1cm at 9am. Temp 0 deg. SW breeze starting to pick up.

Friday 18th Jan. Remarkable temperature drop overnight from + 2.5 to -2.0 in cloudy conditions. Slight snow beginning at 0900. Moderate now at 10.50. 1-2 cm accumulation.

Remarkable temperature drop overnight from + 2.5 to -2.0 in cloudy
conditions.

That will be due to advection of cold air off the comtinent rather
than the usual diurnal change.

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Freddie
Bayston Hill
Shropshire
102m AMSL
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From the radar the snow band seems to have stalled about 10 miles to the east of us over Essex. Still continuous light to moderate snow here with a little blowing in the SE breeze. -1.4 deg. About 2cm of powdery snow so far. I cannot remember the last time we had snow in London off a classic easterly situation.

1530 snow dying out. Level depths 5-8 cm. SE wind picking up. - 0.8 deg.

Light snow now falling from the low to the SE. It looked as though it would miss us but on the latest radar is expanding further west to include us ;-)
Temp -1
5-7cm snow lying from the Friday event now being freshened up.

Light / mod snow falling 0900 to 1930 now dying out. Level depth 10-11cm. Max 0 deg. Light winds. Very pretty and well mannered snow.

Hampstead Heath all runs complete with new snow on a firm base ;-)

Rain had steadily been turning to snow since 1700. Now (1845) temp 1 deg and wet snow just starting to settle. The radar shows the precipitation band to be slow moving so I would not be surprised to get a few cm of lying snow by midnight. If so it will cause total chaos on the roads.

Top of Hampstead now white with at least 1 cm of heavy lying snow. Roads getting very slippery. Very noticeable effect of altitude with hardly any accumulation in Swiss Cottage only 50m lower.

2-3 cm at the very top of Hampstead with all surfaces covered in wet snow. Nothing in St Johns Wood only 2 miles south and 75 metres lower.