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davidgillon) wrote2025-01-07 10:02 pm
Second Snow of Winter
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...
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That makes it an amazing place to put a weather station.
We had snow for Christmas, which was wonderful, and then it immediately melted, which was not. We are now in a bitterly freezing green winter, which is not my favorite.
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53 days of snow a year!
The snow is now that inch-thick turned to ice crust that can hang on for days - and as we're having completely clear night skies, it probably will. According to my phone the temperature here at the moment (and I just walked down the road from my mother's to my sister's, so I can confirm it's brrrr!!!!) is -4c, feels like -8c. (25F, feels like 17F). My sister just had me reprogramme the overnight central heating temperature at my mother's to something much more reasonable than the 6C frost protection setting it's been on by default.
I don't envy the folks in Scotland they're forecasting -17C/1.5F for tonight!
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I'll take it! We're still in a drought from this spring and summer.
The snow is now that inch-thick turned to ice crust that can hang on for days - and as we're having completely clear night skies, it probably will.
I remain envious, although I also don't have to shovel. Autumn and winter were my favorite seasons and both have been hammered by climate change.
I don't envy the folks in Scotland they're forecasting -17C/1.5F for tonight!
It hasn't been anywhere near that cold this winter so far. The night of the solstice, it got down to 15 °F/-9.4 °C.
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Thank you for alerting me to the existence of Weardale Ski Club, that is delightful
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