OT Anyone live along the M4?

So how bad is your snow?  We are due to travel from London/Essex to Swansea today to catch the ferry to Ireland.

We're pretty close to the M25 and then it is M4 all the way. Please tell me the M4 is open near you.........

TIA

M4 in our area is open Chippenham (J17) most of the main roads in our area are absolutely fine x x

Fine here in Reading (J10-12) - all the main roads are clear at the moment.

(and it might be worth having a look at the BBC Travel cameras as they will show you how the roads are looking)

Junction 5 here and it was fine yesterday (we went from 5 to 11 and all clear). 

Thanks everyone. I'm more worried about the influx of snow expected this afternoon.

We have light snow expected from around 3pm, im a little worried too as H is due to fly from Edinburgh to Bristol this evening eeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!! x

Bristol - Newport is fine. We went to Cardiff on the weekend and the motorway was ok, not great and down to single lane for much of it.

It's snowing here at the moment (Newport)

We're in Berkshire and as others have said it seems fine.

My Dad has been along from junctions 30 - 40 this morning (S.Wales) and all was okay

hmmmmm that light snow has now been pelting down since 10.15am!!! x

Mossy I'm not exactly on the M4, just north of swindon and its snowing here, and the inlaws are just south of the M4 and its snowing there, so I'm not sure if it might be snowing around the swindon area...worth checking out before heading out x

We're just off J29 (Cardiff) and not sure what the M4 is like now but has been snowing quite badly here all morning. Good luck - are the ferries still running?

I'm in Bristol & it is still snowing here. There is a severe weather warning in force for us today & heavy snowfall due around 3pm today.

Update from Sky News M4 is hazardous in Wales.

Wales

:: A470, Mallwyfd, Gwynedd - closed.

:: A4061, Nant-Y-Moel, Bridgend - closed, hazardous conditions.

:: A4061, Hirwaun, Rhondda - closed, hazardous conditions.

:: A469, Caerphilly - closed, hazardous conditions.

:: A55, J1-24, North Wales - hazardous conditions.

:: A465, Hirwaun, Rhondda - hazardous conditions.

:: M4, J49-29, South Wales - hazardous conditions.

Thanks all! We are going to give it a go!

I can never reply on my phone to threads here but I would really appreciate it if any of you could keep me up to date with the weather situation!

In the middle of a Blizzard as I type and massive flakes! Just be careful as Cardiff is horrendous.