Snow in the UK

[Zac Naloen]

This year in the south of the UK we've had some pretty bad snow.


For posteritys sake, an example of what we usually consider to be heavy snow. This was what we got last february.





This is enough to cause traffic chaos.





And this is what the train station platform looked like, couple of inches on the ground.



This is what I woke up to this morning : -



Wtf Where's my foot going!? ( I didn't hit the ground, I hit compacted snow)







Even if I could drive my car out of there and drive to work, I'm not entirely sure I want to share the roads with anyone else also trying it!

And this snow hasn't stopped yet, that was just last nights. Still got another heavy snow fall forecast for this afternoon.

[Lord Pounder]

Pretty bad in Belfast too. Where is all this global warming I hear so much about? Makes me want Jeremy Clarkson to stand in the next election.

[MKSheppard]

That's pretty weak. WEAK. The snow was up to my knees during the pre-christmas storm.

[Fingolfin_Noldor]

That's pretty weak. WEAK. The snow was up to my knees during the pre-christmas storm.

Not to mention, temps can sometimes hit -10 to -15 degrees celsius, yielding dry snow, and that results in some very slippery roads.

[Rye]

The humble wheelie bin.

[Darth Wong]

This year in the south of the UK we've had some pretty bad snow.

Holy mother of fuck, you people are such pussies.

[Imperial Overlord]

This year in the south of the UK we've had some pretty bad snow.

Holy mother of fuck, you people are such pussies.

Bah. My relatives are Californians and mostly southern Californians to boot. If there are bigger cold weather pussies than Californians, I've never met them.

[Captain Seafort]

This year in the south of the UK we've had some pretty bad snow.

Holy mother of fuck, you people are such pussies.

All's relative. If Canadian weather (or North American weather generally) was anything like ours you'd be having the same problem.

[Rye]

The most annoying thing is that my car is actually pretty good on the snow due to the wide tires, but the starter motor has died. Which means towing it to the garage if/when they're open. Bah, what a fucking farce.

[Darth Wong]

This year in the south of the UK we've had some pretty bad snow.

Holy mother of fuck, you people are such pussies.

All's relative. If Canadian weather (or North American weather generally) was anything like ours you'd be having the same problem.

So? I think that if I were a cold-weather pussy like Zac, I'd at least have the good sense not to whine like a bitch about something that is considered perfectly normal to so many of the people I'm talking to.

[SCRawl]

The most annoying thing is that my car is actually pretty good on the snow due to the wide tires, but the starter motor has died. Which means towing it to the garage if/when they're open. Bah, what a fucking farce.

You're actually better with narrower tires on snow. Wider tires will make you slide more on snow.

But yeah, even for people like me who live in the banana belt of southern Ontario, that's not an unusual amount of snow. Of course, the people in Montreal think that we're wimps when it comes to snow, and in relative terms, we are.

[Old Peculier]

So? I think that if I were a cold-weather pussy like Zac, I'd at least have the good sense not to whine like a bitch about something that is considered perfectly normal to so many of the people I'm talking to.

We Brits have an odd reaction to snow.

Firstly, it causes us a lot of hassle, because we get it infrequently enough that we don't know what to do/haven't got the infrastructure to cope when it does come.

A lot of countries are like that, but due to the British obsession with the weather we like to make a big noise about how amazing it all is whenever we do get snow. It's not bitching and whining (usually) it's just that we get a bit excited.

EDIT: After seeing venting, I see Zac is indeed bitching about the cold. Solution to cold nights is just to add layers to your bedding and night clothing (socks are nice).

[Rye]

The most annoying thing is that my car is actually pretty good on the snow due to the wide tires, but the starter motor has died. Which means towing it to the garage if/when they're open. Bah, what a fucking farce.

You're actually better with narrower tires on snow. Wider tires will make you slide more on snow.

In that case, that must mean there's just a shagload of bad drivers out there. I've had no control trouble in the snow (aside from the goddamned starter motor, anyway), so clearly, we should just start revoking licenses left and right.

[Zac Naloen]

So? I think that if I were a cold-weather pussy like Zac, I'd at least have the good sense not to whine like a bitch about something that is considered perfectly normal to so many of the people I'm talking to.

Is Someone feeling emasculated today?

I make a good humour thread about the snow we've had being worse than we usually get and how we all suck at it and i'm whining and bitching.

[Zac Naloen]

The most annoying thing is that my car is actually pretty good on the snow due to the wide tires, but the starter motor has died. Which means towing it to the garage if/when they're open. Bah, what a fucking farce.

You're actually better with narrower tires on snow. Wider tires will make you slide more on snow.

In that case, that must mean there's just a shagload of bad drivers out there. I've had no control trouble in the snow (aside from the goddamned starter motor, anyway), so clearly, we should just start revoking licenses left and right.

It's not just that. Any rear wheel drive vehicle and any sort of snow/ice = wheel spin. You'd be surprised at the number of vehicles on our roads that match that description with owners who suddenly realise they can't move when they hit any sort of incline.

[Darth Wong]

So? I think that if I were a cold-weather pussy like Zac, I'd at least have the good sense not to whine like a bitch about something that is considered perfectly normal to so many of the people I'm talking to.

Is Someone feeling emasculated today?

What the fuck does your pitiful cold-weather weakness have to do with anyone's emasculation but your own?

I make a good humour thread about the snow we've had being worse than we usually get and how we all suck at it and i'm whining and bitching.

You actually tried to impress people with pictures of a few inches of snow. If you can't see how ridiculous that is, I can't help you.

[Glocksman]

Snow???

Last year we didn't have much snow around here.
The big problem was an ICE STORM throughout practically the entire midwest that literally coated everything under inches of solid ice.
Just to get into my car after work I literally had to beat on it to crack the ice until it fell off just to open the door.

Frankly I found it much easier to deal with the 7-12 inch snowstorms we get at least once a year than that fucking ice.
Though I'm sure Mike up in Ontario has seen his share of shitty winter weather as well.

[Oscar Wilde]

What the fuck does your pitiful cold-weather weakness have to do with anyone's emasculation but your own?

He's not used to the level of snow they have. It's hardly being weak.

Moreover, being used to it means nothing. It still sucks. I live in Northern Illinois where the weather is perpetual suck. I'm used to it, but it's still terrible.

[Darth Wong]

What the fuck does your pitiful cold-weather weakness have to do with anyone's emasculation but your own?

He's not used to the level of snow they have. It's hardly being weak.

What exactly does the word "weak" mean to you? If you take a guy who's not used to lifting heavy weights and he can't handle heavy weights, does this mean he's not weak?

[Oscar Wilde]

Weak is relative. Zac isn't used to the level of snow, therefore he isn't weak for not being able to tolerate it as well as you or I for instance.

[Bounty]

What exactly does the word "weak" mean to you? If you take a guy who's not used to lifting heavy weights and he can't handle heavy weights, does this mean he's not weak?

That's conflating two definitions of 'weak'. He'd be physically weak compared to you, but it wouldn't be weak of him to say this crap he's lifting is a shitload heavier than he's ever had to cope with, or that having to lift weights he's never had to lift before is making his life hard.

It's easy to be flippant about snow if that's what your used to, but over here there's usually maybe one or two days of drizzly snow per year and so there is very little, if any, infrastructure or procedures to deal with heavier snowfall (I was going to write 'heavy' there, which it is for the region, but I'm sure some Manly Man from Manitoba would scoff or something). If Zac steps outside and sees more snow on his driveway then he usually sees in ten years combined and wants to post some nice pictures of it, without at any point whining as far as I can see, I don't see where you get off calling him a pussy just because you people shit ice cubes.

[Darth Wong]

Funny ... when I went to Las Vegas, I didn't immediately post here expecting people to be amazed by the fact that the temperature went above 40 degrees: something I had never experienced before. I understood that this was actually not exceptional for that part of the world, or for many parts of the world for that matter. But hey, I actually understand that there's a world outside my own driveway.

[Bounty]

I understood that this was actually not exceptional for that part of the world

Except -10°C and two feet of snow is exceptional for the UK. Wat's your point? If Canada has three straight months of 45°C, will you not mention it because that's be a mild spring in, say, Qatar?

[Darth Wong]

I understood that this was actually not exceptional for that part of the world

Except -10°C and two feet of snow is exceptional for the UK. Wat's your point? If Canada has three straight months of 45°C, will you not mention it because that's be a mild spring in, say, Qatar?

What are you, a goddamned retard? It is very exceptional for Canada where I live, and the point is that if it did hit 40 degrees here one day, I would not expect people from around the world to be impressed because I know that there's a world outside my driveway. I mentioned Las Vegas just to demonstrate that a person does not necessarily shit himself and lose all perspective just because he experiences something which is personally new to him.

I love the way the whole point flew over your imbecile head.

[Bounty]

What are you, a goddamned retard? It is very exceptional for Canada where I live, and the point is that if it did hit 40 degrees here one day, I would not expect people from around the world to be impressed because I know that there's a world outside my driveway.

The bolded is exactly my point.

Did Zac expect people to be impressed, or did he just post this to show the weather is unusual for his location? The fact that he posted a laconic comparison to last year and prefaced his post with "for the south of the UK" tells me he's very much aware that there's a world outside his driveway. In fact, I can't find anything to suggest he tried to "amaze" people with how much snow was falling, except maybe as a relative quantity for the region and time of year, which is demonstrably is.