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spesh

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3225 on: 04 April, 2012, 11:37:43 am »
Snow in April is perfectly normal - I've got photographic evidence of several inches of snow in Mos Eisley spaceport Portsmouth on April 6th, 2008, it's been known to snow at the later end of April and it's not unheard of for the occasional flurry to occur in May!

The only reason that we are acting all surprised about this latest bout of snowy weather is because we have been fooled by an unseasonably warm and dry March.
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rafletcher

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3226 on: 04 April, 2012, 11:42:08 am »
Quote from: spesh on 04 April, 2012, 11:37:43 am
Snow in April is perfectly normal - I've got photographic evidence of several inches of snow in Mos Eisley spaceport Portsmouth on April 6th, 2008, it's been known to snow at the later end of April and it's not unheard of for the occasional flurry to occur in May!

The only reason that we are acting all surprised about this latest bout of snowy weather is because we have been fooled by an unseasonably warm and dry March.

Indeed. I can recall a brief flurry of snow on the Kent weald on a June day albeit some 35 years ago.
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Bledlow

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3227 on: 04 April, 2012, 11:44:29 am »
Yeah. I remember snow in April 1998, for example. Wet & slushy on the way to work.  >:(

And it settled (briefly) in the Chilterns at the beginning of June 1974. I woke up early & freezing, got out of bed to close the window, & saw the hills white in the dawn from 5 miles away. Woke again when the alarm went off, & thought "Was that a dream?". No sign of snow by then: cold, but sun shining bright. Switched on the radio while getting ready for school, & the Beeb was reporting snowfalls on high ground in southern England. There were pictures.

Maybe that was your "about some 35 years ago".
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Pingu

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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3228 on: 04 April, 2012, 12:23:46 pm »
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PeteB99

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3229 on: 04 April, 2012, 12:32:44 pm »
June 2nd 1975

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/i/1/Snow_in_June_-_2_June_1975.pdf

Snowed heavily in Norwich for a while. I remember looking out of the flat window and watching vehicles failing to get up Grapes Hill ;D
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LindaG

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3230 on: 04 April, 2012, 12:37:14 pm »
It snowed (horizontally) in Toytown last night, but there's none left this morning.  But I just watched my greenhouse cartwheeling past the window.

With my seedlings :( in it. 

I'm not riding my bike in that, even if the sun is shining.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3231 on: 04 April, 2012, 12:55:42 pm »
Quote from: PeteB99 on 04 April, 2012, 12:32:44 pm
June 2nd 1975

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/i/1/Snow_in_June_-_2_June_1975.pdf

Snowed heavily in Norwich for a while. I remember looking out of the flat window and watching vehicles failing to get up Grapes Hill ;D
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Several county cricket matches were abandoned due to snow,
This is reported before the gale force winds in Scotland! A very English forecast, in many ways.

Quote from: Pingu on 04 April, 2012, 12:23:46 pm
A week's difference
Nevertheless, it was quite sunny - though not particularly warm - here yesterday, till about 3pm anyway.
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Noodley

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3232 on: 04 April, 2012, 01:08:51 pm »
I see some snow has made it far enough south that it has become newsworthy...southerrn twatty meedya cnuts!   >:(
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PeteB99

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3233 on: 04 April, 2012, 01:34:36 pm »
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 04 April, 2012, 12:55:42 pm

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Several county cricket matches were abandoned due to snow,
This is reported before the gale force winds in Scotland! A very English forecast, in many ways.


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Indeed.
But that's how it was in those days. If it didn't happen in London or the Home Counties it wasn't news.

Be grateful that things have changed, if only by a little.
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mcshroom

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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3234 on: 04 April, 2012, 01:39:38 pm »
Snowed horazontally last night here (including straight at my face in a glae all the wayu home yesterday but nothing settled on the floor below about 250m (lower than a lot this year as Dent had snow a third of the way down).

The wind has redistributed the local wheeliebins (though mine was fine anchored to the wall with a bungee) and lots of leaves seem to have been blown off, but I haven't seen any flying greenhouses LG.

Now theres bright sunshine and the wind is dropping 8)

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Chris S

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3235 on: 04 April, 2012, 02:23:53 pm »
Quote from: Noodley on 04 April, 2012, 01:08:51 pm
I see some snow has made it far enough south that it has become newsworthy...southerrn twatty meedya cnuts!   >:(

I remember thinking a similar thing in reverse last week, when the killer heatwave struck The North.
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Pingu

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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3236 on: 04 April, 2012, 02:24:30 pm »
Quote from: Noodley on 04 April, 2012, 01:08:51 pm
I see some snow has made it far enough south that it has become newsworthy...southerrn twatty meedya cnuts!   >:(

Channel 4 News had a reporter in Aboyne yesterday.
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Exit Stage Left

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3237 on: 04 April, 2012, 06:44:44 pm »
Skiing was had at Yad Moss today, I was working planting trees in open mossland at sea-level, and that was bad enough, God knows what it was like at 2,000 feet.
Picture at 4.30 pm.


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Pingu

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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3238 on: 15 April, 2012, 10:52:09 am »
Snowing in furryboottoon just now  ::-)
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Efrogwr

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3239 on: 15 April, 2012, 11:16:22 am »
There was a just discernible dusting of snow on the Carneddau yesterday afternoon, and very cold rain on my side of the Glyderau. I got home just as it started!
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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3240 on: 15 April, 2012, 09:53:04 pm »
A flurry at the road race today, just as I was saying hello to Noodley ..

dissapeared leaving sunny dry roads with a cold north wind.
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Rhys W

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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3241 on: 15 April, 2012, 10:15:41 pm »
There was some spectacular thunderstorms in Cardiff on Thursday afternoon. I went for a spin on Friday lunchtime towards Newport and there was "snow" in the verges. It was actually hail of course, but imagine how much hail must have fallen for it look like snow almost 24 hours later on a sunny day.
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Chris S

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3242 on: 16 April, 2012, 09:21:16 am »
Quote from: Rhys W on 15 April, 2012, 10:15:41 pm
There was some spectacular thunderstorms in Cardiff on Thursday afternoon. I went for a spin on Friday lunchtime towards Newport and there was "snow" in the verges. It was actually hail of course, but imagine how much hail must have fallen for it look like snow almost 24 hours later on a sunny day.

I've seen that kind of thing once before - I even remarked about it somewhere else: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=20230.msg362505#msg362505

Not something I'd want to get caught cycling in...  :-\
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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3243 on: 24 April, 2012, 08:21:18 pm »
(Not strictly snow-related, but contains hail:)

Look, I know April is known for showers, but this is getting silly. Admittedly, it's not raining all the time, but I've never known so many consecutive days of on-off, sporadic rather vicious showery weather.

Good luck to you commuters out there  ;D
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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3244 on: 24 April, 2012, 08:34:23 pm »
We just had a weeks hols  :facepalm:
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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3245 on: 17 October, 2012, 02:06:08 pm »
WTF?

It's 15C and sunny here.  With a very light flurry of snow!?!

First of the year?
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Quint

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3246 on: 17 October, 2012, 02:13:39 pm »
I do wish I could hibernate   :facepalm:
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mrcharly-YHT

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3247 on: 17 October, 2012, 02:14:08 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 17 October, 2012, 02:06:08 pm
WTF?

It's 15C and sunny here.  With a very light flurry of snow!?!

First of the year?
Seriously?
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Kim

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Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3248 on: 17 October, 2012, 02:18:07 pm »
Just a little flurry of dandruff.  Stopped after a couple of minutes, and didn't settle or anything.
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matthew

Re: It's snowing!
« Reply #3249 on: 17 October, 2012, 02:18:57 pm »
Quote from: Kim on 17 October, 2012, 02:06:08 pm
WTF?

It's 15C and sunny here.  With a very light flurry of snow!?!

First of the year?

The student theatre group hasn't got its hands on a snow machine has it?

You can't blame pebble mill any more though
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