Senator Blue

8 years ago I ski'd at Jasper in the northern Canadian Rockies in mid-Jan. It was cheap for a reason! -38c in the day! We had to whether masks to cover nose and mouth to prevent them becoming frosted or frost bitten. The cold was really dry, and when wrapped up in ski gear and exercising, you didn't feel it. But stop for any period, you can feel it creeping in. You didn't want to expose skin for any more than 10 mins. As an example, a friend fell and split his goggles. They them steamed up, so he took them off to be able to see. It took around 15 mins to get the mid-mountain lodge, and he had to sit in front of the log fire for 15 mins. to unfrost his glasses from his face. Great holiday, best powder skiing ever. Recommend to anyone. Just remembered there was a roof top jacuzzi on the hotel. You had to leep from the door into it. If you touched the metal railing instand frosting to it (so I heard). Love any excuse to talk skiing war stories.

I don't think it really matters, just post in the thread that suits your needs. Suffolk was also lumped in with London and SE originally, but most of us posted in EA so it moved. I've seen plenty of posts in this thread from those in North Essex. Paul B - Costa del Sizewell gulf stream has now reached Kesgrave, turning sleety. Phew....back to snow.

It's amazing the difference a few miles makes, because we've had very light snow showers the last hour or so, rather than rain. There has definitely been a steady thaw though, but hopefully these will start to drop off this afternoon as the delayed precipitation moves in.

This is the last time I'm going to comment on the blizzard fued. I've ski'd in blizzard/whiteout conditions with visibility down to 1m and winds in the region of 45mph, and it's not nice. Technically speaking it was not a blizzard, but 8 miles east of Ipswich winds were gusting, snowfall was heavy and horizontal, and visibility for a period did reduce to around 300m. I've received somewhere in the region of 2" additional snowcover in the last hour. It is lighter now and intermitent. Good signs for all I would think if this system is due to push into all of EA! Enjoy.

We've now been in a blizzard for the last hour. It is truely phenominal snowfall at the moment. I hope this is heading in your directions, because if it is EA is in for snowmaggedon.

Moderate snow, gradually getting heavier.

no.....igloo

I've never trusted the BBC graphics, and treat them as highlighting the potential. They're a bit like watching every GFS run, your setting yourself up for a rollercoaster, and the form horse usually is that most miss out, but a few areas hit the jackpot. Once into the now, onto the radar to see where the streamers are setting up, and hope you get lucky, like we did last nght.

I hereby declare this day to be Snow Day, the funnest day in the history of Springfield Kesgrave! Anyone know how to put a roof on an igloo? I don't want to bring it down after labouring for 2 hours on it?

As of early evening, the east side of Ipswich to the coast is a nightmare. I am only a few miles east of Ipswich and am now nearing a foot of snow. The roads are a nightmare. Ipswich centre and west only had around 2cm max and was pretty clear, which may now have changed. Perhaps one of my cousins to the west can update you.

Split it East Anglia from London and the SE or Split East - Suffolk, Essex, Kent from the North and West - Norfolk, Cambs, Northants, Sussex. Londoners can join which-ever region depending on location.

From past experience of these set-ups, they tend to degrade and break-up as they pass through Essex. You need the instability we are benifiting from to set-up in the lower North Sea, and set off a Thames streamer. The direction look right, if you can get some convection going!

sorry for the rampede tonight, but this is the best spell for us since the December 16th streamer. Snow depth has gone from 0.5cm to around 6cm tonight, and we've now got good old 50p flakes falling

white-out........you guys to the south of us are in for a treat in the next hour or so!