more bl+++y snow

by **Sunshine** » 19 Dec 2010, 18:07

...Thought the last lot was bad...6 inches since 1.30 this afternoon...drifting up the car...

by **Oor Willie** » 19 Dec 2010, 23:53

I do love it when a prediction comes true

by **Kojak** » 20 Dec 2010, 01:39

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Yesterday we had more snow (8 inches) than the north east!

by **snoopy2** » 20 Dec 2010, 10:01

Ooooh - well my da is bigger than your da! :twisted:

by **Kojak** » 20 Dec 2010, 18:16

Well he IS, snoopy lol. Actually it's very rare that this much snow ever arrives in my area. It's only the 3rd time in 20 years I've lived down here that we've ever had much snow to speak of.

by **snoopy2** » 21 Dec 2010, 12:47

Well you are lucky Kojak. As lovely as it is it gets wearing to have so much of it and now continuing for such a long time. It is minus 10 today in Stonehaven and i am seriously thinking of getting a husky team. The local supermarket got a load of snow shovels in and sold out in 15 minutes - i was lucky i got the last one! I am dreaming of a snow clear winter - truely like the ones i used to know. Have a good un Kojak.

by **Kojak** » 22 Dec 2010, 05:09

Thanks, snoopy. Heading off later today to God's own county of Durham for Christmas with the family and to catch up with old friends (weather permitting)This time I'll be leaving the heating on low! The local news had a story of a woman who was away for 2 days and switched the heating off. After she returned she woke up to find water coming through the lounge ceiling - I don't want that on my return! Have a great Christmas and New Year!

by **Gemma1** » 19 Feb 2011, 09:36

We've had snow again overnight here in Yorkshire and it's still coming down now :cry:

It's not too deep at the moment so I'm hoping it disappears by Monday and doesn't cause too much chaos on the roads. We've only been back from Goa for a week and I'm fed up of the cold weather already!

by **Allan** » 19 Feb 2011, 13:17

It's still snowing here too Gemma. There's quite a bit of it but it's that heavy wet stuff so it should have gone by Monday.

Can't promise Goa temperatures in Yorkshire though!

by **Kojak** » 19 Feb 2011, 14:03

No snow here but friends living over towards the Pennines have reported some. Walking back from the train last night I did notice frost on the rooftops and it certainly felt cold on the station platform... but then it always does on a station platform.

by **sugardens** » 19 Feb 2011, 20:37

Lovely sunny afternoon...no-coat weather. But frost tonight. You guessed it, I'm not in Yorkshire but in the south where all the softies live! 8-)

by **snoopy2** » 20 Feb 2011, 16:39

No snow here in n.e. Scotland but a wind that "wid tak the skin aff yer phisog" :cry:

by **Adriana** » 20 Feb 2011, 17:46

Made a small fire in the firepit in the garden and optimistically grilled sausages for lunch but the cold wind soon drove us inside. Transferred the burning logs from firepit to stove pdq!

North wind straight over the snowy Turkish mountain tops and in through our front door...

by **Kojak** » 21 Feb 2011, 00:15

Sounds like a typical English barbecue, Adriana.

by **snoopy2** » 21 Feb 2011, 11:10

I had a bbq like that in July 2010!!!!!

by **MacDuff** » 08 Mar 2011, 21:41

No snow when in Cuba, BUT here in Edmonton, we have huge piles of the stuff along all the streets, the snow ploughs are out and the streets are snow covered. Our "advantage" is that we are equiped to handle the stuff. Since I returned from Cuba, the temperature has hovered around the -22C mark with the odd plunge down to about -35C.
Apparently in mid January there was so much of the stuff that flat roofs were caving in under the weight - including that of an old folks home where fortunately someone heard creaking and they all got out before the roof fell in.

by **Gemma1** » 09 Mar 2011, 08:03

Blimey that's serious snow and so cold MacDuff! I'm hoping we've seen the last of the snow in Yorkshire though the temperatures have dropped over the last few days and we've had a heavy ground frost. It is embarassing how everything grounds to a halt in the UK when it snows.

by **MacDuff** » 11 Mar 2011, 00:50

Gemma, you wouldn't wishg to pay the City taxes we have to cough up to pay for all the snow clearance equipment, you are wiser to just put up with the nuisance every few years, we get it every year. Like 1947 in west Yorkshire when we - within the City of Bradford, were snowed in for 7 weeks. Everything, food, milk, coal-which like bread and potatoes was rationed by the Attlee government - those were the days of "Austerity Cripps", Hugh Dalton and Dr. Edith Summerskill who declared that "Fish and Chips is a complete and nourishing meal." had to be carried by hand. In the spring when all the stuff melted, dead sheep lay in hundreds along the riverside in Wharfedale and the place stank. I refer to Wharfedale, not Westminster

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