marc62 Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 What is going on?I have just booked up the train to come & open our little holiday home up ready for the summer. I have checked the long range forecast on accuweather for Apremont & Nantes & they both predict snow on 16th March! Marc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 We've had snow in May for the last couple of years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 My wedding anniversay is on the 16 of March and we got snowed in in England, so there you go. Snow mid March never surprises any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 It snowed here in March 2005 just after we opened the roof to put the new windows in - so cold that the building sand froze solid.After the mild winter so far who knows what is in store - March heatwave or freeze? Taken March 2005[IMG]http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i26/cassiscassis/snowhouse.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i26/cassiscassis/snowhouseacrosslakesmall.jpg[/IMG] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc62 Posted March 2, 2007 Author Share Posted March 2, 2007 When we first got our little home in the Vendee it was in March at Easter, the weather was very hot (not just warm) & we had a BBQ. We thought we had purchased in the best location going! Marc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 And it was so warm we had a barbecue in January this year, everyone in shirtsleeves - is the weather crackers or what? [:D]I'm convinced that I remember it snowing briefly in early June 1975 - but that was Sunderland and no-one else seems to remember it .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Cassis I think you must be right there, I was in the NE but not in Sunderland. Can't say when exactly, just remember early summer that year having snow. I remember a lot about that year, changed jobs, met husband etc, I had a lot going on really and it stays in my mind.I have seen hail storms in mid summer here in France. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 I shall take that as all the evidence required to prove I am not entirely deluded, TU.Hail's actually more common in summer than any other time of year in the UK - not sure why this is, or if the same applies in France, but I'm sure someone will Google it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogwood Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Nice[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 [quote user="Cassis"]And it was so warm we had a barbecue in January this year, everyone in shirtsleeves - is the weather crackers or what? [:D]I'm convinced that I remember it snowing briefly in early June 1975 - but that was Sunderland and no-one else seems to remember it ....[/quote]It definatly snowed on June the first 1979 in Oldham.........I remember that clearly because It was a girls 21 st birthday in the office I was junior/dogs body at and the Florist couldn't get the van up the hill to deliver the flowers.........who had to go and meet it!?[:-))]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 The hail risk is a worry in this area in summer and they put mortars up when we have storms. The storms get chased across the valley and the viticulteurs at the other side put up mortars and chase it back. It sounds like a bit of a slow battle sometimes. edithad to have a look to make sure I wasn't going mad in me old agehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/sport_leisure/cricket_weather.shtml It's towards the bottom of the page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 [quote user="Cassis"]I'm convinced that I remember it snowing briefly in ... Sunderland and no-one else seems to remember it ....[/quote]I can't remember it ever snowing BRIEFLY in Sunderland...I wasn't there in 1975 but in 1969-70 it snowed in November and didn't thaw until March... Wouldn't surprise me to get blizzards in August.In about 1967 I was at an Easter motor race meeting (Brands, I think) and it snowed after a sunny morning. We ended up with two of our party in the medical tent (and it really was a tent), one with heatstroke, one with hypothermia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday Driver Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 We used to live in Washington (about 6 miles from Sunderland) and on the day our daughter was born in late March 1979, we woke up to a foot of snow. Mrs Sunday was due to go to hospital that day for a caesarian, so things were getting a bit desperate. I phoned the police and they said if we couldn't get to the A1(M) (clear-ish) they'd organise a helicopter. In the end, the whole estate turned out and dug our old VW Beetle out of a snowdrift and then cleared the roads leading to the nearby motorway.....Just like it was in the War......[;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerdesal Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 My wife would have forced a wait for the helicopter - shes a helicopter nut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceni Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 [quote user="Sunday Driver"].................. In the end, the whole estate turned out and dug our old VW Beetle out of a snowdrift and then cleared the roads leading to the nearby motorway.....Just like it was in the War......[;-)] [/quote]So you must have had one of the prototype beetles then SD.Johnnot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerdesal Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 [quote user="Iceni"][quote user="Sunday Driver"].................. In the end, the whole estate turned out and dug our old VW Beetle out of a snowdrift and then cleared the roads leading to the nearby motorway.....Just like it was in the War......[;-)] [/quote]So you must have had one of the prototype beetles then SD.Johnnot[/quote]I think the Beetle might have been around for some 30+ years by 1979 [:P] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 I remember a sudden overnight snowfall around that time in Washington (I lived in Springwell village as a boy and youth, 1970 - 1981). I had just bought my first car and I practiced skid control in the Concord shopping centre park when it was empty on Sundays. [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitsi Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 I certainly remember it snowing on my birthday in mid May in the SE of England when I was a child and my husband says it even snowed once on his which is Midsummers day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 My desktop weather thingy is predicting temperatures in double figures for the next 10 days. Then I'm off to Florida. Knowing my luck it will snow there instead! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 Talking of Florida, have you seen this, Coops?http://www.allpar.com/cars/chrysler/sebring.htmlI know some people must like this sort of styling, but I don't get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 No I hadn't, and am not sure I'm better off having done so![+o(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 Is it that shape so that they can cast the body in a jelly mould? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 I'm not sure, Dick. Maybe it's been in an accident. I think it should be cast into a crusher.What a grey day. I thought the sunshine yesterday afternoon was heralding a break. Humphhh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.mayenne53.com Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 I dont know about snow, but here in the Mayenne someones forgotten to switch the tap off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 It's overflowing into the Sarthe now ... and most of the Orne floated away sometime last month ... neighbours say they've never known a winter so wet and our lawn squelches! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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