Jacksgranda Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 Snowing here today 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 My computer says it is snowing here, but my eyeballs say it isn't. Don't know what to believe these days. Fake news. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 15 minutes ago, scottsdad said: My computer says it is snowing here, but my eyeballs say it isn't. Don't know what to believe these days. Fake news. My eyeballs were wrong. It is snowing now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbitterandgrumpy Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 39 minutes ago, scottsdad said: My eyeballs were wrong. It is snowing now. The computer’s always right. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 (edited) Very heavy frost - will give a Sperrins' update later after my trip into town. ETA: Didn't go into town, but had a taxi run to Pomeroy, and I can report that there is snow on the Sperrins. Edited December 9, 2022 by Jacksgranda 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 1 hour ago, Jacksgranda said: Very heavy frost - will give a Sperrins' update later after my trip into town. You take care out there, auld yin............ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Had a fantastic morning sledging with my boy on Saturday, building snowmen and playing in the snow. Great fun. Not so much fun driving on ungritted roads today, but hey ho. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thistledo Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 It's -8 the now just on the south east of Glasgow, I don't remember it being this cold for this long in December in a very long time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 1 hour ago, thistledo said: It's -8 the now just on the south east of Glasgow, I don't remember it being this cold for this long in December in a very long time. 2010 was the last really cold December, I think. I was snowed in for 3 weeks. In work now (it's warmer here) but the car is still an ice cube. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hard Graft Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 5 minutes ago, scottsdad said: 2010 was the last really cold December, I think. I was snowed in for 3 weeks. In work now (it's warmer here) but the car is still an ice cube. It started snowing on 26th November,. the night of my retiral dinner, and snowed on and off for several months. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 4 minutes ago, scottsdad said: 2010 was the last really cold December, I think. I was snowed in for 3 weeks. In work now (it's warmer here) but the car is still an ice cube. Yep that was some drop, started snowing lunchtime the last workday before Xmas. We couldn't get into the woods for near a month, couldn't get the 4x4s up or even open the gates. We had to order covers for the chainsaws from Germany that reduced the air intake into the engines, it was just too cold to run them normally. The snow was 6ft high in some drifts, and you could see where the animals had walked along the snow and eaten the bark off trees and branches. Brutal, I loved it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 2 minutes ago, scottsdad said: 2010 was the last really cold December, I think. I was snowed in for 3 weeks. In work now (it's warmer here) but the car is still an ice cube. 2009 and 2010 were horrific winters. I live out in the countryside and temperatures plummeted to about -15 in the winter of 2009 and public transport could not get to where I live. Being outdoors for any length of time was genuinely unbearable. A positive thing to come from that was that I stopped smoking cigarettes because I was not allowed to smoke indoors and it was so cold that I did not even enjoy going out for a cig. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 1 minute ago, HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows said: Yep that was some drop, started snowing lunchtime the last workday before Xmas. We couldn't get into the woods for near a month, couldn't get the 4x4s up or even open the gates. We had to order covers for the chainsaws from Germany that reduced the air intake into the engines, it was just too cold to run them normally. The snow was 6ft high in some drifts, and you could see where the animals had walked along the snow and eaten the bark off trees and branches. Brutal, I loved it. Similar story for me. It was lunchtime and the snow was chucking it down. I was at work. The wife called and said "You might want to leave early". Normally a 40 minute drive took over 3 hours. And I was stuck for 3 weeks. Mental times. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thistledo Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 25 minutes ago, scottsdad said: 2010 was the last really cold December, I think. I was snowed in for 3 weeks. In work now (it's warmer here) but the car is still an ice cube. Oh yeah! I was stuck on the A725 for about 10 hours. A kind delivery driver walked past all the cars giving people packs of crisps. I went for a pee in a field in knee deep snow. Worst thing was I was facing the wrong direction for home as when I was leaving I'd heard lorry jack-knifed so thought I'd try another route. People just abandoning cars and walking (to where I don't know) I finally got a break in the central reservation to cut back the opposite direction, was so weird driving past abandoned cars on the M8. Answers my question though, thanks. What a time for weather like this, must be costing people a fortune. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Three children have died after falling into a lake in Solihull. Seems like they fell through the ice. Awful. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 52 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Three children have died after falling into a lake in Solihull. Seems like they fell through the ice. Awful. Frozen water is both incredibly attractive and incredibly dangerous. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 (edited) I know it's hard to say but the parents have to take a large portion of the blame there. Edited December 12, 2022 by Alert Mongoose 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 3 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said: Frozen water is both incredibly attractive and incredibly dangerous. I've always been blessed with absolute cowardice. Anything remotely dangerous didn't attract me. Setting fire to things maybe, but I was well out the road of any consequences usually. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 I might just be a massive shitebag but I have always been too scared to go near large outdoor bodies of water or to walk on them when they are frozen over. Walking on frozen water especially is a stupid thing to do. If you fall through the ice into the paralysingly cold water below then you are as good as dead unless you're very lucky. A terrible thing to happen to children, but their deaths were entirely preventable through proper supervision. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisal Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 19 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said: I might just be a massive shitebag but I have always been too scared to go near large outdoor bodies of water or to walk on them when they are frozen over. Walking on frozen water especially is a stupid thing to do. If you fall through the ice into the paralysingly cold water below then you are as good as dead unless you're very lucky. A terrible thing to happen to children, but their deaths were entirely preventable through proper supervision. Did you never leave the house when you were a kid? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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