Coming back over the Lang Whang about midnight in car, snow in curious drifts across the road, quite icy
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Snow(?)
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Tiny little piles settling at the edge of the Gilberstoun-Newhailes path this morning, presumably composed of the teeny little snowspeckles which can be felt but not seen as the wind drives them into your corneas.
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Still nothing in Dalgety Bay.... :O)
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This all seems v localised, but if you watch tv, looks like armageddon.
I have a friend at a borders wedding - no problems. Another friend travelled to lake district today - again no drama.
I know from sallys tweets its bad in her area, but its really not a nationwide problem.
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Certainly looking north and south from here it looks white everywhere.
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Yeah, it's just our corner of Scotland I think. We've had about half a foot, and lots of drifts but further west there's been huge falls, people stuck overnight on the A75, power outages, the lot. The police message this morning was simply 'don't drive'. We were wading through thigh-high drifts this morning, though not on the roads, but from the photos I've seen even some A roads have been buried
It probably doesn't help that we don't normally get a ton of snow so people aren't that used to it, especially further west! The timing is tough as the lambs had just started arriving, I expect the sheep farmers will be having a complete nightmare right now
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Been bad in Northern Ireland. My girlfriend left work in Belfast early due to the snow, and got home to discover no power and the phone line down due to a fallen tree. Power only restored this afternoon. Previous experience says the phone line will be out of action for some time yet!
Not sure too many NI residents will have felt like partaking in Earth Hour this year!
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snowing - very, very tentatively - in Polwarth
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Ach, dammit I forgot to upload the picture of rural Tayside. Couple of inches of snow, with some drifts a coupe of feet high.
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Where is it? Woke up to a snowy Fife and thought, "today's the day for spikes" so I loaded the spikey tractor onto the car and became increasingly dismayed as I got closer to Barnton and saw clear paths and, well, everything. Not a bit of snow or ice. All my imaginings of smugly sailing along on spikey wide tyres replaced by a grunt and slog along the pat. Kept me warm though.
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combination sunshine and large, fluffy flakes of snow in EH12 at the moment.
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I left my spikes in the garage and noticed the snow in The Sunny Kingdom this morning. The commute was not so bad, as Inst indicated, nice and dry for over half the run in.
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Astoundingly they have ploughed our back rural roads - so cycled for the paper today on dry tarmac (apart from a few slushy bits) between head high walls of snow. The only problem was any oncoming vehicles as the cleared width was exactly as wide as a biggish car.
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Was a full blizzard and about an inch of snow on the roads in Falkirk this morning so def spikes!
Will decide which transport tomorrow morning based on what I see out of the window :-sPosted 12 years ago # -
Couple of cm in Airdrie. I'll probably just use a Brompton on Kojaks unless the main road is icy.
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Looks like a wet dusting. Just stick to the Kaff and main roads I think. Would quite like to have spring now thanks.
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1 or 2 cm in Midlothian. Main roads clear to Eskbank.
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Another day on the spiky tractor and only slightly justified by the little bit of snow between the Barnton golf courses. Still, maybe more later and still need to get home so although it's a bit of a slog, most reliable. And better exercise.
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Aye, bit between the golf courses may be fun on Gatorskins once rutted. Otherwise NEPN gritted, and clear.
The HowWetAreMyFeet measure also confirmed a lack of any meaningful snow.
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And that bit is a nice little chilly hollow. Always feels a few degrees colder than the rest of the world so often frozen when the roads and path are just wet.
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We've had a couple of mini-blizzards this morning. All melted away on hitting tarmac. Much the same as yesterday. Doubtless it will be a bit more challenging inland, but central Edinburgh has nothing to worry about so far.
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Ended up taking the Innocent this morning, and the gritting really is showing up why this should have been getting done long before this winter.
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How do you mean? Because it's so clear and lovely and people are still cycling on them?
I think they've done a good job. Wasn't so great earlier but people complained and they seem to have responded. So, fair play to them. Pity the grit bins keep getting tipped over.
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An amazing blizzard just now, big fluffy flakes, swirling like a 'snowstorm' paper weight. Kids love watching it from the window...
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We've just had a period of the same in EH12. My desk is next to the window at work and for a moment before the blizzard eased off I was starting to feel a bit travel sick with the flakes passing in the periphery of my vision!
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It's not sticking though.
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Too windy and mild for the proper stuff to lay about.
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"How do you mean? Because it's so clear and lovely and people are still cycling on them?"
Yip, exactly. Seemed the same sort of number son the path today as usual - lovely black tarmac for most of the way. There was grit put down on Monday, but even so, at the top of the tunnel there were two mini-tractors that had obviously been out again (and one of the workmen having a wee against the wall of the flats at the tunnel exit).
Well done to the council - they've listened, they've acted.
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