Machu Picchu
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MyWeather.com seems to agree with METO's snow prediction for this evening, MyWeather is part of WeatheCentral, now owned by the chairman, Sir Evelyn (EVILyn) de Rothschild and run by
E.L. Rothschild C.E.O Lynn Forrester de Rothschild, EVILyn's missus. No lack of investment or resources for MyWeather, its actually a really nice website, well laid out with the ability to customise
to an exact pinpoint location, not sure what models they use or how accurate the forecasts are but it is a nice looking site.
--0.9C now that grey clouds covering, keep seeing the odd flake falling too. Not very optimistic about METO's 60% heavy snow chance for midnight and 3am though.
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Dark grey cloud coming in from the North, weather station air temp has maxed at 0.7C today, 0.5C current, another bare exposed sensor shows 0.8C with a max of 2.4C, min 0.4C since 13:30.
No real melt today, theres been dripping but mostly from the warm house, theres icicles hanging from sheds and bins. Still got snow stuck to the beading on the plastic front door so defo no real thaw
happening. The main road is clear and dry, knocked the snow off the wheelie bin and the bottom inch was ice and the bins dry underneath.
Gritter ploughs keep heading out, dont know if its a good sign or whether they're still clearing roads over the tops.
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Santa is up on roofs every Christmas and never falls off.
Santa aint got a 3 foot Emu chewing on his ball bag. Rod Hull was pushed i tell thee.
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I can see the potential Cheese R due to the strength of this E wind. Really is gusty up here.
Had to tie my snapped TV aerial with washing line type cable and feed it in to the bathroom window to stop it banging all nite like last nite!
Also why don't TV aerial Engineers work Sunday...
You be careful repairing that aerial, and dont take any cuddly toys on the roof with you, look what happened to Rod Hull
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MP,my kids like rabbits...................in a pie
The springer likes chasing them as well, hopefully he'll wear himself out chasing it around the house and garden so i wont need to take himon the fields for hours at a time.
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Hahaha,love it,just let my rabbit out for a run around the garden and he loved it,he was perched on top of the snow drifts!!He is now trying to make a burrow through the drifts!!
Cool, rabbits are ace pets, i've been contemplating getting one for a while now, always had them as a kid and now my sister lives next door her 18mnth old twins would love it.
You've helped me make my mind up, i'm getting a rabbit
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Am frozen after taking the dog out, that winds a killer, tiring too trudging through the snow up the hills, its frozen so you can walk on top of it in places
and then sink in it up to the knee, got the quads burning so it was a good workout. The springer had more luck, he just floated over most of it but when
he sank it almost buried him, not that it bothered him, he just bounced then.
I'm too cold to make a snowman so i improvised.
https://forum.netweather.tv/gallery/image/17920-he39s-happy/
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Ther u go guys! 1c already
Chuffin Eck bro, a heat wave. Scrape some snow away and see what the base is like, if its like it is here you'll have a couple of cm's of
solid ice under the snow, that will be hard to shift in a few hours of periodic sunshine. Then you might get a top up later on, it'll hit you before
it reaches here, METO's radar prediction shows around tea time for your area, 9-10pm for here so you might end up with a bit more than you
started the day with, although its more likely that a little black cloud will appear over your house and chuck it down with rain all afternoon.
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38cm on the shed roof where i put the tape measure in, it looks even deeper near the top but i cant reach up there, had to stand on a clay plant pot
to get the measurement at the bottom. I'm surprised it collected that much as it took a long time for it to accumulate on exposed surfaces, the
wind kept blowing it off. A lot it will be from drifting snow, my sisters Sky dish next door has around 2ft of snow stuck to it.
Still overcast and dull here with a temp of --0.8C and quite windy. I can feel our Floyds (the springer) eyes piercing me, time to take him up on the hills,
for walkies ,this should be fun.
https://forum.netweather.tv/gallery/image/17919-38cm-on-shed-roof/
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We got the train out to Hathersage today to go for a wander in the snow, really glad we did, the snow was amazing out there, huge 6ft drifts right across main roads and some beautiful sculpted snow. Went up on to Stannage edge which was wild with a constant gale blowing snow over the edge... not seen that much snow since I was about 7 and the council had to get snow blowers out
.Don't think I've had that much fun in ages, totally exhausted now from jumping in drifts bigger than me and wading through thigh deep powder for hours.. Some photos, hopefully not too huge.
As others have rightly commented, these are fantastic photo's. For me being a PC Gamer, the 1st image instantly reminded me of the original Crysis game from 2007.
It resembles the frozen island landscape scenes from the game and the silhouette of the person really does resemble the character 'Nomad' from the game who is a
high tech special forces agent wearing a top secret Nano Suit. Its bizarrely similar.
The 2nd eerie image resembles a post apocalyptic or nuclear dawn scene from a movie
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When tht suns out! Rapid melt will occur even high up
The forecasters are wrong on maxes. Can see 4/5c today easy
I cant see the air temp getting that high, i've got a weather station with a shielded sensor so i'll keep my eye on the air temp, the sun will obviously do some
damage this time of year but hopefully it will only break through in intervals.
Theres a good chance of another inch of snow through the night for round here and more spells through the week, it looks like we could be in the freezer for
another fortnight, a bit strange these days for this time of year but i'm not complaining.
Theres 3 large house sized piles of snow in TESCO's small car park, i wonder how long that lasts.
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I wanted to get out before the sun comes out as it is trying to do now. Hope we don't get too much melt today.
Temps are set to stay around freezing so hopefully the sun wont do too much damage in the sunny intervals, its got some power though
at this time of year so fingers crossed. Hopefully the region will get a bit more tonight and the next few days to keep it topped up.
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More pics from my morning walk.. insane drifting for a low-level location. Didn't see these yesterday!
This is usually a path.. not today.. it's a glacier - over a foot of snow there and I could walk on top of it.
Awesome pics Aaron, looks amazing up there. I've been waiting for the temp to rise a bit before i take the dog on the fields but its still --2C.
METO have light snow from 9pm through the night and light snow spells everyday through the week with temps struggling to get above freezing
so the snows not thawing anytime soon.
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Made it to TESCO yesterday, hard work walking down the main road where cars have sprayed the gritty slush onto the path so theres over a foot of brown crap to wade through. I was out of milk and no bread as i'd given it to the birds. No milk at all left in Tesco, went to the bread and it was the same, either gluten free or 2 olive cobs (quite nice actually) so i got the cob and headed for the powdered milk. I asked a worker if there was any milk left and he told me he'd just put the last load of 4pinters out and walked round to show me where, he was amazed that it was all gone as he'd only put it out 15mins previous. It was then i saw a disgusting sight, a women with 3 young kids in tow, 2 kids had half sized trolleys, she had a normal trolley and the eldest was the runner she sent round to clear shelves. 1 kid had their trolley full of 2 and 4 pinters of blue and green top milk, the women had the rest of the milk in her trolley, must of been at least 60pints and the other kid had a trolley full of coco pops and sugar puffs, poor kids. All the bread left was in her trolley, unbelievable, i can live with olive cob but i'm not ruining decent coffee with powdered milk so as she was clearing the shelves of crumpets and hot X buns (seriously) i performed a stealth pass
and lifted a 4pinter of green top from her trolley then walked past a guy laughing as he'd seen me do it, i was making the most of the £1 Kettle Chips offer when laughing guy passed me pointing at a 4pinter in his basket and said good idea mate. L☺L.It was a sad sight in there, the shelves were empty of anything fresh, dont these people realise its open everyday, its not the 1930's, the road clearing teams are top notch these days, they made it to TESCO after a very rare huge dumping of snow so common says theres no need to stock pile, especially not after the event, they should have been doing it on Friday.
I bet TESCO were rubbing their greedy hands yesterday, it was packed with ppl filling trolleys with crap they didn't need, you could feel the anxiety, there were no manners and it was void of any rational thinking as ppl rushed around banging trolleys to get a chance to empty a shelf first. And bloody potatoes,the poor guy filling up the empty potato trays, he was trying to put them in and a crowd of nutters were allover him grabbing them before they hit the tray, i watched in disbelief as they started emptying his stock trolley and he stood aside with a bemused look on his face. The whole experience was a weird display of mental illness which got me thinking about how it would be if we had a real crisis or emergency situation, it wouldn't take much to panic the herd with anarchy and marshall law the end result as the sheep run amok.
I got back to normality with a walk home down the Pennine trail, absolutely stunning, a thin icy path had been worn in the deep snow by walkers and hardcore cyclists (more hardcore than me) I kept stepping into the deep untouched snow and it was well up my shins and over my knee where the ground dipped underneath. On level ground there's over a foot of snow, on the fields around 40cm level with parts up to the waist and massive drifts sculpted by the wind.
A beautiful display of nature at its finest.
Sorry about the long rant, just needed to get it off my chest
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I am just going outside and may be some time.
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Snow lovers be like.... why yo snow so deep?!?!!?
Anyway it's too high for the 30cm ruler, about 45cm if not more. I wish that was the level snow everywhere but it's definitely not. The wind keeps whipping up the snow so in the thinnest parts it's only 16-18cm, in the deepest parts (not drifts) it's 30cm+.
Current temp: -2.c, wind chill: -9.4c
F♀♂♫#☺g Hell man
flashbacks to 2010 or what.Winters have now become longer than ever, since 2010 we've been expecting snow from November and from next year we're going to still be expecting snow
in late March.
Nice pics mate, i've just gauged 16" on my wheelie bin but you've instantly pi55ed on that and turned it yellow
Enjoy your obnoxiously obscene amount of snow.
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Still snowing here, temps at 0C but feels much colder with the wind, going to have a bath then venture out up the village.
Just gauged the snow on the wheelie bin and theres 16.5" its not a true gauge though, the snow on the bin forms a triangle
where the wind has blown it about, i'd really like to know how much true snow has fallen but its impossible to know.
I'll take some pics when am out and about, just took these from the warmth of the kitchen window.
https://forum.netweather.tv/gallery/image/17866-img-20130323-123848/
https://forum.netweather.tv/gallery/image/17867-img-20130323-124017/
https://forum.netweather.tv/gallery/image/17868-friends-round-for-dinner/
https://forum.netweather.tv/gallery/image/17869-friends-round-for-dinner/
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Nah didn't start til 07:30 then went shopping and resumed at 09:30. A neigbour further up had started before me prob at 06:30. Apart from that noboby else has made any effort. Quite a few young people on the road as well. So no excuse.
A lot of the younger generations today are bone idle, they seem to believe that everything should be done for them by the state so they've become slaves to the system
and incapable of being independent and looking after themselves. Cheeky too so you'll more than likely get home and find them parked in your nicely cleared out spot.
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Coming down a bit heavier here now in rotherham.
I think it will be more showery in nature now.
Lots of slush around town centre which should be fun when it freezes after dark.
Coming down again here now too. Now the fronts pivoting it looks like it could do with pushing a bit further North to get the last few hours out of it cus it
looks like theres still some moderate ppn in there if it has the energy to reach us.
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Some snow pics from Hubberton near Halifax.
Awesome pics DB, looks like you did very well, enjoy it.
METO are giving the chance of snow for Mon,Tue and Weds for parts of the region so it could be a good week.
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Moderate Snow here again. Anyway water content of the snow was 18.7mm. Some pics
Very nice PIT, looking at your pics i bet some people were awoken by the sound of scraping shovels.
Looks like your about to get some more snow.
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Ok that's a first. Our milk mans delivered the snow on Sledges
What did he carry the milk in then?
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Dont forget to feed the birds, when its cold and snowy they need to eat around 1/3rd of their body weight a day, deep snow makes it difficult for them to
find food on the ground and they use more energy searching for it. Just chuck some bread in the snow or anything you got, they'll find it, the greedy
Starlings will defo find it so the rest will be close behind them.
The front is pivoting again, the feed looks like its pushing through Belgium into Holland to flow W-N/W, have to see how it pans out, METO have not downgraded
as of yet and other sources are still stating favourable conditions to early evening.
Still snowing here but i wouldn't mind seeing the end of it and that wind dropping cus its bloody freezing, still --0.6C and icicles forming where its dripping.
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Yep. The trick is to open the door slightly then bang it shut. Most of the snow blown up the door will fall off and the drift will compact it more so it doesn't all fall in. Cats now have a tunnel out of cat flap.
Bless ya de88ie, i'll give it a try.
The springer likes chasing them as well, hopefully he'll wear himself out chasing it around the house and garden so i wont need to take him
and lifted a 4pinter of green top from her trolley then walked past a guy laughing as he'd seen me do it, i was making the most of the £1 Kettle Chips offer when laughing guy passed me pointing at a 4pinter in his basket and said good idea mate. L☺L.
flashbacks to 2010 or what.
Yorkshire & Lincolnshire Regional Discussion 23/03/13 08z ----->
in Regional
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Its been windy here today but nothing like yesterday and Friday, its not been strong enough to blow much snow, there was a bit blowing this morning on the hills but the snow pack is so icy it will take some moving.
Winds picked up now again, a nasty easterly that gets through the gloves but everywhere seems too solid and icy to blow around, i walked on top of knee high snow on the hills it was that solid
Luckily we hardly saw the sun today and when it did get through it was still behind thinner cloud and was soon covered over again.
It was --1.2C at 7pm, its now --0.5C.