On Sunday, 10 December 2017 11:59:22 UTC, Graham P Davis wrote:
On 10/12/17 11:27, Norman Lynagh wrote:
wrote:

On Sunday, 10 December 2017 11:07:17 UTC, Graham P Davis wrote:
High Wycombe has been reporting this nonsense for hours. Sigh!

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You're quite right, as an ex-observer heavy snow would mean a
visibility of a 1000 metres or less.

In Tideswell, I find that moderate snow often reduces visibility to
300-500m. Heavy snow would almost always have a vis of less than 300m.

Heavy snow is defined as snow accumulating at a rate of more than 4
cm/hr. That doesn't often happen here.


When I started observing at Wyton, the guidelines I was given was 1500m
or below for moderate snow and 200m for heavy.

I had 100m in moderate snow this morning, but I suspect there may have been very low stratus about - not that I could make out any detail of the sky!

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