Snow/Wintry Precipitation Reports: 26th January 2004

[Kerwin]

jsut had another snow shower,

here is a link to a 'live' webcam in Aberdeen. It's in the centre of Aberdeen,

so hasn't got mutch snow yet, but it might be worth looking at tomorrow.

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sras/virtual/webcam.shtml

[R.P. McMurphy]

We got sleet

[se_snowman]

Hail started here in Canterbury at 10:00 pm

[mackerel sky]

Had a fairly short lived, but quite lively shower of sleet here about 9.45pm, lasting 20 minutes - turned to flakes of wet snow before stopping. Noticeably colder after it passed through.

[paul tall]

Just been snowing here. Temperature has dropped from 2c to 1.4c in a few minutes.

[mackerel sky]

Another sleet shower here at midnight.

[paul tall]

Been piling it down for half an hour. Big fat fluffy flakes of pleasure. Still wet from earlier, but a covering on cars, and starting to cover the grass.

[Craig B]

Also snowing just down the road from Paul in Darlington. Now starting to lay on roads. Gritters were out too early yet again I reckon.

[mackerel sky]

Lots of showers now coming into the Teesside/S. Durham/N. Yorks area. Shame my parents will be in bed in Yarm/sister on the southern outskirts of Middlesbrough as I would expect it's starting to come together there too. I'll report on that if no other posts from members there post.

[mackerel sky]

More intermittent showers of sleet, turning more to snow with each shower, but only tending to last for 15 minutes in a spell, though the frequency is increasing. Only light echos on the rainfall radar.

[Craig B]

Well I'm here until 3am should Paul not be to report on the goings-on up here

[paul tall]

Current temperature in Newton Aycliffe is 0.9c. In Billingham/Stockton its 3.1c at the moment, so probably still raining there.

[paul tall]

Craig B, visit Weather Underground Teeside. The live conditions from my station are uploaded there. But there is also stations in Darlington, Billingham and Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough there too, so you can keep an eye on everywhere.

http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/03263.html

[mackerel sky]

First proper snow shower here 10 minutes ago. Only lasted briefly. Seems very patchy, and the radar would agree. Seem to be getting a feed of light showers now pushing down on a NE'ly wind from the Wash. Not enough to cause any problems yet.

Good to see the showers pushing inland as far as Aycliffe and Darlington. Sometimes they rarely make it further than Stockton, if it's just a bog-standard northerly.

[mackerel sky]

Looks like the Tees valley is acting as a conduit for those showers to push on inland. Suspect my home town of Yarm will be getting flurries now too.

[paul tall]

I'm not so sure, it may not be quite cold enough there yet. Stopped snowing here for now, but still cloudy.

We have a light covering.

[mackerel sky]

Apologies to the forum moderators if we've slightly gone off track with purely reporting wintry preciptitation events. Testimony to the perhaps the lack of it that we've seen on Monday, even in Scotland. If we get the snowfall forecasted then they'll be no place for banter or waffle, so a fresh thread tomorrow, with hopefully lots of reports

[mackerel sky]

Well the southern edge of Middlesbrough gets many more inches of snow than the centre does. Snow which has melted off in Stockton for a fortnight, has lasted in Yarm and long beyond that on the nearby Moors. Curiously, the north facing side of Eston Hills, which faces onto ICI Wilton might only have snow on it's summit at 800ft, the other side in Guisborough will have several inches at 300ft. A mix of salt air and ICI probably keeps the greater part of Teesside a degree warmer than it probably should be!

Again, getting off the subject of this thread a little - but I suspect we'll need a new one for tomorrow and not too many wintry precipitation posts thus far.

[nanu]

Snowing here in london 6:30am (well se london) only light, BUT ITS ACTUALLY REACHED HERE

Hope u add this to the new 27th percip when mod makes one

[Cakie]

Well we've had a shortish shower and now have a thin layer of settled snow.

It feels really cold :shock: I just hope we get some more before I have to set out for work "oh sorry, can't come in, I'm snowed in"

[Light Without Heat]

Yep started here in Hull light dusting this morning about 8.00 now the sky is filling and being blown on by the wind ..bring it on

[cold snap]

A FEW LIGHT SNOW FLURRYS LAST NIGHT,NOTHING TO GET EXCITED ABOUT,MANY SHOWERS OF SLEET OR RAIN,FREEZING LEVEL STILL TO HIGH,AS YOU CAN SEE SNOW ON THE MOUNTAINS IN WICKLOW.

[Kerwin]

snowing lightly in Aberdeen, got about 1-1.5cm of lying snow,

just above freezing, havy snow expected about lunchtime.