i think it might be fairly recent as a friend of my folks was on the phone a month or so ago moaning about where he was going to keep a spare set of wheels (they live in a flat near frankfurt).

i might be wrong

 

For those in the South East and London here is the latest forecast for Wednesday.

All I can say is that 2.0cm of rain as snow is a LOT of snow. Somewhere between 10-20cm depending on the air temperature and the snow density.



Data courtesy of Metcheck

 

We had a couple of inches of snow in the west midlands this morning, and its snowing as I look out of the window now.

I am supposed to be navigating on the Exeter trial at the weekend as well!

 

yeah !!! Trout. thx mate

 

Its chucking it down now................................with snow road surfaces are already freezing up

 

Just seen Harrogate on BBC news and it was bad. Then they said the snow heading south was going to be MUCH worse!!! Looks like I will be in London for a couple of days then!

 

Basingstoke and Reading are getting hit hard right now - about 2" in less than 1 hour!

 

I am back in the UK in a week so hope most of it clears - As I need to move the scoob from A to B.

My understanding is

Austria - legal requirement from Nov 1st - 5,000 euro fine.
Germany - Not a legal requiremet BUT you can get fined for not having them in cold conditions, fined for holding up traffic and fined for having no screen wash and holding up traffic and also invalidates insurence. So evryonee has them on.

Trout, I am bit thick when it comes to net stuff. Why does image shack show the picture you posted being so small. As that is the correct code-link for a forum pic. Not the code-link I posted?

 

...not to mention an interesting selection of bookmarks... never pictured you in a corset myself, but each to their own I guess

 

I'll be working from again tomorrow, too.

 

You ought to try it sometime....you havent lived

 

hey rev, that looks like a nice place

not tempted to write something in the snow?? lol

 

perhaps he could go out now and write us a message

 

facebook, scoobynet and pistonheads..... thought it was my screen for a minute, but then i see the wimmin's wear !!! pmsl

 

go on rev. fire up the gt-r and lay two great ruts down the road !! hehhehehehe

 

I realised that as soon as I posted. Wondered how long it would take!!

Custom made present for her indoors for Christmas - had to do a lot of research

 

No chance, I've just had a nice home made cottage pie to warm me up, I'm not going back out to get cold now

 

I am in Paddington eating my tea - it has just started snowing!!!!!

 

I would but most of the engine's in boxes And I'd never get the Mito back up the drive

 

hahahah, 10 years ago, you'd be out there like a shot !!!

we gotta wait for our snow down here

 

True

Mind you, I nearly smashed the Mito into the wife's Civic between Xmas and New Year doing a handbrake turn in an otherwise empty car park, it just kept sliding for ever, stopped 6" short. I could just imagine the insurance claim form

 

Aw go on!
Make it abusive if you like

 

pmsl. sods law though.... if there is only one other car in a carpark, you will end up very near, if not into it !!!!

my mate was doing drifting in a carpark with one tree in it....

next time i saw his car he had cable ties holding the bumper on... i didnt even need to ask how it happened !!

 

a very good covering on my run home, all untreated country lanes

 

how far south are you mate ??

 

I have still not managed to clear the entrance to work, about 6" here, I am the only lad in. the area who managed to make it in.

Going to finish clearing the entrance, and then go home, hopefully I will have done enough work to allow us to open tomorrow, got facking blisters on my hands due to extreme snow shoveling.

5 years trading and I have never been beaten by the winter before!

 

Travelling from London to York now. All my meetings in London were cancelled due to wimps saying it was a bit snowy!!

No where near as much snow in London as the scaremongering forecast - quite a bit outside though!!

On an electric train and the roof is being hit by huge lumps of ice being knocked off by the dolly!!!

 

There is a man on the train with crampons and an ice axe!!! I know the weather is bad but that seems a little extreme!!!

 

It has reached us in Devon at last, about 2 inches last night but the council is doing a good job keeping the roads clear.

Les

 

Why don't you mention it, but be prepared to duck-he has the advantage on you!

Les