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Perhaps if it had been in the middle day when people are out and about, a few local red warnings may be warranted. Thankfully, 99% of people are safe in their beds and will wake up to a horizontal wheelie bin or a cancelled train to work at most.

Sudden insane wind right now

The sun is trying to peek through the cloud here and my word does it feel tropical when it does, the humidity is quite something. Feels ripe for some hefty storms later…

Precipitation can’t decide what it wants to be today: rain, sleet, snow, hail, graupel… winds are bitterly cold too.

Just got off the tram at Cornbrook which is miserable at the best of times but this wind is properly bitter! I live just around the corner and it’s more like wet snow now, freezing level dropping quite rapidly? Still, it would take a lot for anything to settle.

Begrudgingly given up on any prospect of lying snow here tomorrow morning. Surfaces are drenched after hours of cold rain barely turning to sleet now. Not likely to dip below freezing long enough for even ice to be a problem. Hard to believe that places just up the road are getting proper snowfall!

The variation in intensity is really unusual! Minute to minute it’s going from 2/10 to 7/10. Bit of tease

Picking up a bit here now but surfaces are too wet for anything to settle after the last few hours of snizzle…

Very fine snow floating in the air here - bodes well for tomorrow despite models showing the Manchester snow shield in effect?

Some rapidly intensifying precipitation over Southport making a beeline towards Manchester (here’s hoping!)

It’s better than nothing, and a rare treat in December…

One or two amateur weather stations reporting 40C and even 41C to the SE of Cambridge. Probably the area to watch. Would be interesting to see the record broken again at the Botanical Gardens! https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ICAMBRID169

Charlwood, Surrey at 34.8C @ 12:00

Lots of hair-splitting at the moment, the heat is exhausting enough! Anyway, the ECM is exhibiting lots of storm potential Tuesday PM for southern England, though the GFS has CAPEs of 2000+ in the north - what’s at play here?

I concur. I think a lot of models are overdoing the progression of the Iberian low. Recent JMA run seem the most plausible in that regard.