Climate_Eyes

yes it says rich and chewy in the description but you might add crunchy to that at the moment I bought the Samuel Smiths beer selection off Amazon which isn't the cheapest way of doing it but I just love their stouts and porters. Enjoy and Merry Christmas!

I'm sort of the opposite, gave up my greenhouse and allotment when I moved and now searching for a property where I can keep some chickens and ducks. I admit though that a greenhouse is probably a lot lower maintenance As long as you haven't given up the beer!

Thought I'd stalk the old crew, see what's going down Thanks j, still work in Hampshire but split my living between Oxford and Sussex, which means I can pick whichever place is likely to be snowier . Hope you're well!

That darned triangle used to get right on my nerves when I lived in P'field.

No rain yet but wind picking up. Flashes seemingly from all directions, revealing momentarily some amazing cloud structures. Am I dreaming? For once this hasn't avoided us and ended up clipping Kent.

Just a bit further east near Steyning my dude and it's incredible but still fairly distant (looking west). One of those rare occasions, in this neck of the woods at least, where I don't need to check the radar to see if it's dying because it's letting me know every second that all is well

Been sat north of Worthing watching this move in for a while but it has recently picked up in intensity, occasional clear view of distant CG, accompanied by distant thunder. Air is beautifully still.

I'm going to stare at the radar unblinking until they do.. There's even been a slight pepping-up in the last couple of frames.

That's what The Oracle wants us to believe. Or something. Mind you, the brief spell of sunshine today was actually lovely, even as a die-hard cold lover, I'm almost ready for the inevitable.

Looking across the region, there seems to have been a patch of very low dew points approximately correlating to the dissipating precip south and west of the M25. For example, my temperature is around -0.8, but my DP is around -6. With such a low relative humidity, I guess this could have been inhibiting precipitation from reaching us, however it does look to increase soon to become more confined to the SW, which may help if any showers do encroach later on... by which time they will have died off, knowing our luck!

Thanks for the genuine laugh

Nothing substantial at the moment but there are light showers dotted about and heading in your general direction. Hope you get something, I have a soft spot for the IOW and particularly Shanklin, I imagine it would look even more lovely in the snow

Oh wow! Good luck with that, and if there was ever a period of time recently to use "sod it" this is probably it Just started again here. As Singularity hinted, perhaps the radar isn't quite reflecting reality.

Same here Khodds, I actually have to concentrate tomorrow and this isn't helping me get shut eye but it's just too nice to watch!

Another steady flurry, more snowy this time, from a small patch that just popped up. It's dandruff but I do enjoy the random nature of these little events and it's nice timing for it: no melt!

Quite a few small patches of precip popping up as others fade, it might not be much, but a blob here and a blob there can mean a dusting for someone. Wind has picked up a bit more here, and the stars keep disappearing then reappearing. Guessing if that streamer keeps its slight westerly component, Swindon way might get a little bit.

Just had a 5 minute shower of graupel here just up the road near Petersfield. It's absolutely raw in that wind!

Spotted a massive white flake floating down but unfortunately it turned out to be a feather from a fat pigeon in the trees There are however some teeny tiny snow grains now floating about, the wind has picked up, and the blue patches of sky are diminished. 2.5°C DP -1.7

Yeah same here, my dew point tonight is still pretty high, with humidity at 96%, I think it's just not quite there yet.

Hey up fellow night owl! Still on 2 8, it's dragging its heels.

Radar return suddenly changed to sleet in my locale, still raining steadily but with the very occasional wet snowflake mixed in. Temp has fallen off a cliff, now 2.8°C DP 1.7, obviously the wrong side of marginal but it's a start.

The CAPE crusader? Funny ol' day here, temperature was up and down by several degrees all day, and when the sun did show up it was pretty warm. Also had a lot of sharp showers and even some hail. Currently 3.0°C

Ended up with around 5.5-6cm all told, got a little bit lucky with the back-building as the front passed over and being just the right side of marginal, the flakes were huuuge! Bit of a power-melt going on, as expected, but it was lovely to see. Hope anyone who has yet to get snow does so soon.

First snow of winter and it might be some of the chunkiest I've seen. -0.9, DP -1.5

Heavy... graupel! Now light snow, falling on thick frost, which makes a delightful change from falling on soggy ground.