General Chat

LOL - a prime example of council organisation!

At the moment, one junction off the M3 into Winchester is closed due to rail works. (strengthening the bridge).
The other one is now 'drive with care - snow on road' - this just happens to be the road from the depot that the gritters have to use to get anywhere!!!
D'OH!!!

It's threatening to dump on Wiltshire although we haven't got anything here yet. I only live a couple of miles from work so can walk in, but I know lots of people in outlying villages always get snowed in!

We are on weather alerts her in Derbyshire (Midlands). School closed, very little road travel etc. OH has looked out the window and reckons he can't get out for the fags and papers in the morning. I'll be up early, I told him, to start shovelling.
Hope it is not as bad as forecated for any of us.
Good Luck All
Julia in Derbyshire

some parts of the nort east
have had two feet of snow
with more to come

Just read that the road my daughter lives in, off the A32 is blocked due to snow & ice -- son in law is at work in Winchester until 11pm, and daughter has to get to work in the Royal Hampshire Hospital in the morning!!
If son in law doesn't get home, daughter can't go to work (they work their shifts so one is always at home with the children)

we have snow and we are 30 mins up the road from Maggie

Buses aren't what they used to be!
We didn't have a bus for over a week when it was frosty - but the bin men made it!
We've had rain/sleet, now it's snowing - and laying.
We also had deep snow in February - and the hills in Winchester make walking very difficult! Many a fence was pulled over as people clung on as they tried to walk to the main (gritted) road.

Ann
I can only remember one fairly harsh winter there, but as you say, not so much snow on the south-facing slopes.
I can't remember roads closed either.
I do remember that only one of the girls' toilets in the block at the far end of the primary school playground was in use, - the rest were frozen.

Please no snow in Hampshire, at least until we have done the Gatwick pick-up and returned in-laws safely to their home.


Maggie
I think you'll have to fix a rope to your gate and use it to steady yourself up and down from town.
It doesn't seem that the City Council is going to spare you any grit.


Gwyn

It is unusual for those towns along the Solent to get snow. When I was a child in Fareham we never used to get a lot it all seemed to fall the other side of Portsdown Hill, I can't remember not being able to get to school in Purbrook either, somehow the buses always made it over the hill. I do seem to recollect once having to get off the bus and walk up the steepest part of the hill then get back on again.

Thanks Steve !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The met have issued an extreme event weather warning for southern England. Especially for the counties in a triangular area just above Isle of Wight.

Theyre forecasting 15 to 30cms , possibly 40 cms of snow. Thats 6" to 12" possibly 16" of snow.

Also looking ahead for those of us who do get this. When it melts there'll be a risk of severe flooding.

Steve

Its pouring with rain here in Gosport so if it does snow I doubt it will settle.

Jane

stopped snowing here now.

No snow here but the roads leading out of Portsmouth are gridlocked. l just tried to get up to the hospital and it took me 40 minutes to do a mile so have come back home and will try again later, God what will it be like if we did have snow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/se/se_forecast_warnings.html?day=2

Looks like you will need your snow shoes!!!

Radio has just said what the Midlands have been getting is due to hit the rest of the country within the next few hours :O(

Eeeh - us 'Soft Southerners' aren't used to it!!

UP AT TEESDALE NR US
THEY HAD 13 INCHES OVER NIGHT
OR SO THE TV HAS JUST SAID

Yes Maggie it's apparently sweeping across the whole country from up north ........... Met Office have issued severe weather warnings across the board !!

We have been lucky here, very cold, frosty and icy but until today no snow, it is snowing hard now though