General Chat

Most schools closed here in Flintshire.....snowing quite heavily and a strong wind as well making conditions a bit scary!

Gas fire on and a bacon butty in hand....all set for a lazy afternoon! Stay safe everyone. :-)

Lots of snow here in Shropshire, many schools closed and the buses have just been taken off. Cars skating everywhere apparently, despite the best efforts of the gritters...the local council are doing a sterling job on their FB page keeping people informed :-D

just walked t the shop to get the papers - it's coming down much thicker and faster than before

why oh why do people clear the snow - it's so much easier to walk on snow than walk on cleared patches as they have become icy now - and how often do we hear that people have had heart attacks whilst clearing away snow - leave it alone!!!!!

Snow plough just come up road and cleared centre of about 10" of snow and salted road - so just about passable now.

And I have done my civic duty and kept the footpaths and pavement outside my house clear and have salted them. So both pavement and road are much safer for cars and pedestrians and less chance of ice forming below the snow this evening when temp drops.

To view the ‘Snow Code’ visit http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/DG_191868

The sun is out here, seen photos of villages near the house in deep snow and for once I'm glad to be at the coast.

Had a small smattering of snow here in East Sussex, not much to be worried about at the moment but the sky looks full of it,hopefully the strong winds will blow it over to Kent, they like it there, They,re a Hardy Lot. :-D :-D :-D :-D

For Maryanna

Try
http://www.highways.gov.uk/traffic-information/

The maps are terribly slow to load, probably as the site has heavy demand. Once you've found where you want, click on the camera icon on the right of the page.

If they are working, it links you to a live feed from traffic cam

Yes its been snowing here in Portsmouth and had laid and what am l doing................sitting here eating a ice lolly, lol. :-D :-D

Weather is really bad here in Merthyr Tydfil. A470 and A465 are trecherous.

Sadly in Herefordshire they gave up snow ploughs on local farmers tractors over 10 years. The main A roads are snowploughed and gritted, but the side roads can be terrible.

On the local country roads if the snow doesn't melt we are stuck with ice and snow for ages. Never mind clearing pavements, we have had to clear the deep snow in between the four wheel drive tracks before now!

Bitterly cold wind but.........
Still totally snow free here, but lunchtime local TV news shows that it is not far away..

Gwyn

Thanks, detective, the 303 doesn't look too bad. My husband has found a similar ap for his ipad, shows roads real time. I think the problem is going to be for them to actually get on to the main road. Think the A39 and A359 are fairly clogged up.

Snow that is falling here is still much wetter, very small flakes and doesn't seem to be getting any deeper.

Daughter has just sent photos of one year old grand daughter out in it for the first time, biggest grin on her little face. Ahhhh. xxxxxxxxx M

It's been snowing very lightly here, just outside Conwy, since about 7 :30 this morning. Hasn't stuck though. My grand daughters school sent texts to parents/carers at lunch time, requesting that the children be collected as soon as possible. Many of the teachers live further up the valleys where the conditions are much worse.

Just been shopping in local village centre in Rhondda. Thawing quite fast, but still a good 8". Only vehicles moving are lorries and 4X4. Saw one car try to get up a small gradient and he had to reverse back down and park up.

Out of 50 shops, only 5 were open - small supermarket, newsagents, other newsagents, gifts shop (he lives over) and fruit & veg shop. Supermarket run out of milk and awaiting delivery. And fruit & veg shop had hardly any stock as no delivery today.

Everybody seems happy. Few gone into work, none gone into school. Snow still a novelty to the younger ones (we did have a lot 2 years ago but they forget) :-)

still snowing here and sky looking full of it

Light snowfall in West Norfolk this afternoon, but expecting more on and off over the weekend, paricularly Sunday, when it's coming over from France. Not quite as cold, but still below zero, so very icy underfoot.
300 schools across Norfolk are closed - fair enough, but they've also closed our local recycling centre due to the weather. They were busy clearing it, so we thought we'd go back later, but still closed. "Too dangerous!" we were told, even though they'd cleared the snow and ice. Blooming elfn'safety! :-P

light snow here in lincolnshire , same as you geordie, forecast more for here sunday
be careful anyone who has to travel

How come all this snow, anybody would think it's winter :-D :-D :-D :-D

George :-) :-) :-)

Nothing here in East Essex....OH went to work in the Chelsea tractor this morning, not needed :-)

i finally defrosted the bath pipes so at least i can now have a bath

but now the washer pipes are frozen :-( :-(