Karen Ann
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Blimey - it is snowing here again and the flakes are the size of 50p pieces and it's very heavy and it's settling. Oh eck...... I wasn't expecting this.
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I wonder if those showers and that big clump over the Salisbury Plain is going to migrate towards this way over the coming hours. It does look like it could be snowing really quite hard there atm.
I think it is, my sister has just phoned (using her hands free of course) saying she's driving through on hell of alot of snow on her way to picking her hubby up from the train station. From what I can remember she has to drive over the plain to get to the station.
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We've got snow again here now but it is really wet heavy stuff that just turns to slush the minute it hits the deck. Sunday and Mondays snow was much drier, drifted down and settled straight away.
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Up nr Shaftesbury where the big hills are, gives me a nice advantage in the snow stakes !.
Right I get the idea. Just trying to get bearings for people in the area so I can see what I may be looking forward to or not!
I've got to drive your way on Friday and Saturday (off to Warminster). I normally go the top road (Spread Eagle Hill) but not sure if I'm fancying doing that in this kind of weather. Mind you the A350 and its bends aren't much a choice either!!!!
The snow has nearly all gone here now. We've been getting some persistant rain showers for the last hour and it's washing it all the way. The temperature was 3 oC at 6pm and is now 4 oC.
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Where abouts in Dorset are you Iceberg?
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Just been looking to the South of me and there is another clump of what appears to be convection. Oh errrrr.... still getting sleet then snow then hail periodically.
I'm thinking the kids will be back to school tomorrow which is a good job as I need to go to work.
I so love this kind of weather but I am getting a bit jittery about Friday night and Saturday as I'm driving up to Warminster on Friday at about 4.30pm, staying overnight and then driving back at about lunch time on Saturday. It's not something I can easily cancel either as myself and friends have paid to stay in a hotel overnight and we've paid for our tickets for a curry night out in Sutton Veny on Friday night. I've got a 4x4 but I just HATE driving in snow. I'm just a tad nervous.
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We had quite a heavy sleety shower 25 mins ago here in poole and there is now lots of slush on the roads etc
Hi Snowdog
Nice to see a neighbour on here. This weather has been so unusual for us over this last few days. We seem to have had a bit more snow than further down into Poole I think. I ventured to Tesco Fleetsbridge earlier this morning and there wasn't as much down there.
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Just to report we have has had lightning and thunder along with heavy rain/sleet/hail ... I thought there may be some convection in these clouds! :huh:
What a flash and a bang, you beat me to it Chrissy! I was outside clearing some ice off of the swimming pool, nearly damn well fell in.
What a mix we are having today, the snow, then the rain which started melting it, then sleet, then hail and now a huge flash of lightning and a very loud crack of thunder. Yehhhheeeee. Our kind of weather.
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OMG it's just started snowing again. Crikey. Coming your way Chrissy.
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Heavy snow again Bournemouth
Take it's coming from that big cloud. I can see it from here but it's moving in the wrong direction for me. I had one come over but no precip from it.
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Had a wonderful evening looking at each individual snowflake we could find under a magnifying glass....truely awesome
Funny that Chrissy, my daughter Amy was doing exactly the same last night.
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There's that big dark cloud coming overhead of me now. We shall just have to see I think. I will post a few piccies a bit later.
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Overall yesterday Poole had about 2 1/2 inches of snow. Just had to post my snow report as it's just so unusual.
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Stopped snowing here about 9.30pm ish but we must have had a bit more in the night as the path we'd cleared for our ciggie run to the garage was covered again when I woke this morning. My daughters school is closed again today so I've left her sleeping and it means 'yipee' no work for me today either.
Can't make head nor tail of the forecasts for today as they all seem to be varyingly different, guess it'll be just wait and see.
In total I reckon we've had about 2 1/2 inches which is definately the heaviest snowfall for here in Poole since 85/86 ish. Amazing.
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Been snowing again here from about 2.45pm this afternoon, it's easing off again at the mo. I'm guessing in total (although it has thawed a great deal in between) we've had about 5cm.
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Stopped snowing here at about 8.45am and has just started again. Think it's gonna be an on/off type of day here. We've got about 3/4 inch in Broadstone, Creekmoor (1 mile down the road) has a little less, not complaining as this is the alot of snow for this area. The school was closed so my daughter is round her mates having a great time.
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Poole on the South coast is doing quite well.
It doesn't look much but this is a very snow starved area and is probably the most in 10 years or so.
I can say we most definately are!
Yes, I have woken up to a nice dusting and amazingly it is still snowing. An amazing event for here. Really chuffed (mostly for the kids as most have never seen snow here). Radio has to go on now just in case schools get closed.
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I'm having to watch two threads as I can never really decide whether I'm Central Southern England or South West. Hey ho. We've had a few very light flurries today. Now I'm just sitting, waiting, watching and crossing everything I possibly can.
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We've had a few light flurries today which for here is pretty amazing. I'm just gonna sit and wait and see now. Being ever hopefull, ready for the morning, I have tuned my radio into the local station that announces the school closures!!!
Fingers crossed for us all.
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Hope we hear from Nick soon. I've been reading this thread with interest as I was in that area last year for my August hols. We were approx 40 miles from Perpignan back towards the border in the foothills of the Pyrenees Orientals this is where I saw my first every funnel cloud!
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Dogs! Why did you ask to change the second one from the top? I love this one, especially WITH the aerial...why... because it looks like a peacock, a truly beautiful bird. A slightly distorted photo maybe but a beautiful one, for what I can see within it. Isn't that what art is all about?
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Had a half decent thunderstorm here between 3pm and 4pm. Some lovely CC lightening too. Rain at one point was vertical.
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As a child I experienced a hay and frog shower. I believe it was in the mega hot summer of '76 but I could be a year or two out. I was only a little one then but can remember it very clearly. It was a hot dry day, we were playing in the road at the front of our house, the wind picked up and a whirlwind was clearly visible to the west of us. A few moments later hay and small clods of earth began falling, shortly followed by a few spots of rain and the odd frog thrown in for good measure.
It's documented in a book somewhere (don't ask me which one as I've read so many books over that years about 'weird goings on'). I remember reading it when I was about 18 and being surprised that the town I lived in was mentioned in a book and also that I could remember the event myself.
My dad always says what he remembers the most about it, was the two young girls (teenagers) who were walking up our road at the time. He said they'd definately caught the brunt of the 'hay and clods of earth' shower. He said by the time they'd reached the end of our garden, they looked like they'd been dragged through a hedge backwards and then been for a dust bath and he said their faces of astonishment were a picture!
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Fantastic idea. Will be using that one before I head of to Devon at the end of July.
Snow Watch: Cymru And South West England
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The sky here is completely orange and the garden looks just like it did on Monday and if it keeps going like this it's gonna look like it did on Tuesday morning. I'm in shock, not sure how much of this excitment I can take.