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Just walked to the Spar, which was closed! Saw lightning flashes to the east, Hampshire way. Icy patches on the pavement where snow has blown away. Aw hell. Let's go back out in it & try the Black Bear. These days don't happen often!

Magners, or Thatchers??? Either will do. Stuff the pork scratchings,or is that stuffed pork? I'm confusing myself now!

Purely for the purpose of weather research, I'm going to walk to my local shop now & buy some beer. Nothing whatsoever to do with experiencing the current meteorological conditions.

Whatever happens to the snow/graupel/sleet/freezing rain combo, or any other, it's been an amazingly different weather day down here. A kaleidescope of winter weather, in spring!

I'll let myself down terribly now & say, I'm sure I would recognise you, but can't place you. Call in at the ground maintenance resource facility (Our garage) sometime.

Thank you Sir! Are you a Terras fan then?

Sounds like someone is throwing dry rice against my windows. Guess that's freezing rain arriving, whilst we still have Met Office forecast for heavy snow.

I commute between Wool & Weymouth. Supposed to go to Weymouth tomorrow & get the pitch ready at Weymouth FC for Saturdays match. Of course, I follow media updates & my own instincts, but any updates would be appreciated. P.S. Stuck in Wool today!

However it pans out over the next 12 hours or so, what's made today memorable, is not only the mere fact that it snowed all day in Dorset, but the even rarer event of having fine, powder snow, giving a completely different type of evolving cover than you get with the traditional wet, big flake 'British snow'. The shows not over yet though.

Meteoradar shows a small gap in the snowfall here at the moment, which would account for the current lull. Hopefully temporary & intensity will increase again soon.

Went from fine powder snow, to bigger flakes this afternoon in Wool. Now back to fine powder again. Intensity has remained pretty consistent.

Just started again in Wool.

Centimetres. European feet, which are rather small & irrelevant to proper UK life.

Give us a sign!

I don't. Weymouth and Portland were the green shoots of recovery at the time. The hardest part of UK to turn white.

Without even a glimpse at the MAD thread, or any other source, I feel, in me old bones, that I have been here before and a truly memorable set up is coming our way. I don't talk about uppers & what multiple orgasmic models talk about, I just understand the basics. Cold, persistent easterly wind, drying & lowering ground & air temperatures. High pressure to our east, Scandinavia or wherever, with long drawn winds. Bring a little old Atlantic depression along to bump into that & bingo! Southwest & most of the M4 west, or east, smothered.

Hail now in my bit of Purbeck

I had the joy of visiting Buxton & Bakewell in the Peak District in the last few days. I actually set foot on snow & was surrounded by it. About 2mm deep! A childlike excitement about what we used to see as the end of a snowfall down south. Ahh, well. Nice while it lasted.

If Met Office are right, it's not supposed to turn to sleet/snow until about 2300hrs, so maybe a chance later.

The A35 is the new M4

The Dorset snow shield maintains it's mighty presence, for now.

If it snows in south Dorset, then I shall presume that the Highways Agency have moved the M4 to link Guernsey with Jersey.

Been out & about in west Dorset today, but I may as well have been in DullyMcDullsville Tennessee. Temps varying between 2-4c. The most boring type of cold & nothingness imaginable.

When will the likes of Weymouth see this again? It appears to be becoming a distant memory.

A day spent preparing a football pitch. Jolly good. Marked out the white lines & then it poured down around 4. Early start tomorrow to do it all again. Winters now are just a blend of autumn into spring. Dorset is great in summer, but just a soggy pile of damp in winter these days. I recall the frosty windows, snow on the ground, a dodgy drive to Dorchester ending up in a snowfest & powercut & a candlelit evening in The Antelope. Shows my age & how long ago it was. I'm not sure anymore, whether to get excited at the prospect of winter snow, or just get despondent in November & realise , by April, that I was right.