Has nobody here heard of a grand solar minimum? Winters are going to intensify till about 2025 when at it's peak it is going to be survival of the fittest.

Unfortunately you're right. Grand solar minimum will become everyday news soon. I can see the changes already. Rain in CA after saying it's not going to rain and it's usually during or after a CME.

How dare you imply the sun-cycle has anything to do with climate?! Heretic!

Sun cycles? Burn him at the stake.

I believe in a gaseocentric model of climate.

The transport system is fucking shit as it is. Doesn't need Russian meddling to disrupt it.

It'd be alright if they gritted the roads in time, it's not like we didn't have any warning that it was coming!

Don't forget to stock up on bread and milk before Tesco sells out again! :)

I wish we even had gritters bother with us, we get left to fend for ourselves in the village. Anarchy will develop if the milk runs out, the elderly will revolt

"Now here in the UK we do not handle bad weather well" you obviously live in the south then, the north just get on with it!

Yeah! it's true though alot of people just crumble with the slightest bit of snow, the further south you get the more whining.

Sadly can confirm this!

“Like Canadian over there” hahahaha Canadian here, currently excited for 4 degree weather.

The night is dark and full of terror

Londoner here. The majority of us down here just get on with it and make preparations for our journeys into/from work but major infrastructures crumble under the pressure. TFL especially are horrendous at preparing!

My opinion here is that if they were going to send something to mess up the day to day running of the UK they would send something more significant and longer lasting.

That said disruption to the City of London - the banks, the exchanges for just a few hours does end up costing billions in lost trading.

Yeah...the NHS hack/wannacry thing a couple of years ago (last year?) pretty much screwed things up for a good few weeks if I remember correctly!

They must have sent Brexit so. Maybe Boris is a Russian spy!

Thing here is that if you go back to the 80s and 90s the IRA knew they could call up with a fake bomb scare in the City resulting in buildings being evacuated and loss of revenues. They could shut the City down with just one phone call. This money being lost resulted in pressure on the government to come up with a peace deal.

If you look at it that way you could be onto something.

I was watching the weather on BBC1 yesterday & yes the snow is coming in from Russia. I laughed & said oh Russia again. It’s just the wind patterns though.

The earth is wobbling, the poles are heating up and the atmospheric jet streams are in flux. A pole shift is in the "air".

Russia is a fan of CERN

Beast clouds look like these?

Lenticular?

It's an interesting theory. It's not unusual to see this type of weather at this time of year but it is unusual to see two similar weather systems this close together. The snow was crazy a fortnight ago but doesn't seem too bad today. So far, anyway.

It's certainly possible that it's manufactured weather from Russia. I'm sure people would argue that if it is engineered snow that it would be a LOT worse than the current few wet flakes, but the entire country grinds to a halt under the first CM of snow so it wouldn't take a lot of it for people to start panic buying milk and flailing their arms around, especially in London. One thing I did notice this morning when it was snowing, that it wasn't cold. Not like it was 2 weeks ago. It was relatively warm in comparison. That's generally not a good sign if it's warm and snowing!

I'm not looking forward to my journey into work tomorrow, the District line is awful even when it's sunny!

Erh no. The whole of Europe was affected not just the UK. Its called global warming.

You mean 'it could be global warming'.

Let's actually listen to OP... HAARP/geo-engineering... have you looked into those subjects? If yes, what would prevent a major power from using that tech against the entirety of Europe?

'Beast from the East' is a biblical reference too... I'm not sure who coined it for the storm... but it's a bizarre way to describe bad weather (sure the storm could be called 'beast' no problem... but the combo with east is a direct biblical reference).

Back in the late 90’s one of my buddies wondered if it was possible to create a conspiracy theory, so we all tried. I came up with “The Russian Weather Machine”. Which was a failed nuclear submarine that created insane heat. The Russians figured out that towing this thing to spots around the worlds oceans and turning out on, could alter ocean currents and temperatures, changing weather in certain areas of the world. I guess I was partially correct. Good on me.