Snow

In November, yet. It does not Snow in November. Except it apparently does. Bah. --SF

And then it melts, too quickly either to do much playing in it or to take photographs. --Requiem

It didn't melt too quickly for some people in Emmanuel (not including me) to make a snowman or two --Edwin

Lucky you lot.  Despite these cries of panic about "Arctic blasts" we hear on the news, here in the sheltered Solent, we have beautiful sun.  A little frost in the morning, is all.  --Vitenka (And I wasted gas turning on the heating, too!)

Spoke too soon!  Yay!  I fall asleep for an hour, and it snows!  --Vitenka (Must do that more often)

(PeterTaylor) Wasn't fun to cycle home in - snowflakes landing on your eyeballs hurt.

What time did it actually snow, then?  Asking round the office, we've narrowed it down to between 12.20 am and 2.30am... --M-A

That's about right. I can't go any later, because I'd stopped walking home by then. Right, back to bed I think - 4 hours sleep is not fun. --CH

That's about right.  People were leaving GamesEvening a bit after midnight when Angela called us out to look at the snow.  They were BIG flakes - astonishing.  It was still snowing when the last person left around 2:30am.  Can't say how long it carried on after that.  --AC

I just missed it then... I looked out of the window at about 12, just before going to bed... forecast is for more this afternoon though, so the chances are, there'll be a chance to observe.  Just as long as it isn't when I'm stuck deep in a library! --MJ

It carried on snowing until 2:30 or thereabouts, I think. It had certainly stopped by ten to three. Walking back home in blizzard is fun. Pictures of snow are pretty. (Ooo... pretty snow...) But yet I can't decide. Snow is fun, and pictures of Cambridge in the snow are pretty, but snow may also be awkward. in some situations. H'm. Ah, well. I want more snow. --Requiem

You've got it!  Take a peek out of the window about 3.25pm with your PortableTimeMachine?... --MJ

Yeay!  More snow! :) --M-A

(PeterTaylor) Weren't you quite upset about it last year, because you commuted on the A14? The level of snow seems to be comparable...

Logic has nothing to do with it. Pretty snow! :) --M-A

Cycling to work on what can only be described as whorled ice was... interesting.  I am hereby confirmed in my belief that somewhere, somehow sometime in the last fifteen years, we gained a month.  This is december.  --Vitenka

Yes... ice-rinks don't make the best cycle-paths, do they?  --AlexChurchill, who also discovered this this morning

The flat ice-rinky bits are kinda ok.  It's the bits where you have interesting ice sculptures that go up and down and push your wheels from side to side that cause the problems.  --Vitenka

PeterTaylor discovered this yesterday, cycling home from work. He still doesn't know how he stayed on after he slipped dodging an idiot who was cycling on the wrong side of the road.

And this year it was AlexChurchill's turn to have snowballs thrown at him when cycling along by teenage boys.  Despite being hit on the rear wheel and on the torso, I managed to stay upright and on my cycle somehow. --AC

The BBC weather service are ridiculously alarmist when it comes to snow.  I think they got told off the last time it snowed properly, 5 or 6 years ago now, and they hadn't predicted it, so they always put snow down whenever the chance of snow falling is nonzero.  I wish they wouldn't get my hopes up. --SGB

We were out in the country park at 7 this morning and there was a gentle dusting. It started snowing properly about 8 and carried on with nice big flakes for about three hours. Milton got about two inches. This was enough for many snowmen, most of whom were wearing pink scarves; it's obviously the look for snowmen this Easter. It had unfortunately all melted by late afternoon. Forecast for tomorrow look quite nice, but no more snow :-( --Nat

Grrr.

Real snow!  And again!  --Vitenka

SF was shooting an Albion (that's an archery round) in this snow. It was fun, if cold.

Bah.  Closest we've come to proper snow in five years, but it was already melting by the time it reached the zero mark. --SGB

It started snowing in earnest here, too, on 29th November 2010 (we've had a few flurries which melt after a day or two to date). Those who've been here through this before reckon we're now into the time when we wont see the grass again till March... --MJ