I live right in the (alleged) thick of it!!
All excited now!!!!!!!
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>>Amazing how the south seems to get all the snow these days...:-)
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Not had much snow at all south of thames-though surrey -furthest corners of Kent had a fair bit last time, wind is in right direction this time assuming they are correct. But as for drivers Well need I say more
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we get 1 day of snow...and it makes national news??????
weird......
its xmas...just stay in
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we get 1 day of snow...and it makes national news??????>>
Depends on where you live. The north could be experiencing blizzards but on the national TV news it might get a 20 or 30 seconds mention. Oh, alright, up to a minute then.
But let half-a-inch of snow fall on the capital or in the south and it's up to half-an-hour's whinging and whining about how the populace, transport systems, businesses etc of the area have been badly affected....:-)
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I predict a rash of cars going straight ahead at roundabouts as muppets don't know that snow or ice has an impact on cornering and braking.
I'm sorry southerners have to have such a tough winter like wot we hardy Midlanders have every year. Separates the men from the boys or did Darwin say something about improving the species?
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I predict a rash of cars going straight ahead at roundabouts
I live at the bottom of a hill and predict the usual entertainment by those who think they can scale the hill, having had to stop halfway up, in order to wait for the traffic in front of them to clear.
Oz (as was)
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Depends on where you live?
yes because we all know that when you get north of watford
1/ the people dont speak english
2/ they dont have televisions.
hence there is no need to discuss anything about "there be dragons" country on TV.
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>>yes because we all know that when you get north of watford>>
No originality forthcoming then...:-)
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No originality forthcoming then...:-)
only the road south.....
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i come from the south,,,poole dorset...and yes we are soft....
that is what i meant...15 minutes of light snow and all hell breaks loose.....
i just get up 1/2 an hr earlier a drive to work at 6am,,,when no-one else is up...and its fun/lovely :)
in my rear wheel drive car......but its the same wherever you are...1 day of snow and the country comes to a standstill
who can remember the winter of 76???
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Nowt to do with MUCH higher traffic densities in the SE & very high levels of commercials & lot of them foreign would it?
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SOUNDS FUN!!!!
Maybe I'll be able to find out what the Omegas, 'SNOWFLAKE' icon, on the button, next to the gearlever, means!!
For some reason my Maestro van never had such things - did have excellent traction, though!!
VB
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>>who can remember the winter of 76???
I do,but for vehicle accidents I think 91 was worst year.
1963 I think worst winter of all down south?
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I remember it well.
From Met. Office:
From Boxing Day 1962 to early March 1963, much of England was continuously under snow.
The most remarkable feature of the 1962/63 winter was not so much its snowiness as its coldness. The winter of 1947 was snowier than 1962/63, but not as cold.
In January 1963, there were 25 or more air frosts almost everywhere in southern England and south Wales. In February 1963, air frost occurred every night at Durham, and almost every night in the English Midlands. At several stations in southern England and south Wales, mean maximum temperatures were below 0 °C in January and little higher in February. Mean minimum temperatures were well below freezing almost everywhere in England, Wales and Scotland away from coasts. Extremely low temperatures were recorded - for example, a minimum of -22.2 °C was recorded at Braemar on 18 January.
Lakes and rivers froze. Ice formed on harbours in the south and east of England. Patches of ice formed on the sea. Huge blocks of ice formed on beaches where waves broke and the spray froze. Coastal marine life suffered severely.
The coldest winter over England and Wales since 1740.
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>>The coldest winter over England and Wales since 1740.>>
1947 was pretty grim.....
Such weather conditions over a period of many years, indeed centuries, demonstrate the absurdity of much of the scaremongers' "global warming" theories.
There have always been unusual weather patterns.
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As a 5year old, it was fun, in 62/63 - (keeping motoring) I remember we used to save the ash, from the fireplace & lay it onto the tyre tracks, left in the road, outside, to help??? the vehicles, get a better grip.
Not that there was too much traffic, in the side dtreets, of Luton, back then.
The one thing that I clearly recall, that amazed me,(remember having a refrigerateor back then, was indeed, a luxury,) was putting the plastic inserts, from Mums Christmas Milk Tray chocolates, ouside & discovering I could make ice cubes!!!My passion for cold drinks has remained, ever since!!
Now we could use the Climate Control, in modern vehicles, to do the same job - almost - & even a heater was optional extra, on some cars, back then!!!!
& we complain if the central heating packs up, in summer!!
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Great fun for me in the winter of 1963. I was young man then, with all the false confidence that such an age confers and a fearless driver and I used to go out in my Mk1 Austin Healey Sprite and look for trouble.
It was so continuously cold that the dip-slope springs that spawns the Keston Ponds' lakes near me, were safely frozen and I donned my skates (not driving in them I might add) and swept the debris from these notorioulsy deep lakes, and had great fun skating all over them - made a change from Silver Blades Ice Rink at Streatham .
My Sprite was, of course, fitted with that optional extra heater whose only temperature control on the 'A' series engine, was a screw tap on the cyclinder head block - the former's gasket always developed a leak and needed frequent changing.
What happy days then in contrast to nowadays when I'm ridden with sufficient nerves to make it difficult for me to drive in such conditions despite the fact that my new car has every conceivable traction assistance control under the sun!
Why do we have to get old??
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>>Keston Ponds' lakes near me, were safely frozen and I donned my skates
You was brave,I know them well.Many a swimmer been drowned there,Bromley rads still down the road from them in the village?not used them in several years but good company, could make up any radiator you wanted
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>>Keston Ponds' lakes near me, were safely frozen and I donned my skates You was brave,I know them well.Many a swimmer been drowned there,Bromley rads still down the road from them in the village?not used them in several years but good company, could make up any radiator you wanted -- Steve
Not brave. They were passed as safe by the council, or whatever, as they were many inches thick - enough for a bus, apparently.
Keston rads is not there now. A once neighbour of mine owned the business.
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who can remember the winter of 76??? --
Wasn't it the winter of 78 that was bad, all I remember about the weather of 76 s the hot summer
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Apparently in December 1981 and January 1982, parts of southern and central England experienced lower temperatures for a few days than central Europe and Moscow.
During long spells of hot, sunny weather in the summers of 1975 and 1976, parts of Britain were drier and warmer than many places in the western Mediterranean.
I remember some of the reservoirs in the north becoming completely dry and several television programmes were devoted to showing the overall effects of the hot weather.
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>>only the road south.....>>
You want to end it all in the English Channel then....?
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'81 - Was a bad 'un. Remember it was my second year in court. Got caught out, ended up in a local with a Bobby and having a lift home in an Ambulance that was going "somewhere"....excellent
"sorters" the old local Bobbyu
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Depends on where you live. The north could be experiencing blizzards but on the national TV news it might get a 20 or 30 seconds mention. Oh, alright, up to a minute then. But let half-a-inch of snow fall on the capital or in the south and it's up to half-an-hour's whinging and whining about how the populace, transport systems, businesses etc of the area have been badly affected....:-) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - What\'s for you won\'t pass you by
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Yeah, well, that's about right isn't it? The authorities must get their priorities right, musn't they?
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