.... (1335Z): -SHSN ... a few small flakes of snow from shallow Cu
amongst a BKN sheet of Sc that had spread across over the past hour
from the ENE. OAT +0.2°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

... (1335Z): -SHSN ... a few small flakes of snow from shallow Cu
amongst a BKN sheet of Sc that had spread across over the past hour
from the ENE. OAT +0.2°C.


.... (1555Z): ... roughly an hour of paltry SN flakes - no impact on
surface or VIS. Over past 45 mins, cloud has fragmented, now SCT Cu
fra - and dew points have eased down; certainly the temperature has
come down, now -0.3°C (with the thermometer-over-grass already down
to -2C) and dew point -4.

The sunward horizon has got that 'cold night ahead' red tinge to it.

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

On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:57:48 -0000, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:


The sunward horizon has got that 'cold night ahead' red tinge to it.

1620 - back home briefly to check stove OK for my now familiar stoke-
it- up-quickly when I finally get back from work. It has been
seemingly very raw today partly because the wind has picked up with a
real 'edge' to it.
It seems the jury is out as to exactly what is going to fall in the
next few days: there are appeared to be a flurry of changes/additions
and shifts on the advisory front just before 1300. Indeed I read
through at about 1245, looked again at 1300 and noticed a number of
changes!
There has obviously been bird activity at the back and I have seen a
blackbird & a wren pecking away at the feast of delights!

R

"Robin Nicholson" wrote ...
It seems the jury is out as to exactly what is going to fall in the
next few days: there are appeared to be a flurry of
changes/additions
and shifts on the advisory front just before 1300. Indeed I read
through at about 1245, looked again at 1300 and noticed a number of
changes!


.... at the moment, I'm looking for fairly cloudy conditions next
couple of days - sporadic snow, but not too dramatic, *except* perhaps
tomorrow late morning to late afternoon as the upper trough axis comes
west, followed then by a marked recovery in contour heights. Whatever
falls though, even if only light, will settle readily and of course
will mask some sneaky stretches of hard/clear ice that have formed due
to people walking over the snow!

Amused (NOT) me an hour ago to hear that the councils are going to use
25% less salt: for those of us struggling on pavements that haven't
seen any treatment for several days, that's a bit of a joke.

Martin.

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

On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:53:53 -0000, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:

... at the moment, I'm looking for fairly cloudy conditions next
couple of days - sporadic snow, but not too dramatic, *except* perhaps
tomorrow late morning to late afternoon as the upper trough axis comes
west, followed then by a marked recovery in contour heights. Whatever
falls though, even if only light, will settle readily and of course
will mask some sneaky stretches of hard/clear ice that have formed due
to people walking over the snow!

Interesting. The media seems to be building us up for something -
longer expanded local TV forecasts & currently Fiona Bruce's' tone' is
as dramatic as possible

R

"Robin Nicholson" wrote in
message ...
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:53:53 -0000, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:

... at the moment, I'm looking for fairly cloudy conditions next
couple of days - sporadic snow, but not too dramatic, *except*
perhaps
tomorrow late morning to late afternoon as the upper trough axis
comes
west, followed then by a marked recovery in contour heights.
Whatever
falls though, even if only light, will settle readily and of course
will mask some sneaky stretches of hard/clear ice that have formed
due
to people walking over the snow!

Interesting. The media seems to be building us up for something -
longer expanded local TV forecasts & currently Fiona Bruce's' tone'
is
as dramatic as possible


.... just to be clear, I'm only talking very locally here! Further
east, especially around and immediately downwind of the Thames
Estuary, and also, perhaps, parts of the 'further' SW, then things
could (will in the former case) be a lot trickier - and then there's
the 'usual suspects' downwind of the North Sea which continue to
experience a snowy feed of vigorous convection.

Martin.


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