmirtz said:

Please remember to include your location when giving weather reports. ..otherwise your contribution is pointless.

?? If someone kindly provides a weather report for Inverness, whether they live in Budleigh Salterton or Timbuktu makes no difference.

What you're trying to say is, if someone posts 'been snowing here for the past 36 hours and down to last tin of baked beans', then they should state where the 'here' is.

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benjj said:

Pissing it down here.

Dry as a bone with light grey cloud here

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ND_007 said:

MetOffice have now issued a yellow weather warning of snow coming from the South West Tues/ Weds as Puggit describes above.

Have been keeping an eye on this since week. Wednesday morning's commute may prove interesting for some. If you have winter tyres in the garage, you may like to put them on tonight...just in case.

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benjj said:

Netweather is giving me an 80-90% chance of snow for 24hrs straight from 1500hrs tomorrow.

Would that be here or there?

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Melman Giraffe said:

BBC weather this morning-Wednesday morning Wet snow turning to rain in the afternoon
Boooooooo Hooooooooo

But Sunday could prove interesting for the South...

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Mini1275 said:

v8250 said:

Melman Giraffe said:

BBC weather this morning-Wednesday morning Wet snow turning to rain in the afternoon
Boooooooo Hooooooooo

But Sunday could prove interesting for the South...

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PugwasHDJ80 said:

Puggit schmalex is there really going to be snow in Highclere/newbury overnight?

It's looking highly probable. First fall circa' midnight, followed by a further dumping around 6 a.m

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[quote=hora]Lovely day in the Peaks yesterday. Could someone answer me this though- I was driving at circa 30mph due to certain road conditions in a 50. A Audi A3 came up behind me and overtook me at speed....and almost had a head on with a Landrover Defender. One one stretch both nearside of both sides of the road had a layer of compacted snow but the middle of the road was tarmac. Oncoming cars weren't driving slowly. Why do people drive like this?

Anyway. Heres a pic

Because they're not sensibly aware FXT drivers like us BTW nice photo'

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Puggit said:

Too early to get excited...?

BBC/Met Off' now show nothing for Tuesday. However, for Wednesday Netweather show lots of white stuff for nearly everyone...who to believe, who to believe...?

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dirty boy said:

Are you saying your home is now in the North Sea, somewhere off the coast between Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth? Jeepers, I knew Norfolk coastal erosion was serious, but not that bad

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Wills2 said:

Bill said:

benjj said:

Don't worry about me. I've got a beautiful wife, a Porsche and a cock like a baby's arm holding an apple

I'm pretty sure the end shouldn't be green.

I'd be looking to get that seen to.....

Just be glad it's not a Cox's Orange Pippin

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Puggit said:

Yellow snow warning for the SE!!!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/warning...

Rain/sleet and ice more likely to be problems...

I've been wondering how long it would take before they put this up. What's more interesting for the S/SE, is next Tuesday.

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfs/royaume-uni/ha...

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schmalex said:

Bloody great

• We are due to leave LHR at 0855

• Land at Geneva at 1135. Geneva airport is notorious for being rubbish at snow clearance. There is lots of snow forecast for Geneva tomorrow.

• The forecast is for <50cm snow tomorrow along the Autoroute Blanche and 80cm+ up the bloody Alp we're driving up

• It's forecast to snow heavily at Geneva all weekend. I really do not want to spend Monday evening listening to "how much is that doggy in the window"

The only upside is we have a fully insured hire car fitted with winters and chains. I WILL get us to the town come hell or high water!

You'll be fine. GVA's not that bad and the Autoroute Blanche is rarely closed. A FWD hire car with winters and chains is the fastest winter hack known to man. Once spent a crazy week in Megeve driving a truly knackered Renault 5 with super chunky winter tyres. The little 1.4 litre rust bucket was unstoppable...especially after the 4th or 5th l'eau de vie

BTW, which town are you going to? We could watch your hire car exploits on their webcam

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schmalex said:

Les Saisies (up the valley past Megeve).

Webcam link here... http://www.lessaisies.com/webcams-les-saisies.html

It looks rather dark and grey there at the moment!!!!

Look for a VW Polo sometime tomorrow afternoon going like a bat of hell!

Les Saises, it's very nice there and much quieter than the bigger towns. Some excellent walks in the valleys and good for ski de fond and raquettes, and excellent if with children. Megeve's great but a little too 'bling' now. Have a great time in the Polo..."et quand en france, merde...!"