griff74

I'm so confused now with the const flips from "it's going to be sub-artic and everywhere getting buried" to "it's going to be normal wet and mild, watch out for flooding" that I don't know nor believe ANY weather forecasts I see!

Bone dry here as well in Salford, but bugger me that wind is biting!

Just say it doesn't look great for the South East, only if you are VERY brave!!

GFS excitement in the MOD thread, again.

Meto just issued snow and ice warnings for Monday thru Wednesday for, well pretty much everywhere by the looks of it, ie they have no idea!!

Apart from all the cold, nights of sub zero etc in the coming days, I would class that as winter weather, I assume you mean snow?

I grew up on the Wirral, Bebington to be precise, and I remember many a snowy winter, I was born in 74. I remember one year at junior school (Brackenwood) us building snow igloos on the playing field and them being there for days, also another year building a den of snow in the ditch between the common on Stanton Road and the golf course which had drifted in to and filled it up, it also was there for days. Oh also going sledging down the hill at the golf clubhouse was something that happened a lot of years as well.

Ours were a 56 petrol (in Phantom blue), low mileage but loads of issues once we had it a while, failed ball joints, failed AC compressor, had the Continental TEEVS ABS\traction control failure that affected millions of cars (BMW's, Vaux\Opels\Mercs etc) fail just out of warranty and at first Mazda wanted over 2k to replace it (even though the car had a full FSH), then they were going tod the labour for free, then Continental brought out a repair kit for it and Mazda just did it FOC then, it also had to go back for extra rust prevention on the rear end (even though ours thankfully didn't have any rust (I clean under wheel arches etc often) oh and failed ball joints due to my partner going over the speed bumps in the carpark of our apartment too fast! The 57 plate Carbon Grey diesel had none of the above issues, only a seized (Ford part) brake calliper fixed under warranty and it was starting to weep from the crank main seal when I was about to part ex it (after having it for 5 years and up to 75k on it, the longest I have ever owned a car!), it was also nicer as it had an electric sunroof, leather interior, tinted rear windows and a nice Parrot Bluetooth system I put in it. Funny you should mention the MPS, the 2.0td Sport 3 had a lot of MPS components on it, brakes, gearbox and body strengthening being the main ones over the petrol Sport, I found it a much nicer and more substantial feeling car to drive then the petrol one as well. I would like a new Mazda but they don't do decently powerful engines with a decent auto\DSG box in anything anymore, I do REALLY like the look of the current 3, but I think my next car (after the Polo GTi goes back, is on a PCP) will to buy my brothers Hyundai Kona EV off him, he will be ready to change it for a VW ID 4 (he wants to dual motor, long range one) or such like when the Polo goes back, having used to have an i3 I do miss having an EV and I love his Kona, esp the gadgets and range!

Had this pop up on my FB memories this morning, 8 years ago today. Was a LOT colder than it is is currently, was also when we were weird and had 2 Mazda 3 Sport's at the same time (one petrol and the other diesel!! lol)

Nice surprise dusting here this morning, also very cold so hope it maybe sticks around for more than the usual 2-3 hours!

A lovely crisp and frosty morning here, no snow at all but everywhere VERY icy. Wonder if that band heading over Stoke now will reach us??

Just started snowing again here, moderate to heavy.

Really coming down here and feels like it’s getting colder!

Coming down even heavier than earlier here now!

That does look like a nice long streamer heading our way on the radar, turning pink as it heads over the coast as well.

Just FaceTimed my parents who live in north Wales (just) and it has been snowing for over an hour there but they have much less snow cover than we do after that first 20 min shower, and I can see more heading our way on the radar.

Snowing pretty heavily here now, getting towards whiteout conditions, starting to stick nicely as well (and it is much colder than the other nights dumping).

We just had a very short and swift rain shower, didn't notice anything wintery about it.

They have just issued warning for pretty much the whole North of England, Wales and Scotland for today and tomorrow

The Met didn't forecast the good 6-7cm's we got the other night so I'm not too concerned about the areas they think will and will not get any snow.

As if by magic the warnings have just started being issued!

Light rain here, but looking at the radar it looks like it is about to turn more wintery soon (I hope!).

Well all that snow last night was lovely, a proper winter wonderland. Not surprised it's mostly gone today, but at least the temps are much more seasonal for it. River Irwell levels have dropped back in to the green zone at my nearest sensor as well - River Irwell at Manchester Racecourse Height0.6235.6682.728 Current River Level: 2.728m, falling

Pretty surprised here in Salford

This is very true!!