On Dec 23, 6:35*pm, Dave Ludlow
wrote:
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:19:26 +0000, Kevin Morgan

wrote:
On 2009-12-23 18:09:32 +0000, Elizabeth said:

*From about 17:45:

Heavy burst of hail, now turned to rain.

Several flashes of lightning/peals of thunder, now seems to have moved on.

Still thunder and hail in SO18 - Southampton at 1819z......

Thunder lightning and heavy hail in Fareham (W) at 18:30. All surfaces
iuncluding side roads 100% covered by hail, continues as I write.

Temperature drop is from 5.5. to 2.3 so far within 5 minutes.

--
Dave
Fareham W (Locks Heath 40m asl)

Sounds like I've left behind a bizarre day to say the least down
south. The freezing rain this morning sounds normal compared to this!
Travelled north today , snow cover more or less continuously from
Winchester to just north of Birmingham. Deep snow cover, of the sort
I've only experienced once since the 80s (travelling through the
Basingstoke area last February) from Micheldever area to the Goring
Gap.
Shame (for snow fans in Hampshire and Berkshire) about the onshore
winds, it's that that seems to have made the difference.

Nick