So hows it been for you all?
Its been a pain here in Worcester, the sides roads are rubbish, I might as well drive on a mirror covered in oil, covered in feathers its that good out here, I have had two and a half days at home as it was easier to work from home then goto Cheltenham. Its currently -7ºC here at 11pm, and looks like we have more snow in this area about 1pm. Back to work tomorrow to see whats been going on.

I did build a small snowman

It's -5 degrees in Liverpool according to the ****ing weather, and we had all our snow on Tuesday. Very pretty, gave us a few inches of the stuff on the ground. But the ice can sod right off. The whole city's ground to a halt, and the place I do my food shopping at hasn't had a delivery this week so most of the shelves were bare. Wasted walk, and that minor coronary you have when you nearly slip on the ice is trying my patience!

I do still like the snow, however.

LOL UK SNOW MINNEAPOLIS 27" AND MORE TODAY.

http://www.the****ingweather.com/?zipcode=91739

Not the UK. Bite me.

http://www.the****ngweather.com/?zipcode=Worcester%2C+UK&CELSIUS=yes

Yeah thats cold.

I know but like in typical english fashion we dont know how to cope with complain we dont get any snow then get a foot of it and the place goes to pot, and now we dont have enough grit for the roads for the weekend, and to top it off there isnt enough Gas ( and i mean for heating not Gas for the car)

Every time I want to go for a jog, I decide I'm going to, work up the nerve to walk outside with temperatures [-10, 0]: My legs are getting killed by a combined killing-machine called cold-and-synthetic-clothing. And my face is getting tortured by the awesome combination of sweat and cold.

Not just that, but every time I get home I'm thinking: "well, at least I went outside to jog, and it's not going to snow any time soon..." You may guess three times what I'm seeing every morning I'm looking out my window...

For the sake of the ****ing weather

The south of England seemed to go bat**** insane when it started snowing.

Today was the first day that it hasn't snowed just outside Edinburgh since December 17th. On the plus side today my road was actually plowed by a JCB for the first time. It hadn't been gritted either.

well at my parents just a bit north of Oxford we got around 5-6 inches of snow, I was staying there over christmas, had to head back to london the morning after the big snow fall, so that was fun getting to the train station from the little village we live in. Luckily my dad does have a decent 4x4, we went past 2 or 3 cars on a hill leaving our village plowing fresh tracks which I don't think anyone else had got through so far that morning.

Now in london it's just silly really....for one I've left my motorbike at my parents as although I drove for the whole of winter out in Geneva on it without incident, the swiss know how to treat the roads, we brits don't and so I'm on public transport....Most trains are more overcrowded than usual, not stopping where they normally do or just not running. The roads and pavements outside my flat are just sheet ice and walking to the shops this evening was funny as hell watching folks fall on their asses :XD:, however once you get to a bit more of a main road it's fine.

I do have to laugh at how this country deals with snow, having lived in Geneva for two winters, both of which had a decent amount of snow fall, we in the UK get 1 or 2 days of snow (which to be fair was the most i've ever seen in this country) and some low temperatures (which again are lower than what Geneva got, it was kept warm-ish by the lake) and the whole country falls to pieces.

Also I did some driving in these conditions myself in just a normal everyday VW polo, they aren't that bad, the worst thing is how most people deal with the snow, they just start driving too slow or just plain badly. The swiss/french living in the area I was would just get on with, drive as normally as they could and the main highways would clear themselves from the natural traffic flow.

(this turns into a rant)

Some folks have mentioned snow tyres...I just shurg my shoulders at that, my bike tyres have very limited tread on them and probably only 3-4mm depth on the slim bits that have tread, in all honesty they would be considered totally slick next to normal car tyres and I never fell off once (although I had my moments). I also drove some of the CERN vans out there which quite frankley have thinner tyres than my bike but have decent tread, again I had a few slidy moments and wheelspins, but just dealt with it.

On slushy roads where the gritting lorries have been people are driving like grannies over here which makes it worse, just get a friggin move on, get some temperature in the tyres and clear the road. It took a heck of a lot of convincing to get my dad to even drive in the snow to get my train and giving him the hurry up when needed.

/sigh....just some of the driving I've seen in the past few days has made me cringe...

My internet keeps going off every 30mins so I can't upload a certain file to send to a certain moderator, but bar that it's all good fun. Man City and Man Utd got cancelled which made me mad though! All the local shops have been raided for bread and milk, so we're eating crap out the freezer we forgot was there.

http://www.the****ingweather.com/?zipcode=92054&CELSIUS=yes

It's been hovering around 25 C all week.

as the ****ing weather says: Its ****ing cold and snowing.

There is minimal amounts of snow in my town. Yet, it is absolute hell everywhere else.

Does that seem right to you?

I'm currently enjoying some lake-effect snow here in Wisconsin. It's falling at about 1-2 inches per hour, but moving through pretty quick.

it's -7 here this morning - there's a fresh snowfall of a couple of inches, but it's sat on about 6-8 of what I'm choosing to call "legacy snow".

Also Anakin-Paul: didn't realise you were in Worcester! I was there all bloody christmas! We could have bobbed down the Postal Order for a pint!

DUDE!!! How come you were in my neck of the woods?

It's where Izzy's in-laws live. Next time I'm there I'll have a baby in tow, but I'm sure I can pop out for an hour. They live right near the city centre, about 10 minutes walk from the Postal Order.

Me too! Im by the Park, Gheluvelt Park, Barbourne, so not far away.

Anyhow, snow is back later today, so will escape work from about 3pm I think.

Frozen Britain from Above

I sent that photo round my office today

20 Straight days! Theres icicles hanging from my roof that are bigger than Yecti's wang!

warmer snow is more dangerous, it's more prone to becoming ice.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1409

Why it has been absolutely frigid in Florida yet it's baking (relatively) in Alaska.

Started snowing again last night and started again on my way to work.

i live in buffalo, nuff said

I have to fly from Rome to London-Stansted tomorrow. I swear to god if my flight gets delayed I will murder someone. From what I hear though southern UK has been decent, and according to Ryanair flights at least that arent from/to Germany France Ireland or Northern UK all should be fine......

Last I heard Stansted was ok.

Better yet, I designed the RyanAir hangar at Stansted and it won an award

(It has a 126m clear spanning box girder over the doors)

You have a bigger problems than snow:

1. You're going to an Italian airport.
2. You're flying with RyanAir.