There was much delight throughout most of Britain yesterday as the snow pelted down and the countryside turned white. And for the same reason there was also much misery with slippy pavements making walking treacherous and transport disruption causing chaos.
Here in Edinburgh yesterday's snow was slushy rather than fluffy. So when I woke up this morning I was not surprised to see that my green grass had reappeared with only a few grey slushy patches left from yesterday.
Yesterday wasn't our first snow of the Winter. You may just recall that I showed you a photo of a Wintry Scene at Abercorn as 'early' as 23rd November. And the photo above of the Pentland Hills viewed from Winchburgh was taken on 3rd December. Whereas the photo below of snow in my back garden was taken two weeks ago on 19th January.
The snow may not have lasted very long this year, but we have had several snowy days through the Winter - and it's not over yet!
Mind you, I recall at least one Winter within the past ten years where the snow lay on the ground for two weeks. And before that when the temperature was around -10°C for many days in a row, resulting in frozen drain pipes, etc. And back in the Winter of 78/79, some of you may remember the gritter strike at the time of the blizzards. The temperature was down to -18°C and we had to walk everywhere for three days in a row! Ah yes, them were the days!
I remember one winter when the village near where I lived had a tunnel through the snow - they had to get in a special tunnelling machine to dig through the snow because the ploughs coudnt get through. We have lots of snow today - but its the first real snow of this winter for us, and we usually have loads more than we have had so far this winter.
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