Guest 3130- Registered: 22 Feb 2019
- Posts: 67
#1
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/uk-warnings#?date=2021-02-07
Surprised no one has mentioned this yet.
Amber warning for Dover and much of kent. Very rare to see that for snow here.
I fully understand any cynicism as we have missed out o regularly in recent years. However, that's what makes it all the more dangerous. Easy to not take it seriously.
Even if the sea spares the town centre serious damage, this has the POTENTIAL to cause serious trouble on Sunday/Monday in higher parts of the district espeoailly. Read the warning...blizzards, drifting...not seen that since the 1990s IIRC. Sounds more like something form your childhood.
Certain setups do spell serious snow for this area...and this is one of them - IF IT VERIFIES.
So get your brolly and prepare for a load of rain ,lol.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#2
LIKE when I lived down the bay cut off in the snow many times and had to walk to work in Dover at 0400hrs in the mornings working then DE,W,
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#3
Look out Whitfield even more than here in town.
Snow never worries me it is the ice than can be very dangerous underfoot, so if you go out please be careful.
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Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
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#4
Doesn't really bother the majority of people who are observing the lockdown rules.
Guest 3130- Registered: 22 Feb 2019
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#5
What about if they go out for exercise or to work?
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#6
Andrew P Stucken wrote:What about if they go out for exercise or to work?
For those working not so good, I am sure exercise could be missed for a couple of days. I bet children and those young at heart will be out there playing in the snow should it come.
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Guest 3130- Registered: 22 Feb 2019
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#7
IF this comes off I think it will catch a lot of people out. Especially people who have passed their test in the last eight years and have no real experience of driving in snow.
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Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
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#8
Definitely dont want to be slipping over again,had a badly sprained ankle a few weeks ago and just getting back to normal now and my god was it painfull.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#9
last time we had some decent snow was 1963. and that was fun.
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Guest 2547- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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#10
Brian Dixon wrote:last time we had some decent snow was 1963. and that was fun.
I was living in London. Great fun for a kid when it first snowed but horrendous after a few weeks.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,261
#11
There was a very bad one early 80's as well, when the Severn froze.
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Arte et Marte
Guest 3857- Registered: 27 Oct 2020
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#12
Brian Dixon wrote:last time we had some decent snow was 1963. and that was fun.
Yes, as I recalled elsewhere on this forum it conjures up images of our cats ploughing up the back garden of our house through a deep furrow of snow. I was standing watching them through the French Windows, must have been five at the time. No central heating in those days, just an open coal fire with frost on the inside of the bedroom windows when you woke in the morning. Plenty of fun, though. On my Recent Visit last year, I saw a large conservatory has now been built on the back of the property.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#13
MY BOOTS AND BIG COAT ETC AT THE READY ,SALT AND SANDIF NEED BE
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#14
A few days of being cut off.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#15
"Yellow snow and ice warnings are also in force for much of England"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55952108.
Wise Eskimo say: "don't eat yellow snow."
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#16
0732 train cancelled
Heavy snow expected ?
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Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
- Posts: 541
#17
They were saying yesterday that it could be up to 20cm, this morning that's changed to 5-10cm! Looking out across Dover it looks white, nice and wintry, but the roads are just wet. I'm hoping there will be proper snow later.....
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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#18
If it had got colder earlier yesterday and all that rain been snow, then we might have been really snowed in!
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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#19
Beginning to lay on the roads outside. Surprised that the buses haven't given up yet.
Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
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#20
We was brought up tough,outside bog at the bottom of the garden in Surrey and when we moved to Dover,Tower Hamlets,dad had brought the only house in the street that had another outside bog.Not much fun in the snow.