On 11/02/2013 00:47, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Lawrence13 wrote:
That many who are very protective and non critical of UKMO's
ludicrous warning codswallop are less forgiving if the same same stuff
comes from a Mr Corbyn. It's as if they are caught in No Man's Land.

Me? I think they are both way OTT; the only redeeming feature for
Piers is that he isn't handicapped by H&S madness and Political
Correctness.
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The thing I don't get is why ruin what was an excellent actual forecast
for most with warnings that are exaggerated. It was marginal, it did

I think painting the entire country yellow over the weekend was
alarmist. There was a reasonable case for painting the higher ground
yellow but not for anywhere with predicted ambient above 4C.

snow where and when they said it would but to quote what I said
yesterday on here :-"I think they don't really need to act as concerned
as they are though, because surely even if they get the regions and
amounts wrong nowhere is going to see disruption for long? It isn't
really going to be that cold in subsequent days is it? "

To me it is the warnings that are always the weak point.

There is an irony that from a traffic congestion point of view that fast
snowfall at almost exactly freezing point to form slush is pretty much
the worst case. The problem stems from drivers being too close and too
fast followed by stationary and in large clumps of bent metal.

Dave, S.Essex
(Mind you my step was a bit slippy with the slush on it when I went out
to look just now )

Even the local radio traffic warnings were in on the act yesterday.
Conditions over the M62 were not great, but they were more or less what
you might expect for the time of year and well within the envelope for
driving safely over the Pennines. It gets serious up there when you get
down to a ploughed single lane weaving between abandoned cars.

I have driven it in in those conditions once and wheel nuts on a front
wheel started to come loose from all the vibration driving on pack ice.
We caught up the snow plough which seemed to leave 1" pitch undulations
in the ice it left behind. Not recommended...

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Regards,
Martin Brown