View Full Version : Uk Set For Bad Winter
Domestic Goddess
10-10-05, 03:41 PM
Weather experts fear Britain will be gripped by the coldest winter for a decade - and it could endanger energy supplies.
The Met Office has put the energy industry, the NHS and the Government on high alert.
There even are concerns the nation could run out of fuel - gas supplies are much lower than elsewhere in Europe.
The Times says the government will hold an emergency meeting of industry and energy company leaders next month.
Sir Digby Jones, director general of the CBI, said: "If we have a cold winter, we are going to throw the switch: businesses will shut down."
The National Grid has reportedly formulated emergency plans to ensure supply is maintained to homeowners.
Manufacturers and other large gas consumers will be required to shut down factories on particularly cold days.
Get out your thermals now!!!
Great news, hope we get loads of snow :thumbs:
hehehe they said that last year! :D
better get extra bird food in then ;)
Annabel
10-10-05, 04:56 PM
No doubt it will be cold all over the UK, except for my part of London which will be mild dry and sunny...we never get any interesting weather here :(
and anyway snow just causes mayhem and havoc so it can stay away as far as i am concerned :P
phantos02
10-10-05, 05:10 PM
Oh that's great my new house has no insulation whatsoever and a boiler that looks like it's come off the ark.
Now I know what our first jobs will be once we move in!! :D
oh no not a harsh winter pleeeeze !!!!!!!!!!!!!
i have no heating upstairs in my house looks like i will be going to bed in thermal pj's wooly fisherman socks and wooly hat again its no joke i have to go to bed looking like compo from last of the summer wine :blush: (minus the wellies of course)
its always freezing in my bedroom during the winter im dreading it :sad:
Annabel
10-10-05, 05:21 PM
:( poor er indoors, my old house was like that before we put central heating in, i got two electric heaters from B&Q and two timers and got them plugged in - end of cold bedrooms!!!
:lol: i did buy halogen heaters last winter but its still flippin cold not the same as central heating :cold:
wildheart
10-10-05, 05:47 PM
It's about time we had some snow. In London we haven't had any for what seems like years now and I really miss it. Today it felt like summer with temperatures up to about 22 degrees. Autumn is my favourite season and it's about time it acted like it should, with frost and fog and lovely cool breezes!
I'm not really a summer person but the reason I prefer the colder weather is because it keeps my NFH inside, giving me a break for a while.
I would love it to snow. Where I live we get a small flurry every few years and the kids get so excited they are bouncing off the walls.
Mr.sp gets excited too. :lol: The merest hint of a bit of snow forecast and he has his wellies, snow shovel and a blanket in the car before you can say 'Michael Fish'. Then there are the water and emergency food supplies too :o I wouldn't mind, but he's only going to Croydon, bless him :rolleyes: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: I drew the line at getting some huskies though. :unsure:
My dream is to have a real white Christmas, just once......
Mr.sp, ever prepared, has decided we need to buy a generator now :rolleyes:
Off to buy some rock salt anyway!!
Miss Understood
15-10-05, 11:17 PM
You have to remember that this is just a forecast. All it means is that the computers at the Met Office have modelled some data and suggested the possibility that it will be 'colder than average'. It doesn't necessarily mean that we'll have a mini ice-age! Also, given that it's also currently forecasting a dry one, there is less likely to be snow.
All longrange forecasts can do is predict (and not particularly accurately or consistently) potential trends. And that's all it is a prediction. Doesn't mean to say it will come true.
Mind you, there's lots of berries around this year and Sammy Squirrel seems to be gathering far more bits and pieces than he normally does - a countryman's sign of a hard winter ;)