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Had snow on and off all day here in Middle Wallop, Hampshire, been great, just had a couple of hours of further snow adding about an inch but recently turned to sleet. Looking at radar more to come for our area in the next few hours.
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Short clip of driving in a heavy snow shower. Location: A303 Westbound, Beacon Hill to Solstice Park, Amesbury, Wiltshire. 3pm 3rd Feb.
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A Tractor tows a lorry out of the Wallops towards Andover on the A343 during a heavy snow shower
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Decided to visit this thread, tried posting in the Midlands S. Central Eng. thread earlier, but now swamped with Midlanders, Tried the SW and Wales full fo SW and Welsh posters, was wondering where all the Hants IOW and nearby area members are posting. Not sure I like these split snow watch boards.
Oh BTW great snow day here, been snowing on and off since luch after waking to a good 3 inches
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Mid Morning here in The Wallops
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Been a great snow event here in Middle Wallop Hampshire. Woke to a good 3" first thing, that got topped up to around 4 or 5" by mid morning. Intelude of brighter weather followed by steady snow since around 2pm and still snowing now - wahoo1 best I've seen in years!
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Don't know if this is a dream come true or my worst nightmare. I have to travel from Middle Wallop in Hampshire to the NEC tomorrow morning, then to Stratford upon Avon Sunday night returning to the NEC Monday morning then back to the Wallops Monday night. Chances of doing that lot without disruption anyone?
btw love the snooooooow
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frost and fog, dense in places and some freezing, temps around -1.5 at 9am. Nearly came a cropper on black ice in a car park!
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Light dusting in Middle Wallop, less than a cm but enough to give a pretty wintery scene
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Hard frost again this morning.
Forgotten the last morning I didn't scrap the windscreen, love it!
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storm chasers live from texas http://thestormreport.com/livetrack.php/
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Thunderstorm over Amesbury, Wilts. Approx. 4pm, best activity around 4.30 - 5pm. Very dark, lightning, thunder torrential rain. Reports of local fire brigade pumping out High St in Durrington. Surface water flooding in the area on most roads.
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You right it didn't and I wasn't expecting any any way! None the less ... Yours truely was woken up by the man doing a lot of oohing and aaaahing out the window. Was blowing a right old gale out there. So I ignored him. But he dragged me to the window to see a "heavy" (for the South) snow shower!!! I nearly passed out. So now I have seen more than my 1 big fat flake i'm very happy.
So it's happened for me. I can happen to any one really now!!
LOL lucky you, I was in Amesbury when this shower passed over Wallop, the wife took glee in phoning and telling me what I was missing - might be my only chance gone! agggggh!
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Much of the E coast continues to have a warning but this is highlighted in yellow (Be aware) whereas the orange indicates (Be prepared).
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_...t_warnings.html
Surprising to see no warnings whatsoever for the SE except Bucks, Milton keynes. Having said this the Met O are obviously expecting the snow showers to stream through the wash into areas further SW. I said many days ago that for areas such as Kent you need to see either a E/ENE,ly for a streamer to develop and with colder upper temps also.
I must have view the maps as they were updating, that swave of orange was in green when I looked!
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The weather advisories seem to be constantly changing on the Meto site. This morning Hampshire was not under an advisory, now it is for Saturday, meanwhile large sections of the East Coast that were under an advisory for Sunday are no longer on alert
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gutted - wife phoned to tell me it's snowing in Middle Wallop, had hail too, a real mixed blustery shower, but I'm 10 miles down the road in Amesbury where the sun's out!
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thanks for the link to the met info, much appreciated maidstone
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Was looking around the met office site this morning and went to the warnings page to find the South of England coloured yellow, apparently an advisory for a possible severe event.
The have done away with the red only weather warnings and introduced green: all clear, yellow: advisory, orange: be prepared and red: take action.
Its interesting that this change has been implimented after the recent gale force winds in which some areas did not have any form of warning even though the conditions would warrant some kind of advisory.
Lets hope the new system is used sensibly and that as a result people take more notice rather than dismissing the Met Office for over-reacting to none or minimal events.
It's also worth mentioning that NW have had a graded alert system for as long as I can remember, so hats off to NW for leading the way again.
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It's there again this morning, clour coded according to severity of event. Obviously realised that one level of alert just gets the wrong response
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QUOTE (wallopweather @ 1 Mar 2008, 08:40 AM)
Would suggest the slow pace of this thread reflects that this 'cold snap' is going to be no more significant than anything else we've had this winter.
QUOTE (wallopweather today, 10.52 AM)
Currently baking humble pie - may require a slice or two later today
Pie is currently back in the cupboard, can always re-heat later if needed
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not sure cloud is definately moving in different directions
i'm going to venture out for a better look
Had what appeared to be cloud rotation here a little while ago just as the system started to clear our area, low level broken cloud was moving rapidly in opposite direction to everything else. This cloud movement has stopped now as rain eased but would not be suprised to hear reports on the news later of, to quote their favourite saying, "mini tornadoes"
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anyone else near reading seeing cloud moving upwards !
really strange. low straggly cloud is rising upwards.
can't make out much more as the rain is blocking my view
Tornado forming ??
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30 mins ago the rain looked like it would clear here but its heavier than ever - ridiculous weather
This is bizarre, I have cloud at high altitude moving north while at lower level there is broken cloud moving rapidly south, rain intensifying again - whats going on ??
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rain easing, broken cloud visible on horizon, all coming to an end here. Best of Luck to anyone in the Midlands, think you could be in for some serious flooding.
Snow Watch Thread For Midlands & C Southern England
in Spring Weather Discussion
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Hants Wilts border taking a hit tonight, A303 west and east bound now closed due to snow and ice
http://www.wiltshire.police.uk/index.php?o...6&Itemid=60