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.

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

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

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

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°.

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

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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.

Quite agree Norman, there were several days last month when the
ground was clear at 0830Z but by 0900Z we had a full cover of 1cm.
snow, only for it to be all gone by 1100Z still constituting a 'snow
lying' day. Doesn't count today when we still have 45cm. lying snow
but the road out of the village has been cleared and we can finally
escape!

Phil
40 miles N. of Inverness+



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On Monday, March 5, 2018 at 3:11:02 PM UTC, philgurr wrote:
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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.

Quite agree Norman, there were several days last month when the
ground was clear at 0830Z but by 0900Z we had a full cover of 1cm.
snow, only for it to be all gone by 1100Z still constituting a 'snow
lying' day. Doesn't count today when we still have 45cm. lying snow
but the road out of the village has been cleared and we can finally
escape!

Phil
40 miles N. of Inverness+



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Even down here on the tip of Cornwall, there are still drifts along the hedgerows, 3' deep in places, from the blizzard of 28th of February.

The Sennen sign this morning http://www.turnstone-cottage.co.uk/SS.html

This despite no snow since 1st March & the last 4 days seeing plenty of rain and temperatures generally in the 5-10C range (over 11C at one point)

Because it drifted a lot, and it rain overnight 1st/2nd, only 1 day with snow lying.

Graham
Penzance