Andy Bown
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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! -
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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I now know it is possible for the temperature to FALL under unbroken midday sunshine and of course it is virtually Spring! It's gone from -0.4c down to -1.2c in the last hour! ESE wind is gusting very strong off Salisbury Plain, the last xx number of times that's happened have been hot summer days.
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I don't think snow would ever melt under these conditions, perhaps just dry up/evaporate. A general question , could we term the showers currently stretched NE to SW in the Bristol Channel as a 'reverse streamer' ?
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Nearing -5c my side of Warminster, I wonder if Tim is around as he often records lower. Pretty amusing to be able to blow the snow off the car windscreen!
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I've been hoping a shower core would pass overhead and finally it's happening, proper big snowflakes and properly settling too!
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I haven't time to read all posts from the last few hours but wanted to add how extremely rare it is to have convection and showers moving in the exact opposite direction to normal!
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That happened to mine yesterday until the strengthening sun got to work from about 11.00 to 15.00 and it dried despite continuing flurries.
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Tried to quote AWD re Ian's forecast but it hasn't worked! I noticed the 2 snow bands too, think that will tie in with fax charts I saw earlier which had an upper warm front then, I think, an occlusion. Snowing in Warminster leaving a dusting in the last half hour.
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I put washing out at 9am, it's stayed out through several hours of flurries and is now dry. Quirky or what! Snowflake spotting with my 19 month old boy is sooo great!
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Alert! Stop the press! Flurry in Warminster! About 20 flakes on the patio table! Bright sun too.
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4 consecutive days with no cloud and possibly a 5th to come tomorrow, although more likely to have Stratocumulus if not something more convective. That in itself is extremely rare.
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Back in the day we never worried what would happen after it snowed because 6 days in advance we didn't really know it was going to. We just woke up on cold, windy, frosty, sunny mornings and enjoyed winter hoping it would lead to snow!!
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This very dry air, breeze and full on sun is great for drying washing!
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See a post a few pages back quoting Steve Murr from the MOD thread, it refers to snow showers streaming in from the coast. Also showers will develop inland. Think of days with rain showers when somewhere gets 15mm of rain in a few hours but 5 miles away stays dry.
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In 3 words and referring to next weeks potential freezing conditions ; epic 40th birthday! On a serious note ; we should be prepared for massive snow variations across our region.
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And we should also be prepared for snow to die out as it heads Westwards, especially inland, as happens the 'normal' way around! However I am excited at the prospect of big snow showers developing in the daytime. There must be a chance of a reverse Bristol Channel streamer or South Coast streamers?
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Slight frost this morning but just a precursor it seems! Misty too. Thinking tomorrow mornings weekly shop might need to be a bit more than that, but will other locals be thinking similarly!
