Let it Snow......

[Cookie]

The met office kindly changed their forecast at about 3am as the snow started to fall, this is less a forecast and more an observation of course.

[nochee]

Depends where you are in the country i suppose but Swindon wsa expecting snow to start falling at 6pm yesterday. That had been predicted for days

[jonny72]

The Met were predicted no more than 6 hours of light snow during the evening and overnight. Must have been nearly 3" in West Swindon, personally I wouldn't call that light. In general their forecasts for Swindon have been fucking shit and change dramatically every time they update them.

[Arriba]

grit only can so so much in these conditions.the roads have been gritted, and have been continually for the last week or so.i've seen gritters and ploughs out loads of times this week yet the m4 still had settled snow on it.

[nochee]

Have the main roads in the town cleared up yet? Or are they still slippy/slushy?

[Boeta]

the maps on bbc weather from about 3pm yday were suggesting heavy snow between midnight and 6am

[Hammer]

Not just the men who do the gritters that stayed in bed, but the binmen also.

 
  NB. In most parts of the country you will find that the gritters/binmen are one and the same, which conflicts with my previous opinion that the gritters were the salt of the earth and that the binmen had a rubbish job.

[Bogus Dave]

Fuck the lack of grit. I fell over today for the first time since the snow started in december. First step of the bus (which was chock full of people) and BANG. On my backside.

[Samdy Gray]

Have the main roads in the town cleared up yet? Or are they still slippy/slushy?

Very much clear on the main routes.

Just started raining in West Swindon. Hallelujah.

[pauld]

The met office kindly changed their forecast at about 3am as the snow started to fall, this is less a forecast and more an observation of course.

[Bogus Dave]

My dad is always bleating on about how it snowed in june 1975, which sounds ridonkulous to me.

Can one of the older generation tell me if this is true?

[Whits]

My dad is always bleating on about how it snowed in june 1975, which sounds ridonkulous to me.

Can one of the older generation tell me if this is true?

2 June 1975, The United Kingdom: Snow falls across southern England, including Buxton, Derbyshire and on hills south of Birmingham, Edinburgh, Newark, Grantham and Peterborough. Snow is also observed in Cambridge and Colchester. The snow is the latest in the year that such a widespread snowfall has occurred over the United Kingdom since the late 19th Century.

http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/almanac/diaryjun.htm

[ReadingRed]

Yes, I remember that day - the snow made me arrive late for a key final degree exam, so I always blame my crappy 3rd class honours on the weather!

[Bogus Dave]

Well i'll be.

Thanks whits and Reading

[ibelieveinmrreeves]

I was actually allowed shut the shop early today, left at 8 rather than 10. Wish I'd stayed on frankly, our boiler seems to have packed in.