Snow Wintry/precipitation Reports 16th-18th March 06

[Paul Sherman]

Please post all wintry reports in here, be it Hail,Sleet or that Illusive Snow.

Paul Sherman

[PersianPaladin]

Light snow flurries continuing....starting to accumulate very very gradually.

[Stratos Ferric]

We've had an amazing snow event here; I think a new low-end record on Stratos's intensity scale has been set tonight with snow currently falling at intensity of around 0.25, which is tantamount to saying that I can actually see further WITH the snow falling than I would be able to without. This winter continues to find ever more novel ways of lowering the average intesity per snow event.

A new scale is required for intensity seeing as hours have now lost all relevance. Millimetres per decade anyone?

Edited March 16, 2006 by Stratos Ferric

[Methuselah]

A very sight dusting thismorning.

[Snowdrifts]

Very light snow been falling much of the night, with only a slight covering on the tops of cars.

[Shiny_Bottom_1]

Must be having that amazing shower that Startos was talking about

Fine and very light snow showers here. Not accumulating at all, but some snow nonetheless.

[SNOW-MAN2006]

3 snow showers and 1 hail shower

[kincorth01]

Had some snow overnight in Aberdeen. Enough to give a good dusting of the ground.

[andyandy]

Having light snow at the moment, dont no when it started, but theres quite a thick dusting on the ground.

[GrimReaper]

Light snow falling since dawn - just a dusting blowing around.

Temp minus 1c

[gmoran]

Very light snow showers here in Birmingham since 7:10, the snow grains are very small.

[Jamie25]

Snowing again here in Cumbernauld just as the snow has cleared away from the last fall and now we have a light covering of snow

[Storm Animal]

Been snowing lightly all morning, enough to make some surfaces white, brief

episodes of slightly more moderate snow, think this will continue all day, but not

leading to anything major, admitedly

[Terminal Moraine]

Light snow falling since 6.0 a.m, about 0.5cm lying.

T.M

[kar999]

Very light snow grains. Sticking (just) in favoured spots.

Temp +1ºC Dew Point -3ºC

[drgl]

light snow flurries here.Flakes increasing in size but sky is light.

[PersianPaladin]

Well, i got up this morning at 6.45am and went for a walk up in the sticks (5 mins up the road from my house). Good 2cm covering of snow everywhere and there was even some old drifts that had survived from Sunday that had been topped-up. At 7.30am it felt really wintry indeed with a pretty sharp snow shower with heavy snow grains and graupel; must've been a bit of a rogue one. Sadly, everything started melting pretty quickly from 8am onwards.

Another snow shower has begun...

[johnholmes]

light snow at the moment, not settling

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Snowing here too, and we'd have a good few inches if it wasn't for the fact that it's not snowing heavily enough and it's not cold enough.

[phoenix]

very light, brief,and evidently very local snow shower for this part of morecambe bay. 8.40-8.45 am.

[Stratos Ferric]

Yet more snow in Stratosmoortop, and the theme of the winter continues unabated: this morning a veritible moderate sprinkling of snow amounting to, oooh, about 2mm I'd say. As PP says, an interesting first in recent times in that we now have new snow (albeit in quantities that would require scientific instrumentation to detect) falling on the remnants of old snow from a previous event.

Also had Tuesday night's mystery answered now that the air to the north has finally cleared. There is snow, not far to the north, down to about 200m. A sharp dividing line between where the snow fell and where we had frozen / freezing rain.

[MAF]

very light snow, trying really hard to be bigger flakes. not settling and perhaps too light.

[Osbourne One-Nil]

You know what? It really is snowing here....quite heavily, and it's settling at 0.3º.

[Hywel]

Light snow flurries, getting a bit heavier in the last 30 mins.

[kippure]

Light then to heavy snow , very windy with a current temputure of 3 dc

In the form of heavy showers merging to give long spells .

Sticking to the frosty areas (snow on frost)