London & South East Regional Discussion 18th January 2013, 12z onwards

[Vesuvius]

Rayleigh looks well placed for Sunday though

Yes, absolutely. I think this winter will offer more opportunities.

[Mac_SE]

I think it's fair to say..Surrey got it worst..

'worst'? Don't you mean 'best'?

[Damp and dreary]

That doesn't sound great for us in Bexhill I was hoping to be dump on :-)

It really struggled once it got to our way Sara. The Radar (Net Weathers finest and a bargain!) does show its pretty much gone for us down our way. Maybe something will 'pop up' but i cant see it. But we still have the chance for more saturday night into Sunday, everything crossed!

Jason

[hernebaylooby]

my kids are gonna be so disappointed

[Southender]

Gone mental in Wickford, you boys in Southend coping ok?

The ant army have just been called in. Poor buggers. hope they will be ok.

[magicpatch]

Seems the intensity has died down but the flakes are larger, been pretty heavy for a good 90mins or so, looking at the radar it could go on like this for several more hours too.

[Essex Chelle]

Basildon 13.49 lol

[kold weather]

Sunday is complicated, no certainty the lot won't end up further east than expected, like you see with summer MCS complexes. We will see!

Band will weaken though light snow likely to continue throughout the next 6hrs at least with maybe the odd moderate bursts somewhere along the frontal zone.

[fulhamsteve]

i would call that a big full.

5" in old money just off out to build a snowman,Epsom.

[DanN]

holly molly! White out South east if that lot comes our way...

I'll wave to it as it drifts up the north sea!

[coldtoes]

Unless this front is due to just sit over the SE all night, I can't see where the afternoon/eve/overnight snow is coming from?

In fact here in SE Essex I cant see where the snow is coming from at all.

I will give it another hour or 2 then I will be considering throwing the towel in as well, like a lot of other SE Essex/E Kent people.

I'm not going to hold my breath for much, so i've gone to Asda for a cheeky bottle of red. Went for red as I've got the hump with anything white!!!!

[Lampostwatcher]

That snow in France WOW !

On Sunday things could be seriously snowy with depths reaching 20-30cm

[Kent Blizzard]

Unless this front is due to just sit over the SE all night, I can't see where the afternoon/eve/overnight snow is coming from?

In fact here in SE Essex I cant see where the snow is coming from at all.

I will give it another hour or 2 then I will be considering throwing the towel in as well, like a lot of other SE Essex/E Kent people.

You'll get it soon, your currently in the gap where the Thames is but it'll cut across that soon enough and your be seeing snow.

[Southender]

What is interesting as well is to see what current temps are doing, widely around -2/3C at the moment, pretty uncommon to get temps going down under frontal snow, normally it'll hold steady.

Ah the joys of dragging in a SE airmass!

Snow?....

Where?

[Stephen J Kimble]

start spreading the news... its snowing today.... i want to be appart of it! kent snow kent snow!

Well you might get to use your pallet after all lol

Dissapointing here but i'm sure theres more to come

[Sara]

It really struggled once it got to our way Sara. The Radar (Net Weathers finest and a bargain!) does show its pretty much gone for us down our way. Maybe something will 'pop up' but i cant see it. But we still have the chance for more saturday night into Sunday, everything crossed!

Jason

Hope so Jason I'm hoping for a surprise :-)

[Essexgooner]

nothing in rochford

Nothing in Little Wakering, lol

[mpkio2]

Still coming down in Central London from moderate to heavy at times.

Got a nice covering but not sure how much I got. I think its harder to get a covering Central London, what with all the people walking on it and the heat from the buildings.

Still its set to continue in the evening and possibly night so I'M AS HAPPY AS CAN BE!

[Bluebreezer54]

Well a rather disappointing 20-30 minute spell of light snow here in Hastings around midday, and that was about it.

[nanu]

anybody else done what they used to do as a child and stand in the middle of the garden and look up.. see how long you can take it!!

[DanN]

Nothing in Little Wakering, lol

No snow either!

[hernebaylooby]

Well you might get to use your pallet after all lol

Dissapointing here but i'm sure theres more to come

not one snowflake here either

[EML Network]

Just been out with the kids throwing snowballs and did the obligatory snow angel....and STILL it comes down here in Brighton still heavy too.

That's heavy snow now since 9:00 am with no let up...although the flake size has reduced somewhat and gone back to grain sized with a few decent sized flakes thrown in.

Can no longer see the grass....I'm guessing it's about 3 inches here, hard to tell because in places it's more and other places it's less due to the drifting the dew point has been creeping ever so slowly close to zero...currently at -0.5 , temperature -0.1

[atrow]

That snow in France WOW !

On Sunday things could be seriously snowy with depths reaching 20-30cm

where do you think

[Hotspur62]

CURRENTLY 4CM IN PETTS WOOD/LOCKSBOTTOM BORDERS AND STILL SNOWING PRETTY HARD.TYPICAL JUST AS THE ORANGES FRINGE US THAT THE BAND SEEMS TO BE DECAYING.MIND YOU,HAVE BEEN LUCKIER THAN MY FRIENDS OVER EAST KENT WHO SO FAR ARE MISSING OUT.STILL TIME FOR A FEW SURPRISES I THINK TONIGHT.MAYBE SOME THAMES STREAMERS?