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Got some blue sky now

Thanks. I know they are all ok but hope they’ve not had any damage.

Around the Croydon area it is fairly calm and hardly any wind. The rain is relentless though. Hopefully I’ll hear from my family down near Eastbourne soon. if this had tracked further North, I feel we’d have had an 87. The nearest of misses (aside the coasts!)

Squall line lost its energy by the time it got here. Rain has stopped and wind much calmer

Very noisy now, gusts seem more frequent than on Friday. The last one came with a loud crash, so something’s been damaged locally.

Did a longer walk around the area today to see what damage had been done. Thankfully not much. No trees but a number of large branches and a few fences. For someone with a fascination for extreme weather, I sure picked an odd location to live in. Fairly low ground and sheltered. Similar to when there’s marginal snow, just a short stroll up the road, made a noticeable difference. The wind must be in a slightly different direction as the bigger gusts are much noisier than or Friday, despite being less strong. on a side note, I’ve muted my family WhatsApp as I can’t keep explaining why 87 wasn’t a hurricane and why other factors (lack of warning, middle of the night, time of year) made it so unusual. Ha! Noticed Southern Trains are now advising not travelling tomorrow and have a 50mph limit on trains that do run.

When was the last time we had winds like this in the SE? I’m thinking it was around 9 years ago? I know we’ve had a few storms since but I can’t recall the winds being at this strength

Although I didn’t get much accumulation here, we have managed to keep some snow cover for 8 days. That’s pretty impressive by any standards. I think I’d have to go back to Dec 10 to match it. As a whole this winter has been significantly better. Much more seasonal with plenty of frosts and colder days. The only thing I’ve missed here is significant snow fall but how many times in the last 40 years has my area had a foot of snow? I don’t think it’s as many as I try to believe! 87, 91 and 10 are 3 I’m confident on but maybe there were others? Given the trend over recent years to have a cold spell in March, I’d not rule out us seeing more snow before we start focusing on heatwaves and thunderstorms!

I’ve experienced that when I lived in Oxted at the foot of Botley Hill. I left for work and it was clear and sunny. Train went through the tunnel and we exited into Narnia! I had no idea a streamer was effecting London as the hill stopped it from progressing to where I lived

Snow shower here. Left a dusting where it melted today. Let’s all do the snow dance and hopefully a massive streamer will appear and bury us all in a foot of snow...

Morning! Moderate light snow here. Still not what I’d class as heavy (I judge this by visibility) Hard to tell the depths due to it blowing about and being fussy over where it wanted to settle! solid covering though but nowhere near the level of the previous “Beast” Best of all is that we’ve had snow falling for 3 days with sub zero temps. Last year I barely saw a snowflake so this restores my faith in the Snow Gods

Glitter falling here. Snowed a good majority of the day but always light so accumulation was hardly noticeable. One thing I’ve learnt over all the years is the best snow is generally not forecast. In 2010 I was expecting a few cms. I was annoyed when it started as heavy snizzle but out of nowhere it went nuts! Convection kicked in over us and I ended up with about a foot of snow that night (and very little sleep!) Not saying that will happen again but you just never know in these set ups

It’s been snowing lightly for about 3hrs. Not settling but has started to on the trees. Nowhere else. Just trees. Odd but looks nice. I ordered a 2009 Thames Streamer. Hoping it will turn up

Stopped in South Croydon and melting quickly. A cm at best. Was nice whilst it lasted and at least gave the first covering in a couple of years.

It turned to rain very quickly here. We maybe had around 30 mins of moderate snow which settled in few spots. Sadly another bust in south Croydon. 2nd March 2018 remains the last time we had full snow cover

Sleet/light snow here in South Croydon. I won’t get the sledge out just yet

Hey All, not posted here for such a long time. I tend to stick to live snow reports. Guess that shows how terrible it’s been the past couple of years. We had a brief flurry on New Years Day but I’m starting to get concerned that it’s getting harder each passing year to get any kind of laying snow. March 18 was the last time and I don’t regard that as significant snow depths. Let’s hope I’m wrong and we get another shot down the line. Until Europe gets much colder though we are going to struggle

Thunderstorms are the new snow it seems! ?

Same. FINALLY. It’s even settling.

I’m fairly low elevation at south Croydon but it’s been mostly persistent sleet/rain

Same. Cars driving past with snow on them so it’s clearly settling somewhere locally. Wish it would just pep up.

On off sleet to snow but not sticking at all and never quite heavy enough besides the brief spell earlier. Its all so random.

Heavy snow here now. Heaviest of the winter so far.

Mostly rain here with a few flakes. Amazing seeing what other areas to my west have had. Just shows you that you never know what can happen even a few hours out. would obviously love a surprise but it’s so wet here that I just can’t see how if it turns to snow that it would settle. It’s have to be so heavy to stand a chance

Reminds me very much of the 90’s (after 91’s great spell) where there was always so much promise but constantly failed to really deliver in my area. Just having the media and TV forecasts to rely on made it so much more frustrating - I used to sit on teletext waiting for the pixilated weather map to update As others have said, we should probably change our thoughts of March as it has proven that in the right set up, it can deliver decent cold and snow. I also think that at some point the models will flip to our favour and surprise us by showing milder to sudden cold. One day Am I the only one who never looks at the radar during snow? It’s like looking at spoilers, I’m much happier to look out the window and see what turns up than get frustrated seeing heavy snow missing me (rain again here)