Think ahead...

[BUSHWHACKER]

Me too, I can't wait for the snow and I mean proper snow, not the 'icing sugar' dusting we had last year, we only had two inches which lasted two days.

[That Ruddy Squirrel]

Me too, I can't wait for the snow and I mean proper snow, not the 'icing sugar' dusting we had last year, we only had two inches which lasted two days.

Remind me, what does 2 inches of snow look like ?

down here get enough to be seen as a layer and that's it, however it is usually more than enough to cause utter chaos. !!


Trev

[BUSHWHACKER]

Remind me, what does 2 inches of snow look like ?

down here get enough to be seen as a layer and that's it, however it is usually more than enough to cause utter chaos. !!


Trev

hehe makes me chuckle when we get a light dusting, and the chavs in their ground hugging spoilered, rubberband tyred shopping trollies are stranded and have to use the bus.

[Medieval Dave]

Except they don't.

they drive to the middle of the road and get stuck , ir run into one another. then just sit there blocking the road.

How muck of a lift do you need to drive straight over the top of a saxo?

[BUSHWHACKER]

Over them? I'd just push them out the way into a little cluster.

[Draig]

There are some very complex issues in relation to predicting long term weather forecasts. It's not so much a case of predicting it will rain on such a day, more a forecast of seasonal average temperature, and it's effects on our weather, based on a number of factors. It's complex, but it's roughly to do with things like : the earths orbit around the sun, the angle of tilt of the earths axis, sun spots, and radiation on the sun, plus other factors. This all sounds vague, but the info is all out there if you search for it.
Start here http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/6h.html
There endeth the lesson. We'll probably have another mild winter
Pete

I just look at the seaweed I got hanging outside me window!

[fatfires]

I just look at the seaweed I got hanging outside me window!

I just look at the tree
if I can see it.......it's going to rain
If I can't.......pi$$ing down

[ChaosinDevon]

We were in Nova Scotia two years ago when they had the BIG one, -57 C and 16 foot of snow, yes 16 FOOT ! Needless to say, we didnt go anywhere, amazing to watch though.
I asked my friend (who lives there) how do they cope with cold weather and vehicles icing up..... he tells me they never switch them off, at work they are all running in the carpark, outside malls they are all left running. Cannot see that working here, too many thieves would have them away. He left his running for 3 days in his garage !!

[da SLUG man]

my mate bought his alarm in canda... it's got loads of features... it starts the engine if the temperatue drops below 2 degrees!!


(the best bit is if you knock on the windscreen, it pages him!)

(scrub, that... he's not my mate!)

[NFC]

Diesel fuel in the UK is good down to -15C or lower in winter (October onwards). Never had a problem starting a diesel since this came in even after being parked nose into the wind overnight in Scotland.

If things get desparate, stick a bowl of warm water under the filter for a few minutes until the wax dissolves, then run the engine. After a few minutes, the engine heat will warm the filter and the fuel passed back down the return line will warm the tank. Don't rev the engine until it's warm!

[CaptainBeaky]

Over them? I'd just push them out the way into a little cluster.

Isn't that what nidge bars are FOR? Nudging things out of the way? (Sheep, boulders, immobile Vauxhall Novas?)

Do you get a prize for nudging them into a position where, when the snow melts, NONE of them can move?