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OK, cheers AJ

yep, the mountains are gobbling up all our snow by the looks of it. should still get a light flurry though i reckon. how are these showers pushing so far inland?

bit of unexpected radar drama for a friday night. nice.

getting close though. already hitting Caerphilly according to the radar

Shhhh! don't mention the English in here!

anyway, as has been said, the possibility of even more cold weather exists beyond this event as well, so may as well sort things out now, ready for the rest of the winter, JUST in case! we've been mollycoddled with mild winters in this country this past 20 years or so. we've all become complacent. Well, I have anyway!

i did say maybe i'm over reacting, but looking at the forecasts on TV, and looking at the charts, an EXTENDED period of blowing snow, with the associated cold temperatures is COMING, without much of a doubt now. it's up to you. if you're happy your property can handle that, OK, but I am a 'veteran' of 78 and 82, and I know what periods of weather like this can do. back then, I was living with my parents, and all the responsibility was on them, all I had to do was play in the stuff. now it's ME in their shoes. I am not happy that my property will be able to handle an EAST wind blowing directly at those vulnerable pipes I was talking about. it's only prudent to take every precaution. doing nothing, is NOT an option!

just about nailed on now icequeen, i'd say little preparations now will save a lot of trouble later. of course it might get so bad even the preparations will be overwhelmed, but doing nothing is not an option really, is it? we've had the warning, good early warning, so use it! edit - thing is about us here as well, is we're on the end of an EAST facing terrace, so we'll be in the teeth of the storm, so i can't really afford to do nothing.

yep it's going to be icy cold as well. spending the morning going around the house putting towels around our vulnerable water pipes as emergency lagging. bit of a pain, but i'd rather do this now than be faced with losing our water supply during the worst of the blizzard, then have a big plumbers bill to pay when we can eventually GET a plumber! perhaps i'm over reacting a bit, but better safe than sorry i say! if an extended blizzard DOES happen, watch your attics. blowing snow finds EVERY weakness in a property, and if it gets into your attic, when it warms up and melts, you'll have major damage to your ceilings! hopefully, some miracle will happen and this event will fail to materialise, but i am not confident now. in fact, looking at the latest charts, it seems the cold and snow has been extended EVEN further!

officially starting to worry about this now. 3/4 day blizzards? not nice. especially as it will be topping up what has already been a large snowfall, which has hardly thawed at all. so far, we here in the Llynfi valley have got off relatively lightly. i think that's about to change, barring a quite miraculous u turn, which, let's face it, ain't gonna happen now! There are spots in Wales and central England that are going to be REALLY struggling after this event I feel! I'll take the Atlantic battering through now, and giving us a week or two of relatively mild wet weather.(Even though it's highly unlikely at present) it's still early in the winter, plenty of time for further events. that Nasa pic of the Uk totally white spooked me. it reminded me of the satellite shot of the UK after the Yellowstone eruption and the subsequent cooling in the BBC drama of the same name! make sure you all have candles, and an alternate cooking source if you have electric cookers too, just as a precaution. I reckon power cuts COULD be widespread! we've got a little camping stove, and a nearly full gas bottle. Finally, come on mild, you can do it! :lol:

one tip i will give you all. what i remember most about the blizzards of 78 and 82 was the snow's uncanny ability to seek out ANY weakness in a building. If you have any holes, or draughts or anything you KNOW about, go get them sealed BEFORE this starts, because once it starts, the snow WILL get in, and you will have your own mini snow drifts, in your attic, garage, wherever it can get in. one of the worst memories I have of the last blizzard, was me having to go up into the attic to shovel out all the snow up there.(because i was the only one who could fit through the trap door!) i FROZE! there was LOADS up there too! so if you do KNOW of any breaches in your defences, get them sorted now. i'm still hoping this won't happen, but as the charts keep on ticking by, and the same picture stays shown, I'm more and more resigned to it. yes, it'll blow into huge drifts as well.

or the following couple of weeks. don't quote me on that though!

DS, go here.. http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=nwdc;sess= click on the 'precipitation type' chart, go to Saturday 1800, and just keep clicking forward to see how long the pink stays over us. now i know we won't get CONSTANT heavy snow for the whole time, and it's all still a long way off, but the pink is over us( in maesteg and bridgend) from 1800 Saturday, till 0600 on the following Friday, with one break. next week could be spectacular. COULD be! even the blizzards of 78 and 82 were only 3 days long. it's a bit scary to be honest.

CHOO CHOOOOOOOOOO! all aboard the Blizzard Express! Stopping at London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol, Exeter and Cardiff!

and rightly so. let's be honest, that corner of the country IS the hub of the country. we are the far flung outposts, so when they get hit, and hit bad, it is historic really, and very VERY bad for an already spluttering, drowning economy. still annoying though, isn't it?

self employed fun, one day of it, two days, OK, i can handle that. a week, i'm thinking 'hmmmm', a month, i'm going into debt, two months i'm in deep debt. at the moment, i think the two month one is ON! the charts are scaring me a bit at the moment. i earn my living on the road, so this is the WORST weather possible for me really. i just hope the banks, and everyone else realise the situation and show SOME sympathy, at least, to EVERYONE in the same boat as me. see guys, there is a SERIOUS side to this?

not yet! not YET!

comment by Barb on the Model output thread:- and here's what the winds will be doing:- http://69.16.188.115/c9s4a5k3/cds/gfsimages/gfs.20100106/06/96/airpressure.png?dopvhost=charts.netweather.tv&doppl=0bb8f22340fc7de240ac7db2916976f940ac7d8a&dopsig=e0ff23ec8d8ef25dc0a64a468f4bba20 basically, a snow conveyor!

comment by Barb on the Model output thread:- and here's what the winds will be doing:- http://69.16.188.115/c9s4a5k3/cds/gfsimages/gfs.20100106/06/96/airpressure.png?dopvhost=charts.netweather.tv&doppl=0bb8f22340fc7de240ac7db2916976f940ac7d8a&dopsig=e0ff23ec8d8ef25dc0a64a468f4bba20 basically, a snow conveyor!

something i'm not getting here on the radar, the precipitation is coming from the northwest, yet looking out, the clouds, and the snow is falling from the east how? why? confused now!

it looks like there's more on the way. there's a low moving west and it's just south of bristol now. if it keeps on the track it's on it should throw a bit more snow our way.

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will it snow in maesteg Jay?

as a courier Andy, this scenario is the one i have dreaded the most. i think Joe B is right. time to find another job i think. polar bear mucker outer, or something? :o

full on blizzard conditions now here i have lived here for 15 years, and this is the FIRST time i have seen drifting snow outside my front window.