Snowfields on Colton Hills near Wolverhampton
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Snowfields on Colton Hills near Wolverhampton
Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 19 Dec 2010
These are the fields north of Pennwood Lane, looking towards Ettingshall. A wide angle view can be seen here: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2209900 Following two weeks of very cold conditions, about 12-15cm of snow had fallen the previous day, and temperatures had been down as low as -12°C overnight, staying below freezing during the day. Fog and low cloud had quite suddenly lifted or dispersed about twenty minutes earlier but the temperature was still well below zero at the time of the image, 12:41 GMT. Note: a week later, the temperature had still only briefly risen just above freezing, causing many icicles to form on buildings, and nearly all this snow remains. During the very early hours of 27 December icicles began to fall off my house, and quite a rapid thaw followed.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.553899
Longitude
-2.150026