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Thanks

A bit of newbie question, so apologies if a little off topic (thought best to get it in while it's quiet between runs). Does what's being modeled at the moment show the kind of conditions where a Thames streamer like 2009's might occur? If not, what needs to be different? Many thanks.

quite heavy snow in the City of London

I'd be interested to see how quickly temps drop once the cloud clears.

sure it's not bird $h1t?

I'm (deliberately) walking home from the City to East Dulwich. Might delay my journey slightly to hopefully make most of the conditions

Met office forecast has just reduced to perhaps an hour of snow

God I'm glad we have a moaning thread. I love snow, I mean I adore it, am fascinated by it and if it was feasible would put myself in Siberia and leave myself there. However, I have the worst luck when it comes to getting some. I live in South East London. The Thames Streamer of 2009 which dumped enough snow on my locale to stop all buses and trains, meaning I wouldn't have been able to get to work, happened when I was travelling back from an area of Germany that usually has loads of snow (it had none). So not only did I miss the fun, I was travelling back from Stansted that evening, heavily delayed because of the weather. My locale seems to be the only one that missed out in March 2013. This weekends PM from the North West happens a few days before I head to Cumbria. The forecast for when i'm there is dry at the moment. But of course there are now possibilities of a blinkin easterly, which could well affect my locale, when i'm not there. Because i'll be in Cumbria, where they'd have had snow the week before I go!!!!!!!!! I'm going mountain walking in the Cairngorms on the last weekend of January. If there isn't snow there/then, i'm making that move to Siberia.

I strongly recommend no fellers roasting their chestnuts on an open fire. The risk of short n curly singe is very high. apologies mods.

Understood, cheers.

It tells the same story though no? The 2m chart and 850 chart both show cold (ish) on christmas day. Or am i reading them wrong?

UK 6-30 days Outlook for the UK over the next 6-30 days UK Outlook for Saturday 24 Dec 2016 to Saturday 7 Jan 2017: There is a good deal of uncertainty for this period as the UK remains in a battleground between higher pressure across the near continent and lower pressure in the Atlantic. The exact orientation of these will dictate conditions across the country. Currently

Hi Banbury, For a newbie like me that reads as a very bold statement- would you mind showing some charts to back it up? thanks

Autumn

Frosty, i've never hoped that you and the models are right more! I'm off to Iceland on the 24th. I want two days of heavy snow followed by completely clear skies for the old Aurora Bozza-arlis Sorry for going off topic mods.

FWIW my post wasn't an attempted dig at anyone. It was just a hopeless attempt at being funny, and I thought Jodansgang took it in that spirit. My bad for going off topic. Back to the models.

As long as they hold on til the middle of November when i'm up

It's growing in size pretty quickly too

That stuff over the Channel Islands is kicking out quite a few lightning strikes now according to the radar. Met Office has an amber warning for thunderstorms over London for rush hour. We might get lucky again.

So, round one (almost) out of the way. Round two looks like it's bubbling up in the Bay of Biscay.

Hearing regular rumbles now.

That 'thing' floating up the North Sea now is a monster!