Stormy Weather II

[oddoneout]

Overnight continued episodes of graupel/dandruff, so a patchy coating of white to wake up to. About 8-30 it started dropping proper snowflakes which have quickly provided a more normal snowy cover, much to the delight of the street's children - young and not so young.
Cheek by jowl front door and path of this terrace terrace house and neighbour, and no boundary wall, meant that when he decided to clear his front path mine got done as well. Kind thought but it exposed the layer of ice under the snow, which is why I wasn't going to do it - the snow is safer to walk on. However it is now covered up again so I was able to get out to the recycling bin. The bin men are going to have a miserable time of it today poor souls.
Last time we had snow a few weeks back, the police attending weather related motor incidents got quite a haul of non-Covid compliant folks, I wonder if that will be repeated this time, there was a lot of publicity last time to reinforce the warning and rules . Not all of them could just leave the car and escape questions that way - so sitting ducks.

[cloughie]

No snow, but a very cold but beautifully bright sunny morning!

[Pulcinella]

Snow AND sunshine at the same time here: very strange!

[gradus]

Snow enough here and still coming. One of the cats went out for his morning inspection of the fences but the other resolutely sits and stares at it from the right side of the window glass.

[oddoneout]

No sign of sun but the cloud is high and bright. Snow flakes are still falling gently and the wind has dropped noticeably so I think it might be worth pulling out my wellies and grabbing a stick and going out for a brief crunch through the white stuff before it gets too mashed up by children and dogs.

[Serial_Apologist]

Current reports of temperatures in the - 1 to - 2 range this lunchtime around London, so at - 3 we must be in a cold spot, something I've felt for some time: we're on a northward downslope, so subject to katabatic downflows and weaker insolation - not that there's much change of the latter today!

My salt 'n 'sand broadcasting effort of yesterday doesn't appear to have had the melting effect intended, but that could be due to drifting. Out with the stiff broom this afternoon!

[BBMmk2]

SA, certainly very cold round here! Minus 2 to 0C! A flurry of snow earlier.

[Quarky]

To my surprise, in a somewhat contradictory manner, these freezing temperatures and snow have allowed this flooded area to dry out. That is the lane was flooded, and the road was closed, and my back garden was turning into a morass. Constant rain showers had prevented natural drainage from performing its function. Now signs of normality.

[oddoneout]

There is now a 3 or 4 inch snow covering but the route to that was somewhat odd I think. Around lunchtime yesterday the snow cover started to show signs of melting, which seemed at odds with the bitter wind. During the afternoon sporadic showers of the graupel/dandruff kind started to increase and settle until by evening there was a noticeable covering, to a degree that seemed at odds with the apparent light nature of what was descending. More came during the night but became more snowflake-like. Sun and blue sky is now appearing and with the slight scattering of flakes is all looking very pretty - but not good for anyone who has to get anywhere.

[Pulcinella]

In the blink of an eye, it has changed from being bright blue sunny sky (with some heat in the sun) to driving snow!

[DracoM]

There is now a 3 or 4 inch snow covering but the route to that was somewhat odd I think. Around lunchtime yesterday the snow cover started to show signs of melting, which seemed at odds with the bitter wind. During the afternoon sporadic showers of the graupel/dandruff kind started to increase and settle until by evening there was a noticeable covering, to a degree that seemed at odds with the apparent light nature of what was descending. More came during the night but became more snowflake-like. Sun and blue sky is now appearing and with the slight scattering of flakes is all looking very pretty - but not good for anyone who has to get anywhere.

Spot on for here too..............!

[oddoneout]

Spot on for here too..............!

Good heavens, whatever are the odds of that happening?

[DracoM]

Loved the description of meandering bits of snow as 'dandruff'.
They wander about a bit dazed to find themselves out in daylight being carried on an easterly breeze!
BUT what it seems to suggest too that is that the air is often much fuller of random bits of moisture that in other circs would go totally unnoticed but in the brisk cold we have now, they become visible 'dandruff'.

[Serial_Apologist]

Good heavens, whatever are the odds of that happening?

Or indeed, of snow falling at below freezing point without any accumulations, according to what the BBC forecaster said at least twice earlier on this morning? As a result we have had another inch of the white stuff on the ground so far today. What world are these people living in???

It now looks as though a battle ground between the continental arctic air and maritime tropical air from the SW will be shaping up this coming weekend - timings to be confirmed. If the milder air wins out, we should be back to normal conditions and a quick ensuing thaw by Monday; but, as 1963, 1978 and 1981 demonstrated, very cold blocks of this kind are very difficult to shift once in place.

[DracoM]

What world are these people living in???

Hear, hear!!