First snow

Well, the first big one since I’ve been here, anyway. And how! We had just a few small flurries the other day and although the forecast that I usually look at said that we should expect to have a couple of cold days, it didn’t say that we would also be almost snowed in! But that’s what has indeed occurred 😐

I happened to be out of bed at about 4.00am last night and when I took a look outside, my garden was completely clear of any frost or snow. But when I got up just before 9.00am it was snowing hard and there was already a covering of at least eight or nine centimeters. Since then it has continued without stopping and although the snowfall is now only very light, at the time of writing it is still coming down. It seems that a large weather system that was moving in off the Atlantic towards the UK decided to turn south during the night and aim for the west coast of France. As it came further south it linked up with another smaller system moving into France at the southern end of the Bay of Biscay setting up a kind of pincer movement. When the two systems had come together, they then dumped their loads right over us 🙂

I checked up to discover where all of this snow had come from and if you click on the image below you can see a short video that I made that shows what happened in the preceding 24 hours.

I decided that there was no point trying to get anything done today because it would have been a thankless task bringing materials indoors through the snow. Things I left outside are under quite a few centimeters now and I couldn’t face trudging indoors with tons of the stuff on each boot then having it falling off all over the floor. Toddie loves the snow and we’ve been out in it several times, but even he’s found it a bit heavy going now that he’s older. So I decided that I’d just spend the day taking a few pictures around my house and garden to show what it’s like and sticking them up here on My Trike. So here they are.

And finally, one taken much later in the day looking east out over the field across the road from my house.

And to round the day off, if you click on the pic below you can see a short video I shot of today’s snowfall.

The forecast is that over the next couple of days or so we’ll have temperatures as low as -11 degrees C so I guess that we’ll not see much change until things start to warm up again around Saturday. Until then I think the best idea will be to stay indoors and keep warm 😉