South West England Cold Spell Discussion

[BARRY]

Well the south hams snow shield put on an impressive show last night, Snow depth 0, ZILCH. NAFF ALL. It's soooooooooo frustrating.

[03jtrickey]

Nothing here. Snow on the hills.

[Nights King]

I see that bbc weather has dangled another carrot out on thursday night! look at the snow graphics!

That will be gone by wed!

-5.1c

[MP-R]

Oh dear is all I can say to this non-event. The roads are now white with ice rather than snow as the temperature fell to -4.2C behind the front. Lovely clear start now and all the lawns are white too but doesn't look promising for showers at the minute.

[jethro]

Gave up and went to bed when it started lashing down with rain last night, guess it must have changed to snow at some point afterwards as it's all white outside. It's no more than the slightest of coverings - sneezed into a bag of icing sugar type depth but its snow, and it's damn cold.

[Evening thunder]

Its very icy outside, lane and paths and even on soil it is slippery with a layer of ice. On top of some walls as well showing this remained from the freezing rain at first last night. I noticed there was the smallest possible sprinkling of snow grains on the cars etc. I just wish there was the chance of a snow shower to settle on the frozen ground!

[Dartmoor_Matt]

The faintest of coverings here, but the hills further up look whiter.

Currently -2C with a chilly northerly!

[03jtrickey]

France has got our polar front now, and it looks a lot beefier for crossing the channel. Reports of heavy snow and accumulations of 15cm.

[twister2005]

morning all, very icy here with a very slight covering of snow i wonder if we will get them snow showers today?

[Nights King]

France has got our polar front now, and it looks a lot beefier for crossing the channel. Reports of heavy snow and accumulations of 15cm.

[Jayfromcardiff]

morning all, very icy here with a very slight covering of snow i wonder if we will get them snow showers today?

Possibly mate, they're moving in the right direction - just hope they don't die out.

[Dartmoor_Matt]

[Nights King]

Possibly mate, they're moving in the right direction - just hope they don't die out.

If you look at the bbc graphics it seems to indicate the showers won't get going here in west country until mid afternoon and getting more widespread early evening into the night.

Still hope! keep clutching those straws...

[Dartmoor_Matt]

This morning they said only as far south as north Wales, looked pretty clear here all day.

Whats all this about Thursday?

[smarty81]

I have black ice and frozen snow snow here on all surfaces current temp-2.2c what a beautiful crisp morning though.

Still holding out some hope for snow showers later

[noggin]

I see that bbc weather has dangled another carrot out on thursday night! look at the snow graphics!

That will be gone by wed!

-5.1c

Carrots......that's all we ever get, innit? If it was a carrot competition, we'd win by a mile! :lol:

[rowieboyz]

Hard frozen snow here, roads are not nice.

Temp -2C

Jase

[Nights King]

Carrots......that's all we ever get, innit? If it was a carrot competition, we'd win by a mile!

Well i think we get our fair share of rain too!

[David-kig]

is there gunna be snow later i heard???

[Dartmoor_Matt]

is there gunna be snow later i heard???

Not in the South West, as far as I know. Although Sky News did have something moving over Devon/Cornwall late this afternoon.

[noggin]

Well i think we get our fair share of rain too!

We do indeed! It was raining when I went to bed last night. Mind you.....we need the rain to cook the carrots in!

I do have one thing that's a bit special though. The overflow pipe from my loft has been overflowing and has formed what can only be described as a small glacier on my (pitched)kitchen roof. It's still there this morning, despite the rain. If I had a digital camera I'd post a piccy of it. Presumably at some point there would have been a fine icicle too!

Note to self....get a plumber in asap!

[rowieboyz]

snow melting now.

[Nights King]

We do indeed! It was raining when I went to bed last night. Mind you.....we need the rain to cook the carrots in!

I do have one thing that's a bit special though. The overflow pipe from my loft has been overflowing and has formed what can only be described as a small glacier on my (pitched)kitchen roof. It's still there this morning, despite the rain. If I had a digital camera I'd post a piccy of it. Presumably at some point there would have been a fine icicle too!

Note to self....get a plumber in asap!

Or you could leave it and enjoy watching your glacier grow for another couple of days.

Still a chilly day here with snow laying on all surfaces although it is less that half a cm.

-1.0c

[MP-R]

Just watched the national weather with Alex Deakin as they tend to be better than our regional ones. Showers staying mianly up north before mid afternoon then showers forming around our latitude after 3pm and what looked like an Estuary streamer sort of thing after dark and into the night.

Then a very cold night but clouding over from the south tomorrow as a Channel weather system may bring snow as far north as Bristol (as far as I could see)but rain along the south coast. I have hope for that but the showers for today are a bit of a downgrade.

On a plus though, the ground is all frozen, the sky is clear and the sun is shining and the temperature hasn't climbed above freezing yet here. A beautiful winter day .

[Nights King]

Just watched the national weather with Alex Deakin as they tend to be better than our regional ones. Showers staying mianly up north before mid afternoon then showers forming around our latitude after 3pm and what looked like an Estuary streamer sort of thing after dark and into the night.

Then a very cold night but clouding over from the south tomorrow as a Channel weather system may bring snow as far north as Bristol (as far as I could see)but rain along the south coast. I have hope for that but the showers for today are a bit of a downgrade.

On a plus though, the ground is all frozen, the sky is clear and the sun is shining and the temperature hasn't climbed above freezing yet here. A beautiful winter day .

Wow id love a streamer event here in west country