What a difference a day makes

we never had forest fires or drought before AlGore discovered global warming, huh?

B-)

Yeah, I will ignore that, as I have not seen any scientific data that would show forest fires are caused by the alleged 1 degree increase over the last 100 years. Hot enough for spontaneous combustion, and lets talk. :D

by tonythetiger Feb 2, 2009

is the adaptability of people... They were complaining when it dropped below freezing... then it got in the minus teens for a couple days.... then when it got back up to 20, people were talking about how warm it felt :)

by jamesrl Feb 2, 2009

Especially if you spend time outdoors. Your blood thickens, your metabolism changes.

I spent 9 seasons working on a ski hill, judging ski races in all kinds of winter weather. Basically 8 hours on the hill times 2 days a week, for 3 months.

By the time we got to the end of March, if we had a sunny day with temperatures above freezing, we felt warm, and we would take off the jackets. It wasn't macho bravado, we actually felt warm. In spring skiing, its not uncommon to see people skiing in shorts and a T shirt for the same reason.

But it does take weeks, not days, for your body to adapt.

James

These are an iconic wildflower over here as they bloom in February and are the very first harbingers of the changing of the year. The ones I photographed are an early showing in a site that is at its best in a couple of weeks.

It didn't occur to me that you might not get them "over there".

As for the snow: buses are suspended, airports are closed, trains are "erratic" and I'm about to venture out clad in my hiking gear. The station is 650 yards away. There is a eight inches of snow with drifts of nearly a foot.

Wish me luck...

:)

According to the Beeb, the weather has come from Russia. Bastards!

ps: "All services from this station are cancelled" and I live by the main commuter line from southern England. Working from home today.

There was a guy in a Mercedes spinning his wheels on the ice. "Second gear", says I. "It's an automatic, you muppet", says he - excitedly. "So, press the 'low revs' button", says I. "What?", says he - more excitedly. "If you're still here tomorrow, I'll give you a push".

Neil, that white stuff you had last night we're getting this morning.

Yeucccch. Slippy, horrible, yucky "I'm falling" stuff.

Currently blizzarding, with the odd lightening strike (what's with that? haven't seen that in a snowstorm before...)

Didn't even bother digging the car out when I saw the girl next door dig hers out only to get round the block and re-park cos she couldn't get down Bensham Bank!!! :D

Hope you're thawing out, sweetz!

:x

GG

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7863622.stm

This is the heaviest we've had for years. There's about eight to ten inches of level snow with more forecast for this afternoon coming from France.

The amazing thing is the number of idiots out on the road.

I'm OK, I have a thermal woolly from my biking days and, anyway, I only live 600 yards from the station so I was out and back in fifteen minutes and I'm back in my comfy chair.

The only difficulty was in getting down the stairs from my front door! Still, I had the ski poles.

:)

by oh smeg Feb 2, 2009

No White Pollution falling from the sky though I believe that there is a lot of Ash. :D

Last news report said that 48 Houses had been destroyed a larger number of sheds [b]Oh The Inhumanity of things[/b] and several cars.

How can you live without your Shed? :0

Col ]:)

Starts snowing really heavy..then stops..so its melting inbetween at the minute, but its colder than ole heck out...

weather reports saying we to get 8 inches in the next 24 hours..
shoul dbe fun, the country will close down..except for me..i coul dwalk to work in 30 mins so i'll have to go in :(

if it is colder than ole heck, how is the snow melting? Ground still to warm?

It seems that most of the office haven't made it in. We're being asked (by the CEO and friends) for lists of who is logged into Exchange. Hmmm....

According to the Met Office, a big lump of snow is going to add a few inches for us and then travel up to GG_Land overnight and then it gets sunny. The reports are that NI, so I presume you as well, are going to be mainly dry after today.

The radar, http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/ shows mostly showers across in the West.

Neil :)

by seanferd Feb 2, 2009

Burn through that ice until you've made yourself some nice little pits that you can smoke your tires in until the tread is gone and the whole world smells like brimstone.

"It's an automatic." LOL

.

I can't either.... ;\

than I am, Gungadin!!

Yeesh - that is Snow Hell to me! Grief.... you can just feel me oozing sympathy, can't you?! This from the woman who sees ONE snowflake and ends up on the deck with it...... :(

It's getting wierder here: it's just stopped intermittently blizzarding for the first time in 2 hrs 55 mins, and now I have beautiful clear blue sky and sunshine.... eh? what's that all about?!

Little Roger is still all white instead of silver, though..... ;\

Keep warm

(corner of a bar as last discussed maybe?! :p :p :p )

GG

Edit: still can't spell whilst giggling....

ya just sit, and slide! :D

if ya grab a piece of cardboard or a trash can lid, you can really get going! ;\

There's a wall at the bottom!

:_|

you don't have to worry about sliding out into the streets! :D

There is always a brighter side, sometimes you just have to look a little harder. B-)

Go spam somewhere else

so how you're holding out in Ireland ... Wicklow mountains all covered in snow ...
must be a pretty picture those hilly mountains

haven't seen the wicklow mountains in a while..I'd say they pretty right now..

Streets of Dublin just wet and slushy :)

by oh smeg Feb 2, 2009

It's even clinging to plants to stay around longer. :p

I keep telling you lot from the Northern Hemisphere you need to clean up your act and stop polluting the place. To give Pollution a name when it falls from the sky and allow a sport to grow up as a result of it is just [b]Wrong![/b] :p

But I suppose if you got to have severe Pollution from Aircraft Sullage Tanks at lest it's white and doesn't stick to you all the time. Though it's obviously sticking to the plants as shown in your photo. :)

Col ]:)

is 32F, maybe 34F. 20's F is f**king freezing!

Here, now, it's 33F or so and likely to drop to 30F tonight.

It doesn't EVER get below that. Coldest daytime temperature in London hasn't dropped below 20F in my lifetime. I would guess Dublin to be no colder and, if anything, warmer.

:)

I look so sweet in my ski hat...

- you know where to send it!

:x

GG

:p

well, its sunny between the snow, so its melting on the surfaces...not melting so much in the shade..

My meeting in Sedgefield tomorrow morning just got cancelled.

(ooh, look! - there IS a God!!!)

wondering if I'll even be able to SEE Roger in the morning...... :(

GG

sounds like we meant to get the bulk of it tonight, and maybe some tomorrow..then it will clear up a bit..

highs of 2-4 C here today..othe rhtna this year, I've only seen it drop below 8 or 9 once!

are you using the same stuff Oz does?

Your typos are imitating his!

:p

GG

it's the cold that keeps her left fingers not coordinating with her right ones ... ergo ... hit the space bar before she could complete the whole word :D ;)

A bit like my english ... isn't it :^0

ya..they getting pretty bad aren't they :)

I shall endevour to take more care in the future :)

by maecuff Feb 2, 2009

is slowing melting now.

I only got stuck once, and that was running an errand for a friend. He owes me big time.

Neil..have fun withthe snow. Build a snow man. Make a snow angel. Build a fort and pelt unsuspecting strangers with snow balls.

Are they running again in and to London?
Heard due to the snow they stopped running and the airports were closed?

Is it still a mess in England or is all clearing up?

Nice pic tho.

to add ... should have read all the stuff ... would have known that it's hell out there in England.

This amount of snow falls once every fifty years or so and we don't have the infrastructure for it.

Heathrow is closed because a plane ran off the taxiway and closed the runway. The London buses are ALL shut down because the drivers can't get to work! Some trains are running but none on my line.

We have about 25-30 cm of lying snow and it's still snowing lightly. No drifts because there's been no wind. It's supposed to snow some more tonight but I think that the worst "extra" has just gone past to the east of London and is heading for GG.

The second lot came from you, didn't it? :)

Neil :D

I took the picture on Saturday and it was dry and sunny - if a bit cold. Bloody English weather...

10 years ... looks like februari isn't going to be that much better.

I just wanted some of what you were on!

:p :p :p

GG

its called Melcam, dose is 7.5 mg... seems to loosening the muscles in my neck and headache is only 50% of what it was a few days ago..

not sure its affecting my typin gthough..i think its just me ]:)

by gsg Feb 2, 2009

Here, a bunch of people stayed at the resort next door so they could make it in to work. They give the hospital employees steep discounts during bad weather. One person broke her ankle, another tore her rotator cuff, several muscles, and broke her arm on the ice. This was on a 100 ft walk on level ground.

Thank goodness that I'm not a clinical person and that I can support all of my applications from home!

They've just announced that "....six million people took advantage of the snow to take the day off work ....."

Took advantage? WHAT BLOODY ADVANTAGE?

If the place I work in don't apply the Bad Weather Policy, I've just wasted a leave day - which I don't want to do - sitting in the house because I don't dare go out, fall, break my arm again, and disable myself.

WHAT BLOODY ADVANTAGE?

I can't go out. I can't take the car down to check up on Ma and Pa (with the broken shoulder) because I can't get out of the road.

BECAUSE THE COUNCIL HASN'T GRITTED OR HAD THE SNOW PLOUGHS OUT.

Yeesh.

Do they think I enjoy being in the house with dipstick all day?!

[b] GGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR [/b]

GG

There were no buses
There were no trams
There were no trains - to anywhere
Ten out of eleven tube lines were out even if the nearest tube station wasn't seven miles away!
I couldn't get the car out
It takes over three hours to walk it in the dry!

So I worked from home! But if I couldn't have worked from hone, there is sod all else I could have done.

:)

by seanferd Feb 2, 2009

you'd be hearing how it shouldn't be any problem to get to work, despite the fact that you now have a four foot wall of ice at the bottom of your drive...

by jmgarvin Feb 2, 2009

Oh, you mean snow plow...you Brits and your extra U's and extra G's and extra H's :-)

How is Quay = Key? How is Gaol = Jail? ;-)

Ok, ok...We accept that because you live in the shadow of the US, it may be hard to see what you are writing...

they might have them up in the Frozen North where GG lives but I'll bet my local council doesn't have any. We only get significant snow once every twenty years so what would be the point?

OK, now for the etymology...

"Quay"? you have me there. We used to use good old Middle English to describe a wharf - the word was "key" - but then we seem to have adopted the French! God knows why...

Gaol is also from the French. Just a version of the Old Northern French "gaiole". We tend to use "jail" now except in more formal documents. You use an adaptation from the more normal Old French (if there is such a thing), "jaole".

As for "plough", comes from the Norse "plog". Make of that what you will!

:D

by jmgarvin Feb 2, 2009

here I am complaining that it's down to 55F (~14C or for those in the UK 4 Stone)* We are bright and sunny...on the flip side, we are facing the worst drought ever. If we don't get rain soon, we may be in serious trouble.

* It's a joke see...you know, like funny....fine...just fine...*I* thought it was comedy gold...you just don't know what funny is...

Not side-splitting, you understand, more of a chuckle. I'm sorry if you might feel that's not enough for Comedy Gold but it's the best that I could manage.

:D