SNOW SNOW SNOW!

[fluffymark]

SNOW! Here in London! *screams* A little bit, about an inch, but it's made everything so *pretty*!

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*goes out to play in the snow*

Edit: Don't believe all those tales of transport woe. No delays at all from Leytonstone to Wimbledon. I've just done the journey in 45 minutes, which I think is a record for me, as it normally takes an hour. *shocked*

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[philipstorry.livejournal.com]

I'd love to go outside and have a snowball fight. Unfortunately, I have to work.

National rail was fsck'd this morning. I was at the station for a train at 06:49. That station had cancelled all trains until at least 07:30, and even that was looking dicey. I went over to another station (two stations, on completely different lines - handy sometimes!) and although trains were running, they were severly delayed. I eventually got a train to Blackfriars at about quarter to seven, making me almost an hour late.

Lucky I was aiming to get in early today then, wasn't it?

[fluffymark]

We have balconys at work to go outside on, and they're covered in snow! Hooray! :)

I'd heard tales of woe at Waterloo station, but trains leaving there were ok when I got there. At least, the train I was on was speeding along just fine!

[philipstorry.livejournal.com]

We have no such luxuries!

I snapped a few photos on the way in to work, but whereas we've got at least an inch in Beckenham the City appears to have gotten more like a centimeter. Curse its micro-climate! :-(

Waterloo? I might drop over for a snowball fight. ;-)

[fluffymark]

What with all the tall buildings the snow's just got a bigger surface area to cover. Either that or all those offices leaving their heating on all night! Silly city!

[philipstorry.livejournal.com]

It's the latter - buildings remaining heated during the night.

Even if the heating is off, you've also got all those server rooms, which are being kept cool. All the heat that's being exchanged there mounts up. Plus there's heat leaking from buildings, heat from cars and buses being in higher concentrations, and so on.

Basically, the city - that's the whole of central London, not just The City - is about one to two degrees warmer than the surrounding suburbs. (And the suburbs themselves are a degree or so warmer than teh surrounding countryside, as I understand it.)

Microclimates like this are fascinating stuff. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_London

[fluffymark]

I'm aware of London's unique microclimate, which is why I'm always VERY shocked when I see snow in London. Especially when some regions just outside London have had no snow. That's very unusual.

[philipstorry.livejournal.com]

Yeah, bloody unusual.

And I wished for snow in my LJ yesterday, which makes it a freaky occurrence really.

*thinks*

Um. Back later. Gotta write an LJ post...
;-)