Bleak Midwinter...

[tifosi]

So they said it ill stay cold and we might have a bit more snow.

They didn't say we would have 8 inches overnight... and it's still coming down!

 

[dw1973]

We only had about 5...but it's still snowing

Sometimes working from home is a bad thing

 

[newguy]

Will it never stop? I saw someone out running in this the other day, while I was walking and slipping all over the place. He was either wearing spikes or is not of this world!

 

[GreyWing]

You lot are laughing, we are on exercise this weekend up in the hills, so spending some nights out in it.

 

[tifosi]

You lot are laughing, we are on exercise this weekend up in the hills, so spending some nights out in it.

We'll come and dig you out in March!

still snowing... no bin collection again I guess!

 

[boxerdog]

nothing here.........yet, just a very deep frost
all i want to do is go to work

 

[tifosi]

9" now... still snowing!

took some pics. I'll add them later.

 

[ribble-valley]

I'm in the Ribble Valley, only an inch or two here this morning so far, ice has been the biggest pain - especially on pavements.

The last batch before Christmas wasn't even mentioned on the weather and there was about 15cm of snowboard friendly white stuff on my garden table for a week. Had DHL stuck in the street for 2hrs, had to let his tyres down, get the shovel out and push - should have sent them an invoice for my time!

It's the media that I love at this time of year, half an inch of snow in London - chaos and panic.

What I have found amusing is the amount of immigrant taxi drivers not having a clue how to drive in it. Wheel spinning like a girl and making the road shiny for the rest of us.

My 205 GTi loves the stuff. :-D

 

[fish]

Nothing in central London yet ....

 

[ribble-valley]

Nothing in central London yet ....

Hi Fish, happy new year!

Give it time, its on the way Days like this I'm so glad I work from home.

If anyone was watching BBC News 24 a moment ago they cut to a reporter in Sheffield and the image was just pure snow, think the cameraman must have fallen over - made for a few laughs in the studio.

Paul

 

[fish]

Days like this I'm so glad I work from home.

If anyone was watching BBC News 24 a moment ago .....

so that's what working from home means eh?

HNY 2u2 Paul, catch up soon ...

 

[rob]

so that's what working from home means eh?

BBC News is for the poshos, I have learnt that the top domainers and 'accountants' watch Jeremy Kyle and Trisha (thanks to BB99 & Mofo for letting me know the secrets of their er, 'success').

 

[GreyWing]

Well what is going on down at the met office?

These are the guys that predict global warming and say it's real, in 50 years our weather will change, 50 years? they can't even get it right for 3 months away.

Forecast for the 2009 winter, mild
Summer 2009, barbecue summer
Forcast for 2010 winter, mild with 1 in 87 chance of being a cold winter

These guy would seriously be better just flipping coins, hot or cold 50/50

 

[tifosi]

BBC News is for the poshos, I have learnt that the top domainers and 'accountants' watch Jeremy Kyle and Trisha (thanks to BB99 & Mofo for letting me know the secrets of their er, 'success').

don't forget loose women!

Finally levelled out at 9-10inches. Watch out home counties your turn next!

 

[boxerdog]

its coming!! just seen the first couple of flakes out the window

 

[rob]

Well what is going on down at the met office?

These are the guys that predict global warming and say it's real, in 50 years our weather will change, 50 years? they can't even get it right for 3 months away.

Forecast for the 2009 winter, mild
Summer 2009, barbecue summer
Forcast for 2010 winter, mild with 1 in 87 chance of being a cold winter

These guy would seriously be better just flipping coins, hot or cold 50/50

Not sure who you have been listening to, but my grasp of climate change is that extreme weather will become the norm.

Going by the floods, bushfires, snow, stupid summers, droughts and blizzards it seems pretty accurate?

eg. hotter planet means higher temps for oceans, more evaporation... and more water to fall out of the sky....somewhere in some form

 

[SF]

Global warming is just another excuse to get more money out of us dont believe the hype"

 

[GreyWing]

Not sure who you have been listening to, but my grasp of climate change is that extreme weather will become the norm.

Going by the floods, bushfires, snow, stupid summers, droughts and blizzards it seems pretty accurate?

eg. hotter planet means higher temps for oceans, more evaporation... and more water to fall out of the sky....somewhere in some form

Wasn't mentioning the specifics of climate change but why would you listen to someone's predictions of something in 50 years when they can't get 3 months correct. It's like backing a footballer to score from 900 yeards when he can't hit the target from 6.

As for the climate balls, it's going to get hotter or colder, wetter or dryer and that will happen in any country of the world.

try going into a casino and telling them that roulette is the game, it's going to land on red, black or green, odd or even and by the way those odds aren't good enough so you aren't going to even tell them what table in the casino it's going to happen on, then we have climate change.....

 

[rob]

Global warming is just another excuse to get more money out of us dont believe the hype"

Yes, those who are suffering population displacement now due to climate change are doing it as all part of some global conspiracy to boost the coffers of our new taxation overlords

Sea ice is retreating - thats visable with human eyes, you dont even need to believe we are in space to see the proof of that. When that land based ice melts, its going somewhere!


You should play 'them' at their own game, and get free money via the eco grants that are around, then you can make money !!

win win win

 

[GreyWing]

Yes, those who are suffering population displacement now due to climate change are doing it as all part of some global conspiracy to boost the coffers of our new taxation overlords

Sea ice is retreating - thats visable with human eyes, you dont even need to believe we are in space to see the proof of that. When that land based ice melts, its going somewhere!


You should play 'them' at their own game, and get free money via the eco grants that are around, then you can make money !!

win win win

Things is though mate the ice is not retreating, Nasa's own satelites show it's not and there is more ice now than in the last 30 years. The earth has cooled over the last 7 years, that's climate gate was about, the global warming chaps were covering it up.

I don't know anyone who hasn't been displaced throughout history by some sort of climate change, The Mayan people failed due to climate change, that was 500 years ago.

Climate change is real, man made climate change is not. There is a ball of gas in the sky what burns at millions of degress centigrade, yet some think it burns at the same temperature and sends the same amount of energy to the earth every minute of every year, it's bizarre. That's leaving apart the magnetic solar storms that rage on the surface.

You want to see someone who can predict the weather, have a look at the guy who predicts it by observing sun spots, he's been banned from william hill for winning bets on his predictions, not sure you can say that about climate warriors.