I'd love to have proper Winters like that if I was geared up for it.

I've had winters like that for 57 years, and I'm fully geared up with assorted snow shovels, snowblower, chains, sanders, salters, etc. I still hate it. Every shovel full.

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Clear Temp -3°c droping to -6°c later no snow to day perhaps snow Sunday SUNSHINE tomorrow but still COLD

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Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care

Took a look at the top pic and the first thing that popped into my head was all right just wait till I get that snowblower driver I'll give him "orders"
as Andy says IF we got winters like you do we would be prepeared for it,but even in the North of Scotland winters like this are fairly rare much less the South west of England they get rain more often that not.



Severe weather warnings have been issued for Yorkshire & Humber
Five-day forecast: Huddersfield
Date Time Weather Temp Wind Visibility
Dir Speed Gust
Fri
6
Feb
2100 -4°C W 7 mph Good
Sat
7
Feb
0000 -3°C WSW 6 mph Good
0300 -3°C W 7 mph Good
0600 -2°C W 8 mph Good
0900 -1°C WNW 9 mph Very Good
1200 1°C NW 12 mph Very Good
1500 2°C NW 9 mph Very Good
1800 -1°C WNW 6 mph 19 mph Very Good
Night -5°C WNW 5 mph Moderate
Sun
8
Feb
Day 2°C SSW 6 mph Very Good
Night -2°C WSW 6 mph 18 mph Very Poor
Mon
9
Feb
Day 3°C WSW 6 mph 16 mph Very Good
Night -1°C W 5 mph Good
Tue
10
Feb
Day 3°C S 2 mph 20 mph Very Good
Night -2°C E 3 mph 17 mph Very Good
Last updated: 2001 on Fri 6 Feb 2009

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Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care

Took a look at the top pic and the first thing that popped into my head was all right just wait till I get that snowblower driver I'll give him "orders"

If you're referring to the poor slob shovelling his roof, I don't think you can blame the snow-blower driver. Those are just drifts. Had to do this myself as a teen, on houses in Manitoba and in Edmonton. Fortunately, by the time you need to shovel the roof, there usually are drifts big enough that you can just walk up.

Another thing commonly done when the drifts get this big is to take a picture of a snow mobile parked on your roof. Many people seem to think this is funny.

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Although the snow and slush was largely gone from the roads it has now started to freeze over. Tomorrow morning will be very interesting. especially if we have the occassional snow showers predicted for the early hours of the morning.

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Yeah It looks bad, But the Sierra Nevada mountains get more normally I think and California is supposedly in a drought. But that's snow business. :D

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Although the snow and slush was largely gone from the roads it has now started to freeze over. Tomorrow morning will be very interesting. especially if we have the occasional snow showers predicted for the early hours of the morning.

Snow near You? It must be gray snow then. Eek! ;)

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Andy-What's your total snowfall so far?

This week, several feet in total.

Which is about 2 and a half feet more than in the last 20 years!

Check out my Website for details of the chaos that ensued - and plenty of snowy pics.

The phone service is back on, but the power has been off more than on today.

We had a good thaw this afternoon, but now the darkness has arrived it has frozen over. Hopefully the thaw will continue tomorrow.

Thanks for the link, Andy. Very enlightening. Nice pictures, beautiful scenes.
Had to laugh while reading the 'snow-ball fight etiquette' article. There's one universal truth; kids will through 'snow projectiles' at moving vehicles. Always have, always will.

Warmed up today. Was nice this afternoon. Face didn't freeze when I went outside.

Pittsburgh, Allegheny County Airport
Lat: 40.36 Lon: -79.94 Elev: 1248
Last Update on Feb 6, 5:53 pm EST


Fair

38°F(3°C)
Humidity: 46 %
Wind Speed: S 3 MPH
Barometer: 30.24" (1026.0 mb)
Dewpoint: 19°F (-7°C)
Visibility: 10.00 mi.

Not bad here in DC. Today was rather sunny and hardly any wind.

Not bad here in DC. Today was rather sunny and hardly any wind.

It must be all the Hot Air in DC. ;)

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hot hot hot 44C

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je suis qui je suis

Stinkin' 'ot!
Got the mulcher back from the mower shop this morning, but could only run it for an hour before I overheated!
Have retreated indoors for several litres of ice water.
The garden is growing wild, and I can do nothing until the heat goes down.
Local footy club's clock/temp display had temp at 48 degs C yesterday. (48 C = 118.4 F)

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Stinkin' 'ot!
Got the mulcher back from the mower shop this morning, but could only run it for an hour before I overheated!
Have retreated indoors for several litres of ice water.
The garden is growing wild, and I can do nothing until the heat goes down.
Local footy club's clock/temp display had temp at 48 degs C yesterday. (48 C = 118.4 F)

(48 C = 118.4 F) THAT'S NOT 'OT, THAT'S 'ELL!!!

Not much better down here LGMFM 46.3C at the moment..Its all that hot air blowing down from Queensland. :(

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Yikes...those temps are insane. The hottest I have seen here in my corner of Ca have been 113 F for two weeks. Now a nice cool 16 C in the house. Sorry about the two different temp posts, but I am too tired to convert the first one, the second one I know by heart.

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'Unter Valley here, Monday... about 50km inland from Newcastle.
3 o'clock, I went for beer. (No point in doing anything else...even the fish are havin' a siesta!
Outside temp indicator in my car sez: "44 Degs C"
At least the humidity has dropped a bit, so the perspiration evaporates from your skin! Last week was like a sauna, high temps with high humidity.

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Yikes...those temps are insane. The hottest I have seen here in my corner of Ca have been 113 F for two weeks. Now a nice cool 16 C in the house. Sorry about the two different temp posts, but I am too tired to convert the first one, the second one I know by heart.

113 f = 45 C
16 C = 60.8 F

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@ uli: 113F = 45C (freaking hot!!!)

In Vancouver:

Temperature: 2C
Humidity 93%
Winds: N @ 5 kph
Barometer: 1022 mb

{edit} littlegreeguy beat me to it. ;o) {/edit}

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@ uli: 113F = 45C (freaking hot!!!)

In Vancouver:

Temperature: 2C
Humidity 93%
Winds: N @ 5 kph
Barometer: 1022 mb

{edit} littlegreeguy beat me to it. ;o) [/edit]

It's been 115F(about 46C) here two summers ago. :D

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@ uli: 113F = 45C (freaking hot!!!)

In Vancouver:

Temperature: 2C
Humidity 93%
Winds: N @ 5 kph
Barometer: 1022 mb

{edit} littlegreeguy beat me to it. ;o) [/edit]

It's been 115F(about 46C) here two summers ago. :D

Hmmm, let’s see, 115F plus heat from Q-Baby = 1 cooked rabbit. ;o)

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