South West & Central Southern England - Weather Chat, 6th December and Onwards...

[festivalking]

Snow reported by the wife back at home. Sky black, then 10 minutes of heavy snow mixed with hail. What a day to be in work 

 

[A.J]

13 minutes ago, William Grimsley said:

Just had a squally and heavy snow shower with a massive clap of thunder here! It was very unexpected and there's even a dusting of snow on the grass! Temperature: 3.3°C Dew Point: 1.4°C.

just snow?.....i'd imagine the dusting is from hail not snow.........everyone else in the region is reporting a rain/hail/sleet/very wet snow mix......so I think a snow dusting is pushing it

[William Grimsley]

Just now, ajpoolshark said:

just snow?.....i'd imagine the dusting is from hail not snow.........everyone else in the region is reporting a rain/hail/sleet/very wet snow mix......so I think a snow dusting is pushing it

Yes, there was no hail it was just snow.

[A.J]

Just now, William Grimsley said:

Yes, there was no hail it was just snow.

that's some microclimate you've got in newton poppleford on the south coast 

[textmum]

Wintry weather here, snow mixed with hail and rain. Flakes fairly large but not many! Very windy too.

[snowdog]

Lightning,thunder and a tiny bit of sleet mixed in at the moment.

[Sam S]

Heavy snow/hail shower passed through about half hr ago, temp dropped just before it happened 

[Singularity]

Disintegrated mess here as usual - literally 5 seconds of vicious winds and torrential rain, not nearly enough to produce a transition to something wintry.

I must warn wild weather enthusiasts never to live in lowland parts of western Hampshire/eastern Wiltshire. Convective features always seem to fall apart before they arrive - and that's an observation from someone with a very scientific, no-nonsense kind of mind!

[bellanite]

Proper snow in Stroud! massive flakes 

[William Grimsley]

Light sleet shower here. Temperature: 3.3°C Dew Point: 2.0°C Rainfall Today: 3.2 mm.

[Andy Bown]

Can add to the reports of lightning, thunder, hail, sleet and wet snow! The NW Radar shows pink and purple echoes briefly developed around Frome-Warminster which must have been the core that produced the thundery activity and heaviest hail. Did have a nice little hail drift in the garden but it's melted already. Temperature dropped from 6.8c to 2.9c during the downpour.

Edited March 2, 2016 by Andy Bown

[offerman]

Huge fork lighting just before 10a.m massive thunderclap.

rain,hail,sleet,wet snow

 

Photo:  Cley Hill

 

 

[MP-R]

What a pain that large clump of precipitation tracking just to the north of Bristol. Need it further south to see some of those flakes being reported in Gloucestershire. 

[slinky1989]

Heavy mix of rain/sleet/snow here in Swindon - pepps up to snow in the heavier precip but soon calms down back to rain fairly quickly.

Very much on-off!

[Mapantz]

It looks like everyone has seen a proper mixture this morning? Apart from a heavy shower last night, there's been bugger all here, just some gusty winds.

Temp: 4.8°C - Hum: 74% - Dew: 0.6°C - Chill: 1.5°C - Bar: 999.32hPa - Wind: W @ 15mph, Gusting to 30mph

Edited March 2, 2016 by Mapantz

[Dorsetbred]

Gusty winds, and thunder & lightning just cruised through, OH and it was such a nice day here. Now gone blue skies again...

[Stormyking]

Well that was a fun squall line! Started off as Icy  rain- hail, then got heavier and heavier, had 2 rumbles of thunder and saw 1 flash! As it cleared threw a few snow flakes was thrown into the mix, with extremely strong winds! More of that please

[William Grimsley]

Absoloute chaos here. There are several trees down, many roads are shut and there's been lots of accidents in Exeter due to cars skidding on fallen hail.

Edited March 2, 2016 by William Grimsley

[Dorsetbred]

Some decent mammatus thrown in to the mix..

[jtay]

50 minutes ago, Singularity said:

I must warn wild weather enthusiasts never to live in lowland parts of western Hampshire/eastern Wiltshire.

But isn't that the Fighting Cocks at Godshill in your piccie? That's up the hill surely...

[johnholmes]

1 hour ago, William Grimsley said:

Yes, there was no hail it was just snow.

photos to prove this William?

[Singularity]

1 minute ago, jtay said:

But isn't that the Fighting Cocks at Godshill in your piccie? That's up the hill surely...

A hill relative to here maybe, but it's barely even 100 m elevation.

I'm in a valley so... yeah. I will move away one day soon, to a more inspiring location - though the New Forest will be sorely missed.

[William Grimsley]

5 minutes ago, johnholmes said:

photos to prove this William?

Unfortunately, not. But, you have to trust me.

[Mapantz]

13 minutes ago, Dorsetbred said:

Some decent mammatus thrown in to the mix..

I saw some of that my way.
That was the only excitement unfortunately, all the fun & games completely missed me. lol

[bellanite]

First snow of 2016! Didn't settle but nice to see. Temp dropped from 6oC to 2.5oC during shower.