Super-size picture from 1st April shows the remaining Helvellyn snow, with Brown Cove still a decent size (the large patch on the right).

 

Peak District - Pennine Bridleway at South Head at tea time today.

Rest of the set, South Head and Kinder from West is here:
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As to be expected large snow loss over the weekend. The patch in the photo above still remains.

Attached is a picture from Sunday 8th March 2012 showing the site of the old Teesdale ski club. Nearly SE facing so on the right alignment to catch the snow. Tow alignment was along the top diagonal of the patches.

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Went out for a drive on the North York Moors today. Rosedale looked like the attached. It felt very cold when I was taking this pic


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A fine picture of Dowstone Clough, Bleaklow (Peak District) by Colin Ashcroft on 5 April. The head of the burn here held snow until May 2010. The recent NE blizzards evidently deposited a lot of snow on the west facing aspects. The forecast is for cold, showery (snowy) weather all week on the high Peak District, so a bit of consolidation can be expected. The deep wreaths present on Bleaklow will, I'd imagine, be round for a wee while yet.

How unusual would it be for the snow to vanish at the Lake District before the Peak District? Rhetorical question only!

A smashing picture from John Clift of Brown Cove, Helvellyn on the 5th April. Large patch easily visible at the head of the cove. Large version here: [www.flickr.com]

Looks like a reasonable cover on Raise and it stays cold out till Saturday. The season could still offer some more skiing this side of the Eden Valley !

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Snow loss continues - there are still isolated wall back and hollow patches S of Combs on the N flank of Combs Moss. Very little on the top itself. Patches are prob around 325m ish. Churn has several small wall back patches NW of Throstle Bank. Brown Knoll has quite a few linear patches of gully infill or wall back around the head of Roych Clough. It also looks like a large snow field is fragmenting at the head of William Clough - on the Pennine Way NW of Kinder. There might be some large patches below the Edge on the back of Kinder above Black Ashop Moor.

A little late to the party due to persistent login problems, but given the conditions I was suprised to find drifts from last week's snow down as low as 200m hanging on into Monday night in the North Pennines. Further up and behind some walls on the edge of the moors there were isolated deeper patches that looked likely to last a while longer before the most recent snow/ rain. The Cheviots meanwhile look (from a distance admittedly) to have some extensive areas of patches higher up but how well drifted these are is anyone's guess without closer inspection. Haven't seen Cross Fell or the higher tops recently, but I'd imagine there will be some decent accumulations from last week with the possibility of more to come. Be interested to hear confirmation either way though.

A great close-up of Dowstone Clough area on Bleaklow from the 7th April. Photograph courtesy of Potodeian. Good deep snow here, likely to last well into next week. [www.flickr.com]

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Drove from Manchester to Aberfoyle today up the M6/M74. From the motorways the most Southern point i saw snow was a thin strip in a gully, in "the calf" area of the M6, Cumbria. It didnt look very deep and will be gone within a few days i would think. The next was at Shap summit. Looking directly West, quite decent cover on a high summit, quite a round peak summit, not sure where this would have been. On the M74 there was a few patches left above Moffat, just to the North East of the town.

Surprisingly, there are still plenty of snowdrifts from the snowfall 10 days ago in the southern Peak District, some as low as 250m with a particularly large, southern-facing wreath above Parwich.

The wreath along the western side of Cross Fell has broken into various pieces and there are numerous patches down to 300m and below.

Looking the other way, The Dodds and Helvellyn still have patches. With the weather staying cool this week and possibly next, I wouldn't bet against May survival in both the North Pennines and Lake District.

Parwich must be the lowest lying in the Peak. There appear to be clusters remaining. Bole Hill (about 5km ENE) of Buxton has some clusters of patches in hollows, quarries and wall backs. The un-named hill north of Eldon Hill has some clusters of patches - the hill has been used as a tow site in the past. The Roych has a number of patches and linear gully infill patches. Combs Moss appears to be almost clear of snow, there are a couple of small patches in hollows (shake hole sized) on the E side of Lady Low (west of Dove Holes). Mill Hill and the Head of William Clough still seem to have quite a few patches. The patch N of South Head was still hanging on last night. Drove through Glossop on Friday, couldnt see too much in Dowstone Clough but there did seem to be a large patch South of the trig on Shelf Moor. And ending the round up there are a couple of roadside patches on the Cat and Fiddle.

I'm wondering if the reason behind the persistence of so many lower lying snow patches is the snow was relatively wet when it fell. There seems to have been relatively little settling with most snow being quite densely packed to start with.

I saw large wreaths on the Peak District yesterday from the railway bridge at Runcorn! The southern Peak must have been hit with more snow than farther north on Kinder and Bleaklow, albeit it'll melt quicker.

That said, Colin Ashcroft from flickr has been enthused enough to venture into Dowstone Clough, yesterday! His selection of photographs shows good deep snow still present there, and in particular this photograph shows the amount of snow that managed to gather in the west facing streams. Still quite a bit of melting to be had here before this drift bites this dust.