Col wrote:

You've probably got to look pretty hard for lying English snow that
that is accessible by road, but here's some at the Cat & Fiddle pub
at 515m asl.

http://www.maccinfo.com/cat/

The road was apparently closed to lorries earlier today.

Nothing on Winter Hill above Bolton (and I took a good hard look),
which is 456m so not quite high enough on this occaison.

I think today was one of those days that was meteorological
unusual given the track of the low and the central pressure
reading rather than any really unusual weather conditions.
Sure, it was wet, windy, cold, raw and very unpleasant but
nothing that the general public would think of as being
anything out of the ordinary for this time of year.


Hi Col, there was continuous moderate sleet here all day with the temp stuck
between 2.0 and 2.5. The precip was 70-80 percent water and 20-30 percent
solid. The highest bit of land I can see from the house/garden is about 400m
asl. There was no sign of anything lying there. If I walk a couple of hundred
yards over the fields I can see hills that go above 500m but I wasn't going to
do that in today's weather! The vis wouldn't have been good enough anyway. The
stuff on the ground at the Cat & Fiddle looked pretty wet. The temperature
there was probably just above zero.

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.