Gorath

I'm quite content with the current "official" description for a white christmas, however, for me personally, I'll call it a white crimbo, when there's lying snow outside on crimbo morning.

Rain just materialised out of nowhere here. Clear skies one minute, hell I was looking at the stars. Then in a few seconds it all blacked out, then started raining... Something. The same strange thick water droplet rain.

February seems the most common snow month for us up here, is it the same for the south Walians?

Few powerful gusts of wind here now, and it's raining, er.... something quite heavy on the Velux window. It's not quite rain, it seems too solid, but it's not hail, or graupel either. Kinda like really dense water droplets if that makes sense. I've seen plenty of times over the years, but never known what it's called. EDIT: Well, whatever this strange precipitation is called, it's now bucketing it down. Torrential "stuff" falling from the sky. Alas with some normal rain mixed in too. The temperature is very low here, somewhere between 1 and 2 degrees, so I reckon the mountains are getting a good coating of christmassy icing.

Just woke up now (been bedridden last two days). It's currently snowing on and off here, but it's not sticking. I would be shocked if it wasn't staying in the mountains though, but I can't see them from the house.

nice map?!? I'm guessing that's supposed to represent the Bristol channel? Really could be any of a number of places!

Er... Dunno. But we're in the "Autumn" discussion area, so it's anybody's guess, just like this weather system Confusingly, the RADAR images are showing precipitation over Wales, which just isn't happening. In the regional discussions, it was said that this often happens because ice crystals in the atmosphere reflect the RADAR signal back, mimicking the appearance of rainfall. Which makes it even trickier to get a grasp of what's going on!

Sigh. I'm off to play Skyrim for a bit. At least there's always snow there.

Then I blame you and your lack of dog sacrifice for our snow drought! You did not please the gods!

Ah, now THAT would make sense, yes. Good call. What precipitation? There's nothing falling!

MetO RADAR is showing almost all of Wales being rained on. Something's not tallying up. Attached is their RADAR for half ten tonight. We saw absolutely nothing like that. (image courtesy of the Met Office, obviously) Most curious.

Definitely nothing here. I'm slightly more inland than Caernarfon, right under supposedly heavy precipitation according to the radar. However, it's not just "not raining", I can see the stars, dammit!

Blackrose - I've been keeping an eye on the car thermometer recently, and it tallies very well with two other electronic thermometers that I have, as well as the nearest weatherstation output. I have no idea if this is common across all car thermometers though, or even across all MkV Golfs!

That;s a good sign then, Jackfrost, since the main snow event is supposedly a few hours away yet.

Of course, yes. Still a nice graphical view of the country, giving an overview of what's going on. They're mainly observations sent in by the public, so they should be accurate. With the caution of course, that one man's snow, is another man's sleet.