Snowing quite heavily here now.

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Nothing here despite wintry showers being forecast we have temperatures of 13c in the sun and dropping to 12c under cloud?

Many people reporting snow and heavy snow - are you sure it's actual snowflakes? It could be soft hail, sleet or ice pellets? Sometimes they do look similar remember, I recall many people shouting snow in March 2013 when in actual fact it was soft hail - I am would be very surprised if it's snow (pure snow) that's falling if you are recording temperatures of +5, +6c +7c.

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We had light snow/graupel showers from 6:30 to 8:00 here but nothing settled. 

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DP here is -1 ...and light flakes of snow still falling...

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Similar here - light snow for about 45 minutes to an hour but neither cold enough nor sustained enough to settle.

Now the sun is back out and it looks quite pleasant - until you step outside... 

 

Just in passing - looking at the radar I think there may be a polar low developing in the North Sea, east of Aberdeen between Scotland and Norway.

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Short spells of light snow here, not settling though. If it can snow here, it can snow anywhere. Temperature 4.7C, Dew Point -1.7C

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A few snow flurries here at the moment.

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Just had a slight flurry of soft hail/snow. I guess dew points are very low as it's 6'c

 

Temp dropped to 2.9C at Blackbushe now (dp -5.3C), and we just had a few minutes of moderate snow.

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A flurry of snow (very light!) as another shower passes through. This time it wasn't the wet stuff, but the powdery dry type... inidcative of some very cold air aloft!

4.7C, dew -2.2C.

EDIT: It fell to 4.6C, -2.6C as I was writing this!

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It has been snowing on and off (horizontally) here in very strong gusty winds for much of the day so far. The sun is strong enough to melt the cover in many places but not where it is drifting in the shade.

Currently it is 1.3°C sunny and snowing.

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So with powdery dry snow and outside air temperatures of almost +5c. Wow! New to me. Must be cold air aloft then for snow to fall at such high temperatures?

We had a few minutes of icy hail then that was it - temp of +9.5c.

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We had a light dusting first thing this morning, pretty much everything covered.

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Just had a moderate snow and hail shower here !

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A few fluttering flakes in the brisk wind here, just north of Winchester. Has fallen from 8c this morning to nearer 4c now.

FWIW, when I was on holiday several years ago in Yellowstone, I saw powdery snow falling at +9C (yes, really!) - the dewpoint would have been well below zero, as it's far above sea-level there.

It's as much to do with a low dewpoint as anything!

(FWIW, the 850s when that last lot of snow came through were -10C, but as we know that's associated with deep cold, rather than just a "tongue" of cold air at the lowest levels.)

 

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Gosh crazy - also I recall many years ago in the Alps over Easter and temperature was 14c in the Italian Alps (April 1999 i think) at resort level - Aosta/Courmayeur/Siestrierre where we were skiing it was warm and we were sun bathing in hot spring sun in t-[censored]with sun radiating off snow and warming, then all of a sudden the wind picked up, it clouded over and snowflakes fell - wet at first then became powdery dry and settled. - Yet I remember seeing rain here in Exeter at -1.5c and I recall back in November 2003 whilst I was in Chicago - there was freezing rain at -5c which left glaze yet a few miles outside of the city there was up to 5" of snow. Definitely some interesting stuff.

Back to here and now - with many people seeing snow falling in temperatures well above freezing - say +5 or +6c must mean the dew points/uppers are low virtually across the whole of the country? The uppers in London now are around -10c (850hpa) and when we saw that colder spell back in the colder snaps of Jan/February the uppers were not as cold if I remember? 

Interesting stuff anyway. Nice to have some April showers in April which is how it should be - like back in the 90's and early 00's.

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Snowed steadily in Ramsgate this morning between 1110 and 1140

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Moderate snow and very strong winds are giving blizzard-like conditions here currently.

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Light, dry snow shower here earlier this evening whilst the temp was 7C, dewpoint of just below -9C.

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Snow shower in progress here. From the point of view of the times it has snowed this has been the snowiest winter (spring!) for years.

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Showers of snow pellets here. More cloud and convection this morning 2 C

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Light to moderate snow shower half an hour or so ago. Started off as proper snow but ended as soft hail/snow pellets.

 

Temp 3.4C with a dewpoint of -7.1C (!)

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A few flakes fluttering down here at 5C! The dew point is -6C though.

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Lots of convection building up now, just had a snow shower.
Ideally a really heavy one will arrive around 6pm and cover the ground until the morning but we would have to be very lucky.

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