John Hall wrote:
In article ,
tifrap writes:
I left the coast at Shoreham at ten this morning under heavy rain and
relatively warm air. Over the south downs the rain varied from light to
heavy, no sign of sleet, until well into the low weald. At Bolney Hill
on the A/M23 it became heavy snow and was settling on the carriageway.
At Horsham on the High Weald the snow was heavy and thickly settling,
about 4cm.

It snowed continually, and consistantly heavily while I was there
between 11am and 3pm, providing an even covering on all surfaces and
trees.

I left Horsham at 3:30pm through thick snow, drove south through white
countryside and steadily falling snow, until suddenly at a line just
north of Cowfold the snow stopped falling and there was no sign of it
having snowed at all, the light rain that replaced the snow lessened
the further south I got, over the south downs, no evidence of any snow
having fallen, and no sitting snow left from previous snowfall. South
of the downs on the coastal strip, warm air and light drizzle,
overcast.


Interesting. Just 10 miles or so NW of Horsham, at Cranleigh, we had
mostly sleet. There were some interludes where it seemed pretty much
"pure" snow, but there was never any sign of it settling.


I live in Broadbridge Heath (just west of Horsham) and when I went out
at around 9am it was raining. Over the next half hour or so it turned to
sleet. I work at MSSL (about four miles from Cranleigh and just over 100
meters higher up) and when I got there it was snowing heavily. It
continued to snow until mid afternoon by which time there was a couple
of cm accumulation on the grass, and a thin slushy layer on hard surfaces.