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Old April 6th 08, 02:09 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Dawlish Dawlish is offline
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Default Snow in lowland areas next week?

On Apr 6, 11:15*am, Graham P Davis wrote:
Dawlish wrote:
The precipitation started as soft hail, turned to snow, ended as snow,
then we got a shower of semolina! (I kid you not, I'm sure that
graupel/sleet was actually cold semolina!


The semolina I used to have years ago was flakes. The small snow pellets we
referred to as sago.

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. * *E-mail: newsman, not newsboy..
"What use is happiness? It can't buy you money." *[Chic Murray, 1919-85]


Sago eh? Could be. When it snows/rains frog's eyes, we'll be in
trouble, though! Every little bit of this morning's snow has now
disappeared, but there are some super Cu+s against a perfect blue
background. A pretty perfect weather morning