what a fantastic surprise today has been. Started to rain about 1pm here in Wirral... i drove to manchester for 12, it was 5*c thee, then actually rose to 6*c through Stockport. Then steadily dropped to 5*c. then i met the rain near Runcorn, it dropped again to 4*c. then to 3* by chester services...
Then 50 mins later on the coast at new brighton it was sleet and snow but very very wet, big puddles everywhere... then got alot heavier about 5pm.
Drove home through the snow at 6pm was great to see such amount of large flakes falling.
Proper snow stopped about 8pm at that stage we had about 2 inches lying, a further 0.5-1 inch has fallen, but has since started to rapidly thaw... massive puddles everywere, with big rivers flowing down the roads. Doubt much but grass lying snow will be visable tomorrow.
Great night... really surprised we would get anything.
right place right time, hardly ever happens in this part of the world