Sloppy stuff here now
And the snow?Sloppy stuff here now
Nah. White stuff was falling from the sky but I would have hardly called it snow.Typical. Radar now showing the streamer is running to the north of Uckfield. Crowborough looks to be getting a good period of snow, but nothing doing here.
Nah. White stuff was falling from the sky but I would have hardly called it snow.
Far too wet and warm for it to settle.
Did give the decking down the park a little dusting though.
Well there you go. Every day is a school day and all that.That's snow, whether it settles or not. What you see on that decking is what I rather coarsely described as "pellet" snow earlier, but is more accurately named graupel (now I've looked it up). Whether it settles or not is irrelevant - it's the structure of the precipitation that counts. The graupel where I am was accumulating on roof tops easily enough initially, but it didn't last long as graupel and once it shifted to the wet flake type snow it all melted away rapidly.
It was never going to settle today (not unless we got an absolute dumping). Air temp slightly too high, but more importantly the soaked ground from the recent rain. Until we get much colder air in that can cool the saturated ground, any snow we get will melt easily once it lands.
Suspect there may be some lying snow over in Kent before too long. Looks like there's a much larger / more widespread event on the way. Just had another flurry here in Uckfield (graupel then flakes), but stopped again. But that radar image @Papa Lazarou shared is shifting it's way south-westwards and should hit us all before too long.Well there you go. Every day is a school day and all that.
Not sure I agree about it settling though. Yes granted I guess you can say it officially "snowed" but surely the whole point of it snowing is to make picture perfect scenes and give the kids a day off school to go sledging?!?
Still a dusting of "graupel" (I prefer pellet snow....more accurate description IMO) on roof tops and cars here in Crowborough.
Agreed.I hate snow in Brighton, no one can feckin drive properly, keep a steady pace seems so hard for some folks, Elm Grove and our road which runs parallel are murder, the amount of times I have seen cars slide down those roads smashing and bouncing into other cars is mind blowing.
Train for me when the snow comes, either that or hit the coast road where the Salt from the sea helps with the road to work.