Bad winter on the way?

[Tony]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/436170/Worst-winter-for-decades-Record-breaking-snow-predicted-for-November

[Julian]

Bugger ... Disco tank full of untreated bio and little prospect of using it up, one out of two a settling barrels full of untreated bio.  Gonna have to hope the heated filter does it stuff!

[kamaangir]

Woohoo my truck will be ready next week! Just looking at some all terrains for it as we speak!

[greasemonkey]

It's all over the news, but I can't find anything about it in the long term weather forecasts.
Rumour has it that councils are panic buying salt.
I think it is an illuminati, NWO mind control exercise, to drive people into fear, and push up the price of road salt, winter tyres, and non perishable goods.

[whatarascal]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/436170/Worst-winter-for-decades-Record-breaking-snow-predicted-for-November

Thats one of the reasons I stopped reading newspapers.
This country will come to a standstill if we get an inch of snow
30ft waves eh and people dying on the  A350 near Trowbridge, Wiltshire, while a driver died when his Jeep spun off the A35 near Bournemouth.

[Jamesrl]

Snow in November, huh!

They can't get a 3 day forecast right never mind a month in advance.

[Tony]

Well it looks like the Met Office agrees with you Jim:

http://www.itv.com/news/central/2013-10-13/met-office-responds-to-headlines-predicting-worst-winter-in-decades/

[Jamesrl]

Well it looks like the Met Office agrees with you Jim:

http://www.itv.com/news/central/2013-10-13/met-office-responds-to-headlines-predicting-worst-winter-in-decades/

I know a little bit about short term weather forecasting and meteorology, had to pass exams on the subject to get me skippers ticket.

Even had to turn the Shipping Forecast into a weather chart.

[photoman290]

what a load of cobblers. nearly as bad as the daily mail. of course it will be cold in January. its called winter. summat to do with the sun i think. reminds me of the gill scott heron poem "panic now and avoid the rush."

[Bill]

If engineering ran to the same level of accuracy as long term weather forecasts we would still be waiting for the wheel to be invented.

[Jmg]

Aye, there's a lot of the usual panic around. Everytime someone quotes an imaginary long range forecast at me I remind them that the newspapers predicted a heatwave 5 years in a row and the only time there actually was one they had been preaching rain, floods, doom and gloom in the weeks leading up to it.

Incidentally does anybody want to buy some snow chains, I've got a set I'll never use lying around, if it gets that bad in the UK I just won't leave the house :p

[greasemonkey]

Incidentally does anybody want to buy some snow chains, I've got a set I'll never use lying around, if it gets that bad in the UK I just won't leave the house :p

What size wheel are they for? Are they heavy duty 4WD ones? In other words, are they for a Transit?

Mine were brilliant, go anywhere, so long as I was in no hurry. Wrecked them in the end, but they did two years.

[Head Womble]

Aren't snow chains what the landy boys use to pull Jeeps from snow drifts.
Sorry I used the J word Julian.

[greasemonkey]

I used mine to tow father home in his Rover 400. Everything was going well, till we hit a steep hill. Half way up, just as it goes from steep, to really steep, the chains cut through the fresh snow, and I lost traction.
Rolled down the window to consult with father, and that exact moment, I took off backwards like a toboggan. Never seen the transit accelerate so quickly.

Father started reversing, and obviously, as soon as I regained control, his car pulled the towrope tight, and sent me sliding again. I was trying everything to stop, nothing was working. At one point the front end went straight up the bank, and back down again. I'm pretty sure I had one wheel spinning one way, and one going the other, revving flat out in bottom gear.

After pulling me backwards about four times, the tow rope snapped, and we both broadsided in the road. I am so glad I decided to use a rope, and not a chain..........

The snow chains were never quite the same after that.

[willbuild]

snow chains will damage your tyres if driven for any distance, there are for getting you out of trouble.
think there are only a couple of size's