Snow Slave

agreed

bet you have a nice view of incoming storms from across the channel from up the hill at Hythe.

Youre just up the road from me! I think we will just end up with sleety rain at best :-(

they jinx it every time.

yeah that would be right, my brother just said it was like a slushy sea foam ice like this but more frothy as the tide was right upon it.

When I was about 10 or 11 we had a massive dumping of snow along the southeast coastline, it was so big infact there was a big mound of slushy icy snow 1ft high and about 3ft wide all along the tide line at high tide, think that was about 91 or 92? never seen anything like it since, would love a repeat of that.

Someone with waaaay more weather knowledge /chart reading abilities than me needs to set up a group that just discusses charts from T120 or less, which have a better chance of verifying! Would definitely save lots of toys being thrown and wrist slashing! For me personally its too much of a roller coaster ride on the MOD thread, I try to only check it once a day usually, some times once every 48 hours if the inevitable down grades have happened and every ones on a downer.

Defo going with the 48hrs window here from now on, and im defo not telling my kids about any potential untill I've actaully seen the snow falling in my vacintity with my own eyes!

From my few years on this forum the pushed back pattern of 7 or 10 days is definitely a "thing" from what ive experienced. I'm not gona keep falling into the same trap repeatedly. Didnt Einstein say somthing along the lines of; "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result" Unless it's showing in the 48hr time frame,im not buying it!

well fingers crossed we have a different winter this time round! I'm trying to keep the faith, I'm not gona lie, if we get another snow no show winter, I think ill give up chasing it.

I'm one of the lucky ones who actually got some unexpected nice little snow flurries this morning, some pretty large solid flakes which even laid for a while too, kids enjoyed it on the way to school. As lovely as it was I really hope that is not all the snow we get to experience this coming winter, I've got 4 virgin sledges which need breaking in and have been collecting dust in the shed for the last 5 winters!

no worries I didn't think you were rude at all! Ive often though of booking a snowy get away to get my snow fix but a recent change of circumstances have made that near on impossible, for the next few years atleast. I also totally get that the melodramtics can get tiresome, its just so very frustrating year after year after year of no snow, although I have to say last winter was the worst, it was the most boring mundain dry still winter I can ever remember here in the very far southeast, so anything we get this year will be an improvement on that, hopefully.

I know i keep reminding myself ive got another 12ish weeks of potential. I wish it was that easy to just up and leave for a break to a glorious beautiful snowy destination like the Alps or Scandi, but money and time are super tight at the moment, its just not an option for us right now...so il just av to get my snow fix watching snow videos on the youtube, its really quite pathetic! Wish I lived in Canada, in one of the places that get such great snow storms that when you go to leave the house in the morning you can't get out of the front door cos your greeted with a solid 7ft wall of snow! Snow Heaven.

god.... I made sooo many spelling mistakes in that post i'm surprised you even understood what i was trying to say! kids of death = Kiss of death! for snow! must proof read before hitting post Have not even bothered to look at the models today...is there any improvement? I'm too scared to look...

You know what I totally agree with you. After 5 years of no snow, I honestly thought this year was gona be differet. Yesterday i let my excitememt at the prospects of potential snow override my better judgement, and I went and brought my kids snow boots and dry suits. It all my fault, I'm like the kids of death. I'm giving up on snow now. I know it sounds dramatic but i cant handle the constant disappointment year after year anymore, cant believe my daughter is 6 years old and still hasn't seen proper laying snow. And yes before anyone says it I know we havent even got into proper winter yet, but we all know how this winter is gona go dont we. Edit. just wanted to add in not sure of who you mean re likes, i was refering to the later part of the post, just to clarify xx

Trying to get onto my laptop and its decided to update, so annoying and takes forever... Yes with regards to the ASL I actually added mine to my location so it shows on that bar from my snow chasing days, I'm actully below sea level here! not so great for snow... So random this location thing because I really do most of my weather checking on my phone, i feel really dumb if its taken me the best part of a year to notice the location isn't on there when viewing the forum on my phone! I could have swore it was on there from when I have been following snow potential posts in the past. strange. Maybe I'm going a bit mad. lol. Off to find tablet n see if that has location on it. thanks all.

ah that might be why then! just thinking and I'm also sure it used to have how many meters above sea level their location was too. I'm gona have a look on my laptop and tablet! thank you all and sorry for being thick!

you see the top of your post, where your sun avatar is, if a member had added their location to their profile ( I would say 70% did from what I remember) then it would show In that bar. Also I'm currenty viewing on my phone so don't know if something has been altered at NW's end cos I view on my phone 80% of the time and the location was there from when I signed up a year ago, only noticed location not there in last 3 or 4 weeks?

Sorry if I wasnt very clear, I mean it use to have the location in the top bit with the name and number of posts the person had made. I can see you are in Darlington :-) if I click on ya avatar and view your profile, but before I didn't have to click and view the persons profile it was just In the members post header for every post they made. edit. and yes have signed back out then in and cleared cache.

As per title. When reading posts on the forum I used to be able to see the posters location in the header where is says their name and number of posts Now their post header just has their name and number of posts and not the location? Why is this? Is it something I have done somehow?

I would have liked to have tagged along too! I was itching to say yes when he was asking for companions, but 3 kids put pay to any weather chasing for me. Hoping we get our own storm come to my locality later this week, so not all is lost just yet hopefully.

He changed his mind again and said he was just gona go for it. I've not seen any posts but someone further up thread said he posted some pics in his Facebook page a few hours back so I guess hes ok and enjoying the ride!

The deep purples are over my area! God I sooooo hope the 00z actaully comes off! We are overdue some exciting weather.

i REALLY hope so, but knowing my luck it will end up going North of me or be a no show, im still quite new to this, how many days in advance can it realistically be "nailed on"? like is it a good probability already?

Well we now have ( 3.30ish) the very red Sun in the South East Kent, sky is a bit yellow but nothing like everyone else to the west of me have experienced. it's a bit breezy but nothing exciting at all. Gutted I've missed all the decent weather tbh.