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I am by the church inn. it is difficult now. Got to get to brass band tonight as well :0A62 scout head, A669 lydgate and up by the church inn will see very difficult driving conditions if this keeps up!!!
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heavy and sticking - building up nicely on cars. topping up what had fallen last night. wishing now that I hadn't sent my son to school today
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Is there anything at Scouthead as well do you know?
There is nothing at all. I drove through half an hour ago.
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still snowing here horizontally, very fine powdery flakes but lots of them.
yeah, still pretty rough here too. i was going to a meal tonight in uppermill with the rest of my brass band. that will probably be off now as a lot of them are from over the hill in marsden/ripponden/holmfirth etc
unbelievably, it was the christmas meal and we haven't got round to it as we have been so busy competing round the country etc. ironic that it should be cancelled due to snow .... in april!!!! -
its terrible outside. severe winds and snow. cats don't want to go out - dog doesn't want to come in. met office radar has got tons more for us. what a shock!!!!
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I saw a gritter coming back from Oldham town center earlier at the top of Wall hill Road, could get washed away by rain and then a couple of cms fall on top and freeze at dawn, that said though, the fact that people in Leeds are reporting the Dew point, temperature rising might mean the cold uppers will get mixed out too quick, i hope not though, i really want the mother of all pastings!!!!
There are lots more Grit boxes up here that we have to use. i walk down to them with the sledge, pile it on, then shovel it on the drive and the road and round the cars. Sometimes it is too deep to even bother to do that. Even the 4 x 4's struggle. It's hard graft 'oop in the hills.
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Snowing here as well, im down in the dungeon as well so this bodes well, i take it your up by the Church inn at 1000ft +
i am. It can get a bit chippy up here. I am not on the main Church Road either, so the gritters leave us to it
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snowing lightly here for the past 10 minutes
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thanks everyone. will have a look tomorrow, to be sure, but will aim for saturday departure.
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hi, can anyone give me any advice. i live high up in saddleworth (near church inn uppermill) on saturday morning i was planning to fetch my daughter from warwick university for the christmas holidays.
the question is....what do you think of my chances of snow, that morning in saddleworth, warwick and in between.
i could get her the friday evening (don't really want to do this) but i can if that is a better option. she HAS to be out of her halls by 10am saturday morning so i really need to go. any advice greatfully accepted.
also i could go friday morning, but would have to be back in saddleworth at school closing time for my son, so cannot get stuck in warwick either that day.
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Snowing here now
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Just to confirm, here in Saddleworth we got absolutely nothing from that spell
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It's amazing how relative you become, compared to what you've had before. It's 1c here, and in any normal winter this would be called a 'cold snap' lol After our two frozen sub zero weeks, with record low temperatures, it almost seems a mild spell lol
...back onto the here and now, i'm not really expecting too much in the way of snowfall from the southerly band. I expect it will fizzle and lose it's intensity by the time it reaches our parts. However with the winter we've had so far who knows. The thaw will be stepped up a gear come the weekend though, and yes even hillier areas will see it then.
whats due at the weekend, dodge. and when?
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is this snow part of the snow that is currently over scotland, or different?
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Scary and not good news. Here in Oldham, the council have reported that they have gone through 2,000 tones of salt in the past few weeks, but reassure everyone that another 9,000 tonnes is on route for delivery at the end of the week. Let's hope they have lots in reserve, because we may need alot more of it before the end of the week is out.
2000 tonnes, and they have not put a teaspoonful outside my house
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My word it's cold here this morning, currently -11.5°C
:cold:thanks for that james. i don't have to start the car to look at the temp now. my sons school is closed today, so more winter fun. however, buses are still running to huddersfield (which amazes me) which means my daughter has had to go to college
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-6.5 here as i turned into my drive about an hour ago. unfortunately, i will have to start the car if i want to check it again. it was -4.5 in top mossley if anyone is interested as i drove through. at about 5pm it was about -1.5 at liverpool airport.
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now that's what we all like - an optimist lol (PS - still snowing here
)still lightly snowing here. we have about 5 inches.
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Really surprising!
There is nothing marginal about this whatsoever here. Powder snow, a temp. of 0.2c and dewpoint of -1.0c. I hope it improves for you.
I would like to know though if anyone else has the same conditions that I am reporting.
yes, i am.
i am at the top of the hill in uppermill, near the church inn.
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snowing now again. 4 + inches earlier today to add to what hadn't thawed.
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A previous poster mentioned that they thought that women might just look at their regional forums and not the model discussion. i am one of them. i mainly look at the north west forum and sometimes dip into the midlands forum (as i am originally from there and my parents still live there)
i find as well as being a woman, not as knowledgeble as some, and not as argumentative (and not from the south-east when it comes to model discussion) i am often ignored.
i remember a couple of years ago i said there wasn't snow where i was and another poster who is very local to me said that he had 2 inches. I live at the top of a very high hill in the saddleworth moors and he is a lot lower than me. it just happened that i drove past where he lives. he had no snow.
i never mentioned this, but he had quoted my previous post and just typed 'ignore' under it.
what is the point.
by the way. i had 15 inches of snow last week and it was never even mentioned on any forcast - why is that? i noticed that the bbc were showing footage of people being upset because they had about 2 inches (it looked like) and had had to leave their cars in herts or bucks or somewhere. i still have about 4 inches and have been living with it for 2 weeks.
anyway....thats of my chest.....erm...happy new year.
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7-8 inches here at the top of the hills in uppermill, saddleworth. snowing off and on all day. no roads gritted and as i live on a small road high up, no chance of it either. drifts up the walls are about 3 feet in places. not a chance of thawing. i have to keep going outside to knock all the snow off the bushes and apple tree as my christmas lights are on there and you can hardly see them. satellite dish wasn't working either, full of snow, had to throw hot water on it.
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wow seriously? nothing here yet.
-1.7C here and dropping faster now!
Hopefully something snowy will come about
it has been snowing lightly off and on since about 3 this afternoon. went to a brass band concert tonight and they finished it early because some of them were from ripponden and marsden and were worried about getting home.
everything has stuck but it is the icing sugar kind of snow, hence only 3-4 cms in about 9 hours.
can't see why it isn't everywhere else. i am very high up too though. maybe that is it. i don't know how high i am, really
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about 4cms here in the saddleworth hills and still snowing - hope it gets to everyone else
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