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No pics (maybe later), but Edinburgh woke to about 8" of snow. Dry, powdery, beautiful, complete with crunchy sound underfoot.

We've had a snowball fight already with the office next door, and my hands are still dry and warm.

This is like snow you dream about when you're a kid.

In Glenrothes for Christmas and there's been a fair amount of snow - far more than Dundee has been seeing the last week.

Newcastle has fared OK - apart from slippy patches (I was in rural Northumberland last night and ended up on my arse about 20 times; mind, that's probably one for every glass of Cava I drank) and late buses we're doing fine. This has been going round Facebook though, and I just love it; "The Geordie Thermometer".

The Fahrenheit Temperature Scale:

50 degrees - Southerners turn on the heating - people in Newcastle plant gardens.

40 degrees - Southerners shiver uncontrollably - people in Newcastle sunbathe.

35 degrees - Southern cars will not start - people in Newcastle drive with the windows down.

20 degrees - Southerners wear coats, gloves and wool hats - people in Newcastle throw on a T-shirt (girls start wearing mini-skirts instead of bikinis).

15 degrees - Southerners begin to evacuate - people in Newcastle go swimming in the North Sea.

Zero degrees - Southern landlords turn up the heating - people in Newcastle have the last BBQ before it gets cold.

Minus 10 degrees - Southerners cease to exist - people in Newcastle throw on a lightweight jacket.

Minus 80 degrees - Polar bears wonder if it's worth it - boy scouts in Newcastle start wearing long trousers.

Minus 100 degrees - Santa Claus abandons the North Pole - people in Newcastle put on their long johns.

Minus 173 degrees - alcohol freezes - people in Newcastle get frustrated because the pubs are shut.

Minus 297 degrees - Microbial life starts to disappear - The cows on Newcastle Town Moor complain of farmers with cold hands

Minus 460 degrees - All atomic motion stops - people in Newcastle start to stamp their feet and blow on their hands.

Minus 500 degrees - Hell freezes over - Sunderland qualify for Europe

nice pictures jake - those 'bleak' pictures you posted on sunday certainly wouldn't look out of place on a christmas card the bottom image is a quintessential winter scene.

it's been almost a week since the first snow fall here, we've had no additional snow for a couple of days (although the temperature has failed to rise above freezing and has been down to -7 for at least a couple of evenings).

this picture shows how much snow is still left - most busy roads are clear now but backroads are still not great and untrodden areas are still covered in thick snow:



last night was very, very cold - the frost left these huge ice crystals on my shed:




i don't think there has been snow on the ground as long as this in these parts since at least the early 1990s i can remember a few winters in the early 1990s being very snowy but i'm not sure the snow stayed on the ground for a week.

I was out today and even though we haven't seen snow since Sunday/Monday there is still Slurry on the roads and Ice & Crystal Snow on the pavements. I did have a few stumbles today, one which I was warned about but still walked over...

It wasn't that bad, quite fun however the ladies opposite did have a fit of giggles. And a bad place for ice...

A hill.

Walking up, you can handle, back down, you hit the car next to you as you try to steady yourself.

Its snowing again here:

Also here in the tesco.com back yard in Liverpool....

Falling thick and fast in Liverpool.

a few more quick pics:

GMTV2009 wrote:I was out today and even though we haven't seen snow since Sunday/Monday there is still Slurry on the roads...

How unfortunate:

Google definition wrote:A semi fluid mixture of faeces and urine which may also include rain water and yard washings.

Ok I'm bored of the cold now. Roll on March.