snow

bah this is the time i fall in love with junkies and other stupidness

Historically November is a gloomful month for me so be warned pop pickers.

http://www.yourphotos.com/users/2516/moreKa-Bar%20For% 20Christ.jpg

but snow the weather is great. Snow banks and skating on ponds and shinny (sorta like softball but no need for a cooler for your beer, just shove it in the snow bank) skiing, fishtails in cars and snowmobiling. I hate rain but crazy assed blizzards are so fun to watch. Late night snow storms over lone street lights with Significant Other = classic. Sadly its warm enough for t shirts right now thanks to some left over hurricane that finished blowing over the region so no snow. Though we are usually snow covered from Hallowween on so hopefully this crazy Vancouver style weather will just go away.

fluffy white Xmas snow = classic. ice storm = massive dud.

It doesn't snow anymore, which is good because I'm a whole twenty years older than when I was born and it's undignified for a gentleman like me to be SPLATTED in the face with a snowball, particularly if it consists of nothing but ice and grit.

When people say snow is pretty, I always think of that thing Quentin Crisp said - "...this is like being glad to be attacked by a handsome mugger..."

Actually, even when I was a young scamp, snow and I didn't get on well together. Snow, once it's finished being fun, becomes slush which, once it's finished being slimy, becomes ice. When I was a pre- school scamp, I was going to playgroup with my mum and I slipped on the bastard ice by Worcester Park station and cut my finger and my knee and I STILL HAVE THE SCARS.

HOLY SHIT WOW LONDON IS GONNA BE UNDER 60 FOOT OF SNOW THIS AFTERNOON perhaps

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NtILxBszyf8

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Icb_tRTnA4g

!

^

SO FUCKING JEALOUS.

It's 67 degrees in the Confederacy today. I can't stand it.

We are cold here in Austin but it's supposed to be in the 70s again by Thursday.

that is some great snow

children of britain, are we in for lots of snow this week ??

The man from the Met Office he say yes, and I am planning on going mountain biking tomorrow, haha oh shit.

Ste, sems so!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=2613

erm sems-seems.

mild snow in southwest london just now

snowing here in leafy Surrey, but it's too windy to settle

I had this old roommate from Dubai who completely rejuvenated my love of snow, I remember the firs time he saw freezing rain crystalized on all the branches. Snow was like the one facet of culture shock that wasn't sort of weird to guide him through and was actually sort of awesome. I will miss snow.

"extreme" weather warning in the thames valley for tonight

I went to sleep just after lunchtime and woke up to lovely fat gobby flakes of snow. It's nice.

http://parkerdonat.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/snow.jpg

requisite.

Coo, it's lovely outside right now.

And a Southwark council truck's just driven past with blokes shovelling grit out the back, on our little sidestreet, at 11.30 Sunday evening! Heroes!

http://www.benmarsh.co.uk/snow/

I've got about 4 inches in SW16, and still falling...

Crikey, it's beautiful though. In NYC last month, I kept marvelling at the snow and saying how much I missed it... now it's followed me home.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3429/3245263877_55601529ef_o.jpg

My beautiful Lambeth bins.

Just woke up in E3 - this is awesome. There's about four inches on the ground and it's still coming down pretty heavily.

Most of the Tube lines appear to be suspended on at least part of line apart from the Central, Northern and Victoria, though.

Yeah, as I was out taking photos about an hour ago, this woman came tramping down the street and told me not to bother going to work - the Thameslink is out.

It's so beautiful, though, I'm currently uploading pics I took just as the dawn was breaking - the snow looks SO AMAZING in the purple and pink light.

Still snowing in SW16!

Snowed in here totally. The whole of London has ground to a halt, I'm not going to work today.

People's attitude in the street is just fantastic. Everyone is acting like kids on a snow day, being super friendly and just stopping and looking around, like... WOW!

(Of course this may just be because it's before rush hour - though that said, no one is going anywhere around here.)

I mean, normally I laugh at England in the snow, because they get a quarter of an inch and the city grinds to a halt, but this is PROPER snow - this would bring NYC to a standstill.

"working from home" will, i suspect, involve building a snowman.

Woo-hoo! No work today. Would have been nice to know last night, but I'm not complaining.

Why does the snow affect the Underground? I mean . . . it's underground!

Not all of it. About half of it's overground. Otherwise, how would they get the trains down there in the first place? (I suppose they could take all the components in boxes down in the lifts and then build all the trains down there).

All London buses suspended!

the most awesome thing last night was how everything was lit up clear as day, and "everything" included a solitary fox moseying casually about in the gardens behind my flat, totally unaware that it could be seen and oblivious to our eyes.

i love the snow but of course this happens the week i actually need to travel somewhere :/

Of course this happens the week I'm housebound. Even if I could get a glove over my stitched-up wrist I can't fasten my shoelaces.

Of course this happens in the week we'll almost certainly have to get to the hospital to have a baby.

Hurrah Warrington finally gets some snow. I was up till 4am watching it through my window, got some snaps too.

And it's snowing again now as I type.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!

IT'S SHAKEY!

(a bit blurred, but that's probably because of all the booze he's had)

I have just built a snowman! And a snow Jabba the Hutt

I got to work early, as I was so damn excited about the snow! And then I managed to wrangle getting today off as annual leave!

I am going to spend the afternoon in the park!

It'll probably never snow again, so I am determined to make the most of it!

I went to take a photograph of the giant snowman on Peckham Road on lunch, but it had been decapitated

DEATH TO ANTARCTICA

snow is beautiful...totally agree about the attitude on the streets etc. btw are the supermarkets open? I feel like cooking some enormous snow themed stew

Water?

Took this on my walk into work:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3519/3247093578_3ca0964a8c.jpg?v=0

How on Earth did you carry it?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/S4301979.jpg

Why does this happen on the day I take off of work that I could have had free anyway? ffs

Snow disruption in Britain - LIVE

i love this weather. i would make a snowman but it would take too long and i dont have the right gloves (suppose i could try marigolds). maybe ill make a snowboy instead. or a snowbaby. snowfeotus even.

leather gloves are great for sculpting snow!

actually this is even good for getting to heathrow tomorrow - perfect excuse to just book a taxi rather than deal w/public transport.

someones in the money.

do all countries grind to a halt like england does when it snows?

No.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3122/3247545238_7587121ef6.jpg?v=0

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/2/2/1233573384318/penguin.jpg

try again
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3122/3247545238_7587121ef6.jpg?v=0

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3460/3247569540_44c2857657.jpg?v=0

What my garden looks like now. The ledge of snow on top of the deckchairs we haven't moved since August is impressive.

the snowman that the IT guy at work made in the carpark has a cat5 cable smile and a stabilo boss hiliter pen for a nose.

carrot cock count so far: 1

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3422/3247644150_13accf32ea.jpg

that's a good snowman

An email from our HR people:

Colleagues,

As a follow on from the communication note sent out earlier, and forecasts that the weather will get worse throughout the course of the day, a decision has been made for our people to head home from 2.30pm onwards.

There are many who have a fair distance to travel, so it would be appreciated if those who live more locally and don’t have to drive would support the business by continuing to work throughout the day.

Your co operation in this matter would be a greatly appreciated.

Have a safe journey home.

My distance from home: 10 minutes walk.

Can I make a dart from here at 2.30 with a clear conscience?

i find it amazing how london transport is virtually non existent today. and boris was on the news just now saying that he doesnt think london was badly prepared lol.

I just saw an E8 bus out the window! West London is the home of the intrepid!

meet them halfway. stay at the office but don't do any work. xposts

the complete bus suspension just feels kinda pathetic but maybe it's better than running partial service and this causing more confusion

but its a major city, its meant to be able to handle extreme weather conditions like this. the whole excuse about 'we havent seen weather like this 1991' or whenever is a bit lame.

truth

Melanie Phillips: "No undersoil heating in Square Mile betrays failed legacy of Red Ken"

Looks some people are moving on my road, poor sods!

UK needs batshit cartoonists to rise up and give us 'lol where is your global warming now' 'toons this week. Bet there won't be any though :/

...because they can't get to work

The ink is frozen in their pens...

>Can I make a dart from here at 2.30 with a clear conscience?

Course you can. If there was a mention of those clearing off at 2.30 returning the favour some time then it would balance out, but that just looks like you locals are being treated like mugs. Especially given that London and many other parts of the UK are all on the skive today.

Just called Jobcentreplus because I can't get to my appointment because there's no buses - but the office is closed!

Sack the bloody lot of them! </ dailymail>

But then where would they sign on?

so nobody's spotted any giant snow penises yet, huh?

i cycled from crouch end to kings cross this morning and it was the most fun ive had in ages. Sore arse from keeling over though

"UK needs batshit cartoonists to rise up and give us 'lol where is your global warming now' 'toons this week. Bet there won't be any though :/"

That was my first thought too. (OK, second, after "Ooh, snow!") Give them time. But who will be the UK's answer to the strangely semitic Al Gore? (See batshit cartoonists thread)

so nobody's spotted any giant snow penises yet, huh?

― salsa shark, Monday, 2 February 2009 14:29 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That's no way to talk about ah forget it

Bride Of LBZC

I'm trying to think of a joke crap enough that Tony Husband could make a cartoon of it.

I went to take a photograph of the giant snowman on Peckham Road on lunch, but it had been decapitated

update: on my premature journey home from work, children were posing for photographs sitting on the severed neck stump of the snowman

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/7864829.stm

funny just for the 'Debbie Payne in happier times' photo caption

Can't get through to google or bbc websites here - anyone else having trouble?

Apparently this is from a CCTV camera in Nottingham. Purile.

http://regmedia.co.uk/2009/02/02/notts_cctv.jpg

but its a major city, its meant to be able to handle extreme weather conditions like this. the whole excuse about 'we havent seen weather like this 1991' or whenever is a bit lame.

i drove my tiny crapbox car in the snow last night and the roads were already treacherous - i certainly wouldn't want to be driving a double decker in conditions like this, nor be a passenger.

poor clint xp

http://www.flickr.com/photos/njsouthall/

Nice shallow depth of field stuff, works v well with the snow.

Westminster and the Eye
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ledgr/

Heading out to Waterloo Bridge now.

Bah, at least you were smart enough to ring first. I trudge down there in the snow and the wet, to find out that it was closed.

i got in to find an email saying not to bother. only took 10 minutes longer than usual (i walk) and most of that was due to the queue in tescos.

MY LOLCOLLEGE IS CANCELLED

i like how nobody even bothers with paving the roads

Just got back from the shops; there's definitely a lot of weather-emboldened wannabe hardmen about, at least around the council estates of N1. LOOK OUT! He's got a snowball! etc.

^^^ lots of kids out today wearing the standard schoolboy hardman look of rugby shirt and tracksuit bottoms, no gloves, and carrying around snowballs.

multiple xposts - is that sposed to say CUNT MOD?

Lots of kids on the Mile End Road throwing snowballs at passing cars.

ok heathrow express is now down! tell me the best and most reliable way to get to heathrow for 8am tomorrow, o ilx

Walk. Leave now.

aeroplane lolz

National Express?

i think i prob just need to know which is most likely to be running tomorrow at 7am out of

- the heathrow express
- the no 236 bus
- various tubes, maybe?

I think you'll be okay on the tube 'til it reaches overground, so maybe not beyond Acton Town?...I'm thinking it'll be pretty icy by morning.

yeah gareth said the piccadilly was fine until northfields or something, at which point you had to wait half an hr? really don't want to be waiting unspecified lengths of time at random, so obv heathrow express is the way to go, unless of course it's still completely down tomorrow morning.

Tubes probably not as all that bit of the Piccadilly is outside - if proper trains aren't running I wouldn't expect that to. Buses depends on whether the gritters do the roads around the depots (this seems to be the reason there were none today). National Express or taxi sensible guesses. Also, how many planes took off today?

both runways were closed, one has reopened...so, the flight will probably happen tomorrow, though would guess not at the time it's meant to. i wonder how much a taxi from dalston all the way there would cost.

buses are running again
not sure what the weather'll be like tomorrow though

Sleet predicted - I guess it depends her "warm" it gets tonight?

How warm - what was I thinking?

booked a taxi. turns out that a taxi all the way there is less expensive than a taxi to paddington + heathrow express, and will obv cause me much less ~stress~~

multiple xposts - is that sposed to say CUNT MOD?

haha i predict we haven't seen the last of that picture

We made snow sculptures (snowman, a dinosaur that fell apart, a cup of tea, a dog, my flatmate attempted a rabbit that ended up looking more like a duck or some egyptian statue or something) and the girls downstairs made a bloody huge igloo. Gotta love snow. Too dark to take pictures though :( Hopefully tomorrow morning they are still there.

I had no excuse of leaving work early unlike everyone else who catches trains and THEN I fell flat on my arse walking home :(((((

CIO: PR agencies sending my emails prefaced with lines like "Hope you're enjoying the snow!" before launching into their 3,000 word catalogue of forthcoming releases, in an attempt to make the mails seem personalised.

blizzard on tuesday according to countryfile farmer's weather this morning

It's been snowing a fair bit today and has stuck, even in town.

Of all the things I miss about Idaho, snow is not not not not notnot one of them.

It's been snowing all day here (just outside Glasgow), which is going to make my trip to work fun tomorrow :-(

Yeah, we could be in for another fun-filled winter Monday here in Glasgow.

SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

think i am just going to put another jumper on and make a cup of tea. looks nice out the window though.

Snowing here as well, just a light dusting but it looks great.

I mean, yesterday I was getting ready to put on my "ah, fuck Christmas" face, but a tiny bit of snow has completely turned it around.

Where are you guys, London? When did it start?

I feel left out! Oxford was promised sleet last night but I think it ended up as just rain.

Newbury, about an hour away from Oxford.

Surrey

And to answer the second question, it only started here about forty minutes ago.

Still no snow, but there's a squirrel running around in circles halfway up a tree out there, so thank you thread for making me look out of the window

It's not exactly Snowpocalypse but after a beautifully sunny day it's suddenly tipping down snow here AND NOWHERE ELSE...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2735/4345598905_511e3fe415.jpg

after a week off, been snowing icing sugar-type snow here for about 36 hours

Ha, we had about five minutes!

And now it's completely stopped and it's blue sky once again.
View across my front "garden" during those five minutes was lovely though.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2755/4346366618_3618063eaf.jpg

snowing, motherfucker.

where u @ ?

teesside, north east

i'm sat in an icelandic sweater, another jumper and two pairs of trousers, it's fucking freezing. the trick is to keep thinking about captain scott and how cold he was, makes you warm straight away

wish it were snowing here tbh

but not so much that id have to do much shoveling ;-)

talk of snow in london over the weekend

the trick is to keep thinking about captain scott and how cold he was

i can even add some kind of local pride to this since i'm in dundee. sadly my snow didn't stay beyond the short period around my walking home at ~3am last night. time to return the christmas music to the shelves.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_a7jkcMVp5Vg/TNvmeMpm3aI/AAAAAAAANcc/8-erC7xT-bE/s1600/xmas.jpg

if it's going to stay freezing +- a few degrees for days on end, might as well have some damn snow

heavy snow forecast for se england in next 12 hrs

♪ jingle bells ♪

From BBC Weather's 24 hour forecast for the London area:

http://imgur.com/omTYu.png

It's currently snowing really lightly in E3.

Fuck my employers for soldiering on btw

hmmmn

enough snow to be a nuisance without really effing things up right now, still snowing tho

~high~ of -2 forecast for next few days, ffs

HEADING OUT NOW GUYS, DRESS SEXY AT MY FUNERAL.

rly heavy now

http://i.imgur.com/Suhmf.jpg

omg there's a coded message in the snow

hallelujah praise be to Him

super stock post from lj there

soaraway

its not settling here and thus it just sucks. what is the point of non settled snow?

Weak and soggy here too. I want my money back.

i dunno, further heavy shows forecast for this afternoon, also thursday

hey that trip was actually pretty easy. the plodding was fun, if time-consuming.

more snow than a clipse mix tape in this bitch #lastrelevantin2006

not quite that much snow here

We have got a mad pile of snow here right now. It better stick around until the morning. Another couple of feet would be nice, just to be sure.

there's a drift on my window now which i want to go all the way to the floor like in the shining.

not a lot of attn for the snow

seems snow got mad hype in 2k9, q1 2k10 but is pretty much over at this point

haha true

don't think the country has 'ground to a halt' yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laOZ7HPu9yU

-20 below w/ the windchill tomorrow ;_;

fabulous snowball fight tonight with my departing german friend and half a dozen others. i got fucking raked.

It's really fucking comic here now, don't see why I shd strap tennis shoes to my feet and turn up to a college with no fucking students just cos the dudes in charge will do anything to avoid staying at home with they families.

ALL SITES CLOSED GET IN

Can't decide whether to spend the day playing Footie Manager or watching movies. A bit of both, maybe. :D

xp tennis shoes? I guess to prevent slipping on ice, but does that really work? (I'm looking for ways to increase footwear traction and am currently looking at k-expensive walking shoes or gluing silicon saucepan trivets to an old pair of trainers)

meant tennis racquets tbh

it's so hilarious/embarrassing how the UK can't even begin to cope with an amount of snow that barely counts as a dusting in other countries

Most of us can cope fine, we just want a day off. Or a week if poss.

i.e. the country grinds to a halt cos secretly it longs to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j52McEYalfE

I tried to get to London this morning. that was a damned stupid idea. Nice and cosy at home now though after 3 hours at the station.

Britain grinds to a halt

Heavy snow causes major disruption: forecasters warn more is on the way

fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinally

yeah I had 2 disappointing days of work but this is so worth the wait. snowing again. might dance up the road to the pub after, clicking my heels and handing out sixpences to passing urchins.

wish i had a job so i could skip work, at times like these

i was gonna skip ilx but nah

just need some cunt from the CBI on the news moaning about how much this is "costing the country" to make the day complete

http://i.imgur.com/Y0Y7c.png

what a load of shit

cbi spokespeople are the most disgusting etc

ho fuck a mad deluge of snow's just started bombing down

being stuck at home because of this would be nice if i had remotely sufficient heating. ohgodohgodohgod.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzAS8tnxx2o

lol south yorkshire. this is outside my house.

http://i.min.us/ibbRIe.JPG

that's impressive. however, i just went outside in london. there's barely any snow on the ground at all.

ok wow that IS impressive.

my bike, a week ago

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/5205910328_111e867a5c.jpg

no one i know has been to work for two days in sheffield and they are due for another 20cm tonight on top of what you see in the photo. glad i'm in oxford tbqfh, although god knows if i'll be able to fly out on saturday.

BBC Weather website shows that this burg will be right in the middle of a snow cloud from now until midday tomorrow.

5-10cm in lahndahn overnight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11883714

Halfords said an additional 16,600 sledges were being shipped in to meet increased demands.

And they'll arrive just in time for the big thaw. Look out for cheap sledges to give nieces/nephews for Christmas!

snowing a fair bit now

not gonna be challenging sheffield but hey the provinces gotta run the show in some respects

I've been at work all week. SE London has seen a fair amount of snow but the DLR is ruthlessly efficient. Don't quite know how it always operates a near perfect service outside in the snow when the main overground trains are at a halt. Dagnamit!

^DLR is manufactured in Canada, hence the snowproofing. Ironically we're without snow in Montreal so far.

snowing lightly but it hasn't let off for four hours and heavier snow forecast for 6am

so london could be pwopah snow chaos today

5-10cm in lahndahn overnight

u kno this is like 2-4 inches right

added to what's already on the ground, that's more than enough to fuck up london's transport infrastructure

lolndon etc

transproffle infrlmaostructure

berlin apparently also at a standstill.

what i don't get is that when the trains stop the ability to tell people that the trains have stopped and provide decent information also appears to break down.

can someone in (se) london who has a car pls drive me to croydon tomorrow morning so i can get to my very important, highly necessary, and currently unreschedulable appt at the home office
i'll pay you
and love you forever

cabs won't take bookings if they bother answering at all and buses won't go anywhere with hills and the limited services of trains all go through stations i need a bus or car to get to

so desperate !! waaahhh

Second day off, shit-tons of snow everywhere, fucking mint :D

fucking STUPID more like

seems like north london is some bubble with not much snow and most buses and trains running no problem

still freezing here though

lol flying from gatwick to munich on saturday. munich under two feet apparently. great times.

have this huge military parka which i sort of hated for a few years but man it is doing the business this weather, don't feel remotely cold outside...

http://guitarplayer.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/noel_maineroad.jpg

that were good

Fittingly for someone known for tantrums, it looks like he's wearing a bib.

(Noel that is, not Local Garda)

well over a foot here. not happy that I'm a homeworker :-(

fucking camberwell art students :/

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs694.snc4/63393_657189182480_202904339_38385529_6022722_n.jpg

h8

why did u not add a small F

u&k

ARTF?

q: guessing you guys do not salt the roads, right?

why did u not add a small F

lol this is exactly what's being discussed

turning the T into an F might be less effort though

cuz every time i lol down my nose at ppl struggling with baby snow i forget that mpls has an army of plows and that the roads here get salted asap. AND it's colder, so you don't get the dump --> melt --> freeeeeze you get in a warmer clime

Yeah the main roads are salted but a) local councils seem to run out of salt after about 2 days and b) they don't touch side roads so for example our car is stuck for the duration unless I can get a team of mules and some kind of blowtorch.

i like walking on the pavements when they're in this state, it's a good workout for one's leg muscles

really, really love snow, tbh

Also, the guy in charge of gritting the roads in East Yorkshire is called Skidmore :D

I really love snow, and not just cos it gets me off work.

words i have used for snow

powder
bullet
graupel
corn
chunder
neve
sugar
mash (potatoes)
slush
slop
hoar
spindrift

styrofoam

is BIG MUFFIN ur inuit name

is RACIST yours

A popular belief exists that the Inuit have an unusually large number of words for snow. This is not accurate, and results from a misunderstanding of the nature of polysynthetic languages. In fact, The Inuit have only a few base roots for snow: 'qanniq-' ('qanik-' in some dialects), which is used most often like the verb to snow, and 'aput', which means snow as a substance. Parts of speech work very differently in the Inuit language than in English, so these definitions are somewhat misleading.

The Inuit language can form very long words by adding more and more descriptive affixes to words. Those affixes may modify the syntactic and semantic properties of the base word, or may add qualifiers to it in much the same way that English uses adjectives or prepositional phrases to qualify nouns (e.g. "falling snow", "blowing snow", "snow on the ground", "snow drift", etc.)

The "fact" that there are many Inuit words for snow has been put forward so often it is somewhat of a journalistic cliché.[4]

XD

why yes my DN is a corruption of a dude who got banned for racism

aput my thing down and flip it and reverse it

i like walking on the pavements when they're in this state, it's a good workout for one's leg muscles

― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Friday, 3 December 2010 01:26 (15 minutes ago)

i've been thinking this for the first fifteen minutes of my trip home, then when i hit the hills for the last fifteen i realise how unfit i am.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/DSCF8037.jpg

Wednesday night

my mum is a nurse in sheffield. hasn't been to work since last friday. hope you're happy, god and bbc weather.

temperatures are super low today, doesn't seem to have got above -4C in most of south-east england, daytime temps of below -10 in other parts of england

-16 in cleggland tonight

I was gonna try to post pictures from the Buffalo storm, and the first link on Google News was from, oddly enough, the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334950/Buffalo-snow-storm-Motorists-trapped-12-hours-foot-snow.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Cars dodge a boulder that has crashed on to the highway near Knoxville in Tennessee

...the Foreign Office reports that no ILXors were injured.

its here again

not far from noodle vague :

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs737.ash1/163088_10150097280217780_518362779_7374145_2974072_n.jpg

started again !

Woosh... 25 cm yesterday and another 10 cm today.

Scotland is broken. And yet, somehow, I am at work :-/

last week's snow melted really quickly in london

scotland really oughta get used to snow tho...

well, the rest of the country too but i'd think more of a priority the further north you go

but then we get a few mild winters and the daily mail will be crowing about snowploughs and salt depots wasting taxpayers' money

have they broken out the GLOBAL WARMING EH LOL thing yet?

Yesterday's snow was kind of insanely quick, heavy, not really forecast, and right in the middle of the morning rush hour.

Some people phoning my work actually surprised that people haven't made it in - just had a lassie on from Edinburgh (currently cut off from Glasgow due to snow/gridlock/jackknifed lorries) asking if the weather's been that bad over here? Um, don't you have a telly or radio or newspapers or the internet? I think people sleeping in cars overnight on gridlocked motorways counts as a reason to not get into work, tbh.

Eh, I'm in Yorkshire and I distinctly rememeber the forecast on Sunday evening saying that snow would cause disruption in the central belt during rush hour.

I wasn't really paying attention on Sunday as I wasn't going in to work until lunchtime on Monday, I'm just going on what I read, which was that it was kind of underplayed. They had no intention of closing schools or anything, so I suspect it wasn't expected to be as bad as it was.

* The M8 closed westbound overnight on Tuesday between junction 1 Hermiston Gait and junction 5 Shotts.
* School closures to continue across Scotland on Wednesday.
* Daniel O' Donnell gig at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall on Wednesday cancelled.
* Weather continuing to affect services at airports, although Campbeltown Airport is completely closed.
* On the railways, train services are subject to delay and cancellations.
* There is widespread bus disruption - services are running but remain unreliable.
* M9, M876, M77 and M90 remain now open but are down to one lane in places.
* M74, M73 and A80 open and passable with extreme care.
* In East Lothian, the A1 in East Lothian closed northbound between Gladsmuir and Huntingdon.

This is the post for unusual details in BBC articles.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs376.ash2/65441_10150111622855081_137047840080_7738959_3953316_n.jpg

when I was a kid I wanted to drive one of these trucks so badly

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Train_stuck_in_snow.jpg

i have to drive from MAN to sheffield on friday night at ~midnight. apparently snake pass is less a road and more a kill zone. stoked for the madness. maybe i will just go via leeds. hate snake at the best of times.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/SnakePass6277.JPG/800px-SnakePass6277.JPG

yeah stick to the motorways wd make sense...

snake has some pretty sweet apexes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM3yJrcwTGw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ufc8bnD8DE

scottish snow pictures are mental

never seen so much snow in uk

I've bookmarked this thread because I'm envious! I've only been in the snow once and it was rad. (The other two times as a kid in Australia it was really just slushy sleet so it didn't really count). Also interested in the downside of snow, so using this thread for future reference when I move to an Alpine village...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11954988
this is great

WOW

YEAH. i've had a few big avalanches off of my roof, but have only heard rather than seen them. i do now have mysterious cables dangling down, which i'm pretty sure bodes well.

I heard bits of snow falling off our roof but didn't see it, nothing like that though.
I have some pics of footlong icicles outside my bedroom window on my phone. Will need to get them uploaded

^^^ yes please!

i have an icicles photo myself, though i am currently sans real camera and my phone camera is awful, so their craziness isn't done justice at all:

http://oi56.tinypic.com/14se0dv.jpg

:D

Anybody in the NYC area experiencing this chaos?

yeah...it looks like it must be 2 feet by now?

Yeah and the wind... I've been up just watching cars tailspin down Washington street (if they can even move) here in Hoboken.

Sedans are just being abandoned in the middle of the street.

yeah I keep hearing various teams of men shouting as they try and move a car

In upstate NY, half a block from I-87...which is either completely deserted voluntarily, or has been closed by the state. *Maybe* one plow an hour goes by; other than that, no traffic whatsoever.

Watching out my window wondering if snow is supposed to blow upward

Also drunk btw

Sup

watched guys pushing a car - more and more dudes joined in and they pushed the car like 20 feet - but there is nowhere to push the car to - there is snow everywhere

snow, that was where we used to go

Christmas Eve on the frozen boating lake in Alexandra Park, Dennistoun, Glasgow...

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s9/v15/p1072327160-3.jpg

I wish that thundersnow were a more frequent thing. I've only seen it a couple of times, and it was incredible seeing the snow backlit. After the lighting it really started pouring down, like rain does in thunderstorms sometimes.

was a wee while ago, and already posted on the Glasgow thread, but this was out the back of my house the first day of the mad snow in Scotland:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5122/5262044324_80aac77309.jpg

It's mostly all thawed round here, I think yesterday was the first time the temperature's been above freezing for almost three weeks.

yup

ysi?

hah

it only snowed for like 45 seconds but still

it never snows here, i want it to

Where are you, lag∞n?

snowed for about 5 minutes here. i was on my bike... better than rain though!

vermont

send me maple syrup while yr at it, along with the snow

one maple sno cone

:D

oh now its snowing again

might not get tomorrow off but at least i got to finish 2 hours early tonight, bring it on snow goblins

http://i.imgur.com/fyf6U.jpg

26 counties sitting pretty

Started coming down here nw england. Excitedly decided to go for a walk in it. Got as.far as the pub

Nothing happening here (Surrey)

probably in london by mid morning tomorrow

It's been cold as butt here for weeks and still no goddamn snow

I feel cheated.

Stupid california

blizzard now. That walk at dinner time might not be such a grand idea.

my office has encouraged us to work quickly so we can fuck off early. which is good once i don't get stuck in hammersmith.

Man do I ever love snow. Even the grumpy City bastards seemed cheery this am

forecast for this afternoon, still love snow but doing it at the weekend is no use to me, come on

I got sent home at 12:00. I cycled through the snow and didn't fall off so that was a plus.

Our department was sent home at 12:00. I refuse to cave to the elements so am sticking around. Couldn't really face explaining to a client in St Petersburg that i had to reschedule a phone call because half an inch of snow had fallen.

At least my mom's been here and seen UK SNOW FREAKOUT in action, prompting LOLs, so she believes that it is possible to go apeshit snow day over one bloody inch of it. /Minnesotatude

it's forecast to remain around freezing until tuesday so more snow is likely

I demand photos

if/when snow falls I mean

got to leave around 1530. magical. should have got food on the way tho. meant to be not drinking this week but the temptation to crack into some nice beers is strong.

Been lucky to have today booked off work so slept late and then went for walk ending up at the swimming pool, on the (correct) assumption the place would be completely empty. It was so warm in there that I ended up doing twice as many lengths as normal.

Sent home at 3pm. Walking home was beautiful and I stopped to take crappy phonecam pictures approx every 3 feet. Did get pretty wet ankles walking through a field of snow but yes, looking forward to the indignant lols which will result from telling my Canadian friend that we were sent home over 2" of snow.

Lucky bastards. My company isn't sending anyone home, we're here till 6. tbf I don't think there should be any problems for me getting home, but still.

SUPERSTORM PAX UP YOUR ASS

https://31.media.tumblr.com/3f66f270d7deb80da71703a9d8489a47/tumblr_nf79fncSF71syxs7bo1_400.jpg

7" in five hours, with about 4 more hours of snowfall to go. Once every couple of years or so, this is fun stuff. I wouldn't enjoy it more often than that though.

my word it's really been coming down here in central AZ

We got 8 and a half inches Monday/Tuesday of this week and 8-12 more forecasted for this weekend. I don't mind some snow, but this is a LOT in a short period.

November 1st! First frost yesterday. First snow today. Wet though. Ain't gonna stick.

first real snow of the winter. crazy! this is new england! i don't like the new normal. its almost february! okay, i did have to shovel in december but that was once and it was no big deal. this is the first real covering.

just saw a film of a bunch of snow in Armidale, New South Wales.. crazy