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Using crampons in Surrey is certainly a bit surreal. My favourite surreal moment of this winter so far is getting a text from a friend in Horsham saying she'd seen people cross-country skiing!

Oh, I'm the other side of town, just off Lewes Road in Brighton, near the Sainsbury's. It keeps ranging in terms of strength of precipitation but I'd call it heavy right now.

Erm, there's heavy snow outside right now.

Snow just dying off now in Brighton, which is consistent with the Meteox radar as the band that was sticking to the Sussex coast drifts off into the Channel. Hoping for that band currently to the north to come south later this evening.

Rain and sleet in Brighton. Dewpoints way too high. Will things become less marginal on the south coast later?

Unexpected early snow in Brighton! Wasn't expecting any to hit until 9pm but it's already here and a light covering on the garden and patio. Been snowing for approx. an hour or so.

Brighton area is orange on the Met Office warnings map. Looking at the GFS precipitation charts (okay we all know they're a bit dodgy but what the heck) we should get a decent covering tonight, not so sure about East Sussex as a whole though. Meteox.co.uk charts show PPN edging along the south coast to possibly hit Brighton around 9pm. 2C at Shoreham Airport at 1700, but a dewpoint of 0C, and I have a little bit of altitude here as well which should help.

That Friday forecast looks monumental... however at T+120 that's a long way off.

Rain in Brighton, just started in the last couple of minutes. Seems fairly consistent with the MeteoX radar.

-9 reached tonight at Middle Wallop, Hampshire.

I grew up in Farnham, just down the road from Farnborough, and it does get surprisingly cold at night there when the weather conditions are right. -6 at Odiham at 23:30, and down to -8 at Middle Wallop in Hampshire (between Andover and Salisbury).

That's some temperature differential! Temperatures here have gone down from +6 early this afternoon to around -2 now. Brighton and Hove City Council are getting a lot of criticism over their gritting operations, with many pavements still dangerous, and Cityclean, a private contractor, being blamed for not having full grit bins in many areas and the council being blamed for the removal of grit bins. http://charts.netweather.tv/gfsimages/gfs.20091222/12/18/uksnowrisk.png Looks like we might have some rain tomorrow morning coming in from the coast according to that? But temps and dew points are already low so I wonder if it might be a bit of a wintery mix.

A positively tropical 6 Celsius here, rain has now gone, very cloudy outside though. Pavements treacherous.

No further snow today in Brighton but to see a load of snow on the beach was amazing, as was the 3am snowball fight in the local park last night. No melting of snow whatsoever here that I have noticed, which is great given the altitude and the proximity to the sea.

Hi everyone. Some good snowfall in East Sussex tonight. Started snowing about 8pm in Brighton after a few snow showers in the afternoon and snowed heavily for 5 hours. Spontaneous snowball fights breaking out everywhere! I'd estimate 2-3 inches has fallen here and that's pretty near ground level. I've heard conditions in Lewes and the surrounding villages are considerably worse.