[Snow/wintry Precipitation Reports: 26th January]

How desperate is this becoming: not a snow report but a report of snow visible.  Last night's damp weather (around 3C in stratosdale) yielded a dusting of snow on the higher extremeties of the Dales. I'd put the snow level at around 1500', so 450m or so, putting the boundary temp for snow last night at around 1.5C in these parts.

There was a time when I used to get snow, then it seemed to recede to the hills, now even the hills seem to get little more than a dusting!

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I agree SF ... it's very very sad.

(By the way, forgive my ignorance if this is obvious ... but are you and the famous Atmos Ferric one and the same?!)

[Frost Reports: 09th October 2004 ->]

Overnight low of -2.9c, has left a thick white frost this mornig.

Now partly cloudy and temp up to 0.6c

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Overnight low here of -1.2C

[Mean Snowiest Uk Date?]

It is an interesting question, however, probably very hard to find for three reasons.

1 - spatial variation.  Not all places are equally snowy anyway (crude generalisation is Northerliness accounts for about 60% and altitiude 40% of variation in snow occurrence).

2 - temporal variation within events / seasons. We rarely have snowy days where every part of the country receives snow; in fact, nowadays, we never seem to get them.  Snow events this year exemplify well.  Therefore, the most frequent occurrences for one place may not occur on the same day as they do for another place.

3 - access to stats.  You'd probably need to raid the archives at UKMO Exeter in order to see the raw data easily.

I too would be fascinated, though. My punt would probably be EITHER around 20-25 Jan or else 10-15 Feb.

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HI SF - I agree with point 1. We could take the 'white Xmas' approach - a snowflake anywhere in England? Or at any 6 weather stations strategically positioned?

2. This would be covered by the above

3. Yes ... I don't have the time at the moment but it's the sort of thing that I might try and get round to 'ere long! Now that I've asked it I'm quite bugged to know the answer

[Mean Snowiest Uk Date?]

WiB,

Presumably for "regularly" we should actually be reading "frequently"?

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Hi SF - yes, absolutely. Thank you and apologies for a slightly confusing piece of terminology.

[Mean Snowiest Uk Date?]

Im going to look into this today west is best and let you know later

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Excellent TEITS - thanks! Nothing like a bit of a challenge!

[Mean Snowiest Uk Date?]

A question that may be near impossible to answer, but anyone know the most snowy date in the UK (OK let's limit it to England to keep some order) say since 1900? In other words, the date on which snow most regularly has fallen in England. I'd love to know! My birthday is Feb 10th and I reckon that would be pretty close - it seemed to snow on it every day when I was a boy.

[Snow/wintry Precipitation Reports: 18-21st January]

Temperatures falling a bit during the sleety rain, 3.1C.

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No lying snow here in mid-Devon (Hatherleigh to be precise). But we have had a snow flurry 15 mins ago. Temp rising fast though up to 5.1C.

[Saturday 8th January 2005]

[quote=Terminal Moraine,8 Jan 2005, 07:32 AM]

Well unless it's destined to get much worse in the next few hours this gale has been a non event here.

Currently mean wind is 42 mph, gusting to 66. Max gust so far is 73.

This is just an average winter gale here and wouldn't make the top 20.

Whilst I agree that it's been relatively ok here in Devon, and less severe than I expected, there is a real whip in the tail across the NW at the moment, and this may affect you soon. A gust of 104 mph was recorded at St Bees head at 7 am. That's not really non-event stuff! <_<