UK weather!!

[Eddy Matthews]

So how are all our UK members doing with the weather?

So far we've had about 5" of snow here - It reached a scorching -2 degrees today. I've just been to pick my daughter up from work and it's now -4 degrees. The journey is about 4 miles and it took me 35 minutes as the roads are just sheet ice! I assume all the gritters and snowploughs are struggling to keep the main trunk roads open?

According to the weather forecast, this is what we'll have to put up with for the next 2 weeks at least! Who said we have global warming??

Regards
Eddy

P.S. roll on summer!

[Sandy]

-9.5C here

[Stuart Badger]

Really cold here now + 22c!  Had to put a T shirt on!


all the best

Stuart

[Harold H. Duncan]

More than a wee bit warm here, 28degrees C, a record high for Hamilton for November. Could do with some of that cool down here
kiwi

[djcf]

Blizzard. Think someone has switched off the Gulf Stream.

[Mercury]

We're running out of places to pile up the snow from the driveway up in Aberdeenshire. - 15 degrees forecast for tonight - yippee (not)

[Eddy Matthews]

Well I set off to go to my club today (okay so I'm daft!), the 10 mile journey there took me 30 minutes, and when I arrived it was snowing very heavily - In fact it was blizzard conditions!

After about 20 minutes I decided that it would be wise to head home before I got snowed in. By this time the main dual carriageway had turned to sheet ice and driving conditions were lethal! It took me almost an hour to drive home, with a maximum speed at any point of 20mph....

Thankfully I'm now home again and back in the warm, which is where I should have stopped in the first place!

Regards
Eddy

[ancoaster78]

Having been promised by our local ITV news 'Fortunatly Sussex will escape the snow' we had light snow yesterday, imagining that to be the end of it, was very surprised to find thick snow all over this morning.

Had a nice walk through christmas card worthy woods and accross the fields to meet a teacher friend (who was beyond thrilled her school had been closed for the snow) for lunch in the pub, and stayed there most of the afternoon, just got home.

Great day, snow has its uses 

[Bob Golder]

I almost joined Eddy in a trip to our local club.  Living in a dead end at the bottom of a short hill I thought I should take great care driving up that hill    No chance, I bogged down in ten inches (25 centimetres) of snow at the end of my house drive   Roll on spring!!

[scotfriend]

Hi PD's

it is also snowing here in Switzerland with a temperature of -6 / - 10 degree Celsius , the Swiss people are well prepared for the snow lot's of snowplough's and enough salt I like the winter on Saturday the 18.th i go to Berguen to have fun with my sledge on a 4 miles mountain pass road

regards Hans

[Roderick Smith]

After several years of drought, Victoria has just experienced the wettest spring for 14 years.  Most major reservoirs are full.
I was with a Wooden Boat Association rally on Lake Nagambie over Fri.26-Sun.28.11.  The lake was formed by damming Goulburn River, in the 1890s: the first river-damming project for irrigation.  At the time, one paddlesteamer was kept above the weir, and two barges.  They brought logs in from upriver forests to a sawmill in Nagambie.  The hulls of the barges survive.
The Goulburn is effectively Victoria's own mighty waterway, formed by the convergence of many rivers rising in snow-clad alps.  Upstream it was tamed by Sugarloaf Weir, expanded as Eildon Weir in the mid 1950s.  I have boated to just above the pool of Lake Nagambie before: a pretty river, passing two wineries, but the water was too low to continue to Seymour (the seasonal head of paddlesteamer navigation before the 1890s).
For this rally, we all went to Tahbilk winer on Saturday for lunch; I was riding in a friend's boat, and we continued to Mitchelton winery.  Jessie II had a failed impeller.  I had planned to go upriver to Seymour on Sunday into Monday, exploiting the good flows.  Overnight, the water rose, and there was an evacuation order on our caravan park, and a flood warning on the river (5.7 m at Seymour, and so above the normal 5.1 m at which a flood is declared).

None of the boats at the rally was a paddler, so I enclose a photo of the only steamer at the rally: SL Firefly.
I also enclose one next morning: all four boats in view have floated above the formed lake bank, and are onto the park grass, with the water rising more by afternoon.

Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

[R.G.Y.]

I have lived in Teignmouth South Devon for 28 years, only the second time I have seen snow here. Gone by midday, my back garden (sorry the wife's). R.G.Y.

[marinemole]

We're not as bad as the rest of Scotland over here in the West. However things are bad enough and we have had snow for a week or so now. This is my car just before I dug it out. Most of the snow is falling overnight and we have had several clear calm and brilliantly sunny days.

However over a foot of snow is nothing to the bold Lachie and he was up just before lunch today to load Connaught into the Mazda. Quell Drama! But that is another story and will feature in the 'Stuart Badger's Connaught' thread. Watch that space

[Eddy Matthews]

However over a foot of snow is nothing to the bold Lachie and he was up just before lunch today to load Connaught into the Mazda. Quell Drama! But that is another story and will feature in the 'Stuart Badger's Connaught' thread. Watch that space

Ooh you tease!

I'm now sitting here wondering what the heck happened with Connaught!!!

Eddy

[marinemole]

Ooh you tease!

I'm now sitting here wondering what the heck happened with Connaught!!!

Eddy

All right ducky

http://www.paddleducks.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5349.0

Andy