Second Snow of Winter

[davidgillon]

One advantage of spending all my time at my mother's is that there's a much higher likelihood of snow than down in Kent, so this weekend's weather system delivered our second snow of the winter.  (Though I suppose technically the first snow of Winter was in Autumn).

I'd estimate we got about four to six inches, though the weather station at Copley, 9 miles up the dale as the crow flies, got 25cm/10 inches, the most recorded anywhere in the country. Admittedly Copley is on record as the snowiest place in England.

The snowfall did last for an extended period, we had a covering when I went to sleep at 3AM on Sunday morning, and it was still snowing late into the evening, but temperatures were marginally above freezing, and it turned increasingly to sleet as evening progressed, so a lot of it had melted away by Monday morning. OTOH we still have a fair bit about and Weardale Ski Club reckons they have enough up the dale to keep operating until the weekend.

I've barely been out, but my sister reports Poppy the cocker-spaniel's new favourite thing is to dig her head into the snow, then run forward as fast as she can...