Alton had an intense shower just after 8pm which opened with torrential rain and hail and then a spell of heavy sleet. Temps fell away to 2'C in the heavy stuff

Rain here, nothing remotely looking like sleet

Yep, absolutely chucking it down with rain here, too.

Conditions are wrong for evap cooling anyway. Far too windy. Anyway the intensity may be sufficient to bring wintriness to the surface, as was the case here.

We were lucky as there was a distinct and narrow line of cells moving down from Basingstoke at the time

Back to sleet here since the heaviest precip has moved on. Still snowing around Castleford however. Regardless, an unexpected treat.

No snow, but wind has picked up here this evening as the area of precipitation tracks south

OK, so I do head up to Epsom Downs/Boxhill to catch my first snow of the season in about an hour or so? Will it miss me to the West,. will it be rain?

Originally Posted by: doctormog 

Might be our only snow of the season judging by some of the LRFs, so make the most of it!

Originally Posted by: The Beast from the East 

If by season you mean autumn, I suspect you are probably right.

Originally Posted by: haghir22 

Yes, rather recalls Gavin's early June "this is it - the summer will be awful from here, this is the last chance of warmth" post.

Thought I'd for a short drive. At 200 metres it's 2.5c with a sleetly snowy mix. 350 metres it all snow, 1c but not sticking and 450 metres heading towards the Snake Pass summit there was heavy blowing snow. Temp up there was 0c with around 1cm lying even on the road.

Getting sleety here temp 2.8c & DP: 0.2c

Well that was worth doing. Drove to Boxhill at about 9.45 pm started at 2c at home in Epsom and spitting. Arrived at Boxhill and was disappointed to find it drizzling and 1c, precip suddenly got heavier and turned to heavy splodges of ice with the odd complete snow flake in. Thought I'd head home after about half an hour as had fulfilled my desire to see snow, but decided luckily to head along the Dorking Road. As I reached the bridge over the M25 the snow became 'complete' with no rain mix so as I reached the A217 rather than trunging left back towards home I turned right to head towards Kingswood and the A217 Junction 8 of the M25. Reached the junction and parked by the back road that leads upto Reigate Hill, temp fell to 0c and the heavens opened with really heavy wet snow, as the intensity increased the flakes on the windscreen became proper shapes rather than wet snow and suddenly everything turned a slushy shade of white within what seemed minutes. Just arrived home and the snow level seemed to be Burgh Heath on the A217, below that and the temp suddenly rose agin to 2c and subsequent precip was a drizzly affair. Home now, chuffed but being called 'sad' by my wife and a certain member on here who is just jealous....

How do I post a video?

Wet snow starting to settle.
temp 1.4c

A covering at Flash in Staffordshire - the UK's highest village. http://www.maccinfo.com/Flash/

Rain and sleet arrived at 4am and turned to snow at 5am.

A slight covering has been left on them thar hills. 

Good to see some snow cover in an Autumn month. 

Hi Ian.

It snowed here quite moderately here at 35m ASL around 5.15am on the back edge of the trough that went through. Even at your location heavy sleet would have fallen at the time. My temperature fell to 0.7c at the time but bounced back up to 3.5c an hour later.