"SarahH" wrote in message
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Waah - woke up with great excitment at about 1am as it was snowing
hard
- though it sounded rather sleety. I was working out how to get
out of
my commitments today so we could go sledging. Everything was
turning
white. This morning theres nowt but a sprinkle on the cars. Its
currently
0C

.... similar sequence here in east Berkshire. At 0115Z, a *very* light
dusting of crunchy snow (actually most of it would have been encoded as
'sleet' really .. between just after midnight to 01Z). Then fine/dry,
then some *rain* with the temperature rising to around 2.7degC at around
04Z, then it's all gone! Not a trace of the stuff left. A tongue of warm
air entrained in the NNW'ly flow lifted the temperatures sufficiently to
allow PPN to reach surface as rain, rather than snow on the main frontal
band - the first lot of sleet/snow was a discrete tongue of
precipitation just ahead of the main band.

Martin.

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Martin Rowley: data via -
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/booty.weather/metindex.htm
Bracknell (Wooden Hill/Tawfield), Berkshire
NGR: SU 854 667
Lat: 51DEG23MIN30SEC(N): Long: 00DEG46MIN28SEC(W)