"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
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Interesting turn of events in central-western France. A wave depression
developing over Spain on the cold front which came crossed England
at the weekend has moved northeastwards into France, engaging the
Arctic air and deepening sharply.

At my AWS at Milhaguet in the Haute Vienne (55km WSW of
Limoges) http://www.weather-uk.com/page4.html
there had been no frost since just after Christmas, but
the rain turned to snow on Monday evening, pulling the temperature
down to within a couple of points of zero. By this morning there
was, according to neighbours, about 5cm (from 13mm of rainfall) of
heavy, wet snow. Since then the temperature has continued to fall,
and so has the snow ... it's now roughly 20cm deep and drifting
badly in the strong NNE wind.

Philip
My daughter will not be amused - she returned from a snowless Morzine (near
Geneva) yesterday, from her first ski trip!
Dave