Snow/Wintry conditions

[whole diary]

[Mookiemoo]

yeah - mom got confused the other day and thought it said backwell and wondered why she had no idea where she was when she ended up there

[JayMac]

My thermometer - "A Gift From Mevagissey" is registering -7^C here in North Bristol which is pretty close to what the Met Office station at Filton is registering, -6^C

I predict some minor (ahem!) routes locked out of use tomorrow morning to keep junctions set for mainline services.

[johoare]

It's forecast -8 overnight here tonight.. and -5 at 9am.. so when I'm walking to the station at 7.30 (I'm not driving in these conditions) I'm thinking it's gonna be pretty cold... bbrrr...

[Chris from Nailsea]

My car told me it was -8.5c when leaving Twyford.

Germanic precision technology, possibly?  

[Ollie]

My car told me it was -8.5c when leaving Twyford.

Germanic precision technology, possibly?  

Yes and despite what people were saying to me about how rubbish BMW's are in Snow, it has done really well, and hasn't let me down so far

[devon_metro]

Now reporting -8 in 'North Someret'. Chilly stuff, I certainly had plenty of ice forming on my windscreen wipers driving up the M5 earlier...

[Mookiemoo]

my flight is cancelled

[Chris from Nailsea]

Very sorry to hear that, Mookiemoo. 

Do you have a 'Plan B' ?

[Mookiemoo]

booked premiuum

will get there some how

[inspector_blakey]

Speaking of flights, does anyone have any feeling for what's going on at heathrow currently? Very difficult to get a handle on from here as most news websites only seem to be interested in the old journalistic clich^s about "travel chaos/misery" (delete as applicable). Plus the Heathrow website flight information simply says "contact airline" for nearly everything, and my bleedin' airline's arrivals and departures page seems to have given up the unequal struggle.

I'm booked on BA68 from Philly to LHR on Wednesday night, which operates out from Heathrow lateish on Wednesday afternoon as BA69. What's giving me some cause for concern is that the last flight out of here heading for London operated on Friday night and that's still stuck in Shannon 

Has the snow stopped falling or is there more of the stuff forecast between now and Wednesday...?!

[Ollie]

BA^» (British Airways - about) website currently only confirmed their schedule for part of today..nothing else confirmed as of yet.

But doing a flight check currently shows your flight as operating

[grahame]

From: http://www.heathrowairport.com/

Heathrow Airport will be open and operating a limited schedule of arrivals and departures from 06:00 on Monday morning, but we expect further cancellations and delays in the coming days, as airlines move diverted aircraft and crew back to their normal positions and we continue to manage the impacts of the poor weather over the weekend and in the days ahead.

And twitter feed from Heathrowairport ( http://twitter.com/#!/heathrowairport ), 3 hours ago:

RT @british_airways: To check to see if your flight is operating go to http://bit.ly/aRgq7e or www.ba2go.com (it's now working)

My thermometer - "A Gift From Mevagissey" is registering -7^C here in North Bristol which is pretty close to what the Met Office station at Filton is registering, -6^C

I predict some minor (ahem!) routes locked out of use tomorrow morning to keep junctions set for mainline services.

-8.5 in Melksham at 18:45 yesterday evening as I did a pickup run to the station; train virtually on time.  My biggest decision was whether to risk driving down the station approach and risk getting stuck there ...

Has the snow stopped falling or is there more of the stuff forecast between now and Wednesday...?!

Not *quite* Heathrow but a town some 80 miles to the West  - they keep telling us "it's hard to know where snow will turn into rain" but at current temperature levels I think the answer is "1000 miles south":



From http://www.wellho.net/melksham/climate.html and http://www.wellho.net/melksham/travel.html

[TheLastMinute]

Morning all,

The Met Office have just taken unusual step of releasing an "Emergency Weather Flash" for Devon and Somerset (inc. N & NE Somerset):

Devon
Very Heavy Snowfall   From: 0719 Mon 20   To: 1100 Mon 20

A band of very heavy snow will continue to spread across North and East Devon this morning. Accumulations of 10 to 15 cm are expected in many places with locally 20 cm, especially over high ground.

Widespread disruption to the transport network is expected. The public are advised to take extra care and refer to the Highways Agency for further advice on traffic disruption on motorways and trunk roads.

Issued at: 0720 Mon 20 Dec

Bath + NE Somerset
N Somerset
Somerset
Very Heavy Snowfall    From: 0800 Mon 20    To: 1400 Mon 20

A band of very heavy snow will spread across Somerset this morning. Accumulations of 10 to 15 cm are expected in many places with locally 20 cm, especially over high ground.

Widespread disruption to the transport network is expected. The public are advised to take extra care and refer to the Highways Agency for further advice on traffic disruption on motorways and trunk roads.

Issued at: 0706 Mon 20 Dec

Please take care everyone.

TLM

[IanL]

Got the train into Oxford from the cotswold line this morning, the delays were due to points/signal problems at Oxford.

Temperature measured outside my door at 0800 this morning was -12C, overnight low of -14C. Beard completely frozen
by the time I got to the station at Charlbury.

[TheLastMinute]

Devon and Somerset have been badly hit. Live departure board for Nailsea @ 10:13:

09:46	London Paddington	Delayed - last report depart Taunton @ 09:20
10:02	Cardiff Central	Cancelled
10:03	Plymouth	24 mins late
10:28	Bristol Parkway	Cancelled
10:38	Weston-super-Mare	Cancelled
10:57	Cardiff Centra	Cancelled
11:03	Taunton	On time
11:29	Bristol Parkway	Cancelled
11:38	Weston-super-Mare	Cancelled
12:02	Cardiff Centrall	On time
12:03	Taunton	On Time

TLM