The wet and windy, with occasional snow, 2018/2019 thread
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Very dangerous in Milton Keynes this morning. its raining so the ground just looks wet but its actually icy. I very nearly crashed into someones house at the first corner this morning as my car slid straight on.
New build estate so no front gardens and just a path (all dropped kerb) between the road and house. Same in the works car park, very slippery and a few people have gone over trying to walk through the car park!
New build estate so no front gardens and just a path (all dropped kerb) between the road and house. Same in the works car park, very slippery and a few people have gone over trying to walk through the car park!
Old Man Fred said:
New build estate so no front gardens and just a path (all dropped kerb) between the road and house. Same in the works car park, very slippery and a few people have gone over trying to walk through the car park!
I do the school run a few days a week, and one of the kids I pick up lives in a similar new build estate. It is spectacular how that street ices over far worse than anything else in the village. Also typical new build with lots of 90 degree corners, and cars parked everywhere. Fun when you're sliding!Puggit said:
Old Man Fred said:
New build estate so no front gardens and just a path (all dropped kerb) between the road and house. Same in the works car park, very slippery and a few people have gone over trying to walk through the car park!
I do the school run a few days a week, and one of the kids I pick up lives in a similar new build estate. It is spectacular how that street ices over far worse than anything else in the village. Also typical new build with lots of 90 degree corners, and cars parked everywhere. Fun when you're sliding!Old Man Fred said:
Very dangerous in Milton Keynes this morning. its raining so the ground just looks wet but its actually icy. I very nearly crashed into someones house at the first corner this morning as my car slid straight on.
New build estate so no front gardens and just a path (all dropped kerb) between the road and house. Same in the works car park, very slippery and a few people have gone over trying to walk through the car park!
I was going to cycle to work this morning, but when I woke I decided I couldn't be bothered and got a lift. Sounds like I was lucky as I imagine the Redways were death traps.New build estate so no front gardens and just a path (all dropped kerb) between the road and house. Same in the works car park, very slippery and a few people have gone over trying to walk through the car park!
Strange weather, was pissing down with rain, but 0 degrees
J4CKO said:
I have the first week of Feb booked off so am expecting/demanding a good snowfall, I have seen my shadow and am returning to my burrow so six more weeks.
I think these antibiotics are making me weirder than usual...
Should be plenty of snow around next week to. Lots of edge-of-a-knife conditions, so hesitant to call it. But don't be surprised. I think these antibiotics are making me weirder than usual...
;)Ha! While I was working in Canada last year, I went to watch the Senators play a hockey game. On leaving the Canadian Tyre Stadium, it had snowed a bit (about 3’) while we were inside and the temperature had dropped a fair whack - from a balmy -18c to a somewhat nippy -35c. .
No problem for the Canadian people; they just took their swisher things out of their cars, flipped the snow away in seconds and drove off. Me, I just seemed to move lumps of it round the bodywork while my hands went blue for the next 20 minutes.
I finally got out of the car park in my rental 4x4 Chrysler 300c (who’da thunk it) and was driving back down the highway to Ottawa. I glanced at the thermometer to see the outside temperature reading -37.5c!!!!!!! At that moment, my colleague from Brisbane called for a chat, where he proudly stated “bugger me, mate, it’s hotter than the sun here”. It was 44c. At that moment, he was a cup of coffee hotter than I was
Anyway, call ended and I carried on driving, only for the windscreen to get all caked by the salt on the road. So I squirted it. Doing 110km/h in, Lane 3 where everyone seemed to be playing the braking game. At -37.5c. The screen instantly froze and all I could see was a mass of grey smear. Quick as a flash, I whacked the heater on full demist, powered down the drivers window and stuck my head out of it so I could see something and not rear end the giant truck in front of me. Those 20 seconds it took for the screen to clear we’re agony. My face froze solid pretty much instantly and I didn’t get the feeling back in it until I’d spent about an hour in the bath back at the Marriott.
Canada is beautiful but utterly brutal
No problem for the Canadian people; they just took their swisher things out of their cars, flipped the snow away in seconds and drove off. Me, I just seemed to move lumps of it round the bodywork while my hands went blue for the next 20 minutes.
I finally got out of the car park in my rental 4x4 Chrysler 300c (who’da thunk it) and was driving back down the highway to Ottawa. I glanced at the thermometer to see the outside temperature reading -37.5c!!!!!!! At that moment, my colleague from Brisbane called for a chat, where he proudly stated “bugger me, mate, it’s hotter than the sun here”. It was 44c. At that moment, he was a cup of coffee hotter than I was
Anyway, call ended and I carried on driving, only for the windscreen to get all caked by the salt on the road. So I squirted it. Doing 110km/h in, Lane 3 where everyone seemed to be playing the braking game. At -37.5c. The screen instantly froze and all I could see was a mass of grey smear. Quick as a flash, I whacked the heater on full demist, powered down the drivers window and stuck my head out of it so I could see something and not rear end the giant truck in front of me. Those 20 seconds it took for the screen to clear we’re agony. My face froze solid pretty much instantly and I didn’t get the feeling back in it until I’d spent about an hour in the bath back at the Marriott.
Canada is beautiful but utterly brutal
Puggit said:
ZOLLAR said:
Any chance of comments on weather/snow for Andorra in the coming weeks?
I'm there skiing mid Feb.
They don't appear to have had much snow (most pistes open though)
If this bloody high pressure buggers off, it will give them a better chance! I'm there skiing mid Feb.
They don't appear to have had much snow (most pistes open though)
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