On a scale of 1-10 how miffed are you that you didn't get any snow?

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gaiatcha@reddit

hahaaaaaa we even got it on south coast a good 4inch at one point. iyam chuffed 2 bits

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Pretty annoyed, we rarely get snow around here (Wirral) and only got a few cm. Then it pissed it down all day and it's now just horrible cold slush. The ideal situation for me is a good 20cm of snow, proper mental deep crisp powdery snow, all falling overnight, with a clear bright blue sky the next day. Had that once in the last 35 years.

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Far-Act-2803@reddit

I remember the beast from the east, i was the only one who turned up to work despite everyone else owning 4x4's and I was on a 125 motorbike. Untouched snow as you describe on the golf course, I got the quad bike out the shed and had a mad hour all to myself 🤣

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Madwife2009@reddit

There was a lot of snow in 2011, I think it was. I was working in a remote part of the country and had a 230 mile drive. I got there but a lot of the local staff members all rang in claiming they couldn't get there because of the snow. That was a busy day.

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Smeeble09@reddit

I was out at 9am with my kids making snowmen in the garden and was back out playing with snow at 3pm this afternoon. The roads and paths are slush because of the cars and rain, but the grass areas still have snow on them by me, also Wirral (nice to see someone else from the Wirral randomly on here).

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KeyLog256@reddit

In fairness you could have built a snowman _just_ with the snow in my garden, which is my go-to definition of "proper snow" but it was pretty ropey by mid afternoon. I'm over by the Cheshire border though so I'm guessing you're more Liverpool end ?

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Smeeble09@reddit

Yeah we made one around 1m tall, then a second baby one around half that height. Plenty of snow left in the garden to play with and throw too, still got some left now. Yeah top end, near Greasby/ Upton.

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MaleficentSwan0223@reddit

This is what we’ve had… 20cm of crisp, powdery snow with clear sky. It’s still here now and looks like schools will be closed tomorrow.

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KeyLog256@reddit

Ooh sounds good. Whereabouts? Scotland?

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MajorMovieBuff85@reddit

How strange. Liverpool and we had half a foot of snow. Garden was covered, didn't rain at all here. Too the dogs out to play in it and threw snowballs at them. There is still snow out there now. I went out about 10am. All the cars where covered in it

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KeyLog256@reddit

Right on the border with Cheshire for me though. Drove down the M56 into Manchester before and there wasn't much on the fields there at all.

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Friendly_Features@reddit

I'm in St Helens and we got loads, mad the different a few miles makes

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H4TED-BY-MOST@reddit (OP)

I got excited just reading this 😆

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Madwife2009@reddit

Totally miffed. Had about 2cm snow then it rained 😭

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ghodsgift@reddit

0

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EmbraJeff@reddit

Unlike the current temperature (1°), I’m in the minuses! And long may it continue…

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textbook15@reddit

if it makes you feel any better, our snow got obliterated by rain within a day (birmingham)

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StereotypicallBarbie@reddit

I was a little disappointed but I’m back at work tomorrow so it can stay away for me!

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springsomnia@reddit

6. Everyone seems to have it apart from me!

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Accurate-Teaching858@reddit

I whinge about this shit every single day. I miss the proper snow we used to get. Where is our fucking snow??

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HeriotAbernethy@reddit

- a gazillion. Hate the stuff. (It permanently fucked what was my good knee.)

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Travels_Belly@reddit

10/10 disappointing. Promised snow and got pissing rain. I wanted a snow day, dammit.

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AwarenessHonest9030@reddit

I got snow but if it makes you feel any better we didn’t really get a lot of it well I mean a lot of it was coming down but it wasn’t sticking

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Positive-Web-7375@reddit

Had loads in the hills in the West of Sheffield! It's usual for us to get at least 1 or 2 good dumps of snow that are like 10cm or more a year.

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Positive-Web-7375@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/e82d5and09be1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f6044811a97e28a3ec02d8758cf7857f7320fc0

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browneyone@reddit

10 Would be nice for the kids.

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reticulatedbanana@reddit

Proper miffed. I bloody love snow. We usually get a good couple of inches, this was pants.

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User-1967@reddit

We got snow here ( where’s here?) only about 2 inches most of it has gone now due the rain

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hypnoticwinter@reddit

You can have mine.

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xp3ayk@reddit

Pretty miffed, I didn't move to the Highlands to not get snow!

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toby1jabroni@reddit

0

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CptnBrokenkey@reddit

Same, mainly because our heating decided to break.

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heretek10010@reddit

Same but I'm getting to the age where people ask if I'm OK rather than laugh when I go on my ass.

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yellowyuffie@reddit

You mean that age where people stop saying you fell over and start saying you "had a fall" instead?

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Negative_Nancy213@reddit

We live by the sea so don’t often get snow.. last time was maybe 5/6 years ago I slipped on the ice and gave myself concussion,

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merlin8922g@reddit

You're needing a pair of Permagrips, Timpsons, £19.99.

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eesagud@reddit

Never helped Jack and Victor...

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smalbluething@reddit

Same here but it wasn't forecast in Devon and the snow we had a few weeks ago ground everything to a halt!

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Zahgurim65@reddit

About a 7. Down here in Kent we don't get snow like we used to, if we do get any it's either too wet on the ground to stick properly, or if it does, it's here today and gone tomorrow. Can't go out and enjoy it. Last decent snow was in 2020, when it stuck around for a few days. There are always those who moan about snow and how it disrupts things but frankly I would take a few days of disruption over this pissy horrible rain coupled with biting cold wind and my garden turning into a quagmire.

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whatwouldLuigido@reddit

1000, We've had sideways rain for 24 hours now.

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LJ161@reddit

My daughter was the most miffed. It started at about 9pm she should have been asleep but she wasn't and she saw it out the window. She was telling me her plans to get dad with a snow ball. Then it rained all night. She was 'the most angry in the world' So my 6yo wins.

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H4TED-BY-MOST@reddit (OP)

🤣 bless her

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JennyW93@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/ub5z34t877be1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b2519c3bb328f94c53ee51e887d5e34b759d877 We had plenty here in N Wales

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Mumique@reddit

Darn itttt

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signalstonoise88@reddit

10. I’m back at work tomorrow. Was hoping for another beast from the east and an extension to the Xmas hols!

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Coat-Trick@reddit

When you say your part of the country....which country?

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H4TED-BY-MOST@reddit (OP)

The UK

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bellathebeaut@reddit

Well since it's the Ask UK subreddit, it's safe to assume they mean any part of the UK.

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Coat-Trick@reddit

Which is one country....isn't it?

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afcote1@reddit

We did (Hereford) https://preview.redd.it/o0zvflj6k7be1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a81ba0f4b1c61f637b87ad4382810ee25f521e1

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H4TED-BY-MOST@reddit (OP)

Beautiful!

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tibsie@reddit

5. I was prepared for snow. I was ready to go for a walk in it and take some nice picture. It was just rain. Constant rain.

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Robmeu@reddit

Devon, no snow where I am. Probably up on the moors, but I didn’t fancy spending Sunday upside down in the car being stared at by ponies. Never snows where I am. I love snow.

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EatingCoooolo@reddit

Couldn’t care less.

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Unlikely_Chemical517@reddit

We got snow but it quickly turned mild, like from 0°c to 11° in a day, and it's been piddling down rain ever since. If this rain falls as snow in northern England it's gonna be thicc over there.

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coffeewalnut05@reddit

We got snow in my area so I’m happy as Larry.

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EscapeArtist92@reddit

1. Snow is only good when you're not working

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Repulsive_State_7399@reddit

11

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Hookton@reddit

We got snow. I have fallen on my arse three times. I do not like it. I will swap with someone please?

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No_Welder_1043@reddit

999. I want the snow we used to have when I was a kid in the 80s. Where the country didn't shut down for 5mm of snow.

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H4TED-BY-MOST@reddit (OP)

I know exactly what you mean!

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indigo263@reddit

Woke up to a very light blanket of snow and was hoping that there might be more to come, but instead we had a day of rain, rain, and more rain. I like going out in the snow so I'm more disappointed than miffed, but maybe a 7?

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Pigeongirl79@reddit

100 , I know it’s a total pain it I just wanted to stand in it for a bit . I am not surprised though as we live on the welsh coast and the last time I remember having snow that actually stuck was about 15 years ago . The air is just too salty for it to stick here .

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cup-of-tea-76@reddit

I want either two foot of snow or no snow at all None of this inbetween shit I need to look outside and say with absolute certainty, I’m not going to work in this

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H4TED-BY-MOST@reddit (OP)

🤣

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bluephoenix39@reddit

It would have been nice if the same thing happened 9 hours earlier so like 12-3, better visibly for the people out in it but also so little ones (and big ones like) could have actually played in it for a little while

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NecroVelcro@reddit

I did get snow. Not a lot but I live on a hill that's treacherous at the best of times so snow, slush, ice, sleet and heavy rain can all fuck off.

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Far_Camel_5098@reddit

I'm more miffed by the cunts in 4WDs and trucks who just can't wait to go out for no reason and turn the lovely white snow into dirty brown slush. Driving like pricks so it sprays the pavements and ruins those too. Tried to go for a walk this morning but as soon as get off the side roads it's a shit show. Why can people just leave the cars at home for one day and let the kids enjoy it

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Emergency-Aardvark-6@reddit

I actually wished I hadn't, it was 2 inches for about an hour then the rain came and it disappeared. I get so excited about snow, I'm like a kid at Christmas (am 43F). Last night I just wanted to go out and play. I didn't have anyone to play with though. 😒 I was so gutted.

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H4TED-BY-MOST@reddit (OP)

We'd get on I reckon 😆

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Nonbinary_Cryptid@reddit

20. Snow would have meant that I would absolutely have to stay indoors, as I have to use crutches to walk and it wouldn't be safe. We knew by lunchtime yesterday that the snow would affect us, so I have still had to go food shopping and do chores. I just wanted an excuse to stay in bed all day!

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Valuable-Ad-1477@reddit

I got loads 😏

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sklatch@reddit

Very glad as I am travelling tomorrow.

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wils_152@reddit

10, and we actually *got* snow - but it was the wet, melting-as-it-lands type, which looked ok at 1 am, but had turned to miserable sludge a couple of hours later. I love snow, me.

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Cool_beans4921@reddit

10. I’m in Devon and we got nothing. Me and my son would’ve had a great day in the snow. We had a lot of snow when we lived in Scotland but he doesn’t remember it much. I’d love for him to experience snow properly.

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accidentalsalmon@reddit

10. Had to drive through it on the M3 last night - looked like we were at warp speed! - but then got home and all there has been is heavy rain.

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Puzzled-Leading861@reddit

0 because car accidents are bad.

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Chemical_Film5335@reddit

Alright party pooper

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Automatic_Isopod_274@reddit

Yeah I was driving back from the in laws last night - it took us 2 hours longer than usual, we saw 3 accidents on the way. Then get home and it’s rained any snow we had away!

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iwantmorewhippets@reddit

I live in Cornwall, I never expect snow. We have had plenty of rain though, for a change

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Delilahpixierose21@reddit

10. (I was woken up at 2am by my 3 year old looking out the window and crying because the snow had gone/it was now raining) I'm absolutely gutted on her behalf! 😒

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doalittledance_@reddit

Im more miffed we DID get snow last night, and as a result, I’m missing my own birthday party because I’m stuck in the house 🙃

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tamhenk@reddit

Happy birthday 🎉 it's mine today.

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doalittledance_@reddit

Thank you! ☺️ Happy birthday to you too!

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Chemical_Count5054@reddit

Same, absolutely gutted. Me and my dog wanted to go for a nice Sunday stroll in the snowy woods today had it all planned since yesterday. Woke up nothing but slush and rain so she wanted to come back inside, she hates the rain. Honestly ruined my whole day.

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Magicbean96@reddit

About an 8, I really like snow. I'm always so sad that it doesn't settle

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ogami75@reddit

0. Snow for us means power cuts, no internet, isolation and misery. If only we lived in a first world country.

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Jlaw118@reddit

0, we have been hit by snow, badly. I wouldn’t normally be bothered by it and love the scenery, but I’m expecting a really urgent delivery tomorrow that I need and I’m dreading it’s going to have impacted it

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tamhenk@reddit

Woke up to 15 cm of the stuff today. Went sledging with my boy. Now it's thawing thank god. Hope it continues to thaw overnight cos I have to go to work in the morning.

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PlayedThisGame@reddit

I was quite annoyed! As it was all meant to wash away by tonight I'd have liked to have the chance for my daughter to go out and enjoy it! It didn't settle until almost 9 so she was asleep by then and then it had gone by midnight. I wanted to see if the cat enjoyed it as well as we're not sure if she's ever experienced snow before (rescued from a shelter at 6 years old). To have a snowy weekend and then gone by Monday before work and school set in would have been perfect

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CraigTheBrewer12@reddit

We had a good few hours of snow, started to settle nicely and by about 1am we had a good blanket, completely untouched and looking wonderful. Was looking forward to taking the child out for a walk in it, woke up at 7 to find it raining and the snow turning to slush before being washed away completely.

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ConsequenceApart4391@reddit

10. Where I am the roads are used that much that they never get too severely icy. Even when there are these arctic blasts traffic doesn’t stop. Somehow places 20 mins from where I am have snow but we get torrential rain

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LinzSymphonyK425@reddit

7. I love the snow and I was disappointed not to get any

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Hainault@reddit

In Leeds. We got so much of it the car can't get out of the driveway. Had to cancel prepaid plans and spend the day sat around so...

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JBEqualizer@reddit

There's about 6 inches or so where I live in NE England, but it is just off the North Pennines, so plenty of snow is expected when it does. It's snowed almost constantly since about 2 am, except for about an hour ago, where it rained for a few minutes. It's back to snowing again, and it's meant to continue snowing right up until tomorrow evening.

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GlamGemini@reddit

Same. North east England. We've had a lot. Had the few seconds of rain, think it's snowing again and set to continue. Ughhh.

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Dennyisthepisslord@reddit

I couldn't care. I am an adult and weather doesn't particularly make or break my day we have it every single day.

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minxorcist@reddit

10 being in the south, we hardly get any snow. Even if it does snow this way, our town seems to get forgotten and we get none!

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Henno212@reddit

0.0 Glad it didn’t settle 😁

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e-pancake@reddit

100 :(

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Relative_Grape_5883@reddit

Not enough in the Cotswolds where I am, considering we had a yellow warning

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Vaxtez@reddit

I'm in Tewkesbury, we had a Amber warning, yet maybe 5-10 mins of snow fell here, it was mostly just rain

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redunculuspanda@reddit

10. I was looking forward to using it as an excuse for not going to work tomorrow. I work from home but I’m sure I could have come up with something.

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DeirdreBarstool@reddit

We got snow and it’s beautiful! But now it’s pissing down and I need to go out, and I’m scared it’ll be black ice just in time for my walk home.

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Cattlemutilation141@reddit

Was very pretty outside this morning Until I tried to drive to the emergency dentist and I was sliding around all over the place 🤦‍♂️

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Ted_Hitchcox@reddit

After spending 5 hours chiselling the frozen rock hard shitty stuff off our steep assed road so everyone can get to work tomorrow (with no one else coming out to help) I'd say 0

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TeaBoy24@reddit

Confusing. 0 means you were dissatisfied and you wanted a bigger cold than it was. (Op 10/10 means it would be snowing) On the other hand, perhaps yes? If it were snowing it would not have been so wet. It would not melt and you could just brush it off rather than break ice.

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Ted_Hitchcox@reddit

Maybe.

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Additional-Guard-211@reddit

-10

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Linfords_lunchbox@reddit

No snow makes me happy as I have to drive in it.

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Crafty_Birdie@reddit

About 8. It's been steady rain all day in Suffolk :(

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Saphira404@reddit

About a 3? It snowed after the kids were asleep so they missed it and we didn't need to go out today so it might have been fun but equally, we've reached the point of the school holidays where I just want them to go back to school again so it probably wouldn't actually have been fun

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Mikon_Youji@reddit

Not even a little bit. We never get snow where I live.

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EvilTaffyapple@reddit

0. I got about 6 inches of snow. It’s still snowing now, and more snow planned for tonight again.

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realmofconfusion@reddit

0. My puppy, -100 https://preview.redd.it/7czv2rg3a7be1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b02d32afeaa0f59833870f18146938fd2ef73ca6

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aldo000000000@reddit

3.7

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Suspicious_Field_429@reddit

-10, I have to drive for a living and it makes our job numerous times more difficult, especially for elderly patients

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Sammiebear_143@reddit

I'd prefer no snow, but also, given how much surface water there currently is on our roads, I'd prefer even more that it doesn't freeze over and turn into black ice. I'm terrified of driving in either conditions and our side roads never get gritted, and it's extremely hazardous to get out of the road I'm on.

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Beautiful-Control161@reddit

Was snowy here. Been with the child having fun in it all day

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TheGoober87@reddit

We had a tiny bit, so was out in the garden at 7 this morning before it all melted.

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DeadBallDescendant@reddit

2. No drama on the roads, so got to the shops easily. Our daughter can get her train back home this evening. It's all good.

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Original_Manner8214@reddit

My inner child is absolutely devastated that the snow didn’t really happen and what did fall was washed away by lunchtime. The grumpy 40yo woman that I am is relieved that I don’t have to deal with the disruption and inconvenience it would have caused

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DizzyMine4964@reddit

Not at all miffed. I have arthritis and it is hell in snow.

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Dismal-Bathroom967@reddit

got dark grey skies, rain and wind instead. About a 10. It physically hurts to go outside.

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T_raltixx@reddit

0 I don't like it. We had a little but it quickly went away.

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Annual-Ad-7780@reddit

We actually DID get Snow, I looked out of the Window at my Parents this morning and was like, WTF?!

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el_diablo420@reddit

1 - there was some last night, so managed a walk out in it. Both me and my girlfriend commute to work on rural roads and are back tomorrow. I’d prefer there not to be snow on the roads. Much less stressful

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dibblah@reddit

Yep. I commute on rural roads and am back tomorrow. Driving a new car, too, so I'm not used to how it handles in the snow. We do have snow here so it'll be a fun drive! Have dug out my driveway and gritted in case of another freeze overnight.

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AdministrativeShip2@reddit

About a 6. It was snowing last night but all gone by the morning, leaving some slush and rain.

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DualWheeled@reddit

Just annoyed I changed plans because of a blizzard and ice warning and instead got mild temperature rain. I could have driven in this but I'm stuck at home with nowt to do.

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thewearisomeMachine@reddit

Like the other British expats in the Middle East, o would say I’ve made my peace with it 1.5/10

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Bownzinho@reddit

We got an okay amount this morning but now it’s slowly disappearing. Apparently it’s coming back overnight but I doubt it. https://preview.redd.it/4otvf8gm67be1.jpeg?width=5712&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7162766c512463181ceda3530b836b58fb875cb5

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ArtisticWatch@reddit

9. We got a few centimetres but it soon turned to rain and was all gone by the morning :(

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N0elington@reddit

I still have to go to work snow or no snow so I would rather not.

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crapusername47@reddit

The one Sunday morning where I had an actual appointment that I had to be there for at a specific time it pissed down with rain. I would have preferred the snow.

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PatserGrey@reddit

Maybe I'm just old but fully expected the dusting we got would be the extent of it, meh

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knight-under-stars@reddit

Negative 10. As it is it took 4 hours to complete the 90 minute journey home last night. The last thing I wanted on top of that was to try and navigate the ungritted country roads around here with them covered in snow.

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Joshouken@reddit

2

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Aggravating-Tower317@reddit

Supposedly had an amber warning for snow and rain but it ended up being really tame. Light snow and rain

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privateTortoise@reddit

Prefer it to not go below 4 degrees C as I've at least a 2hr drive and leave home a 5.45am each morning.

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Strong_Roll5639@reddit

0. I'm glad.

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Remarkable_Process44@reddit

App says we had 6.6cm of snow… but instead in the garden we got maybe 6mm of frozen crap 😂

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seven-cents@reddit

0. Snow turns to slush and ice almost immediately down on the South coast

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xeneco1981@reddit

In the vale of York we rarely get more than an inch or two. Had 7-8 inches today with some small drifts over 12. Freezing rain now

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Single-Aardvark9330@reddit

We got snow late last night, and then it started raining, and I had no clue this morning it had even snowed until my family told me about it

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Lassitude1001@reddit

Got snow before I left work last night so got to drive home in it but wasn't a lot, was mostly slush by the time I woke up too. Managed to do a few skids in the work car park when I got back here though. You know, to get a feel for the grip and practice how to counter a loss of control of my car, in a safe controlled area.

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PuzzleheadedSpite879@reddit

10, I love snow and the piddling amount we got was a waste of time

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CyberKingfisher@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/0dpan8q937be1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23966182203e8dab85660e8210f48941f268cbbe It’s never enough

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H4TED-BY-MOST@reddit (OP)

😭

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Reddi4all1@reddit

11

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P2P-BSH@reddit

0 snow is inconvenient

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