In London:

Coupla inches in Cambridge -- I had to help push some poor guy's Volvo out of an icy gutter on the way to work.

Peter

Yup, got some here (Hampshire) about 2am last night. The sun has completely melted anything that's not in the shade.

I came into work late this morning with 1" of snow on my car and it looked quite amusing parked in the sun amongst all the other snow-less cars!

Looks like more is on the way though!

edit: If you are going to tow people out of the snow do NOT use the towing eye!! (14mb)

Gareth

You would have thought that we were in for Alaskan conditions with the build up on the media, give it a couple of days and we'll be getting "the met office aren't good enough", in all the tabloids.
Even so, and we've had no more than a couple of inches, the two northern routes into Leeds were at a standstill, as was the northbound A1, as far as I could see, from Wetherby to where I turned off for the office.
But maybe I'm talking too soon, I'm driving to Aberdovey, via Wolverhampton in the morning.

"the met office aren't good enough"

Their website has been darn slow over the past week.

Gareth

None in my part of town

And it can't be considered snow until everything is covered

We managed even less in Surrey (this was at 4am this morning, there is even less now):

Spoke too soon, it's just started coming down hard in Leeds now!

Just as the first of my mob got to my desk, asking if they could finish up and go early, to avoid the snow, it stopped, just as suddenly as it had started!

Greetings!

For some reason (having just been hit with a pair of snowstorms), I am eagerly awaiting Doug or Mark signing on with a line - "That's not snow... (PHOTO) Now that's snow!".

You call that snow? That's not snow. THIS is snow.





pca

Thank you.

No snow in Roger's pic , but some of the others sort of qualify!

It's not snow unless you can hop onto your board on the roof and end up as a snow angel after a few 360s on the way across the carport!

Here's a photo out my office window of a LOW SNOW year (this morning):



Cheers

That's not snow. This is snow.

(This is from our Winter 03/04 Canadian collection, ably modeled by Hugo ).

And, yes, we had just boarded through those trees!!

No snow in Roger's pic

Almost all gone now:

That's more like it!

Cheers

PS: Roger: nice capture of the falling flakes on your first photo.. flash?

Andy, your recent photos posted to this BBS are beginning to outclass the rest of us!! Keep up the good shooting, mate!

Cheers

My favorite snow photography book.

Thanks Mark !

Today's picture of my car in the snow was actually an ISO 3200 image, with most of the noise removed with the magic of NeatImage http://www.neatimage.com/ , just think in a couple of years cameras will probably have the functionality of NeatImage built in, then 3200 will be just as usable as 400...

...kind of

PS: Roger: nice capture of the falling flakes on your first photo.. flash?

Nope. Just big fluffy snowflakes.

Fortunately it wasn't snowing this morning when I drove Jen to Heathrow -- it was a little bit icy on the back streets around here, though.

Bit of a blizzard in Cambridge at the moment. My car is stuck in the garage because the guy is too scared to drive it to the MOT centre (no traction control). Probably just as well.

View from empeg towers, 4pm:



Rob

My car is stuck in the garage because the guy is too scared to drive it to the MOT centre (no traction control). Probably just as well.

We had really bad ice at the office one year and my colleague had a Mk3 Supra at the time. I slid my Camaro into a parking space just missing a little Micra and went upstairs to the office. Part of the car park is on a REALLY steep hill and he drove around the corner to this steep bit and spun it 360 down to the bottom. Luckily nobody was parked on the hilly bit! He then drove back up and did a lovely ballet dance trying to park it (I thought he was showing off, but apparently not). Eventully he did, but it was sliding downhill sideways slowly so he decided to move it!

The maintenance man spread a lot of grit last night!

Gareth
PS. Colleague sold the Supra after five accidents, none of which were his fault. That car was definately cursed.

Wow, what did you guys do before they invented traction control? And how the hell did Richard Burns win the WRC championship if he had never driven in the stuff?

Austria, a few days ago. It's already dark outside, but I just had to go outside for some deepsnow driving
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You win.

I've been out of the office for a few days. You see, as is typical here in NC, it snowed a little followed by a tremendous amount of sleet. Fortunately, it stayed cold enough during the precipitation this time that it didn't melt and collect on tree branches, power lines, etc. and bring them down.

But it got a little over freezing the next day and the sleet melted some. So basically, there's now some snow on the ground covered by a three inch sheet of ice. The main roads are clear, but the hundred yards from my parking space to one of those streets took about ten minutes of driving slow enough that when my car started to slide, it wouldn't get very far. Thank God I don't live on a hill.

On the way to work, there were some expanses of unmarred frozen precipitation that had also melted and refrozen. It looks like the landscape has been shrink wrapped in thick white plastic.

On another note, I think this is all why people can't drive on the snow in the South. Because it's not snow for very long. It too quickly melts and refreezes into ice. Up North, it must stay cold long enough to keep it from becoming a monolithic sheet of zero friction material. That and we have no studded tires or experience. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Hmm... NeatImage seems quite good. I've downloaded the trial and it does seem to remove quite a lot of the noise. Are your results as good as the example images they show?

They are, NeatImage is very, very good.

Here is an example, the snow picture I posted earlier. Here is the original 3200 ISO image:



and here it is after NeatImage:

Cool. Might be time to get the credit card out!

Had amusing snow all week - had a 4am drive from Livingston to Halifax on Monday through sleet, snow and ice. Was brilliant fun - saw no other traffic for hours except an M3 and a 911. Normally they would have been much faster than me, but I think my little Scoob had the traction
Tuesday saw some snow and ice near the house, as we are always a few degrees colder than most of central Scotland.

And today we had 3 inches in about 25 minutes - thought it was going to be great. Unfortunately then it stoppped, but am expecting much more tonight, which may make my 7 am flight to Belfast not run exactly on time.

Wish I was in Austria or Canada boarding on some proper snow!