Not looking forward to this weekend's promised reprise. There was only about three or four inches here, in Cambridgeshire, though about four feet piled up in ditches and against hedges here and there. I work in Cambridge as a cycle courier, and it was a pretty unpleasant week, as most side roads weren't gritted and soon turned into rutted sheet ice. If I say that manoeuvring a heavily laden cargo bike on those surfaces, particularly on the Thursday, when it was windy too, was "tricky" it would be something of an understatement. On the plus side you do get a mixture of admiration and sympathy from the people you're delivering to, so you end up feeling mildly heroic. No crashes, by the way, so maybe I have better bike handling skills than I thought.
East Coast, from Scotland down to Kent does look like getting a covering, bitterly cold. Not quite as cold as last time but not far off. Not as long lived though.
No I haven't. What year was it when cold weather persisted right up until May, 4 or 5 years ago was it? I was hoping we didn't get a repeat of that for a while but it is beginning to feel the same way again.
Anyone else heard long range predictions of more to come over Easter?
I have little faith in accurate forecasting.
However, a work colleague showed me a long range forecast at the start of January that predicted cold (generally below teens) until the end of June. Before you scoff, it also predicted the snow.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.
Anyone else heard long range predictions of more to come over Easter?
I have little faith in accurate forecasting.
However, a work colleague showed me a long range forecast at the start of January that predicted cold (generally below teens) until the end of June. Before you scoff, it also predicted the snow.
I remember a heavy snowfall on the last weekend of March in 2013 but can't remember anything later than that.
I'm dubious of anything over about 2 weeks in advance. Every summer and winter you get predictions of record highs / lows / rainfall / snow so eventually one will be right.
Anyone else heard long range predictions of more to come over Easter?
I have little faith in accurate forecasting.
However, a work colleague showed me a long range forecast at the start of January that predicted cold (generally below teens) until the end of June. Before you scoff, it also predicted the snow.
I remember a heavy snowfall on the last weekend of March in 2013 but can't remember anything later than that.
I'm dubious of anything over about 2 weeks in advance. Every summer and winter you get predictions of record highs / lows / rainfall / snow so eventually one will be right.
Agreed. But this forecast was not predicting extremes of anything. (I don't consider snow in February to be extreme although we did get an unusual amount). It was predicting constant cold. Which is unusual.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.
Agreed. But this forecast was not predicting extremes of anything. (I don't consider snow in February to be extreme although we did get an unusual amount). It was predicting constant cold. Which is unusual.
it feels like its been cold for a long long time this autumn,winter and now spring...getting fed up of it now to be brutally honest, weve had cold snaps before, and even snow but its usually been one or two weeks of it being bad and then thats it, normally by now everyones moaning about how mild the winter has been and early spring has been etc
I don't feel like it has been that cold, I'd say the amount of mornings scraping ice off my windscreen have been fairly typical. It just seems that March has been unusually cold although most of last week was mild.
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Snow has completely vanished now so maybe out for a ride tomorrow
I braved it, just about. 10 mile massive speeds, turned back, 10 mile crawl.
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However, a work colleague showed me a long range forecast at the start of January that predicted cold (generally below teens) until the end of June. Before you scoff, it also predicted the snow.
I am not sure. You have no chance.
I remember a heavy snowfall on the last weekend of March in 2013 but can't remember anything later than that.
I'm dubious of anything over about 2 weeks in advance. Every summer and winter you get predictions of record highs / lows / rainfall / snow so eventually one will be right.
I am not sure. You have no chance.
it feels like its been cold for a long long time this autumn,winter and now spring...getting fed up of it now to be brutally honest, weve had cold snaps before, and even snow but its usually been one or two weeks of it being bad and then thats it, normally by now everyones moaning about how mild the winter has been and early spring has been etc