It Said Sunny Intervals

Pleasant afternoon here allbeit slightly muggy. Sun has come out, no rain or thunder yet today.

Cloudy here - dry. Light breeze. 16.5c. Looks like we may miss out on the fun today here.

Snow in Preston overnight (East Preston) covered the grass , pavements etc. Just had a light flurry on the way to work as well.

Hail/Snow here in Preston on and off since 10.00am. There was a very heavy shower 15/20 mins ago left quite a covering and i took some pictures. Looks like theres more to come as well. Happy Christmas

Snow here as well <_< For about the last 15 mins, slowly starting to settle.

Going to be a bit chilly tonight Temp already down to 1.1c. Highest temp today was 3.1c.

Fantastic morning here - you can see for miles. Clear and cold at 0.1c Pressure 1009mb

Nice night here, 2c with a gentle breeze. Pressure 1000mb.

Weather in S Cumbria today has been fairly sunny & dry, seems like i missed all the fun at home in Preston. Currently calm, but cold at 2.5c.

Temp has dropped 2.4c in an hour here . Now 3.5c still raining heavily.

Temp down to 6c, raining steadily all morning. Very little wind.

Shower at 5pm dry ever since. Nice walk back from the pub. 1.7c calm and clear. May even get a bit of frost tonight.

Can't remember the dates but at least once a year we would get sent home from secondary school because of the snow. The "country" folk would go home first on the busses, before the roads got snowed up, and us "town" kids would stay and pelt the busses with snowballs. It always seemed to snow on a sunday night. Don't know if thats when i was watching the most or if it was the thought of looking forward to a week off school. Can remember one wednesday night when i had one of those free paper rounds, when i got £15 for delivering what seemed like thousands of free papers, it was cold there had been a few snow showers during the day but around 7.00 it started snowing and continued till i'd finished delivering my papers by which time 8.30 the main A6 road was closed and it was about 3 inches deep there were more snow showers during the night and needless to say my dad tried to get to work the day after, but gave up when his car got stuck at the bottom of the road ! Then there was Feb 1996 the only time i can remember the M6 between Preston and the North being down to 1 lane, there were cars abandoned and even a gritter got stuck just off the M6 at Carnforth, we were following it at the time ! Thats the deepest snowfall in my area i can remember. Would be happy with one decent fall of lying snow this winter, lasting for 7/10 days then a clear frosty end to winter, you can but hope

Pouring with rain here. Has been on and off since 4.30 ish. Wind has dropped right off though. Temp has also risen a little to 13.7c.

Its been raining heavily here since 7pm last night, so much so water is coming up through the drains on the main A roads. Still heavy rain at the moment.