villa4europe Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 22 minutes ago, mjmooney said: That is the slipperiest surface imaginable. I once had to give up trying to get to work on that stuff. People were just falling over left right and centre, cars slewing all over the road, real Keystone Cops stuff. I've seen it in the morning where you can see it's defrosted a bit and then frozen again but never mid day It's between -3° and -5° and it's raining not snowing, it's bizarre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 7cm of snow over night and still coming down so that's me probably working from home for the rest of the week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 54 minutes ago, villa4europe said: 7cm of snow over night and still coming down so that's me probably working from home for the rest of the week -5 here overnight. Everything is frozen solid. School run will be fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ml1dch Posted January 18 Popular Post Share Posted January 18 Brace yourself. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 18 VT Supporter Share Posted January 18 (edited) 9 minutes ago, ml1dch said: Brace yourself. Double fisted by deadly snow and ice. Talk about freezing your arse off Edited January 18 by sidcow 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 I warmed the car earlier before the school run and used the excellent ford heated windscreen which sorted it out in a couple of minutes. It was still 5 minutes before I was leaving so turned the car off again. 5 minutes later I got back to the car and the beads of water on the windscreen (was frost) have frozen again already, crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Lichfield Dean Posted January 18 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted January 18 1 hour ago, ml1dch said: Brace yourself. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Others are Kennething 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 8 hours ago, Genie said: I warmed the car earlier before the school run and used the excellent ford heated windscreen which sorted it out in a couple of minutes. It was still 5 minutes before I was leaving so turned the car off again. 5 minutes later I got back to the car and the beads of water on the windscreen (was frost) have frozen again already, crazy. With no working heater in my car, I just won't bother! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Kinell, two more batterings coming up https://www.windy.com/?55.765,-4.968,4 Click wind mode on right, then the play icon bottom left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 21 Moderator Share Posted January 21 Watching the flight lottery is fascinating in a sort of odd type of way. Flights to Edinburgh are currently a magical mystery tour - maybe you end up in Edinburgh, maybe you don't, maybe you have a couple of goes at landing in Edinburgh and end up in Newcastle - nobody knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 21 Moderator Share Posted January 21 On 18/01/2024 at 20:07, Xela said: With no working heater in my car, I just won't bother! Optional extra in an Audi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-2.59,53.86,3154/loc=-1.622,53.223 The other wind map Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 Didn't even realise, just locking up, stuck my head outside, it's like a hurrican passing though, can hear like a hollow whistling too, well spooky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 22 Moderator Share Posted January 22 A Manchester to Dublin flight got diverted to Paris. There's a flight in the air at the moment that was supposed to be going to Edinburgh - he had one go at the approach and is now headed for Cologne. Flightradar24 is just bizarre tonight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted January 22 VT Supporter Share Posted January 22 Flights still landing at LHR just now. Presumably full of passengers who weren’t planning a trip to London. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 22 Moderator Share Posted January 22 Watching Edinburgh airport - they come in, they get down under 2,000ft and then about half of them manage to get it onto the ground and half pull out of it. It's fascinating. A lgith from Dublin just backed out of it - it was delayed by more than eight hours and now they haven't hit the landing - poor buggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Bit windy. Leak in the flat. Thankfuly away from stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 22 Moderator Share Posted January 22 The people on that Dublin to Edinburgh flight aren't going to forget this storm in a hurry - scheduled to leave Dublin at 3:35 pm this afternoon for the one hour five minute hop to Edinburgh, landing at 4:40 pm. It didn't take off until 11:46 pm and they're currently due to land in Cologne at 01:54 am. So just the nine and a bit hours late and 540 miles away from where they were headed - .it's taken them ten and a half hours to get twice as far from their destination as they started out. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 6 hours ago, OutByEaster? said: The people on that Dublin to Edinburgh flight aren't going to forget this storm in a hurry - scheduled to leave Dublin at 3:35 pm this afternoon for the one hour five minute hop to Edinburgh, landing at 4:40 pm. It didn't take off until 11:46 pm and they're currently due to land in Cologne at 01:54 am. So just the nine and a bit hours late and 540 miles away from where they were headed - .it's taken them ten and a half hours to get twice as far from their destination as they started out. Pretty much anywhere on “mainland” UK would have been some kind of result. A bus, train or hire car away. Poor buggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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