Northbourne: looking up Western Avenue

Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 25 Dec 2010

A view in the opposite direction to Image Bournemouth experienced heavy snowfall on the night of 2-3 December and further snow on the 18th and 20th, during a long spell in which the temperature has struggled to exceed freezing point at all. Even when it did, during the daytime of the 20th - bringing very heavy rain - it was not substantial enough to thaw all of the snow and it soon froze over again as the temperature plummeted once more. Here we look up Western Avenue from the East Howe Lane end. East Howe Lane was gritted, being a bus route, and we can see here that the traffic entering Western Avenue here has freed the left-hand side of ice, but downhill traffic has not caused a similar effect on the right. This is the clearest I have seen Western Avenue, in terms of ice, for three weeks and only last weekend I had to turn back on this hill because the car ahead of me had become stranded. Temperatures are expected to rise to as much as a balmy 8 or 9 degrees by Monday or Tuesday, though.

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