It has snowed continually here since getting in from paper round and the snow I cleared earlier is back heavier and thicker! Just dug a truck out of the snow on his way to Swindon.
Just got back from shopping ,snowing big time again my car tracks are nearly covered from earlier....car now away for the day....Swindon town centre now gridlocked as a lorry has jackknifed in the centre. In for the day now.....leg of pork is in the slow cooker...beers ready for later.
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I'm 25 miles from Swindon, got a bit of wet slush and that's it. We hardly ever get snow here, but every surrounding town seems to. Must be one of those weird micro climates.
I noticed the snow falling at Staplewood yesterday. Yet 5 miles northeast of the campus, we had sunny skies. Today we've had ultra persistent light rain. Here's a pic of Charlie keeping warm from yesterday:
The Isle of Wight has weather zones. It often differs in the north (Newport/ Ryde) compared with south (Shanklin/Ventnor)....separated as they are by a central massif ....and can differ in the 8 miles between Newport and Ryde.
Feeling a lot left out in Bournemouth. No snow, no paper round, just cold and wet. Daughter had loads of snow in Atlanta this weekend, good job we left last Sunday. We may have been stuck there for a bit.
I'm certainly surprised that you might have a microclimate where you are. The topography seems remarkably similar throughout the Swindon region. Fran's IOW is the door on the trap for us. It stops the south westerlies majorly funneling up Southampton Water. Mind you, being on the south coast anyway means the climate will tend to be milder. We are surrounded by higher ground and often get temperature inversions, where colder air sits above us and traps the warm air underneath. Remarkably, it hardly ever snows in the city. Good job too as the already bad traffic at almost any time comes to a grinding halt. Back in the mid-80's I sometimes delivered computer data that I'd earlier helped process. One winter's day I went first to Andover, then Portsmouth, then Bournemouth. In Southampton it was bright sunshine and clear blue skies. In roughly a 10 mile radius away from the centre it was knee deep in snow. Amazing. They couldn't believe me when I got back. So I showed them the van parked downstairs. Then they believed me.
I'm 25 miles from Swindon, just off the edge of Salisbury Plain. I think the Plain blocks some weather from us, and channels the wind along its flanks (where I am). It's damned annoying because we've got some great sledging slopes right behind my house, but never enough snow to do any proper sledging. I grew up in the Mendips so miss A: proper hills, and B: proper weather.
And we’ve had proper weather here on the Mendips today! Started off with the wind and rain that reached Southampton later on, and then the wind dropped and the rain turned to snow. Got quite thick on roofs and fields and what’s left is beginning to freeze tonight. Nothing like as bad as up North, but on this latitude the Mendips always seem the get the worst (or best) of any weather coming from the West.
That's nothing. Imagine my surprise when I went to get the car off the drive this morning please log in to view this image
