Hullo,
It's been a bit chilly up here in Helsinki, -14 C this morning, -20 on some days this week. But sunny and clear skies, so perfect weather for outdoor activities. Some of the tourists have been freaked out by locals having a dip at the outdoor lido in the city center. Only problem is the ice on the pavements. Every spring we have labour disputes and lot of the janitors and maintenance people aren't doing overtime at the moment, so they don't have the time to clear the roads or put enough grit on the pavement.
Cheers,
Aksu

We did get away with it !

I would 'guesstimate' about 12 to 25mm (1/2 to 1 inch) of snow.....(if it had come straight down)....... but the wind has moved a lot of it about, so there are quite big bare patches, here and there, and a few 'drifts' of perhaps, 3 or 4 inches.

I'll take a walk up the road a bit later, and see if there are any impassable 'bits'.
It depends on how much snow has been blown off the fields and through gates.

Haven't heard or seen a single vehicle, so far this morning, so it'll be up to the first tractors of the day to make a channel or two. 

Still really damn cold.....But it sounds like it'll be getting warmer over the next few days. (PLEASE !!!)
The outside water can't unfreeze quickly enough, as far as I'm concerned.   

Cheers - Phil

Not a lot going on here in Buckinghamshire since Orcs gave his report. No more snow to speak of overnight, but cold and very windy. Blowing the snow all over the garden so there is a big bare patch in the middle, but what looks like a 6 inch drift up against the door of the G&T (wargames room).

I'll get the snow shovel out later a dig a path, shouldn't take long.

Quote from: Techno on 02 March 2018, 07:25:08 AM
I would 'guesstimate' about 12 to 25mm (1/2 to 1 inch) of snow.....(if it had come straight down)....... but the wind has moved a lot of it about, so there are quite big bare patches, here and there, and a few 'drifts' of perhaps, 3 or 4 inches.

Sounds like my hair in the wind. 

 

Quote from: jimduncanuk on 01 March 2018, 11:42:06 PM
I've failed all day long to clear a path through the snow to the wargames hut.

Reached it once late morning but substantial falls of snow obliterated the path.

Cleared the front garden path several times, dug out the car twice, tried to reach the wargames hut again but gave up at the steps up halfway there. It was getting dark by that time too.

If I had a war-games hut, I could have built a tunnel, igloo style. 

Planning a foot patrol today. If the reconnaissance suggests it might be possible to get through to town, I might try the car. Otherwise the plan is to trek to the town to see what the supply situation is there.

Mrs W. has done nothing but stare through the window since the snow started. Might have to let her back in soon.

Not much more snow overnight, but lots of snow drifts over a foot deep. No buses in Bristol at all and roads pretty quiet. Advice is not to travel unless absolutely necessary. Just started snowing again. Off for a walk later with SWMBO as it is stunningly beautiful out there.

Hi

12 year old just waiting for friends to turn up and go sledding again like yesterday. Wife, who cannot get into Shepton Mallet for work just suggested a walk down to the pub for lunch (about 600m), now that's an idea worth pursuing.....  Don't worry, I might be sometime!
Some trivia - Scott of the Antartic parents are buried in the village and used to run the old brewery here.

Seen just one car go down the hill (very slowly) since 7 o'clock this morning.

Cheers Paul

Quote from: Westmarcher

Mrs W. has done nothing but stare through the window since the snow started. Might have to let her back in soon.
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Best one yet.

Cold and windy here in Grimsby

Take care

Andy

Quote from: Womble67 on 02 March 2018, 11:02:38 AM
Cold and windy here in Grimsby

Take care

Andy

In Grimsby it's so windy our snowman has blown over twice during the last two nights so yesterday and today I went out and rebuilt it.



Martin

Nice, Martin! Your snowman is classic.

Here, it is snowing in the mountains above us. The wind is so fierce (gusts of 60 mph!) that while it is not snowing here (blue sky) the air is thick with snow. It is a balmy 31F but the windchill is murderous.

No snow here overnight, nor yet today. Lane still blocked, so walked the three and a half miles in to Bury St Edmunds, whipped by a howling, freezing gale.  Bought my copy of Wargames Illustrated, did my shopping, and got a taxi back to within four hundred yards of home. Once home time to thaw out the condensation pipe on my boiler (again, for the third time), and then settle down to read the 8 page spread on our new FK&P Rules. Pity they didn't take any of my offered corrections regarding errors of identification in the pics of my figures.  All 10mm  labelled as 6mm!

Mollinary

Quote from: Smoking gun on 02 March 2018, 01:12:20 PM
In Grimsby it's so windy our snowman has blown over twice during the last two nights so yesterday and today I went out and rebuilt it.



Martin

Nice Snowman

Take care

Andy

I did a  quick drive into the local village, which is about a mile and a half away., early this afternoon.....The road was pretty good, apart from a stretch of around 400 yards....I went, at that point, because it had just started to snow. (Very lightly).....By the time I drove back (barely half an hour) the whole road was definitely getting a bit on the 'iffy' side, and the snow was coming down a lot harder.

NOW.....I wouldn't try it.

I'll have to wait for the tractors again tomorrow......Or just not bother. 

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: mollinary on 02 March 2018, 03:41:57 PM
. . . Once home time to thaw out the condensation pipe on my boiler (again, for the third time

Yeah, been there, done (doing?) that. Condensing boilers really are rubbish.

Went out today for a walk down to the town for the first time since Wednesday. The town's main roads were all clear but sideroads and pavements should only be approached by people on foot with the skillset of Torvill and Dean. Started with the proper falling white stuff about an hour ago, before then it was just sleet or small hail or hard snow or solid rain, couldn't really work out which. All our football matches have been postponed so I can't even get my weekly live footie fix. Damn this weather!

Quote from: mollinary on 02 March 2018, 03:41:57 PM
...settle down to read the 8 page spread on our new FK&P Rules. Pity they didn't take any of my offered corrections regarding errors of identification in the pics of my figures.  All 10mm  labelled as 6mm!

Mollinary

I downloaded my eCopy this AM and it's presentation might be different than the print version. Virtually everything was Simon's 28s but they had two pop-up side bars. "Scale and Time" which was illustrated with one of your 10mm M&P units ( although there was no specific caption for the picture). The "6mm" sidebar had several pictures of what APPEARED to be your 6mms. Maybe they listened to you for the e-copy. 

The article was a decent overview without egregious errors that I noted. (Did say a Brigade was two to eight units - it's ONE to eight - and that is rather important to know, imho).

Still a few roads blocked near the Irish border but 95% of roads now clear thankfully

I managed to clear a path to the wargames hut as well as clearing the front garden path and the car.

No more snow since so I expect a general thaw to start tomorrow.

I'll maybe get some wargame work done this evening.

Popped into the logical supermarket, plenty of food just no milk or bread.

Still coming down here. Think the northern storm has gone and the southern storm has arrived