Vanoord
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17 years ago
This morning's webcam image:

[img]http://www.aditnow.co.uk/showimage?f=/community/Personal-Album-2-Image-030/[/img]

This is, unless I'm very much mistaken, the first snowfall of this winter in north Wales :)

For anyone who doesn't know AditNow has a webcam of Snowdon, it's under 'Fun Stuff' at the bottom of the links at the left had side of the page and is here: http://www.aditnow.co.uk/webcam/ 
Hello again darkness, my old friend...
AR
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17 years ago
It's the same here in the Peak District, we've got a covering of rather wet and sleety snow - times like this, you start thinking about being underground..... 😉
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It's even snowing here now and it's settling everywhere, be fun if it snows all night, but it's prob go before tomorrow morning.

Wonder if any one's got any tales of going underground and coming out to find themself stuck somewhere!!!!
I went in a mine once.... it was dark and scary..... full of weirdos


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17 years ago
nothing better that emerging from a mine, and finding it's been snowing.......
Kein geneis kanaf - Cain gnais canaf
Byt vndyd mwyhaf - byth onddyth moyav
Lliaws a bwyllaf - Líows o boylav
Ac a bryderaf - ac o boryddarav
Kyfarchaf y veird byt - covarcav yr vairth
Pryt nam dyweid - poryth na'm dowaith
Py gynheil y byt - Pa gonail y byth
Na syrch yn eissywyt - na soroc yn eishoyth
Neur byt bei syrchei - nour byth bai sorochai

sparty_lea
17 years ago
"LeeW" wrote:

It's even snowing here now and it's settling everywhere, be fun if it snows all night, but it's prob go before tomorrow morning.

Wonder if any one's got any tales of going underground and coming out to find themself stuck somewhere!!!!



I've had alot of trouble getting home a time or two after caving trips in the Yorkshire Dales. The most unpleasant experience on those lines though, was coming out of Tatham Wife Hole in a snowstorm. It was a complete whiteout and we were soaked to the skin. I had an oversuit on top of a lightweight wetsuit and by the time I got back to the car the zips on both were frozen solid and so were my fingers.

Felt even more sorry for my four mates who had an old series two landrover, the pair travelling in the back had a particularly chilly ride home.
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carnkie
17 years ago
Interesting point but from an historical point of view it has surely to be remembered that this caused many premature deaths to miners especially in Cornwall.
Exiting a deep hot mine after cilmbing hundreds of feet of ladders into wet, cold, etc didn't do much for their health. In fact many of them died very young, 😞

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Once took eleven attempts to get a Range Rover up to a mine in the snow (there is a video around somewhere)
Lots of deep water in the mine, when I came out I needed help to get wet kit off, stood barefoot in 4 inches of snow and couldn't feel the difference from taking my boots off 😉
And no, I dont feel the cold much as a rule!
carnkie
17 years ago
"jagman" wrote:

Once took eleven attempts to get a Range Rover up to a mine in the snow (there is a video around somewhere)
Lots of deep water in the mine, when I came out I needed help to get wet kit off, stood barefoot in 4 inches of snow and couldn't feel the difference from taking my boots off 😉
And no, I dont feel the cold much as a rule!



Completely irrelevant but in a former life I was a meteorologist and was posted to the salisbury Plain in the winter of 1962/3. Turned out to be the snowiest and coldest on record. It was like the Antarctic. I have never beeen so cold.
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Wyn
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Came out of Lefel Fawr at Pontrhydygroes once, to find the world had turned white...
Wish I'd looked at the forecast yesterday, I travelled up from Somerset last night, it was OK till the Black Mountains, unfortunately I was on a motorbike. :ohmygod:
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It snowed in coventry too .... we are normaly the last to get it....
Duz tha want it !!
grahami
17 years ago
Snow - call this snow ? I remember when it was so deep we had to cut slots to get to the school door..... (Must have been about 1962 I guess...) However snow at the quarries in the days of tramways etc was not fun... I've just uploaded three Caban images to the Oakeley archive of the 1951 snow. Enjoy...

🔗Oakeley-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-025[linkphoto]Oakeley-Slate-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-025[/linkphoto][/link]


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Vanoord
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14 years ago
Just a reminder about the AditNow Snowdonia webcam, seeing as how Si has posted it elsewhere:

[photo]Personal-Album-1-Image-56265[/photo]

For anyone who doesn't know AditNow has a webcam of Snowdon, it's under 'Fun Stuff' at the bottom of the links at the left had side of the page and is here: http://www.aditnow.co.uk/webcam/ 
Hello again darkness, my old friend...
royfellows
14 years ago
Good picture at this time of night.

Maybe set up a MagnumStar next to it would be a good idea?

:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Vanoord
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14 years ago
Do you know what?

I clicked on the link in the email notification and wondered if some *individual* was going to be complaining that it was just a black photograph at this time of night... there's always one! :lol:
Hello again darkness, my old friend...
simonrl
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14 years ago
I could nip round the front of the camera and make some hand animals if you like 😉
my orders are to sit here and watch the world go by
Peter Burgess
14 years ago
Well, after that, I just had to go and look at the webcam image to see what darkness in Wales looks like. Answer - dark. Very dark! 🙂
Edd
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14 years ago
We were getting snowed on in Alderley on Tuesday night while digging. we ended up huddling round the shaft avoiding the buckets to keep warm lol
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mountainpenguin
14 years ago
"Vanoord" wrote:

This morning's webcam image:

[img]http://www.aditnow.co.uk/showimage?f=/community/Personal-Album-2-Image-030/[/img]

This is, unless I'm very much mistaken, the first snowfall of this winter in north Wales :)

For anyone who doesn't know AditNow has a webcam of Snowdon, it's under 'Fun Stuff' at the bottom of the links at the left had side of the page and is here: http://www.aditnow.co.uk/webcam/ 



Ha no we had snow already.
Around the 20th of october. It didnt last long but that was the first snowdonia snow I have seen this year.
This lot was much lower though.
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