Snow Reports 17th / 18th January 2009

[grab my graupel]

Please post your Snow reports in here

[delq]

No probs. Just had a heavy snow shower here at low levels in central Ireland. Small acculation on the ground but it certainly bodes well for the coming 48 hours.

Q

[Albion Snowman]

Had a short but heavy hail shower amidst all the wind and rain! No real accumulations though.

[Marcus_surfer]

Hail showers here, keeping a close eye on this as Ireland reporting snow there now

[jethro]

We had really heavy hail here mixed in with the torrential rain, now it's sleeting really heavily.

[John Cox]

Heavy snow shower here about an hour ago, sticking to cars and grass

[Cloud 10]

A light covering of snow first thing this morning on all surfaces.

Current conditions: moderate snow falling. :o

[stormforce 10]

a few heavy snow showers here, cars and grass covered, roads and pavements icy. :o

[andymusic]

a snow shower, started as rain, then sleet, then large flakes of snow, too wet to stick though!

Pontypridd, Wales, 240m asl

[ballybabe12]

Had sleet and Snow in Belfast at 06:00 until about 06:45 - Left about 1mm of covering in Dundonald.

[John in the frozen north]

We had a light covering last night - wasn't really expecting it. Currently 1.4C and sunny

[dice48]

snowed here at about 3.00am for about 10min and left a covering of about 6inches on the mountain and about 10 min ago it snowed again looks like its going to snow all day and tonight with some significant accumulations!!!

[Terminal Moraine]

A spell of wet snow early this morning gave a thin temporary cover, most of which had thawed by 0700.

[Cookie]

just started snowing. quite heavy.

[Ross B]

Switching between sleet and snow here but the temperature is dropping.

[Stratos Ferric]

Nudging under 3C here, and a bit of sleet in the precipitation at the back of the squall line that just passed through. About 10% snow, about 50% melted.

Rain below 200m.

Evidence on the tops of a dusting of snow this morning, above around 400m.

[Thundery wintry showers]

Hail and sleet shower in east Exeter at 6:30am, somewhat unexpected, and also a bit of sleet mixed in with the rain shower at 9:30am. Otherwise just rain.