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105mm in my garden (SW Ipswich) – taken as mean of 3 samples { 110 , 120 , 85 } (all samples in mm) approx 08:00Z

Wind NW last night which makes the snowfall uneven where the patio door is, but i’m not going to walk to the other end of the garden wearing just trainers in this sort of weather to get a wider range of samples as it would probably be much the same mean figure anyway – also the nearby RAF aerodrome and a few clever local chaps have proper weather stations. still some light snowfall, not sure of flake size as that too involve standing around in the cold and I don’t have a 1mm grid anyway

This is 4.1″ for those still using old style units – worth stating both for the benefit of those in Europe although to confuse everyone more the UK still uses miles and feet for various official measurements but decimal fractions of them, making navigation in Europe harder for us (and vice versa)

London (E) – 76.2 to 101.6 mm
Ipswich – 105mm

it is about 60 miles / 96 km between these locations… still a bit dark for pics as well…

@DaftFader 466513 wrote:

You’ve made me feel really lazy … I did my measurements by eye lol.

to be fair the only reason I bothered is I wasn’t even sure how to measure snowfall so I looked it up and and this brainy uni professor suggested this method. there was already a olld broom handle and a piece of bamboo downstairs, these being perfect to stick into the snow and then mark at the top.

Visibility is really poor as is all the HF radio reception (maybe its linked) so can’t get any navtex or German weather for the north sea =-unless of course the damp trees are shorting my HF antenna to earth but fixing that also involves going out in the cold..