http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=151 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 07:03:19 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=151#post-433 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:57:05 +0000 Mrblacker 433@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Emergency shelters in Scotland are said to be overflowing tonight, after a Met Office warning of heavy snow.</p> <p>Experts suggest while the quantity of snow expected is nothing out of the ordinary, the weight of the flakes themselves could cause problems across the country.</p> <p>"We're suggesting no-one goes outside while the snow falls." Chief Meterologist Dan Snape said. "The flakes are likely to be weighing in at a gram, which doesn't sound like a great deal, but if it's falling from several thousand feet will cause a massive terminal velocity which could harm a child. Indeed, it could harm anything much larger too."</p> <p>Structural engineers across Scotland and Northern England are on stand-by to help keep essential services and businesses like the Irn-Bru factory open and to offer advice to householders who are used to dealing with snow on their roof but unused to dealing with snow on their landings.</p> <p>Weather experts are suggesting the reason for the extreme weightiness of the snow is caused by pollution from deuterium oxide trapped in the atmosphere. </p>