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Still rain here, and right now I'd be thrilled with 2 snowflakes a minute! Oh well - I'll be back in Bewdley soon, so maybe that extra 50m of altitude will have an effect. I might even get some sleet again!

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Still sleety rain here. I have a nasty feeling that the cold will get here after the precipitation has (at least mostly) gone. I may be just that bit too far to the west, but we'll see.

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Pretty boring here in Kidderminster town centre (about 40-50m asl): just rain with a few blobs of sleet in it. It's pushing it even to call it sleet, actually.

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Interesting to observe here (if not quite as interesting as I would have liked!) - I came up from Kidderminster to here on the bus about half an hour ago, and it was like this:

* Kidderminster town centre (about 40-50m asl): rain for the most part but turning sleety when it got heavier

* Bewdley town centre (25m): just about managing to settle in an extremely wet way on a few bits of grass

* Top of Bewdley by-pass (120m): quite heavy snow, settling easily and sticking to the front of vehicles

* Home (90m): a nearly full white, if thin and a bit slushy, covering on the grass and car roofs, some slush on pavements and mostly just wet on the roads

I also noticed that vehicles coming down the A456 from the west - Clows Top, Clee Hill etc - mostly had substantial snow on them. None seemed to have been cleared, which implied that the snow fell after their journeys had started.

Currently sleet and 1.1°C here.

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Seems the snow risk has transferred more in favour of the west and north west midlands in recent hours, I think this is right considering these areas do have some height and therefore conditions won't be as marginal as further east which is relatively low lying.. it makes me laugh when they snow for higher ground in the east midlands and east anglia there is no real high ground here..

Worcestershire marches could do get quite well as well as north Cotswolds, major urban areas such as Wolverhampton and Kidderminister could do very well, if the snow reaches towards the Welsh border could be a few temporary road closures, however, I think it will begin to diminish..

Still time for the snow risk to change.

Wolverhampton I'd have thought has a pretty good chance, especially as most of Wolves is over 100m asl and quite a few areas are over 150m. Perhaps less so for Kidderminster - in my experience it's not a brilliant snow magnet, partly because it's considerably lower - most of the town is in the 40 to 80m range. My hunch - and that's all it is - is that here in Bewdley at 90m I may be a little too low and a little too far south to see more than sleet or maybe transient snow, but that the Shropshire hills may be in for another pasting.

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Light-moderate snow again here in Bewdley, with medium-sized flakes, but less impressive than the last lot - that Stourbridge/Halesowen hole has clipped us too!

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Tremendous heavy snow shower at about 3.30pm - only lasted a quarter of an hour but gave half an inch on everything, though it's melting now in the sun on roads etc. Grass still white, though.

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Dry here - we're just that little bit too far west, it seems. No precip at all here this afternoon, though there were some sleety tiny flakes this morning. Cold day, though - max 3.1°C and a very chilly wind.

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Hello everyone. Just popping over from "the other side" since TWO doesn't have regional threads. About 2cm of snow in Bewdley this morning, and the same traffic problems (though on a slightly lesser scale) as reported from other places. All slushy now in town, but still a reasonable if thin covering once you get up a bit from the town centre.

Actually, that's not the case now. Even as I was writing that a serious thaw was setting in. There's still a slush 50% covering on sheltered lawns, but elsewhere we're down to scattered patches - it's 5°C now. I can see the Clent Hills from near here, and they still look white, but the lower hills are back to green.

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Hello everyone. Just popping over from "the other side" since TWO doesn't have regional threads. About 2cm of snow in Bewdley this morning, and the same traffic problems (though on a slightly lesser scale) as reported from other places. All slushy now in town, but still a reasonable if thin covering once you get up a bit from the town centre.