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warmintim

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  1. Last Jan 24th we were driving to the hospital for the birth of our son when I saw a huge green meteor. Even caught it on the dash cam. Felt like a good omen.
  2. Driving home from Bath to Warminster I’d swear it was trying to sleet but the temps were 5 deg C. Certainly the worst rain for a while. Roll on a cold dry spell.
  3. I'd say we had up to 7 cm on the right surfaces (photos from about 8.00 am). Driving into Bath Uni - some patches with a lot less, now almost gone. Up the hill at the uni and there had been more than Warminster, I'd suggest. (I'm on the SW edge of Warminster, near the little Tesco). Certainly a nice last hurrah. I also struggle to recall a winter with two falls so far apart (Mid Dec we had a couple of inches too). The difference was the mid Dec lasted a week with almost no melting...
  4. 6cm on the cars, 5 on the bins. Not bad in Warminster as not expecting much more than falling sleet and mush. Bath Uni has called a snow day. Sadly this is WFH if you can, and the pandemic has meant that I definitely can…
  5. The white horse car park is at 225 m above sea level. Cody hill is higher at 244m. I have seen the snow line on Cley Hill on occasion, once memorably driving from Frome to Warminster, the rain turned to snow going up the hill to Corley Heath.
  6. My folks in Shrewton (13 miles East) had a dusting, we had a re invigorating shower, like in 2019 but obviously not as much.
  7. Car suggested 2 deg C but thermometer in the shade was -0.8 at 2 pm, so quite possibly another ice day in Warminster. Lovely walk round Shearwater (frozen). Where the sun has been able to get to it, the snow has gone. In the shaded parts it’s almost as it was on Sunday. Amazing cold spell, just could have done with a bit more snow at the start.
  8. Yes, very reminiscent, apart from being a couple of inches rather than 9 or 10 back in 2019. Just pepped up again in Warminster.
  9. Warminster now sat under a dangler beneath the main zone. Di poi gets wonders for the gardens and allotments.
  10. Vague memories of a heavy overnight fall in my part of Wiltshire in the 80’s, definitely April. Online check suggests it might have been 1989. I think it was a shower streamer on a north westerly, but could be wrong. It was wet snow, and melted pdq. Any ideas?
  11. Most of England is already under an amber warning. I honestly don't know what people want? Its about using judgement. In their defence, calling red warnings all the time that turn out not to be needed is more damaging than waiting and seeing what is needed.
  12. Why is it late? Its only Tuesday. It damages the MET to go too early on warnings. I'd wait and see closer to the day.
  13. Was indeed glorious. We took the hound up round the golf course on a treasure hunt. She found a squirrel, got lost, then found again. Shame it clouded over a bit, but a lovely start to the day.
  14. Advantage of height, and its not settling at all... Bit reminiscent of last winter, where it snowed on a lot of days (relatively) without troubling the scorers...
  15. So on reaching the top of Brassknocker (Bath) definite white stuff on the ground. Mot much, and not everywhere, but white. Closer inspection suggests graupel. Not optimistic for this afternoon, even if GFS is suggesting snow for salisbury plain...
  16. I raced upstairs to inform the wife, who was underwhelmed... Nice to see. Last winter was weird here. Snow fell on a lot of days, with one moderate event. More falling snow than most winters. I also live in dread that today may be it for winter... No reason, just natural pessimism.
  17. And today’s cricket rained off. That’s 6 out of 17 league fixtures lost to the rain this awful summer. Really has been poor. Just hoping for a decent week from Friday as we are off to Devon.
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