Whats the weather like near you?

[AJStrees]

Wet all week by recent forecast. 😥

[petercb]

Now raining heavily.

[Stubby]

1 hour ago, AJStrees said:

Wet all week by recent forecast. 😥

Just been up on Harting down with the dog . Still snow laying about up there and 5 degrees . Drove back down to my village and its 10 degrees and wet .

[doobin]

18 hours ago, Stubby said:

Just been up on Harting down with the dog . Still snow laying about up there and 5 degrees . Drove back down to my village and its 10 degrees and wet .

Harting hill was fun when it snowed. I popped down in the panda to laugh at idiots and left a red faced defender driver spinning trying to get back up. 
 

I took the scenic route to the yard. Notice the tracks in the second photo where someone tried to come up Treyford Down the other way and gave up 🤣

[Big J]

14 minutes ago, doobin said:

Harting hill was fun when it snowed. I popped down in the panda to laugh at idiots and left a red faced defender driver spinning trying to get back up. 
 

I took the scenic route to the yard. Notice the tracks in the second photo where someone tried to come up Treyford Down the other way and gave up 🤣

 

Brilliant car. Always loved Panda 4x4s. Being a bit skinnier now (with all the cycling) I might even have a chance of fitting in one.

 

I know I bang on about winter and all season tyres, but come on! That sort of snow is an absolute and complete doddle for any 2wd car with the right tyres. 

 

The one you have to watch out for here is melted and refrozen snow on the gravel roads. That's nasty. It took me off my bike and onto my chin a month ago, and I was on studs! Lesson learned though. Avoid the gravel roads if there is any chance of ice. 

[Big J]

 

A fantastic photo from yesterday morning by someone else in the village. It'd be about minus 12-15 at the point this was taken. Extreme cold here really doesn't feel especially cold. It just makes you want to go outside, preferably on cross country skis! 

[sime42]

Looks lovely.

But Cross Country skis, really! They always look much too hard work to me, I'd rather let gravity do the work!

 

 

[Paul Cleaver]

Surveying snowed off today in North Staffordshire 

[Mark Bolam]

2 hours ago, Big J said:

 

Brilliant car. Always loved Panda 4x4s. Being a bit skinnier now (with all the cycling) I might even have a chance of fitting in one.

 

I know I bang on about winter and all season tyres, but come on! That sort of snow is an absolute and complete doddle for any 2wd car with the right tyres. 

 

The one you have to watch out for here is melted and refrozen snow on the gravel roads. That's nasty. It took me off my bike and onto my chin a month ago, and I was on studs! Lesson learned though. Avoid the gravel roads if there is any chance of ice. 

What in God’s name would possess anyone to think cycling in snow was in any way a good idea?

[Big J]

30 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

What in God’s name would possess anyone to think cycling in snow was in any way a good idea?

 

If you like cycling and it's snowy you don't have much choice!

On the right tyres, you're pretty secure if you are sensible. I reckon I've done a couple thousand kilometres on snow over this winter. Including 47km today.