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The lead edge is heading into Swansea now and Porthcawl. Pembroke too. Anyone got any reports from there?
Nothing yet at Mumbles, dark clouds approaching.
2.4c, Wind 64mph
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I just drove up the road to Bishopston via Murton, and was very suprised to see a 1cm - 2cm covering of fresh snow on all surfaces with drifts of over 3cm. This was not there this morning at about 11am. Even a good sprinkling on the beach at Caswell.
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2.8c here in Mumbles. Snow not likely here now.
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I don't want to put downers on people as no-one loves the snow more than me but we must be realistic - this cold spell was always going to end at some point and I really believe today is that day.
The snow flurries have stopped here now - lying snow is thawing very quickly this afternoon and it feels far less cold outside. I think the mild air has won over and people need to accept this. Fact.
Any precipitation of any real amount would now be sleet/rain I believe.
It snowed lightly to moderately here in Mumbles all morning and started to stick. I live right on the seafront - we are normally the last place to ever get snow. In fact, Mumbles is one of the only places in South Wales right now without lying snow (Excluding the sprinkling this morning).
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Heavier burst here at Mumbles seafront, now sticking.
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Light Snow here on the seafront in Mumbles. 24 hours of this and we will have at least 1 mm
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Mumbles, Swansea
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its either the fibre connections from traffic wales or worse still the fibre connections from cameras to control centre. fibre can operate at low temps but weather can affect satellite links, which the likes of traffic wales use for their uplinks.
Lol, Traffic Wales don't use fibre anything, and fibre certainly wouldn't be affected by temperatures being 0c. Their site is just overloaded
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Wow, rain turned back to snow. Biiig flakes!
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Are u in mumbles? I work for the elderly and due visits down the mumbles
Raining lightly in Mumbles, it's thawed the little lying snow we had from a few days ago.
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As soon as I posted raining in Mumbles, it turned to snow.
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Raining in Mumbles as ever.
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-11c in Sennybridge now
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Arrgghhh, despite much of Swansea having a nice dusting, we have barely a flake on the ground here in Mumbles. It's not even as if the snow started off as rain, it just stopped as soon as it started
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Weather warning now out for much of Wales 4pm onwards.
Outbreaks of rain, sleet and snow during Friday evening and the first part of the night, coupled with freezing temperatures are likely to cause widespread ice in places. Falls of a few cm of lying snow are expected locally.
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the bwlch is closed then?
ok, looks like pont nedd fechan is out!
Yep, apparently the road is a death trap. Any idea what altitude the road reaches? I seem to have 400m in my head.
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A4061 between Treorchy and Nantymoel in RCT/Bridgend County closed.
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Temperatures are FINALLY dropping after a few hours of nothing but rain here.
METO severe warning has been extended to a larger area, valid from 9am.
A465 Highest Point traffic cam shows a covering of snow that wasn't there 30 minutes ago!
http://members.traffic-wales.com/cctvimages/A465Camera2550.jpg
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Much bigger showers developing over the sea heading for South Wales
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Really with 2cm of Snow?
It's not so much the snow, it's the 20 minutes of hail we had first
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BEDLAM here in Mumbles, main road and side roads coated in ice and snow. Several cars stranded, one accident already and I can't get out of my damn drive
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Heavy snow shower in Swansea (City Centre)! None of that sleety rubbish, pure heavy snow sticking to the dusting we had last night.
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Very loud thunderstorm here in Swansea early this morning, with a massive hail storm in the Mumbles area. Roads and all surfaces covered in large amounts of hail, nearly crashed the car doing just 10mph on Mumbles Road. Still hadn't cleared by 6am, did see a gritter with a snow plough on the front! Even now at 6:45pm, there are still pockets of hail that have survived the day.
It's been a strange few days weatherwise. On Thursday at about 1pm on the M4 motorway near Bridgend, we suddenly had a massive hailstorm with marble sized hail. Just as it started (just about to start slowing down from 70mph) a car lost control on the hail (going more than 70mph) and crashed into a bus, right in front of my eyes. Just about avoided the bus, and behind me a lorry had to brake very quickly and lost control, veering off into the hard shoulder. Everybody in front just stopped due to the impossible driving conditions and we had to wait 20 minutes for the hail to start melting. It was so bad that the large matrix signs scattered around by the hard shoulder displayed "SEVERE WEATHER - STOP IN LANE IMMEDIATELY"
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That's not far from here is it likely to drop?
What altitude are you at Adam? Also (wet) snow between Felindre and Garnswllt at 200m so can't be far off
Wales Cymru Cold Spell Discussion
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It would be amazing to see heavy snow here with a 64 mph wind!