OMG, uk from space. awsome
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/8447023.stm

bleeding eck. its cold

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eek

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Bit like Day After Tomorrow! :)

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What? Saturday? :smt037


Flippin' cold here, I know that. And I have to go out on a work-call at 11:15pm for a few hours..... outdoors for some of it :shock:

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Impressive.
I much prefer looking at pictures of snow than having to live with the chaos that surrounds it in this country.

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You can see my house from here!


Awesome - saw it on the front page of a newspaper but thougt it was just a mock up. It's really strange seeing it almost for real - I thought it just looked like that in maps :oops:

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in full
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multime..._c_668878a.jpg

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I want to punch the journalists who call it 'Frozen Britain'. T***ers.

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well said Metal :lol:

And surely its been touched up a bit aint it? Looks too "uniform" to my eye.

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Heh, we have either BBC News 24 or Sky News on in work all day so I have my fill of the alarmist media (and the BBC is as bad as Sky) with all this nonsense about 'Frozen Britain' and 'paralysed this' and 'panic buying that' and 'death for entire counties assured as councils have only 3kg of grit left having dumped it all on the roads before there was any snow or ice so it all just got swept away, which is rather like having a w*nk before a hot date.'

It does seem a bit uniformly white, doesn't it? I can't really believe that all of the UK was snowed in while Eire remained mostly green.

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It's claimed it is straight from a NASA satellite. I doubt it's been touched up. Resolution would be so low that it would appear all white, even when motorways etc would be cleared.

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Hey thats a sensible thing to do man. You dont wanna leave the house with a loaded weapon ;)

Anyway, yes they always just ignore Ireland in the weather reports like its not attached to northern island, lol.

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Why should the BBC report on the weather for another country? Just cos it's attached to part of the UK is irrelevant - no?

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They tell us the weather in the US like we need to know that. Surely the way the winds blow over the south or ireland make a difference to what arrives in the north and further.

Ignoring the southern part is just as silly as when they used a voice over guy for gerry adams imho.

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more detailed

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/g....1150.250m.jpg

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Why? surely the whole of Britain is frozen as proved by that photo. :confused:

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Amazing piccy that Bibio , I might print that out onto Photographic paper

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oh right

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Something with a dusting of snow on top of it is not 'frozen'!

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Yeah... Why doesn't all the water in the sea fall off the bottom of the picture? :smt101

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...and anyway I thought the earth was flat and the moon was made of cheese:p

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Woah! Epic photo!

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Dam you were quicker than me, was about to post the same link thinking it looked cool.

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Well it's below 0 degree C. So where else do you draw the limit? -10, -20,-40 ? :???:

Just because something is described as frozen doesn't mean all life has ceased. But it's still frozen :p

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I'm glad someone else noticed that too. I call fix!

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When the ground is frozen enough you can't get a shovel through the first metre or so of it?

I think when you're from central Canada or the prairie provinces where winter temps are often -30C, then this is almost shorts and tshirt weather :)

I'm from the West coast (near Vancouver) so this is fairly similar to the weather here, but I have visted Edmonton in -30C. Before that I'd heard people on the coast always say it felt just as cold as the praries because of the coastal damp. They were wrong. That kind of cold is just shocking -it makes you gasp when you step outside.

At one point I went out to the garage with my sister to raid the beer fridge. We each grabbed a Sleeman's (clear bottle) out of the fridge. Within say 20 seconds of opening the bottles they had started to turn to slush, overflowing the tops of the bottles and became totally undrinkable. Now that's cold!

My sister was a pilot for Ken Borek Air (remember the red/white plane in the Top Gear Arctic special?) and regularly flew in/out of Cambridge Bay in the Arctic circle - they had temps there of -50C!

With respect to driving though I found it much easier and safer in theextreme cold. Albertans always make jokes about BC drivers in the snow, but the snow there (Alberta) is so dry it just packs down (or blows away) and doesn't really turn to ice, or slush/ice, nor do they suffer the thawing and refreezing resulting in skating rinks for roads, or black ice. Their roads are flat and straight as well.

Here I think one of the biggest problems is people not realising/respecting the danger. I drove my wife to work this morning (in a Hilux Surf) and had some woman in a Ka tailgating me so close I couldn't see the front end of her car :rolleyes:

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yes but you are from canada m8, where men are men and sheep are scared. the uk has not been like this for 30 years and to us its a freeze. its usually about +3/+10c at this time of year, soooooo its cold as far as we are concerned.

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To be fair, the corner I'm from (Victoria on the South West coast) has a pretty similar climate to the southern half of this country:

[From Wikipedia]

Daily temperatures rise above 30°C (86°F) on an average of one or two days per year and fall below -5°C (23°F) on an average of only 2 nights per year. During the winter, the average daily high and low temperatures are 8°C (47°F) and 4°C (38°F), respectively. The summer months are equally mild, with an average high temperature of 20°C (67°F) and low of 11°C (52°F). Victoria does occasionally experience more extreme temperatures. The highest temperature ever recorded in Victoria was 36.1°C (97°F) on July 16, 1941,[9] while the coldest temperature on record was -16°C (4°F) on December 29, 1968 and January 28, 1950.

Victoria averages just 26 cm (10.2 in) of snow annually. Every few decades, Victoria receives very large snowfalls, including the more than 100 cm (39.4 in) of snow that fell in December 1996. On the other hand, roughly one third of winters will see virtually no snow, with less than 5 cm (1.97 in) falling during the entire season. When snow does fall, it rarely lasts long on the ground. Victoria averages just 2–3 days per year with at least 5 cm (1.97 in) of snow on the ground.

The snow get's a bit deeper not far from there though, so I had plenty of practice messing about driving in empty parking lots when I was a teen.

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Dude, you must be so much fun down the pub. I can't wait to hang out with you...

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LOL - I should have added that I cut and pasted that from Wikipedia (fixed now) - I'm not that much of an anorak. I do run into a lot of people who think all of Canada is a frozen over for half the year. My father-in-law is guilty- assumed I lived amongst igloos and moose :rolleyes:

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:lol:
I think the italics kinda suggests it's been copied from somewhere rather than off the top of his head.
For exiting reading see http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.p...68#post2141668

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Figured as much as well, but thought I haven't spammed a thread in aaaaages.

Do you mean exciting reading? As in to read something that's exciting? Or do you mean exiting Reading, as in leaving one of the duller suburban centres along the M4?

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Ahh yes quickly spellchecked it & chose the wrong option :(.



Imagine my confusion on watching the movie Burn After Reading to find out it wasn't set in Berkshire :smt101

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White britain- BNP's aim has been achieved!

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Get to Yakutsk, its reached -80c over there before making it a world record.

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See, I thought that was advice on what to do with your tent after a music festival...