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[tickmike]

Did you get the snow on Boxing day ?.
We went to Lincoln in the morning, it took one and half hours with not too much traffic.
Started back about 19.30 in sleet which soon turned into heavy very heavy snow  (blizzard  ), along the A46 we were doing 20 mph if that, but the fun started when we got on the un-gritted country roads .

As we got nearer to our home in South-Derbyshire it was a good four inches deep (100mm), we past cars and lorries stuck.
We thought we were home and dry when we got to our village but I know I got one big hurdle to get over as we leave the Main 'A' road we have to go up a bit of a Hill, so with no traffic about I took a run at it, got nearly to the top where I have to make a right hand turn into our Lane and got stuck,  no way could I get up those last few feet  so I had to reverse slide back down and abandon the car on a small (flat) lane, It took us nearly four hours to get back.
I moved the car yesterday but that was not fun, the main road is ok now but this hill and our lane are polished ice and my wife has to go to work on Monday.

[kitz]

We got nothing at all here, not a single flake.  I have seen on the news though that certain areas got it quite bad and it came down very fast.

[burakkucat]

A small dusting of snow was evident in Bury St Edmunds when I retired to my warm and sleepy spot on the 26th. Overnight the precipitation turned to rain and it obviously fell steadily, for the River Lark (my eastern boundary) was flowing very high the next morning.

[UncleUB]

Nightmare here,still is.We returned from my sisters on Boxing Day night,a journey of around 5 to 6 miles,took us 2 hours.I have never seen so many cars abandoned.Council knew that snow was forecast well in advance but as usual opted for their'wait and see' policy.
Which meant even major dual carriageways were covered very quickly with snow and then ice.
many bus services are still cancelled as are refuge collections etc.You just have to take to social media pages to see the anger aimed at SCC.

[sevenlayermuddle]

Personally I keep a spare set of wheels with winter tyres, usually fit them in laye November and use them til March   They make a world of difference not just on snow, but even on black ice and frost. Winter tyres are legally mandatory for certain months in several countries, including some with similar climates to the UK, I don't know why they're not more popular  here?

Whereas 1960s family cars had skinny wheels a top speed of 70-odd, most modern summer tyres have to be designed for speeds of 140 or more, which means more specialised rubber compounds.   Wheels and tyres have got a lot wider too, which makes them all the more useless in snow.

[HPsauce]

Personally I keep a spare set of wheels with winter tyres, usually fit them in laye November and use them til March

Same here, on both cars.
Long-term the cost is minimal, possibly even a saving as rubber wears less if it's the "appropriate" type for the weather.
My winter wheels were bought pretty cheaply and not using the summer ones in winter keeps them relatively undamaged.

[Ezzer]

We bought winter tyres for both our 2 wheel drive cars. I could feel a supprisingly big difference on compacted snow. And this is driving gently, not Colin McRea style.
Good investment, your normal tyres dont have the wear for a few months a year so extending their life span, off setting some of the cost.
Winter tyres are softer so their wear rate is quicker then normal tyres. And you have to be carefull with higher speeds, pressures and temperature as they heat up in normal conditions more.
They do have a good resale chance if you change vehicles and the new one has a different tyre size.

In fact there's a push to make them compulsary in winter conditions here. We went up to Indian Springs in the mountains in my 4 wheel drive while there was a bit of snow. But more recently there has been caios on the roads up there. All the vehicles having difficulty had normal tyres, regardless of 2 or 4 wheel drive