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N London I find a half decent spot for our region to get snow. Last year it was sweetspot in Dec 22 pretty much. Then December 17 which was rain sleet south of the Thames here. Late Jan 2021 I think we missed out London had a good covering sleety rain here. when I lived in Herts was always 1.5-2c colder than by the Thames here Feb 06 I think I saw twice as much snow in Herts& N London as back in Kent from a Channel low and lasted 2 days longer up north of the Thames too! The rare October 2008 snow only settled Central London northwards too I believe Cheshire gap made it there! Nothing here then there's many other north of the M4/ Thames events. Jan 05 I believe there was also a smaller snow event that made it to where I was living 04 to 07 in Herts but missed back home. Prior to this era I remember I was often too far West my mum in Medway would often see NElies deliver snowfalls that narrowly missed Gravesend where I am now and Dartford where I'm from. It feels like here relies on the 1% perfect set up to see any snowfall were always milder than surrounding areas too which doesn't help nor being flat in the urban Thames flood plain other parts of the SE have more elevation including a lot of North and South London so any marginal setups fail to deliver here even if nearby places get some. I hope we all get a proper snowy Easterly soon I really do!

The thing I will say is that it may not have settled even if it had fallen my friend in Normandy says they're expecting a mix of rain sleet and snow there so we'd probably be complaining about that rarely do Northerlies deliver anything decent roll on the February- March traditional Easterly chase I say...

Mine says 10% sleet

Anyone got any flakes falling shame I'm not in Gravesend atm in London?

-1c at mine no scraping the car this morning interesting must show how dry the air is!

Interesting some of my ex colleagues it was a random job I took to get out of a completely diff career ive since worked in a completely different career since them days much better. I like the areas around their Borough Green was where the depot relocated too loved driving through Meopham and Wrotham Hill when it snowed there like a different world to here!

I need to relocate your sorta way always do so much better than low lying parts of our side of the county by the Thames here! Did u have any accumulation a week back? Nothing settled at all here I used to work for a company Chapmans of Sevenoaks for a few years I remember getting stuck in the snow during the beast there was way more that way than here then too

Haha couldn't make it up haha I'm in the start of that dry gap between the band over the rest of my county and the one over EA hopefully the signal strengthens be lovely to see us all get atleast a small amount

Central London 1-2c colder than parts of NW Kent tonight 0 to -1c here -2c there by the looks of it, backs up my point were usually warmest in a lot of setups hence the failed snowfalls of recent years except last December . Late January 2021 I think it was? Even central London had snow cover while we had mainly rain and a bit of sleet a few miles east here!

Walking the thin blue line (as usual)

Were usually around a degree higher than Central ive found in my years delivery driving there every day 6 days a week so maybe 4c here was peak its 2.9c on my current one on the balcony now

Have you been to the tanning salon the UV is 1 this time of year virtually impossible for a tan that low a level

Its funny as standing outside here in 5c feels colder than -9c when I was in Sweden there's def a different sort of cold on the continent for sure a shame you're not in Prague a bit earlier they have snow in the next few days hope it stays for when you're there have a great time! My 2 trips to Northeast Europe so far have been lucky for me had snow not only in Sweden in November but also a couple inches in Riga, Latvia on my only other trip to the other side of Europe highly reccommend that place for a Christmas break Unesco world heritage site the whole city and great value much cheaper than Scandinavia food was awesome and biggest market in Europe

I swear we're always warmest Im not far from the famous Gravesend Broadness and my cars rarely more than 1c too warm and this is after driving

Lovely and warm working outside standing for 7hours at Sidcup today LOL

Happened prior to "global boiling" in 91 across the pond... Just watched Marco.Petagna on Skynews he said some models still showing it over southern regions but most likely will stay over the continent in France etc so still a small chance

Ohh have any models updated then?

Here's the latest Ventusky which uses ICON data snowfall&cover this would be epic for top and tail of the country but there's also so for the Midlands coming via the NW. Up to 3-3.5inches in places in the SE and Scotland. Wonder if that E/ENEly is aiding the band ove the far SE

Icon did very well here in the damp squib on Monday it correctly forecast a fair amount of falling snow showers here with a few heavy bursts that we had too but it also showed no settling snow by the Thames, but this time it does on Wednesday... anyway still too early for specific details from a complex setup ECM etc so no atm

GFS spotted it again the trend finder model

Fantastic those lobes can close after the north gets its snow showers and the south gets a band of settling snow

Didn't GFS take a bashing for suggesting this several runs in a row isnt it better around Greenland also I've heard members mention?

Seems to be more than the Southeast look at the north! Scotland N England it wants to shut down most areas here . The earlier GFS straight-line Northerlies were showing mainly cold dry conditions for most E/NEly seems much better for much more areas even western areas there

Would be great to see GFS snow accumulation chart like latest 6z come off for once