On Mar 3, 9:22*pm, Dave Ludlow
wrote:
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:03:48 -0800 (PST), Nick
wrote:

That's an excellent summary of the situation down here Nick, many
thanks.

Of the three months, January fared best here and overall, January was
the most appealing of the three winter months. The best spell of the
winter was 1st-10th;

Seen from a few miles further ESE than you, in West Fareham and 3
miles from the North shores of The Solent, I can honestly say that the
snowy spell was truly remarkable, the like of which hasn't been seen
here *for a couple of decades. I suspect that nothing like it will
occur for another 20 years or so and I will remember it for the rest
of my life. But *I will forget everything else about this Winter.

We had 9 consecutive days with complete snow cover at 9 am and cover
was complete at some time in the day on 10 consecutive days (5th to
14th), with a maximum depth of 13 cm on the 6th. On the coast itself
(at Lee-on-the-Solent) *measured a maximum level depth of 15 cm. The
beach there was covered in snow (above the high water mark) for a
week. No ice days at Lee, but here there were 3 in succession (7, 8,
9th).

I had a taste of the conditions at Fareham on the 9th (the Saturday)
as I had a 30 minute train connection there (on the way to visit the
extremely heavy snowfall in the Haslemere area). The snow was indeed
very much deeper at Fareham than here, and I wandered round some of
the residential streets in the station area truly in awe at what has
been the heaviest snow in coastal Hampshire I've ever seen. Shame it
didn't last a bit longer and we had to endure that awful February,
which will stick in my mind but for rather less good reasons...

Nick