Snow and Ice watch - March 2018

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

Just saw other thread almost full.

I'm dreading this

FFS! The last snow we had meant my half marathon was cancelled. I am due to run a 20 mile race on Sunday (W London) which starts at 9am and I have to drive there from the Chilterns. Some of the race is on main roads, some of it is on ungritted side roads. What chance is there that the forecast is wrong??

Oh bugger. DD has her first ever school trip on Monday (in NE England). Is it going to be cancelled or might the snow melt by Sunday evening? (PS thank you OYBBK and Gloria for all your brilliant analysis and advice! I'm following your Russian thread with interest too, OYBBK)

whojamaflip ~ I think at this stage, I'd consider bookmarking a couple of hotels and maybe make a decision tomorrow. A few weather models are showing quite a wintry picture but it's a difficult to give exact amounts for places.

Louey ~ might have to prepare for another cancellation. It isn't just snow, it's ice as well which organisers will have to consider.

DuPain ~ hard to say. I don't think there'll be any snow melt as it's going to be so cold. But if the NE gets loads of snow, it might more depend on how well roads get cleared/gritted as to whether your DDs school trip goes ahead.

Kitten "My current scientific analysis - it's a 6 on the argh scale."

I am new to the argh scale

is that "minor disruption" or something?

My son is in the school air force cadets and they are camping out Fri and Sat, aghhhhh! But they are pretty sensible and there is a plan B should the weather be just too bad. Rather them than me though! I will be tucked up by my log burner with the weekend papers I hope!

I'm with springnow,how bad is 6 on the argh scale?!
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If there’s another snow day from school I will fucking scream. Everywhere round here closed for two days last time, as it turns out needlessly. My kids were bouncing off the walls by the end of it and the thought of it happening again makes me want to go and jump off a tall building.

I'm not familiar with the argh scale. Are high numbers good or bad? Is it linear or logarithmic? We need to know!

Looks like I'm in the warning areas for Saturday and Sunday. Hmm. We'll see (it doesn't tend to snow much in Bedford).

Bugger. Better take dh's car which has snow mode then!

6 on the argh scale doesn’t sound good.

It’s not looking good for the extra work day we’ve added on Sunday to clear the backlog from the day we lost due to snowmageddon is it?

Looks like it’s going to miss us in Swansea again. Yellow warnings either side of us.

sorry, just finished working.

6 is minor disruption, or early warning of possible moderate disruption.

I've not decided the scale of the warning system yet, maybe we need to plot my state of arghness against disruption over time and see if we can formalise the scale. Unfortunately it's also event related so for whojam it's probably a 7.5 and for anyone who fancies a long weekend in the house I'd rate it at a 4 purely in case of milk panic.

I'm upping it to a 6.5 for around the Thames estuary at present. High numbers are bad. If I say it's 9.5 then it's a bunker yourself in job.

whojam, I agree with Gloria, I'd book a cancellable hotel room and keep a really close eye on things. For something like that, although I think you will be ok, I wouldn't like the stress of worrying about it.

DuPain, the issue is that ice could be a problem over night on Sunday night.

Nooo! My school has lost 5 days to snow this year, I have never known another year like it. We absolutely can't lost any more days.
I think I'm going to do a fingers-in-ears I'm -not-listening and just hope it all goes away!

I definitely like the idea of plotting an argh scale!

A couple of models have between a fair bit and a lot of snow from the peak district upwards through the central spine.

Stay safe folks!

Met office showing snow and ice warnings for south hants Sunday.

Is this really spring?!

The frogs in my garden think so

Oh god, I’m going to have to put the tortoises away again, aren’t I?

Such a shame, they have been enjoying basking in the garden since they came out of hibernation at the weekend

Hi all hope you're keeping safe and sane. Looks like we're in for a dusting this weekend in Essex, really hoping that's all it is.
More concerned about the weekend after as we're supposed to be heading to the lake district, hoping it's not too bad there by then.

Poor tortoises! They will be saying to each other 'blimey that year went quick!'.

We're meant to be doing Hampshire to Oxford for a day out on Saturday. I really hope I don't have to cancel, the dc's are a nightmare unless they're out the house and occupied at the moment.