The windy winter and occasional snow thread 2017/2018

The windy winter and occasional snow thread 2017/2018

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GT03ROB

13,262 posts

221 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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GT03ROB said:
No snow since the weekend here. clear blue skies & -20c. Got brain freeze just walking to lunch.
-27c with wind chill today, may have to give lunch a miss!! definitely need to getmecoat

MentalSarcasm

6,083 posts

211 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Very blustery in Essex, don't fancy using the M11 this morning!

Last Visit

2,805 posts

188 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Very windy here in Suffolk. Woken to find we have a power cut and the electricity is off, not sure what time during in night the power cut started.

jmorgan

36,010 posts

284 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Stopped raining again. Means only one thing.

silverthorn2151

6,298 posts

179 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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North east London here. Being disturbed by a tin can rolling up and down the road. FML.

Mind you, not looked out yet. Might be like the walking dead out there.

RTB

8,273 posts

258 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Heavy snow last night before the temp increased by 6 degrees and turned to rain. Threats of up to 20cm of snow haven't materialised...

RicksAlfas

13,394 posts

244 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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RTB said:
Heavy snow last night before the temp increased by 6 degrees and turned to rain. Threats of up to 20cm of snow haven't materialised...
Yes, that's what we had. It looked like ping pong balls coming down at 10pm, but this morning we just have masses of soggy slush. Must have warmed up more than they expected because if that rain had come as snow that would have been the 20cm...

Gretchen

19,033 posts

216 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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My dogs were enjoying playing out in the wind this morning... in the neighbours garden.

Fence to the right in my back garden. That’s theirs right? The lady of the house didn’t sound happy hehe



The Don of Croy

5,995 posts

159 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Did that storm have a name?

My route to work was blocked by one very stout horizontal chestnut tree. leaving only room for cabriolets underneath. The other route had a partial blockage being minded by plod (who could have shoved it out the way had they been big enough!).

Does the incidence of punctures increase after windy weather?

DAVEVO9

3,469 posts

267 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Sheets Tabuer said:
Neighbours tin shed is in the garden on its side and making a sound like rolf Harris's wobble board.
LOL Brilliant!

eltawater

3,114 posts

179 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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The Don of Croy said:
Did that storm have a name?
Fionn (the sound which your shed roof makes as it goes whizzing past your head).

Squirrelofwoe

3,183 posts

176 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Oxfordshire, 18th January 2013 - I had just been sent home from work early due to the developing snowmaggedon:



Oxfordshire, 18th January 2018 is looking very different - 50mph winds overnight with a decent shower of rain, now looking like a proper spring day with glorious sunshine, and barely a breeze in the air. rotate

Last Visit

2,805 posts

188 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Power cut still and typically I'm off work and had things to do at home that need power. First world problem and all that I know.....

I do feel for those that have to go out in this weather to mend damaged lines and so on.

3 nearby roads blocked with trees this morning so getting my kids to school involved a myriad of country roads and U turns and head scratching but we got there eventually.

Puggit

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48,439 posts

248 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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eltawater said:
The Don of Croy said:
Did that storm have a name?
Fionn (the sound which your shed roof makes as it goes whizzing past your head).
Technically incorrect. The Irish used Fionn to name some wind on Tues night, wasn't even a deep low pressure. Last night didn't have a name, but daft as 83mph in Norfolk deserves a name.

MentalSarcasm

6,083 posts

211 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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MentalSarcasm said:
Very blustery in Essex, don't fancy using the M11 this morning!
Didn't even get that far before I had to give up and turn back. Glad I did through as there's 90 minute delays northbound thanks to a flipped lorry!

Faust66

2,035 posts

165 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Feckin wind woke me up at 3am - had to close the bedroom window.

Our neighbours seem to have acquired a very large trampoline in their back garden overnight… god knows where it came from as I’ve never noticed one around here before! hehe

Walking to the railway station: there are a fair few houses with missing ridge tiles and a generous assortment of wheelie bins and fence panels decorating the roads.

(Beeston, near Nottingham)

Puggit

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48,439 posts

248 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Due to the storm a wolf has escaped from a local wolf sanctuary - Gulp!

matthias73

2,883 posts

150 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Lovely weather in catterick.

Feeling incredibly smug that I have my winter tyres on.

Sheets Tabuer

18,957 posts

215 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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I've seen it worse there, I was digging grannies out of houses in 1990, freezing my tits off.

popeyewhite

19,853 posts

120 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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RTB said:
The Buxton weather website is predicting potentially up to 20cm of snow over higher ground tonight (with appropriate caveats)...... Given that so far in the Peak District we've had about an inch of slush I'm not going to believe this until it happens.
Forecast was almost completely wrong again for the High Peak. No snow in the Macc/Whaley Bridge/Buxton/Chesterfield corridor. Even Mam Tor missed out this time, though it got a covering on Tue night. Looks like any reasonable snowfall was further north.