"George Booth" wrote in message
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On 19/01/2015 14:32, Dave Cornwell wrote:
It is very difficult to work out where it is cold and where there is
snow cover. The Media aren't helping. It's not a North vs London bias
it's a we'll report the worst case as being everywhere bias. On News 24
I just got in the handover to the forecaster " Can it possibly get any
colder than this?" Answer, "Not really after the near record breaking
temperatures in some parts last night". Am I imagining this stuff or are
they? I am prepared to concede that today is the first day of a cold
snap here as the max looks like being 3.6C today and there was a slight
frost last night.
BUT where exactly is all of the snow cover and freezing weather they
keep mentioning?

Dave, S.Essex

Well Dave, see my recent post. The snow line is now about 100' above me
and the hills to the south are thickly clad. West of here, including the
Glasgow area, has snow cover as well.


Here you go, 1020-1205 today
http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/i...5019.terra.1km

although there's a lot of cloud over N England and Midlands


Snow cover over upland Wales, Exmoor and northern Dartmoor show up well on
that image too. Thanks George.

But to answer Dave's question, clearly northern Britain and many parts of
Wales are cold. Just beginning in the SE and in the SW it began yesterday,
bearing in mind that upland areas of England like the Cotswolds, Peak
District and SW moors can get snow in January even in milder spells. A good
indicator of cold weather in my locality is not snow but persistence of ice.
Yesterday was the first day that ice persisted all day (even in sunshine).
Proper cold is when we start to get rime icing and that has not happened yet
this winter.

Will
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