Day 44/365 Snow, AGAIN!

Looks like winter has not yet given up....more snow predicted and, almost for once, arrived to schedule.  Slight 'dandruff' gradually turned into an inch and a half in places.  Gradually being washed away now by milder conditions and light rain.  Back to soggy and grey by morning - oh well.

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Day 26/365 Eerie glow!

Having had blizzard snow conditions for six hours, the snow finally began easing around 23:00.  There was a distinctive silence and a strange eerie glow to the sky from street lighting.  Rising temperature, and rain promised during the night, meant this might be all gone by morning so........

Day 25/365 Treacherous road conditions!

First time out in days and the heavens open - with the white stuff.  My drive home was horrendous.  Barely one centimetre of settled snow turned 'yet to be treated' roads into skating rinks.  Several miles, and minutes, on from this photo is a gentle bridge over a railway track.  In that time, the snow had built to about four centimetres and that bridge might as well have the side of Everest - cars weaving and scrambling over it!

A couple of hours later and the weather was still giving its all!

Day 18/365 Snow!

Well, after 24 hours of trying (abysmally) to snow in Astley Village, Chorley, the constant dusting managed to deposit about one inch of settled snow - enough to put me off the drive into Preston and back this afternoon. Not getting more than two metres from the front door without slipping, I decided to stay put indoors and took this photo of the 'back garden'.

Lytham in the snow

Two weeks after a tooth crown falling out, I manage to pick some of the worst weather to drive the 12 miles to Lytham (to have my root canal filled and the crown reset).  A drive that would normally have taken half an hour, took nearer an hour and a half, but at least on the way home I managed to get this wintery shot of Lytham Windmill (before the anaesthetic wore off!!!).  It is actually in colour!