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Yesterday evening and again this morning the bbc national and local news carried dire warnings of Snow heading for us from the Irish sea. I looked at the charts and they covered the whole of the Northwest from Cheshire to Cumbria and all points inbetween. The Met Offfice website was beside itself with dire warnings of as much as four inches of the white stuff!

And now, the weather system that was targeted as the culprit is sitting right over us and I can tell you honestly there has not fallen so much as one flake in Blackpool. A little hailstone and a lot of rain is the limit.

Is it any different in God's country? Can anyone tell me? Are you all snowed in up to the rooftops? Or, to quote Annie Lennox; "...is it raining with you?"

I know I shouldn't let it bother me but this hysterical overreaction by the BBC and the Met Office to the least change in barometric pressure is getting on my wick.

And I think that Dianne Oxbury should be put out to grass.

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A small smattering in accy A-B, which has frozen solid n the good thing is theres that little fell,yeh can't see the glass thats gonna make yeh fall.:eek: in other words a nightmare.

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Well they have to be careful after they missed the hurricane in 87.

Here in Morecambe I'm told there were a few flakes this morning though I didn't see and it's been raining all day.

Quite often our weather bears no resemblance to the forecast but maybe that's because we're on the coast and maybe it's the same for Blackpool.

The Met Office website says a band of wet weather over western parts of the United Kingdom on Saturday morning will move slowly east and southeastwards across the United Kingdom during the day. As it does so it will readily turn to sleet and snow away from western and southwestern coastal areas giving accumulations of 2-5cm in places and 5-10cm widely across parts of central and eastern England. So there may be snow further inland.

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Yes Cashy would rather have a few inches that you can see than a glass coating.

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So, not the 'white out' that was threatened. Isn't that just typical.

Thing is, if the Met Office continue crying wolf like this no one is going to take any notice of them at all. Not that many do anyway.

The Telegraph are reporting that Heathrow have already cancelled a third of flights on the strength of this warning.

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That is not what they forecast yesterday and early this morning.

Though there is generally a 3 centigrade difference in temperature between Accy and Blackpool it does not always apply.

Blackpool was almost deserted this morning while we were out delivering. Because of the warning, people stayed at home and businesses who rely on trade throughout the winter have suffered the consequences of the Met Office's panic.

It seems to me like they cannot get the forecast right until it is actually happening - pathetic.

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Just had a nose at the sky news & they were showing some quite heavy snow up over the hills & the border heading into the dark side there (West Yorkshire :D)

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Out this afternoon up Coppice. It was freezing rain.All the cars on the estate near us looked as though were covered in frosted glass.

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It's getting a bit worse, here on Dill Hall. We have even lost our Sky signal.

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It's snowing in Bury and Salford but nothing so far in Great Harwood.

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Although on this morning's BBC news, they showed the whole of the north west under a blanket of snow, at a time they showed as being 3 pm this afternoon, they didn't actually say it would snow here.

They did say it would snow in the south east, later in the evening, and they could get 5-10 cms.

Although it'll remain cold, the north west is forecast to have rain tomorrow.

Currently very icy here. With the rain, and slight sleet, freezing on contact.

Does amuse me, the giddy state the news programmes get in every year.

It's winter. It's cold. It some times snow.

Teddy bears go plop-plop in the woods.

Big deal.

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We lost ours about 3 hrs ago.:(

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Just tried to call a company in Bolton, supposed to be open till 10pm, got a recorded message, due to the severe weather conditions our offices are now closed.

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I hope their owners clean up after them. They'll have Mossy's night vision equipped troops after them if any mess is left.

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A update on Sky issues. I managed to get access to our dish, its outside our bedroom window and de ice it with some de icer that and a bit of banging. The ice accumulated was pretty large.
As a result, our sky is back.
Good luck

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I had a do at ours n shifted the ice i could see "no joy".:( will attempt again tomoz,when i can see what the hell i'm doin.

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Sky dishes don't like frozen rain

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Neither do aeroplane wings...

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Well, it's snowing again here this evening too as i write. On top of the freezing snow we've has for the last 3 days. -11°C -heating on all the time. Am wrapped in my yak wool Himalayan blanket. Heidi is looking v.ethnic this evening.

Italian train service in tilt, all frozen up. Citizens of Rome advised to stay at home.

Anyone fancy coming to join me for a walk in white wonderland? Have no-one to do snow angels with....:D

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The forecast was correct here in London.. had about 3 inch of snow and it's still coming down.

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They daren't forecast wrong down yon or Cameron will cut em.;);)

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Beutiful here ... check it out:

City of Kingston, Ontario, Canada - Market View Web Cam

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If It continues to snow in London there will be a national disaster and state of emergency called tomorrow
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there you go ... rising bridge in the snow ...

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Thats a big improvement.:D

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Yeah, the snow was pretty bad in Etruria today.

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Would that be near Huncoat?:D

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It's not nice in Baxenden, my daughter in law and grand daughter are both in my spare room rather than going up Southwood Drive. It hasn't snowed as much as predicted but this slushy icy mess is horrible!

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It's winter, it snows.

Or as it's called in Newcastle, T-Shirt weather.

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its been nice and mild up here clear skies and sunshine.

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the spugster says all hes had is rain ...:idunno::idunno::idunno:

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its amazing how different the weather is 25 miles away .they put it down to the gulf stream:confused::confused: because we are near the coast.

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Make the most of it, and get your shorts on.

That's your summer.

;):D

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Fancy popping up to my Gaff BG, my Sky system is frozen solid this morning, I'm watching reruns of Heartbeat on terrestrial at the moment, its driving me to drink:D

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Jaysay, thats what iPlayer etc are for....

what you need is a basic media streamer or old PC/laptop connected to the TV( or soething like a PS3 which has it built in)

:D

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There are quite a few things connected to my TV Ian, Satellite DVD, VCR, the rest is double dutch:D

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that better cashy dearest :D:D:D

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See they're decorating the place these days, those yellow lines look really nice:D:D