Latest observation made at 1950hrs in Romsey:

SYNOP 03/// 41425 80205 11003 21015 40010 56010 77177 885// 333 43002 85710
88620=

METAR EG// 261950Z 02005KT 2500 -SN BKN010 OVC020 M00/M01 Q//// RESN YLO1=

Beaufort letters last hour: ss,cso.

Notes: surface wind has veered from NNW to NNE in last hour.
lowest visibility of 1000m occurred at 1845hrs.
moderate snow 1815hrs, became light at about 1920hrs.
snow first started to settle around 1800hrs and now covers the
ground completely.
clouds very difficult to identify but appears to be overcast Sc with
St beneath.

On 26 Feb 2004 20:30:59 GMT, (Nigel Paice) wrote:

Latest observation made at 1950hrs in Romsey:

Notes: surface wind has veered from NNW to NNE in last hour.
lowest visibility of 1000m occurred at 1845hrs.
moderate snow 1815hrs, became light at about 1920hrs.
snow first started to settle around 1800hrs and now covers the
ground completely.
clouds very difficult to identify but appears to be overcast Sc with
St beneath.

There's been a similar situation here in Fareham but the Eastern edge
of the moderate precipitation in the (same) slow moving area of snow
appears to have grazed us. Only light snow then, with a thin layer
settling on cars and grass but not pavements or roads. Temperature
fell from +2degC to +0.5 deg C during this 90 minute (so far)
"snowfall".

Light snow (small flakes) continues and the temperature is now down to
0.0 deg C so with wet roads, it could still get "interesting" here (as
I am sure it already is, a bit further West. (including Southampon).

--
Dave
Fareham

Latest observation made at 1950hrs in Romsey:

........ clouds very difficult to identify but appears to be overcast Sc with
St beneath.
Chilbolton cloud radar shows this well-

http://www.rcru.rl.ac.uk/weather/cloudradar.htm

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regards,
david
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