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is winter over

YES will have to change my location title now mind you 18 years is long enough of the old one

getting rather silly snowing quite hard here again on the hampshire wiltshire border was this in tonights script

yes see what you are saying mituozo but it was weird today sun was out yet slow thaw yesterday continuous snow with fast thaw so the air was i think colder today we also had 3 inches of snow overnight im fully expecting to find the snow gone by tomorrow when the mild air comes through but this winter has slung in many against the norm surprises so we shall see only downside football training cancelled lol

even further confusion 2 reports from a dorset coast b hampshire coast reporting snow again as just pointed out the warmer air to follow but most forecasts about 6pm largely said rain thats all

This is a bit confusing im led to believe that the south of england is due to get rain tonight which it may well do,but its snowing at the moment and settling,maybe the mild air is nowhere near at present.i am just south of wiltshire and east of dorset and live in hampshire.Right just seen post saying precipitation generally is miles away.

Borderline here 10 miles south of wiltshire 4 miles east of dorset live in hampshire regular snow showers tonight leaving a covering

Bit of a fraud here,10 miles south of wiltshire 4 miles east of dorset and i live in hampshire and it seems a small strip of the 3 counties getting snow showers tonight a fresh covering hope it doesnt melt

business as usual here in the Hampshire no snow triangle a total of 37 flakes so far but you just never know do you?

But Tornado we have not yet had sleet can you top that B)

As a gardener who is out every day to an extent the weather has a major bearing on my life and mood. A day planned for lawnmowing ruined by unforecast rain makes my mood pretty bad.Being fair haired and fair skinned temps over 25c give me a few problems too.However,because i love snow so much but live in an area that rarely gets it seeing setups that nearly give snow but never do whilst reading of snow events coutrywide make me a little jealous :lol: Mind you having been through the 1963 experience at 13 I sometimes wonder,much as i love snow what my mood may be after say 10 days of snow and near zero temps. Be nice to find out :lol:

Thanks to the posters who replied to my previous post.Yes,as expected the usual suspects emerged.However,i was surprised by 3 Blackpool being quite far North but coastal Swansea and most of all Karen from Nottingham,that was a surprise entry to me. So,its largely a Southwestern quadrant problem although not exclusively.The Eye in the Sky sent me an informative note regarding the demise of our snow friend the Channel Low,last year Steve Murr sent a brilliant but gloomy piece regarding confirmation of the no snow triangle in which i and many live. As a generalisation.using my Inspector Clueseau powers of deduction i have noticed that Southerly winds are normally mild SW ditto W as recently as 2 days ago gave rain although it was cold so North although cold run out of steam so Now what? Although NE is best probably for me for wider event is an Easterly probably our best hope,it would be nice to get your opinions.For the record,John holmes kindly gave me his opinion but i dont want you swayed by an ex professional As before many thanks if you respond

This is a geographic interest question and nothing else.Since October many parts of Britain have seen lying snow including London.There will be a few areas that have seen not a flake of snow at all.My main guess would probably be Central Southern England Westwards,but even then im sure snow has been reported from Hereford and Wales at some stage.Even in my own county ofHampshire although we saw now snow as yet the East of the county had some.This is not a moan and gripe topic just one of interest to me .Many thanks in advance for your information.

here in hampshire its business as usual lots of dead leaves on ground but thats because we have had most unusual amount of very strong winds that in turn brings down the leaves and in these very dry conditions the leaves die and go brown horse chestnut has suffered especially.some areas that i work as a gardener it looks quite autumnal but falsely so for the above reason.

Just an interest countrywide as to anything memorable in the last winter,for example here in Hampshire it was a poor winter for snow but we have had 57 frosts Ialso saw the biggest snowflakes of my entire life this winter finished off with the recent Sunday morning winter wonderland just interested as to how others have fared.

as a fellow hampshire gardener[my job]all veg garden tips usually at extortionate fees are yours at rock bottom prices ps it is blooming hard work you tell em lol

In what has been another awful winter for snow here in Hampshire a magical momentat about 11 30 rain with flecks of sleet and small snowflakes started to fall all of a sudden you truly could hardly see the sky there was a mass of snowflakes bigger than 3 50p pieces falling such was the intensity the ground started to whiten as did roofs and cars had all gone by the time i returned to the village but as said a truly special time last event like that here thundersnow 28 01 04

46 frosts one sleet showermixture of cool/cold dry mild wet mush that completes the voting from the Hampshire no snow triangle.

A good question however have to say that this part of Hampshire rarely has snow in March or any other time last snow here thundersnow 28 01 04,interesting to note though that a memorable date ie 14th march,last day of the fishing season ,around that time often cold often easterly but rarely snowy.

As i do gardening for a living i always get a bit nervous between now and April.So many shrubs and fruittrees ect can get written off in bad frost camelias magnolias in particular are vunerable and its more ironic when you consider in general terms how mild its been

So,a few more contenders,but Penzance and the Scilly Isles appear the logical choices,personally i put Jethros Somerset in the same Titanic ship as Hampshire maybe wrong but as i see it. It seems to me that you can almost slice the country in about 4 bits,the South which now struggles for snow,south midlands to say the Humber,which gets occasional snow but at least once or twice a winter,there to the borders a little betyter then finally Scotland,please dont shoot me down in flames im sure innacuracies abound lol what do you think

Thanks for a few replies as i say Hampshires mention only a thought provoker Scilly isles and Gibralter ahead on points lol notice mention of Basingstoke which is North East of here proving that despite everything synoptically going against my area Salisbury Plain to my north nicks what little snow that heads this way.

Half fun half a serious discussion.To open proceedings i propose the county of Hampshire,in the last 17 years there have been very few instances of snow here,indeed Steve Murrs brilliant piece on the slow erosion of snow showed this area of late in white ie no recorded lying snow,this year and last year we have seen not a single flake in fact 28 1 04 last snow of any note.I am not claiming the title lol just getting the ball rolling

Well Stratos it was in a way what im saying im miles south of you and at 124 feet asl and on top of a hill we may be frost prone but i take your point on board.What is a bit more difficult to understand is that Jim is 30 miles South of me albeit near the coast,yet has no frost at all,some less maybe but not this margin of difference its rather confusing,

as a gardener i keep a work diary so far this winter there have been 27 frosts a few air but mainly ground frost.We dont get snow however 3 lots in 17 years so quite weird how we get dry cold but not cold enough to turn rain to snow.