The Official Winter Snow Thread 2014/2015

[Hainey]

A.J.M said:

Hainey said:

I'm only about 4 miles from you, I couldn't even get out the estate this morning. Didn't expect that tbh.

Where do you live?

Bellside. It's better now, but still not great. Went a walk and the main roads are fine, but that's sod all use if you cant get to them!

[schmalex]

v8250 said:

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

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!

[y2blade]

Come on SNOW!!!!!!

[Smiley198700]

5.5 degrees and dropping, pressure is dropping rapidly and cloud is building

hoping for at least a snow shower

[Puggit]

y2blade said:

Come on SNOW!!!!!!

West Berks 4 days out of 5 with a weather warning...

We better bloody get something!

[TeaNoSugar]

A break in the snow for Sheffield after snowing for the last few hours. Snow just a fraction deeper than the height of an iPhone (4) here. More showers forecast through the day. Happy to WFH as the traffic chaos on the hilly roads has been quite bad apparently.

Edited by TeaNoSugar on Thursday 29th January 12:29

[russ_a]

v8250 said:

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

Have o agree Geneva is one of the better ones at clearing snow. Just thank god you are not going to Chambery or Grenoble! The red wine will be out already there!!

[Countdown]

uncle tez said:

blueST said:

A nice inch or two here this morning, North on Rochdale in th'ills. I'm glad I ran around collecting a snw plough last night now.

I'm just down the road in Heywood and we've hardly got any here.

Bury - Heywood - Rochdale was the dividing line (at least it was @7.00am) In Rossendale it was proper heavy flaky stuff and everybody was doing 15-20 mph down the M66. Central Manchester was freezing and sleety

[y2blade]

[Bill]

y2blade said:

Come on SNOW!!!!!!

I can't help but feel that's a tad optimistic for us, I'm in the bottom left hand corner of the warning zone and it's 7degrees at the moment.

[Puggit]

y2blade said:

Don't even try and tell me that's West Berks

[v8250]

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...!"

[schmalex]

Thanks for that. The family is exactly the reason why I booked there, rather than one of the bigger resorts. My wife and lad like to ski cruisy blues and greens and we really don't fancy all the bling that goes with a big town.

I just hope the ploughs can keep the mountain road clear enough to give us a chance tomorrow!

[funkyrobot]

Just snowed heavily in Sleaford, Lincs. Stopped now and is melting away though.

[Maracus]

Snowing near Birmingham Airport!

[hornetrider]

Blue skies in Bristol

[FiF]

Just back from walking the dog in the Wyre Forest. Nr Bewdley for the geographically challenged.

Been some flakes and some was on the ground but melting fast.

In other news the dog got so mucky that a golden retriever turned into a v hairy chocolate lab. In the post walk washing no1 daughter missed the dog with one of the rinsing buckets of water and got me right in the nads. #wetpants

[evenflow]

Absolutely hoofing with rain in Cheltenham at the moment. Not even sleet. Blinkin' cold though.

[Puggit]

evenflow said:

Absolutely hoofing with rain in Cheltenham at the moment. Not even sleet. Blinkin' cold though.

Weather radar here - click on the 'weather type' button

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=radar;se...

Edited by Puggit on Thursday 29th January 13:24

[James2593]

Countdown said:

Bury - Heywood - Rochdale was the dividing line (at least it was @7.00am) In Rossendale it was proper heavy flaky stuff and everybody was doing 15-20 mph down the M66. Central Manchester was freezing and sleety

Nothing here in Bury. I woke upto a light dusting and there's been no more since.

I hear that Oldham was hit pretty hard.

I want snow