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Snow is VERY light here now, not sure if the heavier stuff will move westward but it is looking unlikely at the moment. But then we weren't forcast to get any her until midday so who knows.
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Sorry to hear about that - hopefully this year will be better for you. We had a lot of snow on Friday and I got stuck going to work so abandoned my car (safely!) and a colleague's husband picked me up - as he was an ex police traffic officer and now runs safety driving courses I felt very secure! We've just sold our house in Portsmouth so are looking for somewhere further inland - Horndean/Petersfield way so hopefully that will reduce some of the 'marginal' aspects we get on the coast here!
Wishing you well with a house move and the area you are looking at seems much better for snow that Portsmouth. I thought Bognor was the worst place to live for snow but Pompey is worse. Still very steady snow here and it IS moving slowly west so I reckon you will see some soon, and the I.O.W.
Haha, you got it as I was typing!
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Hi coldfingers! How are you? Well I hope! Was just going to log off when I saw your message and had to say hi. The radar looks fab for those further east!
Hi slb, I am doing fine now after a horrible year. This year seems to have started well with all this snow for me! Looks like some will be hitting you very soon and it is very steady and stronger that what we had Friday even.
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Steady snow here in Bognor. I looked out the window at 8:30am and just a dusting, now 20 minutes later and everything is well covered.
Temp is -0.3C
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Small shower nearly on us but still thawing here,few showers about around Devon which in theory should head this way but presumably will break up as they make there way East ...
A slow thaw happening here now. Temperature has risen to 1.7C and when I open the window I hear dripping sounds.
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Have you had any this time around?
Far, far more than expected! 5 inches/13cm. Really sorry if that answer increases your frustration. Not seen this much snow for a good many years.
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Enjoy your snow you lot, but spare a moment for your poor south western brothers on the Devon Cornwall border who got sodding rain again, we have to go and search for our snow tomorrow, will only have to drive up the road....but still would be nice to have it in the back yard....anyone think us lotdown here might get some more next chance we get?
Believe me I more than understand your frustration, last winter was yet another snowless one for me too. Hoping you get some sometime soon!
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Don't trust misquotes...!
Signal for snow there and IoW was always a strong one. No-one in Exeter would have said otherwise - it was further west along the coast it looked a tad marginal until we saw the 18z NAE prog yesterday and were able to even offer a more snowy story for these sorts of areas too (Lyme Bay etc)
Many thanks for clarifying that matter, so does the Netweather 7 day forecast that says sleet for me on Sunday ring true or do I have a chance of another amount of snow. Or perhaps too early to say yet?
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It should never have been for just sleet. I explained in detail the rationale for snow there in post yesterday. Where did you hear or read 'just sleet'??
Also Portsmouth News newspaper said last night that the METO had told them sleet for the area.
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It should never have been for just sleet. I explained in detail the rationale for snow there in post yesterday. Where did you hear or read 'just sleet'??
That is what the netweather home page 7 day forecast was showing for Bognor area. It is still showing sleet for me.
Type in Location Bognor Regis and you can check it out. It is usually very accurate too.
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Moderate snow on Portland dorset, unexpected !
Hope it keep going long enough to reach my area. I know I am greedy but it is so rare to get snow half a mile from the sea here that I hope you can all forgive me.
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Anyone? It's more pronounced in the latest radar at 8.15....
I also noticed the showers seeming to almost curl back around Southampton too and thought perhaps the wind had changed direction, no such luck.
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All forecasts for todayw ere spot on i would say.
Well perhaps nearly all forecasts were correct. The forecast for Bognor and for Portsmouth was just sleet. As you can imagine I was over the moon to wake up to it snowing and to eventually get 5 inches settled. Dog loved it too, racing round and round the garden like a mad thing. Then he realised he had bare feet and ran indoors.
Now I am hoping the sleet forecast for here tomorrow will be snow showers again.
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4:00pm here in Bognor, just getting darker and it has snowed since 7:30am. Heavy at times and we have had 5 inches of snow in my garden and out on the fields. The last half hour the sky turned black and I thought that would mean rain. Instead we got ice pellets and the temp is currently 1.1C
I have never known it snow non-stop for so long before and I have lived here in Bognor since 1965.
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Woke up to a bit of snow on cars and roofs in Bognor Regis but now coming down properly and has lightly covered the roads and pavements in about 5 minutes. Wasnt expecting any this near the coast (less than half a mile inland), so quite excited now!
Hi my fellow Bognorian. So wonderful to see this unexpected snow!! I watched the radar until midnight and went to sleep expecting nothing.then woke at 8:00am (I am retired.
) to see this wonderful covering of snow. Fantastic!! Now hoping that the band of forecast rain this afternoon will turn out to be snow. Perhaps unlikely but would be heaven if it did.Temp here 0.5C
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Keep an eye on temps and dew points.
What temp and dew point is required for it to snow as opposed to sleet/rain please?
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Your perception is true for now, but will you be saying such things when those stalling channel lows come and pay you a visit.
Hi Goto, I think it is more a case of IF those channel lows pay a visit! Still I live in hopes,
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Good to see you back in here CF.
Thanks gotto, been volcano forum watching through the summer but now winter draws on
so I am back lurking here again.As expected, as the showers get closer to me the temp is slowly rising. Now 3C so may get a bit of drizzle!
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I think I may well have to open the curtains and watch those lamp-posts, is it going to be my lucky evening? Whilst it will surely only be a temporary event with warmer air following on behind, I hope you lot don't begrudge me some action.
Currently 2.1c AT after a max of just 4.9c, 1.2c DP and ESE wind, so all in all, it's very borderline for wintry precip
Well I for one hope you see something. Currently the temp in my garden is 2.3C and as I am only half a mile from the sea no chance of any snow here tonight. Newbury could get something perhaps. I will check on here tomorrow to see if you got anything.
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And they said that wasn't a hurricane, well around the IOW area it had higher wind gusts than Sandy anyway. I was lucky, our house was on the same grid as the local hospital so ours was on in 12 hours. Other places had awful waits for power. The worst devastation from Sandy was that tremendous storm surge.In more rural areas, with more trees etc, they'll likely be without power for much longer — after '87, we were without power for 6 weeks we lived in West Sussex and they took weeks to fix all the substations knocked out by trees falling on them.
From the storm chasers cams NJ and NY looked very wooded areas.
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: Low tide has just passed in most places from New Jersey up to NY, so waters could start rising very quickly anytime between now and 9PM EST (1AM our time)
Thanks for that info Sainsbo, I didn't realise they were still around low tide as the tide hardly seems to have dropped in some places. This looks to be very bad for coastal and river areas.
I really hope this area is well past low tide otherwise they are going to be in big trouble. Just look at those waves on the video!!
OOPS Link http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9639915/Hurricane-Sandy-live.html
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LOL Gone again now! Maybe weather causing even them problems with video streaming.The chasers are back.
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Conditions really deteriorating in NY now. Here is the view from the cam showing Brooklyn Bridge.
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it can take a day or so for the water to filter down into the rivers, so although surface water flooding is reduced when the rain stops, rivers can still burst their banks some time later
High Bobbydog, thanks for the warning, you are right too, the river is now higher than last night and at high tide times is flooding onto the cricket field. No reall rain today thankfully but still most of the flooded areas in Felpham are still flooded even tonight as the river and streams are so high the water has nowhere to drain too. They can't pump it as it would just flow staight back as that is the lowest area, some below sea level. The video in this BBC article -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18405823
shows at the end the fire brigade trying to pump the river into the sea, note the concrete covered structure through which it flows on the beach. Before that was covered they never had the flooding but since it was installed around 10 years ago there has often been a problem with the river backing up. Never this bad but then never this much rain in such a short time. They really need to install larger pumps as that piddly hose the fire fighters are using will never cope with what is coming downstream. Still Butlins is next door to the river and is getting flooded and money talks so they may install more pumps. Before Butlins was built in the early 1960's the area was marshland. Nature always answers back. Amazed it is still flooded though and the road STILL impassable.
Still it was fun while it lasted. 
) to see this wonderful covering of snow. Fantastic!! Now hoping that the band of forecast rain this afternoon will turn out to be snow. Perhaps unlikely but would be heaven if it did.
but as for tonight? This will be me 
so I am back lurking here again.
South West/Central Southern England Regional Discussion 20/01/13 10z------------->
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Temperature in Bognor is now 1.1C and we also almost saw the sun, just a hazy shape in the gloom.
Snow still falling but very light indeed and with the rise in Temp it is melting anywhere without snow cover already. Really need this system to creep 30 miles westward so we get a more significant fall rate.