According to R2 travel lady: lots and lots of snow problems and blocked roads in Norwich area?

brian
aberfeldy

"Brian in Aberfeldy" wrote in message
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According to R2 travel lady: lots and lots of snow problems and blocked
roads in Norwich area?


Yeah I saw some pictures on TV news. Didn't look that bad to be honest. You
could see the black bits of road in places and about 2-3 inches on the
pavements. Of course the pictures may not have been where the snow was
deepest since if the roads are blocked the reporter would be unable to get
there. I suspect depths were quite variable given that it was convective.

Will
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On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:14:08 UTC, wrote:
"Brian in Aberfeldy" wrote in message


According to R2 travel lady: lots and lots of snow problems and blocked

roads in Norwich area?


It's horrendous. Three inches of snow in 90 minutes, on a weekday afternoon.. Gridlock everywhere - multiple multi-vehicle "incidents" and children stuck in schools because the buses can't get through (the schools that weren't closed from this morning's flurry, that is).

Mayhem.

On the bright side - Thundersnow!

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On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:14:08 UTC, wrote:
"Brian in Aberfeldy" wrote in message


According to R2 travel lady: lots and lots of snow problems and blocked
roads in Norwich area?

It's horrendous. Three inches of snow in 90 minutes, on a weekday afternoon. Gridlock everywhere - multiple multi-vehicle "incidents" and children stuck in schools because the buses can't get through (the schools that weren't closed from this morning's flurry, that is).

Mayhem.

On the bright side - Thundersnow!
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My friend reported 16cm on the North Norfolk coastbefore this morning
and a blizzard in Swaffham!
Dave

On Jan 15, 3:23*pm, wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:14:08 UTC, *wrote:
"Brian in Aberfeldy" wrote in message

According to R2 travel lady: lots and lots of snow problems and blocked

roads in Norwich area?

It's horrendous. Three inches of snow in 90 minutes, on a weekday afternoon. Gridlock everywhere - multiple multi-vehicle "incidents" and children stuck in schools because the buses can't get through (the schools that weren't closed from this morning's flurry, that is).

Mayhem.

On the bright side - Thundersnow!

I've been looking at the radar, but don't think Southends going to get
the trough :-(
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

1.2°C DP -1.2°C @15:45

Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
"Weather Home & Abroad"

On 15/01/2013 15:23, wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:14:08 UTC, wrote:
"Brian in Aberfeldy" wrote in message


According to R2 travel lady: lots and lots of snow problems and blocked

roads in Norwich area?


It's horrendous. Three inches of snow in 90 minutes, on a weekday afternoon. Gridlock everywhere - multiple multi-vehicle "incidents" and children stuck in schools because the buses can't get through (the schools that weren't closed from this morning's flurry, that is).

Mayhem.

On the bright side - Thundersnow!

.... classic situation in this sort of air-mass: we had a similar event
back in the 1990s in St. Albans: went from a cold, quiet afternoon to
absolute pandemonium within 30 minutes. There's nothing the agencies can
do ... sometimes the 'weather' wins out.

Martin.


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Lat: 50deg 49.25'N, Long: 01deg 53.05'W
Height (amsl): 17 m (56 feet)
COL category: C1 overall

On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:23:47 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:14:08 UTC, wrote:
"Brian in Aberfeldy" wrote in message


According to R2 travel lady: lots and lots of snow problems and blocked

roads in Norwich area?


It's horrendous. Three inches of snow in 90 minutes, on a weekday afternoon. Gridlock everywhere - multiple multi-vehicle "incidents" and children stuck in schools because the buses can't get through (the schools that weren't closed from this morning's flurry, that is).

Mayhem.

On the bright side - Thundersnow!

Two inches in an hour a bit further south. I drove out to the Suffolk
coast along 20 miles of harmless well-gritted wet road, with some
shallow snow cover on the fields either side. I drove back along the
same road a little later and the surface alternated between slush,
compacted snow and ice. Very easy to go fastish in the slush and then
hit ice a little further on. Fortunately, most drivers were
maintaining sensible separation distances on the A1120.

John

On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 4:45:06 PM UTC, John wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:23:47 -0800 (PST), wrote:



On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:14:08 UTC, wrote:

"Brian in Aberfeldy" wrote in message





According to R2 travel lady: lots and lots of snow problems and blocked



roads in Norwich area?





It's horrendous. Three inches of snow in 90 minutes, on a weekday afternoon. Gridlock everywhere - multiple multi-vehicle "incidents" and children stuck in schools because the buses can't get through (the schools that weren't closed from this morning's flurry, that is).



Mayhem.



On the bright side - Thundersnow!



Two inches in an hour a bit further south. I drove out to the Suffolk

coast along 20 miles of harmless well-gritted wet road, with some

shallow snow cover on the fields either side. I drove back along the

same road a little later and the surface alternated between slush,

compacted snow and ice. Very easy to go fastish in the slush and then

hit ice a little further on. Fortunately, most drivers were

maintaining sensible separation distances on the A1120.



John

From Mid Suffolk.
A member of my family who lives in Norwich has just driven home and reports that there were some slow taffic at times he found no real problem on his route.

Here in Mid Suffolk 8 miles E of Bury St Edmunds, yesterday after light snow from 1400 for a couple of hours a mod spell from 1700 left me with 3cm by 1800. There was then a little light rain until 2100 when mod/heavy snow returned, ceasing at midnight leaving 8cm.
This compacted to 6cm at 9am this morning. This amount assisted 5 accidents early morning along a 10 mile stretch of the narby A14.
I read in this evenings Ipswich newspaper;-

'Meanwhile, the Met Office said 9cm of snow fell over Ipswich overnight, and said isolated snow showers could hit the region later this afternoon.'

Amazingly I went to Ipswich this morning and there was only a patchy half cm at best
It seems that Met Office call Wattisham 8 miles away and approx 300 ft higher - Ipswich. Ipswich had had mostly rain yesterday. Wattisham reported 9cm at 0900.

As I left Ipswich 1530 there was a heavy snow shower which left about 4cm on my car in half an hour whilst parked at supermarket.
Now the overtaking lane on A14 was covered with slush but still the container lorries continued past us in convoy at their 60 miles an hour.

Scary!
NSS Mid Suffolk

On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:29:56 -0800 (PST), Jennik
wrote:

On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 4:45:06 PM UTC, John wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:23:47 -0800 (PST), wrote:



On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:14:08 UTC, wrote:

"Brian in Aberfeldy" wrote in message





According to R2 travel lady: lots and lots of snow problems and blocked



roads in Norwich area?





It's horrendous. Three inches of snow in 90 minutes, on a weekday afternoon. Gridlock everywhere - multiple multi-vehicle "incidents" and children stuck in schools because the buses can't get through (the schools that weren't closed from this morning's flurry, that is).



Mayhem.



On the bright side - Thundersnow!



Two inches in an hour a bit further south. I drove out to the Suffolk

coast along 20 miles of harmless well-gritted wet road, with some

shallow snow cover on the fields either side. I drove back along the

same road a little later and the surface alternated between slush,

compacted snow and ice. Very easy to go fastish in the slush and then

hit ice a little further on. Fortunately, most drivers were

maintaining sensible separation distances on the A1120.



John

From Mid Suffolk.
A member of my family who lives in Norwich has just driven home and reports that there were some slow taffic at times he found no real problem on his route.

Here in Mid Suffolk 8 miles E of Bury St Edmunds, yesterday after light snow from 1400 for a couple of hours a mod spell from 1700 left me with 3cm by 1800. There was then a little light rain until 2100 when mod/heavy snow returned, ceasing at midnight leaving 8cm.
This compacted to 6cm at 9am this morning. This amount assisted 5 accidents early morning along a 10 mile stretch of the narby A14.
I read in this evenings Ipswich newspaper;-

'Meanwhile, the Met Office said 9cm of snow fell over Ipswich overnight, and said isolated snow showers could hit the region later this afternoon.'

Amazingly I went to Ipswich this morning and there was only a patchy half cm at best
It seems that Met Office call Wattisham 8 miles away and approx 300 ft higher - Ipswich. Ipswich had had mostly rain yesterday. Wattisham reported 9cm at 0900.

As I left Ipswich 1530 there was a heavy snow shower which left about 4cm on my car in half an hour whilst parked at supermarket.
Now the overtaking lane on A14 was covered with slush but still the container lorries continued past us in convoy at their 60 miles an hour.

Scary!
NSS Mid Suffolk


The list of incidents in http://www.bbc.co.uk/travelnews/norfolk is
currently quite impressive - 24 when I last looked. To take one:

"A149 Cromer Road blocked between the B1157 Holt Road junction in
Sheringham and the B1156 Langham Road junction in Blakeney, because of
ice, snow and abandoned vehicles in the road".

We had about 2cm overnight near Debenham and 5 to 6cm more in one
shower just after lunchtime.

Currently -3C here and a very brief max today of 0.5C, with most of
the day -1C.

John

On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:29:56 PM UTC, Jennik wrote:

Amazingly I went to Ipswich this morning and there was only a patchy half cm at best

It seems that Met Office call Wattisham 8 miles away and approx 300 ft higher - Ipswich. Ipswich had had mostly rain yesterday. Wattisham reported 9cm at 0900.




I suppose if you are in Exeter, Wattisham is Ipswich.

Didn't there used to be a Weather Centre in Norwich? I doubt they would have made that mistake.

But, the accountants saw to that.