The local one here is that when snow hangs around, it's waiting for more. (That's paraphrased from my late gran, who also said "rain before 7, fine by 11" and "three frosts and it wets itself". There's a lot to be said for that sort of weather lore - her mum's side was a farming family).

The sleety stuff we had this morning left behind a few patches of white blobby bits on the lawn, FWIW, which I think was either snow or graupel - it lingered all day in a couple of spots, and even now the ground is still frozen under a mm or two of mud - it's like going to an area with permafrost in summer! There were also rain puddles on the lawn first thing, which then froze - seems the frozen ground stopped the rain soaking in, so it pooled, then the cold ground froze the lot. 

The fun thing is it's been above freezing since 11AM yesterday. Just goes to show what a few very frosty nights and low dewpoints can do!

What wonderful pictures, Michael…absolutely stunning…the sort of snow we can only dream about down here in the far south…but great to see and despite the changing climate that’s it still possible to get snow like that here in the UK…As Brian says, that is proper snow  and not a slush fest….Incidently when it comes to marking Chichester in terms of its ranking for snow, I generously gave us 1out of 10…I’ll now revert back to 0-10! 

Beautiful ❄️

It's the "C" roads you have to watch. 

It was 2 Deg this morning after overnight rain.  Lethal in places - everything frozen solid  with  layer of black ice on top - about as bad as it gets - far worse than the rutted snow of yesterday.

Came across a bloke at 90 degrees across the road  with the front of his car smashed in.  He was fine, just waiting for recovery.

He had put the brakes on to avoid a deer.  Just managed to edge my car pass his wreck.

Another version, probably not true these days as well as un-PC

"Hoar frost and gypsies never stay three nights in the same place"

SLightly apocalyptic out and about... I think the temp just held up enough to make the roads bearable. The lying snow was pretty heavy compared to the previous 'fluff'. 

Yes, I think the main roads will be fine but the side roads which had not been cleared are atrocious this morning here in the city. Compacted snow and ice with a cover of fresh snow does not make for a fun commute. The pavements are as bad and public transport isn’t really an option as the buses are getting stuck around here and many aren’t running.

Yeah, the side roads are a mess. I managed to get into Dyce from Udny Station with "summer tyres" but avoided the usual routes and went through Bridge of Don. Hoping for a decent thaw now. was pretty much black all the way from BOD although down to one lane in many parts at 0630. 

https://i.ibb.co/d4Z0XsvQ/IMG-4387.jpg 

Lovely and nice to see the sun - How much lying snow is there now?

BTW Brian Gaze - I can't seem to access or find my inbox messages on two? any idea's how to access it? 

No idea! It thawed a bit on Tuesday night with prolonged rain, but the paths and drive have been cleared so many times and dumped in various places, with compaction and drifting it’s hard to get an accurate depth? Then it snowed heavily last night with about 8cm of fresh snow on top of everything. Maybe somewhere over 20 cm, who knows!

Oh to be able to be blasé about it. 😂And I got excited with my 0.5 cm which lasted 30 mins !

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