Southeast England and East Anglia - Weather Chat

[mickeyb44]

2c and -3 dp here.

A little flurry half hour ago, I wont be staying up for the polar low.

[Matty M]

Perhaps a light snow flurry for London soon?

[chrisbell-nottheweatherman]

Mustve missed that, where was that ??

 

MOD thread.

[Rinse The Raindrops]

Snowing lightly in Benfleet Essex

[Me & angel fiance]

coming down nicely again in Stevenage. Was just light and showery but now heavier with even heavier bursts. Thats what I like to see

[throwoff]

Its snowing in Larkfield now. 

 

Doesnt match with the radar at all!

[80sWeather]

Woo hoo snow now falling.

[Matty M]

Snow flurry in Camden!

[PLANET THANET]

Living in Thanet at least i dont have the stress and strain of 'will it snow' I can just sit back and lurk and watch it fall elsewhere.

At least i've got the memories of the late 70's and early 80's.

Please don't take this as a moan!

yes and even on the southeast weather this evening it showed the snow missing us tonight and cutting across canterbury towards dover, such is life perhaps we will get something next week

[MrsB28]

Tiny flakes blowing in the bitter wind here.

Temp 1.7c DP -3

I can't see them

[NO LONGER POSTING]

Reason that line of showers is there is because there is a convergence zone set up... I suspect it to move south with the low... and further east

[throwoff]

Weather week at 21:55 on BBC news 24. I think it will be an interesting forecast

[steveinsussex]

I swear the low is tracking more westerly

Edited January 29, 2015 by steveinsussex

[Tim Bland]

Heavy settling snow in Stevenage now

[snowking]

Right time to take a bit of a punt on this then.

 

If we look at the latest radar imagery it is actually providing a very helpful boundary:

 

 

We can see that Northern-most line of precip stretching all the way down from NW England in to Cambridgeshire. This happens to be the Northern flank of the NMM projection for the overnight period, and indeed that would be in line with my thinking too (approximately).

 

Remember you want to be as close to the Northern flank of this as possible. If we remember back to the last two marginal snow events (Boxing Day and mid-Jan) the MetO hi-res models actually had things a little too far South. GFS (and consequently NMM) went with a slightly more northerly track and that was indeed the result.

 

History does now always repeat itself where NWP is concerned, but with a similar stand-off this evening we could see a similar outcome.

 

In the meantime - snow showers incoming for the home counties!

 

SK

Edited January 29, 2015 by snowking

[throwoff]

WOW! Is anyone watching the meteoradar? That blob picked up so much over london...

[leemondo]

Light snow falling here too now

[Dami]

still snowing but the moon is out but it's romantic and still. Beautiful

[SMU]

N/NW Kent / SE London SE Essex is bang in line with that line of current showers...

 

S

[NO LONGER POSTING]

Entering the moment of truth period as the low begins to exit Ireland..

[Wet'n'Dry]

Light snow and a slight breeze here in Basildon

[HammerJack]

I can't see them

You need to go outside. They were falling. Very sporadic though. :-)

[Sparky68]

Thickening snow here.

[Daniel*]

snowing properly! oh wow

without binoculars I hope to add

Edited January 29, 2015 by Daniel*

[Snowman31]

Will these showers expand slightly further west? I am on the cusp in NW London