South East & East Anglia Regional Weather Discussion 24/12/13

[john pike]

hi sussex

 

happy christmas to you

 

thankyou for your kind words

 

maybe we will see some colder charts as we get into january

 

and the s word will be used soon

[tinybill]

 heavy showers  now appearing in the  flood  plains down south via rain alarm

Edited December 25, 2013 by tinybill

[exodus]

Quite a frost happening now here in Essex.

[Sussex Jules]

Heavy hail shower could hear it over the top of the food fight on Eastenders. Does that count as a white Christmas?

[Eskimo]

Starting to wonder if something wintry might fall out of the sky later tonight, temps have dipped to freezing and the upper atmosphere is -2C. 

[exodus]

Starting to wonder if something wintry might fall out of the sky later tonight, temps have dipped to freezing and the upper atmosphere is -2C.

Seems to be petering out as it moves north though.

[Summer of 76]

Just removed the ice from the windows of the car, roads have been salted and near the river the mist was starting to form.

Edited December 25, 2013 by chris mantle

[Bluebreezer54]

Temperature fell to 0.8c here an hour ago and now it's pouring down with rain. Hope you all had a good day.

Edited December 25, 2013 by Bluebreezer54

[Summer of 76]

The radar is showing freezing rain to my west

[NorthNorfolkWeather]

Already well below zero here at -1.6.  Cold and frosty, stars look wonderful, both Jupiter and Sirius look fantastic tonight, mind you Orion isn't too shabby either and a glistening Milky Way.

 

Brilliant (but V cold)

[john pike]

just went out and got soaked

 

i am sure we had wintry bits in them showers

 

easing off now but feels pretty cold out there

[exodus]

Interesting evening, heavy frost was setting in, water lobs on car were frozen solid yet within an hour all were pretty much melted as the warmer air pushed in from the south.

[Eskimo]

Temp just risen half a degree in like 10 minutes

[exodus]

John, in terms of Friday's depression, how is it looking now? What impact do you think it'll have on flights out of Heathrow?

[john pike]

hi exodus

 

at present 40-50 mph winds should not really effect them too much

 

although i assume it will come down to direction of wind and whether it effects

 

landing and taking off

 

very heavy rain is the tricky bit as not sure whether this will effect them

 

might be worth waiting until tomorrow to see whether they warn of any delays

 

http://www.heathrowairport.com/flight-information

 

hopefully link above will help

[john pike]

http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfse_cartes.php?ech=204&code=0&mode=0

 

pub run special

[Captain Shortwave]

Good evening. Festivities over, well until tomorrow 

Fantastic weather today. If we can't have snow, then lets have a glorious sunny day.

[exodus]

Pub run indeed!!

[john pike]

 

 

going to hold off commenting on these at present

 

there is the bit between these that i am watching

 

they will probably change so will update these tomorrow night

[Ravendane]

Yuck!  I checked the weather this morning before heading out to family festivities...mild and dry enough to leave the horses out....now absolutely hammering down with icy rain....luckily home in time to get them in...One of them is an old lady of over 30 and must not get too cold and chilled....ah well, that's weather for you!

[snowblues]

Weather in the next week or so now looking more and more wintery generally in the charts at long last,especially tonights easterly tease.Looking forward to the first all nighter lamp watch:-)

[Luton Weather]

7am in the morning

Edited December 26, 2013 by Luton Weather

[tonymontana]

Xcweather just upgraded a tad the winds speeds for my area for friday on the other hand monday have dropped quite alot so not looking so potent for monday now?

[john pike]

 

this tallies in with what the fax charts show at present

[Sussex Jules]

Just seen BBC weather did not make pleasant viewing and just learnt that the section of A27 I was on earlier this evening was closed due to multiple accidents due to road rapidly freezing. What on earth is going on with the weather. If anyone has any travelling to do over next few days please keep up to date with current forecasts. I purposely left Portsmouth early because I was worried about any further rain coming in and seems I narrowly missed some pretty bad weather.