South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 22/02/2018 Onwards

[Thundery wintry showers]

The dreaded drip-drip-drip has started in Exeter and it appears to be ordinary rain triggering it, so I think that's it for here now. 

[Mapantz]

I have a funny feeling that my rain gauge is suddenly gonna produce a rain rate of 1000mm/hr

Edited March 2, 2018 by Mapantz

[ThundersnowDays]

Got an ice day here -2.C max

[Mapantz]

All's good with the rain gauge. The thaw seems to be consistent, no nasty spikes.  

I have a pool of water on the lawn which looks really weird. The ice has caved in but not cracked, so all of the water is pooling. 

[CheesepuffScott]

Haven’t seen any rain here yet. All clear.

[Nights King]

Just started to snow  

[Evening thunder]

Had rain for a while here, and the temp shot up to 4C just before midnight! So once again it gives a higher max on my stats than the actual daylight maximum.

I went for a walk earlier, got lots of pics and afterwards did pop out in the car to higher ground a few miles away.. main road was surprisingly bad and seemed worse than earlier (though I did not have any trouble), some pretty impressive freezing rain scenes there, I had to go and see it considering how rare that is.

I'll look at posting some pictures tomorrow.

 

[Evening thunder]

Haha, the street lights from across the fields are reflecting on the wet ice layer like they do when the river floods.

Also funny how the heaviest radar echoes are making a beeline for me now that it's rain!

[ThundersnowDays]

The precip is dying before it reaches me so I'm not sure I'll get anything else now. 

[Thundery wintry showers]

The heavy rain has reached me as well, and the nearby Met Office WOW site at Southam Fields has shot up to 3.3C as the heavier rain approached, also with dew point of 2.1C.  Snow is now not surprisingly starting to thaw noticeably.

Edited March 3, 2018 by Thundery wintry showers

[SNOW CRYSTAL]

2 hours ago, snowponies said:

Where abouts in Mary tavy are they going? Main road should be fine, anywhere else will be very dodgy! If it helps I passed my test in 2010 a couple months before the epic cold spell and I was working in princetown at the time (plume of feathers), I had some scary times but I learnt how to drive in snow pretty well! Police are patrolling so stopping anyone driving on that road and they want a good reason why you're driving on there!

Sorry for delay. I'm not sure where exactly but he did message to say he got there safely. Yes I know they were stopping people going up on the moor, but my neighbours didn't seem to think that included them for some reason! ??

[Ciderwithrosie]

I think it's raining here too as opposed to freezing raining ain . Temp is 1C. Very windy again . 

[Ciderwithrosie]

It is rain, heard a crack and some snow/ ice fell off the conservatory roof .

have looked on netweather radar, oh my word , Exeter / Tiverton is in for a right ol bashing . Rain I assume ,? 

[jethro]

Erm, what's with all the snow? Been snowing here for an hour or so, just checked the radar and it seems there's loads more to come. Is it supposed to stay cold here or will this turn to rain? Wasn't expecting this.

[Ciderwithrosie]

My temperature has just limped back in the 1. Somethingorother, and rain / swizzle here . I thought the temps were going to rise through the night . 

There was a hefty looking band of rain/ snow over Exeter, but just west of Tiverton now. I know they've had rain . 

Maube the air won't be warming as quickly as we thought . 

[Daniel*]

7 minutes ago, jethro said:

Erm, what's with all the snow? Been snowing here for an hour or so, just checked the radar and it seems there's loads more to come. Is it supposed to stay cold here or will this turn to rain? Wasn't expecting this.

Euro4 has the dew point getting above 0C at 0900 in your area. What’s coming should be white.

[jethro]

4 minutes ago, Daniel* said:

Euro4 has the dew point getting above 0C at 0900 in your area. What’s coming should be white.

Thank you. Poor me

[Mark Neal.]

Snowing again here! Very very light. Temp of -0.1c warmest its been since midweek lol 

[Jayfromcardiff]

Wow fell asleep to awake to at least another inch of lying now and it's hammering down.

[EllyTech]

Three ice days. Incredible.

It can't last must longer now -

Temp 0C  Humidity 94%  Dewpoint 0C   Pressure 990.7 

[Jayfromcardiff]

Whiteout now. Shoveled the paths last night and back to full snow cover lol.

Edited March 3, 2018 by Jayfromcardiff

[EllyTech]

10 minutes ago, Jayfromcardiff said:

Whiteout now. Shoveled the paths last night and back to full snow cover lol.

Is it snowing in Cardiff Jay? ..... 

[Jayfromcardiff]

Flakes are not as big as expected so maybe not as marginal.

[Andy Bown]

Does anyone else feel like they have been/are living in a parallel universe!?

Need to start clearing snow today but don't fancy doing it in rain!

[divadee]

It's shot up to a positively balmy 2.7 degrees here with a few point of 2.4. Nope. I did miss the minus symbol off.