SE and East Anglia generalweather discussion 08/11/2017 onwards

[snowrye]

Well I have a fare to Bournemouth tomoz,so im hoping it sweeps in quick overnight,and buggers off sharpish,really feel that its going to be another crap winter,14c saturday,someone ring mother nature please,and tell those bloody yanks to stop nicking my snow

[Daniel*]

26 minutes ago, steveinsussex said:

Have you looked at the radar? There is some precipitation heading this way from the SW, if it maintains its intensity....

Oh that is interesting. Freezing rain is awful..

[Eskimo]

8 minutes ago, Steve Murr said:

How much snow you got left?

thats adding to the depth of your surface cold!

Still a bit here, 2-3cm on fields, nothing on the roads now. The Met has us down for heavy snow to begin with before rapidly turning back to rain. We will see!

[OfficialKevWX]

It’s looking likely that places will see some snow on the front edge, I’m quite low down but I’m already at -4C with a DP of -5C..

[Eskimo]

Although don't underestimate how quickly temperatures can rise ahead of a warm front. In reverse here we saw a 5C temperature drop in a couple of hours on Wednesday, can certainly rise that fast as well. 

[steveinsussex]

its breaking up

[alexisj9]

Temp already on the rise here even though the sky is still clear. Up to 1.2 from 0.3 although the dp is negative -1.5.

[Donna3397]

2 hours ago, snowray said:

I know lassie, what a joke. 

Next chance of something wintry down here around 5th/6th/7th Jan if we are lucky.

Could this be the beast from the east???? 

[Daniel*]

Brrr -0.7C colder than forecasted - I have known forecasted rain to end up being snow but then I was more ignorant the good days when you would wake up to a covering and be surprised. 

[OfficialKevWX]

Here the temp is still falling it’s -4.5C 

[Daniel*]

I just downloaded this app I note pink moving into southern coastal counties, however netweather radar suggests rain. Not even freezing rain. Is there any reports?

[snowray]

7 minutes ago, Daniel* said:

I just downloaded this app I note pink moving into southern coastal counties, however netweather radar suggests rain. Not even freezing rain. Is there any reports?

There have been some reports over on the SW thread, one earlier from Poole of a few flakes but mainly wet.

[Daniel*]

3 minutes ago, snowray said:

There have been some reports over on the SW thread, one earlier from Poole of a few flakes but mainly wet.

I see temperature continuing to fall away now -1.1C pretty cold for these parts! 

Edited December 29, 2017 by Daniel*

[snowray]

19 minutes ago, DonnaThw said:

Could this be the beast from the east???? 

It could if the HP can build over Scandi and push back the Atlantic, its a perfect set up for the beast from the east but its not likely to happen, best result would be a battle ground over us and the cold wins out, if this happens then yes anything is possible further down the line.

Some nice ENS on the 18z but they are in the minority.

[snowray]

4 minutes ago, Daniel* said:

I see temperature continuing to fall away now -1.1C pretty cold for these parts! 

Pity that the PPN is fizzling out, by the time the main band arrives it will have warmed up too much.

[snowray]

Met Office site now showing snow moving into our area for 3am.

[lassie23]

4 minutes ago, snowray said:

Met Office site now showing snow moving into our area for 3am.

i'm feeling sleepy i'll never make it.

[Eskimo]

I am trying to be optimistic. The forecast temp here is around -2C for 1am but is actually -4.6C here. It's forecast to be 1C at 8am but could it really be -1C?

[John Michael How]

11 minutes ago, snowray said:

Met Office site now showing snow moving into our area for 3am.

?? Rain from 7am for your location

[Daniel*]

11 minutes ago, John Michael How said:

?? Rain from 7am for your location

This:

[Daniel*]

28 minutes ago, snowray said:

Met Office site now showing snow moving into our area for 3am.

That is surely separate to the northern snow, that’s from the shower precip I would guess! 

[Daniel*]

HIRLAM 18z has some transient snow just glancing north of London area at 0800 the snow coinciding with heavier PPN meaning evaporative cooling maybe a low chance of a flake, I don’t believe any other models have the snow line stretching as far south temperature on the rise here with cloud cover still a respectable -1.2C. 

[steveinsussex]

its raining here

[steveinsussex]

or at least it looks like its rain, maybe a bit sleety

[NO LONGER POSTING]

All rain and will be for off all of us. 

Incredible, - 3 at 00:50 this morning at my local weather station. By 06:00 this morning it was +3,  6 degree rise in just over 5 hours. 

If you got on a plane and landed at Heathrow at 00:00 frosty and cold scenes would have met you,  by 02:00 you wouldn't have believed me if you landed then and I said it was a very harsh frost about 2 hours ago