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Dumped a load of snow here, rural Northamptonshire, snowed from1800 until 2030, now fine rain. I’ve bought a company car, radio etc home and on call from midnight. Looking at motorway cameras and the chat on teams it’s moving away eastwards but extends from Northamptonshire up to Derbyshire and across to the A1, diminishing all the time it’s moving though.
Hoping my phone doesn’t ring overnight, but if it does I’m ready!!
Stay safe all,
Mick.

Taipan wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 8:08 pm Snow update. It might snow tonight, but then again it might not.
All depends on if it snows or not...

If things don't change, it's more than likely they'll stay same as they are now

Originally from some clever Yorkshire bloke

636mick wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 8:42 pm Dumped a load of snow here, rural Northamptonshire, snowed from1800 until 2030, now fine rain. I’ve bought a company car, radio etc home and on call from midnight. Looking at motorway cameras and the chat on teams it’s moving away eastwards but extends from Northamptonshire up to Derbyshire and across to the A1, diminishing all the time it’s moving though.
Hoping my phone doesn’t ring overnight, but if it does I’m ready!!
Stay safe all,
Mick.

It’s stunning how Britain grinds to a halt with a few cms of snow … it’s 2025, you would have thought that we might have discovered winter tyres

Mr Moofo wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 9:05 pm

636mick wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 8:42 pm Dumped a load of snow here, rural Northamptonshire, snowed from1800 until 2030, now fine rain. I’ve bought a company car, radio etc home and on call from midnight. Looking at motorway cameras and the chat on teams it’s moving away eastwards but extends from Northamptonshire up to Derbyshire and across to the A1, diminishing all the time it’s moving though.
Hoping my phone doesn’t ring overnight, but if it does I’m ready!!
Stay safe all,
Mick.

It’s stunning how Britain grinds to a halt with a few cms of snow … it’s 2025, you would have thought that we might have discovered winter tyres

As I recently found out the netherlands is even worse at coping with a light dusting, surprised as it is usally colder there but apparently they rarely see snow.

Well it was wet n pissy all night here on the Sarf Coast, it did look like it would intensify around midnight as the eye of the storm rolled over us but fortunately that didn’t happen, wind gust of 99mph on the Isles of Scilly last night but max here was 34mph. Temperature has decreased by about 5C since midnight (2.3) as the winds have swung round to a more northerly direction.

It will be a short dog walk this morning.

There's a definite lack of dawn chorus. I think the birds looked out of the window and went back to bed.

Mr Moofo wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 9:05 pm

636mick wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 8:42 pm Dumped a load of snow here, rural Northamptonshire, snowed from1800 until 2030, now fine rain. I’ve bought a company car, radio etc home and on call from midnight. Looking at motorway cameras and the chat on teams it’s moving away eastwards but extends from Northamptonshire up to Derbyshire and across to the A1, diminishing all the time it’s moving though.
Hoping my phone doesn’t ring overnight, but if it does I’m ready!!
Stay safe all,
Mick.

It’s stunning how Britain grinds to a halt with a few cms of snow … it’s 2025, you would have thought that we might have discovered winter tyres

Don't get enough snow to justify the cost of spare wheels and tyres in this neck of the woods. I can think of 2 occasions in the last 30 years where it would have been useful - but I had a LWB Land Rover the first time and chains would have been a better bet on most cars for that one. (Still managed - with a bit of effort - to get the Landy going sideways).

Last time I had a bag of grit/salt in the boot which was used just to get the last 30 yards (in a front wheel drive car) to home after everyone else had polished the snow on the slope to a Teflon-like state.

I have three sets of snow chains in my garage …
Open to offers

MingtheMerciless wrote: Fri Jan 09, 2026 6:34 am Well it was wet n pissy all night here on the Sarf Coast, it did look like it would intensify around midnight as the eye of the storm rolled over us but fortunately that didn’t happen, wind gust of 99mph on the Isles of Scilly last night but max here was 34mph. Temperature has decreased by about 5C since midnight (2.3) as the winds have swung round to a more northerly direction.

It will be a short dog walk this morning.

Put duel lines on him and fly him like a kite

Count Steer wrote: Fri Jan 09, 2026 8:07 am Don't get enough snow to justify the cost of spare wheels and tyres in this neck of the woods.

S'why us cool cats have switched from summer to all season tyres, all 3 cars here have 3PMSF rated tyres.

Mr Moofo wrote: Fri Jan 09, 2026 8:17 am I have three sets of snow chains in my garage …
Open to offers

Main problem is that most drivers haven't a clue how to drive on anything but clean, dry roads. Plus, all those people that think that they simply have to go and get a bag of carrots and a pint of milk from M&S, 5 miles away or they'll starve to death before the gritters show up are a significant subset of the above.

The snow chains remind me of the "Beast from the East" a few years ago. The organisation had bought Peugeot Expert vans the year before and they were bloody scary and useless to drive in the snow. So at the next team brief the management started trying to bollock us for not attending faults during the snow as we should have fitted the snow socks that the depots had. When asked where the nearest snow socks were, there was some mumbling from our line manager before he said Colchester ( we were based at Three Bridges). How we laughed at the .

Next Team Brief the Senior Manager came down to try and carry on the bollocking and was laughed out of the room when we pointed out that the organisation won't let us change a wheel if we get a flat as we are not trained (despite all of us having done it with our own cars), so if we haven't had any training on snow sock fitment and never even seen one why would we attempt to fit them? Also pointed out it breaks one of the life saving rules "if your not trained for a task do not attempt it".

It's snowy at the office in Chesterfield, good job Friday is my WFH day and there's not a trace of snow here in Barnsley.

Came down in bucket fulls from about 8pm last night. We put a Micky Flanagan standup on tv, about half way through our TV box kept turning off due to intermittent power cuts, just a split second but enough to power down box. Went to bed, all good this morning.

Taipan wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 8:31 pm
Thats cos you wonky toed types aren't used to seeing perfectly formed ones. All hail Clarks shoes!

Pfft my toes were forced into shape by 'the machine'

So, out at about 0300, into the office where I stayed until a need for coffee so went to Maccys. Snow had all turned to rain down here so mostly just managing crews to where they were needed.
Still problems from about J27 to J30 M1 with ice but the snow seems to have gone.
Just doing my OT claim, then go and fill up the car in preparation for whatever comes next,
Mick

Mr Moofo wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 9:05 pm

636mick wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 8:42 pm Dumped a load of snow here, rural Northamptonshire, snowed from1800 until 2030, now fine rain. I’ve bought a company car, radio etc home and on call from midnight. Looking at motorway cameras and the chat on teams it’s moving away eastwards but extends from Northamptonshire up to Derbyshire and across to the A1, diminishing all the time it’s moving though.
Hoping my phone doesn’t ring overnight, but if it does I’m ready!!
Stay safe all,
Mick.

It’s stunning how Britain grinds to a halt with a few cms of snow … it’s 2025, you would have thought that we might have discovered winter tyres

Yeah, it's crazy how everyone in the UK hasn't dropped a grand on a spare set of wheels and tyres for each car for a small chance of 1 or 2 days of snow each year, given how loaded everyone is.

I tried all season tyres and they were pretty terrible, that was several years ago so they may have got better.
When I bought this car winter and all season tyres weren't available so summer tyres were the only option. All seasons are available now so I might try them next time.

Winter tires are great on snow but hardly any different on ice so I'm not in a rush, I have snow chains in the boot just in case, not great but just about do the job.

I put this in random picture - keep forgetting there's a snow thread

Mussels wrote: Fri Jan 09, 2026 11:43 am I tried all season tyres and they were pretty terrible, that was several years ago so they may have got better.
When I bought this car winter and all season tyres weren't available so summer tyres were the only option. All seasons are available now so I might try them next time.

Winter tires are great on snow but hardly any different on ice so I'm not in a rush, I have snow chains in the boot just in case, not great but just about do the job.

nothing works on ice - spiked tyres aren't legal here or the uk, so, ice = slide!! But winter tyres work in cool to cold temps too, so it's probably worth having them in winter, maybe!!