Southeast England & East Anglia - Weather Chat >> 1st Feb Onwards

[mickeyb44]

soft small hail here, graupel ?

[snowfish1]

I would say that's it for tonight

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[Kent Blizzard]

We'll i think the only snow enjoyment for me will come from watching The Jump tonight on TV

[snowy weather]

Looking at the current streamer ( the only one )

Entry point is felixstowe heading WSW crossing over the QE2

Anyone on that trajectory looks to see a few more flurries

Sky clear here currently which is fine - clearing the wet ground.

Temp will be dropping-

What about Gatwick and Crawley?

[snowblues]

Nice blob of snow approaching East London and NW kent

[Roy]

The streamer looking more organised now on line between Lowestoft and Southend. They look to be heading for NW Kent/SE London.

[Jenny Wren]

Having heavy snow showers here on the Essex coast and it's settled too. Best we've had this cold spell.

[Kent Blizzard]

I said yesterday with my fun snow map BONJOUR France, looks like Calais doing ok !!

[therecoil]

Snowing heavy here and settling too

[The Beast From The East]

Just looked outside, dark but clear but that sky in the distance looks full of it ....

Please come this way. â„â„â„â„â„

[masked_firefly]

Current situation here appears to be snowing but not laying....

Apologies for photo on the wonk not sure how to adjust on phone

Edited February 5, 2015 by masked_firefly

[PLANET THANET]

I think people are correct in so far that the main bulk is missing kent and coming ashore in essex and then across at an angle driven by the wind

[Jo S]

Nothing here, except the cold 

[Whether Idle]

I said yesterday with my fun snow map BONJOUR France, looks like Calais doing ok !!

Its funny you should mention that.  Drove along the A2 to Dover.  Snow at Shepherdswell junction and light smatterings to Whitfield.  Clear to Dover Castle.  Then I see the vista across the Dover Strait and what  greeted me ?  The snow-clad hillsides and fields over the Nord pas de Calais in absurdly clean air that seems to reduce distance so I could almost reach out and touch it.  Clearly a good streamer dumping over there.

[Marie]

Snowing

[Captain Shortwave]

That line of showers is starting to creep westwards slightly so potentially Chelmsford could be coming into the mix

[Ruby000]

The occasional snowflake wafting around in the breeze. 2 degrees C.

[Paul Sherman]

What have I missed in the last 90 minutes

 

Have been at the Dentists with the 3 Princesses! Got back to Leigh and small settling on car roofs and roof tops of houses, its a start.

 

Looks like the weak streamer is pushing more west south westwards now with more of an ENE Influence, the showers before were heading down from Ipswich to Southend to Medway Towns, now look like Ipswich to Colchester to NE London.

 

I notice more convection is occuring albeit weakly behind the first line, its these that need to be watched for the true streamer to set-up, if these can get influenced by deeper convection circa 50-75 miles off the Essex and Suffolk Coast and conversely between the far NE Tip of Kent and Belgium then it is game on for a different orientated shower train and a true streamer.

 

But I would only put that at 10% for tonight, some places may luck out at 3cm further west but the synoptics and what we have on the table are not condusive to deep convection that could dump upwards on 10cm ++. This obviously due in part to Limited Cape to get those showers upto around 10-15k to really make an impact.

[loopydreamer]

Bloody hell.... I've just been to our local shop... it feels sooo cold out there ...

[Long haul to mild]

Just had a snow shower here that has left a slight dusting. Nice to see but the radar looks a bit bare now so not sure we will get much else.

[Captain Shortwave]

Light snow here now

[SussexmarkyMark]

Snowing

And starting to settle on cars and flower beds

[throwoff]

Very organised band moving in now. Who knows, I thought we wouldn't see anything today and we have had 3 seperate falls.

[The Beast From The East]

Well sadly the cold snap last week and this week have been a big let down for my area and I had more hope for today and tomorrow of snow showers and even laying snow. I don't like to throw towel in but I think it's time I did sadly. The whole winter I can remember early December looked the time for our first cold snap then after it didn't arrive it looked like Christmas period but it didn't arrive. Then it looked like turn of the year and yet nothing and here we are now in Febuary and well need I go on. Think we've just been unlucky this winter and it just wasn't meant to be. I'm happy for the people who did manage to get some good snow out of this cold snap though.. Great thread this is to read and I will continue to stay on here and read it.

[Lampostwatcher]

Moderate snow shower :-)