jethro

Afternoon all, funny day here weatherwise. Heavy sleet at work (70m asl), journey home it was getting more and more snow like as I climbed the hills towards home. I was fully expecting snow as I hit the Mendip plateau (270m asl) but instead I got fog and drizzle, the cloud base had descended so was driving through the clouds, which isn't unusual up there, surprised it was wet instead of white. As I travelled down the other side of the hills to the Cheddar valley of home (25m asl) it again turned to heavy sleet. I always thought the higher you went, the colder it got, so snow was more likely on the hills, today the opposite was true. Not a clue why.

After the early sleet we had about half an hour of snow. Relieved to now know that despite being barely above sea level, it can and does snow here. Nice to see a bit of blue sky later too, although saying the sun came out would be stretching it a bit far.

Morning all, hope you all had a good Christmas. It's heavy sleet here in the Cheddar valley, I expect it's snow on top of the Mendips but I have absolutely no intention of leaving my warm house to find out. Work can wait for another day, pruning a massive Wisteria over the top of a 70mtr pergola holds zero appeal in this weather.

Merry Christmas everyone! I did momentarily believe we stood a teeny, tiny chance of more festive weather this year, but alas it wasn't to be. Maybe next year Santa will hear my plea.

Nope. It's astrological, dates from pre-history times, shortest day always marked the first day of winter - Stonehenge will give you a clue as to how long this date has stood as a benchmark. The modern Dec, Jan, Feb is simply an invention to neatly divide the year up, invented and adopted by meteorological societies.

Heard it here. Weird, loud thunder that rumbled continuously. Seemed to be reverberating around the hills, made louder by the very low cloud base here.

Hello fellow Draycott resident, I was outside having a ciggie when it thundered, thought it was the skittle alley at the Strawb, but no, definitely thunder followed by lightening.

It snowed...... Albeit only in my porch and curtesy of a can Local Window Wanderland event, all I ever want for Christmas is snow, Santa never hears or listens to me so I've made my own winter wonderland.

I think we're in the same boat with snow, but there's the magic of the starling murmurations as compensation

It was love at first sight. Needs a lot of work but it'll be worth it. So much history to it, our kitchen is the old cider press room and there's a flight of stone steps outside up to what used to be the apple store. Still lots more to discover.

Thank you. We love them too, look so much nicer now the beams have been sand blasted.

Oh we did, we've been planning to move for quite some time and restricted the search to just the Mendip plateau. Property market went absolutely bonkers around here, things selling before they even hit the market with prices rocketing. We'd sold and were in rented watching our money and options diminish by the week, that's just silly so I widened the search area and found a somerset long house in need of tlc, built circa 1650, it was love at first sight. Takes me 15 mins to walk to one of the highest points of the Mendips, may not get much snow here but will never get out the village if it snows, every road is a 1 in 4 climb out. I'll just light one of the inglenooks and curl up in front of that instead. Shockingly stained dark brown beams now all sand blasted....

Morning all, what a blowy night it's been, trees down all over the place here. I've moved so am no longer on top of the Mendips, I'm down in the Cheddar valley so not expecting any snow here, however my son's just reported it's chucking it down with snow where I used to live. I'm literally at the foot of the Mendip Escarpment so to add insult to injury, the high Mendips are just at the top of my street, I'll be able to see the snowy hill tops.

I'm clutching at straws....I'm moving in a few weeks, I'll no longer be living on top of the Mendips (currently in rental house at 870ft asl) I'm going to have to get used to being almost at sea level, a mere 100ft asl. To add insult to injury, the Mendips rise to almost their highest point just 1 mile from my new home. I'll be able to see the snow on the hills whilst I pray for it to fall on lower levels too. Hoping there's at least some truth in old weather lore.

Greetings all from the top of the Mendips, was sunny for a bit today but clouded over again now. All the hawthorn around here is covered with so much blossom it looks like it snowed. Earlier in the year the blackthorn was just the same. If weather lore is anything to go by, we're in for a hell of a winter Is it the same where you all are?

Morning everyone, long time, no speak.... It's been relentlessly frosty around these parts but yesterday surpassed even that. Thought you might be interested to hear it snowed in the Mendips yesterday afternoon, not just a few flakes floating around but proper, laying snow in Priddy. Bonkers. Cold end to April as snow falls on the hills around Wells WELLS.NUB.NEWS It has been a cold end of April and snow has fallen on the hills around Wells today (April 30).

I fear you may be right. For me though it's not based on a feeling or a hunch, it's based on sods law and an element of trepidation. I moved into this house nearly 21 years ago, April 4th 2000 - there was a foot of snow that had fallen overnight, getting removal lorries around the lanes in the Mendips was a bleeding nightmare. I'm set to move again, sometime in early March, this time heading even higher up to the Mendip plateau 260m asl. Sods law dictates there's a high chance we'll face the same nightmare. I'll be praying for warm, dry weather. Once I've moved, happy to be snowed in.

Normal service has resumed, mild and drizzling.

Ditto. Just looked in the Ireland thread.....big mistake! Just think what could have been if it hadn't gone north. Harrumph.

I can confirm, we have reached the dizzying heights of cornflake sized flakes now. Just looked at the radar, looks like it won't last long. Can you tell that I'm hungry.....just baked crystalized ginger cookies, wait for them to cool? Fat chance.

Snowflakes now the size of rice krispies. Can they make it to the size cornflakes?

Afternoon all, snowing steadily here on the Mendips, only trouble is the flakes are the size of breadcrumbs. If it keeps this up, might have a covering by Easter.

Evening all, just watched Fergie's forecast, his advice is take everything with a pinch of salt for the foreseeable. Might get milder at the weekend, might not, might snow, might not, currently no clear way forward. Personally, I'd be surprised if the cold caves into the milder weather from the SW without putting up a bit of a fight. Deep cold is usually quite difficult to shift unless there's a large push from the Atlantic and what's currently seen as incoming from that direction isn't a big, strong low pressure system.

Wish the onshore wind would pick up a notch or two from the SW, blow that big blob up over us all. All that snow sitting off the coast of Cornwall just going to waste. Wonder if any snow starved Cornish men think 'sod it' and set sail when they see radar pics like that, reckon they'd get quite a covering on their boat if they did. There's a fair chance I'd be off in a pedalo if I saw it.

Morning all, it's been snowing here on and off all morning, what managed to get below the fence line before being blown who knows where has settled well. Accumulation so far after hours of teeny flakes....2mm. Looked at the radar, seems to be promising more but reality on the ground here is if it wasn't so cold it would be a drizzly day. Easterly's are always a bit of a let down here, the cold promises so much but reality is not a lot makes it all the way across from the North Sea and unless we get lucky with a rare channel low that doesn't bugger off to France, we're stuck in cold no mans land. It's been about what I was expecting from this week.