Snow

[Scottish Mag 3]

Heavy snow and blizzards have gripped parts of Scotland and Wales overnight, with similar conditions expected for parts of England during the day.

Thousands of clubbers were left stranded in Glasgow overnight after heavy snowstorms affected transport.

 

An estimated 3,000 people had to shelter in a nightclub, a bus station and a hotel, while gritters worked to make the roads passable.

 

The snowfall is not expected to ease until about midday on Sunday.

 

Western Scotland and central and north Wales were also waking to snow on Sunday morning, with bitterly cold temperatures expected to bring similar conditions to north west England.

 

This is quite late in the winter season to be seeing snow of this magnitude

 

Forecasters said light snow could also fall across the West Midlands, Bristol and possibly Somerset.

 

The Met Office issued a severe weather warning.

 

Higher ground could have 15 to 20 centimetres (six to eight inches) of snow by the end of Sunday, said forecasters.

 

The Met Office has predicted that snow could turn to rain in some areas later, which means the possibility of flooding.

 

Penny Tranter, of the BBC Weather Centre, said: "During the day on Sunday, the snow will move right across the rest of Scotland and all of northern England, with blizzards continuing.

 

"There will be snow at lower levels as well."

 

Cool air from Scandinavia has caused this severe weather.

 

Ms Tranter added: "This is quite late in the winter season to be seeing snow of this magnitude."

 

Is it snowing in Newcastle?

 

Its crazy the amount of snow we have got here and living in a small town the roads etc are completely covered.

 

However my Dad was due to leave about 5 am to travel down south, i expected to get up this morning and find the car still there however it looks like he had made the journey.

[The Mighty Hog 331]

Got some up here. No blizzards though. Just looks like it's been snowing steadily overnight.

[Toonraider 0]

No snow here in Torquay....just loads of miserable rain

 

Absolutely freezing last night in Birmingham though

[rikko 20]

Small amount of snow in mancland. Nowhere near enough to affect the game though

[Scottish Mag 3]

My SKYs not been working all morning so i have just hung out the window clearing the dish of all the snow that was on it and hey presto its working again. Looks like i`ll see the match after all.

[Guest CrimsonFault]

It's like Pete Doherty has blown his nose.

[Matt 0]

I was in Lancaster this weekend and got up to find a good 2-3 inches of snow. Trying to get out from the street I was staying in was fun, I turned left and the car faced left, but then glided gently to the far side of the road- Thankfully there was no oncoming traffic. It's absolutely covered across North Lancs and though the South Lakes. M6 by Shap was extremely dodgy.

[Bellers 0]

Been snowing all day in Darlo today, the forecast said it would miss us, useless bastards.

[Geordiesned 0]

The M62 was a reet bastard today - quite a few shunts and loads of broken down motors - I just made kick off despite setting off just after half 9. Not too bad on the way back though.