John Lloyd
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Took the dog down to Ogmore for a walk around the beach and estuary first thing today. -3C. Cold wind too. Foggy and frosty driving across the Vale of Glamorgan to Barry to charge the car. Think it’ll snow tonight: if you’re inland and elevated, your luck might be in.
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Beginning to build up on paths. Radar says sleety mix. Dog’s coat shows snow when he just came in from a toilet trip. Looks like, at the very least, a few more hours’ worth will fall. The level of disruption in the morning will be difficult to gauge. Will it be “get on with it snow” or “stay home snow” by then? I’m guessing we’ll try to get on with it if the snow stops falling before the morning rush hour in the far south.
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I was in the sweet spot for the March 1, 2018 snow, where we were cut off by 8ft drifts. It’s not that but it looks like we’ll see snow falling for at least the morning, which will be nice. Snowing steadily just north of Barry right now.
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On 24/02/2022 at 13:07, CLH said:
Well, I was worried that this winter would pass without seeing a single flake. I confirm I have seen a few seconds of them.
Not a flake seen in the Vale of Glamorgan this winter. Hail showers on Friday was the closest we got. What are the odds on a cold spring? I miss well-defined seasons.
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Just cool wet air interspersed with heavy showers here today. 9C. Little breeze. Ground is very wet. The river below us often floods over the road when it's like this.
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2 hours ago, DeepSnow said:
Got our first few flakes here, quitr big too, parents in Bridgend say its snowing there and sticking
Just along from Barry by the airport, it has been thumping down for the last hour and a half. Got a thin covering. Good event for us, this far south, low and coastal.
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42 minutes ago, Jayfromcardiff said:
Think the ground is too warm, it's melting here on the road. Needs to be colder probably.
Taken late morning. I think, as many regulars have said, just too warm to stick. Not really coating the fields here either. In any case, it is still going strong here in the far south. Nice to see it.
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Just now, DeepSnow said:
Some flakes of snow blowing about in the wind here in Barry!
Yep - light flakes were blowing about here too, just along from you, near the airport. Been falling for about 30 mins. Just increased to a heavy intensity as I’ve been typing. I think it’s looking good for many of us for a while today.
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I was living in Tongwynlais in ‘82. I was just a kid. It was epic. Huge drifts. Dug our way out of the house. Cut off even though it was right on J32 of the M4. Loved it. Mornings were for getting supplies up to the old folk for the milkman, the butcher, the newsagent and the grocer. Once we were done it was mucking about on every hilly field we could get to.
2018 matched it for drifts in the sweet spot by Barry - 50cm of level snow fell in the storm then drifted wildly. It took them days to dig out Five Mile Lane - the main road from the A48 down to Barry. We dug ourselves out with a JCB to get off the farm and join the next village. The rural lanes were blocked even longer. Cars being abandoned and covered in snow was a big problem getting things clear. Our water main burst and we had no running water for six days. Funny... less time for snowballs and sledging as an adult.
Hope some of us get lucky in the next week and, after, that the SSW has a favourable impact.
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2 hours ago, andy989 said:
It's coming down now.
That looks brilliant. We all should’ve gone for “Christmas like” as the tree frames that picture beautifully. Good luck everyone in with a chance over the next few days. Let’s see if January brings the snow for all that they’re arguing about in the Model Output thread.
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1 minute ago, andymusic said:
That's because we had a major continental easterly which brings temps/dewpoints/850hpa right down to 0 and below at all altitudes, even down to sea level
Yes, absolutely - I was in a sweet spot for it. Only 50M ASL but the farm was plastered and the lanes were plugged with drifts for days. Get the synoptics right and even the unlikely areas like mine can get in on it. I used to live nearer you (in Tongwynlais) and had lots of great snow events in my youth. Fingers crossed that January’s model runs and the potential SSW deliver.
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7 minutes ago, DeepSnow said:
4.8c and light rain in Barry
Just too warm round here so far. Barry can get some decent snow if the conditions favour it. I never expected to see the amount we had in March 2018 and yet, it came.
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No surprise that it is raining in Vale of Glamorgan. Derek goes for wintry mix and uncertainty in the forecast.
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23 minutes ago, Cymro said:
Certainly agree, this week the warm sea surface temperatures have really proven a bitter pill to swallow across not only lowland Wales. This kind of setup with colder sea temps could have seen many areas buried.
Take last night for example we are not far off 200m above sea level here, the hills around us are between 250 - 520m and yet there is no snow cover. Temps of around 2 degrees and a matching dewpoint, has meant we have had continuous sleet. The streamer last night had we have been a degree or two colder or, had better upper air temps + dewpoints would have dumped cm's of the white stuff across a huge swathe of Western Wales.
Tomorrow, sadly will be a blink and you will miss it affair away from perhaps the Vale of Glamorgan inland or higher hills of Monmouth - unless a stark correction northwards (highly unlikely in this kind of setup) happens.
Not to sound all doom and gloom but with this prolonged period of below average temperatures (At least) things can, and certainly will only get colder as the days progress, if we can sneak snowcover from an LP that helps us create a homegrown cold pool, we could be on the money...not so much yet though.
I’m about a mile from the airport in the rural Vale of Glamorgan but I’m not hopeful of anything today or tomorrow. Just not cold enough. Yet...
Good luck everyone else inland and on higher ground.
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March 1st 2018's snow down here did melt by midday - it was March 14th though. . We had, exceptional for the southernmost tip of Wales, 50cm of lying snow recorded at the weather station in St Athan nearby and the lanes and even some notable main roads got smothered in drifts from the snow on farm fields around here during the storm. We had a few inches laying on the fields around us for a few days afterwards but ten ft drifts left lanes plugged for 100s of yds.
If I recall correctly we had a little weekend snow and ice about March 18th that was absolutely treacherous first thing. I was the only one out and about in my trusty old Land Rover and had get my wife off a hill which beat her car. As Frost Hollow notes, that lighter snowfall did indeed melt before midday in the mid-March sun
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Just had the rain band pass through. Feeling cooler behind it - dare I say it, somewhat autumnal in the breeze.
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Yes, the wind here has been unusually strong and the trees have suffered as a result. We’ve had leaves and fruit blown about and it’s made a bit of a mess. There were a fair few branches down, and the odd tree too, when I was out with the dog for a long walk earlier. Luckily we’ve missed a lot of the showers today or that might’ve meant less grip for the roots in very wet ground.
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Heavy rain overnight and about 40 minutes of mostly lightning, with some thunder, from 03.30. Cloud is darkening as the rain band approaches from the southwest. Radar has it just coming over the Bristol Channel. Should be hitting the Vale of Glamorgan presently. Blustery too. I’ll be just checking around the farm today and making sure structures are storm proofed.
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Massive lightning, some thunder and very intense rainfall near the airport just before midnight. What a storm!
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Snow is melting fast now but nice to have had it for a while.
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@thetipster What’s the front doing now? We’ve got a covering and small flakes of light snow but being so far south I was expecting us to be done. The met office app keeps turning heavy snow up but it doesn’t seem to make it.
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Steadily falling and covering cars, the front yard and fields on the farm. It’s a window watch event now as the slower than expected frontal movement frayed some nerves.
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Back to a mix. Main event to start at about 7.
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Heavy snow here about a mile from the airport. Blowing in strong winds. Earlier than I expected. Not settling yet. Lovely to see it since we are all at home.
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Snowing in Barry on Port Road at 5.45. Snowing in Moulton when I walked the dog. Settling a little. A nice dusting and hints of better to come in the BBC Wales forecast tonight.