Snow ! - Page 179

Ramrod · 12-01-2017, 18:23

Bexleyheath, SE London.....coming down thick and settling.
I'm told that the same is happening in Sevenoaks.

**Paul** · 12-01-2017, 18:24

Nothing here

richard s · 12-01-2017, 20:00

Snowing like a B stard here.

adzii_nufc · 12-01-2017, 20:37

Any cockneys know how long it's in for down there? I'm traveling down for the week on Monday

Pierre · 12-01-2017, 22:15

Snow falls south of Watford, world ends

12-01-2017, 22:59

All we ever get is rain where i am even when snow is everywhere else takes a lot of snow for us to get a dusting but I'm hopeful we will i always like looking out at a snow covered town.

Jimmy-J · 12-01-2017, 23:16

Snowing where we are now, and it's sticking!

MalteseFalcon · 13-01-2017, 00:34

Had sleet on the way into London to work, whilst working got a call from my favourite manager and she goes it's snowing heavy in Stevenage. Get back, and there is barely even a centimetre of snow on the ground!

Tinky · 13-01-2017, 06:38

No snow here in Cornwall but hailstones thundered down late last night.

denphone · 13-01-2017, 07:09

None here on the border of Devon either but its very icy and chilly though.

Ramrod · 13-01-2017, 08:38

Pretty much melted now. Pavements are treacherous though.

heero_yuy · 13-01-2017, 08:55

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Originally Posted by Ramrod

Pretty much melted now. Pavements are treacherous though.

Little bit left on cars and shed roofs, thick white frost though. They say there's another small dose for the SE around lunchtime today.

Edit.

Something nasty this way comes:

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**Chris** · 13-01-2017, 10:00

The school run was a nightmare this morning. Yesterday's snowfall has frozen hard onto the road, the first three miles of which are ungritted, winding and hilly. We got about a mile and a half and then met a lorry stuck on the same slope where missus rolled a car in icy conditions a few years ago. Waited 20 minutes for the driver to shovel out some salt from one of the piles the council leaves out here for us, then we were on our way. It's still pretty hairy now though, and unless the temperature lifts and stays up it will be horrible again tonight. All the worst bits are under tree cover so don't get much direct sunlight on them at any time of day.

Tinky · 13-01-2017, 10:14

Another lot of hailstones just minutes ago.

heero_yuy · 14-01-2017, 10:43

This bit from JC's column today had me laughing:

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ON Thursday evening, every television and radio reporter in all of Britain took to the airwaves to run about in small circles as they shouted breathlessly about the chaos and terror.

The way they were banging on, you’d have thought that an army of alien zombies had landed. Whereas, in fact, they were talking about a bit of light sleet.

Over now to John McPanic at Heathrow. “Yes. Thank you. More than 80 flights have been cancelled because ground crews are struggling to cope with the conditions . . . ”

I’m sorry to interrupt, John, but we must go live now to Peter OhmyGodwe’reallgoingtodie, who’s on a bridge over the M1 in Bedfordshire.

“Yes. Thank you. The authorities have imposed a blanket 40mph speed limit because if a bit of sleet were to hit a car’s windscreen, the driver may panic and crash into the central reservation, which would kill thousands and leave vast swathes of Western Europe at the mercy of Putin’s ground forces . . . ”

At this point, we left Mr OhmyGodwe’reallgoingtodie and went live to Susan Over-Reaction, who explained that the weather had brought the Tube network to a grinding halt. Without ever explaining how a train 60ft below the ground could possibly be affected by a small bit of sleet on the surface.

Nor was the listener given time to figure it out because we were off to Ron Certain-Death, in Essex ...

Entire piece here