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mr benn Apprentice

mr benn

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  • Location: Worcestershire
  • Location: Worcestershire
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Mix of rain sleet and tiny speck of snow in Redditch

Wifey just texted to say heavy snow just north of Birmingham, near Perry Barr

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dudleyweather1 Apprentice

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  • Location: Dudley & Halesowen, West Midlands, England
  • Location: Dudley & Halesowen, West Midlands, England
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Large flakes in Dudley, temp down to 1.1C, dewpoint at 0.5C.  Ideal conditions for snow and could account for the large flakes.

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johnholmes Maestro

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  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks
  • Location: just south of Doncaster, Sth Yorks
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20 minutes ago, Steve Murr said:

Heavy snow here in buxton from around 9am

1-2cm of slush

expecting around 5cm up over the cat & fiddle

 

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a link to Derbyshire web cams

http://www.derbyphotos.co.uk/webcams/

seems to be over 800-900ft for any settling?

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Serendipity

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  • Location: Stratford Upon Avon 82m asl
  • Weather Preferences: extreme weather
  • Location: Stratford Upon Avon 82m asl
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I'm so pleased to hear people are seeing falling snow (if not a little jealous as we have rain, of course).

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Barbmac Enthusiast

Barbmac

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  • Location: West Malvern, West Midlands, 280m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snow! Severe storms.
  • Location: West Malvern, West Midlands, 280m ASL
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It's cleared through here now, patches of blue sky showing. Think that's the last of whatever it was.

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Walsall Wood Snow Seasoned

Walsall Wood Snow

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  • Location: Walsall Wood, Walsall, West Midlands 145m ASL
  • Location: Walsall Wood, Walsall, West Midlands 145m ASL
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Still a bit of light snow coming down. However what settled earlier has already turned to slush or thawed completely. Always the way. Maybe Friday will give something more substantial. However at this time of year you really need it to be dry beforehand and to have very heavy snow and ideally at night to get a good covering. Still it was nice while it lasted.

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andy_leics22 Rising Star

andy_leics22

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  • Location: Ratby, Leicester.
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, storms
  • Location: Ratby, Leicester.
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Just seen my first snowfall of the whole winter!! It was in Leicester :rofl:

Travelled up to Leicester yesterday to see my family and go to the Leicester vs West Brom game last night and as I was in town today, the heavy rain turned into heavy snow for 5-10 mins! It was big fat wet snow and didn't settle but it was good to see. On the way back to Oxford now, where I expect I will see no more snow!

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markw2680 Accomplished

markw2680

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  • Location: Frankley, Birmingham 250masl
  • Weather Preferences: the weather extremes in general but my favourites are snow & thunderstorms
  • Location: Frankley, Birmingham 250masl
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Had quite a few snow showers so far with big flakes but tbh if it ent gonna settle I'd rather it be warm and sunny this stuff just don't float my boat

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pegg24 Enthusiast

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  • Location: Corby 130 meters above sea level
  • Weather Preferences: Snow
  • Location: Corby 130 meters above sea level
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Snow in Northants.:yahoo:

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weirpig Maestro

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  • Location: Kensington
  • Location: Kensington
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Oh  no thats cursed it  weather warnings out   we are in the zone  lol  sounds similar to todays  

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BlueHedgehog074 Veteran

BlueHedgehog074

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  • Location: Solihull, Midlands. (Formerly DRL)
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine, thunder, hail & heavy snow
  • Location: Solihull, Midlands. (Formerly DRL)
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Quite amusing that now that March has arrived, finally get to see a bit of daytime snowfall. Something that Winter 2015/16 failed to accompolish.

Compared to quite a few areas, though, it's been rather marginal here with alternating rain and very wet snow (an even heavier burst probably would have kept it stuck as falling snow). But better than nothing I guess and a nice little surprise to see. Hopefully some more surprises for the  Midlands snow weather enthusiasts in the next few days with some chilly cyclonic North-Westerly/Northerly and North-Easterly flows. More especially for anyone who didn't get to see anything wintry today (which I know how annoying it can be where everywhere else gets snow, but you). :good:

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Walsall Wood Snow Seasoned

Walsall Wood Snow

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  • Location: Walsall Wood, Walsall, West Midlands 145m ASL
  • Location: Walsall Wood, Walsall, West Midlands 145m ASL
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Maybe someday we will all be on here reporting on how our back gardens resemble scenes on a Christmas card. 

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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, I've now seen snowflakes fall in Bewdley. At its very heaviest, for about 40 seconds, there were quite a few flakes mixed in with the rain. Woop-de-doo. :p But glad to hear that others with a bit more altitude have seen proper snow, even if only briefly.

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SMU Maestro

SMU

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1 hour ago, johnholmes said:

a link to Derbyshire web cams

http://www.derbyphotos.co.uk/webcams/

seems to be over 800-900ft for any settling?

Hi john

The grass snow level was Buxton 300M

then as we exited towards the Cat & fiddle the pavements had that coverage at about 375-M

at 400M the roads went from wet to setting snow -

Cat & Fiddle at 500M had heavy blowing snow - approx 3cm bit as said was blowing all over the place-

so yes your height about right-

once we came back down past Matlock it was all green again

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Supacell Accomplished

Supacell

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  • Location: Belper, Derbyshire
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms
  • Location: Belper, Derbyshire
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Just a bit of sleet on and off in Derby. However I won't despair as I will be visiting the Peak District this weekend and so happy to hear those hills starting to turn white ready for then. Forecasts don't show temps in the High Peak getting much above freezing all week so not expecting any major thaw.

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weirpig Maestro

weirpig

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  • Location: Kensington
  • Location: Kensington
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3 minutes ago, Steve Murr said:

I think friday should see high peak get plastered

surprise surprise  snow  seems to be a magnet up there.   still hoping for a smattering down here.

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andy_leics22 Rising Star

andy_leics22

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  • Location: Ratby, Leicester.
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, storms
  • Location: Ratby, Leicester.
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5 minutes ago, Steve Murr said:

I think friday should see high peak get plastered

Willinglossop will get about 20cm, guarantee you.

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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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1 hour ago, weirpig said:

Oh  no thats cursed it  weather warnings out   we are in the zone  lol  sounds similar to todays  

Damm met jinxed it guarantee rain now. Seems like we are all off to Buxton I am going there Fri morn don't let me down Peak District

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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
Posted (edited)

Started snowing again here

Now bright sunshine lol was a heavy burst though at least it shows that conditions are good now for Snow it only took us to get to March lol

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fizz511 Enthusiast

fizz511

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  • Location: Knowle, Solihull. 122m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snow!
  • Location: Knowle, Solihull. 122m ASL
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1 hour ago, andy_leics22 said:

Just seen my first snowfall of the whole winter!! It was in Leicester :rofl:

Travelled up to Leicester yesterday to see my family and go to the Leicester vs West Brom game last night and as I was in town today, the heavy rain turned into heavy snow for 5-10 mins! It was big fat wet snow and didn't settle but it was good to see. On the way back to Oxford now, where I expect I will see no more snow!

What was I saying the other day about moving you back to Leics? Lol

 

Trying to sleet again here, but really it's all a bit underwhelming!

Take that back, it's chucking down hail...

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andy_leics22 Rising Star

andy_leics22

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  • Location: Ratby, Leicester.
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, storms
  • Location: Ratby, Leicester.
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3 minutes ago, fizz511 said:

What was I saying the other day about moving you back to Leics? Lol

 

Trying to sleet again here, but really it's all a bit underwhelming!

Take that back, it's chucking down hail...

Haha, I think it may need to happen! Send it this way fizzychops, i'm on a train in Coventry at the moment and it's sunny. Then again, doubt I will be in Coventry for long, this train is motoring :rofl:

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