Snow/Wintry Precipitation Reports: 28th January 2004 (2)

[moogyboobles]

my sister in chelmsford just called. it was raining she took a phone call for 5 minutes went back to the window and everything is covered! loads of snow! getting darker and the wind picking up more so fingers are crossed!

[BORAT]

Thank god I am not on the M25! This was worth waiting all day for.

:shock:

[Weather Watch]

King's Lynn, Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester, Northampton, Central London, Oxford, Milton Keynes.

Heavy Snow is due within the next 1 - 3 hours in all the Prior-mentioned locations.

Lighter Sleet or maybe Snow is expected across parts of North Wiltshire, Berkshire and Hampshire within the next 1 - 3 hours, the chance of snowfall and heavy accumulations due to settling is lower.

Anywhere just North or North East of London will most definately see Very Wintry Precipitation within the next couple of hours, leading to accumulations of upto 6cm likely. As a generic rule the further South and West you travel the more the precipitation will fall as wet snow or sleet.

I've been on my travels today and I've seen accumulations of 10cm very close to Gainsborough, in between Doncaster and Lincoln. I started in Scarborough where I steadily progressed to Pickering in the North york Moors where I stayed the night and was not disappointed with the significant 6 - 9cm accumulations I witnessed. I've since then travelled slightly SW to York where I witnessed Moderate intensifying through time to heavy snowfall, where no significant accumulations were evident in the City, however more rural locations were impressive and I did witness falls of 5 - 6cm.

After studying the charts again, I then decided that their would be significant accumulations anywhere between Mansfield and Lincoln and potentially Nottingham. The generic rule again applied, whereby I did realise that the most significant evidence of accumulative snowfall would occur in more rural districts around these regions.

Arrived in Licoln at 15.45 to be greeted by Heavy Snowfall, accumulations of 3cm in exposed rural areas of the city, but merely slush in the City Centre.

So, I'm in Lincoln, I need to start heading west now in order to make my destination Swindon.

[londonsnow]

its started raining in london. very windy all of a sudden

[KT]

Weather in Hertford in Hertfordshire has gone absolutely crackers. BIG thick flakes falling from the skys.

OOoooooooops I have forgot our rush hour starts this time. Drive safely guys and girls.

[spurtybilly]

Well according to jk it started snowing in Wolverhapton at 3.06pm, and stopped at 4.31. But the front seems to have slowed down a bit, so could last a couple of hours in London.

First post by the way!

[nlarkin]

Just started to snow in Wembley (North West London) this time it is snow not sleet, it is still fine snow but bigger than before. Still very very dark outside, just heard from a friend in hertfordshire and it is a blizzard there a complete white out. So it is on its way to us!!

[fine wine]

Blizzard here in North Chelmsford, 3cm of snow in 25 mins!! Started as rain, now snow!!

[moogyboobles]

jusyt very very dark with rain! but in chelmsford loadsa snow and thunder and lightening!

SNOW!!!!

Moderator Edit (By Tim Second message was edited in to this one, Don't double post please

[apricot]

SNOW!!!!

It's snowing here in Romford, Essex!!!!

Quite heavy, it has covered the cars and road already!!!

[nlarkin]

Well it has really started to pick up now, all of a sudden the snow went from fine grains to medium sized flakes. Yipppeee

[a swiss guy]

moderete snow and T° is -0,8° its about 7 cm outside waitting for the snow comming from north

[Stu_London]

Just popped out on Snow Patrol(!) in Bond Street, London W1

First raindrops from front are falling. Sky is laden to all points north.

Windy doesn't feel that cold.

Estimate temp to be 1-2C higher in central london than 2-3 miles out so expect rain and sleet.

[nlarkin]

OMG where on earth did this snow come from, it is now a blizzard you cannot see anything and the wind is really strong so the snow is getting blown all over the place. If this lasts for 2 hours i won't get out of my fron dorr..

[londonsnow]

thunder in north london. whats happening?!!!!!!!!!!!

[petemans]

SNOWING HERE NOW very strong winds

[Paul Sherman]

Saw that from Central London, whole sky lit up to the North of me.

Paul Sherman

[Kent Snow]

OMG Very heavy snow has started!!! White out!

[mattneal]

starting to die out though

[nlarkin]

OMG everything is covered in only 5mins. All the cars and my road are covered with snow and i cannot see out of my window far as the snow is soo heavy

[KT]

Weather Report for Hertford in Hertfordshire: TIME: 16-12 gusty, spitting with rain,

16-20 very gusty blizzards thick flakes, 17-00 still snowing we have 5cms / 2 inches that has fallen in 40 minutes.

WOW WEE

Thankyou Mother Nature xxx

[nlarkin]

An absolute blizzard at the mo must be about 3cm fallen already. Why oh why don't the council grit the roads as near me in Wembley the main roads have not been gritted and they are fall off snow. It is a repeat of last year in London...

[barryu]

Weather report from Cockfosters, North London.

Abandon hope all you rush-hour commuters. Leave your cars in the streets, walk home, several of you will sadly get very ill as a result, because its snowmageddon out there.

Nearly an inch of snow now, in just 15 minutes.

[evanmorgan]

katie the meto and bbc radar shows lots to come if its heading south west, the av brief doesnt back this up, but ill ignore that

Evan

[spurtybilly]

Ooooooh. Thunder in Bracknell, Berks - meteorological capital of the universe! Are we gonna get the snow tho...?