Winter Weather 2010

People in Seattle do NOT know how to deal with snow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZCyQ3emQg

Forecast was correct from a few days ago. Today we were hit with some snow, originally not as bad as i thought then as the day progressed it got worse. Had to remove near an inch of snow off my car at the end of the day. Supposed to be bad overnight and continues tomorrow.

I am actually now having to wake up earlier than usual to get out at the car earlier than usual to scrape the snow (then ice) off the car before i hit the rush hour traffic in the morning. My usual 30 minute commute is now taking at least 45 minutes.

Particularly made a point on being up earlier on today to clear the snow and get ahead of all the traffic. It turns out other people had the same idea and as a result i joined slow moving traffic which tailed back a good 5 miles. I left for work (9am start) at 7:45am and arrived at 9:20. It usually takes me no more than 30 minutes during rush hour traffic.

I took this photo before i cleared the car from snow this morning. The way things are going it'll be the same tomorrow morning...

It's more or less been snowing non stop for the past week now. I cannot remember a time when it was ever this bad in November, usually it's after the new year we get this sort of stuff. It sort of makes me wonder what it will be like then if it's this bad now!

A few days ago across the UK we experienced record low temperatures hitting as low as -17C (1.3F). I've given up digging my car out and will probably look at other ways in which i can get to work on Wednesday if things don't improve.

At least the penguins in Edinburgh Zoo are enjoying it...

http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/EZPenguinCam.html

That's us had snow for 7 days now. It's not often it lasts this long. We almost always never have much in November. I've worked out that I don't dislike snow, I just dislike the fact that it will be gone soon and we then have all the pot holes on the road and it just gets silly wet.

Coldest start of December in some parts of the UK for 20 years...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11883714

...and still snowing. I am not used to this, it's probably something you are used to in some parts of America and Canada but not in the UK. We don't often get more than a week of solid snow.

One of the things mentioned in the article is that the Forth Road Bridge, which is the main bridge linking Edinburgh to the north of Scotland, was closed at one point for the first time in it's 46 year history.