We actually had almost a real winter storm today – except here on the coast it switched over to rain quite early (it was up to 37f when I got home!).
But there was about an inch of snow this morning on the cars …
Lots of snow covered MINIs at MINI of Peabody today too!
Unfortunately the snow on the roads made it impossible for MoP to try and track down the rattle in the back of GPMINI – so I’ll have to return there another day.
Oh – GPMINI’s snow tires were little better than hopeless today – accelerating was OK with DSC working hard, stopping was good, but steering when the roads weren’t fully plowed was an arbitrary event – I gave the car hints and hoped it decided to obey them, and not visit the guard rails! Of course, appropriate speed, keeping distance from other cars & objects, all helped to keep me & GPMINI safe. But I’d hoped for better from the tires; I guess 17″ runflat snow tires are just too much of a compromise 😦
M&I / GBMINI 
Ian, you really need to build a garage or at least a car port on your parking pad.
Haven’t been posting in a while and had no idea you easterners had so much white stuff, don’t watch the news, hope you all stay safe. Yesterday, 2/15, we had 70+ weather here in SoCal, sorry. Nice pics Ian. Red, cute.
Also… do you scrape the snow off the windscreen and does that have any effect on the glass over time???
I’ve not seen problems with damaging the windshield – I try to use the rubber blade rather than plastic, although chipping ice needs more effort!
Main issue is split wiper blades when they freeze to the glass – I’ve been educated to flip the blades up (as seen) but only if I remember … never had to do that in England