Christmas Snow

[geordiekev]

William Hill's now revised their result. Newcastle (Albemarle) saw snow on Xmas day.

Woohoo won @8/1 (2 years in a row, thanks to advice from NW members.)

Merry Christmas

[Rustynailer]

Here is todays Aqua/MODIS showing Southern UK http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/single.php?2010360/crefl2_143.A2010360124000-2010360124500.250m.jpg

And todays Terra/MODIS showing Northern UK aswell, sorry Ireland has vanished under cloud http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/single.php?2010360/crefl1_143.A2010360105500-2010360110000.250m.jpg

Both are 250m resolution large images, they may take time to load.

Good snow cover except over me and a few others :lol:

Russ

"burp" "excuse me" :smiliz57: More turkey mmm :blink:

[Thundery wintry showers]

Oddly the band of precipitation that came over Cleadon at 8am on Christmas Day produced a sleety mix despite the temperature standing at -2C and reports of snow further inland- however a sleety mix still counts as a bookies' white Christmas (the first here since 2001). I looked out eagerly for flurries from the area of patchy snow that approached from the north-west during the afternoon but it fizzled before it got here.

In any case there was 11cm of lying snow here and the wintry mix that fell at 8am made no difference to the snow cover, it was still fresh and quite powdery. This is the deepest snow cover that I've ever seen on Christmas Day, although as far as memorable white Christmasses go I'd place this one second after 1995 in view of the fact that 1995 had frequent heavy snow showers on the day itself here as well as depths of 8cm by the end of the day.

[damianslaw]

2cms of powder snow fell on christmas day in Windermere lasted about an hour and came as a surprise. I think the local topography played a huge part helping to intensify the precipitation. It came just before lunchtime.

We saw some light snow last year so it makes it the fourth white christmas of the century the others being -

2001- light sleety snow showers in the evening no cover though

2004- 1 inch of lighg wet snow settled

2009 - light snow evening - very fine but hardly amounted to anything

2010 - 2cm of moderate powder snow big flakes.