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18.30 update
Moderate snow - settling
Temp 0.8C
DP 1C
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Update at 2300
light/moderate consistant snow
Temp steady at 0.7C
DP 1C
Wintry white covering outside but snow melting at surface as it falls so apart from cold metal surfaces (such as the cars) depth is building very slowly
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Hi, here in Poole, Dorset it's 3.2c temp and 2c dew point bits and pieces of rain/drizzle.
Looks like elevation is the place to be for any snow.
Welcome Parker1
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wow that was quick and our first snowy location medal goes too you! gratz
what height do you live?
800 feet asl
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16.30 update.
Wet Sleet
Temp 2.0C
DP 2C
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18.30 update
Moderate snow - settling
Temp 0.8C
DP 1C
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16.30 update.
Wet Sleet
Temp 2.0C
DP 2C
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17.00 update
Sleet
Temp 1.7C
DP 1C
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Light Rain falling on Blackdown Hills about 3 miles from Dunkerswell.
temp: 3.0C
DP: 2C
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16.30 update.
Wet Sleet
Temp 2.0C
DP 2C
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Light Rain falling on Blackdown Hills about 3 miles from Dunkerswell.
temp: 3.0C
DP: 2C
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Charts all over the place atm. GFS 252 Sat 28th 06Z a joke!
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It is so cold, the uppers to the west of the UK nearly join together!
Unlikely to be as bad as that suggests whatever happens. However ...... good to see some wintry weather in the forcast. Those clever folk who forcast that the weather wouldn't change in mid January may have got it right.
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Rumbling away now - 2nd strorm in as many weeks!
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Has anyone on here got memories of the very heavy snow of late April 1981.
Not sure of the date although i do remember the event, certainly in our locality quite vividly.
The week before had been mainly spring like with warm and sunny weather over much of the period.
The Thursday night was still very mild with no suggestion, certainly to me who at 19 took little interest in weather forecasts that anything different was on its way.
However Friday morning dawned with steady snow; nothing unusual really as most Aprils produce snow at our altitude but the difference here was that it carried on all day increasing in intensity so that by evening we had around 10 inches of wet, although blowing snow.
I assume that it carried on throughout the night as it was still snowing heavily as i made my way to work on the Saturday morning only to be turned around at the factory as the snow which by this time was around 18 inches deep had brought power lines down.
If my memory is correct it snowed lightly until around lunchtime on the Saturday after which the clouds cleared, a strong sun came out and a very rapid thaw commenced.
Within 3 days we were back to spring like temperatures although our house was looking for a new trough as the weight of snow had brought the old one down.
One of the most amazing aspects of this event was that my sister was due to leave hospital on the Saturday morning after giving birth to her second child down the valley at Bury.
I was going to pick her up at around 11am but rang to tell her that all roads out of town were blocked by snow.
She thought I was extracting the urine as there was a gardener mowing grass outside the window of her ward.
It's amazing what 10 miles and more particularly 500 feet altitude does for snow chances.
What I am unsure of is whether this was purely a Pennine event or was it spread wider.
Any further memories would be appreciated.
Remember it very well. I moved from Cheltenham to Taunton - and the day I left Cheltenham there was about 8 inches of snow but as we moved South it slowly turned to sleet and then rain by the time reached Taunton. If my memory serves me right it had snowed for a couple of days almost non-stop in Cheltenham and whilst the bottom layer was melting the snow was so heavy that the depth still built up.
They don't make them like that anymore!
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Rain now leaving West Cornwall. As already mentioned the worst rainfall ATM is futher South than expected ..... and it looks as if many areas to the West of the MO 'Warning Area' are not going to expience the intensity of rainfall expected. Also ATM no 'embedded Thunderstorms' as some on Netweather suggested there could be.
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ATM rainfall totals don't look as though they will be as bad in Devon & Cornwall as the earlier weather warnings suggested.
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How much do you have up there now mate?
Sucks about the boiler... went out and got some electric heaters from B&Q for 8 quid lol... no oil tankers getting here, and a bargain!
I don't think anyone on this thread has critised? Indeed, its only ever good things from this thread, about everything, from rain, to snow, to cider and unfrozen meat...
With all due respect DM .... there is a lot of respect for Ian shown on this site. However many folk do not take good notice of Ian's posts. e.g. he was doubting the comments on this thread of the severity of this event days ago and many on this thread are dissapoited tonight because they didn't take note. There always was a lot of uncertantly about today's events due to the higher temps than last week.
When Ian was excited early last week - he was right and we all hailed him.
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Yea ok - my hands are up - not the sort of post folk like. I'll try and post some 'storm of the century on it's way, 1963 arrives again, won't be able to get to work for weeks' posts soon. Not belittleing the fun of these threads - love them. But take note of the experts guys and girls - they have more more information to hand than we do - and a lot more training.
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That will be the fact we are in the Blackdown Hills precip shadow.
dewpoint and temp still not good according to my weather station, maybe the next wave approaching
Honiton may give us a better chance of snow later tonight.
Now there is a sensible and informed post. Well done mrchoosy.
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someone should ask on his blog why he doesnt post on netweather anymore!
I can only guess it's because folk only listen to him when he says what they want to hear and critizise him when it's not what they want or doesn't turn out exactly as they would like it to have been in their 'neck of the woods'. I think the Met Office and BBC have handled this event extremly well considering the complexity of the situation.
Well done guys.
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PS: I am not affiliated to either
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Moderate snow now on the Blackdown Hills (12.3 miles as the crow flies from Taunton).
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Light snow falling here on the Blackdown Hills.
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Temperatures continuing to drop at higher levels e.g. Dunkerswell at approx. 800 feet http://www.metoffice...st_weather.html but rising at lower levels e.g. Bristol http://www.metoffice...st_weather.html
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Low level temperatures rising a little in the SW but on higher ground falling (e.g. see Dunkerswell).
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It isn't an MCS
Cb not far away from Cardiff according to this site: http://www.meteociel.fr/accueil/temps-reel.php
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It was 3.8 C at Shap at 1400 this afternoon and I understand that it has been snowing on the Pennines. The last time I know of snow in England in June was about the same day in 1975 - a few days later the sun came out and we had a glorious summer only eclipsed by 1976.
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Fantastic photos. Thankyou. My, how the internet makes the world look so small - I only wish we looked after it better!
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Ok, i'm good at being a pain in the backside to i'm going to do what I do best and annoy people :lol:
Here is my interpretation of the Midlands.... The blue circle of roughly where you live and the Yellow area is what I call MIDlands
Now who agrees or disagrees with me that the blue area is not MIDlands and the yellow area is?
Technically it is still the midlands http://www.picturesofengland.com/mapofengl...dlands-map.html albeit West Midlands.
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South West Of England Regional Discussion Thread
in Spring Weather Discussion
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Agree - Dew point not as low as predicted
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