tomhow
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I'm not a snow lover and happy to have missed the main dumping, but watching the animation on the radar is a work of nature's art at its finest. Half the weather briskly flowing south west cross most of the country bashing into that great hunk of red sitting in the channel which tries to rise and rotate but never quite manages it. Simply beautiful to watch If the sky clears at any point in the next couple of days (As us astronomer types wish) then the temps are going to plummet!! Anything is better than the anti-cyclonic gloom we've had the last few weeks.
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0.4C just east of southampton and finally STOPPED snowing. No sounds of thaw that we here can hear. Except for the bit around the Chimney!
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Walked home from work now. Surprising amount of slush still on the main roads and traffic very light. Thermometer says 0C give or take, but might have to dig the snow off it for a better reading. I reckon 3-4 inches here just east of Soton, but very hard to judge accums as always. Just cleared nearly 100mm off the observatory roof (roll off shed, not dome) which if 1mm rain = 10mm snow means around 75kg of weight and I don't trust my workmanship that much.
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Just east of Southampton, good 3 inches, the snow had slackened off to tiny grainy almost sleety stuff, but has now turned back to big flakes and coming down as hard as it was at 8.30 this morning due to a few bands of higher intensity coming up from the SW... not sure how long that's going to carry on for, but I wish it would bloody stop! -
Still feels quite warm. Thermometer said 0C at 8.30am and walking across the field it was a layer of snow over slushy bog, most odd.
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Slackening off a touch here, just east of Southampton. Nearly 3 inches on the colder surfaces.
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just east of Soton
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closer to 2C here and going down slowly. Sleet has all but stopped
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Sleet intensifying... odd flake if you squint a bit. Still warm, +3C..... The sea is keep the snow at bay
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The meto site has never been fast since their "upgrade" and now it is really suffering under the load - very slow to load.
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Just east of southampton and north of fareham.. holding a good 3-4C and very very light sleet. Anybody know where I put my gloves?
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It is fun to watch the meto website for my area on friday. This time last night I had the heavy snow icon at 1500, 1800, 2100, but now I only have one heavy snow at 1200.... however, I now have some light snow in the early hours of saturday. This flip-flopping about only serves to underline how inherently unpredictable these events are.
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On the other hand, I think people popping in for a quick update could well benefit from pondering the implications of a seriously disruptive event and making their own plans.
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Very accurate. As I constantly tell my relations, the reason I live on the south coast is that the winter temps are always a few degrees warmer and the summer a few degrees cooler... it's all to do with that big wet blue thing. Interestingly, those of long experience will note that almost everybody who lives between b'mouth and brighton claims they have a special microclimate...
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Yup - I refuse to take the car out in the snow. My excuse is that the car is an elderly over-powered rear wheel drive BMW with tyres like beach balls and I can't even negotiate a carpark with 1 inch of snow. Plus I'm hopeless at driving in the snow. Luckily I have my lifestyle arranged such that I can walk to work if I choose.... which I will be doing on friday regardless.
