I think Paul wins on that one

I think mine wins on style.

I would actually quite like to get snow like that over here. It's just bitterly cold, with no snow benefits.

Mark

I think you may be due some from the West tonight.

We've had it for 2 weeks up here, roads still have cars on them and the airport is still open....

I think we'll be lucky if we get anything above a light dusting, but we'll see.
Of course, if it does snow anything remotely near the amount that Heather captured in her photograph you can be assured of PoiDH. (8+)

Mark

It's really not that bad you know. Look how some people have it.

True. But then they know it's going to be freezing all year round. 1500m of permafrost, the top metre of which melts enough in the summer to become a sea of mud and slush, having to melt the ground to bury the dead...

There are bits of the Medway Towns like that.

Aye but then Finland, Canada etc have -20 to -30 regularly every year, often colder. At the age of 7 my GF walked to school across frozen lakes in the winter.

Mind you if we had it every year then there would no doubt have been more things in place to deal with it, including the compulsory use of winter tyres.

[LIFTED] BBC and it's [LIFTED] use of autoplay. [LIFTED] you, BBC!

Mark

Pretty much every year I lived in Scotland, the local reservoir would freeze over thick enough to be safe to skate or go curling on.
When we moved, it stopped getting so cold. I imagine now though, it's back to business as it was. No doubt someone'll be claiming it's the next ice age, though.

Thta's one thing that always gets me, "a temperature record that stood since eighteen hundred and blah blah". Of course measuring temperature hasn't changed one bit in the past 200 years so they must have been just as accurate back then....

I wonder if the locals were this hysterical when the waters started to flow over the land that joined us to Europe....

Twice today we have had a JCB clear the snow in our Close. I'd rather they hadn't bothered. Looked nice before and now it doesn't. I hope it snows tonight and covers the road again.

Yay! Been snowing for the past few hours, must be 5-10cm more now.

It's purdy.

-7* where I live without wind chill, went outside and got chaffed nips when I took the dog for a walk, I'd have worn a coat but they are Illegal in the North East

Aye, scraping the car this morning a neighbour was outdoing me, I had a t-shirt, tracky bottoms and slippers on but he was out in Bermuda shorts