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Snow on roads in Eskbank and -6 deg so took the bus. In Edinburgh the treated roads are really dry - that bodes well. Easier to see the ice as well!
Not sure if going to go out cycling this weekend (with ERC) with the low temps forecast - if the roads are dry may brave it.
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on_lothianbuses:
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"livingston weather can be worse than edinburgh international and yet they are both recorded at the gogarbank station shum mishtake shurley"
I thought Livi had a separate weather monitor as you can select it on the metoffice site... when you punch in Bathgate it says nearest is Livi...
Now that I try that I can't find it anymore. Age and head cold playing tricks on my brain...
The next Met Office weather station in a westerly direction is Bishopton. The next south is Drumalbin, near Douglas. I presume they try predict the weather based on a midpoint between them and Gogarbank, taking into account which way the weather is moving.
Or they use the entrails of a goat...
I doubt it's THAT accurate.
"This week, the Council has the same resources in place to deal with the snow, including: 600 staff, 20 mini-tractors"...
THEY'VE LOST ONE!!!
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Preparing for what the weather may bring this weekend
Published Friday 17 December 2010
The Council is working hard to prepare for bad weather this weekend.
Edinburgh has been forecast to receive further snow showers on Saturday evening into Sunday morning with the likelihood that this will continue throughout Sunday and into Monday.
Nevertheless, the Council's 31 gritters will be out in full force, along with 19 mini-tractors, a range of other vehicles and hundreds of staff and contractors. Since early Friday morning a gritting crew has been continuing to work on Category 1, 2 and 3 roads and pavements.
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http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/290/preparing_for_the_weather_may_bring_this_weekend
chdot, 4 hours ago: "20 mini-tractors"
chdot, 1 minute ago: "19 mini-tractors"
It is with great sadness that we lament the loss of a mini tractor. Please add your condolences.
R.I.P.
No flowers.
Perhaps they lost it in a crevasse. Those piles of snow are pretty big in places.
Alas poor tractor
I watched the vid thinking "I want one" then saw the related vids and thought "no... I want THAT one..."
There used to be a Land Rover like that at the Lix toll
World perspective.
Aberdeen -12 - same as Moscow.
Edinburgh -3 - same as London.
"There used to be a Land Rover like that at the Lix toll"
Is it not still there? Not sure it ever actually worked.
Given that there is very little for Parking Attendants to do with all their yellow lines under a pile of snow and many parking bays unuseable or filed with cars where the permits are covered by a layer of snow, would it be that difficult to reallocate the resource to making the streets safe by sweeping up the snow as quickly as possible after it has fallen? This smart move sees the snow easier to clear before it gets packed down by (foot) traffic and thus saves a substantial amount of the salt/grit needed to melt the stuff once it is packed hard. Looking at the Copenhagenise 'winter 2009' video at 00.25" a council street sweeper zips along the cycle path with its brush spinning and snow shooting off to the sides, leaving a black strip of cleared path behind, rapidly filled by cyclists - a little later 00.35" a tractor goes past with its brush raised on a cleared street.
Would it be beyond the wit etc to run a patrol as snow was falling or after a light fall of snow, of the city's mini street sweepers on a circuit of essential footways and cycle routes.
A further comment on roads came from someone whose father ran a small N Yorkshire haulage company - at the nod from the Council he had mini ploughs to fit to his trucks which were making regular trips around the local roads. in doing this his trucks kept the build-up of snow within manageable levels. Perhaps we should look at buses and the Edinburgh-Glasgow coaches having small brushes to keep the snow cover down, or perhaps a de-icer kit to hook on the back, and thus deliver a far more intensive service that any council could hope to achieve with a handful of trucks (incidentally I saw a gritting truck in full Kent County Council livery working on the M8 the other day!).
Finally with many building sites unable to operate but some of the staff presumably paid, and stood down how about a public spirited offer from the construction industry to make these guys available and if there are likely costs agree that this is settled up without the delay of haggling as the snow gets deeper. (Oh and lets hope we don't see the really callous image reported from the London rail network - ticket checking staff out in force whilst no labour apparently available to make the platforms safe by clearing the snow & ice)
The Landy might indeed still be there but I rarely get that far along the road these days. I usually only get as far as Ben Ledi (be there next week).
@CB afaik it's still there, and yes, I believe they worked, it is/was a Cuthbertson Tracked Landrover as seen here:
The BBC were filming in Melville Drive this morning, they showed people cycling through the snow on the news.
@smudge - that Landy is COOL!
This is the other one that was/is at Lix Toll:
Has the Met Office got a sense of humour, or have all the Scottish weather stations stopped working!?
@Spitfire, fixed it for you ;-)
"@smudge - old Landy's are COOL!"
Want the yellow one (partly cos it is yellow) and cos you could fit a few nice bikes in the back, drive it up a mountain and drop the riders off then race them back down - oi Clarkson!
Where is Lix Toll?
No we are not green, it's the iphone that hates yuo
Sadly those Landys are no longer there!!!!
Lix Toll
Just where you turn off the A85 for Killin (between Lochearnhead and Crianlarich)
There's one of those general garage / petrol station / shop / agricultural vehicle dealer businesses that you get oop north
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