Eskimo Will wrote:


"Norman Lynagh" wrote in message
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Eskimo Will wrote:


"Norman Lynagh" wrote in message
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Tideswell, Derbyshire - Wednesday 9th November 2016
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0630z 07001kt 1200 -SN BR 8St003 +00.7/+00.7 997
RMK: Sleet turned to snow around 2300z yesterday evening.
Since then it has been snowing with the temp around +1C.
There's 2 cm of very wet snow on the ground. There's
nothing on the road. That's just wet.

0900z CALM 0800 -SN FG 8St003 +00.7/+00.7 999
RMK: Snow was moderate at times 0700-0800 but it has almost
stopped now. 3 cm lying snow and the road now has a slushy
covering.
09-09z: Tx 3.7 (1450z) Tn +0.3 (0900z yesterday) RR 14.7
21-09z: Tn 0.6 (0805z) 15-09z: Tg 0.0 (under snow)
00-24z: Sun 0.0

1600z 31003kt 4000 BR 7St005 +02.9/+02.8 1002
RMK: Snow died out around 0930z. Grey and overcast since
then with a spit or two of rain now and again. There's
been a slow thaw throughout the day and we're now down
to a scrappy 30% cover. Max temp 2.9 but it's still
creeping up.


All in all a bit disappointing. Still, very early in the season.


We were happy. My wife had to go to Bakewell yesterday and that might have
been impossible if the forecast had been anything like correct. As it
turned out, the roads were clear.

I saw yesterday that Derbyshire County Council were tweeting that the
amount of snow over the Peak District was much less than had been forecast.


The auto forecast from 24 hours earlier was more or less bang on then!
The later forecasts overdid it.

Will

Not really. The automated forecasts issued from 1600 on Mon 7th onwards all
predicted heavy snow from sometime on the evening of Tue 8th through till at
least dawn on Wed 9th, mostly with the temp on 0C. It was, of course, very
marginal. We ended up with about 15mm of rainfall equivalent but it produced
only 3 cm of lying snow,

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