A depression in the channel brought a weather front across the area in the early hours of Wednesday after the thermometer had dropped below freezing at 20.45 with a minimum of -0.4C at 21.35. The first light snow was observed at 03.05 on Wednesday before it became heavier and stopped at 07.35. There was 8cm of level snow due to the calm conditions during the main snowfall. The melted snow from the 5″ Meteorological standard copper rain gauge amounted to 6.1mm of precipitation making it the wettest day since 15th January. It was the first air frost this month.
With the arrival of the snow bearing cloud the temperature lifted just above freezing in the early hours that by 05.00 reached 0.2C and 0.4C at 08.00. It has been the coldest start to a day this month.
Wednesday brought further light snow flakes after 08.15 with more likely later in the day. The closeness of the depression saw the barometric pressure fall further with a reading of 990.7mb at 08.00, the lowest pressure since 17th January.