"Eskimo Will" wrote in message
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"Eskimo Will" wrote in message news:...
0825
A softer morning.
Cloudy, nice red sunrise (so beware), T +1.4C D +1.4C, F2 East wind.
A very slow thaw.
Snow depth full cover at 15cm (soft on top).
CORRECTION:
Dewpoint was +0.5C.
1015
Avalanche!
A whole load of snow has just fallen off my roof. It's a slate roof and
strong, so OK. The cast iron gutters have coped as well, plastic ones
might have broken I think. It was right outside my back door so lucky I
wasn't going out. Huge roar inside the house and I now have a big pile
of snow to clear. There is still some more to come down on the roof.
Roof is quite high pitched with slate fastened to wooden boards as I
suspect the Edwardian builders were aware of the possibility of heavy
snowfalls and built the roof accordingly.
1020
Snowing again outside, just started.
T+1.4C D+1.0C
Back to the shovel :-)
1055
Light rain now.
T+1.6C D +0.8C
Just had another snow fall on another part of the roof. It seems stuck at
the gutter, poised to come down.
Nothing I can do, I'm not going up a ladder to shift it, that part of the
roof is very high up.
Feel a bit knackered after 15 minutes hard shovelling to clear the back
doorway.
1120
Precip has got heavier and is now falling as snow. Sleety stuff but
definately all snow.
T+1.6C D+1.1C

1205
All precip. stopped. A mix of rain, sleet and snow.
Feels really damp and raw now in the slowly thawing snow.
T +1.3C (fallen by 0.3C in past half hour) D +1.1C.
Wind E F2-3.

Will
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