The Beast From The East 2

[Jocko]

We have already had The Beast From The East 2 since the 21st of January. Not much in the way of snow here in Kirkcaldy (lashing rain and sleet for the most part), but plenty of snow to the north and south of us. What has been crippling here is bitingly cold gale force easterly winds, coming straight (according to the Met Office) from Siberia. Temperatures have been about 2°C, but with the 25 mph wind, the windchill has made it has felt like -5°C.
The north of England has also been suffering for a couple of weeks now but once it hit the Metropolitan area the term "The Beast From The East 2" has been coined.
At the moment I am sitting watching the snow blow past my window and glad I do not have to go out. I won't have to go out with a bit of luck till Tuesday; however, that is forecast to be the worst day for snow here!
Wherever you are, stay safe and warm, and don't risk getting your pride and joy dinged.

[Kremmen]

Had snow forecast since 08:00 down here near Heathrow but so far nothing.

Bit gusty at times though.

[madasafish]

Much ado about nothing.
We had nights  with 16C in 2011-12 and 2010-11.

Nothing as cold since.

Those were real temperatures - no windchill included.

[sparky Paul]

I remember the cold temperatures back in the 2010 winter, but there wasn't a breath of wind when it was at it's coldest, not here anyway.

Local forecast says 0°C max. tomorrow, -8/-9°C with windchill. We're very exposed to the east, it'll certainly feel a bit nippy.

[John Ratsey]

Much ado about nothing.
We had nights  with 16C in 2011-12 and 2010-11.

Nothing as cold since.

Did you mean 16F or -16C?

[sparky Paul]

Did you mean 16F or -16C?

I'm guessing -16°C, that was the coldest it got down to at night here. -10°C was the daytime maximum.

White stuff forecast for tomorrow, so standby for chaos on the roads.

[Jocko]

I remember one spell in the 1990s when between Christmas and the early part of January, Central Scotland experienced -20 °C, for quite a few days on the trot. I had to drive through from Fife to Greenock to start work after the New Year. It was a gorgeous sunny day with not a breath of wind but these sub-zero temperatures. There were cars broken down the length of the M8, one every couple of miles or so.
I had the Carlton at the time, and as soon as I tried the screenwasher, despite them having 50% Isopropan-2-ol in the solution, I realised the jets were frozen. I manage to get to the western end of the M8 but the increasing lowering sun made the screen almost opaque. I pulled into a layby and lifted the bonnet intending to get some water out of the reservoir and, despite having already covered 70 miles, and with a hot engine, it was frozen solid.
That was the winter when our American manager decided not to leave the heating on over the Christmas holidays, and the numerous burst pipes did more than £1 million pounds of damage. He left national Semiconductor a couple of weeks later.

[culzean]

In Jan 1982 we had record -26.2 deg C in Newport Shropshire, about 10 miles from where I live.  Car would not start ( carburetor could not vapourise petrol ) had to warm up carb with a hairdrier every morning for about 2 weeks to start car and get to work, we lived on a bus route then,  so road past house got cleared as a priority by council.   Remember seeing people skiing along our road.

https://www.weatheronline.co.uk/reports/philip-eden/Record-cold-and-snow.htm

[Jocko]

Dunfermline 2006.

[sparky Paul]

I spy a Cavalier

Already had two brief power cuts this evening, somebody's in the dark somewhere...

[madasafish]

Much ado about nothing.
We had nights  with 16C in 2011-12 and 2010-11.

Nothing as cold since.

Did you mean 16F or -16C?

OOPS -16C

The coldest I have seen was when driving to Kilmarnock via the side roads in 1999.
The car read -22C in a dip and started freezung the windscreen inside.

No doubt when living in Banffshire in the 1960s it was a lot colder: ice inside the house windows was common.

[TnTkr]

In Jan 1982 we had record -26.2 deg C in Newport Shropshire, about 10 miles from where I live.  Car would not start ( carburetor could not vapourise petrol ) had to warm up carb with a hairdrier every morning for about 2 weeks to start car and get to work, we lived on a bus route then,  so road past house got cleared as a priority by council.

For a Finn is sounds strange to have starting problems already in -26 C temperature. We had a very cold winter in 1987, even down to -40 C in southern Finland and cars with carburettors were started in -35 C without preheating. If everything (e.g. choke, ignition timing) is in order and the battery is able to crank the engine fast enough, it will eventually start. Later cars with fuel injection are of course much easier to start in cold temperatures.

[Jocko]

The coldest I have seen was when driving to Kilmarnock via the side roads in 1999.
The car read -22C in a dip and started freezung the windscreen inside.

No doubt when living in Banffshire in the 1960s it was a lot colder: ice inside the house windows was common.

1999 must have been the winter I was talking about. I know it was in the 90s.
I remember the windows use to frost over on the inside when I was a kid living in Burntisland. The milk bottles on the doorstep would have the tops popped and a crown of frozen milk creeping out of the bottles.

[Westy36]

It is a bit snowy and cold in Suffolk, Met Office have it as feeling like -8c. Cars have a bit of a covering.

Monday is our click & collect day, so the Jazz will have to be out later. My first time driving it in snow, but I dont expect any problems as I've lots of experience of driving on ice and snow. It's other people that are the concern! 

[sparky Paul]

Bit of a squib so far, despite 'amber' warnings from the Met Office for this area.

A few inches of snow, which is now melting where the sun's hitting it.