South West England Cold Spell Discussion

[Wilxy]

OK get ready cause its trying v hard to settle and its alomst blizzard lol.

Its turnt sleety now got to excited.

[Jayfromcardiff]

Someone in midlands thread thinks the snow reports will decrease in a few hours...i doubt it lol if meto have a warning out.

[Costa Del Fal]

Someone in midlands thread thinks the snow reports will decrease in a few hours...i doubt it lol if meto have a warning out.

That will be me then.

Things will become even more marginal during the daylight hours but as temperatures fall back in the evening marginality isnt so much of an issue. If your on high ground then you may keep the sleet/snow today however these situations seem to have a mind of itself where anything can happen!

[Jayfromcardiff]

That will be me then.

Things will become even more marginal during the daylight hours but as temperatures fall back in the evening marginality isnt so much of an issue. If your on high ground then you may keep the sleet/snow today however these situations seem to have a mind of itself where anything can happen!

Nothing here mate, just big puddles of water.

[Wilxy]

Sleet here not still big flakes but still rain i think that just sums up today with the odd snower spell.

well im gunna shut up lol nice heavy snow now big flakes.

[noggin]

HUGE flakes coming down quite heavily now. But I still don't think it'll settle as the surfaces are too wet.

Edited February 18, 2010 by noggin

[fromey]

morning, just heavy rain here with the occasional bit of sleet, temp1.0c

fromey

[BristolBlizzard]

back to sleet in south bristol now .

[jimben]

NW radar suggesting something extremely heavy, possibly thundersnow, just NE of Wells, Somerset

[Ripeberry]

Just started to rain here with large bits of sleet, temp is 2.1c. The main action is supposed to

be this afternoon and evening anyway

[noggin]

Just started to rain here with large bits of sleet, temp is 2.1c. The main action is supposed to

be this afternoon and evening anyway

That tells me that it is spreading Northwards, because we had that a while ago and now it is snowing quite heavily here. Big fat snowflakes are heading your way!

[jethro]

NW radar suggesting something extremely heavy, possibly thundersnow, just NE of Wells, Somerset

Think that must be what passed over me, incredibly heavy snow but didn't hear any thunder; back to just sleet now.

[Schmac]

Well folks, it's still chucking it down here (near the racecourse in Bath) with 100% pure snow!

Big flakes too... Starting to settle on the grass and tarmac!!

No sign of any let-up just yet!

Apparently, there's heavy sleet in the centre of Bath...

Obviously a bit of elevation helps!

[kumquat]

Large flakes of wet snow (Filton - N Bristol) Temp has dropped half a degree to 1.5C and DP is 0.8C.

Very difficult to see it settling on very wet ground. But it still looks nice

[Wilxy]

Im hopeing for thunder snow.

[slinky1989]

Few flakes of sleet mixed in with the rain now in bath, not many though.

[Jace]

Stopped here in central Bristol, although there is snow on the ground.

[kumquat]

HUUUUUGE FLAKES!!!!

[Wilxy]

Nice to see the white stuff again although major damage to it settling now ground is so wet

[Nights King]

Back to sleet here in whitchurch again.

Looking at bbc graphics they have all the ppn moving away from our region by 5/6pm!?

This is turning into a damp squib with it too far north and not enough ppn in our neck of woods.

[dogs32]

Morning all,

What a horrible day. Bitterly cold wind, grey and misty and a bit damp and no rain/sleet/or snow just yet. 1.4C

nice picture Mike this morning

Ian as a update on his Blog

[noggin]

Large flakes of wet snow (Filton - N Bristol) Temp has dropped half a degree to 1.5C and DP is 0.8C.

Very difficult to see it settling on very wet ground. But it still looks nice

Settling niceley in Downend, now. Don't know how long it'll last though.

[Wilxy]

Im getting fed up it keeps changing from snow to sleet

[Cakie]

Well if you lot up North get the rain that we got this morning as snow then you are in for a good time. It's bucketed down over night and there is a lot of flooding, temps just around 4c so no white stuff for us

[Schmac]

Cars, grass, roads, paths - all going very white!

Still moderate falls of large flakes coming down!

Hope the snow level drops off a bit though, as it seems that places below 150m ASL are getting sleet.