Summer of 95

Only 10-15% here at most, paths and roads have gone slushy and been dripping off walls and hedges since 2pm, but basically everything still covered. Bits of sleety snizzle since the last of the snow but no heavy rain, hopefully that stays the case.

Stopped now, if that was the occlusion it was all snow here. Still big chunks falling off walls and plants but no serious thawing so far

Telford guys saying rain, if this is on the way over there it wont be 20230309_124912.mp4

Big flakes coming down fast after it stopped for an hour or so. Still all covered, they seem to be sticking where it has fallen/blown off things

Pepped up in last hour, just been out with the ruler as its 9am and we have 7cm level! March to the rescue....

Already the biggest non-lockdown snowfall since March 2018, with about 3cm on the ground (Had 9cm in Jan 2021). And more now than in any February since 2009....

Yes same here, they did melt a lot but covering up again

Yes disappointing to see a lot of it has gone from the roads (though it's still on the grass and everything else)- and the snow that's recently started isnt covering them again yet. Even a report of rain at Birmingham airport at 0450

Lying snow in April at 09Z* since 1987 here: 1989, 1998, 2012, 2021 All 1 day and 1-3 cm, So about once a decade on average. But has happened twice since the last November lying snow in 2010. *Remember that's 10am BST in April! Have seen a few other years with sticking snow in April but not lying at the right time, it has to stay till well past sunrise

They must think they are thunderstorms! Travelling north, reaching the southern edge of Shropshire then changing direction to go to Birmingham, that's what thunderstorms do.... But we've still managed more snow this evening than all winter and all last winter, hopefully later tonight....

Still light but cover has stayed, 1-2cm so far Come on that band of heavier stuff, shift 15 miles north of there before it all clears away to the east

Covering the roads nicely, about 1cm, again "dry" snow that squeaks underfoot and sparkles in the lights. Most weve had all winter now....

Pretty much stopped about 4 but started again, Starting to stick on the pavement now, grass and roofs and cars are dusted nicely. Just main roads and some paths to go. Smaller flakes as some have said but plenty of them. Not above 1C here either today, and dewpoint I'm sure not above 0 (was always quite dry snow and never close to sleety). Really find it hard to understand why so little settling earlier in those conditions, been no sun today at all

Finally its having a go at sticking, it tried briefly about 10am but disappeared afterwards

Looking at the OS map if I've got the right place (Tank Clock Tower?) it's about 200-220m

How high is the (settling) snow line? Just looking again at the motorways and there is no lying snow by the M5 until nearly Bristol.

Just been checking the motorway cameras, there is nothing really sticking anywhere in the W Midlands. All along the M54, M6 to Birmingham and down the M5 to Worcester, just green even on the high bit around M5 J2-4

Flakes have got bigger but it's really struggling to stick, is dusting the grass and roofs and hedges but other things are just going damp even though it still looks like dry snow

Small powdery flakes drifting down, it is actually snowing

How is this not even half baked easterly with no cold uppers, light winds, a fetch from 20 miles off the east coast and 1030+ pressure producing precipitation all over England and into Wales, when the December cold longer fetch northerly/easterly, the Jan northerly and the Feb 2021 very cold easterly all produced next to nothing in huge areas of the country?

I always remember it as the month when Fair Isle had 300 hours of sunshine, Shawbury and Birmingham about 140.

September 2011. Totally against the grain, the summer's cool dull rubbish continued for most of the first 20 days, then we had the best hot spell since 2006 that lasted into October. May 2008. Great first half, atrocious second half that actually made it end up wetter and duller than average. July 2005, very topsy turvy. Pretty unsettled but not awful first week, then it was hot and sunny for 10 days or so, until the latter part had some of the coolest, cloudiest weather I can remember in high summer, up there with anything in 2007-12 although it was only 10-12 days or so and wasnt especially wet.

So here we haven't had more than 2cm on the ground in February since 2009.... even in 12/13 and 17/18 Feb avoided having more than 1cm. It's been such a snowless month in the 21st century even by our standards, and 2023 has not even had any falling snow with 10 hours of the month to go. After last summer finally broke the sunless August 21st century curse I had hopes this one might end too...

This has been done a few times over the years, I cant remember every one I chose before because most had several candidates. I'll consider the case now for months from the last 3-4 years..... May 2015, which failed to top 20C all month and had no thunder, I'm sure I picked before and I still would- 2021 had a warm last few days and those cracking thunderstorms with hail on the 12th. Februaries 2020 and 2022 would definitely be in with a shout. So many rubbish Febs in the last 35 years it's difficult to pick one. 2011 (which I think I have gone for before) I particularly hated for ruining a great winter, although it wasn't quite as wet as 2020 or 2022 or 2014 or 2002 or 1990. July 2020 (save the hot last day) and August 2021 weren't great, but not as bad as August 2008 or July 2009 (that was awful, it seems to be forgotten, 2012 or 1988, or the appallingly dull July 2010. Looking at stats I can understand why people in the SE might go for August 2021 though, it seems to have been worse than 2008 down there. They seem to hate June 2016 down there too, here it was definitely on the wet side but also thundery and quite warm, way superior to 2012 or 1997. Same for June 2019 (that was very wet but again thundery and had a warm end). The autumn of 2019 was almost as wet here as that of 2000 (Sep and Oct were both actually wetter than in 2000 even though the first 20 days of Sep were quite dry)- October in particular was horrible and is a strong candidate. And winter 2021-22 was up there with the very worst of them for snowlessness. The very cloudy December was especially grim.

Finally seen it in my binoculars tonight! Moon has been too near it the last few days since the sky cleared but got it just now. Easily seen but in binoculars beware of the three bright clusters in Auriga (M36/37/38) which could easily be mistaken for it- I made sure I'd identified them all before confirming which one was the comet. Tonight It's down from Capella, towards Mars, below and slightly right of the kids (the three stars in a triangle). Theres a 5th magnitude star (Omega Aurigae) very close to it.