Snow/wintry Precipitation Reports: 22nd February

[Jackfrost]

Two very heavy snow showers within the last half-hour. The first started to settle before melting away. This one has left a good dusting on the hills, and a covering on the cars, grass, roofs. Very large flakes.

Edited February 22, 2005 by jackfrost

[gazzac55]

B)

heavy snow now falling in newcastle settling straight away

[thunderstrike]

snow flurries but heavy snow towards west kent

[paul tall]

Had a very heavy snow shower between 4.30 and 5 when I was out sledging with the kids.

4cm snow has fallen today

[Chrissy]

Heavy snow on and off all day here.

[Andy Bown]

Heavy snow now falling and settling.

But can see clear sky to the E so it won't last B)

[paul tall]

Re Weather Underground temperatures: you do have to be careful, as a lot of them do seem to over-read.  Morecambe may have a warmer climate than Lancaster during the winter, but the maxima are often reported on WUnderground to be 2-3C higher, and during the summer (when Morecambe is slightly cooler than Lancaster) they can be 4-5C higher.

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A lot of the weather underground stations are private stations, so do not necessarily follow the rules of placing the sensor in a screen, 4ft above ground and in good airflow.

Classic symptoms of this are over-reading temperatures on sunny days, sometimes by several degrees.

[Casper]

A couple of very heavy snow showers, giving a light covering before slowly melting.

[windfinder]

Another very heavy shower just gone through,have a couple of cms lying now.Visibility really drops when it snows,havent seen anything like it for a long time.

[rob-lancs]

Hello frozen lands - good to see more East Lancashire members on here.

[Supercell]

Another amazing day. So far... 6 snow showers, the latter 3 produced blizzard conditions and I had another 2cm covering for a time. A slight thaw occured when the sun came out after the most recent snow shower had passed, but the slight covering should remain preserved through the night now.

[Tom Snowman]

We got 3 snow showers today, the last one was a heavy one which went for about 10 mins, but yet again was only enough to wet the ground. B)

[matt_in_dudley]

Heavy snowfall as right now! Settling on everything

[stratty]

lots of light showers today , kept refreshing the slight covering on the grass!

[DeathStyler]

Had about 4 showers today, which actually turned to sleet for a while wasking away lying snow, however, latest snow shower gave a good dusting, lasting 10 minutes, very heavy, and big flakes.. B)

[paul tall]

Another heavy snow shower, they all seem to be following the same pattern......polystyrene balls, increasing in intenstity for 10 minutes, before changing to big snowflakes for 10 minutes.

[thunderstrike]

moderate snow

[The Enforcer]

One light short snow shower around 4pm. Another heavier, but equally short shower at 5-15pm that allowed a sprinkling to settle. Couple of bigger showers bearing down on me as I type.

[matt_in_dudley]

Its still snowing here! Giving a good covering!

[scott_anthony_glasgow]

Another very heavy shower just gone through,have a couple of cms lying now.Visibility really drops when it snows,havent seen anything like it for a long time.

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ddi you not see heavy snow on January 18th?

[scott_anthony_glasgow]

opps forgot to say snowing here again quite heavy......

[windfinder]

ddi you not see heavy snow on January 18th?

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Yes but this is much heavier if not quite so prolonged.

[falmouth]

Derby has had 4 heavy snow showers today with blizzards in two of them. Did not settle.

The 17:00 shower gave a total covering including roads. Clouds increasing again.

[SnowJoke]

Yipee. snowing again here in milton keynes. heavy shower earlier left a covering and this latest one is adding to it. expect some more overnight B)

[Guest Sir Seany]

Another snow shower, a very light one!