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timark_uk
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PoiDH.
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Drove home tonight in near blizzard conditions, but it wasn't settling on the ground. There's more forecast for Sunday and we're due a nasty cold week ahead.
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jonbwfc
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Parked my car about 10 minutes walk from my house last night, on the basis that weatherists were predicting the snowpocalypse and parking the car next to the main road gave me a small chance of getting to where I need to be today. Get up this morning and what do I see? No fecking snow. Not a single flake.
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HeatherKay
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Weatherists? They're weatherguessers.
With all their sophisticated climate modelling, super computers and record gathering, they can only ever make educated guesses about the weather over Blighty. A quarter century after Mr Fish's infamous hurricane forecast, they still can't guess what tomorrow's weather is going to do with any great accuracy. There's also a major tendency now to cry "weather warning!" over April showers and other equally benign meteorology, too.
I'm bored with seeing "Weather Watch" or "Weather Warning" on the BBC's forecasts now, so I just ignore them. At my own risk. I have been on the planet long enough to have worked out that if the temperate is below 0° C for any length of time overnight, there's a risk of ice. I can look out of the window and see my car windscreen to know there's a frost. If the sky is grey, it might rain. If the trees are bending over, it's a bit windy.
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forquare1
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MORE SNOW!!!!!!!!!!
We have around seven inches here in Machynlleth, loving it!
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timark_uk
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You did all see my post at he top of this page, right? Mark
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forquare1
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Paul1965
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Exactly. The BBC Weather forecast for my location now says that we're only going to be getting Light Snow on Sunday. Bloody people getting my hopes up and then shattering them.
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AlunD
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snowing with quite heavily here
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timark_uk
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Thanks Ben. (8+) I've a couple I'll post up when I get to work. Mark
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Paul1965
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Snowing nicely now. 
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belchingmatt
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In the 5 minutes since I last looked out of the window it has started snowing and is already settling well on roofs. The ambient temperature is certainly helping.
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timark_uk
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Here's one … Not so long ago. Mark
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ProfessorF
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Snowed reasonably well this morning, but it's on and off at the moment. Doubt it'd settle if it did chuck it down. Good fun watching 4x4 drivers realise that on road tyres, you don't suddenly become immune to the laws of gravity.
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hifidelity2
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Location: London
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snowing here in londinium to
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