John Stevens
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9 minutes ago, FlightlessWings said:
Yes, stopped here. Hopefully just for now!
Met O still bullish for the rest of the night and all day tomorrow/ Saturday here now......
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4 minutes ago, surrey snowboy said:
Hello to fellow Dorkinians. Yes, good to be in on the action this evening!
Except now we're in the middle of that great big hole
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Just now, FlightlessWings said:
Starting to settle on the pavements and roads. Not seen that in Dorking for a while...
Certainly beginning to look good for us!! I had to drive into Dorking at about half 3 this afternoon. The lying snow from Tuesday petered out just outside westcott... But was flipping cold, never got over 2 in either direction
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Steadily snowing here now in Holmbury St Mary 184asl
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9 minutes ago, FlightlessWings said:
Ah, you are just under five miles away (and over 100 metres up) from me - I hope you do well out of this!
Hopefully we all will, but at the moment it seems reminiscent of last march.... The Surrey Hills seemed to miss the worst!
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7 minutes ago, FlightlessWings said:
Ah, you are just under five miles away (and over 100 metres up) from me - I hope you do well out of this!
Hopefully we all will, but at the moment it seems reminiscent of last march.... The Surrey Hills seemed to miss the worst!
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5 minutes ago, FlightlessWings said:
Ah, you are just under five miles away (and over 100 metres up) from me - I hope you do well out of this!
Nothing much yet
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Looking like the Surrey Hills snow shield might just be powering up
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On the radar it definitely looks like the pivot has started, but I may be imagining it....
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Temps steadily dropping here in Holmbury St Mary at 184asl, that's my height, the village is about another 60m lower.
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Temps have never got over 3 today in the Surrey hills. This is now in my garden
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22 minutes ago, Great Plum said:
So winter finishes on January 30th? Still another month of meteorological winter to go!
And astronomical winter doesn't end until 21st March,,,,, plenty of time
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1 minute ago, Great Plum said:
Only when I was a scout and we used to night hikes from the youth hostel - Richard and I are videoing (slowly) the Greensand way but we started from leith Hill and are walking east but we will go further west!
I actually think the views from the top of Holmbury Hill are better than those from Leith Hill, especially on days like today!
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1 minute ago, weathergeek said:
Thanks so much John, for all that info, that's great to have! I'm always on the look out for new places to walk and things to see!
More importantly.... There are some great pubs nearby!!!
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3 minutes ago, Great Plum said:
In answer to both, yes I have been to the waterfall.
I have done two videos last Thursday with my friend Richard Vobes, aka the Bald Explorer...
the tower:
The waterfall:
(we also did a couple of videos around leith Hill tower and one on Friday Street earlier this year...) I’ve done quite a few with him now!
Forgot to say... Great videos
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2 minutes ago, Great Plum said:
In answer to both, yes I have been to the waterfall.
I have done two videos last Thursday with my friend Richard Vobes, aka the Bald Explorer...
the tower:
The waterfall:
(we also did a couple of videos around leith Hill tower and one on Friday Street earlier this year...) I’ve done quite a few with him now!
Have you walked the iron age fort on Holmbury Hill? The earth works very much visible
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1 minute ago, weathergeek said:
I've been to Friday Street but never heard of a waterfall near there?!
It's not a natural one, again built by the landowner of Leith Hill tower so I believe. It's also close to the source of the Tillingbourne.
This Wikipedia link talks about it:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Street#Tillingbourne_Waterfall
This one from the getsurrey website. Some good walks nearby:
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2 minutes ago, Great Plum said:
That sounds similar to what I saw on Reigate Hill this morning.
btw, amazing part of the world you are in - I found the tower at Broadmoor last week...
It is beautiful, I moved here 19 years ago with a three year plan!!! That's the tower that was also built by the same landowner as Leith Hill Tower. Have you ever found the waterfall between Broadmoor and Friday Street?
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2 minutes ago, Great Plum said:
You must have had some snow this morning there? I was at Broadmoor round the back of Leith Hill last Thursday and there was a tiny amount of snow then as well!
We had about 5cm at midnight, but it had thawed a little to about 2-3cm first thing... Not much further thaw during the day, still a lot on the ground tonight and very bitter now!
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12 minutes ago, nick sussex said:
What’s not been talked about much is the strength of the wind coupled with the snow.
Over the Downs there might be some drifting.
As a West Sussex boy I'm guessing you mean the south downs nick? However, now I'm living in the Surrey Hills, just of the back edge of Leith Hill, I'm expecting similar conditions here. Also looking at comments previous about the pivot point, an hoping the Surrey Hills could be in the very sweet spot?
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Must be close to 2cm proper snow here in the Surrey hills in an hour. Still tanking or down.
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16 minutes ago, username home said:
she'll be fine.
Brill..... Is settling very fast here now. In half an hour nothing to close to 2cm
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My wife has to drive back home to just outside Dorking from Kingston Uni, this evening does anyone have an idea what it's like between the two? She doesn't normally leave until after 9, with leaving early?
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Heavy snow here in the Surrey Hills. Just of the back edge of Leith Hill, so probably closer to 200m. Think it turned from rain only half hour or so ago, but I've been stuck inside until ten minutes ago with no lamppost to watch
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Temps have never got over 3 today in the Surrey hills. This is now in my garden
SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 07/11/2018
in Regional
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Where in Surrey are you???