Hi David,

Cloud head from small tight low off south Devon developed more than expected and
extended north further than expected into the cold air. Hence the snow. because
of northward extension it kept further west than expected. It is still going and
the snow area has increased in the past hour or so. Piling up now in the hills
of Wales with 30-40cm in places.

Meanwhile in Devon and Cornwall we got some really heavy unforecast rain from
the system. Here in Haytor my AWS says 30.0 mm, the manual gauge will be around
35mm at a guess when I read it. Flooding locally on low ground. This afternoon
temperature plummetted from 7C down to 2.5C as wind swung NNW'ly.

The *next* system threatens yet more snow for hills of Wales tomorrow. Gradually
getting milder though. Watch out for more changes to the forecast, it's a very
volatile set-up.

Block possibly returning next weekend, see my forecast later.

Will.
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"David Gartrell" wrote in message
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Hi Everyone,

Over the last few days all the forecasters have been banging on about a
'major snow event' wednesday night into thursday but nothing more after
that. The reality of the situation is that the wed/thurs snow turned out to
be a big disappointment for a lot of snow-loving people. Now here we are on
friday - a day described as a much quieter day just yesterday by the BBC -
and what's it doing - it's snowing like bilio !

I do realise that snow can be notoriously difficult to forecast accurately
but I'd be very interested to hear everyones thoughts about the last 2 days'
weather - especially the fact that todays snow was completely unforecast
just 24 hours ago - maybe the first front was just a decoy for today's
weather :-)

David