Snow,snow,snow

nevman

Its honking down here in Derbyshire-just watching pics from Heathrow of peeps wandering around in T shirts,hmm,which would I prefer....take care today commuters.

Dunk_911

I live near Ashbourne but I work in Derby. No chance I'm risking going in till it stops falling though. But the thing is, it's still falling in big and heavy flakes - Only hope it clears for my long weekend of riding which I have planned :evil:

CYCLESPORT1

Just sheet here in Cheshire, I would be like this when I have a week off work

Rigga

Absolutely tonking it down here in Wakey, west yorkshire! (snow not rain!)

Dunk_911

Well a massive branch fell off a tree due to the weight of the snow and now I need a new boot door for my car. FFS.

mudcow007

not even a sniff of the white stuff here in Liverpool

cold an bleeding windy though

MattC59

Newbury's clear, and it looks like I'm heading in the right direction over Easter, the South Downs appear to have nice weather

Pross

Bit on the hills down here in South Wales. Rode into work - cold, windy and grey but dry and hopefully there won't be anything through the day (doubt it as I'm at sea level).

jordan_217

MattC59 wrote:

Newbury's clear, and it looks like I'm heading in the right direction over Easter, the South Downs appear to have nice weather

Not far from Eastbourne

petemadoc

Heavy snow coming down in North Wales. It's not sticking on lower ground bit higher up it's all going white.

To think last week I was sat in the garden, shorts and t-shirt sipping some wine and having a BBQ.

Today is a turbo day me thinks

rolf_f

Oh well, not so clever this morning. I'd already removed the studded tyres from the MTB and it looked slushy anyway so I took the Dawes tourer to work. And, being stupidly casual I a) stuck with normal shoes, warm socks and PX overshoes rather than the Northwave Celcsius boots, BBB Ultraflex overshoes and sealskins socks that I'd normally go for in this sort of weather and b) didn't take any spare kit with me.

First bit - the climb - was OK apart from cars spraying my legs with slush as they drove through the gaps between the snow ruts. Then it went a bit downhill in route and pleasantness as my speed increased only to find my eyes getting blinded by slushy snowflakes.

Then the roads became gridlocked and I had to walk through most of Pudsey (couldn't pass the gridlock due to the compacted snow in between the ruts) - not because of the snow itself but because a traffic light had packed in. When I got to it I found someone in a Peugeot 106 patiently waiting at the red light which clearly was never going to change! After that, it was a clear run in but my feet were very, very cold and wet. Still, lower down there wasn't the snow so at least I could cover the miles.

All in all, took an extra 12 minutes or so to get in.

cyberknight

nevman wrote:

Its honking down here in Derbyshire-just watching pics from Heathrow of peeps wandering around in T shirts,hmm,which would I prefer....take care today commuters.

Yup coupleof inches on the backroads near the bretby crematorium heading towards Repton.

wheres seaview/ cant say ive heard of it.