Anne Burgess wrote:
Several Flash Warnings mention "Heavy Snow" of 2 to 5 cm in depth. Now to
me less than 1 inch of lying snow is not exactly a heavy accumulation, I
remember one night in Bradford when we had 5 inches in 3 hours or so. Has
Global Warming made the people of the UK so less used to snowfall ? Maybe
the Met Office needs to tame down their seemingly dire warnings ?
Michael.


Surely 'heavy snow' should be an assessment of the *rate* of snowfall, not
the accumulated depth? A light dusting of snow falling on top of an
accumulated metre is not 'heavy snow' - well, not to me, at any rate.

Anne

Anne



Quite correct Anne, I woke up this morning to half an inch of snow,
thinking that we had a heavy shower in the night.

Though I've just looked at my CCTV images from last night, and we had
continuous, mostly light snow for about two hours (4 to 6 am)

Joe
Wolverhampton
175m asl