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Big chill on its way
Tuesday 18th November 2008, 11:53AM GMT.
An Arctic chill will grip Shropshire this weekend with temperatures plunging below 0C (32F) in some areas, forecasters said today.
Check out our online seven-day weather forecast here
Parts of the country can expect blizzards as icy winds and wintry showers sweep south from Scotland.
John Warner, Shropshire Star weatherman, said today Shropshire would escape this week’s snow showers, although daytime temperatures will drop to 5C (41F) on Friday and Saturday and at night to as low as -2C (28F).
But he said: “There is a possibility of snow over Monday and Tuesday because the air pressure will be lower.”
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So -2C is a Big Chill? honestly *tut*
But thanks for the tip off for snow. Time to go walking in Snowdonia – yipee!!
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I find it comical that it’s big news that we may get a frost in the later part of November!!!!
Quick!!! Everyone rush out and clean the shelves of bread and milk!!! You never know when the next delivery will get through!!!
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what is fast going off the shelves is english honey, as 95% of bee colonies are infected by some veola grub and coupled with a disasterous wet summer there is little honey to be had. the outlook for next years honey production is extremely grim
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Yeah well thanks for that! now can we have some news thats actually news!
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Oh for goodness sake – “temperatures plunging below 0C” is hardly a “big chill”!! Get a grip please!
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Having been somewhat amused by Mr Warners way out forecasts over the years i feel i might dig out my shorts and prepare for a heatwave.
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Good point made about the Bees Devon Salopian! Keep up with the informative comments please.
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space hopper: Are you telling me that I have booked two days off on the basis of some dodgy seed-weed?
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Panic Panic Panic
Recruit 10 managers at the council to deal with this crisis.
Wake up Shropshire Star – find some real news or don’t bother at all.
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Bees are the real story of this frost warning.. Its the consequences of a shortage of bees – it’ll mess-up our eco-system and more of the coutryside will die and food will be harder to grow (and prices will go up). Then again perhaps the frost will kill a few of the bug population we need to have dead.
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Devon and Devil: I have wanted bees for sometime for pollenation purposes – making honey looks too messy. Where do I start? Do I need a license etc?
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I blame the donnington bonfire
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Don’t start me Spencer!
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sorry i do not know about bees making honey. what i do know is this country will be the poorer without bees as there will be no fruit or vegetables without them, any one worried, i am.
now onto big chills, the last one i recall was the winter of 1981 when we had low temps of -20 and it finished off corona soft drinks as nearly all their glass bottles burst, oh for a glass of corona appleade.
wake me up when the star gets a real scoop on the weather—zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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how about john sergeant doing a bit of forcasting, he has done everything else
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Devon: WAKE UP!!!!!
I often go mountain walking in winter, in wind chills upto -20, and my orange squash freezes but the secret is to use plastic bottles and leave some air in them.
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Amazing.
It’s winter time, and it might be cold! Well , i’d never have thought that!
What will REALLY annoy me is all the pathetic wimps on the radio and TV telling us to be careful, roads might be icy, don’t go on that journey unless absolutely neccessary etc.
Good grief – just HOW did we ever manage before?
In this risk adverse, molly coddled nation of ours, that freezes in fright at the first sign of frost and snow ….. I’ll tell you…. we are all doomed.
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Big Chill?
Anyone want to join me in Arizona ? Highs should be around 30 this weekend, lows in the mid-teens.
Might sneak in a round of golf on Saturday and maybe head to the lake on Sunday to take the kids water ski-ing.
Chuck another log on the fire for me.
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Wow -2c that will surely cause chaos on the roads! who remembers the -25c we had in the early 80′s I recall walking to the Pub about 500 yards from my house in my old bullet proof great coat! and my moustache froze solid!
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You lot need to “Chill”
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i am awake lucy i was merely pointing out a fact about bursting corona bottles in the big chill of 1981. i know this as i dealt with all the insurance claims from around the country. -20 may well be common up on haughmond mountain but it is fairly uncommon in the real world, wake up lucy
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Gosh, Devon dealt with all the insurance claims from around the country?????
no wonder claims settlement is so slow if handled only by one man
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now for the good news, the so called cold snap will affect us on saturday and there will be snow on the east side of the country, on sunday milder weather should gradually push across from the west
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Lucy W – if you want to start keeping bees take a look at the Shropshire Beekeeping Assoc website. They offer weekly practical evening classes that will introduce you to everything you need to know. They run from the spring over the summer, when you’ll have a chance to get hands-on. It’s well worth doing. There are two real threats to bee populations, the first is verroa mite which is rife in the majority of UK colonies, the other is Colony Collapse Disorder, an even more serious phenomenon
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sorry rbb not literally just me but it was one sizeable claim for the whole of that companies empire. any way i miss appleade, american cream soda, dandylion and burdock etc. we are now a country having its soft fizzy drinks dominated by coca,pepsi fanta etc. i make a plea for those good old days of choice. off now for a pepsimaxlilt cocktail ugh before hell freezes over in the stars mega whiteout
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So if you leave a crate of pop outside in freezing weather you can claim on your insurance when they all break? – well I never knew you could insure against stupidity!
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Oh dear!
I thought -20c was a ‘normal’ temperature for wintertime in fact -30 or -35 is not that unusual where I live. And on the mountains it is of course much colder – last spring I did a mountain traverse in the Rockies where the wind chill factor was -45c. In the St. Elias range it is much colder than that. On Mt. Logan, our highest mountain at 19,850 ft., the summer temperature is -27c and winter -50c with a wind chill of perhaps -65c. The glacial area around this mountain would cover all of Shropshire and then some.
My wife did a 4 day ski traverse in the Selkirks last spring and found over 4 ft of snow on her car when she got back to the highway.
This talk of ‘winter’ in Shropshire is too funny for words.
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In the knowledge that bad weather of biblical proportions is on its way I’ve already built a bomb shelter to take refuge in and have bought all of the canned food from the supermarkets in Telford, so I’ll be able to survive for at least three weeks. If anybody else wants to brave the coming apocalypse, I’ve got two spaces spare – you just need to fight each other for them.
Man’s Survival Tip of the Day – fit flamethrowers to the front of your car. Not only does it clear the glaciers that will undoubtedly be forming in this devastating ice age, but it clears the traffic too.
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I will be watching the weather report with glee whilst sat by my swimming pool in Australia !
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i no longer think insurance companies will insure glass bottles, they are too busy with flood claims. latest news on the weather is a period of snow moving east on sunday turning to rain. hold on to your hats. those poor bees
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Man I’d love to join you in your bomb shelter but I am holding out for a better offer from jimbob.
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If it does snow, I will be suprised, more chance of me winning the lottery I reckon….I predict wrong AGAIN weathermen!
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So where’s the snow??????????
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