Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:58:41 +0000, Andy Champ wrote:

It's stuff that isn't really fine and powdery, like the stuff you get in
the Alps and almost never in England, where the snow is wet and soggy.

Eh? We rarely get wet and soggy snow.

We rarely get anything BUT.


The worst thing abut the UK is a typcal winters day goes above freeing
by day, so water trickles into stuff washing away any antifreeze, and
then below freezing at night so it freezes and jams...its harder to cpe
with than weeks of sub-zero.


It's nearly always powder and
dry. Makes building or snowball fights almost impossible as it
doesn't hold together. The inch and a half we had last night just
blew off the car. Just as well it wasn't windy or the roads would
have been interesting with the ensuing drifts, mind you being fresh,
light and dry you can pretend to be a boat and just drive through the
drifts and they flow like water. That doesn't last long though 24 to
48hrs after falling and it compacts down under it's own weight and
becomes much firmer. Still not much good for building though.

Last night was VERY cold indeed. I've only seen UK temps that low a few
times in my life.