On Nov 27, 8:33*am, Graham Easterling wrote:
An exciting night down here. Started 11:00 with a thunderstorm, very
large hail then very heavy snow. Then frequent hail/sleet/snow pellet
& snow showers.

Looking out the window at around 2:30 there was a complete cover of
snow with no grass sticking through. The snow covered the roof thick
enough to completely fill & hide the guttering. Ceratinly at least
3-4cm of lying snow.

Some sleet/rain later in the night means there is now 1-2c,m of icy
snow - still a complete cover. Easily my earliest on record.

All this happening whilst the media watched a dry Halden Hill.

Graham
Penzance where at last the dangler is breaking up.

Just a few facts & figures.

Overnight rainfall equivalent 14.5mm
Total for the 72 hours to 09:00 today 46.6mm
(This may well be understated as a fair bit dropped as hail)
Previous earliest snow cover at 09:00 15/12/97

Yesterdays max in the temporary incusion of milder air 7.5C
Last nights' Min 0.3
Current Temp - 0900 1.1

It's also worth noting that from October to February if you take the
average rainfall per day per wind direction, N is wetter than SW here.
Not what the text books say for western counties.

Graham
Penzance