[Sussex] Weather Reports Please

[Steve Dobson]

On 30 January 2003 at 13:09 Nik Butler wrote:
> Concern for the sate of weather and functionality of the roads is quite
> normal and you should not be upset that your peers do not seem as
> concerned.

Look; I'm English.  Just the hint of a snow flake sends me into a blind
panic about the state of the roads.

>            Obviously you should take appropriate precautions before
> heading into the big blue room.

Hence the e-mail call for weather reports.

>                                  You should ensure that your vehicular
> transportation of choice is capable of handling the possibly dire road
> conditions ahead and that you have suitably warm material to sleep in
> should your transportation let you down.

There's the problem.  My vehicular transportation device, hereafter
referred to the MR2 [pronounced M R two; not Mister To], is light with big,
fat, wheels.  This is not the type of transport to used in current
weather conditions when the councils don't grit the roads.

Also I left Eastbourne this morning in cold and dry conditions.  No problems
until I hit the approach to Bracknell.  Then a 15 min drive turned into a 
45 min drive; and judging by the comments of some (5min -> 45mins) I had it
luckily.

> As for the actual state of the Big Blue room and its associated motor
> vehicle transportation lanes we could say it present that the lanes are
> slushy and a occasional brisk sleeting of cold wet stuff is being seen
> on a semi regular basis.

Is cold wet stuff that occasional falls from the big white floaty thing high
above turning to a completely fluid state?  Have strange male persons come
along and added Sodium chloride?  This allows the fluid cold wet stuff to
remain liquid below 273.15K.

> My advice is to locate a good weather pixie and make it your friend.

Oh God; I'm screwed

Steve

P.S.

Geoff/Paul thanks for the simple weather reports, easy to read but not as
much fun as Nik's.

All

Still looking for signs of gritting.