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We've been out most of the afternoon, noticed that Rugeley, Hednesford and Cannock are worse than here. Coming back from Cannock along the A34 there is a noticeable difference in cover somewhere between Huntington and Bednall. Looking at the radar loop from Meteociel it looked like we should have had a good few hours of heavy stuff here in Stafford which didn't seem to materialise despite areas to our West looking like they did pretty well. Don't get me wrong, we've had another reasonable event but not close to folk that were in a yellow warning despite us being in an amber. There must be some meteorological or even geographical reason behind it but it's beyond me.

I hit the sack about 12:30, doesn't look any different to them.

Think we missed the overnight stuff. Not a bad event but it seems that the heavy stuff to our east on the radar was just losing intensity as it hit us.

I concur with Atlantic, it was very much like March 1st here. Very fine snow interspersed with bigger flakes coming in almost horizontal with the strong wind. But then March 1st was a Thursday so perhaps you are right that it was nothing like...

Eleven o'clock at night and there's a neighbour out clearing his drive, his neighbour's drive and the road outside his house. I don't have the heart to tell the idiot that it'll all be covered over when he gets up... This street takes the biscuit, it must be the only one on the estate where an army of blokes armed with snow shovels and spades are on snow clearing watch. The December event was the best, there must have been 10 of the buggers out, all pointing and sorting out their own bit of road to clear.

Settling nicely now, some pretty peppy showers.

Haha, the old filter has got you I'll wager...

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Heavy now, it's beginning to lay on the paths, road and patio. I shouldn't worry too much Polar, it'll settle...

Sky to the east is now beginning to look like the shower clouds are merging. Not seeing any blue sky bar what is a couple of miles to my north east.

Happy days... Good fun watching it though, even with it not settling much. Once the sun goes down we should get more accumulations.

Perhaps someone has snow envy.

We're just having our heaviest of the afternoon, great fun. Can just see the blue sky poking through on the back end of it so almost through. They're really flying through these showers.

Blimey, who has upset you? He's enjoying the snow racing through and in the north of the region the heavy showers are racing through. He had next to nothing in the last blast so he certainly deserves a bit of fun.

You're still showing under the amber warning though. I'd stick to watching the radar and lamppost watching. You can add your location in the profile bit of the forum, it helps everyone to locate where the snow is or isn't.

Whereabouts are you?

But 5 miles down the road they might get snow that warrants a yellow. Do you want them to specify a different level for each and every house? The yellow for the W. Midlands is towards unlikely so that fits in with the 'some folk not getting anything'.

Aye, the sun is the bit between the showers. I'm quite enjoying the mini blizzard/bright sunshine mix at the moment.

Stafford Half Marathon has been postponed.

Have faith...

Seems like they're pretty confident of it too rather than it just being an amber for the disruption.

Haha, I'll only believe that once it's happened...

Couple of photographs from '85-'86 in Acton Trussell, posted these the other day in the central regional group. Considering the drifts are to the top of the hedges I'd estimate the depth was around five and a half foot. As I mentioned in the regional thread there were drifts not far from the church that were around 20'. Along one of the lanes we actually carved tunnels and rooms into the drifts, we were cut off for around a week so made the most of the impromptu school holiday.

Think it was around mid 80s when it began.