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Looking ahead the Met Office have sleet for me on Sunday but heavy snow Monday day & night.
Right now its still snowing with reasonable intensity here but not quite as good as an hour ago (the flakes arent as big). The stuff that has settled on roofs and grass has not quite reached 100% cover yet and is not very deep, but its a pretty scene out of the window right now.
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After hours of rain/sleet/snow mix on and off in Nuneaton, in the last 10 minutes its turned to heavier snow which is now settling on grass.
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OK now its doing a better job of being sleetier.
As for the radar, it showed light precipitation in my area for a while before I could actually detect any.
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Rain intensity picked up just after I called it pathetic, but is still only managing to be slightly sleety.
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Its struggling to stay sleety in Nuneaton, and even the rain is fairly pathetic.
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Rain has now turned more sleety in Nuneaton.
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Currently raining in Nuneaton.
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I know it would be silly to place much faith in it, but the BBC forecast has me in for rain, then sleet at midnight, then back to rain, then sleet at 9am and light snow at 12. Shame I wont be in Nuneaton tomorrow morning as Im off to Wellingborough for work and the BBC dont think there will be snow there tomorrow. Not that Im likely to be missing out on much anyway.
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Just had a little bit of rain in Nuneaton.
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Well the remnants of one of those showers passed over me, produced nothing that I could see for most of it, got bored with lamppost checking after a while but just had a final quick look and there were a few flakes blowing around.
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I am greedy for snow - Feb 09 set me off and I havent stopped since. I am coming to terms with the window of opportunity slowly starting to close in the coming weeks.
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Interesting stuff. The snow depths are roughly what I would expect as I didnt get the sense at the time that it was only the West Mids which missed out on the heaviest action. Being in the middle of the Midlands, I was looking East a fair bit and there were plenty of complaints about snowshields from those areas too, and I think Birmingham to my West fared better than I did during that time. The best action seemed to be south and north and wales, which those cover maps seem to confirm.
For my location Feb 09 was a slightly better opportunity for some snow photography and making stuff out of the snow, but this January's cold spell was certainly memorable for how long it lasted.
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Though I will say, today's showers were a lot more potent than I was expecting. Thought moderate snow showers would be the best we'd get from this week, but it turns out I was wrong. Many places across the Midlands (including here) got some heavy or very heavy snow showers accompanied by a gusty wind, creating blizzard-like conditions.
Yeah it never ceases to amaze me how hard it is to predict even an hour ahead sometimes - I went to work around noon, wondering if I might catch a brief light shower today, and three hours later we got walloped with far more than I would have hoped. It didnt look that impressive on the radar either. The BBC managed to get the time of that one almost right, but maybe it was luck.
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Not just now no , but we did have blizzard like conditions on and off throughout the day
Ta for the info. Strange because on the radar there were intense oranges around 6.40pm, maybe it just missed your location.
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Im not from round these parts but I was looking at the radar and it looked like Canterbury took a direct hit of rather heavy snow - can anyone confirm?
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I know Im off-topic but I was just looking at the radar for some Londoners and it looks like Canterbury just took an extreme pasting, oranges and reds on the NW traditional radar.
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Finally a direct and glorious hit for Nuneaton - very large flakes, just going out in it now.
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Just had a few flakes blowing round in Nuneaton even though the clouds were not directly overhead. The partial dusting from overnight is long gone. Nothing too interesting on the radar for me now, may get something by mid-late afternoon. As I had guesstimated at the weekend, Monday turned out to be the more interesting day in terms of length of time of stuff falling out of the sky. Meanwhile the models have gone a bit rubbish for the rest of this week & next week, so I am preparing myself for the end of meaningful snow this winter.
Oh maybe I am wrong, the blob thats just gone over Grantham and is heading towards Leicester has spread out a bit so if I am really lucky the edge of it might clip Nuneaton within an hour.
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I missed a couple of showers overnight that have left a partial dusting here, and am now watching the big cloud over Leicester skirt past me, missing out on that fun.
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Well its been very patchy today, hard to get excited about. The clouds have been just missing me for most of the day, looks like there is something incoming but it may well be rain, I will soon find out.
Well it wasnt rain, Im no expert so I dont know whether to call it hail or snow, it was fairly intense but brief. The clouds sure were dark.
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Where is everyone today? Anyway we have sleet turning into bursts of snow when heavier falling again here in the village. Maybe I just live in a Twilight Zone...
Well its been very patchy today, hard to get excited about. The clouds have been just missing me for most of the day, looks like there is something incoming but it may well be rain, I will soon find out.
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This is off-topic but...
Steve can you tell me how far the George Eliot hospital is from Nuneaton train station? I have got to go there in a few weeks and I have no idea how far it is, never been to Nuneaton before.
Looks like your question already got answered but I will add that the bus station is only a few mins walk from the train station, and timetables I just looked at online indicate that the first buses of the day that go to George Eliot start before 6am, even on Saturdays.
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Yep some flakes blowing around in Nuneaton too. Its been slowly getting stronger for the last 15 minutes but is still extremely light.
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Radar looking quite nice, fingers crossed.
Midlands Cold Spell Discussion
in Spring Weather Discussion
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The couple of times this afternoon and evening that a heavy band has passed over us has now lead to it finally sticking on roads in the last hour. Im far from certain how much more we will get tonight though, it will stop here shortly according to the radar and the way the low is moving and my lack of knowledge means I dont know what we'll get after that.