Snow/wintry Precipitation Reports: 04th March

[PRIME]

Snow started about 7.15 in cambridge - justd rove to work in Herts, good covering all the way, roads quite bad. Stopped her now - will it clear for drive home or is there more expected ??

[Hurricane Debby]

Well sadly it has completely stopped here now and a rapid thaw is taking place. No rain mind you

[GrimReaper]

Sorry about another late post for 3 march.

Light snow showers and snow pellets throughout the day here.

Still some snow patches but now less than 15% snow cover - continuing slow thaw under sunny spells

4 March.

2cm of fresh snow overnight and light snow falling at 6am.

Turned to heavy rain at 7.30am with a rise of temp to 2c by 8am - and then a rapid thaw.

Obs at 10am - temp is 4c still some snow laying and we have had 3 fairly sharp hail showers in the last 15 mins. Wind NW at 12 kts mostly

[Silverfox]

Snow Depth at Crowborough East Sussex so far!

1 cm

Currently Heavy Snow

Temp -2C

[Terminal Moraine]

Minor correction to the report I posted earlier. When I got outside and measured it, the fresh snow was actually 2cm, not 1.

Not that it makes much difference as it's almost all thawed now and only the old, frozen snow remains.

Just had a shower of sleet and the temp' has fallen from 4.3c to 3.0c.

T.M

[neptune]

Blizzard conditions for the last hour. Now have several cm's dry & cold enough to settle without a problem on all surfaces

Temp -0.7°C

Dewpoint -2.0°C

Humidity 91%

Wind SSW at 9.0 mph

Barometer 1010.8 mb & Falling

Wind Chill -5.1°C

Thaw Index -5.2°C

[Shiny_Bottom_1]

Todays Report for my Journey:

South Derbyshire @ 05.30 - A mixture of xnow and frozen rain

Melton Mowbry @ 06.30 - Snow showers

Meltone Mowbry to A1 - Snow showers + lying snow on roads

A1 to Spalding - Now snow showers, little lying snow

Spalding to Kings Lynn - Between 1-3cm of snow. Roads very slushy.

Kings Lynn @ 09.30 - 3-4cm of lying snow. Another 20 mintue heavy snow shower @ 09.45

There are reports of up to 6 inches of lying snow in the s/e corner of lincs.

Basically, a 2 hour journey took 4 hours this morning. Majority of roads were ungritted. These roads are very treachorous, even at 20mph cornering.

[barnety2000]

A had a moderate to heavy spell of snow this morning which gave a significant dusting to much area and turned my road completely white. Brst cover we've had yet. Sadly on my way into town it was turnign to sleet and is now intermittent light rain. Never mind, it was nice to see something

[spectre]

Snowing steadily here in Canterbury. Still icy underfoot and 5" level snow away from the town centre.

[Terminal Moraine]

A dramatic change in the weather in the last 5 minutes, from sunny intervals and a temp' of 4.7c to heavy snow and hail and a temp' of 0.8c. The bare patches in the fields were the snow had thawed are white over again. Wind increased to 34mph for about 5 minutes.

T.M

[Paul Sherman]

Scary journey into work today, started snowing lightly at 8am so decided to take the car, the A127 Near Laindon was down to 20 mph with zero visibility at times, both lanes had constant traffic but the snow was settling, major accident on the other carriageway involving 4 cars. Managed to get through somehow, but took 40 minutes longer.

Paul Sherman

[Terminal Moraine]

Snow easing now as blue sky approaches from the north. Only 0.5cm of lying snow but good while it lasted. Temp' 0.3c.

T.M

[ansedy]

Has just stopped snowing. It has basically been snowing all morning here in North Norfolk and have approximately 2-3inches of snow on the ground.

Schools closed and kids loving it.

[PB22]

Heavy snowfall continues here...really quite remarkable. Now around 8cm's lying!

[kold weather]

had 5cms from this,now sleeting.

[Weather-history]

Has just stopped snowing. It has basically been snowing all morning here in North Norfolk and have approximately 2-3inches of snow on the ground.

Schools closed and kids loving it.

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Why are the schools closed with just 2-3" of snow on the ground? Pathetic really.

[Michael Fishermans Friend]

Must be around 4-5cms here, feels like a slight rise in temp at the moment which will cause a slight thaw!

[Great Plum]

Heavy snow in Reigate this morning - about 1 inch fell I'd guess in thick snow... mostly gone now!

[neptune]

Had 4-5cm from this mornings blizzards

What a superb winter this has turned out to be - congratulations to all those that forecast it

Temp 1.9°C

Dewpoint 1.2°C

Humidity 95%

Wind SW at 4.0 mph

Barometer 1008.1 mb & Falling

Wind Chill 0.0°C

Must be more snow down here than up in Scotland and Norther England now

Edited March 4, 2005 by neptune

[Snow Cat]

I didnt think it was going to be the rain or sleet event the media said because when I woke up the car park outside was a sheet of ice and it was about -2 or lower overnight even on the seafront.

Both BBC1 and ITV seemed to rush over what would happen early in the morning and focussed on the snow overnight in the midlands then showing rain by the afternoon in Kent.

When the band arrived here in Hythe, Kent just before 10am and it started off as light snow then moderate and then heavy snow for a couple of hours. At one point the snowflakes were literally as big as golf balls. Left generally 1 inch and 2 inches in places, there are probably more outside of the main town high street area where people have now walked and there are layers of very treacherous slipppery slush. It's thawing a bit now. Probably got more on the outskirts and up on the hills I am expecting Folkestone, Capel, Hawkinge etc probably got more anyone know?.

Edited March 4, 2005 by Snow Cat

[Great Plum]

Have just had a thundersnow/hail event here - even started to settle - very impressive!

[Kentish Snowgirl]

At work in Dover snowed heavily for three hours, which settled. Now stopped and temperature now rising, slight thaw.

[Guest Sir Seany]

Had a rather thick covering very early this morning, i dont know who scared it away but when i catch them

[Tim B]

Sleet turned to rain up here last night.

There was then a hail shower at about 7:00 AM this morning.

That is all we have had in Darwen today.

[kincorth1]

Multiple snow showers in Aberdeen.

One at 9.15am, one at 2.30pm and one right now.

Not settling but a lot of snow is coming down during those showers.