It's snowing!

[watervole]

I appreciate this isn't exactly a novelty for most of you, but here in Dorset we see snow about once a decade.

It's now up to a massive 3mm in depth!

(so now you can all tell me about how it reaches six foot drifts where you live...)

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[frostfox.livejournal.com]

We haven't really had snow but we have had spectacular frost, everywhere is picture postcard white and we get slow drifting down of frozen mist occasionaly. It's very picturesque. I took Max into the woods to take his 'photo, hope they come out okay.

I went shopping then on a nice long walk round Carey Park to Carden Ferry Footbridge and then up to the Anderton Boat Lift. http://www.brunnermond.com/healsaft/2004/comm.htm

A nice wintery afternoon walk after the debauchery of the last few days.

FF

[djelibeybi-meg.livejournal.com]

There's no such thing as snow!
Fine, sunny - if cold - day here in Brizzle

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I have fond memories of the Anderton boat lift. Last time I was there in a boat was before the restoration, so we could only look. Some day, I hope to travel in it.

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

Oh it's great, you can do a boat trip through the lift for only a mildly extortionate amount and then they will take you into Northwich and back via the Weaver Navigation.
I'm lucky to live so close, the Lift and the park are beautiful.

FF

[johnrw.livejournal.com]

We don't get much depth of snow around here, I think it's a sheltered spot, ten miles south and they'll have drifts and ten miles East the Peak District will be in total whiteout but not in this immediate area, The worst I can remember we got drifts a whole two feet deep against the hedges but it averaged 4" deep anywhere else.

By the way, how can you measure 3 millimetres of snow? I would have thought ground irregularity would have been more than that.

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

Bit like that here, I live in the Cheshire Corridor, all the snow falls on the Peak District or Welsh hills, we get very little.
But the Brunner Mond factory at the end of the road makes lots and lots of steam as a by product of the soda ash it produces so we get killer fogs in a very small area and when it freezes, it comes down as very fine ice crystals, very beautiful. Added to which, at the other end of the road is a dip with the brook and the canal so we are very sheltered and still and the copse of trees looks ghostly and beautiful.

[johnrw.livejournal.com]

Bit like that here, I live in the Cheshire Corridor, all the snow falls on the Peak District or Welsh hills, we get very little.

From your description I can probably place your home to a couple of hundred metres.You gave almost enough information to localise you (and in posting this the reverse is also true).I'm less than 6 miles from you (probably les than 4 but I'd need to measure that on a map). So we're describing the same area.

I don't use that road a lot, but the only occasion I didn't carry my camera while using that road was the perfect alien landscape with the plant rising out of the mist. Sods Law rules.

btw I thought that plant was owned by Salt Union these days.

[johnrw.livejournal.com]

btw I thought that plant was owned by Salt Union these days.

Oops, wrong plant!

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

Still Brunner Mond as far as I am aware, Sovay plant (which has me singing 'Solvay, solvay' every time I drive past on the way to work! The road sign saying 'Steam 1 mile' isn't joking either, I moved here in the summer and it was a mild winter the first couple of years but when it's cold, boy, do you get steam/fog down that road.

The humungous pipes which criss cross Northwich weirded me out at first (the kids and cats use the one over the brook as a crossing into the fields) particularly when they steam but I'm used to them now.

FF, who really likes where she lives.

[johnrw.livejournal.com]

The humungous pipes which criss cross Northwich weirded me out at first (the kids and cats use the one over the brook as a crossing into the fields) particularly when they steam but I'm used to them now

The insulated silver and/or green or the cast iron ones?
The insulated ones save approximately 35 million in energy costs each year. The cast iron are rather less benign.

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

Ours is one of the old ones, cast iron I think but it's also insulated, except where the kids have picked the tar off to write graphitti.
I don't worry overmuch, my last company built the very high tech Thor Chemicals plant across the canal, there are loads of chemical plants round here.

The insulated ones transport steam or hot water from one plant to the other, don't they?

FF

[johnrw.livejournal.com]

The insulated ones transport steam or hot water from one plant to the other, don't they?


Steam, iirc there's a CHP station (it hasn't been their that long, BM recycled part of one of their sites to build it. The fun thing was the palaver about 'industrial heritage', the place was collapsing from corrosion anyway!) to provide power for the Solvay process, most of the steam is used at the other plant. even with a couple of miles of pipework they reckon the system is 80% effecient plus they get security of supply.

[paranoidangel]

We thought it was going to be an ordinary Christmas with pictures of snow everywhere else in the country on TV and none here.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

It snowed once at the end of November, then the weather turned very mild until this week. We've had a heavy frost the last couple of days, but that's all so far.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Not six foot yet, but we've had about eight inches of the horrible evil stuff since lunchtime today.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

We've got a bit more than you, and I'm expecting it to snow again tonight. The fog's what's really getting to me at the moment though.

Gina