Bad Weather 🇨🇦

[Jelly/Jam]

Oh my lord we are dealing with heavy freezing rain in Ottawa, Ontario. So hard on the old dogs trying to walk. Everything is coated! Supposed to continue for hours. Does the U.K get this weather?

 

[Piggies&buns]

No we don’t. Dont get me wrong we have cold spells but it’s nothing like you’d face in Canada.

I live in a mild area of the country. The average winter day time temperature here is around 5-6 degrees. We will get freezing nights, frosts, down into -1 or -2 but it’s not for long and it’s not all winter. We may see some snow once a twice in a winter (some winters it’s none at all).

We are having a mild spell at the moment. Today for example it’s going to be 12 degrees today and last nights coldest temp was 10 degrees. It’s going down to 4 degrees overnight early part of next week.

We had a particularly bad spell a few years back called the beast from the east. It was -10 for a week or so.

Make sure you stay safe

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

And I'm further north in the UK. As much as we like to complain about the weather, it is nothing in comparison to what you deal with in Canada.

Coldest evening last week was -6c over night, but that freezing spell only last a few days. Now we are back to 11c in the day and 5c overnight (and the rain has returned... that we do get a lot of)! Last year it felt like it rained for 10 months of the year (summer was really wet too)

 

[Jelly/Jam]

Our winters are changing a lot over here. We very seldom experienced freezing rain as often before a few years ago. Snow can be shoveled but freezing rain sticks to everything like cling wrap.

 

[weepweeps]

Stay safe @Jelly/Jam

 

[fluffysal]

We don't suffer from the same winter extremes but because of that the infrastructure here can't cope with the occasional big freeze so everything is at a standstill.

 

[Bertie & Jelly]

It amazes me that here in the UK we’re on the same latitude as Canada. Thankfully we benefit from the Gulf Stream whereas you have polar air streams if I recall my geography (happy to be corrected ). Your freezing rain sounds really grim

 

[BossHogg]

And I'm further north in the UK. As much as we like to complain about the weather, it is nothing in comparison to what you deal with in Canada.

Coldest evening last week was -6c over night, but that freezing spell only last a few days. Now we are back to 11c in the day and 5c overnight (and the rain has returned... that we do get a lot of)! Last year it felt like it rained for 10 months of the year (summer was really wet too)

I'm further north than you, this was last week which is summer weather compared to Canada!

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

I'm further north than you, this was last week which is summer weather compared to Canada!
View attachment 240275

Exactly! Still won’t stop us complaining …

 

[BossHogg]

I'm out in all weathers, goes with the job, the worse the weather, the busier I am!

 

[BossHogg]

Now that the winds have died down. I would like to thank my neighbours for the garden shed. 2 wheelie bins. An outdoor trampoline. and a 6 month old Yorkshire terrier named patch.

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

The joys of owning horses..... Like flying kites in the winter time. On a windy day, they like to fly even higher...



Even some of our more sensible college horses, have made for good entertainment for the students over the last week of windy weather..

 

[Wiebke]

Oh my lord we are dealing with heavy freezing rain in Ottawa, Ontario. So hard on the old dogs trying to walk. Everything is coated! Supposed to continue for hours. Does the U.K get this weather?

It is very rare in the UK but I grew up with freezing rain/black ice every few winters in Switzerland - on top of a hill with some steeper slopes with the secondary and further schools down in the valley. You just trundled into schools or work as and when you could and the roads were safe enough to do so.

We ended up with a very memorable total chaos when freezing rain hit the rush hour in Birmingham/West Midlands UK in 2004 with gritters stuck in the hopeless traffic jam... That was 20 years ago. The UK as a whole doesn't do ice and snow because they don't have it often enough outside of the more mountainous areas. We just end with a few days of chaos whenever winter weather happens as a kind of nasty surprise... You are going to hopefully find it as amusing as I did at the time, @Jelly/Jam .
BBC NEWS | England | West Midlands | Gridlock as ice hits city roads
Big freeze brings chaos to Britain's roads and railways

 

[Jelly/Jam]

The joys of owning horses..... Like flying kites in the winter time. On a windy day, they like to fly even higher...

View attachment 240277

Even some of our more sensible college horses, have made for good entertainment for the students over the last week of windy weather..

 

[Jelly/Jam]

Wow

 

[Merab]

Now that the winds have died down. I would like to thank my neighbours for the garden shed. 2 wheelie bins. An outdoor trampoline. and a 6 month old Yorkshire terrier named patch.

I don’t suppose you’ve got my big tarpaulin as well have you?
Despite being weighted down it blew away the other night

 

[Jelly/Jam]

It amazes me that here in the UK we’re on the same latitude as Canada. Thankfully we benefit from the Gulf Stream whereas you have polar air streams if I recall my geography (happy to be corrected ). Your freezing rain sounds really grim

 

[Jelly/Jam]

Good morning. You are right about our polar stream over here. We are getting another freezing rain event today which is weird. Hohummm coffee time as it is 1:44 in the morning. ️I wish you all a great day

 

[Bill & Ted]

Keep warm and safe! It looks like a beautiful winters day down here in Cornwall (that’s in toe of the UK, the most westerly part) We rarely get freezing weather and only seen proper snow once since 2012