John Hall wrote:

In message , Graham
writes
The warning for tomorrow is for ice not snow.
Are you saying you've missed all the snow? The snow here in South
Oxfordshire hasn't been particularly deep, but it's obvious that
other areas have had deep snow.

The warning for tomorrow is for ice not snow.
Are you saying you've missed all the snow? The snow here in South
Oxfordshire hasn't been particularly deep, but it's obvious that
other areas have had deep snow.

No we had around 7 cms yesterday, what I'm saying is why has there
been a snow warning for this area for today (from 10.30) when it's
been dry all day. The front coming up from the South has only
reached this area in the last hour. The snow from it is slight and
patchy, surely doesn't warrant any snow warning?


When a snow warning covers a substantial area, presumably the timing
for the warning to commence has to be the earliest time that the snow
could reach any part of the area, which could be some hours before it
is expected to reach the farther edge of the area. You could break
the area down into smaller adjoining areas and give each one its own
start time, but that could lead to a confusing plethora of warnings.


The following seems to be a much better approach to the problem

https://www.weather.gov/

Drilling down gets to some very detailed information, specific to your
location of interest.

I appreciate that this requires Internet access but we can't stick in
the quill pen era forever.

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
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https://peakdistrictweather.org
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