It's snowing

[Freefaller]

Actually they can be a little better in terms of lateral grip (cornering) as well as reduce chances of aquaplaning, however in terms of braking and general use then no, they're not a sensible to tyre to use. A good quality summer tyre on a rainy day when it is mild will perform very well/better.

However if it's cold, then yes winter tyres perform better if its wet or not.

 

[Freefaller]

As you say it's whether it's worth it, but if you use the 7 degree rule you're looking at an improvement around four months of the year.

At the very least people shouldn't complain about the weather or the council not gritting the roads if they don't have proper tyres...

ha! yeah - but it's fun to complain

 

[bingham67]

Apparently snow tonight in London?

 

[Rroff]

The coverage model has like the lightest possible shade for snowing that it could have before it wasn't snowing :s gonna be interesting to see how it pans out as the models have been reluctantly dragging around towards a slightly colder/snowier outcome to the end of the week.

EDIT: Bit of a bump on the 12th on the charts for London now - coinciding with a reasonably cold air mass. As someone else put it the model output at the moment is "volatile" to say the least.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Coming down heavy here in Houghton-le-Spring, North East, next to Durham/Washington/Sunderland.

 

[Dis86]

Coming down heavy here in Houghton-le-Spring, North East, next to Durham/Washington/Sunderland.

I'm about 40 miles North of you and have...rain. Lots and lots of rain.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Coming down heavy here in Houghton-le-Spring, North East, next to Durham/Washington/Sunderland.

You're one town over from me

 

[cainer]

surprised no ones posted in this thread yesterday/today, had quite a bit of snow here in the SE

 

[Dave]

Had a good hour or so of moderate snowing, but nothing settled as it's not that cold. Still, was nice to walk in the snow and claim to be a survivor of the blizzard of February 2017!

 

[Captain]

Woke up this morning to white everywhere, it's been raining since 10am so it's all gone now.

 

[MooMoo444]

Woke up this morning to white everywhere

That's the sign of hitting puberty isn't it?

 

[TonyTurbo78]

been having light stuff just north of Southampton this morning, but wouldn't really call it snowing.

 

[Freefaller]

Just went to the OcUK motors meet and we had maybe half an inch of snow? Was fun with lots of RWD Cars!

 

[Rannoch]

Cant remember it not snowing at Rannoch, apart from the 15th July (the Rannoch summer) lol

 

[Rroff]

We had the lightest dusting of snow you could possibly have before it didn't count as snow around 6-8am then it was gone

 

[Blackjack Davy]

been having light stuff just north of Southampton this morning, but wouldn't really call it snowing.

It did actually snow here, big flakes and all, but it didn't lay not last night nor this afternoon either. Forgotten how pretty snow falling really is its been so long since we had any.

 

[Kutter]

we had some bad snow on thursday and we are getting 14-24 inches tomorrow

 

[Captain]

That's the sign of hitting puberty isn't it?

Haha I hit that 15 years ago

 

[DXP55]

We had really bad snow today - counted 48 snow flakes per hour - good job it didn't land down south or they would have come to standstill.

Also temp has plummeted to 2C

So what happened to this -12c and heavy snow that was forecast

I hate these non winters.

 

[Sliver]

I hate these non winters.

I'm the opposite. I like mild winters as my heating bills are cheaper. It tried to snow here in Darlo yesterday but it didn't take. Roll on summer!