Starting at 6.00 pm yesterday there has been 15 hours of continuous
snow, sometimes heavy and windy. There were a couple of short breaks
overnight and this morning's snow is now light.
The temperature was remarkably constant at 0.4C throughout which
resulted in a simultaneous thaw.
The result - 1-2 cm lying snow on grass, roofs and cars. No disruption
as even side roads are clear.
Dave, Laindon, S.Essex

Dave Cornwell wrote:
Starting at 6.00 pm yesterday there has been 15 hours of continuous
snow, sometimes heavy and windy. There were a couple of short breaks
overnight and this morning's snow is now light.
The temperature was remarkably constant at 0.4C throughout which
resulted in a simultaneous thaw.
The result - 1-2 cm lying snow on grass, roofs and cars. No disruption
as even side roads are clear.
Dave, Laindon, S.Essex
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Just half a mile away at 100m ASL about 50m higher than here there is
full cover of several cm with a very pretty scene of trees with snow
laden branches.
Dave

On Feb 11, 10:33*am, Dave Cornwell wrote:
Dave Cornwell wrote:
Starting at 6.00 pm yesterday there has been 15 hours of continuous
snow, sometimes heavy and windy. There were a couple of short breaks
overnight and this morning's snow is now light.
The temperature was remarkably constant at 0.4C throughout which
resulted in a simultaneous thaw.
The result - 1-2 cm lying snow on grass, roofs and cars. No disruption
as even side roads are clear.
Dave, Laindon, S.Essex

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Just half a mile away at 100m ASL about 50m higher than here there is
full cover of several cm with a very pretty scene of trees with snow
laden branches.
Dave

What was the manual rainfall reading, Dave. Quite a difference between
Wanstead and Epping - though obviously with the wind yesterday, and
the sheltered nature of my snowdon, there's going to be a lot of
variabiity from site to site. Does Ron keep a manual gauge - his AWS
seemed to pack up shortly before mine yesterday?

On Monday, 11 February 2013 13:10:45 UTC, Scott W wrote:
On Feb 11, 10:33*am, Dave Cornwell wrote:

Dave Cornwell wrote:

Starting at 6.00 pm yesterday there has been 15 hours of continuous

snow, sometimes heavy and windy. There were a couple of short breaks

overnight and this morning's snow is now light.

The temperature was remarkably constant at 0.4C throughout which

resulted in a simultaneous thaw.

The result - 1-2 cm lying snow on grass, roofs and cars. No disruption

as even side roads are clear.

Dave, Laindon, S.Essex



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Coming home from work tonight, I noticed that there's still a lot of snow on the trees, even the individual twigs, in higher parts of the route, none of which is over 100m. Hainault Forest near Chigwell was one with an almost intact cover on the trees, with Kelvedon Hatch being another.

My system tells me I reached a max of 1.0C at 1pm, with a slow decline to 0..4C since. Last night was an almost constant 0.2C.

- Tom
Blackmore, SE Essex 80m amsl

Tom wrote:
On Monday, 11 February 2013 13:10:45 UTC, Scott W wrote:
On Feb 11, 10:33 am, Dave Cornwell wrote:

Dave Cornwell wrote:
Starting at 6.00 pm yesterday there has been 15 hours of continuous
snow, sometimes heavy and windy. There were a couple of short breaks
overnight and this morning's snow is now light.
The temperature was remarkably constant at 0.4C throughout which
resulted in a simultaneous thaw.
The result - 1-2 cm lying snow on grass, roofs and cars. No disruption
as even side roads are clear.
Dave, Laindon, S.Essex
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Coming home from work tonight, I noticed that there's still a lot of snow on the trees, even the individual twigs, in higher parts of the route, none of which is over 100m. Hainault Forest near Chigwell was one with an almost intact cover on the trees, with Kelvedon Hatch being another.

My system tells me I reached a max of 1.0C at 1pm, with a slow decline to 0.4C since. Last night was an almost constant 0.2C.

- Tom
Blackmore, SE Essex 80m amsl
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Looking around the Country it would seem that this spell was all about
altitude, as was forecast and built into the marginality.
This morning at just 50m above my elevation and just up the road there
was a full snow cover and it remained, as you say at Hainault, on the
tree branches all day.
More snow falling this evening as well but not settling. 0.8C and
unpleasant as my wife described it as she just walked in!
Dave

As expected, the snow did not make it this far - not a flake for us here, just a bit of cold drizzle. But just a short distance away, in Yoxford and Halesworth, there was apparently up to 4 inches. I guess it shows how hard forecasting can be - the Met Office forecast was generally good I think. As remarked elsewhere, it's been a strange "cold spell" here. We have hardly had a frost since it started, and two minor falls of snow that caused no disruption. Brac