MarkM

I'll take a week of freezing weather for the decompaction it brings to the soil, always the chance of snow once that's in place and 48hrs is the max forecast period for snow according to Paul Hudson, at least it will keep me off the cricket ground I look after here in North Lincs as there's nothing to be gained from walking on frozen grass except damage. Less than 100 days to the start of the season !.

I was 16 and ended up with about a 15 mile walk to deliver a birthday card to my girlfriend because in Sheffield the gritters were on strike, this resulted in several inches of compressed snow/ice on all the roads and public transport had been withdrawn, the only vehicles moving were the occasional 4wd and back then there weren't very many of those. The snow depth outside my parents house was level with the window sill. For those that know the area I walked from Rosa Rd , Crookes, to Woodseats and back.

Met O giving lots of subtle ( and not so subtle ) hints in their tweets relating to staying safe in freezing weather, temperature records etc. Suggests to me that they are seeing some serious potential in their modelling for severe weather ahead.

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I'm a volunteer ( but basically full time ) groundsman for a cricket club in North Lincs and this has been physically the hardest summer I can remember, trying to retain moisture in the square is almost impossible and yet without it you cannot prepare a match strip which is both playable and safe. Walking behind a large petrol powered mower or sitting high up on a 2 ton roller for hours in 30+ degree heat is draining to say the least. The outfield has had one cut in five weeks due to hardly any growth , normally it's twice a week so that has saved some diesel at least. Temperatures out in the middle where there is no shade and the sunlight reflects up off a bleached white strip have been unbelievable. I'm old enough to remember 1976 and I know we've had other hot spells but this one seems to have dragged on for longer with very little relief. Mark I know I heard that they raised the trigger points for what is classed as a heatwave, did they do the same for warnings ?

Well if we don't get any decent snow in the next 3-4 weeks then that's it for me , from March I want dry weather as that is when I'm starting to prepare my cricket square for the season which starts mid April and a decent start to the growing season always helps.

Nobody should talk about the Model Fight Room....

More like 4-5 , I'm under it now , its covered a main A road

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It's a heavy one

Just about to hit Scunthorpe

Normanby Park CC , Scunthorpe

I'm in Scunny and can confirm that

Snowing in Scunny - quick clip from the cctv camera attached reolink-011333-011410.mp4

Hope it follows the line of the Trent , I'm about 1 1/2 miles from it.

Just been up to the cricket ground to switch the camera on and it's 4c and heavy rain with very occasional sleety bits , that's at 170ft ASL ( Normanby Park , just north of Scunthorpe ) , back at home ( 15ft ASL ) I've got 5c and rain , just under 20mm since midnight

Large flakes in Scunthorpe

I've missed the snow by only a few miles here near Scunthorpe , felt like they had upgraded the snow shield over the summer. Hopefully this one will break through , looking at trying to enable either a webcam or a weather station up at the cricket ground as it's relatively high up and away from much of the urban heat shield. Mark

That's be App Frod and Scunny Town I guess. If this snow hits as forecast I can see me not getting any work done on the ground for a week or so , would love a decent snow event,not had one for years.

It's had a lot of improvements over the last few years , looks a treat now

Looks like I might get some nice snow pics of my cricket ground at Normanby Park ( just north of Scunthorpe )

Snoopy !

Looking at the forecast for the week I may be able to get the tractor out soon , outfield will be ready for a first cut of the year. #cricket

Snowing here under the Scunthorpe Dangler

Light snow Scunthorpe