Freezing rain

We were due in Leeds (an hours drive for us) last night for OH's works party and seriously considered pulling out as by 4pm it was coming down in sheets. In the end we decided to give it a go based on texts from others on the other side of Leeds saying the roads didn't seem too bad. It was torrential all the way there, the temperature had gone down from 2 deg to 0 by the time we arrived. We left early but the temperature had risen during the evening and by the time we got home it had gone up to 8 deg! Sometimes they get the dire warnings wrong.

We used to keep a couple of horses at a DIY livery yard in West Berks. Think it was late winter 2002 when around 6pm out of the blue we had severe thundersnow, the only time I’ve ever seen this. Horses had all just been stabled overnight and went berserk - they were absolutely terrified. It took me an hour to drive 5 miles to pick my daughter up along country roads.

Frosty here, South of Denmark, we had snow showers yesterday and the day before, but the snow didn't lie.

When we lived in Germany we experienced Freezing Rain in Hannover and first became aware of it when we noticed people ice-skating along the road... Quite extraordinary.

I live in the SE we had the rain up until about 8 o’clock last night. No ice but cold. Then we went to pick up gd from the 02 and it was milder. Strange day.

Warm-ish here in SW Surrey today. No heating on, been for a walk on Blackdown with a friend and took flasks of soup and a sandwhich we ate and drank overlooking the view from Gibbert Hill in Hindhead, about 10 miles. We deserved a sit down.

Freezing rain is one of the worst things I think, we live in Scandinavia and this happens occasionally, not often thank goodness when it does it paralyses traffic, I would rather have snow or rain, thats more manageable!

I wouldn't have stayed upright if I'd have gone out yesterday. A foolish move that would have been.

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Morning walk.

farview It's so lovely to hear you comment on something of beauty in Nature! I think to have the ability to appreciate such natural beauty is a true gift!

Widgeon3 we lived in Hanover for two years. January 1976 to December 1977 and loved it.

Lovely photos Gabriella
Last week my friends and I shared a flask of sherry and some mince pies in a bird hide overlooking a reservoir teeming with wildfowl. Who needs expensive restaurants?

Very wet again here in Devon, risk of flooding. Cat is fed up not being able to go out & having to resort to using his litter tray . He even sits by the catflap looking at me as if I can turn the weather off

I have experienced rain it's frightening, snow I can cope with.

cavewoman
Thank you.
I totally agree and love being outdoors. A few months ago I went on an 'owl day', really only an afternoon, where we saw the most beautiful owls and were able to have them fly onto our (gloved) hand. So cute.
In summer I often cycle with friends to Cowdray Park where we have watched red kites circling above the thermals and saw badgers...yes badgers crossing a field near a stand of trees - unbelievable in the early afternoon. We stopped for refreshment in a field, such a glorious day out and cost nothing.

Thank you Tillybelle...we just have to make time "to stand and stare...". Or we miss it....

I drove to Leeds on Thursday for my son's graduation on Friday. Yesterday when I drove home it was dark very early, raining and very windy. The motorway signs all warned of freezing rain but not sure if it actually was or just a warning that it might be. I was driving South towards London but my DD had to return to Glasgow and skidded on ice as a road closure meant she was sent a different route. Thankfully she got home safely but maybe the rain had been freezing there! DS and DIL went home by train but relieved everyone got home OK. Petty dreadful weather for travelling.

Yes, freezing rain yesterday tea time driving back to Manchester from Bradford. We stopped at traffic lights on the approach to the motorway home and I noticed the drips of rain from the top of the railings by the traffic light crossings were in fact icicles. And they reflected all the lights from cars etc so in fact, mundane as it was, it looked spectacularly beautiful. One has to stop and stare sometimes.

farview. Isn't our weather strange? I'm in Ashton-in-Makerfield (Wigan) - not too far from Bolton and it's been pleasantly mild here today, with very little rain.