Snow in UK?

[k-ossuburb]

It's raining here now, everything is more-or-less thawed completely, which is good because I've got to lug guitars, amps, mixing tables, effects pedals and a load of other musical crap to a pub I'm playing at to play a remembrance gig that celebrates the life of John Lennon. I just hope the other guys can make it, I think we'll survive well enough without the keyboard player, but if the drummer or the lead singers get stuck we're screwed.

 

[Jharry5]

We didn't get that much snow here. It's been enough to make life harder, but not enough to shut the uni. I was meant to be going home this weekend, but that's not happened thanks to the snow though.

I hate snow.

 

[sonicguru]

It's amazing how many complain about the snow. People are saying that it's the worst snow from the past 17 years, I'm half expecting this to turn into a 'Four Yorkshire Men' routine.
"Back in my day, we had snow so deep it took us a week to dig to freedom!"
"That's nothing. One time I was trapped inside a ball of ice and had to free myself with my own tears"
I guess it all has to do with age. When you're a kid you can't for snow, you wan't to go out and make snowmen and have snowball fights. Teenager, it's just another excuse to be an asshole to your friends (especially when you put rocks in the snowballs). But when you're an adult, you just want the snow to go so you have to crash your car or buy a pair of snow-shoes just to get to work.
But there is a good and bad side to all this:
GOOD- There's a higher chance that it will snow on Christmas Day.
BAD- We still have less than 3 months of Winter to live through.

 

[awmperry]

I'm half English, half Swedish, and I live in Scotland, so I may have a fairly specialised perspective on it...

I'm always astonished by the way Britain's surprised by every snowfall. "Oh god, there's snow! Like, er, every year."

As far as I'm concerned, there's no excuse for roads to not be clear. There's no excuse - with as little snow as we're having in Scotland - for Edinburgh airport to be closed. (My wife and I are currently having a three-day holiday in Edinburgh at the airline's expense, because our flight was pushed from Thursday to Sunday.)

I just don't get it. I learned to drive in Borlänge, a town about halfway up Sweden, in the early months of 2005. Blizzards, an inch and a half of solid ice on the roads, a foot or two of snow, temperatures down towards -15, -20. We had lessons on the skid pan, all that. And I grew up in Sweden during the 80s and 90s, when Christmas meant snow, rather than the anaemic winters we have these days. (Seriously - if the snow's gone by April, it doesn't count.)

Anyway. Yeah, we've had snow in southwest Scotland, and we've got snow here in Edinburgh. Didn't bother us on the drive up in a bog-standard SAAB estate, and it certainly hasn't bothered me in my Land Rover - but then, it wouldn't.

EDIT: I'm Swedish; I love snow and winter. My wife, who's South African, isn't quite so keen. ;-)

 

[Knusper]

In the south-east we got 18 inches and I only went to school on Monday, had the rest off. It's starting to rain though, and so I guess school will be back on on Monday.

 

[A Pious Cultist]

Up in Preston we have only just started getting it this week.

And now there more snow than there is in scarface.

Preston? In Lancashire?

I live there too! =D

 

[Wicky_42]

No offense, but you Brits have no idea what snow is. You get a dusting and the whole country shuts down. Try living in New England during nor'easter season, where getting 18 inches overnight is par for the course.

That's kinda the point - we've not had snow at this time of the year for almost 2 decades. We had all of 2 days of snow last year in the Midlands. You get it every year, you're used to it, whoop de do. Let us enjoy/be panicked by our freakish weather without patronising us!

It's like having a drought and being told by someone in Africa to 'suck it up' cos they don't get any rain for most of the year -.-;

 

[Squidden]

Living in Florida I never see snow, so I love being in snow.

 

[noble cookie]

Its fuckin' balls. We were hoping for time off school haha, it snowed all week, on and off, but not enough for us to stay home.

Then on friday it snowed down like fudge, we though we would have school off now on monday, then it starts raining all weekend. This sucks.

(I'm from Wales btw)

 

[Baldry]

Well I haven't been to college for the past week because of it...THANK YOU SNOW!

 

[ffian1]

The UK are pretty silly when it comes to anything really. It doesn't matter if it's snow, VAT, X-factor finalists - whatever. The slightest change of anything in our routine will cause the majority of people to panic unnecessarily, and complain when it's back to normal too.

It's really just a natural reaction to the climate of fear that's been developing over the last 2 decades.

Britain sucks, can't wait to get outta here.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

The UK are pretty silly when it comes to anything really. It doesn't matter if it's snow, VAT, X-factor finalists - whatever. The slightest change of anything in our routine will cause the majority of people to panic unnecessarily, and complain when it's back to normal too.

It's really just a natural reaction to the climate of fear that's been developing over the last 2 decades.

Britain sucks, can't wait to get outta here.

Congratulations on noticing this, our stereotypical national image! I have to say, if that's really what people are like in your area, that really sucks. I live in the South West, and as of now, we're pretty upbeat. Compared to last year we've got no snow and very little ice to speak of, no one I know can be bothered to watch, talk about of in any way acknowledge reality tv and we're still falling ass over tit to spend money at the shiny new pier we've been presented with. It's a rather effective distraction by all counts.

It's almost disturbing how positive this town is this winter. Snow? What snow?

 

[TheLiham]

we didn't get any. yet it is still really really fucking cold on account of it being cornwall the place where select few have seen the sun

 

[willsham45]

Cardiff it never really came...had some snow made it a little slippy but nothing really disruptive pity i did not want to go to work

 

[Antari]

The UK are pretty silly when it comes to anything really. It doesn't matter if it's snow, VAT, X-factor finalists - whatever. The slightest change of anything in our routine will cause the majority of people to panic unnecessarily, and complain when it's back to normal too.

It's really just a natural reaction to the climate of fear that's been developing over the last 2 decades.

Britain sucks, can't wait to get outta here.

Unfortunately its hard to avoid that anywhere you go. Don't get me wrong, there were plenty of canadians caught completely off guard by the first snow. And here, they REALLY have no excuse. Unless they just moved here. Most of it is people not thinking. Thats all over.

 

[beniki]

No offense, but you Brits have no idea what snow is. You get a dusting and the whole country shuts down. Try living in New England during nor'easter season, where getting 18 inches overnight is par for the course.

Yeah I used to live in Alaska. We kept all our snow gear, so we're okay, but the problem is with the roads and such. Because we don't get heavy snow every year we don't have snow plough trucks coming around and have to make do with public grit boxes.

And since we don't get it every year, you get some daft people driving around with 4 inches of snow on their car roofs.

 

[ffian1]

Congratulations on noticing this, our stereotypical national image! I have to say, if that's really what people are like in your area, that really sucks. I live in the South West, and as of now, we're pretty upbeat. Compared to last year we've got no snow and very little ice to speak of, no one I know can be bothered to watch, talk about of in any way acknowledge reality tv and we're still falling ass over tit to spend money at the shiny new pier we've been presented with. It's a rather effective distraction by all counts.

It's almost disturbing how positive this town is this winter. Snow? What snow?

While I'd like to say that I might be exaggerating, based after todays reactions at work, I'd be lying.

2 out of 3 people came in today and complained needlessly about the snow, then deliveries about the snow, followed by why they can't walk to the shop in their pajamas because they're cold.

I hate people in Salford sometimes lol Why couldn't they just buy their games without telling me about it?

The stereotype is well earned from where I sit - I don't endorse, promote or even condone it but it's the way most people I meet in a shop are.

 

[Retal19]

It is Brilliant because it got me a few days off School and away from my Bitchy Teachers.

It's shit because I have no Tolerance for the Cold, and it decided to all fuck off and melt today, so no chance of a Day off School tomorrow when my Graphics tablet arrives.

 

[ffian1]

Unfortunately its hard to avoid that anywhere you go. Don't get me wrong, there were plenty of canadians caught completely off guard by the first snow. And here, they REALLY have no excuse. Unless they just moved here. Most of it is people not thinking. Thats all over.

I've always wanted to go to Canada personally, but I've never quite gotten round to it.
The problem over here is lack of foresight on the authority's part, and lack of common sense everywhere else. I imagine this is a problem worldwide, but I can't imagine Finland or Canada to be quite so dramatic about this sort of thing.

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

I'm not in the UK, but here in Ohio it's snowing like a motherpucker, but it won't stick to the streets -_-