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Steady light-moderate graupel/sleet now. Temp edging back down to 1.4 dp 0.3 RG7

Yes green echoes starting to appear from the west. Problem is we're in drizzle now as conditions have just moved the wrong side of marginal. Temperature of 1.5 and dp around 0.4. Hopefully heavier PPN will switch it back to frozen but I don't expect any settling snow now.

Yes, PPN remains in situ for now with occasional pulses pushing from east to west. At some point it will move SE a you would think. I suspect that developing ridge from west will start to kill PPN so it needs to get its (ice) skates on!

I think the amber warning has been judged about right. Clearly heaviest PPN is in the NW of the warning area, but when it was issued it was probably a close-run situation as to where the PPN would stall.

My daughter has ASD so I understand where you're coming from. Still, she enjoys looking at it and finds the shape of the snowflakes fascinating!

He trades in wind (don't even ask how that works!) so he has a vested interest.

The jury remains out. Systems ejecting from the PV over Canada are running into "treacle" (borrowed the similie from Tamara!), so recently when models have shown low pressure systems barreling across the Atlantic putting us in a milder flow they get stuck and disrupt due to lack of eastward momentum. Looks like we may see a genuine warm up this week courtesy of the ultra-cold air that spilled through North America, but what next? Until we see the PV checking out of Hotel Canada I suspect the best we can manage is more of the same as we've had recently. Models will continue to show flirtations with Scandi highs, but they are a threading the needle type set up and require @nick sussex to analyse the shortwaves to death in order to land. More chance as PV weakens naturally through February, but until we see that PV verifiably shift to a better position we are in stalemate.

Yes, I tend to agree now. It did look like some movement earlier, but I think we're just getting caught by occasional pulses. Must be getting a hammering to the north of Reading up in the hills right now. Anyone up Nettlebed or Watlington direction?

Excellent! Perfect for building a snowman too; very clingy, wet snow.

*Prays to the weather gods again* Looking at the radar I can see where they are coming from; just north and west of here is getting a dumping right now but I'm restricted to intermittent light snow at the moment.

Front is definitely edging slowly back ESE to SE. All frozen PPN here in RG7 so maybe a slim chance for those further south and east?

Trying to come down more heavily here now.

Yep. Unbelievably unlucky last night it has to be said. Mess this morning is more remimiscent of 80s winters. Definitely a lesser occurrence over the past thirty years.

Have to take what we can get here! Definitely looks like frozen PPN backbuilding a

Yes. Showing some tiny red echoes on the radar just to out east. Usually means PPN is developing. Light snow setting in here again now.

PPN definitely back building near Reading and linking the batch coming west out of London with the main front. Looks like we're on the northern edge of the system so should stay just the right side of marginal. Could be a bonus top up! RG7

PPN over London is edging west and looks to keep Reading just on right side of marginal. Could top up lying snow, but wouldn't expect fresh settling where snow has been cleared as temp is 1.1. Temperature is steady, so no rise as it has moved in and dewpoint is steady around 0 .

Don't think it will settle. We're under an intermittent light band and it's not settling where I've cleared snow from the car.

Reminds me a lot of 1993/4. We had quite a few snow events here in Reading but very little settled. Better luck this time though! The narrow band near Reading is graupel/light snow. Now 1.1 dp 0 occasional light frozen PPN Picture of the dog saying hello to the snowman just before he took his nose! Measured about 8cm in part of the garden that is less sheltered. Definitely some compaction going on due to slight thaw so reckon we may have had about 19cm all told.

Snow grains here in RG7. Freaky snowman on the car!

Been a very dry spell here too since autumn. Unfortunately, my rain gauge was not working due to cobwebs for a while, but I haven't seen an awful lot!

Who's going to be filming you then? Light snow here again. Looks like a little back building going on. Temp is 0.9 now with dewpoint of 0 so I don't think there will be any more accumulation, especially as lying snow is already fairly wet and slowly thawing. Three Mile Cross RG7

Yes, they should come with a health warning! MO app was rarely accurate for here last night. They got it right in the end showing heavy snow between 1 and 6am, but I could have found that out from the radar.

Ha ha! Rates in top ten snowfalls over past twenty years here! May not have had extreme cold for days on end, but in terms of snow cover today is only behind Feb/Mar 2018, Dec 2010 and Dec/Jan 09/10 this century.

A few pics from the walk with the dog. Rush hour is ghostly on the main road!