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Will Hand · **Dartmoor snow report 14/2/09**

wrote:
On Feb 15, 7:59 am, Paul Hyett wrote:
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 at 21:27:04, Richard Dixon
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

Pete L wrote in
:

I'm up in Oxfordshire at the moment. Here in Thame apart from dying
snowmen there's nothing. However, a few miles away on the
Chilterns it still looks white above Chinnor - as of this
morning...

A bit of house reconnaissance work around Cobham/Oxshott/Claygate
way revealed on the most hardy of snow patches remained today...

Still almost complete cover on the higher parts of Cleeve Hill (just
NE of Cheltenham).
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to
email me)

Some patches in the shade south of Basingstoke, and the occasional bit
of compacted snow where it had been cleared away on the hills above
Liss (Hants), but otherwise none round here. I suspect that if that
low had produced even sleet/wet snow, rather than rain (and given it
did not too far north or west of here, it wasn't too far from
happening) there'd still be quite significant cover over large parts
of southern England.

Nick

Indeed. Here on Dartmoor the low produced cold rain below 400 metres and a
sleet/wet snow mix higher up, before turning to snow at all levels for a
couple of hours at the end. A few tens of miles further south and Dartmoor
would have been facing another 6 inches on top. Ah well .... at least we
still have some deep patches and drifts left.

Will
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