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  • Tim Marlow
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    • Apr 2018
    • 18994
    • Tim
    • Somerset UK

    #1

    Unexpected sight this morning

    This certainly wasn’t forecast…..already thawing though.
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  • Jim R
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    • Apr 2018
    • 15922
    • Jim
    • Shropshire

    #2
    Snow's alright when you're young and it's fresh. I don't like it when it turns to a grey, dirty slush. It does look pretty though looking out of the window from a warm room.

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    • Tim Marlow
      SMF Supporters
      • Apr 2018
      • 18994
      • Tim
      • Somerset UK

      #3
      Always thought the best place for it was on Christmas cards Jim. Most cold countries wouldn’t even notice this but I bet it causes chaos around here…..

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      • peterairfix
        • Jul 2012
        • 11092

        #4
        Originally posted by Tim Marlow
        This certainly wasn’t forecast…..already thawing though.
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        Where did you find that I live in Somerset all I got was rain and more rain

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        • Guest

          #5
          I can remember delivering new plastic milk bottles to Yeo Valley Farms, Coombe just outside Crewkerne... And on one trip had just got back to High Wycombe from a night out parked west of Oxford, and being sent down to Crewkerne to 'rescue' one of our other drivers that had got himself onto a patch of ice and could not move. The blizzards on the way down were horrendous, kept having to pull over and wait them out... Just pulled into Crewkerne and it was like a different day - nothing - just this muffled figure sitting in a truck in the middle of an ice rink with two stuck tractors as company.
          So Tim I know how it can change in your part of the country... get the snow shovel out.....

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          • Tim Marlow
            SMF Supporters
            • Apr 2018
            • 18994
            • Tim
            • Somerset UK

            #6
            Originally posted by peterairfix
            Where did you find that I live in Somerset all I got was rain and more rain
            Around Bruton Peter (I’m just to the east of there). Apparently it is from Wincanton upwards. Nothing to the east much either, but we are a little higher here.

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            • Tim Marlow
              SMF Supporters
              • Apr 2018
              • 18994
              • Tim
              • Somerset UK

              #7
              Originally posted by Scratchbuilder
              I can remember delivering new plastic milk bottles to Yeo Valley Farms, Coombe just outside Crewkerne... And on one trip had just got back to High Wycombe from a night out parked west of Oxford, and being sent down to Crewkerne to 'rescue' one of our other drivers that had got himself onto a patch of ice and could not move. The blizzards on the way down were horrendous, kept having to pull over and wait them out... Just pulled into Crewkerne and it was like a different day - nothing - just this muffled figure sitting in a truck in the middle of an ice rink with two stuck tractors as company.
              So Tim I know how it can change in your part of the country... get the snow shovel out.....
              Not planning on going anywhere so I’ll just leave it to melt Mike. Should be gone by this afternoon.

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              • adt70hk
                SMF Supporters
                • Sep 2019
                • 10482

                #8
                Not for us...... Just a LOT of rain yesterday and more forecast today.

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                • Flip
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                  • Jul 2022
                  • 259
                  • John
                  • Speyside

                  #9
                  The country is upside-down - all we've got is rain :tears-of-joy:

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                  • The Smythe Meister
                    • Jan 2019
                    • 6248

                    #10
                    We have a nice view of Haytor,and the surrounding Moor,from our landing window,and it was pure white this morning.
                    Funny really,as we didn't have any in our garden at all,and it's only a few K's away! :thinking:

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                    • Gern
                      • May 2009
                      • 9262

                      #11
                      I was lying in bed this morning looking out on the stars thinking "I wonder if there's some bug-eyed green monster somewhere out there in the universe who's doing exactly the same as me?" And then I thought, "Hang on a minute! Who's nicked my roof?"

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                      • Dave Ward
                        • Apr 2018
                        • 10549

                        #12
                        Yes, I was surprised when I pulled back the curtains this morning - I'm about halfway between Gloucester & Bristol. Only about 30mm. and it's thawed away already, but nothing in the forecast - only perhaps 'hill snow' - I live in the bottom of a valley!
                        Dave

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                        • Miko
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                          • Feb 2024
                          • 637

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Tim Marlow
                          Not planning on going anywhere so I’ll just leave it to melt Mike. Should be gone by this afternoon.

                          Probably best, it's what Ernest Shackleton would have done! Ha!

                          The weather is really broken, I have snow drops crocus daffodils and tulips up and seeking the sun! It could freeze solid in a few weeks!


                          Originally posted by Gern
                          I was lying in bed this morning looking out on the stars thinking "I wonder if there's some bug-eyed green monster somewhere out there in the universe who's doing exactly the same as me?" And then I thought, "Hang on a minute! Who's nicked my roof?"
                          Probably chav aliens stripping the lead flashing from your roof for their radiation shields! Ha!

                          Miko (in snow free north Lincolnshire)

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                          • AlanG
                            • Dec 2008
                            • 6296

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Miko
                            Miko (in snow free north Lincolnshire)
                            Not tempted to re-call it South Humberside? lol

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                            • Miko
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                              • Feb 2024
                              • 637

                              #15
                              Originally posted by AlanG
                              Not tempted to re-call it South Humberside? lol
                              Nope! it never worked as an unitary authority inspired by Royal Mail, the people of Grimsby would never accept the authority of those in Kingston upon Hull the historic rival in the bygone fishing industry

                              Still, we got a nice suspension bridge out of it. I can see from my window right now

                              Miko (at the time the Humber bridge was completed in the early eighties it was the longest single span bridge in the world, now it isn't even in the top ten)

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