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Who has snow?

None here in Ayrshire, or at least our part of it. It's been bitterly cold though, hardly getting above 0 for us this last few days. We are low down in a valley and the sun barely breaks the sky line at this time of year so we get little warmth from it. Handily, when it does creep above the skyline, it shines through our bay window in the living room, which warms the room nicely for a few hours through the day.

Even during the worst snowfall, we get hardly any snow here, being so low down, most I've seen in our street is about 6 inch drifting. Venture just out of the valley though, to the higher ground and there can be a foot or so. I'm suprised we've not even had a flake during this cold blast.

I may venture out later, just for some air, with the camera of course and also, to see if there is any snow higher up. It's a beautiful day actually.

-6 here over night.
 
None here in Surrey
Radar map shows in red where snow is falling as at time shown
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None down on the (very) sunny South Coast ... it was -4C when I had to scrape my whole car at 9am though!
 
Tigger.ufo said:
None down on the (very) sunny South Coast ... it was -4C when I had to scrape my whole car at 9am though!
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We had an inch or so when we woke up this morning and are expecting more later this evening and overnight. Hope it's not enough to be a PITA - our road doesn't get gritted and requests for the grit bin to be refilled fall on deaf ears, so if there's more than a couple of inches, we're stuck here.
 
Dale. said:
Who has snow?

None here in Ayrshire, or at least our part of it. It's been bitterly cold though, hardly getting above 0 for us this last few days. We are low down in a valley and the sun barely breaks the sky line at this time of year so we get little warmth from it. Handily, when it does creep above the skyline, it shines through our bay window in the living room, which warms the room nicely for a few hours through the day.

Even during the worst snowfall, we get hardly any snow here, being so low down, most I've seen in our street is about 6 inch drifting. Venture just out of the valley though, to the higher ground and there can be a foot or so. I'm suprised we've not even had a flake during this cold blast.

I may venture out later, just for some air, with the camera of course and also, to see if there is any snow higher up. It's a beautiful day actually.

-6 here over night.
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White stuff? cold and crunchy? Yep got about 5cm of the stuff.
 
Woke up to a thin layer of snow down here on the south coast this morning, very cold, so not melting yet.
 
A good covering of snow in the Highlands which has been sitting for a few days now although seems a lot worse around Aberdeen.
 
Had several inches of it in the Staffordshire hills. Didn't see a gritter until after morning rush hours so pointlessly late. Some berk was trying to do a three point turn in front of the gritter and made them wait about 10 minutes while they were farting about as well. Absolute imbecile. Was -6 first thing. Reached a heady -3.

Main roads were closed due to accidents. A day to stay at home and not bother going anywhere. A walk to the wheelie bin felt like an arctic expedition. A winter wonderland to look at but not interact with!
 
Had a tiny extra sprinkling overnight - just enough to make the road white. Nearly all gone now apart from a couple of deeply shaded areas.
 
Nothing in Glasgow. A few snowflakes at about 8.30am on the school run, but that was it. We never really get much snow though.
 
Still none here, bitter cold though, -8°C overnight, -2°C for most of the day today and now plummeting, currently -6°C at 5-20pm.
 
Dale. said:
Still none here, bitter cold though, -8°C overnight, -2°C for most of the day today and now plummeting, currently -6°C at 5-20pm.
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Aye it's been a bit cold, we've been powering through the wood stocks. Had the chainsaws and splitter out today to finish off some previous stock.
 
A very, very light covering when opened the curtains this morning here in Carlisle so disappointed as looking forward to getting some of those Robin shots. Russ.
 
Nothing in SW Cornwall. ..Lizard. 5C. Might get away with it but we're travelling home on Friday and warm air..relatively, is moving up from the Continent and will collide with the cold air..result..snow. The forecasters are telling us to keep up to date. If it looks tricky we'll leave Thursday PM.
 
Between Redcar and Middlesbrough we've had two days of light snow. Today was the most spectacular with hard snow and big flakes too but it didn't last. I think it's just 1.5 to 2" deep.
 
John, Exeter forecast for Thursday is (currently) heavy rain, improving a bit for Friday. Temperatures above freezing. That's just for Exeter though, the rest of the M5 is a whole different ball game!
 
Today, we have a thaw of the lying frost and ice, it's raining down here in the valley but I wouldn't mind betting, that just a mile or 2 up the road, it's probably snowing. I've not ventured out that way yet to take a look. Currently 1.5°C.

It's to freeze again later, which means it will be like a skating rink out there if it doesn't dry up underfoot first (or snow on top). Our street doesn't get gritted.
 
Had a bit here near Reading, probably been more around High Wycombe as it's higher there. It's a day when I'm pleased that I'm retired.
 
I've had enough of the snow now. We are now into day 6 of heavy snowfalls in the north east of Scotland. We've got about 40cm of snow in the back garden where it's not been touched, no signs of a gritter or plough in our street, though locals have been helping keep the street as clear as possible. We are running out of places to shovel the snow now!
 
JohnStewart said:
I've had enough of the snow now. We are now into day 6 of heavy snowfalls in the north east of Scotland. We've got about 40cm of snow in the back garden where it's not been touched, no signs of a gritter or plough in our street, though locals have been helping keep the street as clear as possible. We are running out of places to shovel the snow now!
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Time to build a massive army of snowman daleks??
 
JohnStewart said:
I've had enough of the snow now. We are now into day 6 of heavy snowfalls in the north east of Scotland. We've got about 40cm of snow in the back garden where it's not been touched, no signs of a gritter or plough in our street, though locals have been helping keep the street as clear as possible. We are running out of places to shovel the snow now!
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The TV news footage looks horrendous. I thought those days were. behind us re climate change.
 
Nod said:
John, Exeter forecast for Thursday is (currently) heavy rain, improving a bit for Friday. Temperatures above freezing. That's just for Exeter though, the rest of the M5 is a whole different ball game!
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Oh dear. I didn't expect a named storm. I've just read about it.


www.independent.co.uk

Storm Goretti named as Met Office issues new UK snow and ice warnings

www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk

Edit. 7.00pm. After watching the forecast on 6.00pm News, we've decided to leave on Thursday morning..9.30 which should get us home at 1.45-2.15. The snow is forecast from Bristol north, late afternoon. We'll drive through rain from the start, though. It's a better option than taking a chance on Friday morning.
 
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We decided to leave SW Cornwall tomorrow morning..about 900am instead of Friday, to beat the named storm ,Goretti but this morning's BBC forecast ...0750...showed that it will reach SW Cornwall..Lizard, by 6.00am with wind gust of up to 90mph...so we came home today. Had we left it until tomorrow morning, we'd have been driving in it all the way home with high winds, heavy rain and even snow from about Bristol. Unfortunate but safety-first and all that. The A30/M5 were fairly quiet. I wonder how many other people have cut short their holiday ? It's very possible that the next guests going into the cottage will not arrive on Friday. The forecasters, the AA and the RAC , have warned against travel tomorrow unless essential..Friday morning, too. It's sensible to heed the advice.
 
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