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jimben Rising Star

jimben

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  • Location: Lake District at the foot of Blencathra 610 ft asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow & Ice
  • Location: Lake District at the foot of Blencathra 610 ft asl
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This is all rather good, light covering already. Good direction from the Wash too.

Ditto in Moulton

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cyclonic happiness Accomplished

cyclonic happiness

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  • Location: Bedworth, North Warwickshire 404ft above sea level
  • Location: Bedworth, North Warwickshire 404ft above sea level
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Gonna be a wash streamer for some folk tonight (probably not this far north, more towards Northants) But it's great to see, hopefully more surprises over the next few days, before HP moves in. :-)

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kmanmx Aficionado

kmanmx

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  • Location: South Leicestershire
  • Weather Preferences: Snow. Cold
  • Location: South Leicestershire
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Now if only the big clump of showers would stall over the midlands and be fed a continual supply of ice cold air and moisture from... somewhere :p and we awaken to 6" of snow. You gotta dream!

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Fozfoster

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  • Location: warwick 74m. asl
  • Weather Preferences: WHITE GOLD
  • Location: warwick 74m. asl
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Right, got to go play mario kart with ella,god how old am i? looking for snow and mario kart HA HA. Good luck all.

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Gord Rising Star

Gord

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  • Location: Upper Gornal, Dudley, 205m asl
  • Location: Upper Gornal, Dudley, 205m asl
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Looks like I'll see a little but a little bit too far north to see much tonight.

Still, what a turn up for books. Only 1 day into this 'boring' spell!

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VeryCold

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  • Location: Wellesbourne, Warwickshire 47M ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, cold and more snow.
  • Location: Wellesbourne, Warwickshire 47M ASL
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I see that Warks is in the warning area now...kiss of death.... :D

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snowgeek Newbie

snowgeek

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  • Location: Moreton-in-Marsh area, 175m asl
  • Location: Moreton-in-Marsh area, 175m asl
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there is some rotation in this? look at radar near kings lynn at around 7.30 and heading mainly south towards cambridge...

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MKN Community Regular

MKN

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  • Location: Leicestershire (hinckley)
  • Location: Leicestershire (hinckley)
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9.30 & 10.30pm on my forecast radar....

Forecast radars are about as much use a chocolate teapot btw

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kmanmx

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  • Location: South Leicestershire
  • Weather Preferences: Snow. Cold
  • Location: South Leicestershire
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Slightly off topic but I hope someone can answer me.

 

Why does snow always melt on roads first ? I understand if it's a busy road, lots of cars driving over the top pumping hot exhaust gases all over it etc. But my main road has about one car every 10 minutes, and yet the effect is still much the same. Surely one lone car every 10 minutes can not impart enough heat in the fraction of a second that it covers each part of the road to make snow melt ?

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Arctic Hare Accomplished

Arctic Hare

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  • Location: Bewdley, Worcs; 90m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and sun in winter; warm and bright otherwise; not a big storm fan
  • Location: Bewdley, Worcs; 90m asl
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Well now, this is interesting! Even some chance of a little bit of snow making it to me, depending on whether the stuff now over South Staffs can hold together long enough. Worth a bit of lamp-post watching tonight, which I really didn't expect to be saying! :)

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MKN

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  • Location: Leicestershire (hinckley)
  • Location: Leicestershire (hinckley)
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Slightly off topic but I hope someone can answer me.

 

Why does snow always melt on roads first ? I understand if it's a busy road, lots of cars driving over the top pumping hot exhaust gases all over it etc. But my main road has about one car every 10 minutes, and yet the effect is still much the same. Surely one lone car every 10 minutes can not impart enough heat in the fraction of a second that it covers each part of the road to make snow melt ?

Im sure at somepoint over last couple of days some grit must av been put down.

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Polar Maritime

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
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Nice to hear the Snow reports  :)

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snowgeek Newbie

snowgeek

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  • Location: Moreton-in-Marsh area, 175m asl
  • Location: Moreton-in-Marsh area, 175m asl
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Slightly off topic but I hope someone can answer me.

 

Why does snow always melt on roads first ? I understand if it's a busy road, lots of cars driving over the top pumping hot exhaust gases all over it etc. But my main road has about one car every 10 minutes, and yet the effect is still much the same. Surely one lone car every 10 minutes can not impart enough heat in the fraction of a second that it covers each part of the road to make snow melt ?

salt plays a big role

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cyclonic happiness Accomplished

cyclonic happiness

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  • Location: Bedworth, North Warwickshire 404ft above sea level
  • Location: Bedworth, North Warwickshire 404ft above sea level
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So far a good dusting, I'm happy though :-)

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kmanmx Aficionado

kmanmx

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  • Location: South Leicestershire
  • Weather Preferences: Snow. Cold
  • Location: South Leicestershire
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Im sure at somepoint over last couple of days some grit must av been put down.

 

 

salt plays a big role

 

 

I highly doubt it :p It's pretty rural here. I've certainly never seen a gritting lorry or anything. 

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Midlands Ice Age Maestro

Midlands Ice Age

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  • Location: Solihull, West Midlands. - 131 m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Sun, Snow and Storms
  • Location: Solihull, West Midlands. - 131 m asl
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Slightly off topic but I hope someone can answer me.

 

Why does snow always melt on roads first ? I understand if it's a busy road, lots of cars driving over the top pumping hot exhaust gases all over it etc. But my main road has about one car every 10 minutes, and yet the effect is still much the same. Surely one lone car every 10 minutes can not impart enough heat in the fraction of a second that it covers each part of the road to make snow melt ?

 

Probably been salted?

MIA

By the way i flake falling every minute here and that is of microflake size.

It looks as if a break is occuring on the radar and it is heading straight for us.

Oh well, we'll see.

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snowangel32 Rising Star

snowangel32

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  • Location: Oldbury, West midlands
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy snow, Thunder storms and lightning
  • Location: Oldbury, West midlands
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I think its skipped the black country we look a touch to far north

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MKN

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  • Location: Leicestershire (hinckley)
  • Location: Leicestershire (hinckley)
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Fall rate has increased, flake size has decreased, still it's snowing :)

Where?

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Arctic Hare Accomplished

Arctic Hare

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  • Location: Bewdley, Worcs; 90m asl
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and sun in winter; warm and bright otherwise; not a big storm fan
  • Location: Bewdley, Worcs; 90m asl
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I think its skipped the black country we look a touch to far north

 

Maybe not... just seen someone on Twitter say it's snowing in Cannock!

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nobble Rising Star

nobble

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  • Location: pelsall, 500ft asl (west mids)
  • Location: pelsall, 500ft asl (west mids)
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It's snowing , UNBELIEVABLE

didn't want to look but what a nice surprise almost a dusting already :)

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Gord Rising Star

Gord

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  • Location: Upper Gornal, Dudley, 205m asl
  • Location: Upper Gornal, Dudley, 205m asl
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I think its skipped the black country we look a touch to far north

Don't shy away from that window just yet. Good development out of nowhere to our northeast!

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Lukey Newbie

Lukey

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  • Location: Birmingham, West Midlands. 138m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Hot summers, thunderstorms, cold, snowy winters.
  • Location: Birmingham, West Midlands. 138m ASL
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I think its skipped the black country we look a touch to far north

Yeah, it looks like it's pepping up as it approaches Birmingham but equally it looks like a big snow shield is activating!!

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