Snow reports for the end of December/beginning of Jan

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Thought I might as well start this as on the way home from Keswick this afternoon it was snowing on the way into Penrith and again around Shap Summit. Very wet, miserable snow, but snow nonetheless. Strangely the temperature then dropped to 0º and it was raining in Orton, but I'm sure that makes sense to someone.

[Hywel]

Sleeting here all afternoon. Horrible and wet

[John in the frozen north]

Hi - I haven't posted for ages, but I too have zero degrees and rain - how annoying is that!!

John

[paul tall]

Well this afternoon it was 2.8º and the car windscreen test showed definite sleet.

[Osbourne One-Nil]

...definite sleet.

Perhaps one of the most telling descriptions I've ever heard....definite sleet. We really have slumped that low.

[paul tall]

The fact that I went and sat in the car just to check, shows where we are now!

[Stratos Ferric]

Repeated hail showers this morning, though mixed in with rain. Temps hovering above 4C. Would like to say it's almost sleeting, and doubtless if I were in Telford it would be, but I suspect what I've got is occasional remnants of melted hail in the bigger splats of rain.

Definitely under a big Cb at present; very dark, and the radar echo is reds and pinks. Surprised the temp hasn't fallen moire under this, but I'm learning not to be surprised or disappointed by anything weather wise.

As mentioned above; it's a sorry state of affairs when I'm getting excited by the potential for it to sleet. Still have high hopes for the overnight period though.

I'm moving to Telford...

actually, no I'm not.

LATE EXTRA

Wow, huge lightning flash overhead and now very heavy hail. and several more flashes. OOooh, thunderhail, or something...will post a piccy later to fool you all into thinking it was snowing.

Edited January 1, 2007 by Stratos Ferric

[Stratos Ferric]

Here they are...

It's an aside, but looking at the latest radar echos (and not checking any other data), more tornado potential for the S and SW this afternoon particularly if there's a decent gradient across this squall line. Certainly some beefy storms.

[Guest Viking141]

Very chilly today and just had a hefty hail shower. Forecast says possibly prolonged spell of sleet/wet snow overnight tonight.

[Osbourne One-Nil]

BMWs are so vulgar.

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

I'd of thought that was snow if I didn't know better.

I can just imagine Stratos' 2CV, just out of the frame, below his own flat. :o

[Stratos Ferric]

I'd of thought that was snow if I didn't know better.

I can just imagine Stratos' 2CV, just out of the frame, below his own flat. :o

It's amazing what you can do with trick photography and polystyrene...just goes to show how easy it is to confuse hail with snow, and particularly sleet with melting hail. Os's little question earlier isn't so misplaced.

I'm amazed how much colder it is up here today than 30 miles east. the RAF stations are all registering 7 or so down in the Vale of York.

The 2CV is parked under the mock 5 series cover. It's my latest business venture...

[shuggee]

Heavy sleet shower here in Gorebridge - thick blobby stuff mixed in with hail :o

[GrimReaper]

Heavy Rain and Sleet here for the last 10 minutes.

Temp is 2.5c

[Ross B]

on leaving the house at 7am this morning there was some havy sleet and snow, just got back and there was also a heavy shower of sleet and snow. Some nice mamma overhead now too :o

Oh yeah, and i've been in near whiteout conditions all day!

[SP1986]

downpour of what started as rain finished in Hail, sleet, and the odd lump (given it's wetness) of snow. Surprising but I tried to get a picture of the lumps, got a very very blurred picture ill try to get it on.

Temperature before shower was 5C, dropped to 2C, now recovered to 3C with more showers coming in.

[James M]

A few heavy hail showers here this evening enough to give a covering of slush temp 3.3C

[Derbyshire_snow]

wey hey finally something wintry to report just looked out my window it's sleeting looks like we could be in for some snow

[SP1986]

Another heavy-torrential shower gave rise to hail, turned back to rain then sleet featured at the end, showers lasted about 3 minutes

[Stratos Ferric]

You're doing well over there Stephen. Just rain and melting hail here. 3.4c

Edited January 1, 2007 by Stratos Ferric

[stumathers]

wey hey finally something wintry to report just looked out my window it's sleeting looks like we could be in for some snow

It has been a bit sleety here too this evening. Suprising really to say my elevation. Apparently may get slightly more wintry through the night.

[SP1986]

You're doing well over there Stephen. Just rain and melting hail here. 3.4c

I'm not surprised though to be honest, the Welsh hills are doing a grand job with the dew point! It's always going to vary wherever you go. I assume that Sheffield is getting the same effect as here and so they are getting sleet.

Capel Curig is quite high up, it's about 5C at the moment, and yet it's 3C and rising here following a shower and it seems to be cooler, and wetter on the lee of the slopes, and therefore allowing, at certain altitudes, hail to be falling. I assume the sleet is a freak event although it has happened twice.

I love these local weather phenomena, certainly adds some interest to the weather.

Also the intensity of the showers must be figuring in there somewhere.

[J10]

Som very heavy hail showers fell yesterday morning.

[Derbyshire_snow]

Just had a light covering here, nothing much though. Quite a surprise

is that hail or snow ???

[Mammatus]

Deleted message/image, very cruel of me. It was snow from last Feb, we ended up with about 3 inches.