Really cold weather around 15th December onwards?

I reckon your weather tomorrow could well be coming from my neck of the woods, mate. We got about two inches of snow overnight before it turned into a deep freezer. Woke up this morning to white landscapes everywhere but close to minus ten, too. It will get a bit warmer later on and as well tomorrow they say but then by the beginning of the week-end they predict more snow. Apparently there is now an 80% chance (or risk depending on how you look at it, of course) for a white Christmas this year. Am wearing one of my beloved bubble hats today

left the house at 7am - but took about 15 minutes to get the car sorted...as there was was about 3 inches of snow...

but what I've said in the past was confirmed as true - durham council are crap...the A68 (from tow law towards consett) was covered in snow - couple of inches, but with tyre tracks made from traffic...it was ok to drive that as it wasn't icy, but when I got into castleside (consett) you hit the border between county durham and northumberland and then all of the sudden the roads were clear as anything...! so, obviously a plough had been and turned around in castleside then went back towards corbridge...

in those kind of conditions you don't really need grit - but just a plough to come along and shift the snow...

as last year whislt driving to peterlee - the roads were bad at shincliff (and along the a181) - and the traffic were gridlocked...it was the same coning back that evening despite little or no snow falling during the day...

and as someone already mentioned - they can only afford to do 10 full runs of grit...ffs...

I am impressed Lord Kitchener

Some people just don't know how to drive in snow. Last night we had a freakish hour of snow in the village. There is a bank.

I understand the fella with his wife and 11 month old not wanting to go on until ploughs come through, sensible really. but when I and various other villagers came out to help move people on (so ploughs could come through), many wanted to leave their cars in the road and others with a push revved the teets off the their cars.

One fella I said 'just low throttle mate, pull away in 2nd' and he went mad in first...

BRING ON THE SNOW!