Dazzer6666

Had around 2.5 hours of persistent snow in Mid Sussex (Burgess Hill) after a few mins of freezing rain initially, now seems to be easing off with maybe 3-4cm lying. Temp hasn't been above freezing all day.

'Extremely light' snow all day in Mid Sussex, has now progressed to 'very light' - so after all day yesterday, around 2 millimetres overnight and falling flakes most of today, we now have a visible covering on the cars

Best wishes for that.......hope it goes well.

Snow almost all day in Burgess Hill, virtually nothing settled.

Same in Burgess Hill. Been quite heavy on and off for at least a couple of hours now (particularly heavy right now as it happens) but very little has settled anywhere. At least the trees look pretty ??

Had about an hour of fairly heavy snow in Mid Sussex now, has only settled on the trees and the top of a few hedges so far.

A few flakes in mid Sussex, but breaks in the cloud and it’s not very windy. A predictable letdown

Don’t lose the faith.....couple of weeks ago we (BHAFC) were on the brink of the drop zone.......a few decent results and all looks very different

Just started lashing down with rain in Mid Sussex. 8 deg but wind turned noticeably chillier this afternoon.

Happy coincidence of any (unlikely) dusting coming to Mid Sussex appears to be at exactly the same time as the India/England test match is on the telly, so one eye on the game and one on the lamppost at 4am Sunday

I was born and brought up in Devon (near Tiverton) - very similar experience. Feb 1978 is still stuck fast in my memory. It snowed for what seemed like days - at the start of half term and we ended up with an extra week off school. No vehicle other than tractors came in or out of our village for over a week. Our road had a colossal drift across it, from the gutters of the house on one side to the roof of a row of garages opposite - it was astonishing. We were all there when one of the farmers drove his tractor through it a few days into the freeze - it created a tunnel. There were still lumps of icy frozen drifts under north-facing hedges at the end of April. The lane from the bottom of our road to the top of the next hill had c8ft high hedges either side - we walked level with the top of the hedges as the lane had completely filled with snow.

Not ‘local’ enough under Covid restrictions

Maybe I’ll go up to Ditchling Beacon and live-stream on Facebook from about 2am on Sunday

I’ll be straight up to the Downs for a jog if we do get any snow If I see the Michelin Man coming towards me I’ll give you a wave

Fully expecting the mid Sussex snow shield to be operating for the next few days....................totally fed up of relentless cold rain !

Shades of Feb 1978 in Devon & Cornwall

Move out.

It’s rubbish for so many people fella. Just had a video call with our daughter who’s a nurse.....on and off Covid wards in Scotland (no snow today) and we haven’t seen her face to face for nearly a year. Hang in there, things are going to get better. The Oxford vaccine is competing with the snow to see which arrives first.......she had her Pfizer first jab this week. As a lurker and novice, just a quick and genuine note of thanks to everyone posting on here - fantastically educational and informative. So much to learn but this is the best place. Happy Christmas

Can I bank that now ?

@snowking - long time lurker but complete novice here - can I just add my thanks for a fantastically well crafted and informative post. Outstanding.

7.8 down to 5.5 in about 90 minutes, sky now clear......................

Hi...another long-time lurker but rare poster here.........it’s been lashing down for several hours in Mid Sussex now, with some quite heavy pulses of rain at times. Windy too and minor flooding on a lot of the country lanes. 7.8 degrees currently. Grim !

Burgess Hill, Mid Sussex..........been steady 1.8C for the last 2-3 hours, breezy

Meanwhile in the Borders....... https://twitter.com/ITVborder/status/969240281647341570

Proper snow at last.............. D794EB56-42C9-4420-8835-3301877C8C75.MOV