SNOW in BRITAIN ((picture thread))

good luck britain

(looks like you guys are experiencing now what Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, etc. experienced in December)

(please post pretty pictures)

Oh noes! British cameras and computers have stopped working!

It's like an inch of slush here.

wait, just an inch?

(haha, after December 2008 "Snowpocalypse", I can actually say that as a bragging point)

I'm going to put a photo up in a minute but my computer is acting very strangely and refusing to upload things at any speed.

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My dog regarding a mini snow creature.

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Those bicycles look like delicious bite-size desserts.

what's the big deal, does it not normally snow in britain?

Not like this, and not everywhere; the southwest and southeast seldom get much beyond a very light dusting.

More pix here - http://flickr.com/photos/njsouthall/sets/72157613271024744/

Hello ILX

I haven't posted for a long time.

Tried to go to work today, but my manager told me to go home, so I had fun in North London instead...

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Jordan, most of Britain gets as much as snow as the U.S. Pacific Northwest i.e. just enough to be a brief novelty every winter or so.

but 2008/2009 WAS NO ORDINARY WINTER (for both regions, apparently)

What I found quite amusing is that the entire bus system in London had to shut down, even though there was a similar amount of snow a couple of years ago in Oxford and the buses were still running then...

Not as exciting but my back garden (as far as I ventured today):

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considering the first time i left the house this morning a mondeo was being toed (sp?) off the top off some railings, I can understand the buses stopping tbh.

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v710/muppetbaby/winter.jpg

^ this was from a few years ago though, because it's not that uncommon.

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Good work :-)

this is how we do it in london fields

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Our garden - don't forget to fed the birds!
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Pictures from Edinburgh this morning.

Nicolson Square
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Pink Wellies
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HERO

Typical!

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that should have been a link, so here it is

It also snowed in Britain in 2006:

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It also snowed in Britain in 2006:

Yes it did. That's when my photo is from. It snows in Britain every year. It just doesn't paralyse London very often.

Edinburgh is beautiful and the snow Dalek is awesome.

Xpost: the news we get about GB abroad tends to be rather London-centric, you could easily think that the whole of Britain isn't used to snow. sorry for not thinking before posting :-(

That's alright, the news we get about GB in GB tends to be totally London-centric.

It was kinda beautiful today. The only people crazy enough to be driving were smart enough to be doing about 15mph and the whole area was silent.

Pam and the kids made a snow cat:

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And we went to the rec ground...

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Snow cat FTW

jesus, that is no snow. we would go to school in that.

not where i am now, though. it was 70 today. t-shirt and jeans.

i mean, i've driven through stuff that deep and big.

(sorry i'm drunk, done now)

If I hear one more person say "call that snow?" I'm gonna scream. YES WE DO CALL IT SNOW! We haven't (in the south half of England) seen this much snow for years.

Also, yes, snow cat, super cool.

Just went into work - quickest commute for ages, the buses have the roads to themselves and the schoolkids all presumably have another snow day - to find the office building is still shut. Still, Mitcham Common and Cricket Green looked awfully pretty in the dawning sunshine.

Approximation of all texts/emails/calls into radio show the last coupla days: "Robin from Aberdeen says 'What a bunch of pussies you are down South. We get snow like that every year and WE don't have any trouble coping.'"

Yes. BECAUSE YOU GET IT EVERY YEAR.

Snow cat is mega.

Exactly; there's no bloody infrastructure in areas of this country for snow. Of course everyone goes nuts when it snows.

OTM. What a surprise that Moscow copes with snowfall much better than London - they've only been getting it every winter for 10,000 years.

It was pretty mental up here in Glasgow for a few hours last night - about 4pm-6pm it was proper going for it. I cycled home along Edinburgh Road, which is a 6-lane 40mph main road, about 5-5:30pm and it was treacherous.

We actually closed the shop early, because the boss was worried about getting home, as he lives out in the sticks.

i'm gonna be all smug 'n' anal and shit but you guys have to up the ISO to get too much light so your snow looks SUPAH WHITE. :-) (i'm not smug, i just learned this on a photography forum)

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Thank you, student body of Exeter.

i'm gonna be all smug 'n' anal and shit but you guys have to up the ISO to get too much light so your snow looks SUPAH WHITE.

Changing the ISO alone isn't going to do that. Yes, if you keep aperture and shutter speed the same, you'll over-expose, but there are better ways of doing that than pumping up the noise in your picture with increased ISO. Just a little exposure compensation will do it. I prefer to shoot Raw, fix the colour temperature afterwards (AWB gets confused by all that white) and add a stop and a half in Lightroom.

Not that my two pictures above are remotely good examples of this! One is lit through a window by tungsten lamp, the other is deliberately vignetted...

(Ok, I'm contradicting myself in that opening para - YES, increasing ISO ALONE is going to over-expose, but only if you're shooting manual can you do that. Most folks probably shoot aperture-priority or some form of auto, where changing the ISO will change something else too).

And here is some proper white snow (lovely colours, Nick, btw):

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I was just going to say, Mike, you were contradicting yourself, in your opening para, there.

Ned T3, now you know how Seattle, Portland, etc. feels when they get their city-life-derailing oooh-fun! few inches of snow every other winter, and everyone east of us in the U.S. goes "pfff, you can't even function in THAT?"

I feel like wrecking havoc on the NYC/NJ people who freaked out at the measly 3.0 earthquake they had the other day. keh keh keh.

btw, I love this thread! Thank you so much for the pics!

Margaret Morrissey, of the Parents Outloud campaign group, said: "We are giving children the message that when things get difficult you should just stay at home and have fun."

My kind of message.

I'm a pretty uptight guy (as I have occasionally shown on these pages) but imagine being that guy? How would you cope?

Or maybe it is a coping mechanism?

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0902/iceball

UCL artist Martin John Callanan has documented strange alien sights in Victoria Park, East London.

In an email to colleagues and friends, Martin wrote:

“Here is some important news I must share with you.

Late last night I began hearing reports of strange icy objects in a part of east London commonly referred to as Victoria Park. It was too dark to investigate and the park was locked until this morning. At dawn I set out to investigate, having only just returned to my office, this is the first email I write. What I discovered was so strange and unusual the first step was to upload the documentation to my website and contact you as a matter of urgency.

Within what appeared to be a rather contained area of roughly 200 acres coinciding remarkably with the boundary of Victoria Park, I found and recorded more than 300 occurrences of what I refer to as “ice balls”. These are roughly spherical objects ranging from ~30cm to more than ~150cm diameter. For now, until more information becomes available to me, I must surmise these ‘ice balls’ are similar in origin to hail. Perhaps this exaggerated scale is the latest phenomenon associated to our rapidly changing climate.”

Martin – a UCL Slade School of Fine Art staff member – has created the mini-project in his role as Artist-in-Residence at the UCL Environment Institute. He explained: “These objects are indeed most unusual and unaccountable; we have, as yet, been unable to explain these unaccustomed icy spheres and demi-spheres.”

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0902/09020901

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Where that?

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South Bank at 1am:

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