Went to Exeter this morning but chose to go the long way round over the moor
via Postbridge. Some of the old drifts on the roadsides, around the rocks
and over gorse still look stunning and above 500m asl parts of the moor
looked pretty white. Piles of snow all over the place from the ploughing and
from where folk have dug out their lanes. Generally though it is starting to
look more like normal again.

Temp at 1515 +3.8C

Will
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"Will Hand" wrote in message
...
Went to Exeter this morning but chose to go the long way round over the
moor via Postbridge. Some of the old drifts on the roadsides, around the
rocks and over gorse still look stunning and above 500m asl parts of the
moor looked pretty white. Piles of snow all over the place from the
ploughing and from where folk have dug out their lanes. Generally though
it is starting to look more like normal again.

Temp at 1515 +3.8C

Will
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A patch about 1cm deep left on the shaded bit of lawn from the various falls
of the last two weeks. Still large piles remaining here and there from
cleared drives which lasted the whole time.
Dave, S.Essex
www.laindonweather.co.uk

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On 14 Feb, 15:53, "Dave Cornwell"
wrote:
"Will Hand" wrote in message

... Went to Exeter this morning but chose to go the long way round over the
moor via Postbridge. Some of the old drifts on the roadsides, around the
rocks and over gorse still look stunning and above 500m asl parts of the
moor looked pretty white. Piles of snow all over the place from the
ploughing and from where folk have dug out their lanes. Generally though
it is starting to look more like normal again.

Temp at 1515 +3.8C

Will

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A patch about 1cm deep left on the shaded bit of lawn from the various falls
of the last two weeks. Still large piles remaining here and there from
cleared drives which lasted the whole time.
Dave, S.Essexwww.laindonweather.co.uk

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I'm up in Oxfordshire at the moment. Here in Thame apart from dying
snowmen there's nothing. However, a few miles away on the Chilterns it
still looks white above Chinnor - as of this morning...

Pete L wrote in
:

I'm up in Oxfordshire at the moment. Here in Thame apart from dying
snowmen there's nothing. However, a few miles away on the Chilterns it
still looks white above Chinnor - as of this morning...

A bit of house reconnaissance work around Cobham/Oxshott/Claygate way
revealed on the most hardy of snow patches remained today...

Richard

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 at 21:27:04, Richard Dixon
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

Pete L wrote in
:

I'm up in Oxfordshire at the moment. Here in Thame apart from dying
snowmen there's nothing. However, a few miles away on the Chilterns it
still looks white above Chinnor - as of this morning...

A bit of house reconnaissance work around Cobham/Oxshott/Claygate way
revealed on the most hardy of snow patches remained today...

Still almost complete cover on the higher parts of Cleeve Hill (just NE
of Cheltenham).
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

On Feb 15, 7:59*am, Paul Hyett wrote:
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 at 21:27:04, Richard Dixon
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

Pete L wrote in
:

I'm up in Oxfordshire at the moment. Here in Thame apart from dying
snowmen there's nothing. However, a few miles away on the Chilterns it
still looks white above Chinnor - as of this morning...

A bit of house reconnaissance work around Cobham/Oxshott/Claygate way
revealed on the most hardy of snow patches remained today...

Still almost complete cover on the higher parts of Cleeve Hill (just NE
of Cheltenham).
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

Some patches in the shade south of Basingstoke, and the occasional bit
of compacted snow where it had been cleared away on the hills above
Liss (Hants), but otherwise none round here. I suspect that if that
low had produced even sleet/wet snow, rather than rain (and given it
did not too far north or west of here, it wasn't too far from
happening) there'd still be quite significant cover over large parts
of southern England.

Nick

wrote:
On Feb 15, 7:59 am, Paul Hyett wrote:
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 at 21:27:04, Richard Dixon
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

Pete L wrote in
:

I'm up in Oxfordshire at the moment. Here in Thame apart from dying
snowmen there's nothing. However, a few miles away on the
Chilterns it still looks white above Chinnor - as of this
morning...

A bit of house reconnaissance work around Cobham/Oxshott/Claygate
way revealed on the most hardy of snow patches remained today...

Still almost complete cover on the higher parts of Cleeve Hill (just
NE of Cheltenham).
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to
email me)

Some patches in the shade south of Basingstoke, and the occasional bit
of compacted snow where it had been cleared away on the hills above
Liss (Hants), but otherwise none round here. I suspect that if that
low had produced even sleet/wet snow, rather than rain (and given it
did not too far north or west of here, it wasn't too far from
happening) there'd still be quite significant cover over large parts
of southern England.

Nick

Indeed. Here on Dartmoor the low produced cold rain below 400 metres and a
sleet/wet snow mix higher up, before turning to snow at all levels for a
couple of hours at the end. A few tens of miles further south and Dartmoor
would have been facing another 6 inches on top. Ah well .... at least we
still have some deep patches and drifts left.

Will
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Indeed. Here on Dartmoor the low produced cold rain below 400 metres and a
sleet/wet snow mix higher up, before turning to snow at all levels for a
couple of hours at the end.

Didn't get snow any here Will. The rain stayed as rain.

Sun's out. Looks like being a lovely day to make up for the dullness of
yesterday.
________________
Nick.
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 at 07:59:47, Paul Hyett
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

Still almost complete cover on the higher parts of Cleeve Hill (just NE
of Cheltenham).

If you watched Countryfile today, you would have seen the snowy Cotswold
pics, including Cleeve Hill.
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

In article
,
Pete L wrote:

I'm up in Oxfordshire at the moment. Here in Thame apart from dying
snowmen there's nothing. However, a few miles away on the Chilterns it
still looks white above Chinnor - as of this morning...

Sunday afternoon...
...there was still quite a lot of snow on shaded and North-facing slopes on
top of the Chilterns;
then almost nothing till about 5 miles North of Aylesbury when it became
rather like the Chiltern summit. Still 2" on parts of my lawn inBuckingham
that get little sun at this time of year.

--
Rodney Blackall (retired meteorologist)(BSc, FRMetS, MRI)
Buckingham, ENGLAND
Using Acorn SA-RPC, OS 4.02 with ANT INS and Pluto 3.03j