Andy Bown
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1 hour ago, matt111 said:
According to the radar it’s not raining here but according to the window it definitely is raining fairly heavily.
I dare say the rain developed between the radar time and being at your location. The net weather radar normally updates 6 to 7 minutes after the latest time it shows so at 15.37 the 15.30 radar appears.
Some very intense rain from Portsmouth towards Devizes now.
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Meanwhile in the reliable time frame Ian was talking on Points West about lightning on Sunday.
The first Southerly sourced air of the season wrapped up in low pressure = good convective opportunities.
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An enjoyable drive to/from Westbury this afternoon with lovely views of remaining snow on the banks and hillsides sparkling in the sunshine.
Surprisingly windy today but mostly sunny for the third consecutive day aside from a few showers this morning.
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I must admit last week's events made me forget that slack low pressure can actually provide beautiful weather, yesterday was dry and had plenty of sunshine and today looks like being the same. Then after a front tonight it could be similar again tomorrow.
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My max today was 10.7c which in early afternoon sunshine was beautiful!
The end is nigh...
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I went for a walk with my boy in anticipation of finding some snow up Elm Hill in Warminster but the nearest we came was a bunch of snowdrops! Really amazing how quickly it has gone!
There are some drifts higher than we could go and good views of the Plain to the S/SE (see picture).
A very pleasant Spring day developing now, 8.2c and sunny spells.
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Hi Knocker, have we had a small LOW move North this afternoon / evening within the general larger slack LOW? I ask because at around 17.00 low cloud was moving from the ENE while the rain was moving S-N.
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Very heavy rain now after a showery afternoon and fine morning.
I keep repositioning the carrot!
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2 hours ago, warmintim said:
Driven in to the Uni (Bath) this morning along the A36 and I am amazed at how big the drifts still are. On Brassknocker hill there is one point where only 1 car can go at a time as there is a huge drift still there.
Amazing spell of weather for me - I loved the long run in - model run tension, including the mini wobble about 5 days out from the arrival of the easterly (as in -'it's all going south to France...'), and the beautiful days of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (sunny with the odd shower making it across. Then walking the dog on Wednesday night with the streamer just reaching us and watching very fine powder snow blowing in the wind at -5.9 deg C. Waking on Thursday to see snow already arrived and still snowing, deciding to work from home, before work actually closed at 1pm. Then the main event hitting, slowly at first, but gradually getting heavier during a 2 hour walk, and then just watching as it never stopped until 11 pm. Fantastic day Friday - temps below freezing all day, so no melting at all, no-one moving anywhere (if they had any sense). A little top up in the afternoon (not as much as some, but who's complaining?). A walk on Saturday through some superb snowdrifts on Cradle Hill (no ufo's were seen...). Scenes just like the 80's.
And now its mostly gone, and spring on its way (hopefully!)
Tim, you'll be pleased to know I don't recognise you ! Fantastic scenes up Cradle Hill.
What time were you out on Wednesday night? We walked back from a meal in town at about 9pm and it felt surreal!
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2 hours ago, warmintim said:
Driven in to the Uni (Bath) this morning along the A36 and I am amazed at how big the drifts still are. On Brassknocker hill there is one point where only 1 car can go at a time as there is a huge drift still there.
Amazing spell of weather for me - I loved the long run in - model run tension, including the mini wobble about 5 days out from the arrival of the easterly (as in -'it's all going south to France...'), and the beautiful days of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (sunny with the odd shower making it across. Then walking the dog on Wednesday night with the streamer just reaching us and watching very fine powder snow blowing in the wind at -5.9 deg C. Waking on Thursday to see snow already arrived and still snowing, deciding to work from home, before work actually closed at 1pm. Then the main event hitting, slowly at first, but gradually getting heavier during a 2 hour walk, and then just watching as it never stopped until 11 pm. Fantastic day Friday - temps below freezing all day, so no melting at all, no-one moving anywhere (if they had any sense). A little top up in the afternoon (not as much as some, but who's complaining?). A walk on Saturday through some superb snowdrifts on Cradle Hill (no ufo's were seen...). Scenes just like the 80's.
And now its mostly gone, and spring on its way (hopefully!)
Tim, you'll be pleased to know I don't recognise you ! Fantastic scenes up Cradle Hill.
What time were you out on Wednesday night? We walked back from a meal in town at about 9pm and it felt surreal!
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We now have a pond on the lawn with a lump of snow and a carrot! I know it's got milder today but surprised how rapid the thaw is considering the ground was bone hard frozen solid. Had it not been for said pond I'd have put washing on the line seeing as we have sunshine and 9.2c!
Monday to Friday were incredible days, including the first 2 days of March not getting above freezing, how long until we have such a potent winter scenario again!? My 40th birthday will always be memorable for the intense windchill and onset in the evening of the powder snow that laid the foundations for Thursdays insanity.-
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Driveway cleared so we can go out in the car later, it was still 4 to 5 inches deep and drifts over 7 inches where it all funnelled down our drive from over the road!
It looks like we're going to have a lot of rain this week, I'd rather the sunny build up to the beast!
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3 hours ago, offerman said:
Bring on the storms now like
last summer
I captured this over Frome
Wow! What date was that?
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Amused to see a comment or 2 referring to the sun as 'odd yellow thing in the sky'. It's only been Thursday and yesterday without sun, prior to that it was almost full on sun for 6 or 7 days with snow flurries interspersed earlier this week!
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3 minutes ago, Super_Uwe said:
Now we need to keep an eye on flooding, already quite a few reports coming in this morning like Frogmore and other vulnerable places.
That's a wonderful place name! There's a road in Westbury (Wiltshire) named the same.
Melt underway here too, we have decided to leave clearing snow and see how much is left tomorrow pm.
More important to get out and enjoy it with our boy.
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Does anyone else feel like they have been/are living in a parallel universe!?
Need to start clearing snow today but don't fancy doing it in rain!
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We've had some drizzle this evening, which was presumably freezing, but I didn't stop to check while negotiating the nearly 2 foot drift on the patio near ours bins!
Remarkable how that drift has accrued from the roof and also snow blown along the side of the house!
As and when a thaw ensues it's going to take days to return to normality!
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Snowing again in Warminster, may not add much to the existing 6 to 7 inches and drifts of a foot!
Novelty factor has completely worn off for us though! A lot of work to do this weekend to try and enable a return to work for my wife on Monday.
In the past councils would plough and grit every estate after snowfall, I bet Wiltshire Council won't!
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6 inches is my look out of the window at garden table estimate.
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This will get lost in the brilliant mayhem but my lowest ever maximum in 15 years of recording temperatures has happened today!! Minus 2.4c !
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Approaching 2 inches in Warminster, can't keep up with this thread lol!!
Already the most snow for over 5 years, goodness knows how much to come!!
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Radar suggests Mother Nature may be about to even things out after 5 largely snowless winters!
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My wife's school has decided not to open, expecting my sons nursery to do likewise. Hopefully snowman time this afternoon.
Steadily snowing, not much wind at the moment, minus 5.1c!
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Just walked back from a birthday meal in town, seriously cold, snow flurrying and windy, minus 5.1c and I dread to think what the feels like temperature is!!
Is this long streaming line of snow on another convergence zone!
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South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 03/03/2018 Onwards
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I think I said back in December that Sod's law would dictate perfect winter Synoptics in Spring. Well part 2 of that looks possible next week, only both of them could prove to be wintry anyway!
Grim this morning although the rain has stopped, 8.8c .