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Re: It Doesn't often snow....

Posted: Mon 02 Feb 2009, 11:20 pm
by transforce
I too live in Surrey. At home all day :) Nobody had driven down my road all day, our high street looked like this.

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Re: It Doesn't often snow....

Posted: Tue 03 Feb 2009, 1:20 am
by beautyqueen85
If we took days off because of snow here, we might as well have the year off!

Re: It Doesn't often snow....

Posted: Tue 03 Feb 2009, 11:46 am
by gregf
This is what my front yard is, looking in two directions, photo taken in approx 37C/100F heat.

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1. The park is in good condition this year. In the El-nino years the grass was dying
off completely with no rain during the summer months.
2. The bay, a part of Sydney harbour. I get a little breeze of the water. I am lucky.

I talk to girls with the same illness as me. They are stuck in houses baking in the suburbs,
too sick to leave. Temperature for them has been 40-48C. One said "I just lie in bed crying".

Never in my life had I experienced 40C or more until 2007. Now common. No one doubts GW here.

Re: It Doesn't often snow....

Posted: Tue 03 Feb 2009, 1:37 pm
by Sandy Shaw
God that's hot! The snow and ice are melting here in sunny Hounslow. However still not many planes flying overhead from Heathrow. The Airport was brought to a standstill yesterday.

Re: It Doesn't often snow....

Posted: Tue 03 Feb 2009, 3:04 pm
by Fugitive1979
I was going take some pictures of the lovely snow today as I expected more snow to have fallen last night as forecast.

Guess what? It rained all chuffing night. It's all gone. :evil:

Re: It Doesn't often snow....

Posted: Tue 03 Feb 2009, 4:45 pm
by redsock
Fugitive1979 wrote:I was going take some pictures of the lovely snow today as I expected more snow to have fallen last night as forecast.

Guess what? It rained all chuffing night. It's all gone. :evil:
Same here, it came down really heavy about 8pm ish, but but 10pm it had rained and washed it all away. :evil:

What's strange is that less than half a mile away above my house the snow is about 8" thick and drifted to about 4 foot in places ! :shock: :lol:

Here's some pics I took after work today ...

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Re: It Doesn't often snow....

Posted: Tue 03 Feb 2009, 5:04 pm
by Corina
^^ Wow, some beautiful pictures from the English countryside!! Thanks for sharing.

Re: It Doesn't often snow....

Posted: Tue 03 Feb 2009, 5:37 pm
by redsock
Cheers ! :D

Here's one that shows the countryside a bit better ...

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Re: It Doesn't often snow....

Posted: Tue 03 Feb 2009, 6:15 pm
by whateverman42
Doesn't England usually get snow? It was on the news and stuff, what's the big deal? Southern Ontarios been getting pounded as always, every freaking night its another storm or flurry. It hasn't warmed up in weeks, so the snows been piling up and the snow banks are reducing visibility. The novelty always wears off by early January.

Re: It Doesn't often snow....

Posted: Tue 03 Feb 2009, 7:08 pm
by Sandy Shaw
whateverman42 wrote:Doesn't England usually get snow? It was on the news and stuff, what's the big deal? Southern Ontarios been getting pounded as always, every freaking night its another storm or flurry. It hasn't warmed up in weeks, so the snows been piling up and the snow banks are reducing visibility. The novelty always wears off by early January.
We are notoriously under-prepared for bad weather in England. Rather famously British Rail had a phrase that the trains were cancelled several years ago because of the 'wrong kind of snow' - powdery snow blowing into the working parts of the trains. We are usually getting better weather than we should in the UK because of the Gulf Stream. it's just that once in a while the bad weather blows over from Russia (in fact it decides to Go West :D) and we are stuck!

Beautiful photos redsock

Re: It Doesn't often snow....

Posted: Tue 03 Feb 2009, 8:06 pm
by StevePSB
That sheep picture would look great as a KLF bootleg sleeve! ;)


StevePSB

Re: It Doesn't often snow....

Posted: Tue 03 Feb 2009, 8:24 pm
by Pani
Very nice pictures taken! :D

Re: It Doesn't often snow....

Posted: Tue 03 Feb 2009, 8:29 pm
by No Muscle Mary
Sleet is all we're getting here. Despite being told to expect a few inches of snow. Bah, I'd love the see my kids run around in snow for the first time.

Re: It Doesn't often snow....

Posted: Tue 03 Feb 2009, 9:18 pm
by ceejay
It's still snowy here, there was some sunshine earlier but the ground is still covered. All schools were closed today so i was stuck at home with the kids. I wish it would rain and wash it all away now, i hate it :grumble:

Re: It Doesn't often snow....

Posted: Wed 04 Feb 2009, 12:47 am
by beautyqueen85
StevePSB wrote:That sheep picture would look great as a KLF bootleg sleeve! ;)


StevePSB
I loved KLF, where did they go?