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Usually we do so well for snow due to elevation and location right on the very outside edge of the North Downs - not last night! I went to bed around 10.30 having watched the lovely yellow blob losing some of its intensity as it pivoted toward me. I woke up a few times in the night and forced myself not to get out of bed and look out the window! Clearly we did have some snow overnight, but it had already started melting by 7am and really wasn't anything to write home about. Another heavy snow snower on my way to work on the A21, just before junction 4 of the M25 but was falling as sleety rain on the M25 itself. Still hopeful that Feb might bring us a nice Easterly which seems to be better for my location. Very happy for those who had a decent amount overnight, have loved seeing the photos so far. Enjoy!

And... Davina!

A nice little bonus shower to top us up.

Update from Southeastern Update: Winter Weather Timetable on Friday 1 February Hello, As promised, we’re emailing to update you on the timetable we plan to run this week. We’ll run our Winter Weather Timetable on Friday 1st February, as bad weather is forecast. Train times will be different and Peak services will be busier, so please travel earlier or later to avoid the busiest trains. Snow is expected to start falling from Thursday evening, so travel earlier if you can to avoid the winter weather.

Lile @Steve Murr, some melt since last night. I was woken early by people starting to drive to work and the cracking sound of the ice on the road was so loud! Temps currently at 0C - a beautiful, clear, cold morning.

Temp very quickly fallen from 2.5 to 1c in the past half an hour or so and snow is now settling on the road.

Surprisingly, it's already settling on cars in Chelsfield after only a little while.

Aaaand still 2.5C in Chelsfield, but now the rain has very quickly turned to heavy snow (the sleety period in between lasted about 10 mins!)

Still heavy rain in Chelsfield, with temps at 2.5C. Fingers crossed!

That's me

With the now-gone Richborough Power Station in the background! That photo feels like 'home' to me

Just had an e-mail from Southeastern trains warning of possibly disruption on / from Thursday: Advanced severe weather alert Possible Winter Weather Timetable from Thursday Hello, We’re emailing to let you know in advance that due to forecast bad weather, we may need to run a Winter Weather Timetable from Thursday 31 January. We’ll confirm this at least 24 hours in advance of the change and will send you another email to let you know.

Thanks Yamkin I'm having difficulty seeing where the next lot is coming from - I can see the showers coming SE from Cheshire, but these don't seem to fit the 9pm ish timeframe.

Huge flakes of snow steadily falling now, startling to settle on cars but too wet on the pavement / road at the moment. Does the back egde seem to be dying out in the Surrey area?

3c here just south east of Orpington with light rain

Hi Tom, I suspect it was 1991 - I was at school in Sandwich at the time, which closed early as the snow started coming down and we barely made it home to Thanet before everything stopped and we were snowed in for a couple of days. That was the deepest and most disruptive snow, I believe, since 1987 and really sticks in my memory (mostly because I was so bored being stuck at home, I actually got completely up to date with my GCSE coursework before school reopened )

I lived in a tiny village between Deal and Sandwich in 1987 - this brings back memories! Thanks for posting, Tom, really enjoying the photos. EDIT: I wasn't born in 1969 but the 87 snowfall was probably the most disruptive I experienced while living that rurally. Then later that hear, the october 'hurricane' brought more weeks of no power, school closed etc etc.

I'm so sorry for your loss

Spotted on the car at 8am this morning! Are they tiny bits of graupel?

Wow, I can't believe I'm watching snow fall on November 20th! Looking at the radar, looks like a nice Thames streamer set-up?

Thunder and more torrential rain here in Orpington. Temp 12 degrees.

Agreed, that is interesting - I had terrible hayfever this year that lasted longer than normal (although OK for 10 days in Crete!). It's been better since late July, but I've woken up today with a blocked nose that I can tell isn't illness - I think it's my sinuses. I would never have linked this to the weather!

I meant to reply but cleverly sent a sticky note by mistake - didn't even know that functionality existed! Anyway, I was only thinking that our garden had turned from yellow to mostly green in about 5 days!

Nope, I love it too!

We've already had a few large branches of a flowing buddleia bush come down - I thought it had been struck by lighening but think it must have just been the wind