Andy Bown

Have you (or anybody else) any idea why this storm wasn't named? It was a full blown, quickly developed, very deep low!

Well that was a precipitation type lottery this morning while delivering my fortnightly paper round! It kept switching from drizzle to light rain to ice pellets to sleet to wet snow all dependant on intensity and even the wind strength as stronger gusts seemed to push snow to ground level. Having assumed (how silly!) the heavier precipitation would be more wintry a red radar echo pushed over as solely rain and soaked me to the skin lol. It was 6.1c at 06.00 and dropped to 2.6c at some stage and is now back 'up' at 4.3c with continuing showery rain/gales. As for the amount of rain, my gauge visibly shows around an inch but I won't be checking until later.

Anyone else got that niggling thought that had this very weather set up which we've had since last Wednesday occurred 4 to 8 weeks ago we'd have had decent snow already, some very harsh/severe frosts and be due an absolute dumping tonight/tomorrow! As it is today is a very typical warm sector day for this area, bright with drizzly rain at times, but we're not in a warm sector lol.

Lovely day in Warminster including washing drying in only a few hours of strong sunshine and low humidity, likely to be a gorgeous sunset followed by a rapid drop in temperature, I suspect more of a white frost tonight as moisture increases ahead of tomorrow's weak front. There were some snow flurries where I was in Trowbridge around 07.30-08.00 .

Enjoy, we've not got time to get out anywhere unfortunately. My garden must be a microclimate as there's no snow left but next door there is! Most frustratingly this should be the first morning since we moved here over 3 years ago with a properly snowy Cley Hill to view and, drum roll, the mist is too thick so cannot see that far!

1.1c and misty/low cloud with a little snow remaining on cars.

Unexpected snow shower passing through, was thinking the clear sunny start would last until the frontal cloud arrives this afternoon.

Yes instead of a wintry spell we look like having a very pleasant Spring day tomorrow.

Aha proper late winter/early Spring conditions now with bright sunshine mixed in with CBs and hail showers. The air aloft must be very cold to drag this type of precipitation down as at ground level it's 6.8c .

Good photos, I could just about make out the whiteness on Cley Hill but there may have been less this side on the lee side in the gale force wind. As for the lightning, there was no struggle to make out the extremely bright flash/bolt and resulting thunder.

Can add to the reports of lightning, thunder, hail, sleet and wet snow! The NW Radar shows pink and purple echoes briefly developed around Frome-Warminster which must have been the core that produced the thundery activity and heaviest hail. Did have a nice little hail drift in the garden but it's melted already. Temperature dropped from 6.8c to 2.9c during the downpour.

They never get the predicted timings correct. If an evening forecast shows rain arriving at 06.00 and clearing by 11.00 it generally turns up around 08.00 and clears early afternoon. A mixture of which model run the forecast it taken from and Mother Nature doing her thing! Worst day here for 10 days so aside from a few damp days (Monday and Friday last week) it's been a decent and much needed drier spell.

Dull, gloomy and drizzly, 3.7c! Like most of the days this 'winter' when precipitation has been around on cold days!

-3.1c this morning and what an awesome day it is with clear blue sky and pleasant sunshine, the only cloud I can see is distant TCU to the far South which is presumably in association with the showers over the Channel.

Mapantz, I think it's because so many people are desperate for a severe wintry spell! The better conditions have already arrived with hazy sunshine and a slowly clearing sky after a drizzly morning, this should set us up for a dry week from here with sunny days and frosty nights ; ideal for the ground to dry out as it is saturated around here. I can foresee a number of days with temperatures ranging between 8c maxes and -4c mins which is pretty perfect.

Properly Springlike this afternoon, very pleasant in the garden with it 14.1c however I note Yeovilton and Exeter are at 15c to 16c!! Lots of Stratocumulus and some spotting drizzle but also occasional breaks with warm sunshine.

Some pretty pointless drizzle this evening, invidriz as I like to call it. Taken from Ian's Points West forecast ; there could be some big differences in rain totals tomorrow, potentially an inch on the moors but considerably less in rain shadows to the lee of high ground. So for West Wiltshire the Mendips could provide shelter which I think happened on a Saturday before Christmas. Looking ahead, dare I dream of snow on my birthday next weekend!?

Lovely photos John. Not sure where rain is coming from today, at present it's still dry and bright/sunny and the only rain, well drizzle really, is over the Devon/Cornwall moors.

2 potentially very interesting setup (Saturday and today) have provided 2 boring cold days of rain (some sleet Saturday) with today being 13 hours and counting of persistent light/moderate rain.

I can see Cley Hill from my upstairs windows Tim, fully expecting Thursday to be the first time in about 3 years that it's been white up there! However when I lived in Westbury I had a great vista of the Western edge of Salisbury Plain and that very often had a clear snow line.

That's what we managed in mid January too lol. Last night's -4.1c min was the 2nd lowest of the winter. A little more cloud around today, just scattered Cumulus though and plenty of bright sunshine. Also the very first frontal cloud is edging in from the West, I've a feeling this front is going to be very problematic - in many ways.

Anything of note on Mendip Nights King/Jethro? 2.8c with continuing sleety rain here, it became plain old rain between 10.00-15.00 but has reverted since the temperature has dropped. The amount of precipitation seems far more widespread and intense than forecast even this morning, oh if only it has been a few degrees colder!

Sleet here too, probably the most frustrating precipitation type, 2.7c and has fallen half a degree since a few hours ago.

Squeezed a wintry precipitation day out of this set up thanks to leaving home at 06.45 and it definitely sleeting from an isolated shower in an otherwise clear sky, surprisingly it was slightly frosty and 1.1c at that time too so it must have been clear for much of the night.

Really surprised they would put an early warning out for 7 to 8 days ahead when Sunday's Countryfile forecast only ever goes up to the Friday (6 days) now. Perfect day and the best for a long time due to no threat of showers ; hard frost, bright blue sky, long sunny periods, good convective Cumulus this afternoon and calm throughout.