2.4, dew 0.9.

EDIT: down to 2.3 / 0.8 as I was posting...

The trailing edge gave a few minutes of wet snow before fizzling out. Windy and raw.

Looks like Dartmoor has done really well. Exeter not so well ....

Had some wet snow earlier in. Exeter and almost 1hr of seeing huge wet flakes on and off, which turned to sleety rain then and then back to wet snow but lighter in precipitation from 1700. Still spits of sleet in the air .I think this is it now .I am not in Okehampton but heard there was a lot of wet snow there. Haldon Hill and telegraph hill on a380/a38 was very slow so.i heard and like with winter wonderland.

Shame nothing settled but given how.bad last winter was i can't complain. Today sort of reminded me of January 2013 when we had a good 6 hours of wet snow ❄️ but nothing settled. Mostly slushy deposits on cars but snow settling on outskirts of Exeter. 

Pleased to hear it has turned snowy on Sheppey - still all rain in Dover but the air has an icy feel.

Reports of snow in Capel at 160m + asl, which I can well believe. Maybe the hills in East Kent will yet get a dusting.   

Temp : 0.3c | DP : -0.4c

The lapse rates where sharp. At 60m we had a 40/30/30 rain/sleet/ snow mix. By 80m it was 100% snow.

By the time I reached Paddlesworth at 183m it was a winter wonderland with moderate dry snow, a temperature of -0.5c and 2.5cm of snowcover. 

Such was their desperation to see snow (first time in 4 years) my two children (16 and 18 now) excitedly joined me.

We made a snowman and had a snowball fight...the small things.

This is probably the only reason I do miss owning a car, also the only good thing about my former Farthing Common tomato greenhouse workplace. 

It is perfectly possible for me to purchase a pretty decent car (I'll just cash in a portion of my private pension pot), but not sure if it is worth getting one purely for snow chasing as I have no other need for it as things stand. I guess if the snow won't come to me, then I'll have to go to it.

There's always the number 16 bus to get you up to them thar hills Ian.

I miss living in Hawkinge - there were some super snow events during my time there. 

Ew, not the buses, I haven't set foot in one since 1991. Besides, the snow would have thawed by the time I get there using a bus. However, I do have a school friend who lives at Hawkinge and she said (and going by the photo she sent me) it ended up being just a very thin layer of slush.

Back to Okehampton it's 0C and there is about 1.5" of snow (3cm's) of snow now freezing to surfaces.

Love this sign saying A30 Exeter. - Just off the BP Bypass to Okehampton

From my back garden 22:00 today (Wed 08.01).

Most snow I have seen falling in the month of January since the cold snowy spell end of January 2019. Nice to have a mid-winter cold snap (For once). Shame it will come to a crappy ending but hey we have exceeded last winter in terms of snow and I have seen a good 5 hours of persistent sleet and heavy wet snow with large chucky flakes, but if only it was a notch colder we could be seeing more settling. I think Dartmoor in particular has done really well for snow with this cold snap? Squish?

Keep in mind we are having this cold snap and snow with a record breaking strong zonal winds and without an SSW. In fact parts of the North could see their coldest night time temperatures in 5 years tomorrow night. This surely goes to show we don't need an SSW to get cold and snow.

However, what I feel what we really need is a proper scandinavian block and easterly...

PS - I don't know how to enlarge the scale of photos as it's tiny but feel free to zoom in - if you can using phone. 

The lowest it got here was 1.7, dew 0.6... the hills (160ft) to the west are looking bare, so if there was a covering it was only temproary up there.

It says a lot that for us folks near the coast in Kent we now have to drive to see our snow or, (as in my case last week) set up webcams in the dead of night to capture it! That 1.2-1.4C of warming here (Dec-Feb, 61-90 to 91-20) has made all the difference.

There was 5mm in the end of rain/sleet from the system. In the 80s that would almost certainly have been an inch or so on the ground instead!

When it gets light I'll have a look around on the Traffic England cameras, they're a great tool for seeing where the general snow line ended up.