Snow

[teddytoot]

Satellite pic: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/8447023.stm

Not sure of the last time every part of the country was under snow.

Mike.

Except, if you look carefully, the area of south Dorset round Weymouth and Dorchester (well actually we have a few patches of a thin scattering of snow and that only came on Wednesday). I don't think either 1963 or 1978 blanketed the whole country and, although I was eleven at the time, I can't remember all that much about the 1947 freeze-up.

 

[airtime]

Blimey minus 22 in Scotland last night and colder than the South pole here in the UK, I believe were in for some more on Sunday night, I think I'll stay home and play trainz 2010 instead...

Joe Airtime

 

[schoolhater]

About 2 or three inches of it over here in Essex. Its closed my school for 3 days now,

Tom Hughes

 

[JCitron]

Hi John,

The problem also lies in the quality of the snow. If you get wet snow, which it probably is in London, with temps, below freezing it can turn to pure ice in a very short time. Where as in Canada and north of USA it is more likley to be dry snow, on which you can get at least some traction.

Cheers,
Bill69

We usually get the heavy wet stuff so it's pretty miserable to shovel out and snowblow out. The bad part is the cold air blast that follows. Once the storm heads north and east into the Gulf of Maine and on to Nova Scotia, we get the backside winds from the arctic. This brings in the deep freeze after the balmy weather during the snowstorm. When this happens everything that was slushy turns to stone. This is when I get stuck, usually, in my driveway because the hill becomes a glass dome.

John

 

[Bill69]

Hi John,

We get both types of snow here in winter. In the village where I stay during the ski season we get quite wet snow usually, but I do remember a few years ago we had very dry snow there. I fact driving along the road the snow was billowing out behind the car like a dust storm. Altitude at the village is about 820m above sea level and the altitude at the ski field is about 1630m at the base and 2250 at the top of the ski fields. usually dry snow up there. Best conditions for skiing.

Cheers,
Bill69

 

[DaSnakke]

Not since 2002 when I came to Bucharest has it snowed here, but this year was again a white christmas. About two inches, not bad for a sub-tropic climate.

It`s not sub-tropical, it`s continental-temperate.