The official 2024/2025 snowmageddon disappointment thread
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Skodillac said:
Hang on, that's a pyramid. Didn't know we had any in Scottishscotchland. Must be aliens.
Ha!There is another one here up the road from us! Quite magnificent.
https://gillianswalks.com/2021/08/20/walk-200-prin...
The rest of the world has its own problems.
In Poland, they used to say that the only people who get caught out by fresh snowfall are the gritter lorries (councils).
Having said that, the ploughs were always up nice and early on the days when it did snow. The difference there was that snow was a certainty. And LOTS of it. We left the car one year in the very dry car park at the foot of my girlfriend's apartment block only to wake up the next morning to find everything "gone". The overnight snow was so deep you couldn't see the cars at all and a small army of residents were digging out both the cars and the access road. The main roads had been ploughed. This was by around 9am too. It seemed very efficient.
S E Worcs: Today I woke up to -2 degrees, lots of frost on cars, grass and roof slates but nothing on the roads. That said, I run "winters" all year around on a very capable 4x4. I live alone and relatively remotely so I have to make smart decisions with regards to my transportation. I can't rely on anyone else.
In Poland, they used to say that the only people who get caught out by fresh snowfall are the gritter lorries (councils).
Having said that, the ploughs were always up nice and early on the days when it did snow. The difference there was that snow was a certainty. And LOTS of it. We left the car one year in the very dry car park at the foot of my girlfriend's apartment block only to wake up the next morning to find everything "gone". The overnight snow was so deep you couldn't see the cars at all and a small army of residents were digging out both the cars and the access road. The main roads had been ploughed. This was by around 9am too. It seemed very efficient.
S E Worcs: Today I woke up to -2 degrees, lots of frost on cars, grass and roof slates but nothing on the roads. That said, I run "winters" all year around on a very capable 4x4. I live alone and relatively remotely so I have to make smart decisions with regards to my transportation. I can't rely on anyone else.
The Birmingham echo keeps popping up in my Google feed staying 10 days of snow, 48hrs of blizzards etc etc. All this seems driven by Netweather and WX charts.
Is this the same people that do the forecasting for the express which is always wrong. Nathan Rao wasn't it?
Puggit, are we about the enter new ice age as they suggested?
Example - https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-new...
Is this the same people that do the forecasting for the express which is always wrong. Nathan Rao wasn't it?
Puggit, are we about the enter new ice age as they suggested?
Example - https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-new...
Ice age?!!!
Was reading about the winter of ‘62 - ‘63 and it was 10wks of temps below freezing. Frozen seas etc. That’s an ‘ice age!’. It looked amazing but suspect life wasn’t during that time. However I have always got excited by the snow - I fondly recall the early 80’s having huge snow banks by the side of the roads for weeks and decent skiing every weekend. Don’t get winters like them anymore.
But is this year on track to be a cold winter? We do still have the remnants of some snow lying on our drive from over a week ago. Seems we have our own mini glacier
Was reading about the winter of ‘62 - ‘63 and it was 10wks of temps below freezing. Frozen seas etc. That’s an ‘ice age!’. It looked amazing but suspect life wasn’t during that time. However I have always got excited by the snow - I fondly recall the early 80’s having huge snow banks by the side of the roads for weeks and decent skiing every weekend. Don’t get winters like them anymore.
But is this year on track to be a cold winter? We do still have the remnants of some snow lying on our drive from over a week ago. Seems we have our own mini glacier
thepritch said:
Ice age?!!!
Was reading about the winter of ‘62 - ‘63 and it was 10wks of temps below freezing. Frozen seas etc. That’s an ‘ice age!’. It looked amazing but suspect life wasn’t during that time.
I was 6 during that winter living in a council house with just two coal fires, no heating in the bathroom ....the toilet was frozen every morning! I can confirm it was not at all fun.Was reading about the winter of ‘62 - ‘63 and it was 10wks of temps below freezing. Frozen seas etc. That’s an ‘ice age!’. It looked amazing but suspect life wasn’t during that time.
GetCarter said:
thepritch said:
Ice age?!!!
Was reading about the winter of ‘62 - ‘63 and it was 10wks of temps below freezing. Frozen seas etc. That’s an ‘ice age!’. It looked amazing but suspect life wasn’t during that time.
I was 6 during that winter living in a council house with just two coal fires, no heating in the bathroom ....the toilet was frozen every morning! I can confirm it was not at all fun.Was reading about the winter of ‘62 - ‘63 and it was 10wks of temps below freezing. Frozen seas etc. That’s an ‘ice age!’. It looked amazing but suspect life wasn’t during that time.
Mr-B said:
popeyewhite said:
'81 was the last really good snowy Christmas IIRC.
Coincidentally a programme on C5 lat night about it.Mr-B said:
popeyewhite said:
'81 was the last really good snowy Christmas IIRC.
Coincidentally a programme on C5 lat night about it.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff