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


I agree that 'heavy' refers to rate and not to accumulation.
I am naturally pleased to read elsewhere in this thread that the Met
Office definition agrees also.

But it is perhaps more interesting to see how many people think it
refers to depth, even when posting after the definition has been posted
a few times.


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Gianna