Without vast areas of snow across the country to chill the air, and a fair old wind picking up with a 2m temp of 1.1*C and a dew point close to zero, it's doing some real damage to what remains of the snow here. I've never been in this situation before - hanging on to some of the last lowland lying snow in England.
It's weird because I'm used to being annoyed at losing my snow before most of the rest of the UK. I keep having to remind myself that this wasn't event up to 'event' standard for most parts. It's like I've swapped places with some high altitude settlement in Wales.
Looking back, I'm glad I stayed up to watch it come down, as that's where this event scores highest; the rate of accumulation was impressive at times. Peak depth was fairly typical of a significant event while the longevity is pretty lame for the start of February.
If I was to do the ratings it would be 8/10 for the deposition, 5/10 for the peak depth and 1/10 for longevity.
Still immeasurably better than last year managed
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T-Max: 30.2°C 9th Sep (...!) | T-Min: -7.1°C 22nd & 23rd Jan | Wettest Day: 25.9mm 2nd Nov | Ice Days: 1 (2nd Dec -1.3°C in freezing fog)
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