Stormy Weather

[jean]

Snow completely gone this morning.

[Petrushka]

Snow completely gone this morning.

Not from here it hasn't! It's a crisp, clear and sunny morning with the snow very crunchy underfoot. The Wellies have been pressed into service for the first time this winter. More snow is possible later on according to the forecast.

[Anna]

Early this morning, it did say, on the BBC website round-up of conditions, that the roads in Staffordshire were particularly hazardous. It seems Sheffield got a lot (I think Flay is in that area?) and other parts of S. Yorks. Here I was surprised to wake to blue skies and sunshine with only a hint of frost on some roofs and not even a sprinkle of white on the tops of the Black Mountains. Cold first thing at 1.5° but lovely and fresh and amazingly clear visibility although it's beginning to cloud up a bit now.

[Flay]

It seems Sheffield got a lot (I think Flay is in that area?)

Telepathy! I am indeed in Meadowhell at the sales

The journey here was somewhat slippery as surprisingly the M18 had not been fully snow ploughed. No doubt they have been overwhelmed by snow in the middle of the holiday.

But everywhere looked beautiful first thing this morning with a clear blue sky and bright sunshine.

[Barbirollians]

By all accounts 4 inches of so in Sheffield and as usual the fritters were completely taken by surprise . Sheffield is built on seven hills - what fun it will be driving up and down those !

[cloughie]

By all accounts 4 inches of so in Sheffield and as usual the fritters were completely taken by surprise . Sheffield is built on seven hills - what fun it will be driving up and down those !

I remember several snowy winters up there in my youth - always pleased to actually bring vehicle to a halt down hill to a main road junction !

[BBMmk2]

I remember the winter of 1962!!

Lovely sunny day today. Weather didn't allow for much walking, which me and my wife love, so hopefully we will today!!

[Anna]

Sheffield is built on seven hills

I never knew that! And now I find that 61% of the Sheffield is green space and has the highest ratio of trees to people of any city in Europe. It sounds an absolutely idyllic and picturesque place to live. (I've never been there but I think I went through it this year on the Trans-Pennine Express?)

Ontopic: A beautiful day here, -0.7°, frosty, blue skies without a cloud and it'll be sunny all the day. As BBM says, a good day for going for a long walk on the hills or at least getting outside and doing something healthy.

(Edit: They say we're never prepared for snow in this country but you'd expect them to be in the French Alps, but in Savoie it's chaos and the Red Cross have been brought in at Aix-les-Bains)

[teamsaint]

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I never knew that! And now I find that 61% of the Sheffield is green space and has the highest ratio of trees to people of any city in Europe. It sounds an absolutely idyllic and picturesque place to live. (I've never been there but I think I went through it this year on the Trans-Pennine Express?)

Ontopic: A beautiful day here, -0.7°, frosty, blue skies without a cloud and it'll be sunny all the day. As BBM says, a good day for going for a long walk on the hills or at least getting outside and doing something healthy.

On my one and only trip to Sheffield, I was impressed to see the views of hills from near the football ground at Bramall lane.Lovely. (the hills, not the home of the blades, Cloughie !!)

Those who enjoy green spaces in their cities could do much worse than stop off at Southampton's beautiful 320 acre common next time they are on the south coast .

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton_Common

A stunning morning down here, clear , frost now gone, perfect for a morning constitutional.

[Barbirollians]

Sheffield has lots of advantages - one being that you can live one mile from the centre of town and yet be only one mile from the Peak District and it has lots of beautiful parks and woodland .

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i participated in a Short Works Course at English Steel, Sheffield, in 1962; though the town and surroundings were picture perfect i decided that metallurgy was not my future .... only experience can really convince one of such things ...

blue skies dry pavings with rocky ice/snow lumps everywhere ... treacherous walking around here .... broken bones are lethal for OAPS!

[Anna]

blue skies dry pavings with rocky ice/snow lumps everywhere ... treacherous walking around here .... broken bones are lethal for OAPS!

Agreed, all seniors here should definitely stay at home when there is a danger of slipping. Just before Christmas I had to visit an elderly lady in hospital who'd slipped on wet leaves in her garden resulting in a broken arm, now because she's on her own with no family carers are having to be mobilised for next week when she's discharged.

Here, at 2.30am the cars were already completely covered in thick ice (it was an absolutely cloud-free starry night) and at 7am it was -4.8 and the frost looked like a light fall of snow on the fields and trees. However, it got above freezing by lunchtime and really very pleasant in the sunshine as there's no wind but where the sun hasn't been there's been no melt. I think in a couple of days time it does get a few degrees warmer.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Everything nice and white on the edge of eastern Bodmin Moor this AM, but it was only frost. The air is well above freezing now but behind hedges it's still a bit frozen.

Was treated to the sight of two small boys absolutely shocked/ thrilled by the presence of ice on Launceston pavements this morning. Didn't think it was that surprising myself, but perhaps they grew up in the Azores?

[mangerton]

Still at work, an hour to go. It's perishing cold in here, so goodness knows how cold it is outside. The cars in the car park are all thickly covered in ice/frost.

[cloughie]

Sheffield has lots of advantages - one being that you can live one mile from the centre of town and yet be only one mile from the Peak District and it has lots of beautiful parks and woodland .

When I was young Sheffield was always known as the 'Dirty picture in the Golden Frame'. It was also claimed that even though we had a number of steelworks in the city it was the cleanest city in Western Europe. How much of that was due to the Smokeless fuel legislation I know not, but the prevailing winds blowing it over Rotherham probably helped.