"Eskimo Will" schreef
: T+96 ECM DT 12Z 29/2/12
: SW England upland blizzards anyone? :-)
:
: Clearly still a very finely balanced situation and one that was giving the
: Deputy Chief at the MetO some headaches this morning at the technical
staff
: briefing today. Is it an outlier? It was there a few runs ago as well.
: Interesting stuff.

Maybe not SW England - but something like that in SW Belgium this morning
and also in northern France.

Northern France near the Belgian border
http://videos.tf1.fr/jt-20h/intemper...e-7039246.html

Lille
http://videos.tf1.fr/jt-20h/la-neige...e-7039245.html

150 000 households in northern France have lost their electricity supply as
a result of a high-tension cable snapping under the weight of wet snow.

Up to 100 000 households in the area of Tournai in SW Belgium lost power for
much of the day because of short circuits in high-tension cables caused by
heavy snow and strong winds.

Perhaps not quite the classic Channel rat - but notable enough.

Colin Youngs
Brussels