Pennine Ten Foot Drifts

Yeah, drove through what can only be described as a proper blizzard over the M62, but soon cleared once I got past Bradford, so it was only a very heavy prolonged shower really, but was exciting while it lasted.

Absolutely, but things might be a bit different by this time next week perhaps in our neck of the woods ??????

Well I'm quite excited to report we have just experienced a short but decently heavy SNOW shower. Not sleet, not soft hail, definitely snow.

Couple of (bit blurry) shots of most recent shower (about 15 mins ago). Have a covering now - the main advantage of my elevation is that there isn't much melting between showers so hopefully by the end of tomorrow I should have a decent amount.

Reasonable snowfall here for over an hour now. And thanks to the lovely cold ground (and probably my ASL) it has settled beautifully - a good inch or maybe 2.

I remember that vividly as probably the best snow event I've ever been in. Grew up in a little village in mid-Wales (Ysbytty Ystwyth - about twelve miles up in the hills behind Aberystwyth). It blew a blizzard for about 36 hours, and by the time it had finished every road was full to the tops of the (high) hedges so naturally we were cut off. Not much actually settled on the fields as it was all blown off. I seem to remember it took about five days to actually clear a path through wide enough to allow traffic, using a JCB ! It was quite strange then being driven along what felt like a snow tunnel, with passing places dug out every so often. Didn't get back to school in Aberystwyth for two whole marvellous weeks as the school bus just never came ! It stayed for a while as well, but I do remember that the huge piles of cleared snow took many weeks to finally melt away.

Well rather bizarrely, there's about an inch of snow on the ground outside this morning, Was that supposed to happen ??? It's melting very quickly now mind you.

About a cm or so settled on cars, grass and hedges this morning, but it'll soon be gone. Still nice to wake up to though.

Near enough a blizzard up here at the moment - been fairly heavy snow to heavy snow for a good half hour now and ofcourse everything is now white (if it wasn't already - I still think this is only a heavy shower though)

Well well - that's not expexted - having a snow shower at present. That's a bit early ?