Comments on: Another winter snap

By: maca

maca — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:00:37 +0000

Mick, the missus reckons we get about half a metre here but i’ve no idea how they come up with the figures. Further north it’d be a metre or more.

By: Mick

Mick — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 03:55:53 +0000

U call that snow!

Just had 19 inches in Western Massachusetts today, and about 6 or 8 here in the city, and I still had to walk barefoot and backwards to school … :p

In a year how much snow would U get in your part of Finland? I’ve always imagined that part of the world as getting tonnes of snow.

Here in Boston we’d get about 90inches in an average year, and in a bad year get about 130 or 140 inches.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 21:41:04 +0000

“They are roof-tiles with a sort of hook. These special roof-tiles are laid in a pattern close to the lower edge of the roof and prevent the snow from falling ”

Yes, this is actually a legal requirement in Hungary.
When I first came here, I thought it was all a bit of a laugh, some old dear getting clobbered by an avalanche of snow. But it’s no joke, there are at least a dozen stories in the press every winter about people suffering pretty horrendous injuries (broken necks etc) because of it.

Some one actually died last year when a particularly solid icicle pierced their skull.

By: maca

maca — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 09:42:18 +0000

Actually I didn’t know that Antonio. I presume they do use something here but I just haven’t noticed anything.

By: Antonio from Italy

Antonio from Italy — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 08:10:26 +0000

In places where snow is normal every year and where there’s the risk of snow fall from the roof, they use “anti-snow” roof-tiles.
They are roof-tiles with a sort of hook. These special roof-tiles are laid in a pattern close to the lower edge of the roof and prevent the snow from falling in a whole block.
Sometimes it’s possible to fit these hooks afterwards on older roofs.
Over here it’s a normal thing to see them on the roofs.
I guess you also have something of this kind over there.