The official winter 2013/2014 snow thread

[JonnyxM]

Hail woke me up early this morning, actually thought it was someone breaking into the house but it was just lashing against the window.
Was expecting a thick frost as the temperature was dropping quickly as I returned home late last night.
Just woke with grey skys and about 4 degrees.. When is winter coming??

[Blib]

karona said:

Blib said:

There's been a thunder storm here in London for the past hour or so.

Bit of a show stopper at the Apollo, it seems.

For a short period, the storm was pretty violent.

[Puggit]

PugwasHDJ80 said:

severe frost south of Newbury

Yep - saw a couple of vehicles in hedges and had a nice little slip on some ice myself!

[beko1987]

Very heavy frost in Marlow this morning. Luckily I was out on the piss last night and stayed at my mums, so walked into the office, past my heavily frozen shut car and had a coffee!

Pavements were very icy though

[y2blade]

PugwasHDJ80 said:

severe frost south of Newbury-

Yep.

[onyx39]

Puggit said:

Bing-Bing, round 53! (and more to come)



http://www.met-monkey.co.uk/severe-weather-centre/

I thought that the white part of the map meant snow...

[karona]

Blib said:

karona said:

Blib said:

There's been a thunder storm here in London for the past hour or so.

Bit of a show stopper at the Apollo, it seems.

For a short period, the storm was pretty violent.

My sister was in the auditorium and reported that the falling plaster was wet .....

[Wills2]

Blib said:

PugwasHDJ80 said:

severe frost south of Newbury- saw a pheasant slip over on the way into work.....

5 miles away there's not a hint of a frost.....

weird

Pheasants work in Newbury?

I think he meant peasants.

[Rtig]

PugwasHDJ80 said:

severe frost south of Newbury- saw a pheasant slip over on the way into work.....

5 miles away there's not a hint of a frost.....

weird

The road between Chievely and Peasemore was sheet ice in places, made for an interesting drive to work!

[PugwasHDJ80]

Rtig said:

PugwasHDJ80 said:

severe frost south of Newbury- saw a pheasant slip over on the way into work.....

5 miles away there's not a hint of a frost.....

weird

The road between Chievely and Peasemore was sheet ice in places, made for an interesting drive to work!

Took me 5 minutes to get off the slight incline on the drive

The Mrs drove straight out- she has winter tyres and the difference is amazing

[schmalex]

The road from my village to the next was just sheet ice all the way. It took 3 attempts to get up the hill out of the village

[FiF]

Last night a frost came down, all cars covered in ice, quite thick frost too.

Up at 5 am and the cars were almost defrosted, temp showing on car and thermometer outside lounge window 2C.

Road tad slippery in patches though. Except for the bridge across the river which was completely clear, contrary to expectation. Rural(ish) Worcestershire.

4x4 on winters so would have had to drive like a knob to get into trouble.

[GTIR]

PugwasHDJ80 said:

Took me 5 minutes to get off the slight incline on the drive

The Mrs drove straight out- she has winter tyres and the difference is amazing

Or she's just a better driver?
You were probably giving it "Powweeerrrr"!

I have a friend who's a rally driving instructor and he said the best drivers are undoubtedly women because they listen whereas the men think they know it all.

[PugwasHDJ80]

GTIR said:

Or she's just a better driver?
You were probably giving it "Powweeerrrr"!

I have a friend who's a rally driving instructor and he said the best drivers are undoubtedly women because they listen whereas the men think they know it all.

Her car has the snow tyres for a reason.........

[J4CKO]

Woke up to the sound of windscreen being scraped, looked out and shiny roads so bks to cycling in, the cold doesnt bother me but my arse twitching like a rabbits nose as I slip and slide does, prefer to avoid a broken elbow/collar bone or splattage, managed a spectacular drift a couple of years back, B road with cars following and the bike starts sliding, how I kept upright I dont know.

[loafer123]

schmalex said:

The road from my village to the next was just sheet ice all the way. It took 3 attempts to get up the hill out of the village

Not just me, then!

I had a lovely four-wheel slide going on in my Jeep - thankfully managed to catch the potential disaster, but it did make me think it is time to swap off-road tyres for something with sipes!

[wiliferus]

Rtig said:

PugwasHDJ80 said:

severe frost south of Newbury- saw a pheasant slip over on the way into work.....

5 miles away there's not a hint of a frost.....

weird

The road between Chievely and Peasemore was sheet ice in places, made for an interesting drive to work!

Pangbourne was equally as slippery. The back roads were good fun - not a hint of grit? Authorities caught napping again, or saving their supplies for snowmaggedon?

[Puggit]

wiliferus said:

Pangbourne was equally as slippery. The back roads were good fun - not a hint of grit? Authorities caught napping again, or saving their supplies for snowmaggedon?

There was a MetOffice warning for ice - no excuse.

[Puggit]

Talking of Met Office warnings:

[schmalex]

woo-bloody-hoo

Great. Our electricity supply waxes and wanes in even the slightest breeze.

I hope it can see fit to stay on long enough for us to cook the ham and goose