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Potential weather disruption this week

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It's gone a bit breezy here, but all signs of snow have gone where I am. I haven't been outside yet today, and I won't be for a couple more hours yet, but it looks like an average March morning right now.

I don't envy anyone up north with mega piles of snow, hopefully everyone will be all safe and sound :)
 
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Some big north/south divergences this week. In Surrey we had a couple of inches of rather wet snow on Wednesday morning, with more falling during the day. Much of that melted overnight, and the rest went yesterday with afternoon temperatures shooting up to over 10°. Today we have rain clearing and 4° but very windy.

A light dusting on the grass here, drifts closing the M62.
 

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This is my relatively sheltered back garden, anywhere higher up in the pennines must be horrendous
 

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I was due to travel to Manchester today via London and Sheffield (I booked through a split ticketing website to optimise cost) and now find out there are no trains between Sheffield and Manchester until an hour after my train is due to depart. I have the choice of either slogging it out and hoping I can get to my destination Salford in less than 7-8 hours or throw the tickets in the bin and either buy a ticket from Euston to Victoria (>£70) or drive. I'm leaning towards the latter, the motorways I would use look to have normal traffic conditions at the moment. I never would have guessed when I booked these tickets over a month ago that peak winter conditions would arrive near the middle of March.
 

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This is my relatively sheltered back garden, anywhere higher up in the pennines must be horrendous
Very much the same here south of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. The roads were terrible earlier, but I notice the buses have just started to run again now on my local route. There were no buses earlier for people going into Mansfield or Nottingham for work.
 

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I've been sent a picture of a snowman on the platform at Marsden earlier, amongst a fair bit of the white stuff.

I was aiming for Harlow today, to tick off a few 'Spoons en route, ultimately ending in London for a train back North. But no trains between Manchester and Sheffield meant I missed my LNER South and am now sat having a pint in Newcastle! Such is life...
 

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I've been receiving reports of a number of main roads in Herefordshire are either still blocked or have now been cleared. Even the wet roads have dried up in Hereford, and the family I have elsewhere in the county are fuming and going on about how city people are so lucky blah blah blah.

Buses from Kington are now back up and running, more or less to time it appears, so it must be improving out there.

Hopefully those of you affected will be back out and about in no time :)
 

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I've been sent a picture of a snowman on the platform at Marsden earlier, amongst a fair bit of the white stuff.
That wasn't a snowman. It was a passenger who went for the 0604, and ended up waiting there until the 0906 which was the first train of the day to run.:D
 

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Golden sunshine across Yorkshire today. Hopefully will get rid of the dreaded ice.
 

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Golden sunshine across Yorkshire today. Hopefully will get rid of the dreaded ice.
I think it's going to cause more problems; meltwater vs tonights sub-zero temperatures is going to make travelling around tomorrow morning hazardous.
 

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I think it's going to cause more problems; meltwater vs tonights sub-zero temperatures is going to make travelling around tomorrow morning hazardous.

If it melts enough to flow away, or there are patches of slush and bare pavement we should be ok

The problems arise when there is enough snow to leave pavements fully covered in compressed ice. When this freezes, the nightmare begins !
 

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Golden sunshine across Yorkshire today. Hopefully will get rid of the dreaded ice.
Clear blue sky and sunny here too. Most of the snow has melted on the roads but not the pavements where I live as it’s only a country lane and not used very much. I’ve just looked at the BBC weather app and it’s forecasting it going down as low as -12 tonight here in Central Nottinghamshire. Now that is low even for the middle of winter and certainly not expected in March.
 

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Clear blue sky and sunny here too. Most of the snow has melted on the roads but not the pavements where I live as it’s only a country lane and not used very much. I’ve just looked at the BBC weather app and it’s forecasting it going down as low as -12 here in Central Nottinghamshire. Now that is low even for the middle of winter and certainly not expected in March.

Yes, the football match I should be attending tomorrow is in jeopardy !
 

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March has a similar average temperature to November, which you wouldn’t call a warm month.
I wouldn't call November a snowy month either or a month where ice days are likely. November in SE England at least is usually quite a mild and damp month. The type of snow that normally falls in March is a brief shower that settles for five minutes before melting, not a foot and blizzards across high level routes with people stranded in their cars for hours (although you can question why people ignored the warnings which were well publicised in advance). In a normal year I expect the worst winter weather to occur during the meteorological winter.
 
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