South West England Cold Spell Discussion

[Valhalla]

Lets face it the whole senario has has turned out pretty crap as usual and now you are all talking about flurries,wow

Hi all, i don't usually post just read with great interest, but thought you'd like to know, its trying hard to snow in Brislington, Bristol, had a few flakes so far, hopefully it will pick up

[Jayfromcardiff]

Morning mate, i stayed up till 2am last night haha waiting for snow, didn't happen. Hoping for a bit today before college at 12.

[Dartmoor_Matt]

No snow here, but it did get down to -4.3C last night, its currently -2.9C with a windchill a whopping -11.3C.

Clouds do seem to be building, and with the DP well down at -6C at least the ground is well dried and chilled!

[Nights King]

couple of flakes on my way to work in brizzle but nothing now.

Big line of showers heading in our direction but they just fizzle over midlands and die before west country.

Cold even in brizzle today. -o.5c

At home it is -2.8c

Roll on sunday night...........

[noggin]

Roll on sunday night...........

But this is the point, isn't it? It's always a day or so away, and when we get there, it doesn't happen.

[chapmanslade]

What a JOKE! - Im extremely dissapointed to wake up to clearskies and bone dry ground! - I have lost all hope in a any snow what so ever this side of winter until febuary time. Cant beleive that. What is going on with all the forecasts!! all saying snow for us or sleet at least, for every day this week but we've not seen a dicky bird! - Lesson learnt, not to take a blind bit of notice when i see snow forecast for east dorset .

Clear skies here now. Wheres all this snow or snow showers both online and TV forecasts say we are suposed to get for most of the day today when its clear skies and no precip anywhere near us on the radar!

Ive had enough of all that "tomorrow" business now - It never happens "Tomorrow" lol.

Forecasting has really gone downhill since last winter especially on the TV

Thats my rant over with!

The forecasts on the BBC and Met Office website were spot on, and it snowed pretty much exactly where predicted. I don't know what forecasts you were looking at but nobody has been predicting sleet / snow all this week. In fact somebody was moaning a few days ago that Richard Angwin wasn't mentioning snow when in their opinion a national emergency should be declared - turned out he was right ! Don't confuse forecasting with hopecasting !

[grab my graupel]

Morning everyone - will open a new thread in a few minutes

[Dartmoor_Matt]

Just seen some of the pictures on the news of the snow and it doesn't look all that much, certainly not compared to Feb down here... and yet you'd think there was 10 feet of the stuff the way they are going on about it.

[Nights King]

But this is the point, isn't it? It's always a day or so away, and when we get there, it doesn't happen.

very true but without hope what would be the point.....

we cannot miss every snow event!?

My concern for sat/sunday/monday is the meto seems to be convinced we will get rain or sleet at most? any ideas on this?

[grab my graupel]

New thread below, folks - will close this shortly