Where's the snow?

The BBC website confidently predicts that London will wake up to find 15cm of snow on the ground Monday morning. Those of us who view with suspicion anything endorsed by the French Academy of Sciences during the Revolution know that 15 centimetres may be taken as an approximation for 6" (I'm sure there's a rude joke there somewhere, if I was to work on it). All I can say is that it will have to go some to get 6" of snow to lie in London in the next twelve hours. It may manage it more easily up here in Whetstone which is a couple of hundred feet higher, thirteen or so miles from the centre and rather less built up, but down in London proper, I think it needs to get cracking to fulfil Auntie's prophecy.

I spent yesterday evening to early this afternoon in South Cambridgeshire and though it was rather parky, I saw so few snowflakes that with the exception of a 5 minute spell around Baldock, I could count them individually. Later on, after I'd got back to London, there was another five minute spell with a noticeable flurry around 4.20 this afternoon, but that's pretty much it.

I see there are photos up showing snowfalls in Kent and East Sussex to the south and south-east of London, and snow in Ipswich and Nottingham. Once again, there is a London-shaped bite in the snow that is falling across England. I would have liked a little snow before the winter ends. Not too much, but a short and pretty covering of white.

Where's the snow?

The BBC website confidently predicts that London will wake up to find 15cm of snow on the ground Monday morning. Those of us who view with suspicion anything endorsed by the French Academy of Sciences during the Revolution know that 15 centimetres may be taken as an approximation for 6" (I'm sure there's a rude joke there somewhere, if I was to work on it). All I can say is that it will have to go some to get 6" of snow to lie in London in the next twelve hours. It may manage it more easily up here in Whetstone which is a couple of hundred feet higher, thirteen or so miles from the centre and rather less built up, but down in London proper, I think it needs to get cracking to fulfil Auntie's prophecy.

I spent yesterday evening to early this afternoon in South Cambridgeshire and though it was rather parky, I saw so few snowflakes that with the exception of a 5 minute spell around Baldock, I could count them individually. Later on, after I'd got back to London, there was another five minute spell with a noticeable flurry around 4.20 this afternoon, but that's pretty much it.

I see there are photos up showing snowfalls in Kent and East Sussex to the south and south-east of London, and snow in Ipswich and Nottingham. Once again, there is a London-shaped bite in the snow that is falling across England. I would have liked a little snow before the winter ends. Not too much, but a short and pretty covering of white.