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Old February 26th 04, 07:45 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Dave Ludlow Dave Ludlow is offline
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Default (WR) 2cm level snow in SW Hampshire

On 26 Feb 2004 20:30:59 GMT, (Nigel Paice) wrote:

Latest observation made at 1950hrs in Romsey:

Notes: surface wind has veered from NNW to NNE in last hour.
lowest visibility of 1000m occurred at 1845hrs.
moderate snow 1815hrs, became light at about 1920hrs.
snow first started to settle around 1800hrs and now covers the
ground completely.
clouds very difficult to identify but appears to be overcast Sc with
St beneath.

There's been a similar situation here in Fareham but the Eastern edge
of the moderate precipitation in the (same) slow moving area of snow
appears to have grazed us. Only light snow then, with a thin layer
settling on cars and grass but not pavements or roads. Temperature
fell from +2degC to +0.5 deg C during this 90 minute (so far)
"snowfall".

Light snow (small flakes) continues and the temperature is now down to
0.0 deg C so with wet roads, it could still get "interesting" here (as
I am sure it already is, a bit further West. (including Southampon).

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Dave
Fareham