Winter 2022/23 - It's too cold :(

skipper847 · 9 Mar 2023 at 15:03

Uther said:
Wouldn't you want to know if a road is going to become impassable, or your train cancelled for example.
Seems not.

Bore off

skipper847 · 9 Mar 2023 at 15:08

Uther your just trying to get a reaction at this point.

cheesyboy · 9 Mar 2023 at 15:09

No snow in Gloucestershire today, at least where I am. It just rained almightily for 20 minutes though, and it's cold as balls.

413x · 9 Mar 2023 at 15:10

cheesyboy said:
No snow in Gloucestershire today, at least where I am. It just rained almightily for 20 minutes though, and it's cold as balls.

Today is horrid.
Waves of rain here. So the snow is long gone. Didn't really last 24 hours.

Uther · 9 Mar 2023 at 15:12

cheesyboy said:
No snow in Gloucestershire today, at least where I am. It just rained almightily for 20 minutes though, and it's cold as balls.

Yep just miserable here now. It seems to have moved north so we can get back to normal grim weather.

bjorkiii · 9 Mar 2023 at 15:12

Teesside region reporting snow flurries but melting before it hits the ground. Over and out .

Pawnless Endgame · 9 Mar 2023 at 15:16

Stafford had 1" of snow overnight / this morning. I still sleep with windows open and a 4.5 tog because it never gets too cold in Stafford.

Heatwaves can **** off though!

The_Arbiter · 9 Mar 2023 at 15:18

Anyone around the Deeside area?
Wondering what it's looking like there? Coming from Manchester which is clear atm

UTmaniac · 9 Mar 2023 at 15:52

The_Arbiter said:
Anyone around the Deeside area?
Wondering what it's looking like there? Coming from Manchester which is clear atm

Deeside on North Wales border? As I wrote earlier, mum in Prestatyn said roads and pavements very slushy around there at lunch, away from traffic very white.

Edit: Worried about snow drifts burying sheep alive near Llanfairfechan (between Conwy and Bangor).

Saving sheep from being buried in snow - farmer

A farmer from Conwy describes how he is trying to keep his sheep safe in snowy conditions.

www.bbc.co.uk

tomparker95 · 9 Mar 2023 at 16:32

Probably been mentioned but coming up to Birmingham tomorrow from Sussex, all OK up there? using trains not driving though so can't see any issue

Uther · 9 Mar 2023 at 16:42

tomparker95 said:
Probably been mentioned but coming up to Birmingham tomorrow from Sussex, all OK up there? using trains not driving though so can't see any issue

I'm a few miles south of Birmingham, all pretty clear here now, just a lot of rain forecast.

cheesefest · 9 Mar 2023 at 16:59

Probably had 3 inches in total.

skipper847 · 9 Mar 2023 at 17:12

Been snowing all day where i am but only settling on the grass. It just started to settle on concrete since sun going down.

Blackjack Davy · 9 Mar 2023 at 17:19

UTmaniac said:
Relatively mild and wet again in Southampton

Further east its been like that all the time went from 7c last week to 4c yesterday and then back to 7c again today and rain, lots of rain which I shouldn't complain really it hasn't rained for weeks and it wasn't so long ago they lifted the hosepipe ban

Thekwango · 9 Mar 2023 at 17:25

Little bit of light over night hail/sleet/snow. Been nice and cold today with a couple of heavier flurries. Now turned to horrible miserable wet rain. Gimme the snow back any day, least I can go out and about in it. Wet crap weather is just crap.

skipper847 · 9 Mar 2023 at 18:11

That come on all of a sudden its about 2" on roads too now.

Doobedoo · 9 Mar 2023 at 18:15

This was Bromsgrove this morning.

The_Arbiter · 9 Mar 2023 at 18:20

UTmaniac said:
Deeside on North Wales border? As I wrote earlier, mum in Prestatyn said roads and pavements very slushy around there at lunch, away from traffic very white.

Edit: Worried about snow drifts burying sheep alive near Llanfairfechan (between Conwy and Bangor).

Saving sheep from being buried in snow - farmer

A farmer from Conwy describes how he is trying to keep his sheep safe in snowy conditions.

www.bbc.co.uk

Yeah, ta muchly. I've got only a simple drive to do so should be fine. 30mins tonight to hotel, then 30mins in morning. 90% motorway driving.

tomparker95 said:
Probably been mentioned but coming up to Birmingham tomorrow from Sussex, all OK up there? using trains not driving though so can't see any issue

Birmingham seems a funny one. Some of the motorway near there was closed, i detoured through Bromsgrove which was very slushy. Then M5/M6 interchanges were bad driving conditions, slush on the motorway, and 3rd lane unusable at some points. Yet other reporting no snow around there.

Nothing in Manchester it seems atm.

The_Arbiter · 9 Mar 2023 at 18:23

Doobedoo said:
This was Bromsgrove this morning.

Did you witness some seriously bad dangerous driving round there? I saw people lane switching erratically, black cars with lights off, tail gating, just mental with that slush.

Doobedoo · 9 Mar 2023 at 19:13

The_Arbiter said:
Did you witness some seriously bad dangerous driving round there? I saw people lane switching erratically, black cars with lights off, tail gating, just mental with that slush.

Plenty of dark cars with lights off but other than that nothing out of the ordinary.