Tom wrote:
On Monday, 11 February 2013 13:10:45 UTC, Scott W wrote:
On Feb 11, 10:33 am, Dave Cornwell wrote:

Dave Cornwell wrote:
Starting at 6.00 pm yesterday there has been 15 hours of continuous
snow, sometimes heavy and windy. There were a couple of short breaks
overnight and this morning's snow is now light.
The temperature was remarkably constant at 0.4C throughout which
resulted in a simultaneous thaw.
The result - 1-2 cm lying snow on grass, roofs and cars. No disruption
as even side roads are clear.
Dave, Laindon, S.Essex
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Coming home from work tonight, I noticed that there's still a lot of snow on the trees, even the individual twigs, in higher parts of the route, none of which is over 100m. Hainault Forest near Chigwell was one with an almost intact cover on the trees, with Kelvedon Hatch being another.

My system tells me I reached a max of 1.0C at 1pm, with a slow decline to 0.4C since. Last night was an almost constant 0.2C.

- Tom
Blackmore, SE Essex 80m amsl
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Looking around the Country it would seem that this spell was all about
altitude, as was forecast and built into the marginality.
This morning at just 50m above my elevation and just up the road there
was a full snow cover and it remained, as you say at Hainault, on the
tree branches all day.
More snow falling this evening as well but not settling. 0.8C and
unpleasant as my wife described it as she just walked in!
Dave