West is Best
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On the lee of the moor I guess because of the direction.
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I'm amazed how quickly it is settling after the rain. Mind you, it's a heavy so I guess that's why. Doh.
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Wow heavy snow now in Exeter. Just as I was giving up. Whiteout in north Devon according to my Ex.
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Oooh it has started to snow in Exeter!
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Despite early promise, Exeter has been rain all the way. Temp has now dropped from 5C to 2C in an hour. But 8 miles away in Crediton it has snowed from the word go and the road is becoming impassable. Apparently it's a white out.
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Driving gale force wind and it's turning wintry already. Man alive ... this could be very nasty later.
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Flakes of snow now in the mix: within the first 5 mins of it starting
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Okay ... ppn has just arrived in Exeter. Rain / sleet
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Haldon Hill? I'd honestly say there's little chance of you getting through. It's always awful up there and today could be particularly bad looking at this.
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Crikey, last 5 minutes the ppn has shifted dramatically to sleet / snow as it pivots. The Met Office / Meteogroup may have played a blinder. And, as one of the GFS' biggest supporters, they may be way wrong about this.
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The pivot is really obvious now. The rain / sleet / snow is going to hit Exeter from due south rather than south-west. Should be next 30 mins, I 'think'. That bodes well for those in the firing line.
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Gone 1.30pm and it still hasn't started ppn in Exeter. It's dark and windy but no ppn just yet. So surely that's slower than expected?
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Question. Considering it hasn't even started in Exeter yet, this is surely going more slowly? Which is good thing, no?
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I overlook the River Exe in town. We had an epic snowfall earlier in the year. Astonishes me, really. You'd think Devon would be on the mild side, which it generally is, yet it sometimes really cops big snowfall.
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Radar. Hasn't started falling yet in Exeter. Near though ...
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Okay, it really is turning to snow readily now!
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Crikey: "The M5 and A38 looking vulnerable because the snow will come down so heavily. The gritters could struggle to keep them open."
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Latest BBC Met Office national forecast just out: https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather
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I mentioned earlier a couple of huge snow events when I was in north Devon. One, as I recall, was around 2008/9 and the Met Office were confidently forecasting a similar situation to today. But with a really serious cold easterly ahead the predictable happened: it stalled and dumped a massive fall on us. It happened a few times here in Devon. Infamously also happened in the winter of 1978/9 when the South West was cut off from the rest of Britain.
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Something of a classic chart that one! Pretty much the perfect setup. Wow.
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It has really slowed, and is starting to pivot, which I'd suggest is a good thing.
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Okay, well it's readily now starting to turn to sleet and snow, although admittedly that's over the high ground to the west of Exeter.
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Hmmm ...
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The Met Office have confidently forecast this to be snow and they have been very good. However I think it's poor that warnings are not issued properly in advance.
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I've lived down this way a lot and it's really bizarre but I've seen several absolutely huge snow dumps. You'd think it shouldn't be the case, but it is. I guess it's the age old weather lore that when a warm or occluded front hits cold air, and stalls, it's the south west which can really cop it. I've seen it so often here.
