Tideswell, Derbyshire - Monday 5th March 2018
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0630z 18003 0400 FG 8St002 +01.2/+01.0 987
RMK: A claggy morning with a very slow thaw in progress.
There's still lots of deep snow on the ground but the cover is
now less than 50%. It's an anomaly in the system whereby today
won't count as a 'snow lying' day, even though there are
still roads blocked by deep drifts, but a day with a uniform
slight dusting would count. The rules appear to assume that
snowfall always produces an even cover and do not address the
situation in which dry powdery snow falls with a strong wind
blowing.

0900z 16002kt 0800 FG 4St001 8St003 +02.3/+02.2 988
RMK: The fog lifted for a short time around 0800z then quickly
came back down again. The slow thaw continues.
09-09z: Tx +2.4 (1905z) Tn +0.2 (0900z yesterday) RR 2.2
21-09z: Tn +1.1 (0650z) 15-09z: Tg -0.2 00-24z: Sun nil

1700z 07004kt 10km 4St008 8Sc025 05.6/04.2 987
RMK: A low overcast with mist and intermittent fog persisted
till early afternoon. There was then a change to more
cumuliform cloud for a while but it has all flattened out
again. There's been a steady thaw throughout the day. Despite
that, while out walking this afternoon we came across 2 roads
only a few hundred yards outside the village that are still
blocked by snowdrifts 1-2m high. A transit van had tried to get
through one of them but had become completely stuck. The
driver needed either a tractor or several more days of thaw
to get the van moving again. All this on a 'no lying snow' day.
I should think the driver of the van might have a different
view on that :-) Max temp 6.2°.

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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
https://peakdistrictweather.org
Twitter: @TideswellWeathr