lawrence Jenkins wrote:
If only the temperatures were just a couple of degrees lower. It's
snowed now for over an hour and a half yet still it's melting rate is
slightly lower than it's settling rate.
Almost a white out for a ten minute period. Radar looks good with
some heavy downpours almost traveling west up the thames estuary just
like the luftwaffe did during the battle of britain.. Let's hope
theres no spitfires to shoot them down..

I assume you mean "slightly higher". The problem is that global warming has
increased the temperature of the North Sea, so the easterlies are being
warmed up sufficiently that the temperature is hovering just above zero,
rather than dropping below zero as it used to. Hence whatever snow falls (at
sea level) quickly melts away.

I can remember when these conditions would have resulted in two feet of
snow. Sadly it's all melted away in the Manchester area as well.

Our children may well ask us "daddy, what does snow look like?".

Brian