The official winter 2015/2016 snow thread. (Ahem...)

[GC8]

I was caught in a blizzard on the M62 around Leeds at 7pm yesterday evening. Sideways 50p sized snowflakes and everywhere white!

[Zad]

GC8 said:

I was caught in a blizzard on the M62 around Leeds at 7pm yesterday evening. Sideways 50p sized snowflakes and everywhere white!

I was in that too! And the intense direct sunlight shining right down the road and bouncing off the wet road surface and through the spray. What fun that was. So that's ice, sleet, hail, snow, rain, strong sunshine, mist/fog and thunder heard. All in one day.

The Tour de Yorkshire cycle race over the next 3 days might be fun over the hills!

[Dog Star]

Woke up to about 3 inches in Rossendale and just had a crap drive to work on the M62 to Leeds - crawling along, stop/start for nothing. I'd have not bothered and worked from home but I'd left my laptop at work

I'm going to go back home at lunchtime though - god alone knows what the M62 will be like at 4pm on a bank holiday weekend in the snow.

[RicksAlfas]

Well, that was a fairly grim trip in this morning. There's nothing low down, but above 600 feet or so the roads are cobbled with ice and there's a decent covering of snow. Usual number of bellends arriving at junctions at normal speed and wondering why they aren't stopping...

[Johnny]

Snow. Uxbridge. Started about 5 mins ago...

[Johnny]

Well that didn't last long. Bone dry, clear and sunny now.

[GC8]

Zad said:

GC8 said:

I was caught in a blizzard on the M62 around Leeds at 7pm yesterday evening. Sideways 50p sized snowflakes and everywhere white!

I was in that too! And the intense direct sunlight shining right down the road and bouncing off the wet road surface and through the spray. What fun that was. So that's ice, sleet, hail, snow, rain, strong sunshine, mist/fog and thunder heard. All in one day.

The Tour de Yorkshire cycle race over the next 3 days might be fun over the hills!

The A628 Woodhead Pass looked like a bad day in January earlier today. too!

[coopedup]

RicksAlfas said:

Well, that was a fairly grim trip in this morning. There's nothing low down, but above 600 feet or so the roads are cobbled with ice and there's a decent covering of snow. Usual number of bellends arriving at junctions at normal speed and wondering why they aren't stopping...

Looks like one of those bellends ended up in your garden

[Bill]

I heard a traffic report earlier sayoimg the Snake Pass is shut.

[Puggit]

There is hope that the sun/thunder thread will be getting warmed up soon...

We've had 2 good hail storms today, approx 1cm stones. Makes a good noise on Velux windows!

[GC8]

Bill said:

I heard a traffic report earlier sayoimg the Snake Pass is shut.

Unsurprising: people are stupid and Woodhead had a couple of inches of snow earlier today.

[jimmyjimjim]

May, and it's been snowing for the last 2 days.

Nothing much to show for it as it's melting as soon as it hits the roads.

[NRS]

No new snow, but still enjoying the stuff left over.

[Puggit]

This really happened!

[Wills2]

Puggit said:

This really happened!

They'd be better selling that computer and looking out of the window.

[loafer123]

I presume that isn't for 2016?!

[Bill]

Are they sharing a computer with the "intelligent" motorway people?

[Puggit]

Allegedly a computer fault while testing out the process.

I suspect it was more likely someone hit 'confirm' when the pop-up appeared while showing someone else how to do it

[jimmyjimjim]

Does hail count? Because it's bloody loud here right now.

[NRS]

We had some quite random snow yesterday. There hasn't been any (low down) for a while, but must have good some of these polar low pressures bringing snow showers through.