It's snowing

A few from today, its still snowing and getting deeper, its going to be -2 tomorrow so its going to all be frozen solid. But Friday its set to be 5c and raining, so it will be a slush bath but etleast some of it will melt.

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Lousy here this morning, did not know what to expect, it's a 1 in 10 hill out of the village and winding country roads but it was fine just took steady away. Only problem was all the idiots who use our village as a short-cut to the front of the line of cars waiting to get into Wakefield, all drive like idiots even on the snow and the way I have to go they are all coming towards me.

The main roads are not too bad, just about a half an inch of brown gritty slush but the lanes to the village are treacherous, mostly just a light covering of snow on top of a good inch of slush and patches of hard packed snow. Gritters have had little to no effect because the snow has just kept falling all day. If it does freeze tonight as mentioned above and something I have been pondering I doubt the hill will be passable in the morning unless some serious gritter action go's on tonight.
 
This road back to my village, I was picking my son's friend up a couple of weeks ago when it snowed, he filmed it with his phone as I drove back. It's a lot worse today and tonight, all slush has gone to ice now. The road is mostly one and a half lanes at most and all manner of idiots were driving down it this morning a stupid speeds on all the snow, down a 1 in 10 hill, mental.

 
Ah that's nowt hitman :D

The hill I live up climbs 380 feet in 0.4 mile, im not sure what that works out at when it comes to like 1/10 kinda stuff like you mentioned in your last post, but for 0.4 of a mile its all up hill, I checked the altitude today, at the bottom is 297ft above sea level, at the top is 680.

And where I live, since 8am this morning when the gritter and plow came around, it snowed heavy at 9am and was covered so bad, that even still now the gritter hasn't got up it. at 1pm (the reason why I got my jimny jeep out), was to tow my dads grand vitara up because he forgot his snow chains.
The snow was about 6" deep at this point on the hill.

He managed to get about half way up without, but then theres a sharp right hand turn and it gets steeper, had no chance without snow chains.

Plucky little jimny always gets up ne bother :D

Amount of stuff Iv seen crash on this hill, I remember when I was a kid seeing a bus slide down it like a sledge, it knocked half a house down at the bottom of the long steep straight where the sharp turn is, was a right mess, luckily no one was hurt. got the day of school though I remember that lol.

Edit iv googled it, its a 18% incline apparently, though that doesn't sound so steep, maybe because the road 0.4m isn't as the crow flys, as it goes one direction then back the other, but the 2nd climb is pretty much twice as steep.
Also just found, its a 1/5 climb :)
 
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The hills not too bad on it's own if the snow is fresh but on a morning with a constant stream of people coming straight at you all driving too fast and taking up all the road it's a nightmare, then add snow *10!

It is one of those hills where cars and buses have done like you say and slid down. There was a crash last week without snow, the bridge that you see at the end of the video, two cars clipped each other and were both put into opposite side of the bridge walls.
 
Hitman_Leon said:
The hills not too bad on it's own if the snow is fresh but on a morning with a constant stream of people coming straight at you all driving too fast and taking up all the road it's a nightmare, then add snow *10!

It is one of those hills where cars and buses have done like you say and slid down. There was a crash last week without snow, the bridge that you see at the end of the video, two cars clipped each other and were both put into opposite side of the bridge walls.
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Aye I know what you mean,

Our hill isn't a major route though, only goes to our village up here in the sticks, so its not that bad, but its the way it blows in straight out our hillside, it just absolutely blasts us,

2 years ago when it was bad if you turn back a few pages, the snow drifts was 10 foot deep lol.
went a walk with the dog at 8pm still snowing and it was coming over the top of my rigger boots on the pavement, not including drifts. its stopped snowing now though eventually.

Heres a few more images of todays snow to compare with and without snow on my shed roof, these pictures are at 2pm, the before snow picture from few days ago, well you can see the ladders on roof in both pics
other pictures of just outta the window at 11am before the heavy snow fell, didn't get any of after was too excited out in the Suzuki jimny. and theres a before pic from earlier in the week

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Had nothing other than a flurry of snow, very disappointing as I was hoping to go sledging with my kids. Its has been about 4 years since we had enough snow.
 
wnb said:
Had nothing other than a flurry of snow, very disappointing as I was hoping to go sledging with my kids. Its has been about 4 years since we had enough snow.
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Unlucky, I could fill the transit van full and come dump some on your lawn for you for a small fee? :D
 
IceShock said:
Aye I know what you mean,

Our hill isn't a major route though, only goes to our village up here in the sticks, so its not that bad, but its the way it blows in straight out our hillside, it just absolutely blasts us
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This is just a back road also, the reason for the traffic on a morning is people wanting to avoid the standing traffic on the main road into Wakefield. They come through the village and the road brings them out onto the A road right next to the main junction going into the town. That way they avoid about half a mile of standing traffic if they get let out into the line.

The road through the village is one of those roads you love to hate, stone walls either side, the hill going out of the other end of the village still has brake stones for carriages coming out of the stone wall on the edge of the road. Most of the road length people have to give way and let others pass because there is just not enough room for two cars to pass each other. I took a taxi home once and he drove like an idiot regardless of me trying to warn him. Going up the hill into the village he clipped one of the brake stones and blew out his tire also smashing his wheel.

We still have have the village stocks, I think they should start and use them for the idiots who use our village as a short cut.
 
Cosimo said:
There won't be and it's going to warm up a little.
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Current model runs don't show potential for anything particularly snowy through into Feb :( still plenty of time this winter yet though.

Personally don't think we'll see a proper snowy winter until the 2016/17 one when projections show stuff like solar activity and the jet stream, etc. starting to favour colder winters through to around 2020.
 
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