Next 14 days*: constant snow, about 20cm per day.
Friday: BLIZZARD FUCK YES.

This is gonna be fun

hell yeah! tonight we had -41 one place in norway!!!!! i mean.. common -41 degrees... holy <LOOK MA, I AM SWEARING>. its about -17 in oslo.. -17/-20.. <LOOK MA, I AM SWEARING> cold shit!! but -41.. im so glad i wasnt there!

It was +2 here today, still snowed though .

Average temp right about now hovers at around -2 or so, so still pretty warm. Last year we had -30, that was fun -.-

least not -41 or more:D hahaha damn why do we live in such cold countries haha

We had -28 where i lived.

The capital city. In a valley. Usually close to 35 during the summer.

Needless to say it was pretty ridicilus in some other places . It's not that bad though really, i like cold more than hot, it's not really that bad. Though the UK panic of OMG IT'S BELLOW ZEROWTFOMG makes me facepalm.

EDIT: -28 not -30, bleh

+30C is nice
+40C is better.

i wanna go to like....... somewhere warm atm.. greece? spain? portugal? anywhere?

I hope it stops snowing soon, need to go to uni

Also, the reason England suffers when it snows is because we don't prepare, and we don't prepare because it doesn't happen enough and therefore doesn't make sense (financially) to do so.

Apparently it's going to cost the UK economy £2billion. Surely it would have been cheaper to prepare?

2billion is tiny in terms of a whole economy.

You can buy enough ploughs to service the country 50 times over with that amount of money. Though admitedlly salting the roads would probably cost a bit as well.

And some profit gained on sold winter tyres people would buy.

I think it makes more economic sense to prepare

wtf i just looked at the temprature. andmy brother told me. that it was -28 this morning. no wonder why my face felt like ice!

The thing is, this is a freak event for the UK, we haven't had this much snow in decades. Typically we get, at most, a day or two of light snow a year, which isn't enough to constitute having a full fleet of plows etc. We have gritter trucks, but that's about it.

Also, bear in mind that the figures been thrown around refer to the ECONOMY not the GOVERNMENT. This means that is combined "lost profit" for ALL the companies affected, not how much money would be available to spend on national things, such as snow preparedness.

Could that of been the ice you put on your face?

what ice lol:P no. i blame the - way to much cold outside...

You don't really need that many ploughs really.. The main issue would be, from what i know, the UK governement is pissy about anything new being introduced, and probably would just dismiss it as a waste of time since it would take years to organize anything...

There are 250000 miles of road in the UK, apparently. Would need a fair few plows for that. We already plow the motorways and possibly other major roads. Seriously, the amount of snow we get, it would be a waste of time and money.

They don't plow the motorways here(and pretty much anywhere in the world, it's just waaaaaaaay too much road), only the main city roads, The only thing they do on motorways is gritting so the road doesn't ice, the snow tyres take care of the rest(they're required by law during winter). I guess that would solve most of the issues in the UK as way.

As for other smaller roads and driveways, grab a shovel and move it

We grit loads for the ice.

As for snow tyre laws, that would be the most stupid thing possible in the UK. We get irregular short periods of snow, so the possible laws;
1) Snow tyres required between X and Y - would wreck roads horribly (snow tyres damage roads when there's no snow).
2) Snow tyres required to be used when snowing - Do you really think the general populus would be happy buying a complete set of tyres (costing hundreds) for use for, at most, a few days a year?

There is nothing that can be feasibly and sensibly done in the UK about snow, other than look after major transport routes and wait for it to pass to resume normal operation.

They could heat the roads ;D

Cool, but also pointlessly expensive

8billion hot water bottles.

Tactically placed in secret locations

haha! tracks*

How would one hide 8 000 000 000 hot water bottles?

In NZ pretty much everybody had snow chains.

You'd think that the roads would be awful but they are much much better than any UK roads. They have very good highway maintenance over there. No pot holes.