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Matteus7

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  1. Well, I remember the BBC yesterday saying nothing will settle in the SE until late yesterday - the wife and I were watching it settle yesterday morning! The BBC also downplayed every part of this story, as did Sky weather. The only real people who seemed to figure out that something was on the cards were the amateur enthusiasts (us lot!) and the Met Office who put out warnings days in advance. Meteogroup who advise Medway Council's gritting teams seemed asleep at the wheel as well as, once again, Bluebell Hill motorway junction hadn't been done as late as 10pm last night. Or the Council ignored their forecast.

    Thing is, they did grit but the snow that came down melted a bit during the day yesterday and with it took a fair bit of the salt away with it, the problem is that the gritters didn't go out all day yesterday like they should have, they did it once and thought it would be enough, in reality to make things easier they should have been out all day up and down motorways and main roads. There is some answering to be done by councils here as to why they weren't out on continuous loops

  2. People abandoning cars all over the place, it's only a cm or two still but it's really coming down and people panicking at rush hour to get home, the snow earlier has melted and frozen over so a layer of ice under fresh snow now in many places, hills and even small inclines are a major problem to the already slow and barely moving traffic, the gritting that should have been done has mostly washed away and no fresh grit seems to have gone down, clever!

  3. zero snow shown over any of the south east as of latest bbc weather map on TV - this is conflicted with the bbc online weather hour-by-hour forecast which has in total 19 hours of light snow over my postcode in the next 3 days.......

    who is right? why can't they get something slightly firmer agreed amongst themselves!?

    who knows........i guess a chance of snow is better than none at all , 2-4cm by Saturday evening could be nice, won't last too long but lets face it, theres no real obvious frontal snow in the offing in the next 5-7 days by the looks of it so we'll take what we can. i fancy a Medway streamer this time, could deliver 5+ cm!?

    i'll go back to dreaming

  4. a few measly cm's on car this morning in Snodland ME6 but i work up at the top of Wrotham hill and low and behold, near Brands Hatch there is a good 10cm already and still falling, so i get my snow fix afterall plus i get the adrenaline rush of already having got stuck in the snow in my ridiculously bad in the snow rear wheel drive car on an unploughed bit near work. Lets hope this isn't the last day of cold and snow we see this winter. Happy Monday everyone!

  5. yesterday evening between about 4pm and 6pm was awesome, got right in the thick of it with that heavier band of ppn, topped us up here very nicely, it added 4cm in 2 hours and we topped out with 12.5cm in snowy snodland. about 4 or 5 cm more than i was expecting and very happy i am today with it, get to stay home and read netweather forum all day instead of working lol!!

  6. would anyone care to assess Medways chances, it has amber warning included for "Kent" however Medway usually appears as a seperate area on these warnings, i assume we're better off then "east kent" but we're quite far east in the grand scheme of things (compared to the majority of those amber warning areas for example)

    i know its a bit silly to get hung up on these details 24-30 hours ahead of the game, just interested how people view Medway geographically , surely its not east kent is it??! lol

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