After days of rain, heavy snow fell across Oldham yesterday evening and the wintry showers continued overnight.
Storm Christoph continued to be felt across the borough, with plummeting temperatures turning the persistant rain into snow in places.
This time, the snow wasn t confined to high ground, as flakes fell across Oldham, Greater Manchester and many parts of northern England. 5cm of snow was measured in Oldham.
Jon Baylis of @chadweather on Twitter, who has a weather station in Chadderton, described snowflakes like dinner plates in a video posted last night
The band of snow should move away throughout the day today, leaving a mixture of rain and wintry showers.
You can name a Minnesota snowplow The kooky contest, which started in Scotland, is gaining traction here. January 1, 2021 8:26am Text size Copy shortlink:
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is having a contest to name our snowplows. They re taking submissions until Jan. 22 at dot.state.mn.us/nameasnowplow, with the winners announced in February. Sounds fun! But you may have a few questions about how this came about. I did. And here s what I discovered:
Q: Why is Minnesota doing this?
A: Because of Twitter, and because it s fun, and the winter days are dark and long. But mostly because of Twitter.
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TOP comic John Oliver has paid tribute to Scotland’s “world class” snow-plough names. The Emmy-award winning late night chat show host s suprise compliment for our gritters came as he hit out at the city of Syracuse for wasting an opportunity for some top-class punning. After a week-long contest, with more than 2000 people taking part, the city in New York state went with names including Blizzard Beater, Golden Snowball, Jocko, Lake Effect Crusher, and Winged Warrior. Speaking on the Bugle podcast, the host of HBO s Last Week Tonight, said the names were fine and servicable . “Absolutely no real complaints, or at least they seemed fine until I started looking at what Scotland has been doing with its snowplough names because it puts those efforts to shame,” he said.