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Up to now, still no snow on the ground here in South Manchester.

Forecast for today is snow, its wet and not sticking more like slush, supposed to get warmer and vanish around 1pm

Had nothing but rain all weekend.

Had HR on to me last night as they didn't have the permissions to send to site wide email distribution lists, so I had to send an email saying if people had snow they should use their judgement in deciding to drive to work.

Slow drive into work this morning over the coast, it's amazing how different the snow fall has been in just a 16 mile drive (very little in Ramsey, yet Onchan got some serious snowfall).

The mountain webcams give a good idea as to why the mountain road remains closed..... (There's supposed to be a road there.)

https://www.gov.im/webcams/bungalow-a18-north/

I drove back from Cardiff yesterday lunchtime in the snow. Nothing to report.

Keep us updated

Well, I made it home just fine. And in less time than it took to go there on Friday lunchtime. Go figure.

Managed to get on tonight's flight. Let's see how delayed it is. This morning's was delayed by 3hrs.

Do EU comp rules apply?

Yes!

I haven’t done one of these yet. If you want me Myp?

All winnings are yours*
*Only 50% commission charge, and a £20k upfront fee

Most people do a % deduction from damages. Usually around 25-30% but I’d sort him out, init.

... cause I’m cheap.

And not a scumbag. Natch.

Eu rules don’t apply to weather.

YES! Taking back control!

I have no idea what "it" is, but sure.

We had shit tons of snow. Don't think I've ever seen this much before

That's better than tons of shit snow.

Just a light dusting in Cheshire this morning, still none in Manchester

We and a neighbour cleared our bit of the lane today. An Amazon driver then dropped off a couple of Blu-rays.

I and the neighbour then spent going on an hour digging and pushing him and his BMW back up the lane.

He was grateful but I just thought that if we'd not bothered he would've thought 'ha, no'. No way I was leaving him stranded.

I'm not hopeful of getting my bigger BMW with wider wheels out tomorrow, especially as later on Helen went to take video to show her work (who have been idiots about it) and it was already more heavily frozen further up.

We're forecast -11 tonight.

I reckon I'd get Helen's mx5 out (LSD) but mine is boxing it in.

I could barely get the car on the drive this evening. Or rather, I couldn't get up the hill sufficiently to reverse on.

This may be a silly question, but when manoeuvring like that, am I better with or without traction control? I drive an automatic so can not select any gear other than first in this situation.

You have no way of selecting gears? Mine is auto and I can do that. Check your manual!

Also check to see if you have a winter mode.

Depends on the transmission or manufacturer I guess.

I don't think I've ever seen one without at least the + and - in which to select and hold in a particular gear. Unless Bobby's car is like 20 years old.

Just about to board!

It has that, but it is all computer controlled. I can't make it go into 2nd if I have no revs. It just doesn't select up.

That's a shame. Winter mode in mine starts the car in 2nd and changes up earlier than normal.

Landed in Brum!

Wasn't sure this was going to come out. Good old winter mode.

Also couldn't resist

Manchester. -7, but still no snow,

Our lane now has thick ice on the bits we cleared and I used up the last of our grit on.

My back is fucked.

I broke my ice scraper this morning.

I turn traction control off for snow/ice. Might just be "placebo" but it seems like it is slightly easier to keep traction - my reasoning is that on the snow/ice, you don't want the wheels to keep locking up at different times to try and maintain stability, as it'll just never happen.

Yep, it's about building any kind of momentum which traction control will prevent.

That a euphemism?

Where I am*, there is a bit of a cool wind from Antarctica occasionally, and I just went down to the seafront to see penguins. Little penguins, waiting for dusk to make a dash back to their nests. The weather is okay, though

(*Tasmania)

Hnnggghhhh.....I WANT PENGUMS!! My bucket list has two things on it: touch a pengum and befriend a manatee. I’m not envious (much) but really happy for your little slices of paradise. Please keep sharing. Oh, and get a pengum picture, obviously .

If your traction control is less than fifty years old, you want it on.

This nice person will show you the difference:

Mind you, a RWD isn't getting up that driveway whatever

I left my TC on getting the car out of the ice sheet that was Birmingham Airport car park 5. It worked really well.

My phone did not do a great job of videoing evening penguins, but what it got is on Instagram. To add to the want level, Tasmania's penguins are little, so are known as Little Penguins, or Fairy Penguins-cute, huh?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcmXa8Ulrww/

And on the 12th day of December Mimi did lose a while afternoon to the joy in JBR’s Instagram feed.

Huh.

Raining in Manchester, now. If it freezes overnight it could be a city wide skating rink tomorrow.

Was relieved to see that the rain had washed away any snow earlier; went to town at lunch and there was barely a trace.

Just now, I nosed on Facebook at one of the local groups and there were snow pics up, so I assumed they were old ones, but turns out we've had quite the flurry in the past hour and we're back to where we were again.

Yes, it’s coming down hard here again now, and Russell is off galavanting in Lichfield.

I'm at Old Trafford freezing my literal balls off

I used to work round the corner. Can I order up some poop for their letterbox?

Hang on, so someone reporting what's currently happened was useful as an actual reality check, not just great for those overseas wondering what is going on back at home? Unusual this is.

My neighbour texted me to inform me it was snowing again here. Once the curtains are shut if an evening there could be giraffes swimming under 10ft of water in the street outside and I’d not know.

I've no need to look or go outside after lunch, so anything could be going on out there.

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