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I put washing out at 9am, it's stayed out through several hours of flurries and is now dry. Quirky or what!

Snowflake spotting with my 19 month old boy is sooo great!

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Alert! Stop the press! Flurry in Warminster! About 20 flakes on the patio table! Bright sun too.

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4 consecutive days with no cloud and possibly a 5th to come tomorrow, although more likely to have Stratocumulus if not something more convective.

That in itself is extremely rare.

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Back in the day we never worried what would happen after it snowed because 6 days in advance we didn't really know it was going to. We just woke up on cold, windy, frosty, sunny mornings and enjoyed winter hoping it would lead to snow!!

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This very dry air, breeze and full on sun is great for drying washing!

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1 minute ago, matt111 said:

Such as 50cm IMBY and 2cm in Poole? 

See a post a few pages back quoting Steve Murr from the MOD thread, it refers to snow showers streaming in from the coast. Also showers will develop inland.

Think of days with rain showers when somewhere gets 15mm of rain in a few hours but 5 miles away stays dry.

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In 3 words and referring to next weeks potential freezing conditions ; epic 40th birthday!

On a serious note ; we should be prepared for massive snow variations across our region.

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46 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

We aren’t talking about your bog standard eastily here!! This airmass will be incredibly unstable, organised troughing is more likely than unlikely!! Then we get the systems pushing up into extremely cold air! We WILL be talking about this very cold spell for a long time! 

Not many forecasted dry easterlies end up being dry, this beats isn’t forecast to be dry at all, the radar Sunday night into Monday and thereafter could be something to behold, I’ve no doubt at all we will all be in here urging showers, bands of snow or troughs to head West! Embrace this spell if you like cold, and brace yourselves for the cold because it’s coming!!!

 

And we should also be prepared for snow to die out as it heads Westwards, especially inland, as happens the 'normal' way around! 

However I am excited at the prospect of big snow showers developing in the daytime.

There must be a chance of a reverse Bristol Channel streamer or South Coast streamers?

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Slight frost this morning but just a precursor it seems! Misty too.

Thinking tomorrow mornings weekly shop might need to be a bit more than that, but will other locals be thinking similarly!

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43 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

I have a worry...... if this does come off, next winter could be a let down lol how on earth do we top this 

Last time we had a great snowy spell late in winter was Feb 09, hot (well cold really lol) on it's heels came Dec 09 then Dec 10! That was 3 great spells in less than 2 years. Just saying.

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Ian's Points West forecast was interesting ; a cool down from Wednesday, slightly less cold Sunday then proper cold by Monday with MAX of only 2c shown! 

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12.2c, hazy sun, washing outside, windows open to air house, daffodils opening as I type, birdsong, everything is Spring like.

Sees chart in MOD thread for 40th birthday next Wednesday, sheesh!!

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40 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

Has anyone noticed it’s Saturday and....... ITS NOT RAINING!!!! Hallelujah!!

Yes, glorious misty/frosty and now sunny start. However I can see cloud to the West and showers on the radar!

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So I survived my work week and the prediction I made a few weeks ago re wintriness was wrong, but thanks to yesterday's troughs I got wet on 3 out of 5 days!!

Now my attention turns to the potential cold weather, which will come hard for nature after today's Spring like feel.

I happen to be turning 40 in 12 days, could it be snowman time!?

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Thanks Knocker. A few days ago I really thought we were looking forward to a settled period starting today, but no, several troughs brought showers today and fronts will be turning up over the weekend! Drizzle is guaranteed.

When will we be front and trough free!!??

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1 hour ago, khodds said:

This is really random, I know (please don’t judge me) but I wondered if any of you lot are interested in the paranormal?! I know it’s not everyone’s thing but just out of curiosity ?

I had a very memorable spooky occurrence 10 odd years ago, too much to type out here/now. 

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Yet another day of cold rain! How many is that this winter! So exciting (sarcasm) to have had 2 days in a row with sleet mixed in during the heaviest bursts!!

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40 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

I have my sister staying with me this week. She just told me that on the BBC weather, they mentioned something colder beyond this weekend, in to next week. Is that normal for the BBC? They've seriously put all of their eggs in one basket if they have. I've seen that go wrong on many occasions!

It's because their 14 day forecast says so!

Did anyone save the info on the first day that 14 day forecast was available? To see what it will be like once that initial day 14 turns up!

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It was dry throughout the day in Warminster, lots of sunshine, a bitter wind and great cloudscapes as CBs passed to the W/SW and N/NE, sometimes close enough to see white fallstreaks.

So my week of outdoor work arrives and 2 of the 5 days look wet. Not too bad percentage wise, but it is Sod's law when considering 11 of the last 12 weekdays have been mostly fine with the odd day out being the only 1 I had to work on!! Similar happened in October half term too!

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It may have been the 4th consecutive wet Saturday but this afternoon actually cheered up brightly in Westbury from about 3pm until sunset.

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was expecting this coming week to do me in workwise by being the most wintry of the season. It seems I am going to suffer my usual fate of being rained on!

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Another Saturday morning, another bout of rain on the way, 4 in a row!!!!

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That was a fun hour, the best snow my boy has seen falling and he loved it, also the heaviest I have seen for years but there was no settling.

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Mark this in history, some decent intensity of precipitation has made it past the Welsh mountains lol!

Bursts of snow blowing in at the moment, very blustery showers and gusty NW wind. Didn't see this coming earlier when it was clear, sunny and with a patterned frost on cars * .

Wasn't expecting 15mm of rain overnight either.

* Incidentally, does anybody know why/how those amazing 'leafy' frost patterns form?

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The last 3 days have been wonderful but no glorious sunshine to come today.

Cloud has thickened quick enough to deny a colourful sunrise, the sky was still mostly clear an hour ago.

Surprised to see showers on the radar over Somerset this early too.

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We have lived here for just over 5 years and today is the first time snow has still been on the ground approaching midday! Everything in the sun has thawed though.