Snow/wintry Precipitation Reports, February 16th 2006

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Very heavy hail this morning has now turned to vet wet, very heavy snow. Not settling at all at 1.9º, but a surprise none the less for me.

[John in the frozen north]

Very heavy hail this morning has now turned to vet wet, very heavy snow. Not settling at all at 1.9º, but a surprise none the less for me.

Hi OON

Similar for me as I was leaving the house at 8am, wet snow in Hexham in a heavy snower at 2 degrees.

John

[Cloud 10]

Moderate snow here at the moment,fairly wet stuff so it is not settling but a nice suprise all the same.

[Andy Bown]

Bristol (Lulsgate) is one of my homepage stations and it is currently reporting ICE at 4c. A heavy shower just gone through here including hail and sleet. Who says it can't happen this far South?

[bethpink]

Just had a very heavy hail shower,lasted about 5 minutes.

[Stratos Ferric]

Just had a very heavy hail shower,lasted about 5 minutes.

Aah, that'll be the one that gave snow at Dunkeswell I suspect.

[Matt B]

Heavy hail here . Also reported by my other in reading

[bennytes]

Heavy shower this morning in Caerphilly about 9.30 and there was quite a bit of sleet in it!

[londonsnow]

heavy hail in south london, very squally

[Claire]

That hail storm has just arrived here (by Cannon Street), short but sweet!

Edited February 16, 2006 by Claire

[Paul Sherman]

Same as LS, Had a small Cb producing small Hail direct hit on Central London, a Cormorant flew past me near the Thames at about 50 miles per hour No thunder though. Very Picturesque Clouds today for anyone with a Camera

Paul Sherman

Edit: Just had a rumble of Thunder

[londonsnow]

very short but sweet claire, and paul. suns out now!

[Great Plum]

I had the same hail shower here in Marlyebone about 30 mins ago!

[The Abominable Snowman]

Just had a rain/sleet shower. Started as rain then the window confirmed what I thought was sleet outside towards the end of the shower!!

[SP1986]

Had sleet with a few flakes of wet wet snow before, surprising! but not *that* surprising

[Andy Bown]

A full white covering of hail/wet snow/sleet from a heavy squall between 16.10 and 16.20.

[SP1986]

another shower of sleet, they're all piling in now. Only a matter of time til one of them is all snow!

[ScottSnow]

I had reports off a friend of heavy snow at Tow Law which is around 1000ft this morning. I don't know if it settled.

[Stratos Ferric]

One brief but heavy shower with implausibly large raindrops (always a sign of something unusual aloft) at around 2145h. About 2% sleet content (one in ten drops about 1/5 frozen); impossible to tell whether melting hail or melting snow, though the drop size would actually suggest the former.

[I can't believe it's not better]

A mix of hail and rain early this morning. Then again this afternoon, though less hail in that one. Seems to me radical increases in greenhouse gases may not be having any affect whatsoever afterall. Time will tell.

[J10]

A heavy hail shower this morning

[Hairy Celt]

snowing above about 400m this morning in the Cairngorms, settling above maybe 700 - 750m. Looking pretty crappy patchy at the Lecht.

[Hairy Celt]

snowing above about 400m this morning in the Cairngorms, settling above maybe 700 - 750m. Looking pretty crappy patchy at the Lecht.

just looked back at today's radar precipitype and it shows just rain in eastern Highlands. It was lying. I was there. It wasn't.

[Globalicwarming]

Here in Southern Sweden(about 150 miles north-west from Stockholm) we've had snow for a couple of days. It's about 20 inches here on my backyard.