?"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
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I can vouch for the havoc caused by the 520 thickness at exactly this time
of year in 1993. I was due to fly from Heathrow
I hadn't realised that the thickness was so high then!

I remember the snow well - it started bucketing down at school and of course
any hope of us lot concentrating was dashed - especially as the French
teacher kept looking out of the window too! Eventually a Tannoy announcement
was made that all pupils who live on the Isle of Sheppey were to go home
immediately and buses were on their way. As I waited for the bus the snow
was dripping from the rose bushes planted at the front of the school and one
of my friends reckoned it was because they were photosynthesising and
warming up! (He went on to get 4 As at A-level, must have been a blip that
day).

Back home there was around 3 inches of slushy snow and by the end of it we
had just under 6 inches - which froze solid overnight. The snow stayed in
the ditches by the fields for a good week or so before finally melting.

850s seem to have been around -10C (briefly) and my end of the (9 mile by 5)
island got far more snow than the other end simply because of the onshore
wind... SSTs were around 13C but all it did was add fuel to the clouds.

This time around? Who can say, but I'm expecting to see at least some
snowfall despite slightly higher 850s and a slightly cooler sea.