Snow

[ffutures]

It snowed overnight in London - only a thin layer which has already melted from my street, but I think I'd better take the tube in to work in case there's worse later. Fortunately public transport appears to be running normally, so it's no big deal. But expect to hear news stories about Britain grinding to a halt, Arctic storm horror, etc. etc...

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[dsample.livejournal.com]

It's been raining here for the past week. We got a fair amount of snow in the weeks around Chistmas, but a lot of it has disappeared since.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's the coldest we've had all winter, and has barely snowed worth mentioning, at least in London.

[uk-sef.livejournal.com]

It snowed here too. I was already planning to take the bus to get in this week but now I have to struggle even to get as far as the bus stop!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Really? Which part of the UK are you?

[uk-sef.livejournal.com]

Very near EWT. There was snow in the night and then more snow in the day. By the evening, it had been cleared a lot by traffic (and the extra couple of degrees of temperature!) in the town; but out in the almost-countryside it hangs around - especially on pathways which are completely shaded by buildings and where it has become trodden into being ice.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Eww.. We were clear completely by the evening - tonight is very cold buy so far no sign of it snowing.

[uk-sef.livejournal.com]

There's a patch of snow outside my house which refuses to leave. I've also just noticed some on the roof, despite that receiving sunlight these days. The ice I removed from the pond and bird bowl won't melt - and the bird bowl refroze immediately on a couple of days. But the heavy frosting in the trees in the morning goes quite quickly. So the air temperature must be warmer (and perhaps drier to react quickly to the sunlight) than the ground this time.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Our media has caught the same thing, there was the lightest of dustings of snow the other day, at most a single cm, and the news was 'HEAVY SNOW BRINGS CHAOS!'

With lots of reporters stationed all around the country looking at this meager dusting of snow and trying to make out it was a big deal.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

How are the skiing bits doing?

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Not so well, it was unseasonably warm over Christmas and New Year, even at the tops of the mountains. The air was just weirdly warm. And what little snow there was all melted.

Last night should have topped them off again.

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I was reading this and I looked up and it is snowing again here, great big flakes. It had stopped snowing by the time I'd got up, and only the roofs of cars and the hedge round the garden opposite had any snow left.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

We're having some moderately heavy snow again now, but it seems to be melting rather than settling.

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

It's now raining.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

same here for a while, now stopped,

[ianirving.livejournal.com]

could be worse:

See "Los Angeles Overreacts to Cold Temperatures"
http://youtu.be/_6t-EjrtD3U

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Good grief!

[dandello.livejournal.com]

Gee, and I thought the 'Disaster film that would never be made' was 'Snowfall - Seattle'. LOL Sounds like Londoners have the same attitude as Seattlites - You're supposed to go visit the snow, it's not supposed to visit you. VBG

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Following VERY cold winters in the 70s-80s the UK had 20 years or so of very mild winters - they haven't got that much worse now, but people got out of the habit of expecting heavy snow etc. at all, so there seem to be stupid problems.