Southeast England and East Anglia - Weather Chat

[Great Plum]

Well, it's officially a better winter than last year - look what the met office app is forecasting for Reigste on Saturday!

[john pike]

http://www.weathercharts.org/ukmomslp.htm

 

hi all

 

not doing much updating for now as weather is stuck in this cloudy drizzly muck at present

 

cold day but holding temps at night due to cloud and mist

 

nights where frost might happen are  friday and saturday and sunday

 

sunday will be a shock if correct

 

a strong north west wind

 

temps

 

 

cold around 4-5 degrees

 

showers early but clearing quite quick

 

 

but likely to be sunny after morning

 

so all in all pretty boring for now

 

i will update from tomorrow to see how the weekend looks and possible frost friday  night

[scrat]

Thanks John; love your updates.  Fingers crossed for some wintry stuff x

[snowbob]

Cheers john

[lassie23]

Loving the fact that it's 'seasonal'!  It needs to be cold to get rid of all the germs.  Wouldn't it be lovely to have a white Christmas (as long as everyone's where they need to be :-), and as long as you keep feeding the birds). I still remember the icicles from 2010, never seen anything like it.  IMHO, winter, should be just that......winter!!!!

Does the cold kill off bugs like flu? It kills slugs, they are pests! (I apologise to all you slug lovers out there!) Yes I would love a white Christmas, prefer the snow to start falling at about 11pm Christmas Eve and not stop until 27th December! (Relatives won't be able to make it to my house) We had 8 inch long icles hanging from out gutters in 2010! Had to whack them off though, as they were pretty dangerous! I always put food out in my garden for the birds, although I do get some unwanted visitors sometimes, (like the neighbours!)

The wildlife really did suffer in 2010, we cleaned out the garden pond in spring and found almost 20 dead frogs. But it was a memorable winter.

I heard lots of owls died too!

Pretty cold here, but not as cold as 4 years ago!

Will it ever be as cold as four years ago again?

Strange it feels warmer than yesterday here, temp at the moment is around 7.4 and has been going up slowly all day. I thought this rain we had was a cold front?

 

Temp yesterday was a steady 5.8 all day and night.

The wind felt cold yesterday but it was 7.8c here!

I noticed that, too, and wondered whether it's because the relative humidity has dropped by about 20%.

I thought it was a London thing at first, but Alexis is a little out of London!

 

Well today was an achievement, the weather was worse than yesterday 

Things can only get worse, the atlantic might throw us a storm next week!

 

Very icy in the air, I agree.

 

Face felt sting-y, which I haven't felt for a while.

Felt like I needed ear muffs yesterday!

 

You go in the MAD thread?

I'm not allowed in there!

It is a breezy early morning here but clear!

Edited December 3, 2014 by lassie23

[Captain Shortwave]

Some clear sky this morning. Shock horror 

[Jax]

Morning

 

Not been outside as such yet, looking out the window I can see it is still cloudy now the right is growing, dry but feeling chilly when putting some food out on the feeder by the back door.

Edited December 3, 2014 by Jax

[alexisj9]

Still raining here, coming in from the East. temp 5.6.

[Azores Hi]

Classic streamer effect off the north sea into Kent and parts of Essex today, if only temperatures were 5 degrees colder I'd be under a good few inches of snow right now!

[alexisj9]

It's dried up here now, still cloud coming from the east with the sun trying to break through at times.

 

Edit: Now a mixture of sunny spells and convective looking cloud, temp dropping despite the sunshine from 7.4 to 6.2. The wind from the east has picked up, which is probablt what is dropping the temps. It's very chilly wind.

Edited December 3, 2014 by alexisj9

[Captain Shortwave]

Better day today, especially so at work where the morning was sunny. Cloudier afternoon as the gunk pushed back in again.

[stun12]

Horrible here today with the Kent streamer which, as Azores Hi pointed out, could have been so much better if it had been cold enough to snow, but just dropped rain on us for hours on end. Temps were stuck at 5-6C for most of the day, now dropping away sharply at 3.8C. Yuk.

[Lauren]

Classic streamer effect off the north sea into Kent and parts of Essex today, if only temperatures were 5 degrees colder I'd be under a good few inches of snow right now!

 

That's exactly what I said at work today which was met with a blank look when I realised they don't know what a Thames Streamer is.

 

Down to 3C here tomorrow according to the forecast

[alexisj9]

Cold and dry here, even colder in the gusts of wind.

[Jax]

Evening

 

Been travelling our region today and rather cold and damp, more so as the day wore on.

[blackprince]

Down to 2.2c now!think I will be scraping the car at 5am....note to self....get up earlier...good idea but not to sure I will be so keen when the alarm goes off...

[Crepuscular Ray]

It's been hovering at around 7°C here since mid-afternoon. I'm expecting that to drop like a stone if the cloud clears.

[Jax]

Only have the online temp to go by and that is at 5oC, very cold out though, if it does freeze after the rain it will be a mare in the morning.

[Daniel*]

Latest fax for Monday has caught my attention!

the 528 dam line cleared right south - and there's some troughs about.

Threat of something wintery, rain/sleet/snow especially along eastern coasts - first sniff since '13.

[Captain Shortwave]

Back to the solid cloudfest this morning. Hopefully this should be the last day of this for a while as we see the return of Atlantic airstreams.

[alexisj9]

Cold and cloudy, temp 0.6.

[Jax]

Morning

 

Cold and dull again today, dry for now.

[throwoff]

http://www.maidstoneandmedwaynews.co.uk/big-freeze-tonight/story-25141064-detail/story.html#RQVhw3wqHqQY62rm.01

Bizarre headlines from a free paper!

[Lauren]

They've just full on made that up, haven't they?

[warrenb]

Temp dropping as the day has gone on, now down to 2.1C under grey skies.