Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: White Shite! (aka heavy snow forecast for Britain)

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-26-2004, 10:22 AM:

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Monday 26 January; Snow showers will continue to affect Scotland and northern England. Icy roads will be an additional hazard. Snow will start to accumulate over the higher routes today, but also at lower levels by this evening. Driving conditions will be difficult at times. Snow and freezing conditions are expected in many parts of the UK this week. The snow risk will extend southwards but the greatest risk of significant snowfall will remain in the north and east of the UK, where some heavy falls are expected.

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Has anyone on this side of the pond seen any of this stuff yet? Not me. I'm sitting in a fifth-floor office on the north-east coast of England (i.e. where we're supposed to be getting the worst of it), basking in bright sunshine. It doesn't even feel cold enough outside for any serious snow.

Could this be a case of extreme paranoia on the part of the forecasters? Around this time last year the whole country came to a virtual halt after just a few hours of snowfall, basically because most of the emergency and utility services were caught with their pants down. It was pathetic - the news was full of old grannies dying of hypothermia in their snowbound cars on the M11 - and the heavy snow only really lasted for a day.

Perhaps the reasoning is that crying wolf will at least give the road gritters, power stations and so on no excuse whatsoever this time, and that a false alarm will generate fewer nasty headlines than a repeat of last year.

Posted by Pete Naples (Member # 761) on 01-26-2004, 04:59 PM:

We had an inch or so a couple of weeks ago, but right now it's not even below freezing, and there's not a cloud in the sky, so I don't seem much chance of snow.....

In the North East of Scotland however it is a different story.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-26-2004, 08:24 PM:

Saturday everything here was dry. Sunday we got 3 inches of snow. Today (Monday) everything has melted and is dry. It rocks! Variety in weather kicks ass.

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 01-26-2004, 10:28 PM:

Some areas of Rochester along the shore of Lake Ontario have had well over 100 inches of snow so far this winter. Sometimes as much as a few inches per hour when the cold winds come just in the right direction over the warmer lake ("lake effect snow"). Our neighborhood gets hit hardest when the winds are directly from Toronto (from the northwest). Usually the plows have the roads clear by morning, but the road salt greatly shortens the life of vehicles.

My daughter is studying in Florence Italy, and wrote that about an inch of snow yesterday tied up traffic and closed down the bus system.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 01-27-2004, 06:32 AM:

Pete - same here, about 200 miles down the coast. Absolutely nothing so far. The temperature didn't even go below freezing in York last night: the coldest it went was +0.9 degrees C. Since this morning it's been bright sunshine all day so far and not a snowflake in sight. I stick to my paranoia theory...