What happened to winter?
Discussion
I know it is only early February, but we have had almost no frosts this winter (Kent). Perhaps 6 or 7, and not very strong ones at that. We have had hardly any rain and our stream has not once been boiling along like it usually does at this time of year - currently a summer-like trickle.
I think it must be global warming
I can't wait for my car to be back on the road in 2 weeks to burn off some more ozone!
I think it must be global warming
I can't wait for my car to be back on the road in 2 weeks to burn off some more ozone!
minimax said:
only had one frost here in nottingham city centre this winter - hardly been really cold at all, hardly any nights where it's been below freezing and I can't think of any where it's been seriously cold.
and after all the scare stories about how it was going to be a really bad one
Yes, I recall the front page of the Torygraph back in early November saying "The Big freeze is Coming" or something like that. Some geezers who had "predicted" the hot summer of 2003 saying the whole of the UK was going to freeze over the following week. Did it? Did it
No doubt we'll have another cruddy spring and summer like last year.
Winter was cancelled in the late seventies, and has not been organised since. I havent seen proper snow since I was a teenager, except for when I lived in Ohio. OK Scotland still gets a bit now & then, but for most of England we havent had proper snow for decades, just a few inches every now & then.
I reckon the lack of it nowadays explains why we often struggle to cope with even a liitle of it when it does come down.
I reckon the lack of it nowadays explains why we often struggle to cope with even a liitle of it when it does come down.
rude-boy said:I was thinking of starting a new one and then thought the better of it. Just shows that you can't trust the weather, though personally I blame the Forces of Conservatism myself!
Was thinking about picking this thread back up and making some smart arsed comment only last night.
rude-boy said:Ta!
Nice gaff by the way.
Remembering my youth, me and a mate used to go down to a large waterlogged field that used to freeze solid, like an ice rink. We used to ride our Raleigh choppers on it, but sometimes the snow was so deep we couldnt even move, well above the height of the front wheel. Walking to school could be fun as even on the pavement snow would be up to our knees, on the playing field you could fall back into the deep snow and completely dissappear. Building snowmen and other structures the size of a small van was easy.
Wish we had real snow like that now, my lad would love it.
Wish we had real snow like that now, my lad would love it.
Balmoral Green said:
Remembering my youth, me and a mate used to go down to a large waterlogged field that used to freeze solid, like an ice rink. We used to ride our Raleigh choppers on it, but sometimes the snow was so deep we couldnt even move, well above the height of the front wheel. Walking to school could be fun as even on the pavement snow would be up to our knees, on the playing field you could fall back into the deep snow and completely dissappear. Building snowmen and other structures the size of a small van was easy.
Wish we had real snow like that now, my lad would love it.
Quite. I remember taboganning, building castles to have snow ball fights and the like. Kent used to be a good place to get snow. Last night's paltry effort is the most by kids have ever seen. We have a fantastic hill to go taboganning on, but have never as of yet had the opportunity.
mutt k said:
Never mind the weather, that is a seriously cool house!
Presumably an extension off an old oast house?
The bit you can see is the oringal oast house. Most oasts were built with a sort of barn bit attached, and the barn was used to store the hops before and after drying in the oast. We have doubled the size of the barn section with an extension at the back that you can't see. So we have a single oast with two barns, essentially. It's great having an oast. We have a round sitting room, my eldest daughter has a round bedroom and we also have an attic room which is conical and about 20ft tall!
Here you can see the extension round the back.
>> Edited by diddyman on Tuesday 22 February 09:24
When I arrived in the UK in February 1986, there was snow on the ground for two weeks solid. That was in Farnborough, Hampshire. In March 1987 we had similar weather. One night the temperature dropped to minus 15 degrees Centigrade.
In 1991 when I was commuting regularly from Farnborough to Godalming, I remember well being unable to get my car to climb the gradient on the slip road up to the A31 Hog's Back at Puttenham because of dense packed snow. Some of the local roads were blocked because of snow drifts.
Granted, we haven't had serious snow in this area since then.
In 1991 when I was commuting regularly from Farnborough to Godalming, I remember well being unable to get my car to climb the gradient on the slip road up to the A31 Hog's Back at Puttenham because of dense packed snow. Some of the local roads were blocked because of snow drifts.
Granted, we haven't had serious snow in this area since then.
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