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How are you coping with the weather guys and girls? Seen any snow?
None in my area YET?
 
Snow is 'forcast' for tomorrow and to Friday, though I don't think we'll see any here ... at the moment it is -3C ... and I am cold.

:D
 
Travellers face chaos as freeze hits Europe ...

Freezing conditions across parts of northern Europe caused travel chaos today as forecasters warned that more snow and colder temperatures were expected over the next two days. British motoring organisations urged people only to make essential journeys, while hundreds of drivers in France spent the night in their cars after 30cm of snow fell in parts the country.

In Austria, a blizzard resulted in power cuts to homes and was blamed for numerous road accidents across eastern parts of the country.
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oh, crap ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weather/Story/0,2763,1674492,00.html?gusrc=rss

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,8542,1674130,00.html

:cool:
 
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Why are the British so surprised by bad weather? It sometimes seems as if, each winter, we mutate into Martians, opening our windows and asking with awed amazement, "What is that white stuff falling from the sky?" Buffalo, New York, can get landed with a year's normal snowfall in a night but the next morning the traffic is still moving, people still get to work and to school. In Toronto, if nobody has come to shovel your front pavement by 10am you do it yourself. Swedes know to keep their change, bus tickets and keys in their outside pockets so that they don't need to keep rummaging inside in the freezing cold. In Canada, schools only close when the snowdrifts are higher than the tallest children. In Estonia only when it's -25°C.[/font] [font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Other countries just laugh at us. There was once a cartoon with the punchline, "Due to snow, England has been cancelled." Is this because these countries have more extreme weather conditions than us? Or because we have shorter memories? Long before "global" was on kissing terms with "warming", Britain was seriously cold. In 1947 there was the heaviest snowfall since 1814. In 1962 the country again came to a standstill for the coldest winter since 1740. Up till the 19th century, frost fairs were held on the river Thames. Yet our transport infrastructure is now so abject that any slight deviation from the norm and the country seizes up. Investment in snowploughs and salting trucks - which cost money, but also save it - is so paltry that winter gridlock becomes inevitable.[/font]

[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Our relationship to the weather also displays a certain hubris. Tragic accidents happen because, despite the forecasts of snow, people still go out hatless, sometimes even coatless. As Billy Connolly once put it, "There's no such thing as bad weather, only wrong clothes." It's as if we've become so severed from the seasons that we've lost our respect for the cold. Campaigns launched by bodies such as Learning Through Landscape and Living Streets now have to encourage outdoor play, because cold weather means not only hypothermia but also snowballs, sleighs and a kind of abandoning oneself to the elements.[/font]

[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]These responses to the outdoors need cultivating if they're not to be lost. Even the Canadians are complaining that their children are no longer hardy, no longer playing outside between November and late spring, and consequently losing the capacity to cope with the cold.[/font]

[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]So am I dreaming of a white Christmas? No, I'm awaiting blizzards and transport havoc. Snow rage can't be far away.
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Been Snowing where i am

Your joking we have had snow for the last 2 days running, had about 2 inches on Monday evening and another 2 inches last night and it is so cold it don't look like it's gonna be going anywhere fast....:(


It's been -1 all day today and at the moment as i type my outside thermometer says -3 so you lot it looks like have missed out as i built a snowman in the early hours of tuesday morning....(I couldn't resist honest...:D )....
 
63 °F / 17 °C
Clear
Humidity: 59%
Dew Point: 48 °F / 9 °C
Wind: Calm
Pressure: 30.04 in / 1017 hPa
Visibility: 4.3 miles / 7.0 kilometers
UV: 0 out of 16
Clouds: Clear -
(Above Ground Level)

:p
 
Not sure about the exact figures, but it's safe to say it's been f...f....f....f....f...reezing:D
 
Well, we were going to go down to the beach to go snorkeling this afti (although it wasn't quite as sunny as it was yesturday) but john accidently hit the bumper of a stationary combi van with great force (he was flung through the air for about 10 feet before the impact) so that was cancelled. The Doctor at the hospital did all the tests & xrays and sez he's ok but that tomorrow he's going to feel like he got hit by a truck. Smart Doctor that! :D
 
he was flung through the air for about 10 feet before the impact ...
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whoa :eek:

Temp here is -9C at the moment ... ice cold sea air. :rolleyes:
 
Quadophile said:
63 °F / 17 °C
Clear
Humidity: 59%
Dew Point: 48 °F / 9 °C
Wind: Calm
Pressure: 30.04 in / 1017 hPa
Visibility: 4.3 miles / 7.0 kilometers
UV: 0 out of 16
Clouds: Clear -
(Above Ground Level)

:p
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wow thats impressive
 
heres mine:

Cloudy

-2°C

Feels Like
-6°C

UV Index: 0 Low

Wind: From the West Northwest at 6 mph

Dew Point: -4°C

Humidity: 83%

Visibility: 6 miles

Barometer: 1016.9 mb


-6? thats crazy!
 
It's bloomin' cold here in Northumberland too - still got thick snow. It was beautiful yesterday - minus 5 deg c, but bright and sunny with powdery snow covering everything :)

I'm much more of a winter person myself, could never live in a hot country
 
Bad day here...

P*ss*ng it down with rain all day, found out that using RainX on my car makes the wipers screech really annoyingly, drove the family to Guildford to do some shopping, no spaces in any of the car parks, got cut up BIG time by a silver corsa which nearly made me crash...lots of tyre screech, sideways action, swearing, flashing and beeping, then i get home to find that Apple aren't actually sending me a DSLR camera and m computer is riddled with adware and spyware... And today was the last day of Christmas Hols... Back to college on Tuesday. sigh.

Oh yeah, and its freezing cold. BUT NO B***Y SNOW

Well i have it OK i guess - throwing a big party tomorrow night and the parents wont be here, should be good.
 
Its barely rained at all this winter. And yet, it rained for the first time in absolutely ages today. If sods law commands that it rains tomorow night, I think I might just... get very quietly annoyed indeed.
 
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