Major snowfall in the UK

**leon** · 09/02/2007, 02:49

Hello dudes,

what better than today to launch this new discussion room?!?!
A major snowfall...a big event...tv, newspaper, all the people here are talking about that...It is the topic of the day!
Only the southern regions saw some rain...Wales, England (from Devon northward),south of Scotland and Northern Ireland had a quite heavy snowfall overnight and during the day.
Also in Ireland (mainly inland) it has snowed, only sleet in Dublin though!
In the Midlands the snow brought quite a significant covering, up to 15 cm in some places.

Apparently this is the major snowfall of the last 15 years,at least in terms of coverage.
More snow is on the way...for central and northern England, only rain in the south for tomorrow and Saturday.

Currently in Bristol cloudy sky
Temperature -0.4 (falling)
Pressure 997 hPa (raising)
Wind Calm

I leave you with some pictures of this amazing event...
Enjoy.

St.Albans, Hertfordshire - St.Peter Church

East Sussex - Cottage

Luton - Forest around the town

St.Albans, Hertfordshire - Verulamium Roman wall

Birmingham countryside

Cambridge

Wantage, Oxfordshire - City centre

Luton

London - Cab

Unknown location

Please fine more pics @ http://forum.meteonetwork.it/showthr...t=39576&page=7

pages 6 & 7

Cheers,

Leon

**storm71** · 09/02/2007, 03:15

Hi Leon,

I'm in Scotland now, here it's very cold and windy.The sea is rough too.
I heard Metoffice issued a warning for heavy snow in large part of south England,Wales and Northern Ireland,I saw also the pictures in Sky news that they show the snowfall in London and other part of UK.

Cheers,

Ste

**NoSync** · 09/02/2007, 04:40

Cool pics Leon, esp the Wantage one which looks kind of... exotic

Btw, you said this is the most relevant snowfall in the last 15 years as far as coverage is concerned; are you implying heavier, yet not as widespread snowfalls took place in the recent years, by any chance?

Cheers!

**Gdr** · 09/02/2007, 08:43

Shoot ! I'm flying to London next w-e, snow shoud be gone by then. I outta find the equivalent of SK. TD ?

**lucanoa** · 09/02/2007, 09:52

Hi Leon, I was in Reading one year ago...do you remember? And here in Italy they had 5 months with the temperatures below the average.......

And this year? I am in Switzerland now very colse to Italy..... where we are having the hottest winter of the last decades....

and in England? it's snowing, of course!!!!

Why am I so unlucky?

Bye bye,
Luca

**Jerry** · 09/02/2007, 10:01

Originariamente Scritto da lucanoa

Hi Leon, I was in Reading one year ago...do you remember? And here in Italy they had 5 months with the temperatures below the average.......

And this year? I am in Switzerland now very colse to Italy..... where we are having the hottest winter of the last decades....

and in England? it's snowing, of course!!!!

Why am I so unlucky?

Bye bye,
Luca

Gosh!!
Ehhm Luca, what do you think about a new house in ...let me see..... in Japan?

**leon** · 17/02/2007, 18:35

Originariamente Scritto da lucanoa

Hi Leon, I was in Reading one year ago...do you remember? And here in Italy they had 5 months with the temperatures below the average.......

And this year? I am in Switzerland now very colse to Italy..... where we are having the hottest winter of the last decades....

and in England? it's snowing, of course!!!!

Why am I so unlucky?

Bye bye,
Luca

Ciao Luca...
Well...it's true that in London they have couple of snowfall this year...but apart from it it has been a warm and wet winter... and very very few frosty days...

Hope you are doing well.

Leon

**inocs** · 13/02/2007, 13:36

Originariamente Scritto da Gdr

I outta find the equivalent of SK. TD ?

(very nice pics, Leon!)

**leon** · 11/02/2007, 21:58

Originariamente Scritto da Алексей

Cool pics Leon, esp the Wantage one which looks kind of... exotic

Btw, you said this is the most relevant snowfall in the last 15 years as far as coverage is concerned; are you implying heavier, yet not as widespread snowfalls took place in the recent years, by any chance?

Cheers!

Well Alex...

I am not that expert of the English Weather, but I have read some newspapers and all of them reported the same thing:
It has been the most relevant snowfall since 1996.
I think this imply either the intensity and the widespread.
I have tried to draw this English map to let you understand better. It is of course a bit vague... it give at least a rough idea of this snowfall though.
It is quite unusual to see the snow coming from SW (from the ocean) here in England...and this is why this event has been so impressive .
Last year it snowed 4 times in the south west, but all of them were in the form of showers, coming from the north... 20 mins 30 maybe of snowfall...and then clear sky again till the next one...

These two maps are of the 25th of November 2005...we had 2 showers early in the morning with 2 cm coverage melt by midday, because the sun came out.
Wales as well as in Cornwall had many showers in a row all the night through, with a total coverage on 8 cm ish.

Hope this answers your question and help to understand why this snowfall has been so important for the UK.

Leon