SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 11/02/2018 onwards

[stainesbloke]

13 minutes ago, Jimmyh said:

Omg i cant seruously believe what i am seeing its just utter weather porn. This will or at least will make the cabinet and cobra meet. I have been weather watching in earnest for 15 years on here since 2009. Addicted is another word for it. Start warning your elderly loved ones please my mum is 80 amd lives in a flat on top of sanderstead hill. I am going to advise her to fill up her freezer now. You may call it sensationalistic but this will last longer than 1991.

Yes this is a total ramp but i can see no back down on the models for the last 6 days 

Calm down lol, it’s going to get cold, possibly very cold but snow amounts (if any) are far from clear. Some extra essential supplies are a sensible precaution but no need to panic and start filling up freezers, phoning Theresa May, etc. I guess we won’t need our freezers if the charts verify as shown, could just leave everything in the garden!

Edited February 20, 2018 by stainesbloke

[Sidsnake]

1 hour ago, smarklew said:

Couldn’t sleep, so had a cup of tea and looked at the models. Just placed grocery order for delivery.... tinned things, candles, bottled water. As soon as my mum is awake I’m going to organise one for her too, she’s almost 70 so I don’t want her worrying about running out of food. 

There, that’s probably jinxed it. 

Although actually despite spending the last ten years desperate for this weather I’m now a bit scared! 

 

Yes, I think you are wise ordering for your Mother.  My husband is a lot older than me... He is seventy as well.  He is poo pooing the thought of any snow and cold and doesn't really follow any weather online.  However I do.  The great thing about Netweather is that it is very informative and in the case of the very severe weather that is possibly coming up enables us to make plans.  I have already made an order for online groceries that is coming Saturday and am planning regarding my sheep and will be putting things in place this week so we are ready for severe weather.  I think Netweather is a great and friendly site.  Best wishes to all its members x

[Jimmyh]

1 minute ago, stainesbloke said:

Calm down lol, it’s going to get cold, snow amounts (if any) are far from clear. Some extra essential supplies are a sensible precaution but no need to panic and start filling up freezers, etc.

Ok as i said at the end of my post ramp.... but i aint going to tell my 80 yeat oold mum to go shopping in -10 ok decided to water down figure... air over us as mr murr has aluded to there will be ice days. Lets look at the rsmifications of what you just said for an older generation. It will last longer than 1991 and be almost as severe. There is a possible channel low showing along odles of charts showing snow. 

[Southender]

Rubbish long range MO update this morning ??

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/mobile/regional-forecast/ee

[starstream]

Preparation depends on where  you live and age.

my Dad whose 83, and remembers both biggies '47 and 63 has been dismissive of the cold, but he's forgetting he couldn't now dig his car out of snow, or walk safely to shops.Statisically if an elderly person takes a bad fall and injures themselves , they will never recover to the level of mobility they were before.

so if you have an elderly relative or neighbor, please ask if they need anything, offer to pick up shopping or better yet, invite them in for a warm dinner and less worry about keeping there own home warm for a bit.

Roll on the  cold!

[Norfolk Sheep]

As long as it's all out of the way before I start lambing around 12th March I'll be happy!  However I will be making provision for water storage as a minimum. Even feeding double amounts of hay I have enough for 30 days from the beginning of next week...

[stainesbloke]

4 minutes ago, Jimmyh said:

Ok as i said at the end of my post ramp.... but i aint going to tell my 80 yeat oold mum to go shopping in -10 ok decided to water down figure... air over us as mr murr has aluded to there will be ice days. Lets look at the rsmifications of what you just said for an older generation. It will last longer than 1991 and be almost as severe. There is a possible channel low showing along odles of charts showing snow. 

If it does get very cold and snowy, the older generation will need some extra help, they’re more at risk of falls and injuries. So I’ll be looking after my Mum and elderly neighbours, helping with shopping and making sure they’re well insulated. Don’t want to panic them unnecessarily though, I find most elderly people are usually up to date with forecasts, it’s the younger people that are usually caught out now. 

[Sidsnake]

2 minutes ago, starstream said:

Preparation depends on where  you live and age.

my Dad whose 83, and remembers both biggies '47 and 63 has been dismissive of the cold, but he's forgetting he couldn't now dig his car out of snow, or walk safely to shops.Statisically if an elderly person takes a bad fall and injures themselves , they will never recover to the level of mobility they were before.

so if you have an elderly relative or neighbor, please ask if they need anything, offer to pick up shopping or better yet, invite them in for a warm dinner and less worry about keeping there own home warm for a bit.

Roll on the  cold!

Absolutely wise words.  I've worked with the elderly and you are totally right regarding falls.  Whereas a young person usually will just get up for an elderly person a fall can be catastrophic. 

[Allezwasps.]

Its ok as ive just invested in a sledge for my 5 year old son here in wokingham ive doomed our chances of snow !!!!

[Sidsnake]

6 minutes ago, Norfolk Sheep said:

As long as it's all out of the way before I start lambing around 12th March I'll be happy!  However I will be making provision for water storage as a minimum. Even feeding double amounts of hay I have enough for 30 days from the beginning of next week...

And as long as its out the way before I start lambing on the 1st April!!!???

[abruzzi spur]

Media excitement starting to ramp up now.  Daily Excess:

Desperate EU to unleash KILLER FREEZE on Brits 

Bitter EU bureaucrats are to sink to new lows in their deranged plan to PUNISH Britain for voting to leave.  Feet of European snow is planned to rain down on Britain next week CRIPPLING transport networks and KILLING NUNS AND BABIES.   In a clear demonstration that the crazed federalists would like nothing more than to take down Britain's TROUSERS and spank it with a rolled up copy of the Maastricht treaty the snow will be heaviest on areas that voted to remain such as London.

[Jimmyh]

11 minutes ago, stainesbloke said:

If it does get very cold and snowy, the older generation will need some extra help, they’re more at risk of falls and injuries. So I’ll be looking after my Mum and elderly neighbours, helping with shopping and making sure they’re well insulated. Don’t want to panic them unnecessarily though, I find most elderly people are usually up to date with forecasts, it’s the younger people that are usually caught out now. 

Totally agreed but i am and neither is my brother close to my mum. She is 15 miles from me and 30-40 miles from my brother. We will all help our elderly relatives. Some live round the corner and some live miles away..........mm

[Rob Deacon]

I've ordered new sledges for all the family,  told all my family and friends really cold weather is coming, with snow very likely to.

What can possibly go wrong lol

[stainesbloke]

2 minutes ago, Jimmyh said:

Totally agreed but i am and neither is my brother close to my mum. She is 15 miles from me and 30-40 miles from my brother. We will all help our elderly relatives. Some live round the corner and some live miles away..........mm

Fingers crossed your Mum will be fine, think the most important thing is for them to keep warm enough. That’s their biggest vulnerability when we get a freeze. Mind you, they’ve been through it all many times before, hard old souls!

[JennyJane1]

9 hours ago, Paul Sherman said:

1991 I had literally just passed my Driving test and started working in London. I drove to Upminster Station went to work that morning, think it was a thursday or a friday, they sent us home at 1pm and by the time I got to Upminster the train could not get any further east due to drifting further east. I then went to my Car an old Mark 3 Escort and that was the first time I had driven in the snow, I kid you not I like most people just abandoned the car and walked home.

 

Winter 1994, I had just passed my driving test (when i was nearly 30) and was driving a clapped out Austin, it was snowing hard as I made my way very slowly and I mean very slowly up the A127 from Basildon where I was working to Southend where I lived. At the traffic lights I hear a door slam and the truck driver behind me storms up to my car.Imagining he is going to shout at how slow I am driving, I slightly wind down the window, literally shaking with fear, and he smiles and says, "your door isn't shut properly, love".

[JennyJane1]

8 hours ago, Chris101 said:

 

I think sometimes 2010 made newcomers to this funny game we play, think that it was all so easy, when in reality its ruddy hard

We had no snow here in 2010 while the rest of the country was covered.

[Kent Blizzard]

Nice to see this thread upbeat for a change but caution still needed!....let's not get ahead of ourselves just yet.

 

[Great Plum]

Monday on the met office app for Reigate - nice...

[Donna3397]

I’m slightly confused no weather app is really suggesting any cold or snowy weather for us in rye the meto not even saying very cold  

[Great Plum]

1 minute ago, DonnaThw said:

I’m slightly confused no weather app is really suggesting any cold or snowy weather for us in rye the meto not even saying very cold  

Donna, it’s still early days for the apps - that it’s showing snow for Monday in Reigate is really rare!

[FetchCB]

After inadvertently posting this in the Ireland forum 

I lived in South West London for 79,87 events,. Now in Peterborough on the edge of the Fens. On the one hand I feel blase about the possibilities ie yes it will be cold but there won't be much disruption but on the other hand there is a part of me that thinks OMG if it was bad in 79 /87 in SW London then what the hell will it be like here 

[Uxbridge90]

Imagine the uproar when all we get is bitter cold and no snow! 

Looking like an exciting couple of weeks ahead of us. 

[shotski]

Latest EPS has the high slipping south east by Tuesday drawing in warm southerly winds ?

only joking. 

[exodus]

Does anyone actually have any ideas about whether we'll get uch snow or will it just be really cold?

[pureasthedriven]

32 minutes ago, Great Plum said:

Donna, it’s still early days for the apps - that it’s showing snow for Monday in Reigate is really rare!

Yes, we even have a single snowflake icon for an hour in Horley on Monday and that’s tantamount to forecasting a blizzard! ? I see the Beeb being their usual risk averse selves this morning (dry and ‘chilly’) for the weekend with ‘maybe a little bit of snow next week’. Who knows, they may be right. What they did commit to however was freezing or sub-zero daytime temps next Tuesday. At seven days away that is bullish. 

Edited February 20, 2018 by pureasthedriven