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Why is this happening when I am here? Do you all realise how lucky you are? Please keep some for me!
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Don’t understand the problem here – it’s like this every day of the year up in Saddleworth…
I witnessed seven or eight people frantically phoning their nearests and dearests on the Peterborough train yesterday, fearfully recounting that they’d seen “loads of snow” (try the thinnest of coatings) on Stevenage platform, and could they let everyone know that they might not be home that evening. Heaven help them all in a proper winter.
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I want to live in Saddleworth then!
I remember some really good snowy winters when I was a mere four footer
They were fantastic, we always had to make sure the shovel was in the back of the car in case we needed to dig ourselves out of snowdrifts!So global warming types I sure you said snow would be a thing of the past in the not to distant future, just as you said this summer would be the hottest ever.
Is it snowing up on Yorkshire Steve?
If this is global warming I’m all for it
Those people in the photos are wearing jumpers n jackets!
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In Sheffield it has but not Doncaster we too low down for snow always rain. Are you still in South Africa you said you were coming back to UK in a previous thread.
There was snow on the roof of my car last night in the early hours when my daughter woke me up. I looked, bleary eyed, out of the window, shrugged and went back to bed.
In Sheffield it has but not Doncaster we too low down for snow always rain. Are you still in South Africa you said you were coming back to UK in a previous thread.
Singapore not SA! Yes am coming back in February, so I’m hoping there will be some snow left over!
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So far, all quiet on the southern front. Living by the sea is tempestuous at the best of times,
batten down the hatches.
I had completely missed the whole storm thing until I read your post. After that I had a look at MetCheck and I’m starting to get slightly concerned!!:
All eyes are now on Storm Johanna which is set to be the most powerful storm system this Winter to hit the UK.
OK, so how’s the system going to develop and what can we expect? First of all, Johanna is going to have two main parts, the first is the warm front with the heavy rain and strong winds which will sweep East overnight tonight and into Monday. The second is the severe gales which will push into the South-west during Monday afternoon.
A thoroughly wet, windy and miserable start to Monday for many areas. Gales or severe gales will sweep across many Central and Southern areas with winds of up to 50mph inland and even higher gusts which could bring down trees and cause structural damage.
Then a slight lull around Midday as the storm passes over the Irish Sea. Into the early afternoon and the wake of Johanna slams into the South-west with winds of up to 90mph, gusts slightly higher.
The worrying side at the moment for the South-west is the storm co-inciding with the high Spring tides. We are aware that many will want to see the worst of the weather along coastal areas in Devon and Cornwall, however the situation is severe enough to cause loss of life for people who don’t understand the effect of these two components.
Waves of up to 45ft can be expected along the North Cornish coast. This, compounded with high tide around 6pm and the Spring tide at this time of year will result in elevated sea levels and possible breaches of sea defences.
Eeeek!!
….thanks for posting…even worse than I thought
I hope it won’t be too bad where you are. We’re right on the south coast and although in a town setting, it’s up on a hill and exposed. We always get the worst of any SW gales. I’m dreading it, my nerves are in tatters and I won’t sleep tonight.
Actually just heard the Met Office advise people to stay away from coastal areas if at all possible – never heard that before, it must be a bad one brewing.
north kent – twenty miles down the road
Went out for the paper a few hours ago. It was miserable, wet and windy, but no worse than you get in Yorkshire all the time (including in the height of summer).
Then again, I don’t live by the coast and have 10-foot waves breaking in the front doorstep…
I also gingered out for my copy
of the macintosh times.
High buildings magnified the winds effect
and I was carried along the pavements
by an inside out umbrella
which was unfortuately very highly coloured.
My tricky steps and loss of dignity
could easily have been an audition
for singing in the rain
or the monster of mary poppins
but sadly nowhere near Boreham Wood
and just an old lady’s grin at a post box
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