Snow/Wintry Precipitation Reports: 26th November 2003

[Osborne One-Nil]

Just come back from Penrith, and the hills around Ullswater are covered in snow. Looks quite low too....certainly down to 1000ft and probably even lower.

Back home it's 1.1C and sleeting hard, turning increasingly wintery.

[Tim B]

Been sleeting, snowing, and hailing on and off all afternoon here.

[Stratos Ferric]

Big band of showers just hit my parish. I started off about 8 miles away with the car thermometer reading 6C, by the time I hit the shower (rain) it was 4C and at my house it was sleet and 2C. Now snowing. Mainly light and patchy, largeish wet flakes.

[WeatherGod]

All I've had here is hail, hail.. and more hail.

Rather heavy at times too.

Heard that Snowdonia and the Brecon Beacons have had flurries!

WB

[Thundery wintry showers]

Here in Lancaster, lots and lots of hail.

Rain fell at a temperature of 2.5-3C, which got me looking hard for any sign of sleetiness, but there didn't appear to be any. But, not only was there hail, we also had thunder and lightning at 4pm.

[du_snow]

Hail and freezing rain here in S.Wales, been havign real problems today, had to call the AA (at 4pm) to try and unblock the locks to my car which wouldnt work with the key. Turned out the locks were frozen solid, and there was a lot of ice on the car itself. Freezing rain.

[Ross B]

heavy sleet showers almost non-stop since lunchtime,probably turnng more to snow as we go into the night

[Andy Bown]

An elderly friend of mine experienced a heavy shower of sleet and hail at 1300 today on the White Horse with a rainbow too!

Low ground just had rain.

[Ross B]

it is now snowing lightly

[Jackfrost]

We just had a snow flurrie!Lets hope for more in the night.

[Stratos Ferric]

It's clearly a very marginal situation. Rain here since the snow stopped around 1730h, with traces of melting snow (looking through the skylights I reckon <5% impacting drops were snow, and that well melted). Another heavy shower at 2130 though, with around 40% snow. Expect to wake in the morning and see the Three Peaks and Northern Dales snow capped.