You’ve heard of the Bermuda Triangle? Now wonder at the Ceredigion Rectangle

This is a snapshot of the UK’s rain / snow radar taken earlier this evening and in a time when Cardiff is under an extreme snow alert, with vast chunks of the South Wales valleys under a snow watch this is the reason why I am getting all fed up.

So why is Ceredigion not getting the same amount of snow as the rest of Wales? Well, it turns out it has a lot to do with the wind direction. At the moment the winds are blowing due east (in other words they are arriving from Siberia and crossing the UK east to west) however when they get to Wales they have a problem, namely the Cambrian Mountains which form the border between Ceredigion and Powys and just like you get a rain shadow when the winds blow from the west in Powys, you get a snow shadow which is what has happened here (and it’s making me just a little annoyed)