"Martin Rowley" wrote ...
... (21/1720Z): been fairly quiet here since my last post - rain off
and on, always light, with temperature up to 1.8 for a short time,
but it's now drifted back down to 0.9°C and I see that Hurn are
reporting -RASN: back to street-lamp watching :-)


.... (21/1750Z): temperature holding as above, dew point 1.1, so with
the wet-bulb well above zero, the melting layer must be a good 150
metres or more above us. There is the hint of something of melted snow
in the light PPN: if it stays this intensity, not really going to
cause too many problems.

Martin.



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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

... (21/1750Z): temperature holding as above (0.9), dew point 1.1,
so with the wet-bulb well above zero, the melting layer must be a
good 150 metres or more above us. There is the hint of something of
melted snow in the light PPN: if it stays this intensity, not really
going to cause too many problems.

[ rubbish my previous the dew point should have read 0.2!]


.... (21/1925Z): still gently 'sleeting'; nothing very dramatic. OAT
0.8°C. Could do with heavier PPN to dissuade the so-called carol
singers who think that the first line of 'We wish you a Merry
Christmas' is a suitable way to earn a pound!

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

... (21/1925Z): still gently 'sleeting'; nothing very dramatic. OAT
0.8°C. Could do with heavier PPN to dissuade the so-called carol
singers who think that the first line of 'We wish you a Merry
Christmas' is a suitable way to earn a pound!


.... (21/1950Z): recent burst of moderate rain/snow mixed has given a
slushy covering on pavements, but roads still OK. OAT now eased to
0.7; I suppose the real problem is going to come (again), when all
this lot clears. Wilts and Dorset won't want to lose another bus :-

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

... (21/1950Z): recent burst of moderate rain/snow mixed has given a
slushy covering on pavements, but roads still OK. OAT now eased to
0.7; I suppose the real problem is going to come (again), when all
this lot clears. Wilts and Dorset won't want to lose another bus :-


.... (21/2110Z): very light rain/snow - but slushy covering
disappeared. OAT stable at around 0.8; imagery would suggest we're not
going to get too much more.

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
...
"Martin Rowley" wrote in message ...

Haven't been around yet, but can hear the odd 'squeal' of brakes as
drivers find out the ghastly truth!

... am I reading this aright? Are there really no warnings out for Dorset
& enclaves?



http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/new..._Dorset_roads/

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

Proper freezing rain in Romsey for 30 minutes this morning
and not a hint of snow while the thermometer was showing
-2.7C at its onset around 0745Z. The resulting glaze was
verging on treacherous with drivers parking up in peculiar
places to free their windscreens of freezing water droplets.
Luckily, I only heard of one minor accident. No such
problems just to the north because it didn't rain there.

The photographer in that Bournemouth Echo article isn't
a relative of yours by any chance, Martin?

Nigel

"Nigel Paice" wrote ...
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/new..._Dorset_roads/

snip
The photographer in that Bournemouth Echo article isn't
a relative of yours by any chance, Martin?


LOL! I actually missed that Nigel - no, no relation.

Martin.



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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

... (21/2110Z): very light rain/snow - but slushy covering
disappeared. OAT stable at around 0.8; imagery would suggest we're
not going to get too much more.


.... just to round up after that: actually, between 2120 & 2200, we had
a period of moderate *rain*, gradually with sleety elements, which
then became light and 'proper' snow for a very short time before the
whole lot finished by midnight.

The only place this morning/Tuesday 22nd/ (first light) where snow has
settled is on *previously* frozen paving etc., and some shed roofs -
generally, everything was just too wet, and as the cloud broke around
dawn (at which time OAT was above zero), it all froze solid.
Temperature by 0900Z -0.7°C.

Total rainfall measured in 24hr to 0900Z/22nd (mix of rain, rain-snow
and a very little snow) was 8.3 mm. Good thing that we had just enough
warm air to keep the PPN liquid, as if only half of that had fallen as
snow, conditions would have been as chaotic as further north.

As of 22/1020Z, a fine, sunny morning: foggy first thing (never less
than 600M), but within past 30 mins, the fog has thinned (still 1km),
but more importantly, the OVC ST has now dispersed. OAT still below
freezing though at -0.7°C.

Martin.



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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023