Anyone else hear it's going to be the worst winter ?

Cold and dry I can deal with but I hate snow I dont even like it on christmas cards. I hope we have a dry frosty winter until spring then mild and sunny for at least three months after then rain at night and hot dry and sunny in the day all summer That would be about perfect for me. I hate being cold but find I dont get as cold in frost weather as I do when it is wet and windy
 
Foxhunter49 said:
You say this but I am old enough to recall winter of 62/63 when blizzards hit the UK and then froze for several months. Temperatures were sub zero day and night.
That winter, the snow started on Boxing Day 1962 and the big freeze lasted until March 1963.

My parents were married in South Devon on December 29th 1962, they, and 60 of their guests were stuck in Salcombe for a week before anyone could get back to Surrey :eek:

We dragged sledges laden with cast iron churns of water for 1.5 miles, most of it up steep hills to give to the ponies and then walked on to the stables only to drag bales of hay back out to the fields.I would have made the ponies do the dragging ;)
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Last winter was a nothing winter - 2010 we had lying snow for 6 months without a break here :-)))) I truly forgot what brown and green coloured ground looked like!

So anything in between would be fine, but would prefer no repeat of 2010 - we were totally snowed in for 2 weeks (as in not even farmers tractor could get to us).

But then we do live in the Cairngorm foothills and the snow just blows off the mountains and then plops straight down on us :-DDDDD

I have a Haflinger so she loves the snow :-))
 
Babybear said:
I'm going to go against the grain and say I'd rather have milder, wet weather - it's so cold here tonight that the roads heading to the yard are like ice rinks as the standing water from all the rain we've had has frozen - my 4x4 with new tyres went up the hill sideways! This means no trailering out and limited hacking!

The arena has a crust on it already and some of the taps were frozen - bring back the mild, wet weather please!
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I'm with you Babybear. Snow is lovely if you don't have to go anywhere! However driving to the yard in an ordinary car at 6am through snow and ice on untreated roads is not my idea of fun! Also I like my horse to get out every day but since she's been diagnosed with cushings I am worried about turning her out in frozen fields due to the risk of laminitis. So if its a bad winter she'll be stuck in much more than I would like. Mild and wet suits me better.

However if the Daily Mail says its to be a bad one I'm sure they will be right because they never scaremonger do they?
 
The long range predictions i have seen say nothing of a really cold winter,in fact they say it's going to be average in every respect,with a possibility of a cold snap in feb but that is unreliable at present due to being so far off.

Even said temps of 10-13 for latter part of december I *think* anyway.

Is supposed to rain again next week i thought forecast said,so warming up I presume??

I take no notice of weather predictions in the media,probably just drama queening or scare mongering,perhaps it was a slow news day in other respects;)
 
If the daily mail said it then I shall expect a headline such as 'eastern European illegal immigrants bring sub zero temperatures to freeze the British born taxpayers'.
 
^^ I'm afraid The Telegraph have said it now.......

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/w...n-prepares-for-ice-and-snow-in-cold-snap.html

Hmm - I guess it's just suck it and see really. One thing I am sooo glad we invested in is our lovely (if elderly) Landy Disco. I simply don't think we could be on DIY without a 4 x 4, and not sure how other liveries will cope if it does get bad, tbh. The lanes to the yard were black ice this morning, following bad flooding over the last few days (a road has even subsided down a bank on our route, and had to be shut !)
 
^^ OH GAWD !!! It's going to one of those winters I think.

I'm so annoyed that my new thermal socks are leaving black flaky wool all over our cream carpet - isn't the wool supposed to stay in the sock :confused:
 
shysmum said:
^^ OH GAWD !!! It's going to one of those winters I think.

I'm so annoyed that my new thermal socks are leaving black flaky wool all over our cream carpet - isn't the wool supposed to stay in the sock :confused:
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I am betting they are Heat Savers!!! Mine did that all over the bedroom floor for months last year, and incredibly difficult to hoover up!

I say that the forecasters are hard pushed to get it right for a week in advance, let alone much else.

I very much hope it doesn't snow. Fine if you are sat at home doing nothing, but when you have a 15 minute journey to do the horses, not so much fun!!!!!!
 
My horses looked like yaks in October. Its been sub zero temps at night here for a week now and down to zero at midday. Im wearing a thermal top and have actually put my uggs in the tumble dryer to warm them up before putting them on today.
The water in my kettle was like a slush puppy at 11am this morning after OH had boiled it for a brew this morning at 7...

Thermals at the ready, its gonna be a bad one. I can feel it in my water.
 
Hmmm i do know what you mean - just something about the air. Though unfortunately the next door farmer has just been spraying his pig detritis on the fields, so I'll have to take your word for it atm.
 
They say this every single year!! - Same as the BBQ summer/drought/heatwave predictions. I'm sure it's to cover their butts in case it does actually happen and they can say "told you so"..:rolleyes::D
 
Izzwall said:
http://forum.netweather.tv/forum/146-forecasting-model-discussion/
This place is what eased me in, also have a gander through netweather's other forums, very interesting reading and really shows that our planet is definitely changing

Also, if your feeling confident you can look at the models themselves here : http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/ecmwf.php

ECM is quite a reliable model and so is the UKMO. Don't take any run from the models 3 days a head seriously, the many different weather systems, shortwaves etc around us can change within a day so makes forecasting difficult.
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Brilliant, thank you! :D
 
I have a strong suspicion that Tesco and the other supermarkets 'sponsor' the weather forecasts. Takings a bit down? Get them to mention the S word on the weather forecast and watch the shelves empty as panicked shoppers come rushing in!!!!!
 
jodie3 said:
I have a strong suspicion that Tesco and the other supermarkets 'sponsor' the weather forecasts. Takings a bit down? Get them to mention the S word on the weather forecast and watch the shelves empty as panicked shoppers come rushing in!!!!!
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That's so true!! I work in a feed store and we have been really busy this week - going to have to get an extra delivery in tomorrow so we have enough stock for the weekend!:D
 
My Dad has some hair-raising stories about the 62/63 winter. It's certainly cold here this evening, I left some ice cubes outside at about 4pm and they were still frozen as cubes when I got home from work at 9.45. (Since you ask I was trying to reduce the swelling on Dad's head having scraped him off the path where he fainted - it's been an interesting day.)
 
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