Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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The snow is with me for breakfast, on it's way to the coast.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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It started snowing gently in Farnham about 7.30, now we have about 2 inches and it's coming down hard. Even though the roads have been treated, traffic is struggling on the hills.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Nothing here yet, I think they have forecast it to get here at 21.00. Hope it isn't too bad when I take Jean to Buckland early tomorrow morning.
Roger
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Funny how the Met office pride themselves on their five day weather forecast. I should have know better than to trust these clowns. I cancelled various stuff because We were all assured that climate change flakes would fall from the sky and engulf us all making travel impossible.
They girly on the BBC promised us flakes even up till last night and yet there has been not one single, solitary one at all.
How on Earth they are able to predict the weather over the next year is beyond me - Oh someone's just reminded me they did in the past and got it spectacularly wrong many times.
Even more to the point how on Earth do they expect to forecast the weather over the next century when they can't get it right for the next twelve hours is just ridiculous.
£200 million they're costing us all.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the info on the bbc website has been chronically wrong all week, heads should roll people make plans depending on the interpretation of the satellite images.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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It has been snowing most of the day in Farnham. It was big flakes from 7.30 until about 3, then it slackened off, now everything is freezing hard and we have powder snow falling, onto icy road surfaces. Depth on the garden tables is 5 and a half inches and growing.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Karlos- Location: Dover
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Just looked out of the window, it's snowing. Not quite as predicted.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Dover has it own weather not the same as the rest of the UK.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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nothing where i am yet, if the cat chooses to go out tonight it normally means it will stay dry.
her sniffing the air is much more accurate than the met office.
Guest 697- Registered: 13 Apr 2010
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Light snow in Dover now. Beware the A258 between Dover and Deal - the wind is whipping up the snow from the fields and blowing it across the road at the Station Road junction for Martin Mill and St Margaret's. Could be a problem if a snow plough doesn't get their soon.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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three accidents on that stretch yesterday.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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say what you like about the snow but it has the effect of gifting creative dovorians an opportunity to showcase their talents.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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Is 'willy' still thought of as being daring as it was when I was young?????????
Sadly shows the poor state of education if those two words are all the morons can come up with but I suppose they were only youngsters rather than adults.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#32
How very satisfying that these are two quintessentially English words.
The roads seem clear of snow, the pavements not so. Barry's war on motorists creates enough hot air for this purpose, perhaps?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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my road has been gritted as it is on a hill tom, the surrounding side roads not so. there is a grit container at the bottom of the road but was purloined on the first day of the snow.
does anyone know what this represents?
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Indeed these two uintessentially English words were originally invented to describe the bloke who wrote this article some years ago:
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.htmlGuest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 768- Registered: 30 Aug 2012
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Vic Matcham wrote:Dover has it own weather not the same as the rest of the UK.
Up here in Essex the BBC/Met Office base their forecasts on a weather station that's 30 miles from here. Unfortunately 'here' is at Harwich on the coast and it suffers a similar problem to Dover, a micro-climate. With Dover it's the twin valleys, with Harwich it's the peninsula effect, North Sea to the South & East and River Stour to the North.
Fortunately Essex has it's own weather service
Essex Weather which produces pretty accurate town-based forecasts. The firm is branching into Suffolk in the next few months and may be planning a Kent service soon too.
Paul
(currently wearing a wrist support owing to a recent encounter with a stretch of ice whilst walking daughter home)
Non me minoris aestimo
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