Snow On The Way!

Insomnia · Post by **Insomnia** » Wed 27th Jan 2010 06:25 pm

I've been looking at the weather reports and there are reports of heavy snow in Amsterdam on thursday night and Friday, my flight is scheduled to land from London Stansted, at 9am Amsterdam time Friday morning, i hope it doesn't get canceled after looking forward to it for so long!

evergrey1968 · Post by **evergrey1968** » Wed 27th Jan 2010 07:12 pm

It snowed almost non-stop when I was there last weekend, from the Saturday afternoon until Sunday afternoon and it was foggy and bloody freezing. Seemed to be no disruption to transport though.

Schiphol seems to have a better infrastructure for dealing with it than most of the airports in the UK so I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. I know during the bad weather a few weeks ago, they had to fly de-icer in from the UK though as they were running out

Pauli Wallnuts · Post by **Pauli Wallnuts** » Wed 27th Jan 2010 09:05 pm

believe me when i say, i understand your fears

Kingdoc · Post by **Kingdoc** » Wed 27th Jan 2010 09:08 pm

Its not to bad here.

Insomnia · Post by **Insomnia** » Wed 27th Jan 2010 10:22 pm

evergrey1968 wrote:It snowed almost non-stop when I was there last weekend, from the Saturday afternoon until Sunday afternoon and it was foggy and bloody freezing. Seemed to be no disruption to transport though.

Schiphol seems to have a better infrastructure for dealing with it than most of the airports in the UK so I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. I know during the bad weather a few weeks ago, they had to fly de-icer in from the UK though as they were running out

Thanks, that's put my mind at ease somewhat, still hoping I land before it starts bringing down the heavy stuff, if it all!

Pauli Wallnuts wrote: believe me when i say, i understand your fears

Just noticed your PM mate, assume you had a similar experience? Also notice you're a fellow MUFC fan, see the derby just now? I thought it was a brilliant game, well, the second half anyway.

@ Kingdoc, are you in amsterdam at the moment?

Kingdoc · Post by **Kingdoc** » Wed 27th Jan 2010 10:30 pm

Insomnia wrote:
evergrey1968 wrote:It snowed almost non-stop when I was there last weekend, from the Saturday afternoon until Sunday afternoon and it was foggy and bloody freezing. Seemed to be no disruption to transport though.

Schiphol seems to have a better infrastructure for dealing with it than most of the airports in the UK so I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. I know during the bad weather a few weeks ago, they had to fly de-icer in from the UK though as they were running out
Thanks, that's put my mind at ease somewhat, still hoping I land before it starts bringing down the heavy stuff, if it all!

Pauli Wallnuts wrote: believe me when i say, i understand your fears
Just noticed your PM mate, assume you had a similar experience? Also notice you're a fellow MUFC fan, see the derby just now? I thought it was a brilliant game, well, the second half anyway.

@ Kingdoc, are you in amsterdam at the moment?

Yea i misread you,I seen standsted & i assumed

,Still like i said earlier its mostly all good today here ive noticed on the newspapers/weather reports & stuff so once agin you should be cool going out at least,Bye.

Kingdoc · Post by **Kingdoc** » Wed 27th Jan 2010 10:32 pm

Ps insomnia i tend to use this as its pretty acurate.

www.accuweather.com/ukie/index.asp?partner=accuweather

You get international weather as well,Ive just checked myself & theres only "snow flurries" over the weekend! thats nothing for an airport like amsterdam,Go & enjoy

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Pauli Wallnuts · Post by **Pauli Wallnuts** » Thu 28th Jan 2010 05:49 pm

Insomnia wrote:Just noticed your PM mate, assume you had a similar experience? Also notice you're a fellow MUFC fan, see the derby just now? I thought it was a brilliant game, well, the second half anyway.

yeah it got cancelled on the 13th coz of the snow, didn't matter though the car NEVER fails

you should be ok though, especially if flying from stanstead, they do alot of cargo traffic & cant afford to close the runway, unlike those complete C**TS @ gatwick, they couldn't give a f**k if they ruin peoples plans,
excellent match last nite, no one can ever moan again that we try & influence ref, every single tackle citeh players were in his ear & what about zabaleta trying to get rooney booked for no reason, & then cynically fouling giggs so that he didn't get through on goal, bellamy, shame that bottle/coin didnt give the c**t more damage

Jasmeena · Post by **Jasmeena** » Thu 28th Jan 2010 07:17 pm

I had a fun time both leaving from Schiphol on the 3rd Jan and coming back on the 9th! My flight out was delayed about 20 mins (ppl the day before were on that flight as theirs was cancelled), but coming back my flight was cancelled (from Norwich) and the earlier one had been delayed to catch up with mine.. so even tho it was a different flight no. it left at the same time.. I don't think this was anything to do with the snow, but a business decision to fill the flight! But that's just my take on it..

You can watch #uksnow ( http://uksnow.benmarsh.co.uk/ ) on twitter for snow around the UK and also keep an eye on http://www.schiphol.nl/index_en.html for flight info esp on the same flight the previous day etc..

In Eindhoven, we've had sleet for most of y'day and temperatures from -3C to -7C.. right now it's 2C, so positively tropical!!

There's also a nice radar map for snow over the NL at:
http://www.buienradar.nl/ (it's interactive, just click on the area you want to zoom into)

Good luck and have fun!!