Follow the snow on Twitter
I’m told that some snow (of the precipitation kind) is expected to arrive tomorrow in the UK.
I like snow. Most of us do, I suspect. I no longer build snowmen (snowpeople?) or chuck snowballs, but I do like swirling snow showers, wintry landscapes and the scrunchy sound that is made when you walk on fresh snow.
I am a little bit nervous, however, about the impact the snow will have on our fragile transport system. President Obama last week had a dig at Washington for closing schools because of “some ice”. We, too, have an inability to cope with more extreme winter conditions, it seems, and that’s snow joke.
If you are as interested as I am in, er, snow, and where it might be striking next, you can follow a snow trend that has emerged on Twitter. The trending tag to use is #uksnow (check this page). The last I checked, Karen Blakeman of Caversham tweeted “nothing happening in Caversham. Very cold but still lots of clear sky. “. Isn’t Twitter wonderful?
February 1st, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Twitter is, indeed, an amazing thing!
Even more fun is twitterfall.com/#uksnow where you don’t even need to refresh the page … new results fall in with a cute animation effect!