Snow - What Snow?

For the past 48 hours the weather forecasters have been warning us that we were in for heavy snow. I even heard the word blizzard mentioned in relation to the Yorkshire area!

Well for two days we have been happily watching the snow in other areas - Aberdeen, Newcastle, Alnwick, Morpeth (the temperature in Morpeth has been reported as -16C!) Some areas of Northumberland have reported 14" of snow, but this morning we got our first taste of real snow.

There wasn't too much of it, but enough to cover the ground and make the view up the fields look quite picturesque.



Certainly we have had some quite low temperatures. Yesterday I took Dot to work and noticed that the temperature on the car thermometer read - 4.0 C.

This morning I heard the forecasters predicting that we could have more snow, and the temperatures would be staying below zero for up to ten days.

This prolonged cold spell is due to the wind direction changing, and we are now benefitting from cold winds from Siberia!

According to my reckoning this means that the prolonged snow and cold weather will last until next Monday. Isn't it just my luck that I have two concerts booked for next weekend (at Wrose and Heaton) - and both have to be approached up hills!