Environment Snow

[SweetLeftFoot]

People's thoughts on snow.

Currently shedloads of it in Edinburgh. Looks pretty, but is going all slushy and even worse, compacting into ice which makes all teh footpaths mega slippery.

Snow - starting to suck badly IMO

 

[Nostradumbass]

My first experience with snow. Am over in Leeds for a year (got 5 months left here) The snow is nice, it's the ice on the footpaths and roads that's shitting me. Also having to get ice off the car windows is a pain in the arse.

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

My first experience with snow. Am over in Leeds for a year (got 5 months left here) The snow is nice, it's the ice on the footpaths and roads that's shitting me. Also having to get ice off the car windows is a pain in the arse.

Yep, my thoughts exactly

 

[Illinois Nazi]

So much for Global Warming!

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

So much for Global Warming!

The fact that it snows in high northern latitudes in late december doesn't mean global warming is void.

 

[Plugger35]

My first proper experience with snow was when I was living in the Washington DC/Northern Virginia area. There was a massive snowstorm there a few days after I arrived (ironically quite similar to the one they're experiencing now).

I never realised it snowed so much there but it was quite an amazing experience, especially for someone from WA where snow is virtually non existant. In the space of one night it went from a small amount of sleet/snow on the ground to being 3 or 4 feet deep. Cars were literally buried in it and you couldn't drive anywhere until snow ploughs had come in and cleared the roads.

I've subsequently seen snow in the UK and Europe but nothing on the scale of that snowstorm in the US. When it snows there, it really snows. I can imagine it must be a real pain in the arse for the locals, whereas for us it is a novelty.

 

[BomberGal]

I've only ever seen snow once. Mt Buller.

I must say, after an hour, the novelty really wore off...

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

I've subsequently seen snow in the UK and Europe but nothing on the scale of that snowstorm in the US. When it snows there, it really snows. I can imagine it must be a real pain in the arse for the locals, whereas for us it is a novelty.

Not in the UK< but it can really snow in parts of Europe, Germany, central and eastern Europe. Then there is RUSSIA.

But yeah, North American snow rocks.

 

[Plugger35]

Not in the UK< but it can really snow in parts of Europe, Germany, central and eastern Europe. Then there is RUSSIA.

But yeah, North American snow rocks.

Well tbh I mainly travelled around Europe in summer so I didn't see a hell of a lot of snow there. I've heard central/eastern Europe can be pretty full on in terms of snow though.

Did a bit of hiking around the Swiss Alps which was quite a bizzare experience. Going from warm summer climates at the foothills to cold snowy climates at the peaks.

 

[THRILLHO]

The fact that it snows in high northern latitudes in late december doesn't mean global warming is void.

Shut up science boy.

 

[Deledinho]

I've only ever seen snow once. Mt Buller.

I must say, after an hour, the novelty really wore off...

Pretty much this. Although I'd like to go again one day.

 

[mantis]

Cold,wet & totally overated, thank goodness not all of Australia has snow over winter.

 

[Ed_Gein]

Was born in Scotland. So i love the cold weather.

Give me snow over 40+ degree temperatures any day

 

[Mr P@H]

Had a good load around here last week, looked good but i preferred staying indoors than to go out in it. We only get laying snow about once a year, not like in the east, you can guarantee chaos in Kent when it starts to snow.

 

[DB10]

Was born in Scotland. So i love the cold weather.

Give me snow over 40+ degree temperatures any day

This.

Snow kicks ass.

 

[rofltown]

i love snow and i love skiing

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

I slipped on ****ing black ice caused by snow melting and then re-freezing and almost broke my wrist on Xmas night.

 

[kaysee]

I lived in Canada for 14 months so I got to live through a full winter full of snow.

Snow itself is brillant... I love it!

- Looks cool when falling(slowing drifting down or blowing in)
- Christmas time seems cool with snow about (Snow glows with Christmas lights)
- Soft and fun to play in (especially with dogs who look hilarious running through it).
- Fun skiing/sliding in it.

In Canada the roads are rather well kept being ploughed and treated with sand/salt, so driving isn't too bad. Just make sure you have winter tires one and drive to the conditions.

However the downsides are:

- scrapping ice off the car windows.
- wearing 4 layers of clothers and feeling like The Michilen Man.
- Wind chills that freeze your nostril hairs

All and all I loved it for the time I was there, but I can see how living in it year after year would become frustrating.

 

[BomberGal]

Cold,wet & totally overated, thank goodness not all of Australia has snow over winter.

I think if it regularly snowed all over Australia, you'd just accept it like rain.

Was born in Scotland. So i love the cold weather.

Give me snow over 40+ degree temperatures any day

I love cold weather, much prefer it over the heat. I just couldn't get excited about playing in the stuff. I think (not having been in the situation, but still) having it around you would be a different experience to being up on a mountain.

Also, I've never been in the snow when it was actually snowing, and I'd like to experience that.

 

[krusden]

Was born in Scotland. So i love the cold weather.

Give me snow over 40+ degree temperatures any day

- I like snow. I don't like 40 degree heat. If its cold its easy to warm up. if its hot its hard to cool down.
Snow>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 40 degree heat

 

[Ed_Gein]

I love cold weather, much prefer it over the heat. I just couldn't get excited about playing in the stuff. I think (not having been in the situation, but still) having it around you would be a different experience to being up on a mountain.

Also, I've never been in the snow when it was actually snowing, and I'd like to experience that.

Yeah, it's nice when it's white and fluffy, but when it starts melting and turns into the brownish slushy stuff, it's different. Well at least that's how i remember it.

Maybe i'm alone on this one, (kinda unrelated i think) but when i was at the top of Mt Pilatus in Switzerland i wore a tshirt, jumper and jeans and was perfectly fine.

- I like snow. I don't like 40 degree heat. If its cold its easy to warm up. if its hot its hard to cool down.
Snow>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 40 degree heat

That's my logic.

 

[krusden]

Maybe i'm alone on this one, (kinda unrelated i think) but when i was at the top of Mt Pilatus in Switzerland i wore a tshirt, jumper and jeans and was perfectly fine.

you're not alone. when its snowing the temperature actually warms up.

i sucked at science so I don't know why but just before it snows it gets a tiny bit warmer. and if its snowing its warmer than when its not (if that makes sense)

thats my experience anyway.

 

[dmc333]

I lived in Canada for 14 months so I got to live through a full winter full of snow.

In Canada the roads are rather well kept being ploughed and treated with sand/salt, so driving isn't too bad. Just make sure you have winter tires one and drive to the conditions.

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Just got back from BC, -37 a couple of days where I was. Funny how everyone has to plug their car in and such stuff, and have an auto remote to start the bastard and run it for 10 mins before driving.

Roads look like hell after a couple of days when it's dry though. You'd think you were out in the bush on a gravel road with all the sand and dirty salt.

-37 sucked, but after a while -12 was a pretty tolerable temp I thought.

 

[Copernicus]

Doesn't snow much here in Atlanta - probably two or three times a year we get a dusting and once or twice we'll get an inch or two to accumulate. People go a bit crazy when it does, though!