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Re: Snow
« Reply #30 on: February 05, 2012, 04:28:07 PM »
Were in the Cambridgeshire area an we got sheds loads of snow last night & overnight.


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Re: Snow
« Reply #31 on: February 05, 2012, 04:36:13 PM »
I'm in Edinburgh, and no snow here, either. It's actually a pretty nice day, and my medium weight coat was a bit too heavy for me when I was out earlier. We had a dusting of snow a few months ago, but that was all we've had this winter. Aren't we supposed to be the ones with terrible weather? I always hear from people living in England that we have terrible weather, but I've never noticed a huge difference.

Scotland does tend to get more of the snow and colder weather than down in England (while there's been a fair bit of snow up on the high ground in Scotland this winter, we've had almost nothing down here... until now).

The reason there was little/no snow for Scotland this weekend was because the snow was coming from a warm front moving south-eastwards over England, but not reaching much of Scotland.

If it hadn't been so cold this week, it would have just been the normal manky, grey drizzly weather we usually get from a warm front/warm sector (with about 10 mm of rainfall), but because we've had high pressure this week with cold Siberian air, when the front came in from the Atlantic the precipitation fell as snow instead of rain (and 10 mm of rain is equivalent to 10 cm of snow on the ground, hence the reason there is so much of it).


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