http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21910180

Only thing moving being tractors and Arctic track vehicles, even a snow plough has become a drift :S

TP

Wow, that's pretty bad. Poor people in those cars. Its nice having an estate you can sleep in

You'll still get cold, and you can't keep the engine running as its a waste of fuel and you risk carbon monoxide leaking into the car cabin.

That's really a lot of snow! Resembles reports from Siberia two weeks ago:

We are on the very fringe of this storm and I gleefully took Yeti out to the shops to test snow tyres and 4x4 capabilities. Was all white by the house but the roads were clear and black all the way there and back !! I knew the winter tyre purchases would keep me safe ))

Snow in Yorkshire tomorrow on Palm Sunday!

Takes you back to 1461, the battle of Towton in the Wars of the Roses. The biggest bloodiest battle on English soil. More than 50,000 combatants and nearly 30,000 dead (close on 1% of the population of the country!).

Apologies, didn't mean a hijack but when you are out in your Yeti in a driving snow storm think of those medieval soldiers slogging it out all day in those conditions.

tom

Reminds me of Pembrokeshire in the early '70s and '80s,would have been ok if it hadn't started blowing.

It's pretty scary when you hit snow blowing off fields. The worst I've driven in was the winter of '86/'87 when large parts of Essex & Kent were brought to a standstill. Parts of the A12 had been closed at one point, reopened as we drove down from London and closed again by the time we got to Clacton. Even though it wasn't snowing at the time the driven snow off the fields brought visibility down to just a car length at times. The roundabout where the A120 joins the A133 was under 8-10 foot of snow, with a snow plough and digger stationed there to keep digging a channel through for the cars.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21910180

Only thing moving being tractors and Arctic track vehicles, even a snow plough has become a drift :S

TP

One of our Regular Army Sgts got stuck in this at 0730hrs on his way to St Bees from Preston. He got stopped by the cars in front and by the time he'd walked to the front to see what the problem was and then return to his car it was too late - he was snowed in. He had to abandon the car and eventually got home towards 1900hrs. I should add he was told to come off at Junct 40, M6 (Pentith) but he decided to follow the SatNav directions which took him off at Junct 36 for the scenic route and the rest is National News!

Bizarrely St Bees is only about 13 miles up the Coast and it hasn't seen any snow whatsoever for a few weeks, not a sniff of a snowflake lying on the ground. And today the Sun was evident for several hours with an occasional chilly breeze!