Beast from the East Mk.2. On the way?

[michael N123]

Hope it’s nothing like last time with the wind was digging ewes out for days lost a few and the roads where completely full until a oversizes waiting’s loading shovel with chains on the tyres bulldozed/dig the roads out

can deal with snow easily but sideways snow is horrendous

 

[Farma Parma]

I don’t remember the last one being forecast any great time in advance even if it was so why trust this prediction?

They did tell us easily 3wks in advance in 2018 & had it bang on mind

 

[Farma Parma]

Hope it’s nothing like last time with the wind was digging ewes out for days lost a few and the roads where completely full until a oversizes waiting’s loading shovel with chains on the tyres bulldozed/dig the roads out

can deal with snow easily but sideways snow is horrendous

when your digging out drifts as high as the telehandler Cab you know youve had snow pretty bad, 3 times in my lifetime that i can say was that bad.

 

[michael N123]

when your digging out drifts as high as the telehandler Cab you know youve had snow pretty bad, 3 times in my lifetime that i can say was that bad.

Wind was that bad most the sheep wouldn’t walk into it so they’d lie by a wall With the wind blowing snow at them burying them when at the other end of the field there’s perfectly clear walls for shelter the snow and wind gone straight over atleast now I no which fields not to have sheep in of it happens again

 

[thorpe]

i only gave the thumbs to the last sentance.

 

[steveR]

when your digging out drifts as high as the telehandler Cab you know youve had snow pretty bad, 3 times in my lifetime that i can say was that bad.

Yep. Probs 4-5 times I have had to dig us out to the tarmac road, and when I get to the road, to then dig out to the main road! Council don't want help these days apparently and seem to have dropped the farmer contractors!

Be interesting next time, as Urban Man has now encroached with their little boxes, along with speed bumps and other road obstacles! I think I will leave them to it, and go out on the rural lanes...

 

[steveR]

Hope it’s nothing like last time with the wind was digging ewes out for days lost a few and the roads where completely full until a oversizes waiting’s loading shovel with chains on the tyres bulldozed/dig the roads out

can deal with snow easily but sideways snow is horrendous

Yes, it's when it is filling lanes almost as quickly as you try and plough them that was frustrating at times

I had a route of mixed A, B and C roads. Open up the A and B, then start to dig out the local village and hamlets. Then back to the A and B routes that were filling with drifting snow again. Funnily, one of the C roads was not far from a sarnie and a brew.... this one tended to be kept clear

 

[Farma Parma]

Yep. Probs 4-5 times I have had to dig us out to the tarmac road, and when I get to the road, to then dig out to the main road! Council don't want help these days apparently and seem to have dropped the farmer contractors!

Be interesting next time, as Urban Man has now encroached with their little boxes, along with speed bumps and other road obstacles! I think I will leave them to it, and go out on the rural lanes...

i spent 4 full days doing roads in all directions around me & only when i knew someone who had council contacts said yeah put a claim in for your diesel. so i did & they took it all back off me when the New Council tax started the following month. just like they will do this year again. but i couldnt see folks totally stuck in rural housing very small villages they had no way of getting the roads open

 

[Al R]

Wind was that bad most the sheep wouldn’t walk into it so they’d lie by a wall With the wind blowing snow at them burying them when at the other end of the field there’s perfectly clear walls for shelter the snow and wind gone straight over atleast now I no which fields not to have sheep in of it happens again

My homebred ewes had never seen a frost let alone snow when the beast from the east hit, they all sheltered under the hedges as if it was rain but luckily middle of fields never went above 30” of snow. The broker hill ewes meanwhile knew what snow was and went to the far hedges and the snow blew straight off them, it was very interesting to watch although highly frustrating

 

[Ffermer Bach]

They love to report this, they could write a similar article tomorrow that is going to be a mild few weeks but that doesn’t generate clicks

I think the Daily Express like to have one of the following headlines
House Prices go up
House Prices go down
Storms coming
Drought coming

 

[Gordy1]

Currently 2c here today with a high of 3c later.

Anglia:
Weather

Status: Green
Forecast: Sunny intervals and scattered showers today. Showers easing this evening, with an isolated light sleet or snow shower drifting in from the north. Scattered showers of hail, sleet and snow overnight in Norfolk and Suffolk could result in a very temporary, thin, slushy covering.

 

[DrWazzock]

One winter in the late 1970’s we were blocked in for three weeks. Took a JCB a week to clear the A road that runs through our village. Snow piled 10 ft high either side the road. Took about 2 months to melt away. We got our Christmas presents in February. We haven’t had anything quite as bad as that since. My cousin bought a snow blower after that. He rarely got to use it but sadly it was the end of a good fortnight off school in the winter!

 

[Johnnyboxer]

One winter in the late 1970’s we were blocked in for three weeks. Took a JCB a week to clear the A road that runs through our village. Snow piled 10 ft high either side the road. Took about 2 months to melt away. We got our Christmas presents in February. We haven’t had anything quite as bad as that since. My cousin bought a snow blower after that. He rarely got to use it but sadly it was the end of a good fortnight off school in the winter!

Schoolkids can relive it now.................in Lockdown, weeks off school and the snow coming

 

[7610 super q]

Every winter is going to be like 1963, every summer another 1976. It never is.
1982 was the last significant snowfall here. That's a very long time ago............

 

[Farma Parma]

Every winter is going to be like 1963, every summer another 1976. It never is.
1982 was the last significant snowfall here. That's a very long time ago............

i still stand by my very young memories of 1976 that the tups which were kept behind the house we lived in at the time were all sunburnt
they had been clipped & just wernt brown, really brown.
in all the hot ish summers since ive never seen that ever again.
even in 2018
But that March Blizzard snow in 2018 was by far the worse ive seen since i think jan 1978

 

[Farma Parma]

Every winter is going to be like 1963, every summer another 1976. It never is.
1982 was the last significant snowfall here. That's a very long time ago............

we only get a bad winter if it comes from siberia/russia & thats pretty much it end of.
the cold biting winds either from East or Northerly directions really keep temps low here esp thru the winter season

 

[michael N123]

My homebred ewes had never seen a frost let alone snow when the beast from the east hit, they all sheltered under the hedges as if it was rain but luckily middle of fields never went above 30” of snow. The broker hill ewes meanwhile knew what snow was and went to the far hedges and the snow blew straight off them, it was very interesting to watch although highly frustrating

This was the first field I shepherded mum and dad where indoor lambing at the other farm so took a few photos to show what I had to deal with over the few days Luckily got a couple mates and spades the deeper the sheep the better condition it was in

surprising how easily the terrier finds them in drifts it new exactly where to tell us to dig

 

[jendan]

http://news.sky.com/story/uk-weather-could-another-beast-from-the-east-be-on-the-way-12180069

Didn't affect us here in Shropshire last time.... I'm happy to remain ignorant about such weather!!

There was a SSW detected about 2 days ago.It displaces the very cold air over the Arctic about 2-4 weeks later,but they cant really forecast which unfortunate area will end up with the extreme cold.Sometimes the cold air mass splits in two.

 

[steveR]

Diesel tank filled, genny checked over, log basket full. Just need to go stock up ginger biccies.

Maybe pop and get another 47kg propane cylinder while I remember too...

 

[steveR]

This was the first field I shepherded mum and dad where indoor lambing at the other farm so took a few photos to show what I had to deal with over the few days Luckily got a couple mates and spades the deeper the sheep the better condition it was in

surprising how easily the terrier finds them in drifts it new exactly where to tell us to digView attachment 931729

Terrier earned it's keep that winter!