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tabernus
28-01-2004, 00:04
anybody else got snow??
i think it only just started.
i like snow :D
T.
and in Herne Hill
wooohoooooo
:)
tabernus
28-01-2004, 00:12
i'm going to go to bed now and when i wake up everything will be 4ft in snow :D
it will wont it??
maybe 2 inches... but they've put salt down everywhere so it may not settle... so no snowmen tomorrow (sniff)
miss minnie
28-01-2004, 00:20
gosh, i remember the days when you'd find out what the weather was like by looking out the window. nowadays you find out via the internet. :p
can confirm that it is indeed snowing here in north brixton. :)
Barely a settled flake to be seen on Coldharbour... :(
http://www.urban75.org/webcam.html
Barely a settled flake to be seen on Coldharbour... :(
http://www.urban75.org/webcam.html
(Funky hi res picture... (photo 13 of Briston facing north) i've been trying to get that kind of shot for years...)
I think the snow has stopped though
RubyToogood
28-01-2004, 00:35
Ooh huge feathery flakes here... it's always a shade colder up here on the snowy peaks so we might get to keep it a bit longer :D.
I take it all back...
its a blizzzzard.... (i'd stick a photo on, but my camera's gone south for the warmer weather)
Herne Hills got about an Inch in the last 15 mins....
Miscellaneous
28-01-2004, 00:38
about 1/2 inch in the EIV :D woooooooooo I feel some fun comin' on :D
tabernus
28-01-2004, 00:43
not the best pic in the world but i have a difficulty - if i use the flash it just comes out as snow flakes and i lose everything behind it. if i dont use the flash it doesnt pick up the snow :(
http://www.grinningcat.net/albums/album17/snow_003.sized.jpg
:D
farmerbarleymow
28-01-2004, 01:38
It has laid in Manchester, which is very rare for us. Not a great deal of it though.
It's got laid in Manchester? Farmer, how could you! It was so pure till you got your filthy mits on it. :p ;)
Very snowy here. :)
General Ludd
28-01-2004, 07:17
Loads of snow here in Cambridge. Dawn was beautiful. :)
newharper
28-01-2004, 07:31
No such luck out here on the Marches.
Snow!
Luxury!
Well Birmingham had snow at about 11.30pm last night
I went to bed and awoke to find most of it gone :(
You ain't seen the piles, and piles, and piles of snow in Congleton, south Cheshire, that have unfortunately caused our college bus to be delayed beyond getting us there on time, and caused me to have to walk home for a hot cup of choc and a bath. :D
EastEnder
28-01-2004, 07:36
It's sunny, blue skies and quite dry in the east end.
;)
Thomas77
28-01-2004, 07:38
Made a pact with myself last night that if I woke up and it was snowing this morning I would not go to work and stay in bed... How bad seems loads of places have snow and I'm now at work...
Please GOD make it snow loads today and then I can stay of Thursday!!
http://trivini.no/g/txtonly/random/snow-1.jpg
It's sunny and cold out West. Damn, I really wanted snow :(
Ah well, I'm going up to York in a bit, should get more snow than I really want :D
Louloubelle
28-01-2004, 07:54
I thought that I would wake up and that when I looked out of the window it would be snowy
I was all excited I was
I can report that in Camden Town it is incredibly sunny with just a hint of frost and no snow at all :mad:
:)
Thomas77
28-01-2004, 07:55
Chio
Phew lucky or what? I would love to get my hands on some of that white stuff!!
Buddy Bradley
28-01-2004, 07:57
Peterborough looks pretty much like chio's picture, and we're supposed to be getting more later today. Looking a bit dodgy for the work curry night out tonight... :(
miss minnie
28-01-2004, 08:02
http://trivini.no/g/txtonly/random/snow-1.jpg
woooh, spooky. congleton seems to have a 'second sun' just like san francisco bay. or is it the 'puppy coming straight for us'? ;)
sorry, you must have read some of windsor's threads...
I was actually thinking of submitting either that or this (http://trivini.no/g/txtonly/random/fairies.jpg) picture to Windsor's crazy website as an example of "chem snow". :D
But I don't want my bandwidth, kindly provided Free Of Charge by a mate (http://trivini.no/), marauded by a bunch of mad Americans ...
Stobart Stopper
28-01-2004, 08:19
The roads in Hainault are fucking awful. The main roads are ok but the side roads are like skidpan alley.
I have just skidded into a kerb near my son's school, trying to get the car over a road-hump. God knows how some of the other parents are going to cope this morning, especially the ones who drive like maniacs all the time.
There's going to be lots of accidents today all over the place.
KeyboardJockey
28-01-2004, 08:21
My bit of Dagenham had approx1/16" of snow but a shed load of ice on the pavement. Nearly fell over about five times.
KeyboardJockey
28-01-2004, 08:23
The roads in Hainault are fucking awful. The main roads are ok but the side roads are like skidpan alley.
I have just skidded into a kerb near my son's school, trying to get the car over a road-hump. God knows how some of the other parents are going to cope this morning, especially the ones who drive like maniacs all the time.
There's going to be lots of accidents today all over the place.
Oh God that reminds me. I've parked Trundle opposite the school at the end of the road. I hope none of the 'I don't give a toss that my kids are turning into fat bastards so I'll drive them 25 metres' mothers don't skid into her when dropping their little darlings off to school.
White Lotus
28-01-2004, 08:37
Here in north-east Essex we have a dusting of snow - enough to make things pretty - but the sun's shining brightly so I'm not sure how long it will lie.
http://homepage.mac.com/lindaparkin/.Pictures/Walledgardensnow.jpg
isvicthere?
28-01-2004, 09:13
I took the dog out at about 7.15a.m. and the predictded "Arctic conditions" were conspicuous in their absence. Not even a frost, and the puddles remained water, rather than ice, filled. In Harrow (now at work) the ground is frozen and apparently it started snowing last night. It's grim up north (London).
Roadkill
28-01-2004, 09:18
It started snowing whilst I was doing the pub quiz at the student union last night. By the time I walked home there were two inches of it and more. Having had eight pints and a sambuca or two I decided that riding my bike in the snow might be fun. I came off twice. :D
Wish I had a digital camera, 'cos the view from my office window is lovely this morning.
Shame about what appears to be water coming through my bathroom ceiling at home though. :( They only fixed that bloody roof the other winter. :rolleyes:
EastEnder
28-01-2004, 09:20
Well Shoreditch is bright, sunny, glorious blue sky and just a bit cold.
;)
Loads of snow here in Cambridge. Dawn was beautiful. :)
Cambridge is beautiful in the snow. It takes on a magical, Narnia-like quality.
No snow in my bit of Brixton though. Did I miss it already?
ill-informed
28-01-2004, 09:45
Well up here in the barren wastelands of scotland..... it's sunny, there was a bit of a blizzard when i got up but it's settled down now. Here's some 'hot off the press' pictures of wintry Scotland.
View of the front lawn from the bathroom (http://www.photo.net/photodb/image-display?photo_id=2085264&size=md)
View of sea loch from the living room (http://www.photo.net/photodb/image-display?photo_id=2085282&size=md)
I was hoping to canoeing today in my brand new canoe, but as you can see from the picture it's a wee bit choppy.
well its been snowing most of this morning so far
but the suns out now so its making it all go away :(
poo
IntoStella
28-01-2004, 10:03
I took the dog out at about 7.15a.m. and the predictded "Arctic conditions" were conspicuous in their absence. Not even a frost, and the puddles remained water, rather than ice, filled. Indeed. It wasn't even particularly cold this morning (our bathroom has no heating and it wasn't too bad), let alone snow-covered. I wonder, is there a big climate differential between north and south Brixton? :D
Still mild and very sunny in Bristol :)
IntoStella
28-01-2004, 10:05
View of sea loch from the living room (http://www.photo.net/photodb/image-display?photo_id=2085282&size=md) Fucking HELL! That's the view from your living room? I could put up with it being a bit nippy for that. Where's the ''green with envy'' smiley?
stop esso
28-01-2004, 10:11
i wont som snow but i ant got nun send some dowm=n to ashfordmiddlsex
there's still a very few bits in the garden that haven't melted all morning :)
onenameshelley
28-01-2004, 10:50
Nope got up this morning and there was no snow in brixton a bit of that dodgy ice that you dont see till the last minute as you skid on it but that was about it.
Yossarian
28-01-2004, 12:04
On such a winter's day, la la la...
I saw a load of snow in South London this morning but it was all on the roofs of cars coming from snowier places.
If this really is Arctic weather then those polar bears must get a bit warm with all that fur.
I thought that I would wake up and that when I looked out of the window it would be snowy
I was all excited I was
I can report that in Camden Town it is incredibly sunny with just a hint of frost and no snow at all :mad:
:)
It's the same in Brixton, no snow now, a little last night that didn't lay. Yossarian's on drugs. :p
However last year it looked like this:
tabernus
28-01-2004, 12:26
i feel cheated. i wanted loads of snow.
and theres not even a SINGLE snowflake :(
It snowed at about 1.30am in Canning Taaahn. Huge flakes. It was quite light and the parrot was goggling out of the window with a 'what the fuck?' expression on his face. It stopped after about 5 minutes.
Also got snowed on in the 5 minutes it took me to walk from Euston to work, foiling my 'Oh I've been in the stores for a while, I haven't only just got in' excuse due to the melting snowflakes in my hair :rolleyes:
woohoo :D
its now snowing LOADS AND its sticking :D
woohoo
:D
yep its fucking pelting it down in brum. nice big flakes coming in at a 90 degree angle. thank god i;m not going out in it.
thank god for my new coat :D
horizontal blizzard in cambridge. roads at a stand still.
IntitPretty (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/weather/weather_gallery/jan_snow_04/gallery13.shtml)
Buddy Bradley
28-01-2004, 15:15
V. windy and snowy here - luckily I packed my Squeeze'n'Squirt window de-icer this morning... :D
Worcestershire has heavy blizzards. Snow snow and more snow. :p
sleaterkinney
28-01-2004, 16:15
It's really coming down here in N london, people are going to have trouble getting home tonight....
Its a better class of blizzard here in Shoreditch :p
Urbane Worrier
28-01-2004, 16:17
Well it's certainly snowing now. Thank Christ, I thought the weatherpeeps were 'sexing it up' to blur other major news stories.
UW :)
Now we have lightning and thunder and blizzards :eek:
souljacker
28-01-2004, 16:20
Mad and Crazy weather in Reading. Snow/sleet thunder, lightning, very very frighteneing, girls in the office getting agitated, I've got me toboggan out, woohoo!!!!
It's really coming down in Chelsea now. :(
Ooooooh, it's a blizzard outside the office! I'm going out for a smoke...
:)
Urbane Worrier
28-01-2004, 16:24
I don't think I've ever witnessed lightning and thunder in a blizzard before.
UW :)
Biscuit Tin
28-01-2004, 16:25
Now we have lightning and thunder and blizzards :eek:
Likewise in Hackney, oddly enough :eek:
Yuwipi Woman
28-01-2004, 16:27
Now we have lightning and thunder and blizzards :eek:
Euww, cool! That's very rare.
Tank Girl
28-01-2004, 16:28
it's properly snowing here now (peckham rye park area) in about five minutes it's gone from slightly soggy to about a centimetre or two of snow :D and I think I heard thunder too, mad weather, love it :D
Dubversion
28-01-2004, 16:28
lightning here too.
this is the hardest snowfall i think i've seen for about twenty years (being a soft southerner and all that. but i do drink pints, like.. )
Pickman's model
28-01-2004, 16:29
Its a better class of blizzard here in Shoreditch :pcertainly is! :p :p
Blimey! Out of nowhere, Brixton's in the grip of a proper snowstorm!
Woohoo!
Check out the webcam (although the window is fast filling up with snow!)
http://www.urban75.org/webcam.html
What the...?
It's a snowstorm and thunderstorm combined!
That's a new one on me!
Tank Girl
28-01-2004, 16:34
thunder and lightening and snow!!!!! BRILLIANT!!!!
<keeps fingers crossed it's still here tomorrow for snowball fights> :D
Lightning here too. And it's settling - a good few inches already :eek: :)
Time for snowball fights I reckon :D
i best get some thermal undies!!!
onenameshelley
28-01-2004, 16:36
Yep its heavy here in EC4 as well i hope to god i can get home early-ish.
Love it!
http://www.urban75.org/temp/snow.jpg
http://www.urban75.org/temp/snow.jpg
Loving it!
Masseuse
28-01-2004, 16:38
Woohoo! Blizzard city here in Chelsea! Watch the sloaney fuckers leg it! :D
I was a bit startled at the thunder too, very bizarre.
Awww, I love weather!!!!!!!
Well I'm gonna head off now, hopefully before all the public transport packs in...
Edit: yeah I love it, until I realize I'm stuck.
Louloubelle
28-01-2004, 16:39
dons vintage fur coat
vintage fur hat
vintage fur gloves (lined with fur and with fur on the outside)
and goes out to the post box in the knowledge that my friends, the local kids, will pelt me with snwoballs the miunute I set foot outside :mad:
:D
Stobart Stopper
28-01-2004, 16:40
Remember that long, hot weekend back in August when we all felt like dying? It all seems like such a long time ago!
That was well quick. I left Wimbledon station at 5pm, no snow. Got off at Vauxhall at about 5.15. a bit of sleet coming down, got out at Brixton at about 5.30 and theres loads everywhere! Mental!
dons vintage fur coat
vintage fur hat
vintage fur gloves (lined with fur and with fur on the outside)
and goes out to the post box in the knowledge that my friends, the local kids, will pelt me with snwoballs the miunute I set foot outside :mad: I could think of quite a few other people who might be inclined to pelt you in that outfit too....
;)
Another pic from the block:
http://www.urban75.org/temp/snow1.jpg
onenameshelley
28-01-2004, 16:46
http://www.urban75.org/temp/snow.jpg
Loving it!
Oh crapola i have to get the 45 yet.
*gets on knees and prays to god of Public Transport*
Oh heavenly father who art in brixton bus garage
please get me home before corrie.
:p
Louloubelle
28-01-2004, 16:49
I could think of quite a few other people who might be inclined to pelt you in that outfit too....
;)
wanna step up an battle?
I'm a snowball fighting champion I'll have you know :mad: ;)
EastEnder
28-01-2004, 16:50
It's glorious sunshine here. People are wearing bikinis.
We're having a barbeque.
:p
Tank Girl
28-01-2004, 16:50
dons vintage fur coat
vintage fur hat
vintage fur gloves (lined with fur and with fur on the outside)
and goes out to the post box in the knowledge that my friends, the local kids, will pelt me with snwoballs the miunute I set foot outside :mad:
:Dgood job I won't see you, it wouldn't be snowballs I'd be throwing :mad:
Wintermute
28-01-2004, 16:53
Heavy snow has reached Kingston, although it's not settling. We're going outside to make slush angels.
madshadow
28-01-2004, 16:56
http://www.madshadow.co.uk/albert.JPG
madshadow
28-01-2004, 16:58
http://www.madshadow.co.uk/breaks.JPG
tabernus
28-01-2004, 16:58
http://www.grinningcat.net/albums/album17/snow_025.sized.jpg
YAY YAY YAY
:D :D :D
madshadow
28-01-2004, 16:59
http://www.madshadow.co.uk/library.JPG
madshadow
28-01-2004, 17:03
http://www.madshadow.co.uk/cyclist.JPG
lang rabbie
28-01-2004, 17:04
http://www.madshadow.co.uk/albert.JPG
Wot no Urbanites in Dickensian garb clutching tankards of mulled Stella? :)
Edited to add:Great pictures by the way...
grasshopper
28-01-2004, 17:57
Blimey - it's just started snowing in Darzet :eek: This wasn't in the script!
A huge flash of lightning, rumble of thunder, five mins of heavy hail, and then 15 mins of big-flaked snow, leaving about half an inch on the car rooves. Let the chaos ensue :D
Now we've got a good 3 inches of snow with solid ice underneath. Lethal. :p
Just cycled home in the snow. Was gonna catch the DLR but as I'd never done it before, thought fuck it I fancy a bit of danger.
Daft thing to do on a road bike I suppose, those tyres were slipping all over the place. Wheel spinning away from stopped and nutty going way too fast drivers covering me in black shit. You cant go round corner like you would normally either, the bike just goes away from you, but even with 22mm tyres, not as bad as I would have thought. Felt safer than walking in it.
http://www.grinningcat.net/albums/album17/snow_025.sized.jpg
YAY YAY YAY
:D :D :D
That's a lovely picture ... :)
I emerged from an afternoon of photography in the basement (god that sounds like dodgy porn shots or summat :eek: ) to find it snowing quite heavily. Northern line wasn't stopping at Kings X due to overcrowding, and the traffic on the Barking Road has ground to a halt. I expect all the shops will have run out of tinned goods by morning :rolleyes:
Stobart Stopper
28-01-2004, 18:24
Central Line eastbound into Hainault is up and running again.
Miscellaneous
28-01-2004, 18:34
the 121 Bus in Enfield is Not going to Enfield Isalnd village, as the bridge over the river lea is too icy. Cars can`t get over it. Its like the Everybody Hurts video by REM. People are just abandoning their cars last time I looked!
:D
davesgcr
28-01-2004, 19:10
Baled out and thought the 1717 slow from Blackfriars in the swirling snow would be safe - Thameslink excelled of course and the f+++ing train packed up at Farringdon - mad scramble a la last train out of Paris before the Germans moved in ensued and got on the second train - which then went slow taking an hour in crush loaded conditions through the snow.
God I hate public transport like this - but it did the job and home in 5 inches of freezing cold and icy stuff.Expect shambles tommorrow.Snow great to look at but not to travel in !
Snow great to look at but not to travel in !
Aint that the truth!! I spent 10 minutes trying to push some posh bastard who was stuck on a roundabout in his austin martin sports car,about 20 grands worth o car.He was stuck,i couldnt help him,so i drove round him in my 1,2 nova (£1200) and giggled to myself :D
Kids ,dont get expensive pretty cars,the're shite
tabernus
28-01-2004, 19:48
http://www.grinningcat.net/albums/album17/snow_001.sized.jpg
:( i suppose this was inevitable really. . . i hope theres more overnight.
thanks chio :)
T.
Stop it your make me home sick!
No snow here in the Amazon, just sun broken by shit loads of rain.
http://portalamazonia.globo.com/aventura/praiaderio.jpg
Great pics. Good to see you here Madshadow. :)
madshadow
28-01-2004, 20:16
Great pics. Good to see you here Madshadow. :)
YEAH IM BACK.....http://www.harderfaster.net/images/smiles/yay.gifhttp://www.harderfaster.net/images/smiles/moon.gifhttp://www.harderfaster.net/images/smiles/lol2.gif
I was on the Tottenham Court Road at about 17:15 today and was eyeing up a 15gig Ipod. Wanted to do a bit more window shopping when the snow same dwon realy heavily :D .
Then all of a sudden, a flash of lightening and then .... thunder!!! Wopppeeee.. :D :p
Heres a pic of my patio.I took it with my phone so the quality is shit but its white and thats what counts.I like snow :cool:
snow? (http://genji.image.pbase.com/u39/wednesdaysnow/small/25554809.picture.jpg) eddited to put the picture in :o :D oopsie
woohoo it worked on the 4th try :rolleyes:
I've just put together a little collection of my snow pics - I figured I'd better snap 'em quick before the stuff all disappears!
Brixton snow 1 (http://www.urban75.org/brixton/photos/snow.html)
Brixton snow 2 (http://www.urban75.org/brixton/photos/snow1.html)
certainly is! :p :p
I'm glad you agree ;)
Me, my mate and his wife got some heavy duty plastic sheeting and went sledging over the park. Haven't done that in years. Soaked to the fucking skin though.
Heres a pic of my patio.I took it with my phone so the quality is shit but its white and thats what counts.I like snow :cool:
snow? (http://genji.image.pbase.com/u39/wednesdaysnow/small/25554809.picture.jpg) eddited to put the picture in :o :D oopsie
woohoo it worked on the 4th try :rolleyes:
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tabernus
28-01-2004, 22:09
I've just put together a little collection of my snow pics - I figured I'd better snap 'em quick before the stuff all disappears!
Brixton snow 1 (http://www.urban75.org/brixton/photos/snow.html)
Brixton snow 2 (http://www.urban75.org/brixton/photos/snow1.html)
i want your camera :)
really like the one of the guy walking around towards the car vac thingy on the first page :)
T.
Masseuse
28-01-2004, 22:27
Careful on the roads tomorrow peeps, I just went out for a late night snowball fight with the kid and all the snow has turned into sheet ice now. It's going to be hell trying to get anywhere tomorrow morning. Don't even think about bikes! :eek: Place is like an ice rink.
i've just seen a convoy of salt trucks... totally bizare (oh where is the camera when you need it...) but now i know that salt is transported in council trucks similar to the ones used for removing commercial rubbish (you know, the ones that are open topped with high metal sides...)
its true when they say you learn something every day... ;)
Have just imbibed four huge glasses of white wine (& I mean huge) in the hope of an icy blizzard preventing me from going to work tomorrow.
Looks like it will be sunny & cold, no icy blizzards. Bleeeeeeugh.
tabernus
29-01-2004, 08:52
its still here :D
wow
http://www.grinningcat.net/albums/album17/snow_029.sized.jpg
i'm going out to play :D
IntoStella
29-01-2004, 10:31
http://www.madshadow.co.uk/albert.JPG What a BEAUTIFUL picture! And the library one too but this one is of a subject particularly close to my heart. :D Wot no Urbanites in Dickensian garb clutching tankards of mulled Stella? No, we were all inside in the warm of course, though Anna Key looks pretty Dickensian. :D :D Mulled Stella? Eww!
The libray is really pretty, perfect for an Xmas card.
Also love the bench with the dash of blue in the top left and the "car vac" one. The last is a prizewinner I'd say.
Someone lives in Brixton Hill Court (or there abouts) don't they T? :)
IntoStella
29-01-2004, 11:04
I've just put together a little collection of my snow pics - I figured I'd better snap 'em quick before the stuff all disappears!
Brixton snow 1 (http://www.urban75.org/brixton/photos/snow.html)
Brixton snow 2 (http://www.urban75.org/brixton/photos/snow1.html)Whahey! Moorlands in the snow! Great pics.
tabernus
29-01-2004, 20:13
my pictures from today
here (http://www.pbase.com/tabbernus/snow)
:)
T.
Great pics everyone.
Snow lovely but not impressed by Lambeth's inability to grit the pavements which were a sheet of ice this morning.
The bad news is that it looks like there's no more snow coming and what's already here will disappear pretty pronto :(
I want more snow!
Here's eight more photos from my Brixton ramble earlier today
http://www.urban75.org/brixton/photos/snow2.html
IntoStella
30-01-2004, 10:11
my pictures from today
here (http://www.pbase.com/tabbernus/snow)
It's not the most 'immediate' at thumbnail size but this one's (http://www.pbase.com/image/25582866) really good. I really like the Crystal Palace park ones too.
deslaugh
30-01-2004, 23:08
http://www.madshadow.co.uk/breaks.JPG
?!? when you asked if you could take my photo you didn't mention you would be posting it!
I took some too but unfortunataly i live in the dark ages of home-bru b&w, it could be weeks before i see my results.
Boy it was a cold ride home! :)
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