Snow In Leeds So Far This Winter :)

[Cheese Rice]

I have finally got round to resising the majority of all my pics so i can now post them

Dec 5th snow event <_<

Heavy Snow began at around 3am and dumped 10-15cm of snow, at around 6am the snow went light and patchy, suprisingly at around 10am the snow went very heavy for another hour, fortunatley the snow didnt turn to rain like the bbc had predicted.

These two pictures are my favourite, they look like a christmas card photo

Feb 2nd 09

Heavy snow started at 3:30pm and lasted until 4am (moderate after 10pm), the snow piled up on the 5cm of snow allready on the ground, but it took longer on snow free ground, by 7pm the roads have around 3-4cm of snow on them (bear in mind this road is busy), while paths in excess of 10cm. Throughout the night the winds remained moderate leading to some good drifts, 50cm+ snow especially round the slightly hilly golf course. By morning (5:30am) the snow had stopped, the top layer of snow (1cm) is completley frozen, underneath is the soft stuff, the snow slowly began to melt at around 9am but temps really dive bombed and the water that was dripping of the trees froze instantly (see pics below) so thawing isnt going to be an issue here. The roads in Lower parts are mostly clear, as it melts really fast on the roads but not on paths at all. Here are some pics of what i got, bear in mind i took these pics at 2pm so a bit more was probably there earlier (especially on roads). Also around 3 snow ploughs have gone on my road (never seen them before), which has affected snow depths.

Ground-15.9cm

Drifts- 35.3cm in back garden, golf couse, 50cm plus

Grass-20.2cm

Front on curved part-23.4cm

LBA-28cm (on runway). Also LBA is exposed while i have many trees walls etc stopping high depths.

Table top-23cm

shows how deep it is Frozen water hanging of snow Snow submeregs the plants ! - Good idea of depth (bear in mind the table is blocked by 3 walls and it was windy so not true depth)

Edited February 18, 2009 by 10123

[Cheese Rice]

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Pics above show the golf course 5 days later, the lakes are fully frozen with thick lying snow, there are very large icicles hanging of the houses nearby, and some duck foot prints as well <_<

[Cheese Rice]

Any comments you guys? It took me ages to resize all those pictures

[tom_f123]

Great pics mate, looks like you got a nice dumping there.

[NW Leeds Russ]

Quality pics..

Pretty similar depth to Pudsey there as Cookridge. Got plenty of pics with the kids in the snow. Got a fantastic one on my phone from above the moors past Otley so will try and get it on.

Drifted snow up to my waist and im 6' 3".

[Koppite]

Nice pics 10123, looks like you had a fair covering on the 5th Dec snow event (those two would be good Christmas card photo's,) thanks for sharing.

[Marcus_surfer]

Wow, amazing icicles