Beast from the East slams Europe

[DP]

Snowball fights in Rome as Europe hit by 'beast from east' cold snap

The Arctic storm dubbed the “Beast from the East” saw temperatures across much of Europe fall Monday to their lowest level this winter and even brought a rare snowstorm to Rome, paralyzing the city and giving its residents the chance to ski, sled and build snowmen in its famous parks and piazzas.

Rome’s schools were ordered closed, while train, plane and bus services were crippled. Italy’s civil protection agency even mobilized the army to help clear slush-covered streets as a city used to mild winters was covered by a thick blanket of snow.



BRITS are facing potential commuter chaos this morning after the "Beast from the East" forced rail companies to cancel 200 trains and airlines to postpone flights.

Forecasters also warned how roads across the UK could be too dangerous to drive on, with more than 20cm of snow expected to fall across the country up until midday.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5671431/uk...ions-snow/

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/26/europe/ro...index.html

[voodoopenguin]

I do realise that the weather we are experiencing here in the UK is nothing compared to what some of you have to cope with each year for much longer. It is often asked why a comparatively small amount of snow can cause more problems for us when other countries cope better with so much more. Our climate is what is called temperate so usually we don't get long spells of sub zero (sorry sub 32) and like today we woke with about 2-3" snow on the ground which is manageable however during the day some of that melts then the water freezes again come night time. Any gritting or salting of the roads is rendered useless because it's below the ice surface and the roads become ice rinks. This will happen every day so unless the gritters go out and do the roads every 2-3 hours the roads are dangerous. If the temperature stayed below freezing during the day we would be able to cope better even if more snow falls.

Paul

[NewtonMP2100]

.....but there is no such thing as Global Warming [ according to........ ]......

[Racer X]

voodoopenguin wrote:
I do realise that the weather we are experiencing here in the UK is nothing compared to what some of you have to cope with each year for much longer. It is often asked why a comparatively small amount of snow can cause more problems for us when other countries cope better with so much more. Our climate is what is called temperate so usually we don't get long spells of sub zero (sorry sub 32) and like today we woke with about 2-3" snow on the ground which is manageable however during the day some of that melts then the water freezes again come night time. Any gritting or salting of the roads is rendered useless because it's below the ice surface and the roads become ice rinks. This will happen every day so unless the gritters go out and do the roads every 2-3 hours the roads are dangerous. If the temperature stayed below freezing during the day we would be able to cope better even if more snow falls.

Paul

You have just described winter in Seattle. There are an astounding number of AWD vehicles with "all season" tires who assume since they can slowly accelerate, they can quickly stop. They are the idiots causing the problems.

[DP]

There are an astounding number of AWD vehicles with "all season" tires who assume since they can slowly accelerate, they can quickly stop. They are the idiots causing the problems.

This. Lots of folks think all wheel drive=all wheel stop.

[space-time]

DP wrote:
There are an astounding number of AWD vehicles with "all season" tires who assume since they can slowly accelerate, they can quickly stop. They are the idiots causing the problems.

This. Lots of folks think all wheel drive=all wheel stop.

All cars are all wheel stop. All have break hardware on all 4 wheels. They still slip on ice.