Snow

[Cortone]

i fell flat on my backside lastnight, which at the time was amusing, i am now in agony but cant afford to stay off work, because a) i have an interview on monday, b) we dont get pa*d sick and c) theres too much work to do :)
alas, i've had to cancel tonights barbecue hehe

Ouch!!!! Take care - that does not sound good at all.

[anakin]

It's not ideal more centrally in London but we obviously don't have it as bad as our northern friends - the tube has been affected by some delays but I can still get to work (alas) and the supermarket without too much difficulty. It's icy everywhere which is annoying and people are finally trying to move their cars off the hill near us... but there's no chance of me moving my car off our drive. There is so much snow on our drive that hubby and I had a snow ball fight with fluffy snow even though it hasn't snowed properly in a few days. I'd have to reverse my car round a corner to get it out... not likely! Camden Council appear to have run out of grit.
PS I won the fight having got him in the ear! Hahahaha!

[Beate]

I was planning to go to Precious in York tomorrow, and checked the trains for tomorrow morning, and there is none until after 10 - don't think this is normal. So that option has been ruled out. I'll have to see what the roads are like.d. Wonderful!

If I haven't overlooked a screening, the Precious screening is not tomorrow but next Sunday 17th, so you have another week for the weather to get better.

[andrews]

TOP TEN COLDEST YEARS - (source-The Daily Mirror)

1684
This is widely regarded as the coldest winter in British history because average temperatures stayed below zero for two months. The River Thames froze for more than two months, thanks to a January 6C colder than the long-term average for the month. Although there have been lower temperatures recorded for short spells, in 1684 the average temperature in January was -3C and in February was -1C.

1739-40
In late December temperatures dropped to -9C and felt even colder because of biting winds. The following January was one of the coldest months on record.

1962-63
The third coldest winter. December began with the last great London smog, then gales, before the snow arrived over Christmas. Snow covered most of the country for 67 consecutive days. On January 13, -16C was recorded at Gatwick, -20.6C in Hertfordshire, and the sea froze off the south coast.

1940
January averaged -1.4C. Mid-month, the Thames froze for the first time since 1880. In places snow was so thick that the ice brought down tree branches and phone wires.

1881
More than 2ft of snow paralysed Britain when galeforce blizzards battered the whole country. Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk, recorded a temperature of -21.7C on Christmas Day.

1927-28
Saw one of the heaviest snowfalls of the 20th century. Blizzards began on Christmas Day in the Midlands and Wales, and then spread south by Boxing Day. In Kent, there was 2ft of level snow, and drifts of 20ft were measured in the Chilterns.

1947
January saw the start of one of the longest periods of lying snows in British history. Snow fell somewhere in the country every day from January 22 to 17 March 17. Nearly a quarter of the nation's sheep died. At Writtle, Essex, on January 29, a temperature of -21C was recorded, and most of East Anglia experienced nothing warmer than -5C. Oxford had 16 consecutive days of frost, and Kew had no sunshine for 20 days from January 2.

1933
Towards the end of February came one of the worst blizzards to hit Britain. In parts of the North, Wales and the Midlands, there were 48 hours' continuous snowfall, and elsewhere it was almost as bad. Huddersfield had more than 2ft of lying snow and there were 14ft drifts on Yorkshire's moors and dales. Villages from the Midlands to the Scottish borders were cut off.

1952
From December 5-9, there was one of the worst smogs ever to envelope London. This combined with the bitter cold to cause 12,000 deaths. The rest of the winter brought snows, storms and prolonged sub-zero temperatures.

1978-79
A blizzard hit the South on New Year's Eve, bringing Heathrow Airport to a standstill for days. January averaged -0



Well there's some interesting information! Must have been cold to freeze the sea!!!

[andrews]

DEEPEST SNOWFALL
The deepest snow ever measured in an inhabited area was 83ins at Forest-in-Teesdale, Co Durham, on the at the end of the notoriously chilly winter in 1947.

TRAIN HELL
Snow caused Britain's worst ever train journey. At 3pm on March 9, 1891, the West Country Express left Paddington, London, for Plymouth but became stuck in the outskirts of the capital.

It finally arrived in Plymouth four days later on March 13.

DIRTY SNOW
To say something is "as pure as the driven snow" is inaccurate as the white stuff is pretty filthy. It contains nitrates, calcium, sulphate, potassium, air gases and industrial pollution.

SNOWFLAKE SPEED
The average snowflake is made up of 180 billion molecules of water and falls at a speed of 3.1mph.

Facts and figures to drop in your next conversation with friends, family and colleagues!

[Spanner]

my snow has melted quite a lot today, thank goodness. at least it means i might get some of my team back at work, it's been an awfully quiet week

[Cortone]

I was planning to go to Precious in York tomorrow, and checked the trains for tomorrow morning, and there is none until after 10 - don't think this is normal. So that option has been ruled out. I'll have to see what the roads are like.d. Wonderful!

If I haven't overlooked a screening, the Precious screening is not tomorrow but next Sunday 17th, so you have another week for the weather to get better.

Yup - quite right Beate! PeteYork pointed this out to me, too, but the good news was that I couldn't get out the drive anyway, so I had not set off unnecessarily.

I put this blond moment down to snow madness.... (or senility!)

Now, I need to find my 2010 diary... (although I have put all the SFF printouts together now!)

my snow has melted quite a lot today, thank goodness.

Yup - Spanner, our snow is going too. I got out to the supermarket at last later in the day. My road is not great, but the main roads are now reasonably clear. Fingers crossed that the blizzards don't hit us tonight! I might even make the cinema tomorrow if we have no more snow!

[steve9872]

Its snowing again here in Leeds but its light so hopefully it won't cause too many problems.

[tilly]

It's snowing quite heavily over here. My train was 30 mins late so hoping will be able to get home later today.

[Ms Thrifty]

Bizarrely, despite the snow, my bus arrived on schedule for the first time since I've been using public transport. It has always made me slightly late for a 6 am start; today, when I was on a 7 am start, I got in just before 6 am! I am hoping for a train home instead, though, as it's so much quicker. But anything will do!