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Region is braced for snow
Friday 24th October 2008, 11:43AM BST.
Snow will arrive in the West Midlands next week as winter temperatures hit the region weeks earlier than usual.
See also: Send us your snow photos
Forecasters today warned of ground frost, with an Arctic blast of cold air set to send temperatures tumbling to below freezing at night.
Express & Star weatherman John Warner said it would get colder as the week progresses, with snow showers expected on Wednesday and Thursday.
Daytime temperatures on Monday will be around 9C, dropping to –2C overnight. By Tuesday the mercury will dip to 7C and 5C on Wednesday.
Mr Warner said: “Much colder weather is on the way, with night frost and wintry showers typical of mid-November, not the end of October. It will be quite a shock because we have been used to much milder weather recently.”
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well we will see as never get any weather right
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Whoop whoop…..time to dust of the thermal under crackers and wax those skis!
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I’ll believe it when I see it
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Damn, I can’t see anything, I’m buried beneath 6 feet of snow
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Yippy………..Hope we do so I can take photos for Christmas cards :)
It will more than likely be a bad winter because of all the fuel costs we will have to pay out………How nice for us to cosy up together for the night……….Nice and romantic lol..
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I’ll believe it when i see it! So many false warnings in the past and little to show for it! Maybe there is a bubble over the West Midlands that makes it immune to a bit of snow!
My daughter is 5 and has never seen proper snow….you know the sort that lasts for more than day!
On the flip side when we do get an inch the area cant cope! We grind to a halt…. hilarious!
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Yay up goes the gas bills
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Global warming eh?!
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I’m a big kid at heart, fingers crossed for a proper snowfall, not mushy ice. Time for the winter woolies, gloves and scarfs.
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With the greatest respect to Mr Warner and the Express and Star I think the headline is rather misleading. Yes we may see snow fall from the sky next week. However it is very unlikely to settle for any length of time so early in the season. Therefore people expecting Christmas card scenes or the like will be disappointed, and accuse forecasters of being wrong again.
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This is political correctness gone mad. I blame Gordon Brown.
Oh sorry, wrong thread!
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The good news is that it’s predicted by “Forecasters” which means it won’t happen. It’s just a made up story to fill a space in a “newspaper”.
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“you know the sort that lasts for more than a day!”
Please do come to Canada..when the snow arrives here it stays until April…that should satisfy snow lovers who only view snow on Christmas cards…lol
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they cant get the next day right so how can they predict almost a week on….
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the weathers a changin but my canaries wouldnt stop singin tues night i wonder why
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Glyn #13
I’m south of you in Ohio we should get snow next week as well.
Got my Horlicks ready, started on the first container last week, plants taken inside,lawnmowers winterized, heater ready and runing- preparing to be -”snug as a bug in a rug”
waiting for groundhog day :)
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Makes no difference to us in Sandwell, this council is still surprised every time it gets cold in the winter, and if there is snow, they have to actually go out and touch it to see what it feels like, they still cant understand why snow only happens in the winter.
Gritting the roads??? yes they do grit the roads, well the main roads, what they haven’t realise is that people cant get out of the side roads to then be able to use the main roads, and the vehicles using the main roads are usually at a standstill so the heat from the exhausts melts the snow anyway, but hey , they are the experts and know better than us, after all they were the ones who built the Public.
Jim of Bearwood.
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,oh well im off to sunny spain on tues morning mmmmmmmmmm temp of 75 deg at the moment ,good luck to all of you and dont forget wear a wolly hat .lol
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Oh dear snow on the way and I am nice and warm in my t-shirt and boardies but that could be partly that I live in Brisbane Australia now and its sunny 25c. Not missing the cold english nights at all and the big energy bills. I have been here since june and my gas has cost 50 quid since then. Good here ain’t it. Oh yeah and mr Rudd is giving us $2000 for xmas. What are you getting of mr brown.
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Get ready for gridlocked roads.
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I think they should restrict these comment to people who live in cold climates only, no people from sunny Spain or Australia to be able to add their comments, lol.
And if anyone knows any Australian or Spanish websites like this, can they print them out here, so in our summer we can add our comments to their websites and gloat about how hot it is here, oooppppppp just thought, damn, their winter is still hotter than our summer !!!!!!!
Jim of Bearwood.
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“Arctic”? I lived in Walsall for the first 40 years of my life, and -2C. sounds relatively mild. Real “Arctic” weather is what we get here in Toronto, sometimes down to -25C at night, and not getting above -15C all day. And I have a drawer full of sweaters that I never use.
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To Jim, post #21: Some people may post comments about sunburn, environmental devastation, drought, poisonous creatures, neanderthalic attitudes and the shocking treatment of Native people who had lived quite happily in their homeland for thousands of years before being hunted, persecuted and classed as fauna.
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Get out and take the Christmas card photos the snow is here in my back garden, it is white over. See the forcasters do get it right sometimes. Personally I wish they had been wrong I like it warm and sunny.
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Its snowing in Kingswinford now! lol
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No snow yet here down in Devon :o(
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