Maximum 1.7C and snow – must still be winter!

The last twenty four hours have been interesting weather wise. The wind backed slightly into a more northerly quadrant and picked up in speed giving a wind chill factor that meant it felt more like -3C. The maximum reached at 13.56 yesterday was 1.7C, which began to fall as the first very light snow started to arrive just before 3pm. By 4pm the flakes had grown in size. Around 4.30pm there appeared to be small hail in the shower, which unlike the snow flakes that land softly, bounced on impact with the ground. By then the thermometer had fallen to 0.3C and reached its minimum of -0.6C yesterday evening at 18.36.
There was a further fall of light snow overnight, which meant the total precipitation was 1.2mm, having gently melted the snow this morning, which had accumulated in the rain gauge.
This morning the cloud is a little higher but thick enough to block out any possible sunshine and a temperature of 0.4C at the time of reading at 08.00.
The ‘Snow Moon’, appeared after dusk when the showers had ceased and before further cloud arrived. It is the name given to the February full moon, because historically it’s away been the snowiest month in America, I read.