It is fun how it topped -32.5'C today in Finland, thou' where I live: only -25'C and still everything was normal. Busy traffic as always, only my Citroën said that it wont lock the doors, but meh, who will steal a car in front of University? Okay, I really don't know how it is there, when you get those few inches of snow and bit of cold air in your windpipes, but I've always imagined it's like this: "OH MAW GOWD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! "
The south of England is particularly bad from my experience, get an inch of snow in london and the buses and trains are cancelled. Things are a bit better in other areas, around my parents the buses still run when there is 6 ft of snow landed, but they are used to it. What is really scary is the comparison about cancelled flights in the UK compared to Norway/Sweden/Finland etc
You gotta love those middle-europeans, who can't cope with a little bit of snow There's a joke for this situation in germany... "Two snowflakes are meeting at the crossroads. One asks: Any plans for today? Answers the other: A traffic-chaos!"
~2cm of snow fell between midday and 5pm in Tyrone today, I got fed up with the stuff I was working on at 4:45, went to tell the boss that I was leaving and realised that the school was totally deserted and that I was locking up, so everyone had obviously shuffled off home early to avoid problems with the snow, and despite planning to stay late, I did the same. Through Tyrone and back into Co. Armagh the snow got lighter and lighter and by the time I got home it was nothing but tiny flakes with nothing lying on the ground at all. It's cold and wet here now, with slightly clear skies and a temperature somewhere close to zero, but not freezing last I checked. More snow forecast for tomorrow (~3cm supposedly) but I can't see it lying either.
Had snow for a very brief period in Swansea was melting as it hit the ground though Seeing all these reports of sledging is very frustrating.
