Snow!

The sun is shining here too.

But

Most od Scotland is at -2oC and it is snowing.

Again.

The temperature in the house is 16.5C

I think that I am going to die without seeing and touching the snow in my life.

I never have seen it (except in the movies), I never have touched it.......

Where I live only had snow about a few times in my life, a little bit of snow in the highest part of the island only once each 5 years or so

I'd send you some, but it'd be hot water by the time it got to you ;)

You lucky bastards...who lives in 25-30 C in winter

Here is -1C, morning was -5C.

Yesterday, morning was 10cm snow. It rained in the afternoon, freezing rain fell in the evening...
Becouse yesterday was not enough cold, the snow sticks on the trees. Some tree fallen on the catenary. We had no electricity for 6 hours. But, "We love it here!" like Walter in Jeff Dunham show.
Here from 7:50

It's a bit cold today here. Probably as cold as it will get all week...

Beginning of Brazilian summer, midday, outside temp is +25 ºC...

I don't even have central heating. No one here bothers. We worry about big windows and air conditioning. Local notion of extreme cold is +9 ºC....

I like this - all the different climates happening at the same time....

I've lived in a place where 18 degrees caused me to shiver. Expected temperature here tonight is -6 but in some places -20.

The record here is -27.2oC about 30yr ago. The highest ever recorded was 32.9 in 2003. I don't think I have ever experienced 30 in Scotland.

Last time I was in Madrid (April 2004), everyone seemed to be wearing all the clothes they owned. Me I was wandering around in shorts and a T-shirt.

Some pictures from yesterday: 1, 2, 3.

It's cold in Hungray but the women are Hot

The "official" record here is -35,0 °C in 1940.02.16.. The highest ever recorded was 41,9 °C in 2007.07.20. (Hungary)

Extreme values.... Since, i remember, i experienced the average temperature in summer 25-32, and in winter 1- (-20).

Wow, nice picture, I only can see this in TV, Now here in HK the temperature is around 18ºC-27ºC

It is very warm here , lol .

All those pics of snow reminds me of living in Alaska. Waking up in the morning to go to work then opening the front door to find 2-3 feet of snow and having to dig out our vehicles.

Oh what memories...... or nightmares. Surprised

wow, I just learned that where I live (winnipeg, manitoba, canada) is the coldest city in the world with a population over 600,000. we usually get a stretch averaging -30c with windchills well into -40c range. luckily that is a month or so away.

So far in the past 2 weeks we have gotten around almost 50cm of snow which is sitting at record levels (and i love it:D)

I'd love it too if I could get home :(

Very nice! I passed through there on the trans-Canada just one time when I was a kid, and I still remember it, hauntingly beautiful area.

More and more of the white stuff today..

Don't tell me it is pretty unless you enjoy deep puncture wounds...

It is useful, now you can go skiing! : ) It also helps reflect the light from our flashlights making them light things up a whole lot better

lol!! thats sad you cant get home, where are you stuck for the time being? I must say my subaru awd had gotten me through all of the major snowy downpours we have had, and its fun to boot!

and sb56637, it is beautiful, mainly around winnipeg. Near ontario is where it starts getting absolutely gorgeous on the trans-canada hwy. once you pass winnipeg and get into saskatchewan, well its another story. Unless you find pure field as far as the eye can see a beautiful thing lol :)

We had a bit of snow here last Monday and the city was shut down for basically the whole week....

There also tend to be a lot of timid drivers here who even abandon their vehicles in the middle of the road if they slip even a bit, so generally it's not a good idea to venture out even if you are comfortable driving on slick roads.

I feel the need to rant.

I left the village of Glenmavis at 08:30 this morning - there was a metre of snow on my car and no chance of the roads being cleared any time soon. I've been snowed in 225km from home since Saturday.

It took me over an hour to walk to Airdrie Station.

Get on a train at 10:12.

It stops half way there - at -6oC and no heating on the train. For two hours. THEN they tell us it is broken and they can't fix it. And there are no more trains to Queen Street for 24 hours.

Eventually give up. Thanks First ScotRail - aka a bunch of useless £@$%^& who couldn't keep a bus pass in working order, let a alone a railway.

Take a bus and taxi to Glasgow Queen Street.

About an hour later a train turns up heading in my direction. Except it needed a crew change in Perth and nobody there knew how to drive that sort of train. This is now about 80km from where I started and it's already taken longer than the total journey time ought to. Then it takes them SIX HOURS to look through the "Big book of excuses" to figure out why these losers can't get a working train to Perth in order to head north. Six hours in a station at -4oC. No extra clothes - I didn't take any as I was just going to be away for a day. I've been wearing the same clothes for a week now.

After six hours and increasingly psychotic messages from the centrally controlled automatic system which was talking about trains known to need pulling off the line with a crane as "delayed". Yep! Delayed till March 2011.

Thanks Scot Fail! You've done it again.

Increasingly baroque lies from the station staff. To be fair to them, their managers were lying to them.

But the automated system kept stepping on the station staff trying to tell us what they knew.

Six hours later, they put us on a bus to Dundee.

We get there around 21:00. this is the half way point - about 110km from where I started and about 110km to go.

OK there will be a train in 20 minutes.

Except its doors froze solid at Leuchars and wouldn't close. It isn't all that cold - around -6.

This can only be described as complete and utter incompetence.

So after a couple of hours in Dundee Station - There is one good thing to say about Dundee - the ring road lets you get out of there fairly quickly. I reckon they ruined the city when they put a speed limit on the ring road. There is nothing wrong with Dundee that a couple of fifty megaton weapons couldn't fix.

So a couple of hours in Dundee station. Their station staff were rude, aggressive and lying. These guys would do well at NeverBuying.com

Eventually they find not one, not two, but three trains. Or so they said.

So I ended up on the grossly overcrowded first one as nobody in the station believed that the other two trains existed. Including a lot of First ScotFail employees.

So I eventually get home at 01:00, sixteen and a half hours after I set out. On a bad day it would have taken 4 hours.

Last time I use one of First ScotFail's conveyances.

Yes the weather is awful but it hasn't snowed today and the temperatures are a lot milder 225km south of here than they are here (Currently -10). -30 is not unknown so why are things freezing solid (Like the brakes of the train I was on initially and the brakes of the train sent to retrieve it).

If you are in the UK. DO NOT travel by anything belonging to the First Group. You will regret it.

And this complete disaster cost me $80

How many Chinese lights have that effectively messed up your life?

I think it's time for lawyers at dawn.