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Its heavy here in Surrey! Schools are closed (incl my 6th form:D)

Probably 8 inches in some places.
Here are some pictures:
 

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People in the UK shouldn't get a day of work simply because there's a tiny bit of snow. Seriously, there are school kids in certain parts of the world whom be going to school until the outdoor temps drop to -35°C!! I'm thinking there's gonna be reports on the news regarding careless drivers who've skidded off the road!!! LOL!!

As for me, well.. There could be fifty feet of snow in England, I still have to work!! Damn it... There's no getting away from it unless we suffer a massive blackout, my UPS dies and the internet freezes over!! :eek:

But as others have said we're simply not equipped for it. Even after gritters have gone up and down the roads all night it's still a slippery slide fest. Many roads around here simply get closed because they're too steep and too slippery, even my pops after his 30 years of driving in all conditions all over the world had trouble when the Arctic weather hit back in December.
Our school also had to close on numerous occasions because pipes would freeze etc. It wasn't a common occurrence but if it was a particularly nasty winter the whole place would shut down.

ps. You don't need to add that tag to all your pics y'know.

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And it continued. Stuff is really deep here now. Road is unusable and kids are attempting to sledge down it. Kids already in the field at the back and waking me up after 4 hours sleep :D ah well, best they enjoy it before it melts!

The real ho-hah starts tonight at 6pm according to the BBC.
 
its brilliant I was out last night at midnight (trying) to make a snowman with my girlfriend, will try and upload a picture later

Loving the snow, oh and we have the day off too!!!
:D:D:D:D;)

D:apple:
 
Took a few pics whilst walking into the office this morning. Taken with a camera phone, so forgive the crappy quality, but it's like Dickens out there :)

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The RAF church on The Strand, with the Law Courts in the background

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Bedford Square in Bloomsbury

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Classic London phone box outside the British Museum

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...and I don't think they'll be moving today either ;)

EDIT : © Me, BTW ;)
 
Damn. only an inch and a half:confused: Their getting at least 7 inches in East London, all the drug dealing has ground to a halt:rolleyes::D


Loool, thats the funniest thing I've ever read on here....:D

I walked through Finsbury Park this morning on the way to work and the snow must be atleast a foot deep....the funniest thing is some people are trying to ride bicycles THROUGH the snow :confused::confused:

Im just waiting for my manager to call me and tell me to go home....no point in work today me thinks...no ones even in lol
 
i must of cleared about 6-7 inches off my car this morning, drove to work no problem, its still snowing here and said to get worse up here later on this afternoon, does it stop me going to work? Nope, i guess we get it more often up here than they do daaaaan saaaaarf !! :)

People using it as a excuse to be lazy if you ask me :p
 
It took me about 5 minutes to FIND my car this morning in the car park, then another 15 to dig it out! It must have been at least 5 inches when I woke up and it's still going.

On my way out to work, I passed the snowplough/gritter - which was broken down. The rest of the journey until the motorway was deep snow. That was a lot of fun in my tiny RWD car.
 
Took a few pics whilst walking into the office this morning. Taken with a camera phone, so forgive the crappy quality, but it's like Dickens out there :)

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The RAF church on The Strand, with the Law Courts in the background

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Bedford Square in Bloomsbury

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Classic London phone box outside the British Museum

OMG how beautiful do they look, it's like london in the Victorian times :)
 
Wow..it's snowing

Interestingly, London's latitude is further north than Minneapolis, Minnesota. I guess it's nice to be an island surrounded by warming currents.

I live in a suburb of Chicago. For 30 out of 31 days this January the temperature did not reach 0ºC (32ºF) at any point. Several morning lows in the -20ºC range, -30ºC with the wind-chill factor.

As for snowfall, check out this graph:
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Yep, my Old World friends, that's 45 inches already this year. And with unrelenting cold that means not a lot of melt-off.

On January 16th, we were colder than the North Pole.
 
we are on about the same latitude as Russia, i think Moscow is 55 and London is 51 and Manchester 53. It's the gulf stream current that keeps the island warm and temporal climate.
 
we are on about the same latitude as Russia, i think Moscow is 55 and London is 51 and Manchester 53. It's the gulf stream current that keeps the island warm and temporal climate.
Indeed – and a concern about climate change is that it'll stop the gulf stream bringing us it's warming air, making snowy and wintery conditions much more commonplace in the UK.
 
Indeed – and a concern about climate change is that it'll stop the gulf stream bringing us it's warming air, making snowy and wintery conditions much more commonplace in the UK.

The current paleoclimatology thinking is that the last time the gulf stream (and the warm Atlantic currents) shifted South, England was under a kilometre of ice inside 100 years....

Makes global warming look like an attractive proposition doesn't it?

Cold brings famine.
 
east london is now very happy. P:

left my iphone in the car.. has some good pictures..
 
It's just stopped here in Brum (Birmingham,uk) its been snowing since about 1am.It was a bit heavy earlyer but whilst i'm typeing its starting again :) i think snow is pretty kick ass.
 
Still going mad at it here. Had to venture into the garage for some drinks before and was a nightmare opening the doors (they're side opening things). And now the snows filled itself back in!
 
It's now officially the most that it has snowed in London during my lifetime.

My cat is seriously scared right now. She's never really seen more than a tiny bit of snow.

And there's no way that I will be able to make it to my college in South Kensington tomorrow morning by 9! How... unfortunate.
 
Unexpected bank holiday for my family as the northern line was very flaky this morning. There was about 100 people queuing to get on to the platform and once on the platform two trains came along in 25 minutes and were completely full.

My cat is refusing to go out so we had to find his old litter tray to use inside. Admittedly the snow goes up to his belly so it must be pretty horrible for him.
 
Hehe. Been snowing for a while here in Norwich, but it hasn't managed to accumulate much. Not as bad yet as early November last year when we got a freak few inches of snow all at once.
 
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