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Half an hour ago we had what looked on the radar like a serious downpour pretty much right over us - and still nothing! Max temp of 33 today, so about 1 degree down from yesterday. Now 31. Not sure whether the Surrey rain is coming for us in North Kent of whether we'll get our own home-grown cells popping up....
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Overcast and humid all morning here after the best lightning display I've ever seen last night (with monsoon-like rain)! Gradually brightened up this afternoon, with the sun burning off the cloud by about 4pm. Beautiful blue sky now, but with some impressive cloud building about half an hour ago.
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We had quite a full-on storm about 2.20am that lasted about 30 minutes then some random flashes of lightning and rubles of thunder every 10 mins or so as it edged away towards 3am. I didn't get up as I'm ill, but the lightning looked particularly bright - I'm sure it would have been amazing to see.
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7 minutes ago, Neilsouth said:
Yes, this is where I'm from, near Birchington. Very sad.
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1 hour ago, TomSE12 said:
Dry, now after early rain, with cloud starting to break up .Still models seem to be uncertain, about the Easter weekend.
Just returned home after a Physio session at Orpington hospital's, Neuro-Rehab Gym. Session went very well , the most tiring aspect of the morning, was the walk from the bus-stop, up the steep hill, to the hospital.
Going to start having two Physio sessions a week, from the end of April, to strengthen muscles and help to increase, stamina levels.
Regards,
Tom.
Oh Tom, I know that hill well, I only live a couple of minutes away - it's a steep one! (The R11 bus takes you up the hill to the front door of the hospital)
Bored with this chilly weather now, very much looking for some warmth!
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2 minutes ago, Ellozee said:
The only time I remember seeing deep accumulation of snow in Deal. The roads were filled, the hedges and fences were drifts. Being coastal and low lyiB we rarely do well from any other kind of set up.
As a child, I remember having quite deep, laying snow about 3-4 miles inland from Deal a few times - enough for the schools to close. This was in the 80's though!
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An absolutely beautiful morning - blue skies, some high cloud and the birds are singing! The sun is strong, although there's a notable chilly breeze. Currently 13.4 in my garden. I can't believe we're about to have a temperature drop of around 15 degrees - I'm a snow lover but come mid March, and especially on days like these, I'm looking for Spring to establish itself properly.
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Ditto at work in Greenhithe right now - everything is covered in a sheet of ice.
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Morning all. Just catching up on overnight posts - last I saw before going to bed was that last night's HIRLAM was the model that seemed to be on the money in terms of where the precip was falling in the SE, and where the French 'blob' was!
Light snow again this morning, but I can't see much more coming up from France. Is it meant to intensify over the channel or do we think we'll get less than we first anticipated? Met Office changed from heavy snow to light snow for my area until 6pm, but I can't see where that's going to come from...
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Just now, abbie123 said:
How long is this going on heavier snow Orpington
It's pretty much stopped for me now?!
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I'm a bit confused as to which way the showers on the radar are heading - they've been heading East uo the Thames most of the day, have they now changed to a more SW'ly direction?
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Just now, Chris74 said:
I wouldn't say North Kent currently missing out as here on sheppey we have had another inch in the last hour and hopefully more to come lol.
I should have said NW Kent (although I know Tonbridge etc are currently under a shower). Maybe it's just my little locale that's mssing out then!
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The 3 hour radar here looks promising for SE London / N Kent (who are currently missing out on the Mid-Kent bonanza!)
https://www.buienradar.nl/wereldwijd/europa/zoom/3uurs?lat=58.298&lon=-1.717
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7 minutes ago, John Michael How said:
Am I right in thinking that maybe Greenhithe/Gravesend area was the furthest West along the Thames to have a little covering. I stayed and watched our fall at 2.15-3am last night. Can' believe how just a few miles south and east of here there's like quadruple the amount of snow? My family in Dartford are now moaning at me they have no snow. Was it due to the wind direction being more conducive to a Kent clipper I assume?
I woke up to a covering where I live just outside of Orpington and have driven to Greenhithe where there is literally nothing!
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22 minutes ago, Paul Sherman said:
Lets have a check in around the region
Temp : 2.6c
Dewp : Minus 7.6C
Wind : Easterly
Location: Orpington
Temp: 2.3c
Dew point: -7C
Wind: North Easterly
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1 minute ago, pureasthedriven said:
Shouldn’t really say this and I know it hasn’t really started yet but pottering in my garden near Gatwick out of the wind it really feels like, er... Spring! ?
I know, I was out this morning and in sheltered spots, the sun was lovely and warm and I've just been pottering in the garden, securing some plant fleeces - so strange to think that in a matter of hours, it's all change.
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2 minutes ago, abbie123 said:
I remember I’m Sure it was 2009 February I was driving home to Bromley it started to snow that evening it snowed for 2 days Constant snow showers we had over a foot of snow think we had a red warning never seen since..
It was - I'd just returned home from Manchester on the train and it began snowing hard as I arrived in Orpington on the Sunday evening - it settled very quickly and snowed pretty much all night and the following morning, for sure. That was probably the thickest snow I've seen in the 15 years I've lived here.
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1 hour ago, TomSE12 said:
Thanks for your kind words EWS but unusually it's on this Sunday morning, not Weds. My sister used to work for the company, that conduct these scans, when she worked at the Sloane hospital, in Beckenham. Evidently, it's quite common to have scans, on a Sunday now.
Regards,
Tom.
I think mine was on a Sunday come to think of it - it was at Queen Mary's but a private company were operating the MRIs. Yes, I completely mid-read your post, so luckily Sunday should be no probs weather-wise for you (only stupidly cold!).
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16 minutes ago, TomSE12 said:
Evening all,
Wow, what an ECM run that was. Really loving that t144 chart, for midday Tuesday, lots of kinky isobars!!
Agree with Steve M. if that run came to fruition, would expect snow showers, to start moving westward, later on Sunday and becoming heavier, overnight.
Hope any snow, holds off, until Sunday evening, as I have a hospital appt, at Queen Marys', Sidcup, for an MRI brain scan. This is to investigate, episodic neuralgic type soreness, on the left hand side of the brain. Saw a Neurologist at the PRU (Bromley), she didn't seemed overly concerned. She thought it maybe nerve damage. a legacy of a brain haemorrhage/stroke (Quite common, after this type of brain trauma, evidently), I suffered in Sept.2015, or scar tissue, after a surgeon tore the ventricle, on the left hand side of my brain, after surgery, to remove a drain. I'm not overly concerned, either!
The model runs, look pretty good for our area and from an IMBY viewpoint, if those 850s are correct and the flow can align, to the ENE, we must have a fair shout, at a Thames Streamer. Anyway, I'm getting ahead, of myself, now.
Whatever, comes to pass, it's certainly been a fascinating period, of model watching!!
Regards,
Tom.
I had an MRI at Sidcup, Tom - they gave me a folder with a list of music so that I could choose what I wanted to listen to inside the scanner! All the best for the scan, I have feeling your journey might take a little longer that it did this week.
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Beautiful sky this evening
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1 hour ago, D.V.R said:
I thought this rain band wouldn't reach us until late afternoon?.. Gonna get soaked playing football again
- I can't remember the last time we had a dry Saturday.
Agreed - for the past few days (and this morning when I last checked at 7.45am before leaving the house), both BBC weather and the Met Office had the rain holding off until early - mid afternoon - 10.15am it started here, while I was out and about. Couldn't have been more wrong.
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2 minutes ago, scrat said:
Thunder and lightening and heavy rain currently in Bromley....sky looks purple!
Yes, it's really dark (and purple!) - We've had everything over the past 12 hours apart from snow!
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12 minutes ago, Whereisthesnow? said:
Currently at work in the City. Does anyone know how Bexley is fairing? Thanks!
Not Bexley, but it's been snowing steadily in Orpington for a couple of hours - the roads are slushy and it's accumulating slightly on fields, cars, roofs etc.
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8 minutes ago, TSNWK said:
Orpington north west Kent at 97m temp peaked at 1.3 30 mins ago.. now at 1.1
and I just noticed a gritterr spreading loads - thoughts?
I'm surprised we didn't get more snow - I know it was always going to be marginal for us, and our chances increased with every run yesterday but at my elevation (112m), it's usually a very sweet spot. Even now, it's just drizzle!
- I can't remember the last time we had a dry Saturday.
SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 26/03/2018 onwards
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Same here! Some very light blue echoes close to me on the radar, but nothing that looks threatening. However the sky is very dark and we've had a few deep rumbles.