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optrex
05-02-2007, 10:43 PM
The forecasts from the current charts are looking for a significant snow event from Thursday 8th February 2007 onwards. Light flurries and wintry showers expected beforehand, but for the Midlands and the East, Thursday is the big day.

Significant snow: 8th February 2007 - Midlands Weather Forum - A UK Weather Forum (http://www.midlandsweather.org.uk/uk-weather-chat/4806-significant-snow-8th-february-2007-a.html)

Madhatter
05-02-2007, 11:15 PM
Last time you gave me a weather warning I ended up getting stuck in traffic for 7 Hours :(
I did get to chat up this nice girl in the next car though :)

optrex
06-02-2007, 08:54 AM
Oh you didnt say. Last time we had a weather warning for heavy snow, I didn't see a flake. Fingers crossed this time.

Thursday and Friday

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Madhatter
06-02-2007, 09:40 AM
Ye the wind, I got sent to Burnley but ad to abort, dump it at trafford park TNT depot and try to get back, that took half hour,there were a few trees blown over around trafford park, I got stuck on the m56 at lym trying to avoid the A56, that was for 3 hours, then I got stuck on the M6 at various locations and at tamworth just before the end of the bypass because of TNT(9o'clock by this time). non of their staff could get in, the trucks started to turn up and they had no where to unload them. The yard filled up, Kingsbury road filled up and it blocked the M42 roundabout gridlocking it.It took me two hours to get from the wilnecote turn to Morrisons to the m42. The situation was made worse by TNT trucks trying to turn right being in the kaft hand lane. One I was past the trucks on the island which i did by overtaking on the right and pushing through the A5 was clear.
All in all there was very little that should have caused much disruption at all let alone all that, but thats this country isn't it, the wind blows and everything stops.
It did blow a tree over on to the A5 bypass, one of the tall thin ones by the school. They must have got it cleared pretty quick though because by the evening it had been cut to the edge of the road.

Madhatter
06-02-2007, 09:41 AM
How can you have sun and snow together :confused:

Shizara
06-02-2007, 11:09 AM
I feel shortchanged this year on the snow front. Not enough to even roll a snowball ;)

o/' Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!! o/'

optrex
06-02-2007, 11:16 AM
How can you have sun and snow together :confused:

easy, sunny spells in between the show showers

Madhatter
06-02-2007, 11:29 AM
hmmm
Multi-Colored Snow Falling in Siberia (http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=59943&sort=0&sparte=4)

optrex
06-02-2007, 12:20 PM
warnings now issued for Wednesday and Thursday - 70% chance of 10-15cm

Shizara
06-02-2007, 01:49 PM
hmm... and I am off to Preston tomorrow

optrex
06-02-2007, 02:03 PM
Uh oh how long for?

Take your camera!

Madhatter
06-02-2007, 02:30 PM
You going deepdale road?

Shizara
06-02-2007, 07:45 PM
I will indeed take my camera. I am really only going there for company related meetings though so, unless we are snowed in will be back tomorrow night.

I have a piccy somewhere that I took at Crewe station one evening when it was snowing. Was onboard and looking through the glass panel in the door.

Shizara
06-02-2007, 07:46 PM
You going deepdale road?


Where is that? - Am only going as far as the Preston station.

optrex
06-02-2007, 07:53 PM
The footie ground

Madhatter
06-02-2007, 08:54 PM
footie museum.

optrex
07-02-2007, 01:46 PM
Warnings have now been updated with 10-15cm predicted over midlands. Risk of disruption 90%

Will
07-02-2007, 05:26 PM
May I be the first to say, Wohoo!

Shizara
07-02-2007, 05:37 PM
Ooooh... wonder if there is any chance I can't get to Preston or Birmingham tomorrow. Then, maybe piccies might happen and you never know, it wouldn't be the first time the Kiwi has built a snowman.

o/' let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! o/'

optrex
07-02-2007, 05:46 PM
There is a good chance you wont be going anywhere. 6 inches on high ground at least 2 inches elsewhere, with the heaviest snowfall predicted around 08:00

Will
07-02-2007, 11:16 PM
Just to pre-warn you all, I probably won't be on for a few days if it does snow, as my electricity fails without exception every time we have snow. :)

Shizara
07-02-2007, 11:24 PM
Can you not get out your pedal powered generator? Just think... pedalling for power to run the necessary things like your computer ;)

Madhatter
07-02-2007, 11:36 PM
You're just a big kid shiz lol .
As I said elsewhere It may be a lot by todays standards but it's not to me. I can remember getting 6 inc over and it getting compacted into ice, sitting a week getting more snow and that getting compacted. We had snow and ice on the ground for more than two weeks, three in fact, I used to do a weekly free newspaper round, and believe me 900 papers on compacted snow on sloping drives makes you remember.
Snow only closed schools if the heating broke down.
Kids from villages only didn't make it if the bus broke down.
Rain didn't stop us going to school and yes the rivers have always flooded.
The sun melted the roads and we played for hours out in it, we never got burned and we haven't got skin cancer
Leaves never stopped the trains.
What annoys me about these modern 'extremes' is that it makes a mockery of real extremes like the floods of carlisle, (where was the disaster fund for them?) or when the whole east coast of england and Scotland got flooded.
We did have the wrong kind of snow once though, a few years back,one Friday night at the end on November. It was sticky, bought all the power lines down, the phone lines too, the power going cut everyones gas heating off, the power lines affected the water treatment plants, pressure dropped and we had no water for the best part of a week. he power was off for more than 24 hours even in the centre of Atherstone.
I remember it well, dickens night was that Saturday, it was canceled of course, some of the Christmas lights hung precariously from the broken wires, a bus slipped down the regal hill and got lodged against the chip shop blocking the road, a van just further up went into a house wall, and hit a lamp post, the marks are still there in the wall. we had to get water from a bowser all week, the whole town did. We melted snow to use in the toilet. No chance of a bath or shower.
Snow didn't last long though, I think it was gone by Tuesday.

Shizara
07-02-2007, 11:49 PM
I admit to being a big kid at times - fun isn't it ;) - Giggles - Not much point in being an adult if you cannot indulge the child within now and again, especially when it threatens to snow, however, I do appreciate the not so nice side of it all. Frozen snow, skidding in your car even water frozen in pipes.

chillitt
08-02-2007, 12:06 AM
My mother always said 'childish is as childish does'
'Is not!' i shouted, as I ran outside to play in the garden.

Shizara
08-02-2007, 05:22 AM
Was up at 5.00 this morning, put the kettle on and eagerly peered out the window. No snow out there. Did the clouds blow off course?

chillitt
08-02-2007, 09:31 AM
Serves you right for setting up at silly o'clock! I got up at 8 and theres 2 or 3 inches of snow and its still coming down! hooray!!!!:D

optrex
08-02-2007, 12:33 PM
I was the same. TBH I am really disappointed at the depth and lack of flakes

Shizara
08-02-2007, 04:39 PM
Serves you right for setting up at silly o'clock! I got up at 8 and theres 2 or 3 inches of snow and its still coming down! hooray!!!!:D

:D ... I would have been tucked up in bed if I didn't have to leave here at 6.00 to catch a train, which, actually arrived and not only that seemed to be on time.

When I went to leave I stepped outside and thought ...oOo... ooh... snow!!".. oOo... Then I got sensible - just for a minute - and decided I will be soaked by the time I get to the station so called a taxi. So, off to Preston and back. Coming back I walked home from the station. A bit of light snow falling and I took a few piccies. Lots had melted so making a snowman out the back wasn't an option.

Shizara
08-02-2007, 04:41 PM
Optrex, is there any chance you can tell the snowman there was a short delivery and to please resend it?

Madhatter
08-02-2007, 05:52 PM
It was quite thick here, about six inches in places. I travelled to leeds and there was hardly any on the ground even though it was snowing up there all the time. travell back and although a lot had melted there was still a good covering here. I get the feeling Atherstone got more than Tamworh. If it wasn't for the traction control on the van I'd not have got out.
Interestingly this story is in this weeks Atherstone Herald
the Tamworth Herald online - news, entertainment, jobs, homes and cars (http://www.tamworthherald.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=159882&command=displayContent&sourceNode=159708&contentPK=16594332&folderPk=88031&pNodeId=159439)
if it works.

optrex
09-02-2007, 11:11 AM
more snow on the way today - warning issued for upto 10cms although 2-5 more likely

Shizara
09-02-2007, 04:34 PM
A bang on prediction there from our friendly resident weather man. Snow is heavy and having walked home from the station I made sure I had my plastic, hooded poncho on and watched where I put my feet. The ice from the previous snowfall is slippy.

Will
09-02-2007, 07:23 PM
Phew, just got home 2 hours late from Birmingham. All the usual roads were either shut or gridlocked, as soon as I got into Stratford though, it was virtually snow free!

optrex
09-02-2007, 08:34 PM
Birmingham gridlocked 4 hours to do 3 miles !

Will
09-02-2007, 11:05 PM
It wasn't pretty, luckily I didn't make the mistake of trying to go back on the motorway.

Madhatter
10-02-2007, 01:53 AM
Thsi time I was lucky, I only had sheffield today, I was there and back before 3pm, missed all the traffic, a nice day and an even nicer friday. The only que I got stuck in was Mc donalds. After taking from 3 till 11 at night to get back from manchester in those winds I'm really happy.