Big freeze coming

JP1

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Livestock Farmer
I have a Canadian mate who nows works in Georgia with a heavy sense of irony

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Could use some of that irony with the UK forecasters and newspapers
 

Archie

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Radio says theres going to be thunder snow?

That's how it all started here in 2010.
Snowing with thunder & lightning at same time. Never seen it before or since.

Just looked at BBC weather website for here. No snow and -2C for Sunday night the coldest it's to get before warming up again.
Seems they've given it the usual big build up that's going to lead to nothing:rolleyes:
 

Yale

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Livestock Farmer
Just had a look on the old pc, 2010 those pictures above were taken,
this was march 2013
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wasn't it march 2013 that mold and the surrounding areas had 3' of level snow ?

That was a familiar scene here.

South of us and towards Llangollen it was even worse with sheep walking from farm to farm over the snow,mixing with other flocks.

In parts the council struggled to clear roads because it was so deep they could not find them.

Hope we don't get it again.

Pity is I didn't have an I phone at the time to record the scenes.
 
That was a familiar scene here.

South of us and towards Llangollen it was even worse with sheep walking from farm to farm over the snow,mixing with other flocks.

In parts the council struggled to clear roads because it was so deep they could not find them.

Hope we don't get it again.

Pity is I didn't have an I phone at the time to record the scenes.
Your farm is right in mountains isn't it ?
 

holwellcourtfarm

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Livestock Farmer
Winter 82 was the one I remember here. It didn't rise above -5 for 2 weeks. By the end of that our cattle troughs were just solid ice blocks and we were having to bucket water to 200 cattle each day (after thawing the house out as the water main used to enter from adjacent buildings through the roof space :banghead:)

The RAF were airlifting fed to isolated sheep farms in Kent to keep stock alive.

It happens so rarely here that nobody had the kit for it.

I heard a radio discussion a few years ago when snow caused road chaos and airport closures down here that Helsinki airport had only been closed to aircraft for 20 minutes since it opened 40 years ago. They had snow falling so fast the runway was unsafe again before their fleet of clearance vehicles were safely off it!
 

DRC

Member
That was a familiar scene here.

South of us and towards Llangollen it was even worse with sheep walking from farm to farm over the snow,mixing with other flocks.

In parts the council struggled to clear roads because it was so deep they could not find them.

Hope we don't get it again.

Pity is I didn't have an I phone at the time to record the scenes.
All our tack sheep had to stay here, as they couldn't get home to llanrheadre . A lot started lambing. It was a nightmare for you lads
 

JeepJeep

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Trade
I think 82 it was when we had it bad here in Flintshire I was 4 I have Pictures somewhere of a Volvo Wheel loader carving its way into the village. And the local bobby knocking on doors asking people to move their buried abandoned cars.

2013 Was bad aswell. I'd come up from London that night and ended up camping out in a Octavia in a 24hour garage not far from home until first light when things had got a bit better.
 

Willie adie

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Aberdeenshire
1984, with us the village I stayed in the power lines came down and were buzzing on the ground the hydro couldn't get in to turn off power.
And us kids thought it was great fun to poke them with sticks.
The snow plough " big mack" got stuck and he was a beast a big magirus deutz, with a massive yellow and black chequered v plough in front. The plough now sits in a local transport museum.
They sent snow blowers the got layered too.
Eventually they sent in two rubber ducks to dig everything out.
Funny I was 11. But I can't remember else about that winter
 

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