Hows is your weather today? Or anything else for that matter

[Master Ray]

Very fine powdery snow, after not a lot all week. Traffic is slowing to a crawl as the world starts to look a bit white. And more to come in the next couple of days.
Over to Peter O'Hanraha Hanrahan with Politics....

Nice pop culture reference, sir!

Not much snow over here in Cheshire but that wind is really kicking in, hard enough to make the windows rattle, and it's SO bitingly cold. Popped over to ASDA just now which takes less than five minutes and I genuinely got a headache by the time I got there...

[Red]

Just checked thermometer I've got outside and we've been down to -8!!!

[Bunny]

Very fine powdery snow, after not a lot all week. Traffic is slowing to a crawl as the world starts to look a bit white. And more to come in the next couple of days.
Over to Peter O'Hanraha Hanrahan with Politics....

Nice pop culture reference, sir!

Not much snow over here in Cheshire but that wind is really kicking in, hard enough to make the windows rattle, and it's SO bitingly cold. Popped over to ASDA just now which takes less than five minutes and I genuinely got a headache by the time I got there...

Great show!!! Its the wind causing drifts here. We've had less than a cm of snow but its killed the traffic and where the wind has blew it we have 6 inch drifts. Its so powdery its untrue.

[Wessexy Witch]

My school closed at 12 yesterday and is closed today (yay!)

Lots of very fine snow being whipped up into little tornados, very pretty to watch but cold as **** if you're out there.

Looking out of my front window it's very patchy with drifts about a foot deep in my neighbours garden,dusted over mine, the road is covered and the path is compleatly clear on one side of the road but deep enough to cover your shoes on my side. It's all down to which way the wind has whipped it up.

I might venture down the garden to look at the outside thermometer.

[purplehaze]

We live in englands highest village nent head in Cumbria 1500 ft ,it has snowed every day all day for a week we have to literally dig our way out the door through 10 ft high drifts all roads out and in are cut off from snow ,we can't see out it looks like blankets of white cotton wool covering the Windows, on the telly I see red weather alerts for other places but ours looks so much worse . It is worse than any snow I've seen in 15 years I've lived here,I just don't know when or how we are going to get out. There is a tiny shop basically the shelves are empty luckily I had a well stocked freezer but soon we will have used everything I'm hoping the snow stops soon ,even my two dogs who love walkin I snow have to be pushed out by force it's scary,because now it's blowing a gale ,we have a freezer in the garage opposite the house   You have to dig a passage then dig to open the door ,when you get back in the house your eyelashes are frozen,within half an hour all your digging is covered by more snow 🌨🌨🌨🌨🌨🌨🌨🌨

[Raven]

Stay safe Purplehaze I hope things get better for you soon.

[Rusco]

I hear you having a lot of snow and cold. In a case your buildings are not build to take cold very much, please if you don't mind may I give few tips to you around there?

Here:

Water
During cold and when it gets deep to minus temperature it can (and will) freeze the pipes in your house if you don't have any special insulation for them and the pipes go outside "naked" or even too near the inside of a wall. They do not freeze immediately necessarily but possibly at the time when it's getting warmer and the temperature reaches back near to +/- 0 Celsius. So there should be some insulation at least. Few centimetres thick is enough. It should cover the pipe everywhere literally. (Just don't use metal as it can absorb the cold and it gets even colder...) But if the pipes freeze and you'll find out there's not coming warm water at all in your house and you start to heat the pipes, don't heat it with a very hot source or the pipe will break and you'll get a water leak in your house. For a surprise it's actually the warm pipe that freezes first not the cold one. Plus also, if you'll keep water flowing a bit all the time that will prevent a pipe freezing.

Frozen locks
You may face that locks are not working as they freeze (because they're metal). Then you should get VERY hot water put inside a plastic bag. Press the hot water bag against the lock and hold it that way about a half minute or longer.

Snow cover
Snow is a good insulation for drainage that runs (too) near beneath the surface. Just push snow on the way the pipeline goes. Snow itself isn't bad it's the cold and how to get prepared for that.


Possibly you don't need these tips, but in a case there's a gonna be more times like this in the future (maybe some drastic change with the weather and seasons during these crazy times?) who knows, and then this kind of things matter a lot for daily life. I'm quite sure there will be more things like this as there have been several times eras of deep froth taking over Russia and north of the States. Just think that it could come to Europe or elsewhere too. There are places in Siberia where temperatures go to -50 C to -70 C almost each year so who knows...

The coldest we had this winter here is -22 C. Now it's -13 C and should get warmer after Sunday.

PS. Not meant to be arrogant or anything, just trying to give a bit of advice if the things'll get nasty.



 

[Rusco]

Looks like the coldest place is in Omyakon in Siberia: http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/natural-wonders/welcome-to-the-coldest-inhabited-place-on-earth/news-story/4c67aadee3a38d6ed039fa8b1f5375a1

[Pol]

Most of the snow gone . Trains only running 1 per hour. Train to Glasgow was delayed n came into the wrong platform. Glasgow city centre was a nightmare trying to walk - fckin council could have cleared at least a decent path . Got a cpl of new tattoos  (link soon hopefully). Train home cancelled had to wait an hour for the next one - went to the solid rock for a irn bru plus u can vape in there n the music was good. 

[Bunny]

In the middle West Midlands, its practically a lovely spring day. The snow after creating mayhem for two days, went in two days

[Wessexy Witch]

In the middle West Midlands, its practically a lovely spring day. The snow after creating mayhem for two days, went in two days

Same

[Tony S]

We live in englands highest village nent head in Cumbria 1500 ft ,it has snowed every day all day for a week we have to literally dig our way out the door through 10 ft high drifts all roads out and in are cut off from snow ,we can't see out it looks like blankets of white cotton wool covering the Windows, on the telly I see red weather alerts for other places but ours looks so much worse . It is worse than any snow I've seen in 15 years I've lived here,I just don't know when or how we are going to get out. There is a tiny shop basically the shelves are empty luckily I had a well stocked freezer but soon we will have used everything I'm hoping the snow stops soon ,even my two dogs who love walkin I snow have to be pushed out by force it's scary,because now it's blowing a gale ,we have a freezer in the garage opposite the house   You have to dig a passage then dig to open the door ,when you get back in the house your eyelashes are frozen,within half an hour all your digging is covered by more snow 🌨🌨🌨🌨🌨🌨🌨🌨

I've been hearing a lot about Nenthead as I'm friends on FB with the landlady of your local pub, the Miners Arms. We used to be at school together ! It does look unreal up there, but it looks like the community spirit has been fantastic. Hope you get a decent thaw soon. Sadly I've seen today that there's been a major fire at the Hartside Cafe, and it looks like it's burnt down 

[Isaac(Black Eagle Rising)]

Very dark morning.Meteorology&news were warning for today the whole country would be under heavy rain storms.Sky looks dark grey and clouds look like there comes a thunder&lightning show very soon.Good that no work today or tomorrow.Beautiful day to visit some old NMA stuff which I haven't looked for a while.

[Master Ray]

Pretty mellow here in South Cheshire, but I'm sure that the likes of The Daily Mail will be telling us that 'Hurricane Deathbastard' is on it's way soon (yesterday they told us that a new strain of flu 'could' kill 300 million people this year... emphasis on 'could', I suppose    )

[Simon73]

just came back from indonesia where is always warm and amazing. place people and weather. in berlin it was sunny when it was minus 10 only..................otherwise mainly greay rain wind etc. same old shit