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Hey CF quite a day then for you? Hope too the flooding will go down for you tomorrow and you will get to Portsmouth but I know there were severe delays yesterdy and were rammed. A27 will be closed still and so I suspect most will seek the train. Poor elderly lady that breaks my heart. Hmm yes seen all the photos and it looks awful. I will keep my fingers crossed for you and good you are on slightly elevated ground. The river is only on Warning and it isnt severe so lets hope heh. hope you are signed up to the EA phone alert system?> If you arent suggest you do . very useful I found when living in Oxford when we nearly flooded. Look after yourself CF xx
Yes we were signed up to the phone alert system. I got a letter 2 weeks ago saying as our house was unlikely to flood we were being removed from the flood alert system!!! Do I laugh or cry? Not really necesary though as I can look out of my window, across the Felpham recreation ground (currently flooded by a couple of inches) and see if the river is overtopping the banks. Mind you, with the surface water on the cricket pitch it is hard to see anyway. Had to wear wellies to get through a few inches of flooding to get to shops. As you say, quite a day but I think my house is safe although I have a plastic trug in the garden that is full with 6 inches of water and was dry 20 hours ago. I think the rainfall was around 4 inches though as the trug has sloping sides so wider at the top.
Thanks for your concern though Polar Bear.
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Hey CF pleased you are ok. Yep parents had a problem getting out of chichester on train to fishbourne and the drains all backed up. A27 on the chichester observer websire looks severe. My brother has a wee house in Bognor town centre. I take it is ok in the centre..I see though the river at bersted is on Warning now.,..check out the environment website. hope you ok? PB x
Hi Polar Bear, Bognor town center is mainly OK, I had to go there to health centre with son to get a medical report as he is off sick and has to go to Portsmouth for a benefits medical tomorrow. Health Centre was just about to close because of flooding when we got there. Not sure if we will be able to travel to Portsmouth or not tomorrow. Hopefully the flooding will go down a bit at barnham so the trains will stop there and we can get our connection. Not much chance by road I don't think although some buses are getting through in some places. The road at the end of my road has flooding in peoples houses. I felt so very sorry for this elderly ledy standing calf deep in water inside her house. She said she had rung the fire brigade but they told her they already had 100 other people ahead of her and as her life wasn't at rish she has to wait her turn. When I passed on the way back the neighbours were throwing all her soggy carpets and spoiled furnishing outside her front door for her. I did feel bad for her! All the severe flooding in Felpham is very close to me and the Aldingbourne Rife runs about 200yards from my house. Not flooded yet and fortunately we are on slightly elevated ground so I don't think my house will flood nut some bungalows close to it will almost certainly.
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at the moment the radar saying their a monsoon near bognor regis
Well we certainly did have that monsoon. Son-in-law had to drive his mother to hospital in Portsmouth for cancer treatment. He got there OK but was stranded trying to get back into Bognor as every road into Bognor was closed because of flooding. One very nice man with a 4X4 stopped and gave him and his mother a lift through the floods and even drove her to her doorstep. there are some really kind people around. He however had to wade back to collect his car as he couldn't leave it in case the water rose higher and flooded it. Every road into Bognor is currently flooded and impassable in a normal car. Brother a bus driver, he said as he drove carefully through the floods the water was seeping in the doors and running along the floor with all the old ladies squeeking in fright! Now we can't get out by train either as the train station at Barnham is flooded so no trains from Bognor.
Hey ho, it's summertime, I think!
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Absolutely dreadful here, been raining since 8:00pm last night and it has been constantly heavy to torrential rain. At least 3" have fallen as I left a plastic bowl on the lawn by mistake last night. Was empty, now overflowing. Road to the east, a few hundred yards from my house is closed due to flooding, road to the North closed due to flooding, west is flooding but passable. Just been crazy weather. I have lived here 45 years and never seen this much rain in less that 24 hours.
Traffic report.
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A259 Felpham Way Felpham, Bognor Regis
A259 Live travel
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Road closed and delays due to flooding
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A27 Chichester
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Road closed and queueing traffic due to flooding
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A29 Shripney Road Shripney
A29 Live travel
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Well congratulations to all you lucky people who got shovelfuls of snow. Get out there and enjoy it!
Here we had nothing but rain but not too disappointed as that is all I expected from this.
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YET!
Now, now GTL. remember your manners.
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I think the problem is we are all snow nuts BECAUSE we live in the snow desert!
Got it in one SOTONSNOW. I take it you didn't get any then? My twin brother lives in Soton so at least I wont get a taunting phonecall tomorrow!. -
Frustrated by these non events
Don't worry Liam, one day it will be a BIG event and it is usually a more unexpected one. It is the marginal event here that bring the biggest snowfall. Sadly they can disappear just a quickly but sometimes we get lucky. Patience is the only word to describe it and Nil desperandum.
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Hi coldfingers, yes snow is always very fickle here on the coast but sometimes it works to our advantage. On 8th December 1967, there was up to 11in of snow in Brighton as a polar low crossed the region and the warmth of the sea triggered strong convection which dumped a huge amount of snow along just the coastal strip.
But all too rare an event unfortunately.
Yes I remember that one. The bakery in Brighton at the time was on the top of a very steep hill. Result? No bread for anyone supplied by them. I was working in a shop at the time so it was an enduring memory of grumpy customers complaining that we only had a tiny bit of snow so where was their bread. LOL. Brighton must be a lovely place to live and Eastbourne is even better for snow.
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Aaaaargh!!! Bashes head on keyboard in despair. Temp still goung UP, UP, UP. Now 2.6C. Not enough time now for anything much even if the temperature did a cliff dive. An early night for me I think. For all who have snow, enjoy it and I really hope it lasts for you all.
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I'm old enough to remember 1963 when I lived on the Isle of Wight and we had snow on the ground until March!
If you want to see what a westward travelling cold pool can do, check out Boxing Day 1970. I was on the IOW then and it snowed heavily all day!
Be careful what you wish for!!
Hello OMM I have lived down here since 1965 and never yet had more than I wished for and very rarely what I did wish for. I am a total snow nut living in a snow desert though so i think that says it all!
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..mmm..not sure i saw 15cm....annoying thing is i'm 38 now and still in search of a 1963 /47 scenario and don't think i'll be happy until i've seen one! I admit we've come close to a couple of channel lows in the last couple of years but it always seems to go wrong at T+24..Still like you say There's always next week!! :lol:
Ant the best time for snow down here IS Feb or even early March.
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same here and the temps dropping!!
Can you tell me what your temp is please? Here is still just rain and temp still 2.5C.
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Good to see you on here CF.
Was wondering how you were? sorry to hear you havent been to well and I send you some happy and healthy thoughts and speedy recovery..
I reckon dear Boggas will get a share before the winter is out. Must do
It is still snowing here, albeit of the wet kind and I dont expect it to hang around much. It is carazy though the roads are fairly covered but I have seen at least a couple of vans still going for it. It is a residential area of 20mph speed limit.. It is just beyond me - do they think that they are invincible.
PB xx
incidentally I know others have mentioned it but the wind has picked up hasnt it. What is that all about? When that happen?
Hi Polar Bear and many thanks for the good wishes. That wind is ODD! Temp here has crept up to 2.5C and the wind has increased to Force 6!!!! Odd indeed.
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I'm good and it is turning pink your way right now according to the radar if I've got my geography right.
Take care and look after yourself, CF.
A few hours of precipitation to come for many just yet.
Cheers
gottolovethisweather
Cheers GTL I will stay up and hope for just a little longer then. Sadly temp now crept up to 2.5C Aaargh, throws herself in frozen river! Oh curses, it thawed.
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Any more snowdepth measurements out there and what are your Temperatures and Dewpoints?
MY AT is 0.3c, DP is -0.2c so becoming possibly borderline sleet before long.
However I have an approx. inch covering from the looks of it.
I don't think this airmass mixing will do too much damage to those who already have a covering.
gottolovethisweather
Except your host CF, I hope you're well and I reckon you do look good in pink.
Hi GTL, sadly I haven't been that well but nothing a little snow wouldn't fix. More blood tests Monday. I really NEED that snow. As for pink, I hate it really and have never worn it despite being a lady, and not the Little Britain sort either. But for snow I would even wear pink! LOL Hope you are well too and DO enjoy that snow!
Edit: I forgot to say, my current temperature here in Bognor is a balmy 2.4C and showing no sign it will drop. A shame really as the small river close to me was frozen over this morning and I haven't seen that happen for 13 or 14 years. Not even last December.
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Is nearly everyone in this thread coastal?
Probably yes because everyone who has snow is currently at the window watching it fall not daft enough to waste the pleasure looking at posts by us sad snowless peeps.
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If the current models keep doing their stuff you could well be on the Isle of white!!!! by the 12th.
many happy returns for then
Ah that is so sweet, a ray of hope in the deep gloom of our despair. Haha. Well here's hoping because all i have, (as I really expected I would) is wind and rain. Such is life and tomorrow (or even next week) is another day.
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How's it going guys? Got about 4-5 inches here with the heaviest yet to come, not that I want you to be jealous or anything
Nick, did no-one ever tell you it is wicked to mock the afflicted.
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here we go for all of you...
Thanks Polar bear, can you turn the green over me to pink do you think. A little bit of magic could do it! Pink is such a lovely colour when it signifies snow. LOL.
Currently light rain here and as always I follow the netweather local forecast that showed rain for me all along. Haha, I always hope they are wrong when they don't show snow for me, but good old netweather always gets it right! GRR.
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Whats happened to the precipitation? Has it split?
I think it must have done, I haven't seen either one flake of snow nor one drop of rain yet. I reckon I live in the driest pace on the south Coast. It always seems to stop as it reaches here and start again at littlehampton. Now that really is a microclimate.
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what people have to realise is that the main band hasnt even touched us yet.still all to play for
Yes i am pleased about that. It gives here a chance for the temps to drop and at least give us an incy chance of seeing something. I don't even ask for anything to settle, just to see some falling would be fun.
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Actually i can confirm its snowing at several parts of the iow so take your attitude n do 1!
sorry mods dont like his sarky tone!
I can understand your irritation, what many don't realise is that it often snows on the I.O.W when it rains in Portsmouth and bedhampton IS the Portsomouth area. Why that should happen I also don't understand but even Bognor has had marginal snow while Portsmouth have had rain. I don't mean we had snow in Bognor today, just other times.
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Temperature here in Alton is now 2.8C. Quite surprised it is so high seeing some coastal locations (e.g. Bognor is only 1.7C). Wind has increased - may be the reason.
Cloudy now - radar shows sleet creeping over Winchester area. I think this will be a close call - could be
that the wind will switch around to N-NE later and temperatures will fall.
Not quite sure where you got the 1.7 for Bognor, I wish! Currently 2.4 here. A very bitter strong wind though so wind chill could perhaps be a lot lower.
LOL. and goodnight from me. And here is hoping for a 
new week.
Got it in one SOTONSNOW. 
I take it you didn't get any then? My twin brother lives in Soton so at least I wont get a taunting phonecall tomorrow!. 
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South East England & East Anglia Regional Discussion - June 7th 2012>
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Oh dear, they have just put the Felpham area on a flood warning! So I will be watching that river closely. I really hope they have installed pumps down where it flows into the sea as the tides aren't large ones so it doesn't get long to flow out. I will set the alarm for around high tide in the early morning and get up to check the river. When I walked past the river a couple of hours ago it was as high as I have seen it ever and it didn't have a flood warning then, just a flood watch!