*OFFICIAL SNOW WATCH THREAD*

It's quite shocking whats unfolding in front of me in canton this evening

It must be shocking in the valleys

I left the shop 10 mins afrter you posted this Baz - Shocking trying to drive home to CF3 .
Never knowen it to be this bad before with the snow

You're kidding right ? This snow is a dusting to my memorys of 2011 when we had non stop snow near enough for 3-4 weeks solid in Lladaff North. All of Cardiff and most of the UK was crippled by the snow as you were talking to have had at least 3 foot of snow in parts. And even worse I remember back in 1983 we had even deeper snow than that.. i was living in Whitchurch at the time, and the snow was so deep you could walk on all the lanes of the M4 motorway and the Coryton interchange. I remember seeing cars just abandoned on the M4, it was freaky, it was literally a deserted motorway in the north of Cardiff. They also had rations of bread and milk in the shops in Whitchurch Village, and people would be queueing outside of them for miles.

This snow is a dusting really in comparison to all that. Don't know why the UK just can't function with this little amount ? Kind of stupid really when the Canadians can have snow waist deep and still keep public transport and schools running as normal.

Try driving when the snow is in your face/windscreen - you can't see the line markings on the road,idiots on the other side of the road driving on my side of the road -
As for how deep the snow was - try going back to the early 80's and that bad winter we had.

This Country

I do mate remember very well the snow of 1983 as I said in my above post. I work in a high School, and have to be at the school for its opening at 6am. It's been Treacherous last friday morning and this morning with the heavy snow blowing towards your wind screen I give you that ( visibility is very poor, can hardly see what's in front of you with wipers on full blast ). Plus the snow is untouched by other cars on the road at the time of the morning I leave for work, so any slight over acceleration and your wheels spin and you can lose the back end of your car ( as it did to me Friday morning last week, and this morning ).

Just driven home from a poker tournement in Newport. All clear just slushy wet snow. 1'c on my car. It then dropped by one degree towards Caerleon and it became white and thick snow had to abandon my car and walk up the hill

Apparently blizzard like conditions in Ebbw Vale

very much so fella

My cousin lives in Beaufort by that big hill, says there's at least a foot of it around the place and more expected tonight

I live at the top of the big hill opposite beaufort hill primary school,i cant see me getting out for a while

Well after calming down and stopping it has now decided to turn into a blizzard again here in cwmbran

been snowing in cardiff on and off all day, coming down a bit now.

NO Snow forcast for Thursday - Derek The Weather Man says