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  1. 1 minute ago, Man With Beard said:

    This is not over for the south by any means. Now a mini ridge has appeared for Friday/Saturday and the low has turned into a slider, it is quite conceivable a correction of up to 200 miles could yet happen. I recall a couple of years ago a snow event dropped its southern extent from Birmingham to N London between T48 and T36. Equally there have been times the line has pushed north. Unless the models move towards ECM op in terms of depth of cold, this could go to the wire.

    Don’t do it to yourself dude 

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  2. 37 minutes ago, feb1991blizzard said:

    Yes, i would far rather live in kent than here, in my life kent has had nearly a metre of level snow once, a foot a few times and a lot of 6 inch falls, my location has had 6 inches about 3 times during that same period and has only had more than 6 inches once.

    Lol

     

    a very small corner of Kent 

     

    I honestly think people who live up north have different ranges to us southerners. When we say rarely, we mean a dusting maybe once a year. For those up north rarely seems to mean 5 or 6 occasions with measurable snow a year! 

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  3. 13 minutes ago, Kasim Awan said:

    I have stood in Buxton and experienced rain / sleet yet still was able to make out individual snowflakes falling onto the adjacent hills above - 300ft higher & 700ft away.

    Another point is that the settling snow gradient is generally much tighter than the falling snow gradient. You can go from no snow to snow on the ground in 30ft but this altitude based change is not possible for falling snow. This is because snow accumulation follows the 0c dewpoint line which is very narrow. Conversely, the snow to rain transition is not subject to a sharp cut off as falling snow does not get time to melt as it falls into temps of 1c to begin with.

    Yet on the ground it has more time to reflect the temperature as the precipitation hits the ground it is there for much longer.

    Lol @ making out individual snowflakes 700ft away 

     

    ok 

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