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Certainly is here too now, some of the best we've had yet. Picture doesn't really do it justice though. The footprints from this morning are already starting to fill in.....

Moderate snow again here and the wind seems to have picked up a bit again too. Looks like some heavier snow coming our way too, looking at the radar.

Moderate snow again here and the wind seems to have picked up a bit again too.

River Frome frozen over in places, you don't see that very often!

I just popped out to Yate from Frampton Cotterell and although it is only fine snow, the roads are already getting tricky. The roads in Yate are covered, more there than here at the moment. It's going to be an interesting night......few days!

Definitely the best storms we have had in this area for many years! It's been pretty constant thunder here all morning with the last hour being pretty intense again with some close strikes. Loving this!

I agree about the sustained bit. I think overall it is more intense here tonight than it was on Wednesday.

Had some good hail showers earlier today here in North Bristol and what is falling now has some ice in amongst it

I got up to take a look this morning but too much cloud, times running out to get a morning view so I really hope it survives the encounter with the Sun. An evening viewing is so much more civilized than 5:30am.............I am really not a morning person!

At the moment you can only see it just before sunrise, so that shouldn't affect you until after November when it has gone around the sun and out the other side.

I'n sure none of the scientific sources every quoted it as a 'comet of a lifetime', just that it had the potential to be so. I can remember back in the 70s when Kahoutek was expected to be the 'comet of the century' too! "Before its close approach, Kohoutek was hyped by the media as the "comet of the century". However, Kohoutek's display was considered a let-down,possibly due to partial disintegration when the comet closely approached the sun prior to its Earth flyby. Since this was probably the comet's first visit to the inner Solar System, it would have still contained large amounts of frozen volatiles since its creation. Although it failed to brighten to levels expected, it was still a naked-eye object. Its greatest visual magnitude was -3, when it was at perihelion, 0.14 AU (21,000,000 km; 13,000,000 mi) from the Sun"

I was out last night for an hour and a half from about 11:30pm. I think people that just pop out for 10 minutes and don't see anything need to try sitting outside for longer and getting dark adapted before giving up. I didn't see much for the first 15 minutes, only a few faint ones but once I was completely dark adapted I must have seen about 15 very bright ones that left trails. One of the best nights watching these for a few years and that was in my back garden not that far from a large city!

Light snow here in North Bristol now! From the radar, it's just a small lump ahead of the main band though. But at least it was snow!

No expert forcasters ever forcasted that we were definately going to get snow this weekend. In every forcast I saw, there were heaps of uncertainty mentioned. I love watching this sort of event unfold and I am disappointed when we don;t get snow but in fairness too many people on here had their expectations way to high for this event. While this winter certainly hasn't been the coldest by a long way, I still think we have done very well in this region in general for snow. I can't see the overall temperature average being very impressive this winter which maes what we have seen this winter all the more impressive. Too many people seem to be expecting a '47 or '63 winter every year. Once day it will happen again and I hope we see it unfold but don't keep looking for it becasue it will almost always disappoint.

Looks like that snow moving towards Bristol keeps breaking up just as it reaches. Just got very light snow here in Frampton Cotterell, North Bristol

Well, it has pretty much snowed all day here in Frampton Cotterell even if some of it has been just light snow this aftenoon. Pretty much stopped now though. Certainly no thaw whatever here. the snow on the trees is still there even though the wind has blown them around a bit too. Here are a few pitures, but only from my garden as I was working all day at home sadly!

I think the floods in fields, etc have subsided but looking at the river Frome at the bottom of my garden, it's risen more overnight so has not started to decrease yet. It's already the highest i have seen in the last 4 years living here so with more to come today I dread to think how high it might get.

I will be in the Canaries from 11th so looking forward to some good viewing!

Yes, all of this recent activitey has managed to just go around Bristol.

Thunder in North Bristol now. Seen a couple of good flashes and loud thunder within a couple of miles of me.

I like his videos. In a couple now he has explained away a few anomalies that spawn some of these wild conspiracies. It's good to see the clear scientific explanations that help debunk them. Keep on posting them.

Almost got the Frome in my garden down in Frampton!! Definitely the highest I have ever seen it in the 3 years I've lived here

I don't know how much rain has fallen in mm but I do kow that our local river (bottom of my garden!) is almost at the highest level I have seen in the 3 years I've lived here and the local lanes are completey flooded this morning. With it still raining quite heavily here I think we might see some serious flooding later today around the area.

How good it is to see someone clearly explaining away something that would or may have already been claimed in yet another conspiracy theory! These are really good updates.

Yep, some more coming our way that look like they are pepping up