Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Chatting on the Plot => Topic started by: JayG on December 09, 2017, 18:28
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Well, it's forecast here from about 0400 Sunday morning, complete with amber warning. :ohmy:
Can't escape the feeling that the Met Office has cried wolf a bit too often in recent years (i.e. since 1987!) but with that policy I suppose they're going to be right eventually...
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hello snow forecast for my area edge of amber yellow area, have just put new running edge on snow plough haven't had to take plough out for 2 years jezza
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Local weather forecast says there is a possibility of snow, in the early hours but it changes to gale warnings by lunchtime :ohmy:
Whatever happens everybody agrees that it's going to feel very cold :ohmy:
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we too are on the edge of the amber warning. downside we are at altitude so probably have snow not rain.
jezza pity you weren't closer to clear our back roads if the need arises. I expect you will not mind getting the kit out to make sure it works!
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It wasn't amusing driving in it this morning, we've only had about 2" but I've not seen ANY gritters at all during the cold spell :mad: I cross 3 council boundaries on my drive over to ML's and none have gritted not even the main roads. Tomorrow rush hour is going to be a nightmare.
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We've had forecasts of snow, then of no snow, then of snow, then of no snow all week. Looking at the "rainfall" side of the met office website, looks like we shan't get above freezing today but will miss out on the snow.
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Yes it was forcast & it’s been delivered, plenty of it
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We have plenty too.
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We were forecast rain, but have had quite a bit of snow and its still falling. We very often dodge the snow here in Reading, but not this time.
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Yep
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No snow here, but a lot of rain.
I wonder if there is snow elsewhere in Kent, further up/down the line, as I've heard no trains yet.
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I know how disruptive it can be, but still can't help feeling a bit disappointed with the light dusting we've had so far.
Apparently South Yorkshire has now been downgraded from Amber to Yellow for snow, but I can't verify that because the Met Office website is currently hanging on by a thread (I wonder why? ::))
Pic shows invisible force field protecting Sheffield (so far...)
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We were forecast rain, but have had quite a bit of snow and its still falling. We very often dodge the snow here in Reading, but not this time.
And very slippery the roads are too ???
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6" overnight and still going here ... Kids are out with the sledges on the field. :) Sundays are a good day for snow, if it has to do it.
I wish I could tell the DHL delivery driver not to bother trying to get here today ... but there is no way to get in touch. >:( I dont want her to struggle un-necessarily, or to suffer if she has to abandon the delivery. Its not fair.
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Nothing here but it rarely snows on the Island. Here East Wight is very windy and the sea is crashing up over the Yaverland Road.
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loads here and still snowing.
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After a little sprinkling yesterday we've not had one snowflake today.
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1 or 2 flakes, but nothing to write home about. As they adjusted the northern line of the snow, we fell out of the warning area (York). Just spoke to Mum in S Herts and she had about 4 hours this morning.
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Only white stuff falling from our skies here in Blackpool aint falling from the clouds!!!!
Shorts n T shirts today tho at one point when I was chopping some logs it went a bit chilly so had to put me hat on.
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Started at 4 am and is still going now!
Construction of the new polytunnel is now on hold till it's thawed sadly, which may delay my onion seed sowing until January ( was hoping to get them done on boxing day and keep them under double cover).
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No snow here.... just lots of rain last night and cold winds through the day.
Not really expecting snow until the usual time.... end of February to early March and then only to keep the rest of the UK company as it's normally gone in a matter of hours. But who knows - once in a while we do get a bigger share.
Keep warm you tough lot to the north ;)
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Plenty of snow on Sunday morning here in East Midlands, which started to thaw in afternoon, and then down to -2 overnight. Tuesday morning forecast to be as low as -12.
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Cold last night so we kept the snow we had, but no more arrived. Just thawing now .... All schools closed, no buses, or dentist etc etc. Main street and road passable with care, but our lane, not a prayer. The kids are already on the sledging field making the most of it.
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Sleet in Horsham and lying wet snow at my workplace on Holmbury hill. Ususal low-lying English snow, an inch that just about settles then melts the same day, followed by an overnight freeze and black ice the next morning. Everywhere is soaking wet now so pointless doing any winter digging. The most unpleasant type of winter weather without being destructive.
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Expected snow here in West Wales but have not seen a snowflake in the past couple of days .
Got to say that the new format not showing your location on posts takes a lot of the interest out of threads like this.
It is bound to do the same on growing threads across the nation when the warmer weather arrives. :(
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We must be on the borderline, as I can see big flakes of snow falling heavily, but it's just wetness by the time it hits the ground. Very windy again today as well!
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Thought we could be in for some, but again not a single flake. I agree that posters' locations should be re-instated as it really helps us to give advice plus the Mods and others would ask us to state where we lived in our profile.
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We have ended up with around 7" of accumulated snow (or at least that's what's on the shed roof) since Friday. Still no sign of any gritters yet, but I've not been able to get out of the road at ML's since Sunday Morning so they may have done the main roads.
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Got to say that the new format not showing your location on posts takes a lot of the interest out of threads like this.
It is bound to do the same on growing threads across the nation when the warmer weather arrives. :(
Please look at Forum Upgrade in The Notice Board - Page 1 of 1 (http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=127047.0) and you will see that re-instating Profile Location is at the top of John's Tweak List.
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We have ended up with around 7" of accumulated snow (or at least that's what's on the shed roof) since Friday. Still no sign of any gritters yet, but I've not been able to get out of the road at ML's since Sunday Morning so they may have done the main roads.
If you were Les Dawson that would be a fate worse than death - snowed in with the Mother in Law :)
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had another inch of snow last night. the wind was very keen and a lot of drifting and blowing snow.
the track we had cleared blown in. probably worse tomorrow after a hard frost tonight.
hope it will be rain not snow tomorrow night.
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We have ended up with around 7" of accumulated snow (or at least that's what's on the shed roof) since Friday. Still no sign of any gritters yet, but I've not been able to get out of the road at ML's since Sunday Morning so they may have done the main roads.
If you were Les Dawson that would be a fate worse than death - snowed in with the Mother in Law :)
Haha but in Lardmans case ML refers to mother Lard 😉😂
Just popped round to our sons through the park & it’s decidedly crisp to say the least here, no more snow since yesterday but we had enough with the 5” we had
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We have ended up with around 7" of accumulated snow (or at least that's what's on the shed roof) since Friday. Still no sign of any gritters yet, but I've not been able to get out of the road at ML's since Sunday Morning so they may have done the main roads.
If you were Les Dawson that would be a fate worse than death - snowed in with the Mother in Law :)
Haha but in Lardmans case ML refers to mother Lard 😉😂
Just popped round to our sons through the park & it’s decidedly crisp to say the least here, no more snow since yesterday but we had enough with the 5” we had
I hang my head in shame :(
I'll get me coat...
(Sorry Lardman, no offence I hope)
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No more overnight, but it was COLDDDDD...... So yesterday's thaw has made for a lot of black ice today. Lovely blue skies though, a complete photographer's dream. Schools still closed ... parent's nightmare. The brewery drays are getting out though, that is the main thing! :D Otherwise some of the pubs could have been looking at Christmas short on beer .... :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy:
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I hang my head in shame :(
I'll get me coat...
(Sorry Lardman, no offence I hope)
Honestly I think Id have preferred it to have been a MiL anyone's MiL would have done ! ::)
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I hang my head in shame :(
I'll get me coat...
(Sorry Lardman, no offence I hope)
Honestly I think Id have preferred it to have been a MiL anyone's MiL would have done ! ::)
😂😂😂
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No snow just wind, rain, sunny, and one frost but cold nights here on the isle of wight,,,,,,
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No I wasn’t but we got anothe4 sprinkle that DIL said made the road treacherous this morning when she brought our little granddaughter round, so slippy that she left her car at the end of our Close rather than try to negotiate the not so big hill
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No further snow here since Sunday, but the plot is still a good 6 or 7 inches deep. I scraped away as much snow as I could from around the broad beans, but they're looking pretty sickly at the moment :(