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Winter 2022/23 - Moans, Ramps & Chat
Gardening Landscapes replied to cyclonic happiness's topic in Spring Weather Discussion
Well i got very lucky in the fact we had heavy graupal showers one after another last night and this morning. we even lost power due to lightening strikes. Roads have been blocked around Clovelly and Kilkhampton areas, some areas recieved 4". Arlington Court was closed as staff could not travel. Most of it has stayed all day leading to communites being cut off, slowly thawing now with temps at 1.2C. Been the snowiest spell since 2018. -
well the snow wait finally over here in Hartland, North Devon, drove from Hartland to Woolsery along the a39 and it was pretty sketchy, must have been 2 inches covering the road, radio 2 just mentioned cars now stuck in snow between kilkhampton and abbotsham. super big flakes at times so settled without any problem after all the cold rain all day. Loved the Polzeath webcam, when i saw that i knew we would get some heavy snow soon. All but gone through now but i wasnt expecting such an amount to fall and settle, especially on the main route through north devon and cornwall. keep your heads up somerset/wiltshire, you are bound to get some later.
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also the amber warning i find a little perplexing.......i have been removed from it (and many others along the north coast) when places that are east of me (inland) are all in an amber warning, surely whatever snowfall they will get i will get 10 mins later, would have been better to put the amber warning right to the coast.....people live there too (ie bude).
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yes just got that line of snow come though, given a dusting on all surfaces, temp down to -1.4 now, so ice could be a problem on the minor routes, this is the weather station in stoke, not far from me. http://hartlandweather.co.uk there are some photos on there of spekes mill waterfall in the last cold spell.
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here's a couple of shots from yesterday evening, the waterfall is at spekes mill mouth, not often you get snow right to the water line here on the north devon coast, last time was 2010. i work on a farm so it has been pretty hard work for the last couple of days, the pipes have frozen so we have to fetch water in milk churns from the local river and ferry it back to fill up the troughs. also this morning at 5am we lost half of our lambing shed roof (approx 20ftx20ft piece), the strength of the easterly is not something we have experienced before (must have been gusting F9), westerly no problem. luckily we dont start lambing until april but some have already and that would not be fun. Drifts upto 5ft locally, and like most other areas everything glazed with ice, just beginning to give now, but temp hovering at 0C