OMG NO KAOS?

[John F]

Well, the threatened SNO APOKALIPS has completely failed to live up to expectations here in West / North Yorkshire... there's barely a dusting on my garden path.

 

Anyone got anything more impressive to report?

[mk1_4dr]

It's pretty much white over here in Wakefield, not inches thick like threatened, but still treacherous for all the idiots on the road.

I've been to Leeds and back, and its the same over there.

[fordperv]

we had a nice little bit of snow last night in stoke nothing drastic.

mrs fordpervs shite in shot as bonus

 

[Andrew353w]

Light dusting in Barnet overnight. Barnet's high up (by southern standards) so often gets a dusting while other parts of north London/Hertfordshire remain totally unaffected. Don't expect it to have settled, though. Heathow Airport funtioning normally (well, as normal as it normally does.....)

[John F]

Well, a morning's worth of "two snowflake" snow from the Met Office amounted to this:

 

 

I was hoping for a bit more so I could get some practice in the Disco with its new General Grabber AT tyres before driving it down to the Alps in 11 days

[HillmanImp]

Here it is outside work.

 

 

Sadly have not been sent home to watch Diagnosis Murder yet.

[beko1987]

I got into the office at 7, with a light dusting here and there. MrsBeko had a funny turn so I'm now at home watching storage wars with babyBeko. The ZX was snow free at 20 to 10 when I came home, now it looks like this:

 

 

hope it carries on!

[retrogeezer]

this is all we got last night, loving the streetlight halo thing. Raining this morning though..

 

[trigger]

It's getting dark outside but no snow yet, Met office has put East Anglia on a amber warning to add to the drama and panic.

[face]

SHITloads here in Duxford.

 

Only just starting to settle, mind.

[Bobthebeard]

Nowt here... ( Blackpool )

In fact it's raining.

[ashmicro]

Sleet and hail here in eastern N.I. Cold wind, but no snow yet.

[whitevanman]

Nowt but sunshine here in Shitesville

[Albert Ross]

We've had snowfall since midnight (odd for us, being in a sort of valley and low level too) started light, carried on till about 4am, then started to flurry a little, went fucking medieval at about 8am till 10, then tailed off a bit, now stopped and melting. Here's me off sick with little spare cash for diesel, and a fucking Land Rover outside. Fucking typical. I could really use a jaunt to ooh, let's say Silsden, to collect an engine.... Bollocks etc.

[Bobthebeard]

Noticed the normal papershite Daily tabloids up to their old tricks as usual recently.

 

"Worst weather in 20 years to hit Britain"

"Britain to grind to standstill due to Siberian cold snap"

"Expected to last until July etc"

 

Nothing like scary ( untrue ) headlines to sell papers is there?

Grrrr

[RedSparrow]

Of course here in Cz life continues as normal as the law states you must have winter tyres when the Police say so.

[Bobthebeard]

Of course here in Cz life continues as normal as the law states you must have winter tyres when the Police say so.

Imagine if that was the case here.... We would be spending more time at Kwik Fit than we do at home! If the Daily Mail got involved God help us!

Snow tyres on Monday, flood tyres on Thursday, flotation devices for the weekend, as " worst floods in 20 years predicted" headlines appear... Sand tyres for the following week due to " heat wave predicted in February" front page bollox.

Etc....

Will stick with my normal tyres and struggle thanks! Due to the fact that none of the above ever happens for more than half a day.....

[beko1987]

I've jus at been out for a little drive and the roads are fine! Its sunny and warm and melting now, but overtook 4 people all doing under 25mph!

 

Drove through the slush in the middle of the road on the way back, great fun. Had slidey action in asda car park too as it was empty!

[Lacquer Peel]

Winter tyres aren't just for snow, hence the name.

[Bobthebeard]

Winter tyres aren't just for snow, hence the name.

 

Spring tyres? Summer tyres?

Autumn tyres to drive through dead leaves?

Not sure that in Britain we need any special tyres really as conditions usually don't last long enough to warrant the expense or trouble. Unless driving a specialist vehicle or in particularly harsh areas/conditions. The usual problems that tyres in Britain have to deal with is water. If the treads are deep enough then they will do their job. Worn tyres will not. It isn't a case of they will work fine unless they are illegal/almost bald. 7mm tread is better than 3mm tread in bad conditions. The tread displaces water. As tyres wear, the ability diminishes. Just use normal tyres, but replace them before they are down to the limit?

Just a thought.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Are they technically not 'cold weather tyres' for use under a certain temperature? I think that's the story anyway - I go so sick of the winter tyre superiority complexes on Pistonheads it made me want to fit my car with road legal racing slicks and then drive in front of them at 0.5mph.

[michael t]

Nothing here in Ireland, bit cold and all but no snow sadly

[Lacquer Peel]

Winter tyres are a softer compound for driving in temperatures below 7°C and do make a massive difference, they are much more surefooted than summer tyres, in wet and cold conditions too, on snowy roads a car shod with winter tyres is more surefooted than a 4x4 with non-winter tyres.

The average daily temperature here last year was just under 7°C, but it is a particularly cold part of the UK.

[John F]

Not sure that in Britain we need any special tyres really as conditions usually don't last long enough to warrant the expense or trouble. Unless driving a specialist vehicle or in particularly harsh areas/conditions.

Just a thought.

 

No, we don't. Apart from the fact it rarely drops below freezing for long in the UK in winter, it would only mean yet another financial burden on the motorist (cost of tyres, storage of second set of wheels). And besides which, the following would happen:

 

a) Some of the usual witless mongs would continue to creep along in the gutter at 15 mph anyway, blocking the roads and pissing everyone else off.

The remainder of the usual witless mongs would now feel that they were now invulnerable with their "winter tyres", and ignorantly plough their Shitroen Zero Pickarseholes* into other motorists and through bus queues and children's playgrounds.

 

* or equivalent cuntmobile

[Skizzer]

Let's not go there with the GREAT BRITISH WINTER TYRES ROW that always breaks out every time the subject gets mentioned on any car forum, eh? Each to his own and all that.

 

No snow here on the Valleys Riviera*, just a bit of hail:

 

Hail on the drive by Skizzer, on Flickr

[Bobthebeard]

Not sure that in Britain we need any special tyres really as conditions usually don't last long enough to warrant the expense or trouble. Unless driving a specialist vehicle or in particularly harsh areas/conditions.

Just a thought.

 

No, we don't. Apart from the fact it rarely drops below freezing for long in the UK in winter, it would only mean yet another financial burden on the motorist (cost of tyres, storage of second set of wheels). And besides which, the following would happen:

 

a) Some of the usual witless mongs would continue to creep along in the gutter at 15 mph anyway, blocking the roads and pissing everyone else off.

The remainder of the usual witless mongs would now feel that they were now invulnerable with their "winter tyres", and ignorantly plough their Shitroen Zero Pickarseholes* into other motorists and through bus queues and children's playgrounds.

 

* or equivalent cuntmobile

 

Just spent ages typing out a long and tedious post that seems to have vanished into the ether! However, this says it all far better.

Meh

[Split_Pin]

Where I live, near Falkirk it sleeted (slet?) all morning and then turned to rain.

 

However I reconcile some, none or many of us are in for a metric shitload of the stuff this week.

 

The Met Offices own website has a long range forecast that seems to be penned by Messrs. Merchant amd Doom, not worth much more than the Daily Mail prediction IMO.

[beko1987]

I checked BBC weather on saturday, as I worked on the ZX on Sunday, and it said rain and cold all week. No mention of snow anywhere.

 

I'll wake up early tomorow, that way if it's snowing I can quickly get dressed and have a fun snow hoon to work and have breakfast there. If it's not then it's another hour in bed for me!

[RedSparrow]

I just meant that people in the UK used to use winter tyres in winter and change then themselves. A skill that seems to have been forgotten.

[willswitchengage]

http://i632.photobucket.com/albums/uu50/s4mmy2009/DSC_0032.jpg

 

This is what it was like in Reading. I usually get to work at eight, today at five to nine. My carshare-driver did manage to accidentally drift his Citroen Picasso around a corner mind you...