The Official Winter Snow Thread 2014/2015
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v8250 said:
J4CKO said:
Forgot about that, it is indeed wonderous, like the time in probably about 2001 where I had an old Pug 309 "Look" as a daily and there was about 4 inches of fresh snow, the wife dispatched me to go and get something and I took a detour past the leisure centre car park which was empty, I had a happy half hour until a Police car came in and put the blues on, I drove over and wound my window down and the copper said "You, p
s off", which I did 
found another car park and had some more fun and went home. Pug was good, but the Metro 1.0 "Clubman" was the best snow car, skinny tyres for traction, dont care if I broke it, good visibility, short wheelbase for a quick spin and an epic. handbrake.
Winter 1981, there was some good snowfall and learnt to drive in a friends VW Beetle. Lost count the number of times we got the the stuck in the rural snow covered lanes of West Berkshire. Some days we were out for 5+ hours practicing using the handbrake, desperately trying to master over steer, thinking/wishing ourselves to be Eric Carlsson or Stig Blomqvist and wondering what the hell is a 'Scandinavian Flick'. Spent more hours digging the car out than driving and learnt the valuable lesson why carry two coconut doormats in the car when it's snowing. How the little Beetle put up with this thrashing I'll never know. But, by Jove, we had the very, very best of fun s off", which I did found another car park and had some more fun and went home. Pug was good, but the Metro 1.0 "Clubman" was the best snow car, skinny tyres for traction, dont care if I broke it, good visibility, short wheelbase for a quick spin and an epic. handbrake.
I remember doing paper rounds in the snow, out at 6am to fresh, unruined snow, fantastic. I too fell off a few times, of course it had to be right in from of "Amanda", the papergirl I really fancied with massive norks from the other paper shop up the road, strange really as saw a photo on FB a while back and she looked like Paul Young with big boobs !
As kids we loved riding out bikes in the snow, one lad, used to do a trick where he could spin the bike 360, nobody else could do it and he still cant explain how he did it.
When it snowed it always ended up in snowfights, then, inevitably actual fights, there was this lad called Roger and he and I would end up scrapping every year, problem was, Manchester snowballs by law only have to contain 5 percent actual snow, the rest can be made of ice, gravel, glass and dog st, get hit by one and you ended up with concussion and bleeding profusely, then you had to engage in fisticuffs with whoever threw it, remember my mum asking my dad to check if the cat was ok as there was a load of blood on the snow in the road, she thought it was the Cat being hit by a car, was actually a combination of mine and Rogers blood after another winter altercation happy days ! am guessing my mum will never replace Dexter, dont think a Cat hot by a car would leave blood in a similar manner to two daft teenagers knocking the st out of each other.
As kids we loved riding out bikes in the snow, one lad, used to do a trick where he could spin the bike 360, nobody else could do it and he still cant explain how he did it.
When it snowed it always ended up in snowfights, then, inevitably actual fights, there was this lad called Roger and he and I would end up scrapping every year, problem was, Manchester snowballs by law only have to contain 5 percent actual snow, the rest can be made of ice, gravel, glass and dog s
t, get hit by one and you ended up with concussion and bleeding profusely, then you had to engage in fisticuffs with whoever threw it, remember my mum asking my dad to check if the cat was ok as there was a load of blood on the snow in the road, she thought it was the Cat being hit by a car, was actually a combination of mine and Rogers blood after another winter altercation happy days ! am guessing my mum will never replace Dexter, dont think a Cat hot by a car would leave blood in a similar manner to two daft teenagers knocking the st out of each other.My maternal grandfather grew up in a coal mining village in Northumberland and used to tell stories about helping his Dad and brothers having to dig themselves out of the house, partly because the snow was heavy but also because the wind created rather large drifts, primarily against people's front doors 
Only 29 myself so not seen that much heavy snow, but I do remember walking down to the primary school with my Mum after someone had cleared the pavements, they'd piled the snow along the curb and it was taller than me! I think I was only 5 or 6 at the time.
Only 29 myself so not seen that much heavy snow, but I do remember walking down to the primary school with my Mum after someone had cleared the pavements, they'd piled the snow along the curb and it was taller than me! I think I was only 5 or 6 at the time.
MentalSarcasm said:
My maternal grandfather grew up in a coal mining village in Northumberland and used to tell stories about helping his Dad and brothers having to dig themselves out of the house, partly because the snow was heavy but also because the wind created rather large drifts, primarily against people's front doors
Only 29 myself so not seen that much heavy snow, but I do remember walking down to the primary school with my Mum after someone had cleared the pavements, they'd piled the snow along the curb and it was taller than me! I think I was only 5 or 6 at the time.
I remember my dad throwing me out of my bedroom (upstairs) window into a drift when i was about 7, i fell all of a couple of feet, lived in a village called Worrall nr Sheffield.Only 29 myself so not seen that much heavy snow, but I do remember walking down to the primary school with my Mum after someone had cleared the pavements, they'd piled the snow along the curb and it was taller than me! I think I was only 5 or 6 at the time.
My primary school was in Oughtibridge, we used to take sledges to school so we could sledge at dinner time on the sloping playing fields.
kapiteinlangzaam said:
My £50 Maplin weather station has been on the blink for a while.
So I have just ordered one of these:
Netatmo weather station.
https://www.netatmo.com/en-US/product/weather-stat...
Im sure someone will be along shortly to tell me its a load of junk, but hey it looks pretty and seems to have some decent functionality.
Syncing up to (and recording) via the WeatherPro app is also a neat touch.
Very jealous. I've seriously considered one of those a few times. Given how wirelessly connected everything else is I find it surprising that there's only a few that'll allow remote monitoring though - which in turn presumably justifies the cost you pay.So I have just ordered one of these:
Netatmo weather station.
https://www.netatmo.com/en-US/product/weather-stat...
Im sure someone will be along shortly to tell me its a load of junk, but hey it looks pretty and seems to have some decent functionality.
Syncing up to (and recording) via the WeatherPro app is also a neat touch.
kapiteinlangzaam said:
My £50 Maplin weather station has been on the blink for a while.
So I have just ordered one of these:
Netatmo weather station.
https://www.netatmo.com/en-US/product/weather-stat...
Im sure someone will be along shortly to tell me its a load of junk, but hey it looks pretty and seems to have some decent functionality.
Syncing up to (and recording) via the WeatherPro app is also a neat touch.
Damn you... bought. So I have just ordered one of these:
Netatmo weather station.
https://www.netatmo.com/en-US/product/weather-stat...
Im sure someone will be along shortly to tell me its a load of junk, but hey it looks pretty and seems to have some decent functionality.
Syncing up to (and recording) via the WeatherPro app is also a neat touch.
Well, I've taken 24 hours off while I wait for the charts to sort themselves out, and frankly they still don't have a clue.
A white Xmas is still an outide possibility.
Some charts still predict some pretty deep snow for the 27th.
Some charts are all for double figure temperatures.
It's a complete dogs dinner.
I'm off to have some more wine to celebrate Watford winning at Reading with 10 men
A white Xmas is still an outide possibility.
Some charts still predict some pretty deep snow for the 27th.
Some charts are all for double figure temperatures.
It's a complete dogs dinner.
I'm off to have some more wine to celebrate Watford winning at Reading with 10 men
kapiteinlangzaam said:
My £50 Maplin weather station has been on the blink for a while.
So I have just ordered one of these:
Netatmo weather station.
https://www.netatmo.com/en-US/product/weather-stat...
Im sure someone will be along shortly to tell me its a load of junk, but hey it looks pretty and seems to have some decent functionality.
Syncing up to (and recording) via the WeatherPro app is also a neat touch.
Keep us informed on what it's like. So I have just ordered one of these:
Netatmo weather station.
https://www.netatmo.com/en-US/product/weather-stat...
Im sure someone will be along shortly to tell me its a load of junk, but hey it looks pretty and seems to have some decent functionality.
Syncing up to (and recording) via the WeatherPro app is also a neat touch.
Just had a quick gander at some of the charts for Thursday Friday next week and it does show a vigorous atlantic low which seems to head for the tip of northern scotland then unusually seems to track down the easters side of GB heading towards the low countries. Don't these normally head off into scandinavia?
mcelliott said:
Just had a quick gander at some of the charts for Thursday Friday next week and it does show a vigorous atlantic low which seems to head for the tip of northern scotland then unusually seems to track down the easters side of GB heading towards the low countries. Don't these normally head off into scandinavia?
The very same storm that's been modelled since Tuesday (or was it Wednesday). It's getting watered down with every new run though.
East Coast storm now being tweeted about by the MetOffice. High winds and heavy precipitation for 27th/28th. Still uncertain where will get hit worse, I guess this will be finalised over Christmas.
Good chance of snow on the back end as cooler air gets sucked in, but for the moment, we're not looking at entering the freezer any time soon. Some models predicting heaving snow for the South (no woohoo emoticon yet...)
Stratospheric Warming still modelled for January, but that cold could flood south in any direction from the Arctic - normally the Yanks seem to 'benefit'.
Good chance of snow on the back end as cooler air gets sucked in, but for the moment, we're not looking at entering the freezer any time soon. Some models predicting heaving snow for the South (no woohoo emoticon yet...)
Stratospheric Warming still modelled for January, but that cold could flood south in any direction from the Arctic - normally the Yanks seem to 'benefit'.
J4CKO said:
It does seem weird that we are actively wishing for cold, when really cold weather is actively avoided by most people, I wonder why it is we crave cold and snow ?
To avoid it being mild, wet and windy ?
Childhood memories of it being fun ?
It always smells nice when its cold ?
Snow looks pretty (for a short time) and covers stuff up we dont want to look at.
A distraction, a difference to the norm ?
We like a bit of mild adversity ?
Excuse to drink booze and crank the heat up ?
Makes us feel all cosy when in the house when all nice and warm ?
Isn't it nearly all of them?To avoid it being mild, wet and windy ?
Childhood memories of it being fun ?
It always smells nice when its cold ?
Snow looks pretty (for a short time) and covers stuff up we dont want to look at.
A distraction, a difference to the norm ?
We like a bit of mild adversity ?
Excuse to drink booze and crank the heat up ?
Makes us feel all cosy when in the house when all nice and warm ?
However, I find grey, wet & windy weather utterly miserable.....and just makes bike rides less than enjoyable. Dry, cold & crisp is perfect for a nice winter bike ride...sadly it hardly ever happens. Wind, rain, and more wind and rain.....
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