Anyone else in the West Midlands spot the sleet on the car windscreen
this afternoon?

In Coventry, the air temperature was 4C, so it is possible my eyes
(and those of my better half) were not deceiving me.

Might just qualify as a "snow" day!

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk

Steve J wrote:

Anyone else in the West Midlands spot the sleet on the car windscreen
this afternoon?

In Coventry, the air temperature was 4C, so it is possible my eyes
(and those of my better half) were not deceiving me.

Might just qualify as a "snow" day!

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk

Some "windscreen" sleet here around 1700z as the temp fell through 7c.
It was definitely sleet and not hail - big wet splodges of it.

Norman
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Anyone else in the West Midlands spot the sleet on the car windscreen
this afternoon?

In Coventry, the air temperature was 4C, so it is possible my eyes
(and those of my better half) were not deceiving me.

Might just qualify as a "snow" day!
Some "windscreen" sleet here around 1700z as the temp fell through 7c.
It was definitely sleet and not hail - big wet splodges of it.

there was a definite "heaviness" to the last rain at about 1530., the temp
fell from 14C to 5C in half an hour, according to my neighbour.
http://www.cuckney.pwp.blueyonder.co...r/Dorridge.htm

started to rain heavily again here as I type.

JT
Dorridge

Steve,
Can't say since I was in Exeter - but Birmingham was 4C with
8.4mm of rain this afternoon.

Driving down to Exeter this morning was a glorious 'Autumn' day - moderate
frost (good enough for January/February) and mist and fog - particularly
over the Avon at Bredon.
Exeter was warm and sunny - almost unbroken all day.
Driving back a few bits of showery rain - looked like decaying convection,
but passing Cheltenham very heavy rain over Bredon Hill and very interesting
clouds - long wave like clouds to the west of the heavy rain: once through
this band very well-defined band of cloud over Worcester (~20:15BST).

Chris



"Steve J" wrote in message
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Anyone else in the West Midlands spot the sleet on the car windscreen
this afternoon?

In Coventry, the air temperature was 4C, so it is possible my eyes
(and those of my better half) were not deceiving me.

Might just qualify as a "snow" day!

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 at 19:28:58, John T wrote in
uk.sci.weather :

Anyone else in the West Midlands spot the sleet on the car windscreen
this afternoon?

In Coventry, the air temperature was 4C, so it is possible my eyes
(and those of my better half) were not deceiving me.

Might just qualify as a "snow" day!
Some "windscreen" sleet here around 1700z as the temp fell through 7c.
It was definitely sleet and not hail - big wet splodges of it.

there was a definite "heaviness" to the last rain at about 1530., the temp
fell from 14C to 5C in half an hour, according to my neighbour.
http://www.cuckney.pwp.blueyonder.co...r/Dorridge.htm

I noticed a dramatic drop here, too - from about 14C to 6C in little
over an hour!
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 at 21:10:18, CHRIS KIDD wrote in
uk.sci.weather :

Steve,
Can't say since I was in Exeter - but Birmingham was 4C with
8.4mm of rain this afternoon.

Driving down to Exeter this morning was a glorious 'Autumn' day - moderate
frost (good enough for January/February) and mist and fog - particularly
over the Avon at Bredon.
Exeter was warm and sunny - almost unbroken all day.
Driving back a few bits of showery rain - looked like decaying convection,
but passing Cheltenham very heavy rain over Bredon Hill and very interesting
clouds - long wave like clouds to the west of the heavy rain

Around 3.30pm the sky did look extremely threatening, but the threat
turned out to be a bluff - ended up with little more than several brief
heavy showers.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

On Apr 15, 6:40 pm, Steve J wrote:
Anyone else in the West Midlands spot the sleet on the car windscreen
this afternoon?

In Coventry, the air temperature was 4C, so it is possible my eyes
(and those of my better half) were not deceiving me.

Might just qualify as a "snow" day!

I reckon it should. I was driving from Coventry (Westwood Heath) to
Kenilworth at 1630 yesterday, the car thermometer was showing 4 deg C
and some of the heavier precipitation hitting the windscreen
definitely had sleet in it.

Martin


Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UKwww.bablakeweather.co.uk