It's snowing
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National news all night right up until I went to bed at mid-night were saying blizzards due overnight with strong winds and significant accumulations of snow in my area. Even the army were put on standby in Kent.
I woke up to nothing, not even the strong winds! Something must have suddenly changed in the night.
Soldato
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Really starting to have an effect on my job now as I run the collections of waste, and with the paths and back roads being so iced up we just cannot collect in a safe way and we have not has snow properly since Wednesday and its all still here, got a conference call today at 4pm but at this rate it wont melt for another 3/4 days and the Highways authority just wont grit any more roads.
- I think I need to move.
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Found this outside my house. Awesome! 
It looks like its all over, warmer air is making its way in from the nroth sea and continent; the big high we had stuck has shifted further east.
Didn't drop below zero here last night, loads thawed through today.
Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.
Didn't drop below zero here last night, loads thawed through today.
Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.
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I can't wait until the snow goes away now, I'm desperate to go out on my bike and try out some of my goodies I got for Christmas 
No snow overnight, it's turned "mild", 2°C at present and the ice is being to melt. Is this the lull before the storm?
Nope, just a typical British winter. Little bit of snow and a few days of cold (yet mostly not below freezing)...
The 2 inches we had is almost gone now too...
Good job I'm going skiing or I would have been severely ******.
Nope, just a typical British winter. Little bit of snow and a few days of cold (yet mostly not below freezing)...
The 2 inches we had is almost gone now too...
Good job I'm going skiing or I would have been severely ******.
Lucky you, 2 1/2 foot of snow here, currently -10c and the snow has been on the ground for about 3 weeks.
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Looks like everything is clearing around here. No more white trees from the freezing fog, and the little snow that was here is receding revealing the grass.
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Around 2c here and the ice is melting , pavements not as icy as yesterday 
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Thawing a bit here in Warwickshire, the snow is now more sleet. Definitely less cold, biting wind though.
No unlucky. I love snow, which is why I always go to the mountains in winter.
That's normally because the rain is the leading edge of a warm front from the Atlantic, the wind is still from the east however so most likely it will just warm up with very little rain/snow.
Roads seem a lot clearer today and gladly so. My local gym is on a relatively steep yet gradual hill which turns left at the bottom, heading down it yesterday and my brakes failed to stop on the ice, nearly went straight into an Alfa waiting to turn up the hill, had he not used his initiative and drove out the way things would've been very messy.
