South West England Cold Spell Discussion

[fromey]

some rain and some big fat wet flakes mixed in here

fromey

[slinky1989]

Heavy snow here in Swindon. Settling everywhere except on the roads. Off to work in bath in a bit so shall report from there soon!

[Rich_Clements]

going white here mate...

Infact it's settling much better than I thought it would even on wet roads

Local areas affected Warning type Valid from Valid to

South West England:

Gloucestershire

Swindon

Wiltshire

Heavy Snow 0800 Wed 20 1800 Wed 20

Rain is expected to turn to sleet or snow, especially over hills, at times today with accumulations of 2 to 5cm. Locally 8cm is possible over higher ground.

The public are advised to take extra care and refer to the Highways Agency for further advice regarding traffic disruption on motorways and trunk roads.

Issued at: 0521 Wed 20 Jan

I was impressed when I left the house as I was expecting a non event to be honest, I just got a text from my Mrs and she says its settled everywhere now.

[SteveB]

Raining when I left Weston, but as I got to Nailsea it is sort of snowing, but of the wet kind of snow.

[Ripeberry]

Coming down really thick and heavy here and settling on the roads! Wonder if the school will be

open?

[Wynn D Woo]

Morning all!

Snowing heavily here and sticking to all surfaces

Hands up it was a good early call by the meto / BBC, I felt sure only the highest ground would see snow, so glad to be proved wrong. Must be about 2cm lying here now and temp is 0.7C

[slinky1989]

In chippenham now and it's just started snowing, very small and wet flakes though compared to Swindon. I suspect it'll just be rain in bath.

[fromey]

just plain old snow here now, temps fallen from 2.8c to 1.6c in the last hour

fromey

[noggin]

Good Morning, peeps!

Snowing here in Downend. Getting heavier and settling on the grass and shed/garage roofs.

It's a bit late this week though, it usually snows on a Tuesday.

Hope everyone gets a nice dumping.

[dogs32]

2 cm here and still rising..

Took 45 mins to get home..

White everywhere here and very heavy

[textmum]

Its really heavy here and covering the ground. Not sure when it was started, but it was pouring of rain just before 6! Some of the flakes are huge!!!

Edited January 20, 2010 by textmum

[BristolBlizzard]

south bristol , wet snow here cant see it settling really.

[dogs32]

very heavy with instant settling everywhere.

50p size flakes

Got to be the best January I have seen for Snow

Edited January 20, 2010 by dogs32

[jethro]

Rained all night here, started snowing about half an hour ago; it's coming down fast but showing no signs of settling, everywhere's too wet.

[dogs32]

6 mile tail back's at Birdlip..

no sign of rain here though it was raining around 5.30am

[Coast]

Just talked to a customer in South Cerney who reckons they are snowed into their factory?

[noggin]

Fizzling out here now. Not that I was expecting a lot!

All you peeps a bit to the North and East of here........enjoy and have fun, but stay safe and warm!!!!!

[Wilxy]

Heavy Snow here only settling on the car but a slushy settle ahh well im glad we havn't missed out on snow tho even tho it was more sleety at first

[rockhopper]

light snow here, but its pretty wet due to earlier heavy rain so i don't think it will settle. 1.1c

[Nights King]

Surprised to wake up to heavy snow up over mendip however it is just sleety and wet down at work in bristol which is sods law.

hope it turns to snow proper soon.

[Snowman15]

Just the standard rain here in Dorset! Snow? What's Snow Dorset asks?

[Wilxy]

Surprised to wake up to heavy snow up over mendip however it is just sleety and wet down at work in bristol which is sods law.

hope it turns to snow proper soon.

Big flakes here and starting to settle.

Surprised to wake up to heavy snow up over mendip however it is just sleety and wet down at work in bristol which is sods law.

hope it turns to snow proper soon.

Big flakes here and starting to settle.

[skidders]

Starting to get heavier again here in Winterbourne. Had a covering on the car and the grass but nothing on pavements and roads yet. The way it is snowing now though is going to start settling on other surfaces.

I love the way the precip is shown as rain here!! Sadly, looking at the radar there is a big hole in the precipitation coming towards Bristol now.

Wow, really big flakes now!! Shame it can't last.

[noggin]

Starting to get heavier again here in Winterbourne.

Getting heavier again in Downend too. The temperature has plummeted since I got home from work at 8.30 and my neighbour's weathervane shows the wind to be coming from the NE. I wonder if there is a battle brewing between the Pesterly and the Beasterly? We can but hope!

[watcheroftheskies]

Morning,

Its Wednesday, it must be snow day!

Had to clear a good centimetre from the car this morning, drove into Swindon, slushy roads in town.Car thermo reading -1C but thats usually a degree too low.

Steady moderate/ heavy stuff falling, any elevation should see it stick well (re birdlip hill closed southbound according to beeb).