North London Reporting here! - i usually love the snow but they shut uni so no singing and dancing for me for the whole week :( Total incompentance. Still well done to tfl for finally getting the transport working today and well done to everyone who came to the heath and helped me build my igloo :D
@2reasons4belive you should of seen the snow in Wicklow (Ireland) where I live in 2010 there was 7 inches!!! And we don't normally get snow cos we are on low ground but 3 years since , we haven't got snow :(
You know ireland doesn't get much snow because yes it's lower ground and also the Carribean has warm water in the sea so the warm water flows to ireland making it even less colder
leicester had about 4 inches, but everything carried on as normal for me, work and all, but nothing like when i was a kid, used to get a foot plus of snow,
8" of snow in capital is quite a dumping and it is nice for those who haven't seen snow. When did London last see snow like that? Bear in mind the UK has Gulf stream or NAO. All we get are dustings or a couple cm but this is like a foot of snow in places. In Devon we have two dumpings of snow. On 2 Feb we had some powdery snow of 10cm's then 5 to 6th Feb we had up to 20cm - 25cm "8 -10" [wet snow]. Okehampton, Exmoor, Dartmoor saw 60cm or half a metre of snow - looked like an Alpine village!
some people need to remember that london is one of the warmest and driest places in the uk! this wouldnt be classed as a lot of snow up north (we had 6 ft drifts surrounding our house in queensbury last november) but i guess thats quite a lot for london :)
In the UK, I suppose on average any city will get about 4-8" per year, maybe slightly less, just North of London we only had about 1 big snowfall between 2001-2006, but in the last 12 months, we've had at least 3 big falls of +6". When I went to the Alps a few years ago, you could get an extra inch by the time you got to the top of the ski lift.
And that got less than Aviemore in the Highlands, and Dalwhinnie which saw nearly -20'C and Inverness which never went above -4'C for a week near Hogmanay, bla bla bla. London looked beautiful in this very rare snow, can't see why we can't all accept that. As one of the three world cities (alongside Tokyo and New York), a lot more people were watching London than Yorkshire.
A lot of snow to me, 3CM I usually get but this year we got about a foot of snow! and We had lying snow on Xmas day! But I would really like an official white Christmas I live in North Wales... I wish we had all that snow in Febuary 2009 When I came over us it started heavyish for about an hour it snowed really heavy and proper dry stuff to by then we had had around 10cm of snow but as the night went on the snow just kept getting wetter untill in the end it rained... :(
LOL! i live in Harpenden and we only get 15 cm, but when i was in brighton, in 2008 it fall 30 cm Snow! thats cool. But in Harpenden The coolest temperature it was -7, and in brighton dont know!
You must realise that this is London...the most incredible city in the world...not some characterless and soulless US city that nobody gives a shit about. The fact that we complain means our standards are just that little bit higher..
For those that may think that this isn't much, you have to remember that London is a large, densely populated city - which, in comparison to surrounding areas is fairly warm. Also, more generally as a country, we are a very mild place and rarely do we see heavy dumps of snow anywhere except over higher ground... like the Cairngorms in Scotland and/or the Lake District or the downs in England. Although, saying that - it was pretty pathetic how London ground to a hault - we had a foot up north!
What i don't understand is that, if England gets snow everything is a drama and roads get blocked and places come to a stand still. However, if you go to scotland you never get stand stills and blocked roads unless it's severe blizzads. England should get ready for these kind of things. If scotland can, England can too. It's not too far away!
Not really, it was much colder and snowier in the 1980s. This kind of snowfall is expected every so often in London, there was just a big gap since the last one in 1991! Just a few dustings of an inch or two in between really.
I live in shitty Cyprus where you barely get real snow in our only mountain "range" Troodos and believe it or not I've never had a snowball fight..;/ If it snows this year when I move to the UK I act like a child.
Really heavy snow ROFLMAO. Seriously you can clean your cars easily, just takes 15 minutes (snow isn't some chemical compound that you can't touch). PS. if some Brits might not know...you can have a lot of fun with your car and handbrake on empty parking lots (60kmh + turn + handbrake).
Yeah - It is all media hype rubbish - there was over a foot [30cm] of snow in some places and because this has been hyped up by the media to the wider-world it gives the opportunity for many other countries to have a dig at England - I tell you one thing for nothing and there are more embarassing things to have a dig at in our country than the snow! - We do not get much snow due to the Gulf - Stream if you know your Georgraphy! PS - nice theme by Pachelbels Canon in D
how can the UK beat 2.5ft ya fool? its not a competition. its about global positioning, if we could move the country north then maybe. a foot of snow is a shitload in 1 storm for the UK. when we do get snow its rare to get an amount that causes major problems, thats why the authorities dont waste money to prepare for it every year, theres no point. when it does happen the country cant cope with it and comes to a standstill. its rare tho.
