[Winter 2020/21 chat, ramps, moans and banter]

1 hour ago, Summer Sun said:

Hamburg could record its warmest February day on record today beating the old high of 17.2c

Incredible given how cold the Netherlands and Germany were just a week and 1/2 ago, Berlin looks set to do the same.

[February cold spell discussion and chat]

11 hours ago, Freeze said:

Personally I don't mind it this cold if it snows, but if it's not gonna snow then what's the point? Might aswell be mild 

No frost/ice either, even though it was -3c last night. Bring on Spring/Summer, it is much needed this year.

[Beast from the East 2021.Post-mortem.]

Pretty poor attempt at a real cold night last night, started out well getting down to -3.9c at around 8, but didn't drop from there. 2018's easterly was much more potent getting down to -6.1c the day before March! and four days in it was still was going strong 4 days in, this spell has already peaked. I'd put this easterly similar to the Feb 2012 one but even that had a low of -5.9c and deeper snow into inland parts rather than just the Eastern Coasts. Feb/March 2018, January & March 2013, all of the winter months of 2009 and 2010 were all better than this. 

[Winter 2020/21 chat, ramps, moans and banter]

Pretty poor attempt at a real cold night last night, started out well getting down to -3.9c at around 8, but didn't drop from there. 2018's easterly was much more potent getting down to -6.1c the day before March! and four days in it was still was going strong 4 days in, this spell has already peaked. I'd put this easterly similar to the Feb 2012 one but even that had a low of -5.9c and deeper snow into East Sussex rather than just the Eastern Coasts.

[South East, London and East Anglia regional discussion - 8th February onwards]

Pretty poor attempt at a real cold night last night, started out well getting down to -3.9c at around 8, but didn't drop from there. 2018's easterly was much more potent getting down to -6.1c the day before March! and four days in it was still was going strong 4 days in, this spell has already peaked. I'd put this easterly similar to the Feb 2012 one but even that had a low of -5.9c!

[South East, London and East Anglia regional discussion - 8th February onwards]

Temperature dropping remarkably fast here, already -3c, if only the snow fell now haha. Will be interesting to see how low we drop tonight.

[South East, London and East Anglia regional discussion - 8th February onwards]

Moderate snow snowers earlier, slightly settling on unmelted patches of ground, better than yesterday at least.

On 08/02/2021 at 16:06, 95 Degrees said:

 

[South East, London and East Anglia regional discussion - 8th February onwards]

If this doesn't make it to the Brighton conurbation I don't know what will!

 

[South East, London and East Anglia regional discussion - 8th February onwards]

5 minutes ago, alexisj9 said:

Dover has done a lot better with this one. Dover had to wait till break down day last time, and even then it started as ice rain.

Far eastern areas have done very well out of this, I'm guessing the highest snow depth since 2013?

[South East, London and East Anglia regional discussion - 8th February onwards]

Much warmer than forecasted, now at 1.5c. whilst yesterday morning was good, so far SNOWVID21 has nothing on the real beast from 2018. Even places in East Sussex and Medway got nowhere near as much snow as they should have. Now looking to see how cold the next few nights will get, -6c possible. 

[South East, London and East Anglia regional discussion - 8th February onwards]

Snowfall forming all around Sussex but are the downs going to slow it's progress towards the Brighton & Worthing area?

[South East, London and East Anglia regional discussion - 8th February onwards]

Looking like it will be the coldest day since March 2nd 2018 with the temperature standing at -0.87c and unlikely to move much.

 

 

[South East and East Anglia Weather Discussion February 2021 onwards]

We got the lightest dusting from the snow towards the end but overall on Day 1 of Beast 2020 extended vs 2018 it is Feburary 26th 2018>Feburary 7th 2021

[South East and East Anglia Weather Discussion February 2021 onwards]

5 minutes ago, Weathizard said:

Pathetic isn’t it, light snow with medium sized flakes and it might as well be raining out there! Much as I love snow, non settling snow just infuriates me.

Think Brighton could be in with a good chance around 4-5 when the temperature drops but it is unknown the intensity of the snow at that point.

[South East and East Anglia Weather Discussion February 2021 onwards]

Light snow here now. Temperatures seem to be dropping back towards 1c now, IF this continues later on I think things could start to get more interesting.

[South East and East Anglia Weather Discussion February 2021 onwards]

2 minutes ago, Weathizard said:

Indeed, so bloody annoying watching the radar, I guess someone somewhere had to be unlucky, I’m not bitter at all that it’s us....

 

To be honest it doesn't even look like the lucky areas such as Kent are doing that well either. So far it is BFTE 1 BFTE 2.0 0. I'm moving to Rotterdam.

[South East and East Anglia Weather Discussion February 2021 onwards]

2 minutes ago, Maidstone marginal said:

What's the highest temperature recorded in Netherlands?

40C. During the July 2019 Heatwave.

[South East and East Anglia Weather Discussion February 2021 onwards]

14 minutes ago, Maidstone marginal said:

From what I can gather Netherlands has been barren of snow for as long as South east England. That's why they are going crazy over it

Netherlands have a very similar climate to SE but do MUCH better for thunderstorms!

[February cold spell discussion and chat]

1 hour ago, Alpine glow said:

The Met office doesn't cover Brighton Sunday (it does East Sussex but Brighton is normally depicted on its own).  I'm a bit shocked at that - the charts are showing me different even for the Coast.  Hoping for upgrades as i'm building a sledge!!

The Metoffice/BBC warnings are almost always stupid for our location, they seem to think the Sussex Coast is Valencia or Málaga or something! During East/NE flows we are just as cold as inland, likewise as in summer when Heathrow was the same temperature as Shoreham/Thorney Island at 35c during the early August heatwave. Our main hinderance will be if we don't enough precipiation because Sunday-Thursday A:M definately looks cold enough for snow.

[Model output discussion - deep cold inbound?]

2 minutes ago, Kasim Awan said:

GFS snowfall accumulations initialized on 26th February for 28th Feb midday. Only 4-5cm for most of the East Midlands, East Anglia, Essex. Boy were they underestimations @Scott Ingham

Also no snow showing whatsoever for Portsmouth when we got nearly 10CM! the GFS snowcasts are a good model to go on but not to be taken too seriously.

[Model output discussion - is the beast awakening?]

GFS12Z very reminiscent of Feburary 2nd 2009 & December 1st/2nd 2010, huge upgrade for something just a week away. the flip flopping between runs makes it hard to believe though, it'll be a miracle if it's still there on tomorrow's 0z

 

[Spain Weather]

The Spanish climatic version of Anaheim, East L.A.

 

 

[Spain Weather]

On the negative side it does countinue to show the effects GW is having, with the whole of winter 15/16, Feburary 2017, Jan 2018, Dec 18, Feb 19, Dec 19 and Feb 20 all being well above average months in the country. And somehow one of the coldest months during the 21st Century in Spain still manages a heatwave at the end.

[Spain Weather]

Absolute insanity in my favourite country in this earth. After just two weeks of maxs of 6-8c on the coasts and -21c in Teruel, it is touching 30c in Alicante.

 

 

[South East and East Anglia Weather Discussion January 2021 onwards]

Beautiful hoar frost this morning. With a low of -3,5c. Fog really created a magical frigid atmosphere earlier. Here's some snaps from the A:M. Hopefully we'll be seeing plenty of this in the next 2 months, With a snow covering on top.