Cold spell upcoming?

[peckerwoo]

Well I`m sure most of us are feeling a slightly cooler than average feel to things today?

Without wishing to bore you all? the AO-arctic oscillation track is going through the floor which "basically" stands for High pressure blocking to our north giving us a flow of arctic air and/or scandinavian flow with, for this time of year, cold continental winds.

Their! I have bored you all

Expect a very raw feel to things for the next 7 days or so with air frosts becoming steadily more frequent across the UK, -5 isotherm air into north and eastern regions from late saturday with prospects of snow on high ground increasing into next week!

A lot hinges on a possible polar low tracking south through Scandinavia midweek but the current low to our west will fill and a shortwave will run of SE into France enforcing the block (centred amongst western Greenland, Iceland and Scandinavia) leaving us as the "sandwich" in the middle with cold raw North to North Easterlies.

Bored again?,,,,, but your still reading!

Very good ingredients for another cold winter and as Europes set to get very cold too next week then that also will be a close cold pool just on our doorstep? if this current spell does not quite affect everywhere in the UK?

"wrap up warm" in a nutshell

[Matthew Arnold]

Try and have as many fires as possible to keep warm. We only lost 2 days last winter to snow. And on one of those days we had to cancel as both trucks were literally frozen shut. Now if we have a frost we put a tarpaulin over them.

[mendiplogs]

HI matt ref snow mate did you get much last year down there in blandford up here in the mendips mate we where ok with our land rover tipper:thumbup: the cab star boys did not go out for a week:lol: mate the coal man got a land rover tipper now he had cab star for years not now now mate

[Matthew Arnold]

It wasnt too bad. It was the ice which was the major pain in the ass. Because most of the country roads are in cuttings the sun doesnt get to it. So it just built up each night. The most we had in one night was about 6 inches. We had a shoot day cancelled as the roads were so lethal. Even tractors struggled on the ice. When we went out we alway had a 100 kg oak disc in the back just to put some weight over the back wheels as they are mostly in 2 wd. Was good fun but also ass emptying when we unintentionally played pinball of the banks in a 2 ton truck. Just as well we didnt meet someone coming up the hill. But DCC was one of the few councils still with plenty of salt. They have stockpiled this year just incase. Our shipping container is almost next to the salt dome and it currently has about 2,000 tons of salt.

[Treewarrior]

Hi Peckerwoo, interesting stuff. Do you study the weather etc??. Interesting to have someone on here that can give some alternative forecasts

[likeitorlumpit]

HI matt ref snow mate did you get much last year down there in blandford up here in the mendips mate we where ok with our land rover tipper:thumbup: the cab star boys did not go out for a week:lol: mate the coal man got a land rover tipper now he had cab star for years not now now mate

 

true

Cabstar always suffer in wet and ice

Thats the price u pay for hard suspension,

Drive much better when overloaded though:001_tongue:

[peckerwoo]

Hi Peckerwoo, interesting stuff. Do you study the weather etc??. Interesting to have someone on here that can give some alternative forecasts

 

LOL, yes TW, just about the only thing ive got many years experience in other than "pleasures of the pallet"

I`ll try updating stuff with a high degree of accuracy for us outdoor types before anything severe hits us

,,,Gonna be an interesting few month coming up I believe if the long range data is anything to go by?

[Matthew Arnold]

true

Cabstar always suffer in wet and ice

Thats the price u pay for hard suspension,

Drive much better when overloaded though:001_tongue:

 

Its rather amusing where i work as we have a 56 plate L200 with soft suspension and a 10 plate ranger with hard suspension. The boss seems to thinkthat the ranger is better off road. How come we have pulled him out of holes where the truck was 2 wheeling instead of 4?

[mendiplogs]

HI matt i must tell you mate last feb in the snow i smashed up my disco 3 it was written off:thumbdown: not good owell this year i will use the 110:thumbup:

[Matthew Arnold]

lol. Last year we wrote off one of our work trucks. We parked it on top of a snow covered grass hill. Handbrake applied and left in gear as we were on a slope but the truck decided to slide down the hill still in gear and with the handbrake on. When it got to the bottom there was no steering arm. The front and rear diffs were showing their cogs, the prop shaft had fallen out of the front had ended up going thru the passenger seat. It was in a right state. A very friendly and helpful farmer loaded the now deceased truck onto his bale trailer and took it to the main highways yard where the main garage is. They just looked at it and said " It's nackered. Its a right off".