Several hours of light but persistent snow this evening has topped up our
snow cover to somewhere in the 6-7cm region. That's a respectable figure
for Bewdley: such events as Dec 2000, Feb 2007 and Feb 2009 (both events)
all resulted in somewhere in the 5-8cm range.

Air temperature is now -0.1°C (hooray!) and there's a light but nagging
NE wind. A much more suitable direction for these conditions than the
earlier south-westerly! The RainToday radar shows snow over me right now,
but if anything is falling it isn't reaching the ground.

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Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.

On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:40:32 -0600, David Buttery wrote:

Several hours of light but persistent snow this evening has topped up
our snow cover to somewhere in the 6-7cm region. That's a respectable
figure for Bewdley: such events as Dec 2000, Feb 2007 and Feb 2009 (both
events) all resulted in somewhere in the 5-8cm range.

Air temperature is now -0.1°C (hooray!) and there's a light but nagging
NE wind. A much more suitable direction for these conditions than the
earlier south-westerly! The RainToday radar shows snow over me right
now, but if anything is falling it isn't reaching the ground.

And now it's snowing once again! Only lightly, but it's a long time since
I can remember so much of a calendar day being taken up by snowfall. We
haven't really had anything that could be called an extended dry period
since it all started a bit before nine o'clock this morning.

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Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.

On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:55:18 -0600, David Buttery wrote:

And now it's snowing once again! Only lightly, but it's a long time
since I can remember so much of a calendar day being taken up by
snowfall. We haven't really had anything that could be called an
extended dry period since it all started a bit before nine o'clock this
morning.

Still light, as it has been throughout, but still coming down. I've not
been out, but would guess that there's 7cm or so on the ground now.
Tonight is exceeding my expectations for somewhere this far north! Temp
steady at -0.1°C.

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Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.

On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:27:34 -0600, David Buttery wrote:

Still light, as it has been throughout, but still coming down. I've not
been out, but would guess that there's 7cm or so on the ground now.
Tonight is exceeding my expectations for somewhere this far north! Temp
steady at -0.1°C.

In the end I did go out a few minutes ago, for one last look tonight and
a measure. 7-8 cm lying, which puts this event level with Feb 2007;
interestingly, in both cases Worcester (which you wouldn't think of as
that snowy either) got 10-12cm. Just a few flakes falling now, and so
small as not to be adding anything to the existing accumulation.
Temperature steady at -0.1°C.

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Bewdley, Worcs. ~90m asl.