British Truckers Abroad

As the severe weather continues to affect the UK please feel free to post your interesting stories and photos on this thread.

And to our Canadian friends, sorry but a few inches of snow is considered a lot here in the UK REALLY!

Latest update courtesy http://www.Metcheck.com

Severe Weather Update
Added : Tue 5 January : 18:19 BST

After heavy snowfall today across parts of Wales, central and northern England, an exceptionally wintry night is still expected across central and southern areas of England tonight, with heavy snowfalls developing. Our Severe Weather Warning has just been updated with the latest information, and will be updated again later this evening as the situation unfolds.

Meanwhile, bitterly cold north-easterly winds across the northern half of Britain and Ireland are feeding in a lot of snow showers, especially towards eastern coastal areas, and these are adding to the existing snow cover. For everyone tonight it will be a very cold night with a widespread frost, and this frost will be very sharp under the clearer skies, particularly across Scotland.

Further snowfall is expected across central and southern areas of England on Wednesday, only slowly drifting away to the south and easing off. Snow showers will continue to affect northern and eastern areas, otherwise for many other areas it will be a bright and very cold day. This theme is set to continue through to the end of the week as a biting easterly wind develops. Many areas will see a fair amount of dry and cold weather, but snow showers will affect many eastern areas, and these will drift further inland at times.

Taken on Sunday before the big snowfall.

Snapped this on the way back from Airdre on the 24th December, -13, a sign of things to come.

Got about 9 inches of snow here. Hungerford had about a foot. Pictures to follow. Not looking forward to tomorrow as the Ice is going to be a nightmare...

This was a nearby park today in Yorkshire, about six inches can be seen on top of the fence rails...




Don't kick the trees!

Some nice pictures there Mick.

Anyway a little late but I had a problem with dowloading from camera but some experiences of ice road trucking UK style LOL
and its not very often we get weather like this here in Britain.

Still makes me laugh when people say (about the winter mayhem in the UK) it never happens in Canada/USA... but on th efirst day of serious winter snow in Calgary there were over 500 collisions reported, and we have all seen the videos and pictures of multiple vehicles ditched along the highways.
So yes, it does have an adverse effect over the pond, but most people cope better (and have winter tires and, or chains).

In Canada they also use plain sand as the salt doesn't work below certain tems, and your picture of the 'ice roads of Cheadle' would have benefited from plain sand to drive on. It gets ground into the ice, and really works quite well.

They definitely use salt on the roads in Canada as at this time of the year as it's about 80% of Westcans hopper work!They mix it with grit before spreading on the highway,but there's great big stones in the grit-hence so many bust windshields here.

There's always lots of incidents when you get the first snow of the Winter here-until everyone remembers how to drive in winter conditions again after maybe four months of no snow!
When you live here you just accept the weather and road conditions,it's part of life.

Yes they use salt, but as far as I know, after a certain minus temperature figure is reached, it becomes ineffective, so then they just use sand.

Don't know about in Canada but the stuff we use in the UK don't work below minus 9. Thats surface temperature & not air temperature. Surface temp is generally lower in the winter.

Paul

They said on the news that salt doesn't work after minus 6 deg C. Wish they would use just sand as it wouldn't rot your motor. Mind you someone near to where I work must have mis heard and spread grit the size of what only can be described as hardcore on the road. Great big lumps of hardcore that's left a right mess and all the rain we had hasn't touched it.

A bit further south than my neck of the woods, but also further East.
The (slightly) inland port of Greetsiel this week!
Picture copyright Der Spiegel.



Not as bad as this though!

I've seen that bottom picture before on here. God help the owners of those vehicles, that sort of ice must be damaging to the paint and vehicle in general?

If it is freshwater then it shouldn't hurt anything, although you would not want to try getting the ice off. If it is salt water then it may be a different story. When the wind blows hard enough to take spray off the water like that it means you really wouldn't want to be outside..

But you can get a pretty impressive covering in freezing rain, too, and it can take days to get shot of it.