Yaay Snow.

red_jon · January 7, 2003, 07:46

I just got up this morning to find it has snowed

It only snows in Eastbourne every few years or so, so I'm happy

Dauphin · January 7, 2003, 07:52

Snowed in Kent too. I love virgin snow.

Dauphin · January 7, 2003, 07:54

It snowed Friday night/Saturday morning last week too.

aaglo · January 7, 2003, 08:01

wow... that truly is amazing...

C0ckney · January 7, 2003, 08:04

i'm back in swansea, no snow here (or in somerset when i left) but it's certainly bloody cold enough for it.

red_jon · January 7, 2003, 08:05

You're back in Swansea already? I go back at the weekend, hopefully just before.

C0ckney · January 7, 2003, 08:06

yeah having done bugger all work last term, i decided to get back early and do some.

think most of my flatmates are getting back at the weekend too.

red_jon · January 7, 2003, 08:07

Ah. Well I've been pretending I don't have exams when I get back

Solly · January 7, 2003, 08:07

I'm back in Aber and we had a fine sprinkling of snow on Friday night, Saturday morning.

C0ckney · January 7, 2003, 08:10

@ rj

i've only got one exam but i don't really understand what it's going to be about (it's a pretty wide area), but i've also got two pieces of coursework due in later on this month :/

Solly · January 7, 2003, 08:12

I got one due in six days but there's no problem. Something about economies of scale, minimum efficient scale, market strucutre and market power.

C0ckney · January 7, 2003, 08:13

sounds like a real laugh an hour

aaglo · January 7, 2003, 08:46

When I woke up this morning, it was -30 celsius.
3 hours ago it was snowing heavy, and the teperature was -14 celsius and rising.

It's getting hot in here...

Alex · January 7, 2003, 08:46

Tropico, baby!

DinoDoc · January 7, 2003, 10:27

I see it so rarely where I live.

Arrian · January 7, 2003, 10:42

We've been getting snow on and off for nearly a week now. Unfortunately, there was some sleet & freezing rain mixed in. But it's shaping up to be a great winter (for skiers like me, that is). Woohoo!

-Arrian

CapitanGarlic · January 7, 2003, 11:17

We usually get lots of snow, but it's been a rather dry year...

Asher · January 7, 2003, 12:46

It's been extremely warm and dry here recently. It's only snowed a couple times all year.

Yesterday we broke our previous record high (13C, set 87 years ago) with 16C.

Starchild · January 7, 2003, 13:32

Snow in East Anglia. After spending the last five winters in Toronto, I am unimpressed by this English attempt at snow.

I have yet to see a single homeless person frozen to a street light. You call this winter??

Inverse Icarus · January 7, 2003, 13:58

Long Island has a lot of snow this year, we had 6.7 inches 2 weeks ago.

upstate new york (where i go to uni) has a few feet. oh boy.

red_jon · January 7, 2003, 14:00

Quote:

Originally posted by Starchild
Snow in East Anglia. After spending the last five winters in Toronto, I am unimpressed by this English attempt at snow.

I have yet to see a single homeless person frozen to a street light. You call this winter??

Graag · January 7, 2003, 14:42

A beautiful white blanket covered my street in north-east london... I was so stunned I took photos!

I love snow

Al'Kimiya · January 7, 2003, 14:46

We've about 25 cm of snow and it has been between -20 and -10 (celcius) for a week. I hate snow and I hate the cold.

Graag · January 7, 2003, 14:49

I hate the cold, but love snow. This is like the 3rd or 4th time its snowed here in the past 10 years or more, gotta make the most of it when its here.

Dauphin · January 8, 2003, 08:23

Yay, more snow.

Graag · January 8, 2003, 08:50

Wow I've got like 5 inches of it in my back garden!

*makes snowball*

This rules!

Graag · January 8, 2003, 10:04

Group of unruly schoolchildren terrorise local houses with snowballs and loud noises, residents anxious.

Unease among homeowners grows as reports filter in that schoolchildren have solved the petty differences previously dividing their forces to work on a new 'super' weapon, codenamed Big Snowball. The Big Snowball has a reported range of 12ft and the firepower of up to 6 ordinary snowballs, though it is not yet known when the Big Snowball will be fully operational.

Mr Blair, Headmaster of the local school urges calm, will be sending in the first of his elite peacekeeping force, known as 'teachers' within the hour.

Mr Blair issued this statement earlier today:

"They are not worried in the least about the numbers of people they cover in snow, about the total innocence of the people they cover in snow"

He pledged to "do everything we possibly can to bear down on these people and eradicate this evil in our world"

Whilst neighboring Headmaster Mr Bush has called for the wholesale detention of all schoolchildren suspected of snowball-related activities, Mr Blair has called for a measured reaction insisting his teachers are well trained in negotiating with schoolchildren.

"These kids are desperate for fun and see no other way out of the boredom of lunchtime. The first step to a peaceful resolution is to get teachers in to look at the 'Big Snowball', and what steps can be taken to begin the dismantling of snowball making apparatus."

Arrian · January 8, 2003, 10:30

Zoid · January 8, 2003, 10:30

The weather in Sweden and Gothenburg in particular is extreme to say the least. 2002 we had our warmest summer since they started measuring temperature round 1850. And now we have a winter that´s freezing our balls off. Gothenburg has 20 cm of snow and a temperature between -10 to -15 C. Usually when the snow comes it melts away as soon as it hits the ground. Due to the close proximity to the sea it almost never gets this cold in Gothenburg. I don´t think it´s been this cold this long since the great "war winters" of 1941 and ´42.

The electricity bill is skyrocketing thanks to the cold (and other factors), the prize per KwH has doubled the last 6 months or so

Tolls · January 8, 2003, 10:50

The snow didn't stand a chance on Oxford Street...no sooner had it landed than it turned into unpleasant mush slush...I hate unpleasant mushy slush.