mickeyflyn

Temp in my garden has now dropped to 0.7 from 1.8 a couple of hours ago. Snow now starting to settle on the pavement 72 metres asl.

Temp here in Newport Beechwood 72mtrs asl has dropped from 1.8 to 1.1 and still dropping , snowing heavily .

Temperature here in Newport had dropped from 7 deg earlier to 4.3 atm. According to my weather station we've had 15mm of rain in the last 12 hours.

Just started snowing on the higher ground here in Newport , big flakes .

Snowing lightly here in Newport and setting. I'm at one of the higher points though.

Just popped in from lurking , temp here in Newport 64m asl dropped from 5.2 around mid day to 2.9 and falling with rain turning to sleet . Twmbarlum mountain is white .

Looking at sat24 it looks like most of the precip is out in the English channel with just light precip over Wales.

Still nothing in Newport not even any rain very strange.

Hello people no snow or even rain here in Newport even though radar is showing snow.

I'm in Newport, according to netweather radar it's supposed to be raining but there's nothing coming from the sky .it's currently 2.8 degree with a slight thaw going on .can't get out of my street as we have 3ft drifts and the main roads are still impassable apart from main bus routs lower down in the city.

Hi all just popped in to see what's happening and can't believe the excitement in here . If what's coming is anything like what I've seen in the past many of us won't be going anywhere, I drive hgv for a living and know only too well how dangerous roads can be but have to say with all the cuts that councils have made winter maintenance vehicles have been hit hard . It's OK to send a gritter out on a frosty night but dealing with deep snow on every road is a totally different ball game.I've seen motorways grind to a halt in minutes from just moderate snow never mind heavy persistent snow .

Snowing heavily here in Newport, settling on cars,roads and footways at my elevation.

Hi all logging in for tne winter as usual. Looks interesting tonight so stay safe all.

Thats strange as i travel betwen cdf and npt most days and always find cdf 2deg milder than npt for some reason.

3.2 deg here in newport at my height humidity 84 % with ho wind ,it reached 7 deg earlier . As i work outside i dont consider this cold at all ,so all this nonsense about a cold spell i don't understand. I remamber as a kid skating on the canal with ice 4 or 5 inches thick after being frozen for days and having to dig my street out of snow to get the car out to take my gran to her hospital apt .

Hi guys thought i would pop in as I'm normally lurking and reading the discussions going on here. In Newport currently its 4.3 deg ,%74 humidity ,pressure 1020.2 and 0.3 precip in the last 24 hours. I can see a dusting of snow over twmbarlum mountain and the black mountains in the distance are white. Broken cloud here but radar saying it should be raining.

Good evening guys à nd girls,i dont appear hre usually until winter but cà ught the bug for the storms this but have to say it's not looking good for my location here in se wales. guess i will have to wait until next week and sample some Mediterranean storms while in italy .

That area of snow coming from the east currently ovr the midlands is starting to veer south, i doubt it will get to se wales .

6.7 deg with a stiff north wind here ,no where near freezing and as i work outside it's mild ! Although some parts of the uk have had snow here in the lower lying areas of south east wales its been nothing unusual for the time of year. all the exaggerated headlines from certain news papers have proved utter rubbish. As a 50 year old i can remember some nasty winters in the past with 2010 being the last and last years storms the most recent. i think the metoffice do a good job and should do with the millions of pounds worth of technology they have at their disposal. My 91 year old grandfather said people panic these days over a flake of snow or a frosty morning , when the ice on our pond is two inches thick and has been frozen for weeks thats when its cold ,when we have to dig a lane out of our street to the main road thats heavy snow . Many weather forecasters have never seen a real winter and doesn't see what all the fuss is about . S have never seen

The bbc animation at 7pm showed snow hitting se wales in the early hours , i guess temps will need to drop a few deg first.

Strange temps here gone from 1 deg earlier up to 3.1 now ,wind picking up too.

temp is 3.1 with dp of -1.7 and clear sky here. No snow showers here yet.

Temps are the coldest here for a while , already down to 0.5 deg c from à high of 5.6 earlier !

Quite heavy hail here with temp dropping to 2.4 deg from 3.2 in last hour ,wind picking up from the west .

there are some heavy power cables going over pen-y-lan ,maybe one has come down causing the flash you saw .