The official winter 2016/2017 snow thread....
Discussion
Got to say, after the last few winters I think this is it. I've long been a bit of a climate change denier, but it's blatantly obvious now that we now just live in a predominantly wet country with normal temperatures between 8 and 20C and anything outside this is an exception, not the norm.
Look at some of these pictures of people and the pictures of "snow" - it's pathetic really, but it's barely an inch deep, if that, patchy and just s
tty wet stuff. Get your 4x4 photos in, eh? 
Now go dig out some of your old photos - I was looking at some from 1984 - it was brilliant. I remember coming home from school in the 70s and 80s and it would be out sledging in the fields til all hours, freezing cold feet (til "moon boots" were invented).
You can't even go skiing in the alps for Christmas these days (I remember going to Montgenevre last year - it was a disaster).
Look at some of these pictures of people and the pictures of "snow" - it's pathetic really, but it's barely an inch deep, if that, patchy and just s
tty wet stuff. Get your 4x4 photos in, eh? Now go dig out some of your old photos - I was looking at some from 1984 - it was brilliant. I remember coming home from school in the 70s and 80s and it would be out sledging in the fields til all hours, freezing cold feet (til "moon boots" were invented).
You can't even go skiing in the alps for Christmas these days (I remember going to Montgenevre last year - it was a disaster).
Puggit said:
Climate change, and man's influence, is for another thread, but it's important to note that the climate has always changed.
The Romans grew vines in southern England and the Victorians held ice fairs on the Thames.
Agreed. From my perspective, seasons (specifically alps snow seasons) are getting later.The Romans grew vines in southern England and the Victorians held ice fairs on the Thames.
Bristol spark said:
Traveling through NW america (origan) and i think they have now run out of salt!
The highways were previously very clear, but now not so...
3 days since the last snow, and the main freeway:
Sure makes for interesting overtaking!
Keep heading another 100 odd miles west to Hood River, then cross the Hood River bridge...I'll be curious to see what it's like in those conditions. I wasn't a fan when it was just wet.The highways were previously very clear, but now not so...
3 days since the last snow, and the main freeway:
Sure makes for interesting overtaking!
There's a couple of decent bars there to recover if it's nasty
Bristol spark said:
Traveling through NW america (origan) and i think they have now run out of salt!
The highways were previously very clear, but now not so...
3 days since the last snow, and the main freeway:
Sure makes for interesting overtaking!
What was the temp ? Salt only works down to roughly minus 12/15C , after that you're on your own , which won't be fun with the Oregon woodsmen .You ever seen Deliverance ?The highways were previously very clear, but now not so...
3 days since the last snow, and the main freeway:
Sure makes for interesting overtaking!
fttm said:
What was the temp ? Salt only works down to roughly minus 12/15C , after that you're on your own , which won't be fun with the Oregon woodsmen .You ever seen Deliverance ?
Think it was around 0DF which is probably around -15 in english. However the slow lane was clear!Amazingly a couple of hours south onto route 101, and it was around 50DF sunny and not a spot of snow!!
Sorry Jim, needed to go south
Express predicts 'blanket of ice'
Translation - the SE is close to the cold weather in Europe, so we'll see a couple of days of temps just above zero. Then the Atlantic is coming back
Translation - the SE is close to the cold weather in Europe, so we'll see a couple of days of temps just above zero. Then the Atlantic is coming back
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