Snow reports for Christmas Day 2009
London (Buckingham Place) - NO Liverpool (Albert Dock) - NO Aberdeen
(Pittodrie- Aberdeen FC) - NO Glasgow (Cathedral) - YES Edinburgh
(Castle) - YES Exeter (Met Office HQ) - NO Manchester (Coronation
Street) - NO Leeds (Elland Road) - YES Birmingham (Bullring) - YES
Cardiff (Millennium Stadium) - NO Belfast (Aldergrove Airport) - NO
Brize Norton, Oxfordshire - NO Hurn, Bournemouth - NO Marham, Norfolk
- NO Albermarle, Northeast England - YES Filton, Bristol - NO
Andrewsfield, Essex - NO Waddington, Lincolnshire -NO Watnall,
Nottingham -YES Church Fenton, Tadcaster -YES Issued at 1232 on Mon 28
Dec 2009.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...t_weather.html

No snow in London. £40. Ta very much Mr. Bookie!

On Dec 28, 10:04*pm, Dawlish wrote:
Snow reports for Christmas Day 2009
London (Buckingham Place) - NO Liverpool (Albert Dock) - NO Aberdeen
(Pittodrie- Aberdeen FC) - NO Glasgow (Cathedral) - YES Edinburgh
(Castle) - YES Exeter (Met Office HQ) - NO Manchester (Coronation
Street) - NO Leeds (Elland Road) - YES Birmingham (Bullring) - YES
Cardiff (Millennium Stadium) - NO Belfast (Aldergrove Airport) - NO
Brize Norton, Oxfordshire - NO Hurn, Bournemouth - NO Marham, Norfolk
- NO Albermarle, Northeast England - YES Filton, Bristol - NO
Andrewsfield, Essex - NO Waddington, Lincolnshire -NO Watnall,
Nottingham -YES Church Fenton, Tadcaster -YES Issued at 1232 on Mon 28
Dec 2009.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/...t_weather.html

No snow in London. £40. Ta very much Mr. Bookie!

And all of a sudden we are on to very dodgy territory!
Are they honestly trying to tell us that somebody stood for 24 hours
at each of these non Met Office
sites (Buck House, Glasgow Cathedral etc) to check whether any snow
flakes were seen.
Were they properly Met Office trained to recognise sleet?
Several of them appear to be official Met sites, but with automatic
sensors. Google around for a
while and you'll quickly discover that such sensors are notoriously
slow in recognising the transition
from rain to sleet and then snow. Anybody who has lost a bet here
should very rapidly dispute these
readings. Biggest giveaway.....Waddington reported only rain on the
25th, yet their snow depth increased at times!

Jim