jmatt81

Interesting in LE4, the "snow" has gotten heavier, the wind has picked up and the side roads are definitely becoming more covered. Still difficult though because it is the fine grainy stuff which just blows in the wind and doesn't stick.

I live in LE3 and work in LE4. Yesterday there were heavy snow showers and today it has just been a constant light flurry. The snow is more like graupel and less like flakes.

Hmm. So BBC Weather has just tweeted this

Looks nice and all but i don't know. I'm not buying it. I'm not meteorologically trained etc and enjoy reading the forums and looking at the charts but I'm just not buying this. My fear is that the block to the north east will encourage advancing depressions to stall out over us and just dump huge amounts of rain. Why would the jet stream just power down compared to the last few weeks? I would prefer some cold, snow, frosts etc but my worry would be the temperatures do indeed drop but we just get lots more rain and lots more flooding.

One wonders what ex-Hurricane Kate will do to the overall flow

That 'fergie guy'? A fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and weather forecaster for BBC Points West?

The -ve anomalies in Iberia and the Mediterranean still point to -vly tilted and/or split jet which would sustain the blocking High near to the UK as indicated by the MJO

MJO now forecast to speed through phase 2 into phase 3 towards end of November

My new flat has storage heaters; I can turn on the electric fire to take the chill off but the cost is too high during the day! So I turned on the storage heater last night on the lowest input and lowest output. My 7 hours of cheap electricity turn off at 0830 and when I turned the heater off at 0630 the whole flat was really warm. May invest in a pair of fleece pyjamas for the winter.

View to the SSW of Leicester. Hopefully further heating will works its magic

I guarantee Leicester will get nothing. It will come along the M69 before splitting and going up and down the M1 before meeting again over Loughborough. Leicester has a weather shield. Don't know why but many times I have watched the radar and storms go round it rather than through it.

In the US this is used extensively but they have regional/local weather offices each with their own twitter feeds and they issue weather warnings when they feel it is warranted. This would not work in the UK. We don't have severe weather on that kind of frequency. The best alternative is for the BBC Weather App and the MetO App to have push notifications based on the phone's GPS which would warn someone if severe weather is approaching and what precautions to take.

Last summer the MetO issued a wide amber warning across England for severe T-storms. Very little happened. As is the case with this kind of event it is all or nothing. And sometimes it surprises everyone with being a nowcast thing. IMO there is very little point in issuing a red warning for a storm already in progress which is on the move. I wouldn't be surprised, however, to see certain regions upped to an amber nearer the time as models update.

Its stopped now anyway. I follow ATC Leicester on twitter and they said "There's a huge snow storm around the #Leicester area - roads looking very dangerous!" Not prone to hyperbole then.

Snow? In Leicester? Gosh.