Snow

[Chickaroo]

Its snowing on and off and mixed with rain in Oxfordshire, is it called sleet or snow/rain showers?

:S

 

[shettie]

Raining in Newark - fcuking 'orrible out there! Send snow this way!

 

[Chickaroo]

Its rain mixed with snow, its a little confused and only settling for a bit, then getting washed off, you wouldnt like it, its wanna be snow! DT_Xtremez_42:

 

[shettie]

Its rain mixed with snow, its a little confused and only settling for a bit, then getting washed off, you wouldnt like it, its wanna be snow! DT_Xtremez_42:

I only want 1cm - that'll make the roads round us impassable because of piled up cars with OAPs in...

DT_Xtremez_14:

 

[MrsG]

Are you a bit excited about the wannabe snow Chick? You should get yourself over here - the warmest it's been all day is 0, a 6 degree jump from this morning. Nice.

 

[Geordie4Ever]

After 3 years in Saudi I moved to the Highlands expecting a little snow......... and thats what I got.......... a little snow. I have been in Inverness for 3 years and hardly any snow, I am now off to Lossie with the hope that Santa brings snow and lots of it DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[Chickaroo]

Are you a bit excited about the wannabe snow Chick? You should get yourself over here - the warmest it's been all day is 0, a 6 degree jump from this morning. Nice.

the cold I can do without, the snow I would like to stick so that I can get a snow day! DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[HeWitch]

After 3 years in Saudi I moved to the Highlands expecting a little snow......... and thats what I got.......... a little snow. I have been in Inverness for 3 years and hardly any snow, I am now off to Lossie with the hope that Santa brings snow and lots of it DT_Xtremez_30:

Only if you've got a 24 hour shift coming up I think...

Its snowing on and off and mixed with rain in Oxfordshire, is it called sleet or snow/rain showers?

British definition - it's sleet, international (and hence officially) it's "rain and snow mixed" cause otherwise we might confuse the Americans - they sometimes use sleet to mean freezing rain.

So as far as I'm concerned, it's sleet.

 

[Chickaroo]

Only if you've got a 24 hour shift coming up I think...


British definition - it's sleet, international (and hence officially) it's "rain and snow mixed" cause otherwise we might confuse the Americans - they sometimes use sleet to mean freezing rain.

So as far as I'm concerned, it's sleet.

Happy with sleet, just want it to be definatly snow that sticks, although always thought sleet was softer hail? DT_Xtremez_42:

 

[Killer Queen]

Central London once again saw snow, Westerley essex has a dusting

 

[firestorm]

I was at Bentley Priory this afternoon, it was quite snowy. Very festive!

 

[HeWitch]

Happy with sleet, just want it to be definatly snow that sticks, although always thought sleet was softer hail? DT_Xtremez_42:

Officially, there's 100 different types of 'official' weather (including more than 30 different types of rain/drizzle and showers!) reported at airfields and other manned weather offices, which includes what sort of weather, how heavy the rain/snow is, how thick the fog is, how long it's lasted for and whether or not there's a thunderstorm.
Sleet doesn't officially appear on this list but there are two catagories of "Rain or drizzle and snow" ("slight", or "moderate or heavy").
Hail can be "snow pellets or small hail" or "hail" with hail being harder and bigger, usually lasting longer, and both can be "with or without rain or rain and snow mixed."

If this sounds excessive, it's partly for aviation safety and partly because we're a particular kind of geek over at the Met Office DT_Xtremez_21:
There's a surprising amount of stations around the UK that have reported all 100 types of weather, including sandstorms, funnel clouds (tornado) and diamond dust. Oh yes, we live for those days.

 

[Spardan]

Cosford is sunny but raining every 6 hours

God im wishing for snow

 

[vim_fuego]

Just had snow shower in Lincoln...

 

[Shortie]

Had a couple of light sleet/hail/snow showers at Kinloss.

 

[grumpyoldb]

The BBC weather center have issued a severe weather warning for East Anglia spreading into Lincolnshire for Friday with up to 20cm/8" of snow drifting.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8418395.stm

Get yer willie warmers ready...........!

 

[Geordie4Ever]

Just driven down the A9 (Coylumbridge/Aviemore to Inverness) and its very Xmassy. Very white and reminded me of trips to Canada. Whilst daydreaming a deer jumped out of the trees and I managed to miss (Thankfully, didn't want to scratch the MT painwork) sadly for the deer Mr BT Driver in the van behind wasn't so lucky. Bit of a mess (to the van that is) if only I had a bigger car then it would have been vension (or whatever deer meat is called) for xmas day instead of that bloody turkey again lol.

Anyway, snowing in the Highlands!!

 

[Obi Wan]

The BBC weather center have issued a severe weather warning for East Anglia spreading into Lincolnshire for Friday with up to 20cm/8" of snow drifting.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8418395.stm

Get yer willie warmers ready...........!

its snowing quite nicely here on the North Norfolk Coast (ish) Weather programmes are saying we should get 10-15cm (4-6 Inches for the really old F*rts out there) DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[shettie]

its snowing quite nicely here on the North Norfolk Coast (ish) Weather programmes are saying we should get 10-15cm (4-6 Inches for the really old F*rts out there) DT_Xtremez_30:

How many cubits is that?? - still friggin' brilliant blue sky here in Newark B*gger - can't go home early (yet! )

 

[1Referee]

Started getting heavy showers at Stanbridge.

For the 41,000 in the RAF that do not know we exist thats 30 miles north of London in Leighton Buzzard, all 30 of us.

Blacktop duty may come round a bit often!!!!!