http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21252362

I love satellite photos, by the time this one was taken where I live was one of the green bits where the image shows some snow, some no snow across southern England.

Who remembers that satelite photo of the UK covered in snow the other year?  Well now it's most of Italy's turn:
BBC News - Blanket of snow covers Italy

BBC News - Last December UK's coldest for 100 years

Definitely not our imagination then!

and I missed this in the run up to Christmas BBC News - Time to spend more money preparing for colder winters?

( this is going to turn into an image heavy post - snow )

Saw this image on the BBC news last night, kind of spectacular in it's own frozen way BBC News - Frozen Britain seen from above

BBC News - Sleepover for snowbound shoppers

Well there are way worse places to get stuck in bad weather.

It looks quite a nice day out there today, sunshine and lots of big fluffy clouds but the forecast isn't good "large parts of England and Wales are preparing for what is predicted to be the worst storm of the winter" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7285859.stmRead more... )

Yesterday afternoon Dad and I went for a walk.

Somewhere in the middle of this is the River Thames:
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Police lock up bikes on streets http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/6262942.stmRead more... )

Wellies at Henley this year ( Read more... )