The Great British Weather Debate

[DaveR]

It's a blinking blizzard here now.  :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage:

[Bellringer]

Just arrived back from a family visit to the other side of Crewe and only encountered falling snow as we came along the South Chester by-pass. The snow became more noticeable from Abergele to Conwy via a stop in Junction. The signs on the A55 approaching the Junction say that the A470 to BYC is closed.

Glad to be home.

[DaveR]

Glad to be home.

You timed it well, Stan, another hour or so and it could have been very tricky.

[Bellringer]

I did question the wisdom of going but the forecast was best of the week for today, so off we went to take an old auntie out for lunch etc.

[Nemesis]

Snowing steadily here, bet we shall have fun tomorrow with all the ice underneath it.

[TheMedz]

Car embedded in the house inbetween Old Road and Ty Gwyn Road at Black Gate on the Orme.

[Hugo]

It's snowing in Colwyn Heights and my drive is already covered in snow.  I'll need to dig the snow out early tomorrow because the plumber is coming here at 10.00am.
This must be the 4th time I've had to dig the snow out this month!

[Fester]

Car embedded in the house inbetween Old Road and Ty Gwyn Road at Black Gate on the Orme.

What?  the one which used to be the old shop years ago?  No one hurt I hope....

[Merddin Emrys]

It's a blinking blizzard here now.  :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage:

to think one of the attractions of living here was the mld winters     its a pain but we still live in the best place    the weather forcast yesterday did'nt mention this did it? I thought it was meant to be warming up today :

[TheMedz]

Yes the old shop. Looks like it was empty at the time of the collision. No-one seems to be trapped in the car The Fire Brigade are here on site and the front of the house looks (in this light) to be somewhat less than vertical. They have only just had the work completed from  last years incident when a car did something similar but went straight through the front door. Might be time to install some fencing or a ram raid type of Bollard.

[Hugo]

I've just let the dog out before going to bed and it's snowing very heavily here in Colwyn Heights and there must have been at least 6 inches of snow this evening with more to come.
I know what my job will be for tomorrow---- snow clearance again!!

[Fester]

Its been snowing like mad up here on the Gt Orme all night.
Just as the road was becoming useable again, we are back to square one.

Our travel plans to visit family in Yorkshire for Xmas just took a negative turn.
I have an upset wife as she had all the pressies wrapped, food bought and cards written.

Ah well, such is life.   

[DaveR]

*Looks out of window*
 
*Goes back to bed*

[Ian]

I did question the wisdom of going but the forecast was best of the week for today

What I still find odd about all of his is the Met office's seeming inability to do the little things - like look out of the window.

Among its labyrinthine web pages, the met office has this one:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/wl/wl_forecast_warnings.html

 where you can see the warnings issued, read the detail and track the probable issues. Yesterday, the site singularly failed to show any snow falling on North Wales until 6.00pm, yet snow fell - and not inconsiderably - from 0900 onwards.  And it was continual.  Yet the only warning were for ice.  Very, very odd.

[Merddin Emrys]

I did question the wisdom of going but the forecast was best of the week for today

What I still find odd about all of his is the Met office's seeming inability to do the little things - like look out of the window.

Among its labyrinthine web pages, the met office has this one:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/wl/wl_forecast_warnings.html

 where you can see the warnings issued, read the detail and track the probable issues. Yesterday, the site singularly failed to show any snow falling on North Wales until 6.00pm, yet snow fell - and not inconsiderably - from 0900 onwards.  And it was continual.  Yet the only warning were for ice.  Very, very odd.

 
and yet these same forcasters predict all of this climate change nonsense in 50 years time so that governments have an excuse to tax us more and they can't get tomorrow (or even today) right! :rage: