Cold snap coming!

Acrylic-bob · 18-02-2005, 18:04

For the last couple of days the tv weather forecasters have been murmuring darkly about severe weather. Tonight they are openly forcasting

sub zero temperatures

and

S N O W

for next week. Hooray! Glad I haven't packed the winter woollies away just yet. Acrylic-Biff likes the occaisional gambol in the snow - yes I've told him to use a betting shop like everyone else but you know what terriers are like, they don't listen!

Sara · 18-02-2005, 18:22

Brilliant, just had a week of work. They might close the schools, so i get another few days off. Bring on the snow!!!!!!

simon · 18-02-2005, 18:29

I have just had a browse of the internet weather forecasts and it looks like a NIPPY spell with very little snow..

Sorry..... I love snow more than anyone but sick of getting REALLY excited to be depressed at a bit of slush on the floor..

Hope I am VERY WRONG ...

lettie · 18-02-2005, 18:33

I don't mind a bit of snow as long as I don't have to actually go anywhere. Unfortunately I am on nights all weekend and the thought of being snowed in at Queens Park is doing very little for my enthusiasm. Hope it holds off until Monday.

janet · 18-02-2005, 18:39

You can always go back to your childhood lettie and build a snowman. lol

West Ender · 18-02-2005, 20:31

We don't seem to get "proper" snow here, where I live, these days. I'm not very far from Warrington, where I work, and if we get any at all it tends to be about an inch which promptly freezes, solid, and brings Warrington to a standstill. The road I live on is quite steep, with a nice bend at the bottom. It can be such fun going down it early in a morning when it's iced up and lined with parked cars.

The last really heavy and longlasting snowfall we had was nearly 20 years ago. My grandson is 19 and he has hardly ever used a sledge in his life and my 5 year old granddaughter thinks it only snows where Pingu lives. I quite like snow when it's fresh and crisp. I hate it when it turns to slush and freezes.

In the 1960s we lived in Whitby, N. Yorks. Every Winter we got cut off from the rest of civilization for at least a few days and once we also had no electric power for 3 days. That was the year there were mini ice-bergs on the sea.

. I've gone "soft" since then (you had to be hardy, there, or you didn't survive) but I wouldn't mind a few inches of snow on Monday - I keep getting this urge to build a snowman.........

chav1 · 19-02-2005, 00:16

the 70s and early 80s were the best for snow , you could open your door and be knee deep in the stuff

now get just enough to barely cover the tarmac

Acrylic-bob · 19-02-2005, 07:37

Looking out over the vast and rolling acres surrounding Acrylic Hall this morning, I was surprised to notice that Pendle, Waddington Fell and the hills beyond have a vague dusting of snow on their flanks.

Acrylic-bob · 19-02-2005, 07:49

Here is what the Met Office have to say:

http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather.../warnings.html

slinky · 19-02-2005, 10:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

Looking out over the vast and rolling acres surrounding Acrylic Hall this morning, I was surprised to notice that Pendle, Waddington Fell and the hills beyond have a vague dusting of snow on their flanks.

Yep I live right up ferngore way BOB and there was snow on the ground this morning when I woke up. Don't think it did too much but it was there.

Doug · 19-02-2005, 11:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by chav1

the 70s and early 80s were the best for snow , you could open your door and be knee deep in the stuff

now get just enough to barely cover the tarmac

I lived up Fern Gore (Miller Fold) in the mid 60 to early 70s. We seemed to get loads of deep snow every winter. I remember crying with the cold by the time we got to school up at Green Howarth (I was 8 or 9 at the time). The bus couldn't get up there because of the drifts so we had to walk and the bloody stuff would last for ages. that said we would spend hours pi**ed wet through playing in the deep drifts up and down the street and sliding down Nelsons Hill on home made sleds. In 30 years of living in Blackpool I’ve only seen two lots of decent snow and only one of those was deep and lasting back in the late 70s.

THOTH · 19-02-2005, 13:45

Now that`s an interesting one Doug, I know Whinney Hill, Riley`s Hill etc, but please tell where Nelson`s Hill is.

Doug · 19-02-2005, 14:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by THOTH

Now that`s an interesting one Doug, I know Whinney Hill, Riley`s Hill etc, but please tell where Nelson`s Hill is.

They call it Rothwell heights now, as same as they call Rothwells Farm what we called Nelson's farm back then.

Old Nelson lives on Willows Lane mid way between the bus Stop and the shop, but on the bus stop side. The farm house and barn was very run down back in the 60s. I was over there just after Christmas and was surprised how the farm buildings have changed.

When we where kids up Miller Fold, the ground where the play park is now was lower. The area close the field was flat and had something like 12 garages six abreast and facing each other. The hill itself was always lush, green and didn’t have trees all over it like it is to day, but just a few scattered hawthorn trees around old boundaries at the lower end just behind the garages that acted as shelter for the cow’s. The hill was a fantastic place for slidingdown; summer was best sliding down on old cardboard boxes.

WillowTheWhisp · 19-02-2005, 16:02

I've been freezing today since coming back from Ireland. Even though we had chilly weather and winds it didn't seem to be as cold over there, apart from the morning we "did" the Giant's Causeway and almost got blown away!