Well, I said there was winter weather on the way.
Left Collegiate yesterday at about 10 past five, to find it was raining heavily. There was snow in the rain. The pedant in me said "then that's sleet." But it wasn't. It was rain, which had snow in it. Got to the car. Jumped in. Couldn't see anything! Eventually, because of traffic on Collegiate Crescent headed up to Broomhill and came down Brocco Bank to Hunters Bar. By then it was properly snowing. Wipers were going nineteen to the dozen. I was peering carefully into the gloom.
Hunters Bar roundabout was flooded! Went round it very, very carefully.
Headed up Ecclesall Road and out towards Abbey Lane. Lots of snow. Eventually got to the Meadowhead roundabout, a bit worried. None of the roads had been gritted and the snow was settling. The bypass to Chesterfield was not going to be fun. Not fun at all.
Though, in fact it was rather. Once I got out of South Yorkshire and into North East Derbyshire, the roads were gritted. I drove very slowly and it was like driving through a shower of meteors. Very pretty. Bit scary too, though. And then by the time I got to the Sheepbridge slip road the snow had turned to heavy rain. By the time I got home the rain had reduced to just gentle rain. The Builder reported no exciting weather at all. Just a day of mostly rain with not enough dry spells to do anything useful.
The forecast for today was ice and snow and road misery. No snow or ice in Tupton. Or in Chesterfield. Quite a lot of standing snow in Sheffield, though. The roads are still not gritted. And the sun is shining.
At last, a beautiful winter's day
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