SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 01/01/2018 onwards

[Daniel*]

Starting to accumulate in places in plant plots and grass going that white tinge please don’t stop!

[Ice Day]

Steady moderate snow here. Amazingly is now sticking to all surfaces. Not expecting it to last long but it's an unexpected and welcome bonus!

[snowray]

Still heavy snow, cars all covered. Met Office got this completely wrong for around the SE.

[PLANET THANET]

34 minutes ago, snowfish1 said:

Of course not it's East  Kent crappy here cmon mate you should know better! Herne Bay saw a few flakes in the wind and as sad as it sounds.....

thats actually an improvement on ALL of last year

i try to be forever optomisic 

[lottiekent]

It was lighter here for a bit and so just drizzle, then looked out to see flakes in the mix again but now back to mostly drizzle. It’s like the hokey cokey  

Watching a heavier patch moving this way on the radar..

[Dami]

stopped here now, shame this wasn't earlier, i expect there would be a couple of cm on the ground, but got a good dusting. is starting to melt.

[john mac]

Just walked up to the village to get my car. Probably another 100ft higher up and boom! Everything white even trying to settle on the main roads 

[Daniel*]

Bloody typical turned to sleety rain you couldn’t make it up as soon as it was starting to leave an imprint.  

[snowray]

Unbelievable, grass turning all white now, settling everywhere.

[Paul1968]

8 minutes ago, Radiating Dendrite said:

Been a mixture of rain, sleet and very wet snow this morning just south of Croydon. 

It's a sad state of affairs that people are getting so excited about this. In all honesty it's just a chilly, wet mess!

 

Anything that is remotely white that comes out of the sky is unusual down here

 

[alexisj9]

7 minutes ago, mike Meehan said:

That's where I think the stories relating to Noah's Ark got it wrong - back in those days I would suggest that the people of the Middle East had not made a scientific study of the melting of the ice from the last ice age and strongly suspect that they did not know about the Laurentian ice field which has a lot of fresh water dammed within it, releasing it as the dam melted causing a sudden upsurge in sea levels and consequently the inundation of low lying areas. 

At the time their main experience of flooding would have been from rainfall, so they invented the story of rain for 40 days and nights. 

This is actually very plausible. 

[Katrine Basso]

The rain turned into sleet at 11 00 am and then into snow at 12:15pm , which has been gradually getting heavier and now resembles falling dandruff.

[PLANET THANET]

Just now, Paul1968 said:

Anything that is remotely white that comes out of the sky is unusual down here

 

the only thing thats white and comes out of the sky down here is bl**dy seagull poo

[john mac]

Epping new road not gritted. Snow all over it

[londonblizzard]

Definite snow here in Walthamstow (NE London). Settling on roofs and grass.

At least the second time this winter that met office/ bbc had predicted rain ("and possibly wet snow at the tops of the hills") and got it wrong

[Blazerblue]

Not a single flake, still dry apart from the damp ground from the frost thaw 

[Katrine Basso]

According to my mobile phone it has a rain symbol for South Ockendon at the top of my phone for the past hour.

[Nimbusman]

Heavy snow here settling on grass nicely 

[SMU]

33 minutes ago, steveinsussex said:

lol not a chance Steve

West kingsdown is @240M- almost highest point on the downs

if its tonking it down here @50M &1c then it will be about -0.5c up the top there & settling well...

 

[Methuselah]

2 minutes ago, Blazerblue said:

Not a single flake, still dry apart from the damp ground from the frost thaw 

But still only 1C, according to the NW Homepage...So a 3C better chance of seeing some of the white stuff than yesterday had...?

[Paul1968]

3 minutes ago, Katrine Basso said:

According to my mobile phone it has a rain symbol for South Ockendon at the top of my phone for the past hour.

Hopefully you have snow then 

[Downpour]

Grass and cars all white in Chingford and radar looking promising for another dose. Epic fail again from the UKMO.

[Hotspur62]

Had a bit of wet snow from about 10am-12.30 but nothing settled and now steady rain.as per the other week places with elevation like big gin hill knock holt west kings down etc probably have a covering but make the most of it as I think it will be gone by 3-4pm as warmer air is coming in fast sadly

[alexisj9]

Not even the chance of evaporated cooling down here, wind has now got a gust on, SE wind. Only between 28-30 mph though.

 

[Katrine Basso]

Here is a few short clips of the snow falling in South Ockendon.

 

 

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