Weather

[AnnoyingPentium]

A mild flickering of snow as mentioned. Bet there'll be no Hovis in the shop now.

 

[io1901]

Ridge tiles off the roof,but too cold to mortar them back in. (-1c).  Looks like we'll have to wait until it gets a little bit milder.

[skomaz]

56 minutes ago, skomaz said:

Been about -3 since tea time last night.  Everything that melted is therefore sheet ice and its lethal out there!!

 

Just been out to feed the rabbits...   got about a yard outside the backdoor and had to come back for the ice spikes for my walking boots to make any progress without ending up on my arse

[KenONeill]

It has snowed here!! Only lying as a sugar frosting on grass, earth, tops of walls and car glass though.

 

Meantime my sis is in the second day of a trip from Bridge of Cally to Lochgilphead (123 miles).

[lancpudn]

Hovering around 0C and icy under foot here, Snow forecast for later this afternoon apparently.  Just been out to get a couple of leeks from the garden for today's soup & had to use a hammer & chisel 😧 Big batch of chicken & vegetable soup with pearl barely on the go here, Smells lovely.

[AnnoyingPentium]

2 minutes ago, skomaz said:

got about a yard outside the backdoor and had to come back for the ice spikes for my walking boots to make any progress without ending up on my arse

 

Before I left school, I used to get the bus outside of my house. With the way my fence is (goes around 180 degrees of the house almost), you could see folk walking down the street. Was waiting for a schoolfriend to walk round and I could see her, then she disappeared behind the fence!

[AnnoyingPentium]

30 minutes ago, KenONeill said:

It has snowed here!! Only lying as a sugar frosting on grass, earth, tops of walls and car glass though.

 

Just enough for Spar to be empty by 11am though...

[MikeTheThinker]

3 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

there'll be no Hovis in the shop now

Try Lidl's rye sourdough - superb bread!  Taste and texture like wot it used to woz

 

Edited 28 November, 2021 by MikeTheThinker

[MikeTheThinker]

3 hours ago, KenONeill said:

Bridge of Cally

My sis lives about a mile outside Bridge of Cally and reported the following about the weather:

 

"We have snow, ice, bitter cold wind. Gusts of 120mph reported by SSE as their excuse for power cut which started last night 8pm. Originally hoped for restore by 10pm tonight, now saying not on til tomorrow! So that's freezers f-ed. Ian had epic getting home from work last pm, trees, more down this a. m."

 

This all to follow the collapse of the bridge parapet a few weeks back when a numpty in a Mini tried to force their way through the 3-foot deep flooded roadway and the pressure wave proved too much for the parapet.
 

[MikeTheThinker]

Further to the Bridge of Cally parapet collapse, here's a video of the aftermath and a local politico waffling on about who to blame.

 

https://news.stv.tv/north/torrential-rain-and-flooding-cause-partial-collapse-of-bridge?top

 

There's also a Twitter post from a local showing the errant vehicle (not a Mini, not sure what it is) disabled in the middle of the scene of the crime.  Local reports say the water was almost to the top of the parapet before the collapse.

 

 

[mac11irl]

looks like a mine countryman or clubman...

[KenONeill]

47 minutes ago, MikeTheThinker said:

not a Mini, not sure what it is

BMW Maxi Countryman, so no not an M*n*.

[olduns]

and here it comes again... 

 

 

Just slowly

starting to cover the paths again

[MikeTheThinker]

2 minutes ago, olduns said:

and here it comes again... 

 

 

Just slowly

starting to cover the paths again

 

It's interesting just how localised some of this weather has been; I'm only about 60 miles northwest of you and whilst it's nippy outside it's not freezing and is just steady rain.

 

[olduns]

10-15 miles away is only half what we had and some have had nothing Telford way so really localised

 

We are at 180m above sea level

Edited 28 November, 2021 by olduns

[MikeTheThinker]

57 minutes ago, MikeTheThinker said:

just steady rain.

I obviously spoke too soon; just had a relatively brief but heavy hailstorm ...

 

[skomaz]

Been snowing constantly for a few hours here so everything covered again including the roads white over.

 

Also still freezing so have just had to go an unfreeze the boiler condensate outlet...   its a bit of a botch arrangement thanks to the previous owners...

[AnnoyingPentium]

Think my Furby will have frozen over just in time for me to go out with it later. Our wheelie bins have frozen so that's a good indicator...

[Liger1956]

We have a good covering here in Stockport. It started at about midday and stopped at about 15:30.

[Mickvrs220]

We had a couple of hours of steady snow in west yorkshire this aft stopped now ,plenty cold tho ☃️

[olduns]

7 minutes ago, Mickvrs220 said:

We had a couple of hours of steady snow in west yorkshire this aft stopped now ,plenty cold tho ☃️

Not Tan Hill levels then thank goodness 😀

[Mickvrs220]

23 minutes ago, olduns said:

Not Tan Hill levels then thank goodness 😀

No thank goodness just looked at tan hill ,now thats plenty of snow .

[AnnoyingPentium]

Just as predicted, the Furby had frozen over and the path in the garden is like a skating rink.

[KenONeill]

It was mostly sunny in daylight here.

[Ttaskmaster]

Just got power back this morning, after spending a weekend without 'leccy or heat.

Not fun when you have two toddlers to keep warm and the indoor temperature is in single figures.