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% of average overall. 1st to 7th The 1st started mainly dry and sunny, but rain, with sleet/snow locally, moved southwards down eastern areas, reaching the south-east by dark, and there were isolated showers in central and south-western parts. It was sunny and mainly dry for most on the 2nd but cloudier

. Three days of sunshine and showers followed on the 10th, 11th and 12th, with the showers mostly falling as rain, hail and sleet on low ground but with snow on high ground, and Spadeadam (Cumbria) only reached 0.8 °C on the 11th. The showers also produced isolated thunderstorms, and it remained very

When we talk about precipitation, we are talking about water that is falling out of the sky, this could be rain, drizzle, snow, sleet, hail or something rarer! But most of the time in the UK it's rain, so if you hear someone using the word 'precipitation' it probably means that the weather is going

rain shower (day) 15 Heavy rain 16 Sleet shower (night) 17 Sleet shower (day) 18 Sleet 19 Hail shower (night) 20 Hail shower (day) 21 Hail 22 Light snow shower (night) 23 Light snow shower (day) 24 Light snow 25 Heavy snow shower (night) 26 Heavy snow shower (day) 27 Heavy snow 28 Thunder shower

on the 2nd, with light snow showers in the north-east, and very wet with rain, sleet and snow in the Midlands and East Anglia from mid-a ernoon. It remained very cold with an overnight minimum temperature of -10.0 °C at Alston Springhouse Park (Cumbria), and windy too with gusts of 84 mph reported

not clearing until midday, then patchy rain reached some western areas late in the day. Some southern parts were foggy early on the 2nd, which was otherwise cloudy with patchy rain or showers, with an area of rain, sleet and snow in the north moving slowly northwards, and further precipitation spreading east

brought spells of particularly wet and windy weather for much of the country. It was mostly mild in the south but from the Midlands northwards it was occasionally cold enough for sleet and snow to penetrate to low levels. From the 18th onwards it turned generally mild and settled. It was often dry

Snowfall in Scotland and northern England Rain, sleet and snow fell across a broad swathe of Scotland and northern England last night. Upland areas of South Lanarkshire in Scotland saw as much as 13 cm of snowfall overnight with temperatures falling below -9C in places. Some areas saw thunderstorms

November 2019 The averaging period used for the following assessment was 1981-2010. November began with low pressure close to the west of Britain, giving mild and wet weather. It continued unsettled until the 14th, and turned colder after the first few days, with sleet and snow falling quite widely

March and runs until 31 May. 2. Snow? Many people say you're more likely to see snow at Easter than at Christmas. This is borne out of statistics to some extent - snow or sleet falls on average 3.9 days in December, compared to 4.2 days in March. However, because Easter is a 'moveable feast', it can