mad   0
Replying to Jimblues   11:56, Thu 8 Jan
We don't have cold weather to sustain it. If is does snow, it will be gone next week.
Yeah I was worried about Cambridge yesterday but having watched a detailed forecast this am they seem quite certain about where snow will and won't fall plus it's gonna remain about 6 degrees so it'll all melt Friday night. I guess flooding could be more an issue than any frozen pitch.

Thursday rush hour and early Friday looks like the pinch points unless the temperature unexpectedly drops away overnight

I remember flying into Denver in 2000 landing in blizzard like conditions and walking to the Pepsi Arena for a gig in about 4 feet of snow. The following morning it has all melted away. We don't often get snow like that here but that could be what it's like I suppose
A_n_E   1
Replying to number8   12:29, Thu 8 Jan
number8
Snow is shit, eff off to the North Pole if you like it so much 😂😉

you dont like it as it's too cold to wear your full kit
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A_n_E   1
Replying to number8   13:12, Thu 8 Jan
NEVER!!!!!

I'm like the Fast Show, the same joke each week but in a slightly different setting / thread 😂
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JohnP   0
Replying to tool   13:22, Thu 8 Jan
My daughter came back from a few days in Amsterdam and was amazed at how rubbish they were at coping with a bit of snow: hundreds of trains and planes cancelled for about 2cm, people panicking generally.

I would have expected the Dutch to be much more efficient/used to snow/frost/etc.
newblue   -1
Replying to JohnP   13:30, Thu 8 Jan
Yep. Thought they spent the winter months zipping along the frozen canals on their skates

We’ve had snow and ice for a week, just going now. Unusually is snowed more near the coast.
StechyBlue   0
Replying to Pondo   13:58, Thu 8 Jan
StechyBlue
StechyBlue
I said that a few years ago when the same happened and we had light drizzle. They do get it wrong.

they dont put out storm warnings and get them wrong, this storm has been around for a week or so now and has been heading towards us in that time. what can change is the area that it hits as wind speed / direction etc can have an impact on that. just because you didnt get the snow that they said was possible doesnt mean that the storm didnt happen.

they were saying rain / sleet / snow earlier because of the temperature and they werent sure if it would be cold enough, now however they seem to be saying that the temperature will drop dramatically around 5ish meaning snow is a lot more likely.

I know. I'm not arguing the storm warning but the snow potential. It's on a knife edge by their own admission.

The point im making is I will believe it when i see it, as i'm still hurt by the great snow warning of the late 2010's when i got all excited for snow right over Birmingham and at the death, the forecast said its fecked off up north and we got a light drizzle in brum. Not their fault, but it was still a pisser.
I think they just have to err on the side of caution - better to say there's a risk of snow all over Birmingham and have it turn to drizzle than forecast a likelihood of drizzle and end up with a foot of snow and loads more people out and about because they didn't think there was much chance of snow.

Another Micheal Fish moment 😁
Tandy   0
Replying to StechyBlue   14:02, Thu 8 Jan
Red warning for wind in Cornwall now. These happen maybe once a year.

The Channel and the SW is going to get battered by wind but escape much of the snow and rain.
Replying to Tandy   14:36, Thu 8 Jan
Tandy
Who wants snow anyway?

Me.

Summer is shit.
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Tandy   0
Replying to Le Mod   14:48, Thu 8 Jan
Preferring the cold is for Emos and Incels

1 out of 2 ain't bad.
Replying to Tandy   16:00, Thu 8 Jan
...yeah a very rare Red warning for wind from 4 this afternoon, damage and destruction forecast, we should miss most of it, barely a breeze at the moment.