TonyK St Albans

St Albans. Looked out the window at 5.45am - nothing but rain. Ditto 7am, so stopped checking until 8.30am only to find heavy snow settling on grass and cars. Started to ease off soon after albeit with the odd flurry, but all gone now (10.30am) so I reckon that will be the last we see of the snow for this winter.

Which is exactly what happened. Fascinating insight to why we get the drizzle. But what's happening when we get snizzle? Is that when the temperature is much lower?

Were you at WHL? If so, commiserations. My son and grandson were there so share your woe!

Temperature now rising in St Albans, set to continue overnight, so snow cover will be all gone come daylight. Oh well, it had its moments.

Well done. There's something quite special about being out in steady snow. Trust all that runninmg about toasted you up nicely! Did the snow settle quicker on the astro than elsewhere? I was in Clarence Park doing my daily walk until about 4.30, by which time the sleet had turned to heavy snow. Was startled by the brilliant white of the games courts erlier where the snow had somehow not thawed whilst everywhere else was just wet.

Impresive memory! I vividly recall much of the preceding stuff up to the end of February, but after that, nothing.

Thanks. That made me chuckle!

Sleet turned to steady snow about 4pm in St Albans. What's more it's getting steadily heavier andeverything is turning white again. Mesmerising to watch! Radar suggests it just might bow out with a flourish in about an hour.

Steady sleet since 1pm suddenly became really heavy snow for a good 10 minutes. Looked like the real deal then - argh - stopped abruptly!

Very light drizzle in St Albans right now, so the Current M/O forecast St Albans looks way too good to be true!

St Albans - Settling on the car but not on the ground .so far. I fear it's going to be one of those days when it never quite gets its act together.

Just checked in to find Met Office has dramatically upgraded snow forecast for St albans area since earlier today. Now expecting snow continuously from 3am Wednesday right through to 1am Thurs, with sleet expected around Wed lunchtime. Dunstable is a few hundred metres higher so could be even more up your way.

Met Office keep revising tomorrow's temp downwards too. All of which has me wondering (ever the optimist!) could it? ... Is it just even possible that tomorrow's rain turns out be the white stuff instead?

One thing I'm loving about this thaw is the way it's behaving itself. Usually associate thaws with horrible, mucky puddles and dirt everywhere but this one is not so much thawing as shrivelling gradually and gracefully. Hoping it keeps it up until it's all gone.

Whoe footprints on porch roof this morning? Cat? Pigeon? Fox?