Nick Gardner wrote:

On 23/02/2015 16:32, Len Wood wrote:
One clap of thunder at about 1500 GMT.
Lots of hail showers all day.

Mostly light rain showers here and plenty of warm sunshine in-between.
Temperature was pretty constant for most of the day at around 6.0C with a
maximum of 6.5C this afternoon. Rainfall total since midnight is 5.0 mm.

Today's highest temperature actually occurred at midnight (8.1C) though the
peak was 10.6C at 21:00 yesterday.

The conditions soon deteriorated even at modest elevation when compared to
the relatively benign weather here in the lowlands. I visited Dunkeswell in
the Blackdown Hills this morning and the weather was very unpleasant with
horizontal heavy sleet/snow/hail mix blown in on a very strong wind. Face and
hands soon became numb on a site survey due to the high wind-chill and even
the best waterproof clothing couldn't keep that soaking out for long. Glad to
get back down to my 'tropical' enclave of weather serenity.

The best waterproof clothing is just that - 'waterproof'. It sounds like
maybe you don't have 'the best', Nick :-)

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
http://peakdistrictweather.org