South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 23/04/17 onwards

[khodds]

Sorry - was decanting my sloe gin and had to have a medicinal one to get over the fact I’m middle aged and only just realised  

at least I’m not one of the oldest on here - sorry @kent ?

now, where were we?

[Nights King]

1 minute ago, Gas Ed said:

Please let someone be older than my 46 years! I've been lurking for many a year on here and even the BBC Snow watch days. Whatever happened to Mr Crazy Snowfan!! ??

That band does look pretty organised if it could just hold together through those Welsh mounds.

hold together past wales....If you been around 46 years you must be aware that we always lose to wales in this instance.. 

[khodds]

Not sure about Mr Crazy Snow man... Dartmoor Matt has been absent years too ?

[karlos1983]

I am laughing childishly ?

Poor Jo in the mod thread. That image has caused quite the stir lol! 

Anyway imuendo aside, I think surprises are coming overnight! If we can get some proper trough action the welsh mountain things won’t stop it!

Edited December 7, 2017 by karlos1983

[MidnightSnow]

Mr Crazy Snowfan's last tweet was November 2010. Quite fitting really with what followed shortly after.

"what is snows forcast lookingsssss likesss for onglonds?"

 

[wallopweather]

Wow is it really that long ago that there was a decent chance of a snowy Winter? I know I’ve not logged if for a while but according to my profile that was 7 years ago in 2010! ? 

i think it’s down to living in Hampshire, anything from the North never comes to anything thus far inland and south and any cold event from the south is killed off by the IOW ?

[Nights King]

3 minutes ago, karlos1983 said:

I am laughing childishly ?

Poor Jo in the mod thread. That image has caused quite the stir lol! 

Anyway imuendo aside, I think surprises are coming overnight! If we can get some proper trough action the welsh mountain things won’t stop it!

She has a point though.... dont want newcomers to confuse it with a slider... 

[matt111]

5.2°C now. Slowly does it..

[wallopweather]

Throwing my opinion in the pan. Possible passing light sleet or snow showers or flurries for this part of Hampshire tomorrow and on to the weekend with best risk of decent snow looking like early hours of Monday.

Edited December 7, 2017 by wallopweather

[MP-R]

9 minutes ago, wallopweather said:

Wow is it really that long ago that there was a decent chance of a snowy Winter? I know I’ve not logged if for a while but according to my profile that was 7 years ago in 2010! ? 

i think it’s down to living in Hampshire, anything from the North never comes to anything thus far inland and south and any cold event from the south is killed off by the IOW ?

Not of course forgetting 2013, which I was sadly not in the country for.

On a side note, I've always wondered why snow showers have so much more of a problem with the Welsh mountains than rain showers do. 

[matt111]

Last lying snow I saw was Feb 2015 but that was probably 1cm at best and lasted less than half a day. Have to go back to 2013 for the last lying snow that lasted a day or more. 

[wallopweather]

I’ll have to check on an old computer but I know there’s been decent snow cover in my area since 2010. I remember driving to work with lying snow around for the best part of 10 days

[wallopweather]

Jan 18th and Jan 20th 2013 Middle Wallop and from Danbury Hill

[The Enforcer]

22 minutes ago, matt111 said:

Last lying snow I saw was Feb 2015 but that was probably 1cm at best and lasted less than half a day. Have to go back to 2013 for the last lying snow that lasted a day or more. 

Ditto. February 2015 was an overnight trough unforecasted by met office/BBC even the same evening. December 2010 was forecasted to be an M4 southward event until about T+12 when it changed to M40 southward.

[Mapantz]

Upper air temps now between -5 and -6 across the region. -6 to -7 creeping in to Wales from the NW.

[karlos1983]

Just had a temp rise  now at 4.6 

[khodds]

Temperature slowly dropping here.. 5.2c DP 1.0c

[birdman]

58 minutes ago, Nights King said:

Doesnt look like we will see the money shot in this area though.. 

Simply loveleh ?

[matt111]

Still dropping slowly here. 4.8°C. 

[Gas Ed]

Thought the temperature was never going to drop having been a steady 5.2 for a couple of hours but dipped a degree in the past 30 minutes so now getting somewhere. 

These North-Westerlies do my bontz in watching all that lovely precip vanish time after time on radar-watch 

[festivalking]

I can confirm we have stuff falling from the sky and it' rain oh and I'm 38.  Still mild here at 4.6c. Gins on now.

Edited December 7, 2017 by festivalking

[Mapantz]

What's you Wunderground station ID @karlos1983?

[kent]

1 hour ago, khodds said:

Sorry - was decanting my sloe gin and had to have a medicinal one to get over the fact I’m middle aged and only just realised  

at least I’m not one of the oldest on here - sorry @kent ?

now, where were we?

At least I can recall the epic winter of 62/63.  I had just passed my driving test and it was harrowing.  The snow ploughs were out all day everyday and being no where else to put the snow it was banked up either side of the roads and you were literally driving through tunnels. Road signs were buried in drifts of snow and trees were falling because of the sheer weight of snow on the branches. The frozen snow and ice on the trees gave them all an appearance of giant chandeliers under the street lamps.  I could go on. but I would love you all to witness such a sight one day.it was truly magical.

[festivalking]

So the good news from here is it looks like I'm in line of a steamer... er streamer coming off the north Devon coast. Still as rain but hopeful of it turning to the good stuff later.

[karlos1983]

7 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

What's you Wunderground station ID @karlos1983?

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