The Official Winter Snow Thread 2014/2015
Discussion
Although only just South West of Leeds I'm quite high up (can see across the valley to the Pennines) and when I had trouble getting out of this:
In the daily shed I had a root around in the workshop and found these:
I'd picked them up for good money for use on a rainy (track) day, but never used them so on they went:
They don't look bad on actually and gave some much needed grip in the soft stuff, I want this threat of snow to go as they're bloody noisy and the pair worth more than the car itself!
In the daily shed I had a root around in the workshop and found these:
I'd picked them up for good money for use on a rainy (track) day, but never used them so on they went:
They don't look bad on actually and gave some much needed grip in the soft stuff, I want this threat of snow to go as they're bloody noisy and the pair worth more than the car itself!
It's best to have the tyres with the most grip on the back wheels, otherwise the control will be impacted a lot, particularly in snowy and icy conditions.
Cold is no problem! There's not bad weather, just bad clothes,
Puggit said:
NRS said:
It better not be the first, we need snow!!!
Your part of the world might be seeing a lot of snow around Feb 1stAnd some severe cold
Edited by Puggit on Friday 23 January 18:45
Cold is no problem! There's not bad weather, just bad clothes,
Gretchen said:
There's been some pretty frosty mornings in the past couple of weeks, inc Friday morning
Aaah those photos remind me of winters at home I really hope I'm out of London and back in the countryside by the end of this year, I don't think I can stand another London winter after this MentalSarcasm said:
Aaah those photos remind me of winters at home I really hope I'm out of London and back in the countryside by the end of this year, I don't think I can stand another London winter after this
Get yourself to Richmond Park early in the morning. Especially on a frosty day. It was glorious there earlier today.This is the setup we're looking at, starting next week... Bitterly cold winds straight from the north, low pressure to the East, high pressure building in the Atlantic and ridging up towards Greenland - switching off the Atlantic conveyor.
We're pretty much assured of cold and high winds at this point - MetOffice are already warning of this. Snow is not assured, but as throughout this winter so far, it's Scotland and the NW - particularly on hills, that will benefit most if it arrives. The South could miss out, yet again...
As before, it's not certain at this point - but there is broad support across the models for something like this to happen. Likely starting period is this Thursday and maybe lasting up to a week.
We're pretty much assured of cold and high winds at this point - MetOffice are already warning of this. Snow is not assured, but as throughout this winter so far, it's Scotland and the NW - particularly on hills, that will benefit most if it arrives. The South could miss out, yet again...
As before, it's not certain at this point - but there is broad support across the models for something like this to happen. Likely starting period is this Thursday and maybe lasting up to a week.
Puggit said:
This is the setup we're looking at, starting next week... Bitterly cold winds straight from the north, low pressure to the East, high pressure building in the Atlantic and ridging up towards Greenland - switching off the Atlantic conveyor.
We're pretty much assured of cold and high winds at this point - MetOffice are already warning of this. Snow is not assured, but as throughout this winter so far, it's Scotland and the NW - particularly on hills, that will benefit most if it arrives. The South could miss out, yet again...
As before, it's not certain at this point - but there is broad support across the models for something like this to happen. Likely starting period is this Thursday and maybe lasting up to a week.
What do the colours represent?We're pretty much assured of cold and high winds at this point - MetOffice are already warning of this. Snow is not assured, but as throughout this winter so far, it's Scotland and the NW - particularly on hills, that will benefit most if it arrives. The South could miss out, yet again...
As before, it's not certain at this point - but there is broad support across the models for something like this to happen. Likely starting period is this Thursday and maybe lasting up to a week.
Blaster72 said:
What do the colours represent?
They indicate the temperatures in the troposphere - the area of the atmosphere where weather is made. Purple is extremely cold, blue is cold - moving up to the warmer colours. It doesn't necessarily correlate exactly to surface temperatures, but is a good indicator - it also helps to understand if it will snow or not. For example, if it's warm up there and zero degrees at the ground level, you're more likely to get freezing rain. Yet it can be 4 degrees on the ground, cold up there and it will snow. Other factors, ie dew point, come in to play also.
Generally, dark blue = certain snow (if there is precipitation), light blue = wintry showers (ie might snow/sleet/rain), anything else = rain.
It's actually more complicated than that, but that's the easiest way of explaining it. It's all to do with the pressure at a certain point, but pressure is related directly to temperature
Edited by Puggit on Saturday 24th January 10:09
Evoluzione said:
Although only just South West of Leeds I'm quite high up (can see across the valley to the Pennines) and when I had trouble getting out of this:
In the daily shed I had a root around in the workshop and found these:
I'd picked them up for good money for use on a rainy (track) day, but never used them so on they went:
Nice car i want one
They don't look bad on actually and gave some much needed grip in the soft stuff, I want this threat of snow to go as they're bloody noisy and the pair worth more than the car itself!
In the daily shed I had a root around in the workshop and found these:
I'd picked them up for good money for use on a rainy (track) day, but never used them so on they went:
Nice car i want one
They don't look bad on actually and gave some much needed grip in the soft stuff, I want this threat of snow to go as they're bloody noisy and the pair worth more than the car itself!
kapiteinlangzaam said:
Puggit said:
kapiteinlangzaam said:
Almost had a whiteout for a while.
Yay, winter at last, even if only for a morning....[/URL]
I'd seen it on the charts, but forgot to post it for you - still the SE of the UK struggles on snowless Yay, winter at last, even if only for a morning....[/URL]
Dutch National Weather Service had a warning out for a bit of wet snow / ice - fair to say they ballsed that one up.
Snowplough's just been around our site and ruined my sliding the car fun for later, the git.
Blib said:
MentalSarcasm said:
Aaah those photos remind me of winters at home I really hope I'm out of London and back in the countryside by the end of this year, I don't think I can stand another London winter after this
Get yourself to Richmond Park early in the morning. Especially on a frosty day. It was glorious there earlier today.Hopefully will have less on next weekend so if it's still this cold and chilly then then I'll head over to Richmond Park for a wander.
Puggit said:
Blaster72 said:
What do the colours represent?
They indicate the temperatures in the troposphere - the area of the atmosphere where weather is made. Purple is extremely cold, blue is cold - moving up to the warmer colours. It doesn't necessarily correlate exactly to surface temperatures, but is a good indicator - it also helps to understand if it will snow or not. For example, if it's warm up there and zero degrees at the ground level, you're more likely to get freezing rain. Yet it can be 4 degrees on the ground, cold up there and it will snow. Other factors, ie dew point, come in to play also.
Generally, dark blue = certain snow (if there is precipitation), light blue = wintry showers (ie might snow/sleet/rain), anything else = rain.
It's actually more complicated than that, but that's the easiest way of explaining it. It's all to do with the pressure at a certain point, but pressure is related directly to temperature
Edited by Puggit on Saturday 24th January 10:09
ApOrbital said:
Nice car I want one
It's a 16vt and quite a good one at that, also very rare to find one in that colour. TBH I bought it very riskily (Ebay auction); pretty much unseen and because I liked the colour I would say to you 'buy it', but it's now insured until Nov so will look to get rid then if you're still interested. After i'd bought it I got it up on the lift, I was surprised at how solid it was so decided to run it and it's been with me just over a year now, i've pretty much ironed out all it's faults and enjoy driving it.
Sorry for thread derailment!
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