What's Your Ideal Winters Day?

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My perfect winter 24 hour period to be played out during winter 2010/11

After and overnight low around -10c 14f and deep powder snow from the previous days prolonged

snow showers the sun is starting to haze over as the stratus clouds start to move in. During the

morning and into the early afternoon the clouds thicken into a thick nimbostratus layer. The wind

increasing all the time from a variable light to moderate in the morning to a strong east northeasterly

mid afternoon as the first powdery flakes start to fall. Temperatures max out at -4c (windchill -12c).

By mid evening a major blizzard is unfolding with forcasters advising the need to stay indoors and

not travel. Approximate snowfall depths have been marked up from 30cm to as much as 45cm.

Night time min around -7c the blizzards bringing white out conditions at times accompany the gale

force winds and severely drifting snow.

The blizzard continues relentlessly through the night. By daybreak I sweep back the curtains to reveal

a unfamiliar world with snow still thick in the air and drifts that have literally buried cars creep up

towards the bedroom window sill.

The telly is talking of the worst blizzard in over 150years with east Anglia and the southeast completely

cut off from the rest of the country with up to 60cm of snow falling and no sign of an end to the bitter

winter weather.

yeeeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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ideal winters day..... a foot of snow underfoot with a sub zero day following a double figure minus night.The trees would be highlighted in frost and as the short ,clear december day draws to a darker ,colder afternoon freezing mist would form over the deep snow fields.The sun would glint off everything in gold ,rich hues as night came...........then i'd wake up..