I got an alert tonight from my CCTV camera that motion had been detected. The snapshot showed what can often be pollen, mist, rain, or a cloud of bugs.
An hour later, I went to put some stuff in the trash (aka the Wheelie Bin) and there was a smattering of snow on top. Only a very light dusting, but it does mean the floodgates are potentially open if it remains cold. When I checked, it snowed for about 10 minutes, starting just before 11pm. And it wasn’t forecast.
The morons are already sneering at it, of course. But with last night being the coldest of the year so far, there were a lot of minor accidents this morning – and many were related to the temperature and slippery roads.
The problem is that with people being crap drivers in the first place, when it gets cold suddenly, they either just drive like they did yesterday, or behave completely irrationally by overreacting to it.
I used it as a learning topic on my lessons today. And this is in Nottingham, you understand. It might have snowed more in other places, and not at all elsewhere. Snow is like that. But the one thing it has in common with everywhere is that it makes driving riskier.