Rinse The Raindrops

Maidstone now

Great seeing the powder snow blowing now down the road

So the clipper clips Essex too

Get your phone on charge we need you tonight !

Snowflakes blowing around in South Benfleet

Essex Weather Retweeted Simon Keeling Clear to see the newer run (18Z) has a lot more snow across Essex. This seems to tie in with what's developing over the Thames Estuary and Southern North Sea.

ESSEX WEATHER just tweeted 21:00 Update: Little change with northern extent... band of snow stalling somewhere over SE corner later tonight and slowly pulling away on Friday. A greater risk however of snow turning to rain or sleet, esp coastal with less cold air mixing in from North Sea. 1/2

Moderate snow in Benfleet starting to settle on cars and roofs

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Just watching the BIG FREEZE LIVE! on C5 can you imagine that show in 1987

is it worth getting out of bed to take a look

yes just starting to look promising over the last few frames seems to be intensifying

Benfleet now

fantastic snow Benfleet best yet

FROM ESSEX LIVE Looking through overnight model data and guidance, ‘Storm Emma’ has been downgraded and placed further West meaning less in the way of impacts locally. There will still be a band of snow pushing Northwards through all of Essex on Thursday Night and into Friday, but not the blizzard and ‘feet’ of snow that was showing on earlier runs. The freezing rain risk has also been restricted to South-West England which is good news for our area. That is one type of weather you never want to deal with!

moon shinning here

be happy with 5!

how much you got do you think?

yeah looks great, was asleep and wife woke me! showers have certainly beefed up!

Heavy settling snow in Benfleet

https://twitter.com/YourSouthend/status/968214434392002560

Nice heavy shower just gone through here in Benfleet given a good icing sugar effect for the start of the evening

More Minor adjustments today on the reliable short/medium range model MOGREPS highlighting risk of brief return to less cold conditions for E+W next wkd before turning very cold again. Ties in well with both 12Z Euro and UKMO global models. Cold not going anywhere fast.

Essex Weather Centre‏Verified account @EssexWeather 8m8 minutes ago More There are now four severe weather warnings in force by the @MetOffice with a AMBER warning for Clacton, Maldon, South Woodham Ferrers, Basildon, Rayleigh, Southend-on-Sea, Canvey Island and Grays: https://essexweather.org.uk/severe-weather-advisories/ …

Sunday Morning Update Our cold spell finally arrives today, and temperatures will barely rise above freezing across many inlands districts of Essex until next weekend whilst coastal areas will feel the full wind-chill effect from the Easterly with 30-35mph gusts at times. The chance of snow showers has been brought forward by around 12 hours or so, but the risk of accumulating snow and disruption remains from Monday evening, through Tuesday and into Wednesday. In total, there are now three Met Office weather warnings in force covering these days. Overnight model data and guidance statements continue to suggest areas South/East of a line from Clacton to Rainham will see the highest totals during Tuesday and Wednesday. All districts of Essex are at risk of seeing snow, but as is common with showery activity, some places may escape with very little or no snow. If you’ve read the most recent warnings, you may be wondering why there is a lightning hazard risk as well. With a warmer than average Southern North Sea (by some 2 degrees) and a great deal of instability, this will aid development of cumulonimbus clouds along the coast so don’t be surprised by some vivid blue lightning displays overnight. Friday brings the potential of a widespread snow event. There is still a lot of uncertainty regarding the exact track of the low from the Bay of Biscay. If indeed it does track North into the UK, then a memorable blizzard will occur for much of England and Wales. Current thinking from a forecasters point of view is that it will either weaken before reaching us or track Eastwards through France. It is a development that everyone here is keeping a very close eye on and probably won’t be resolved for a few more days. Finally, I cannot stress how important it is that you check in daily with the Met Office during this cold spell. As you may be aware, the BBC ditched the Met Office for the commercial operator MeteoGroup. Under the new contract rules, the BBC are under no obligation to broadcast on TV, radio or online Government weather warnings of ‘Yellow’ level and/or cold weather alerts. Therefore, you may miss out on these important communications from the Met Office who after all are the official national forecaster. Our updates will become more frequent from tomorrow (Monday) once snow starts to affect our area. It’s going to be a very interesting week ahead! Next update: Sunday Evening - Duty Forecaster