What a difference a couple of hours makes. Probably a level inch here at a
guess. Glorious.

I'm actually not that bothered about getting much more than this - it's
just nice to see everything white, especially when the road (a side road)
is covered, that's always a nice sign of "proper snow". It's always
amaazing the extra level of ambient light the snow provides.

I used the weatheronline radar which is quite simplistic but allows you to
stick in your postcode which appears as a dot. My impression is that North
West Kent is probably getting a pasting - having relocated the "dot" to
Orpington, it's been sat under a line of heavy snow for the last 2.5 hours.
Anyone from the Orpington area?

Cheers
Richard

On 1 Feb, 20:52, Richard Dixon wrote:
What a difference a couple of hours makes. Probably a level inch here at a
guess. Glorious.

I'm actually not that bothered about getting much more than this - it's
just nice to see everything white, especially when the road (a side road)
is covered, that's always a nice sign of "proper snow". It's always
amaazing the extra level of ambient light the snow provides.

I used the weatheronline radar which is quite simplistic but allows you to
stick in your postcode which appears as a dot. My impression is that North
West Kent is probably getting a pasting - having relocated the "dot" to
Orpington, it's been sat under a line of heavy snow for the last 2.5 hours.
Anyone from the Orpington area?

Cheers
Richard

I remember that in 1987 the Isle of Sheppey was very badly hit by the
snow and cut off for a day or so - think the Daily Mail headline was
'Siberia, No it's the Garden of England" - perhaps this system is
similar?

Scott W wrote in
:

I remember that in 1987 the Isle of Sheppey was very badly hit by the
snow and cut off for a day or so - think the Daily Mail headline was
'Siberia, No it's the Garden of England" - perhaps this system is
similar?

There was some incredible banded snowfall there (for the interested reader,
see Bill Pike's work in Met Mag, if I recall correctly), but these bands
are parallel to the flow - the ones in 1987 IIRC were orthogonal to the
flow, aligned along the coastline - which probably explains the Sheppey
pasting then.

I recall a figure showing Walton on the Naze's weather reports showing
continuous heavy snow (4 stars!) for about 6 consecutive hours. I recall
waking up to a very thick blanket of snow one morning and, being 4 ft 9 at
the time, trying to walk to school with the snow coming in well over the
top of my wellies...

Richard