Arctic Hare

Well... my earlier snow measurements were on a car roof that (unbeknownst to me) had been partially cleared during the morning! In fact, it's now over 14 cm deep -- measured on another car roof... which beats 2010's maximum depth and so makes it the deepest snow here since 1996, I think!

Pepped up a bit here in Bewdley -- I'd say moderate rather than heavy, but certainly more than an hour ago. I'm off for a walk in a few minutes, and will measure the depth then!

Surprisingly perhaps, First is still running buses between Kidderminster and Bewdley/Stourport. I'm actually quite impressed by that. The 292 over Clee Hill isn't running, though...

Still falling steadily here, so those in Birmingham etc needn't fret that it'll stop any time soon! A bit lighter than it was, but still blowing around nicely.

For those of us who aren't total regulars, where is that, please? Your avatar text just says "The Midlands"!

Only 4-5 cm here, but it's blowing sideways, there's drifting and the wind is whistling through the phone wires. And it's still snowing. I'll take that!

About 1 cm of cover here, just enough for that nice creaking noise when you walk on it. That came from a little bit of pepping-up for an hour or so around 9.45-10.45 pm. Now back to very light. Temp +0.3 °C.

Still very, very light here -- not settling at all on the wetter parts of the road, though there's a dusting (and no more) on cars and pavements. Temp hovering around the +0.4 °C mark.

Now stopped completely in Bewdley, so even Telford is doing better!

Repeating the post I made just as the last thread was locked... snowing here in Bewdley, but really lightly. You can see individual flakes on top of wheelie bins, but it's nowhere near settling on roads etc. Temp 1.3 °C and falling gently.

Snowing here in Bewdley, but really lightly. You can see individual flakes on the top of the wheelie bin, but it's nowhere near settling on roads etc.

I might be a bit far north here for anything really spectacular... but the Black Mountains should be another matter! Maybe the Malverns too, I suppose.

Well, it's snowed here! There was a very thin dusting earlier, and the odd flake in the breeze as I was standing around at Kidderminster station an hour ago. Tomorrow is another day. Ahem.

That's right, yes. There were two cold spells, one in Dec 1981 and one in Jan 1982. At my school (Franche) I was in a class of 36 (not uncommon in those days) and on the worst day 18 people made it in. Including me. That was the winter that it got down to -26.1 °C at Harper Adams College in Newport (Shropshire) -- which is still the all-time low for England.

I grew up in Kidderminster and the deepest snow I can remember was in Jan 1982, when we had over a foot. And I lived only a few yards from school so had to go every day...

10 cm is my threshold for "lots and lots of snow", since it's very rare to get double figures of cm in these parts. I could live with even 5 cm. A nice ice day today (max -0.6 °C) so it's all feeling nicely wintry. Now to kick back and wait for the sleet.

Moderate rain here in Bewdley. It's only +0.6C, but it's not even sleet. Thin snow cover from last night, but now slushy and slippery and disgusting. Truly horrible weather.

Very, and I mean very, light snow here. Lamp-post stuff and even then you have to look hard.

Despite being at lower altitude than all you Dudley sherpas, I feel strangely relaxed about this one, which isn't my usual way at all. Maybe it's to do with going to Ludlow today over the Clee Hill road, and playing about in the snow there for a bit. (Clee Hill village car park: chuck a snowball out down the hillside and watch the wind turn it in a 90-degree curve before it lands!) I did have a gut feeling that it would be that "snow getting washed away" setup mentioned by The Wolf, but the 18z NAE actually looks rather nicer than I expected, even if Bewdley is still a bit too far west for comfort by Monday daytime. I often bring this one up as encouragement, so here it is again: February 2007. Snow on Saturday, turning to sleet then rain in the evening. Forecast to stay that way. Didn't. More snow on Sunday. It can happen, even here!

Bits and pieces of rain (as the Beeb weather would say) and nothing else. Sunny now, which is preferable to the near-overcast conditions of a couple of hours ago.

Ended up with 69 mm all told from this event, 51 mm of which was between 09.00 (BST) Sun and 09.00 Mon -- the wettest day this year, beating even the worst June could inflict. The Severn in Bewdley is up a lot, but it was very low before so there's no worry about flooding at the moment. The Stour in Kidderminster is quite impressive by Tesco, though -- that river is virtually always low and placid, but it's very brown and fast-flowing now, and the ducks seem to have escaped to the canal!

Just been for a 25-minute walk around the local lanes -- best evening for a stroll in ages. Maxed out at 17.1 °C today, which is much more like it for May. Though as Barbmac says, tomorrow will be a different story. Sigh.

Not too bad here -- not a lot of actual sunshine, but it's quite bright and mild. A lot better than most of the last month has been, for sure. I suppose one advantage of April's awfulness has been that my expectations have been lowered -- much as I'd like to see the clouds cleared away in ten seconds flat to leave a lovely bright blue sky, I'll take just about anything that doesn't mean I have to put the lights on at lunchtime...

I'm in Kidderminster at the moment. A lovely afternoon here, and I've been regretting my decision to wear normal mid-March clothes, coat and so on. The one day this week I have to be outdoors is Friday... which is of course the one and only day there's a fair chance of rain! Grr.

A late report from this morning: sleety snow from around 9 am to 10 am, none settling of course. Then lots of cold rain -- 11 mm in total, the wettest day here in a long time. Thereafter, cloudy with occasional light rain. Much clearer this evening, and I managed to see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and the Moon in the same sky, though clouds hid Mercury only a few seconds after I spotted it.