Comments on: Burning Snow Watch: Global Warming Update

By: dairy

dairy — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:34:43 +0000

enjoy it while it lasts June..!!! today we have absolutely nothing left up here, it’s all gone and we are left freezing our bits off in brilliant sunshine…. can’t complain!

By: June

June — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:42:09 +0000

dairy

Down here (Essex) we are just not used to snow, an inch and we are done for….the M11 nonsense some years back was due to packed ice and no grit ( not true Brit grit,, even we have plenty of that) but the salt lorry grit stuff.
I was brought up on a Welsh hill farm where we were regularly snowed in for 2 weeks, and trudging down to town ( 3 miles) for provisions and to escape the farm version of cabin fever…the Co-op delivery van would wait at the local pub with bread /flour/gin etc.

I love the cold weather,and every October am hoping for a proper winter, got one this year.
But we did spend a November in Yorkshire a few years back, and it was smashing, even the 4×4 revelled in snow on the N Yorks moors.

I get really envious when I hear the snow gates are shut in the Cairngorms, and we have rain down here….

By: dairy

dairy — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:41:12 +0000

amazing how it is treated as a complete disaster, just because the bulk of the snow has fallen down south - oh the catastrophe!!!
here oop north our snow, gales, storms etc never usually warrant more than a cursory mention, never mind several pages of a “national” newspaper….
…or maybe we’re just a bit tougher and don’t moan about it so much…?

By: June

June — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:55:51 +0000

Bloody cold though, and they reckon 19 years now

Now global warming…