Yes, I have accuweather on my ipod and it is very good, hour by hour forecasts too!

Well where i am it snowed progressively for 6 hours on Saturday night. The road is clear now but pavements and car parks are still absolutely awful and its unlikely to get above freezing for a week.

The media stance that we were again unprepared made me laugh. Salt will not stop the snow laying on a road. It can keep it clear if there is enough traffic, but on its own it can do very little. Then, once people get stuck, snow ploughs and gritters cannot get through and the traffic flow is not there to help the salt clear the snow. Thus you end up with a vicious circle. We were as prepared as we could possibly have been. It's all gone now anyway.

I suspect the at least 50% of the problems caused by the weather are down to the lack of ability on the part of some drivers. I drove from Essex to Longleat on Sunday leaving at six am whilst the roads were relatively untouched by traffic. Some of the sights we saw on our journey were awe inpsiring for all the wrong reasons. At the bottom of our road which i managed perfectly well in a Corsa without any form of winter tyres or electronic aids some one had abandoned there C4 Picasoo at right angles across the road. Needless to say this wasn t helping matters for the few other motorists that seemed to be managing perfectly well. Best of all was the sight on the M25 motorway.At J24 where the worst delays seemed to be experienced overnight we passed several cars in various lanes of the motorway who were fast asleep in there cars. The traffic at this point was moving albeit at approx 30mph. In can appreciate that if you are stuck overnight in a jam with absolutely no cure in sight it must be boring and you are possibly tired, But sleeping in your car on the M25 with no warning lights on in lanes of moving traffic...........Finally the vast majority of cars that we saw that were stuck seemed to be rwd Mercs and BMW's!.

It always amazed me that people with fancy 4x4s and so on couldn't get to work, whereas I managed to do so in an old Focus with regular tyres, no ABS and no prior experience of driving in snow (when 2009-10 winter was bad). It's an attitude - I'm not keen on driving in snow as it's very glare-y on the eyes after a while, but I'm not going to stop my day-to-day life for a bit of slush.