Snow

[The Great Wallsendo]

Seems to be earlier every year

I won't do my annual gritting rant just yet - I'll wait until I've had to try and drive to work for a week in these conditions first

 

[mark]

hateful freaking stuff. Main A689 through the dale hasn't seen hide nor hare of a gritter so is impassable this morning and kids off school again.

had dribs and drabs of snow here off and on since the first week of november, there was 6" last weekend!

its how it started last year, bits and pieces through november then into december and dump.... that was it for the next 4 months almost

lots of predictions for it to be the coldest winter in 250 years apparently (some say 1000 years!!!! ). based on the North Atlantic Conveyor cycle being at an an all time low (thats the gulf stream speed and temperature), Sun Spot activity being at an all time low, the icelandic volcano thingy shoving the jet stream a lot further south and the fallout for it still hanging high in the atmosphere blocking out a bit of solar radiation...

should be interesting!

 

[shaun]

no school

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

no school

Grrrr don't get me started on that either

 

[el_sid]

aye av got the day off, because site in corbridge is shut!!! so no pay the day as im self employed

 

[northeast1]

Well it snowed the day i was born and it is snowing this birthday so global warming means nowt

 

[pottsy]

Grrrr don't get me started on that either

Tony, when you going on Grumpy Old Men???

 

[lossafish]

Hour and a half to travel 5 miles from West Allotment to Four Lane Ends today.

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

Tony, when you going on Grumpy Old Men???

This mornings ire was focused on students and cr*p drivers - I spared NESA such rantings

 

[<(Andy2009)>]

Lovely weather...

Lovely weather...

Its great weather lads/lasses, brings winter cod fishing bak to its element.

A remember at the shields open in 2008 when a fished the walkway, it was VERY, VERY frosty. Trying to cast was a pain in the arse, and i eventually had a pain in the arse after casting and going arse over tit!!!

 

[white water]

we only had it on and off then woke up on the morning to find a layer of it on the floor

 

[snatcher]

Had a right "white out" here in Whitley Bay earlier tonight for a couple of hours. Stopped now though. Probably about 6/7" of snow here. I live on Whitley Road,a main bus route and there has not been a gritter sighted all day !!!! Buses stopped early and not much moving :-(

John

 

[snatcher]

Here you go, had a walk down onto the front this morning. It was Baltic !!!!!

Still never seen a gritter out

John

 

[Norman]

nice pictures John, very eerie ....

norm

 

[mark]

think the gritters are all on strike

drove into town yesterday lunchtime, there was 8" of snow across the A68 in places and a good bit of the A69 was single lane

piling down here still, I think we'll still be looking at this lot in april now as we've allt he usual dump of the sodding stuff to come in january onwards as well

 

[pottsy]

I took the bus into Newcastle for some shopping. Saw 3 gritters between the Corner House and Benfield Road Once into North Tyneside the roads were a total disgrace.

 

[tonybax]

cold

cold

 

[tonybax]

cold

cold

they are on me conservatory

 

[tonybax]

heres a closer look

 

[snatcher]

Nice photos Tonybax

John