How To... Make It Through The Winter On The Nw Forum!

[Kay]

welcome CR to the forum, from one who doesn't post very often but as you said is usually plastered to the living room window watching the lamp post outside for any sign of snow having read all the posts on the forums!!

heres to 09/10 and all it brings(some cold Pls)!!!

Edited November 24, 2009 by Kay

[LomondSnowstorm]

Please.......

......if we get a nice lot of snow again, as many of us did in February, can we have the regional threads again? They were grrrrreat!

Well, I think so, anyway!

Agreed, they were really great, it meant there was always someone just west/north/south of here (depending on wind direction) to tell you it was snowing so you could run outside and stare at the lampost until it started

I remember our regional forum got a bit nationalist and resulted in a debate on a Scottish Met Office (tbh I think I started it!).

Anyway, let's just hope the met office get the preliminary seasonal forecast wrong (again!) and we end up with a proper winter!

CW

[chapmanraven]

Thank you all for the lovely welcome:give_rose:

Its wonderful now that it is getting colder. I am getting ready for a flattened nose against the window looking for the first flake of snow.

[Vesuvius]

Someone has already said it but I'll endorse it.

The regional weather threads were great and really allowed us to know what the locals were getting and what we could get soon

And it also means I can ignore those northern lot when we don't get any

[wysiwyg]

So will it snow in Chorley?

Doooohhhhhhhh!!!! Just Kidding

I enjoyed the regional threads too being from under a snow dome

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

Well, people might think of me as a summer/thunderstorm poster here, but winter is my favourite - it's just that I'm like Kay - I read and absorb the forums but don't post much. Also, where I live there are no streetlights (about which I'm glad 99.9% of the time), but it does mean that seeing falling snow after dark is harder.

[guitarnutter]

Also, where I live there are no streetlights.

In Norfolk? Not even the oil ones?

[Methuselah]

Well, people might think of me as a summer/thunderstorm poster here, but winter is my favourite - it's just that I'm like Kay - I read and absorb the forums but don't post much. Also, where I live there are no streetlights (about which I'm glad 99.9% of the time), but it does mean that seeing falling snow after dark is harder.

I fitted some outside lights for my snowflake obs...

[shadowfax]

I have the same problem with lack of street lights and have put a big security light on a tree in the garden which I can turn on from the house, great for watching the snow.

Shadowfax

[paul tall]

The younger you are, the more marginal snow you feel able to report.

Not necessarily. I'm 37 and have reported clear snow that settles as a moving fluid before.

[Crepuscular Ray]

Live next door to Travis Perkins: they never turn their security lights off, so I get views of the snow swirling in (sadly, orange) light without having to pay for it (on the occasional times when it snows in west-central London, obviously). On the bad side, it make stargazing impossible.

[Lynxus]

Maybe we need some kind of NW counsellor . Ive managed many years on here now. But someones I get soooo close to popping.