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Donna3397 Community Regular

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  • Location: Rye East Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: snow (but who doesnt like that)
  • Location: Rye East Sussex
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When you look to the front of my house it keeps having small little flurries, when you look to the back nothing. :clapping::80: starting to think someone is outside with their own snow machine trying to wind me up. It’s been like this all morning on and off. Extremely cloudy all around now. 

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Nick F Maestro

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  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
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Light to moderate snow showers since I got up at 7am, giving a  dusting over everything including unsalted roads. But after grey skies, patches of blue sky and sunshine appearing in SE 25, but plenty more showers upwind to come!

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Turned out better then I thought this morning and worse yet to come tonight and through Tuesday - as we see a proper convergence zone develop through the Thames Estuary

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At least the snow's not drip drip melting when the sun comes out

 

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tomp456 Seasoned

tomp456

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  • Location: Worthing, West Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: Anything unusual
  • Location: Worthing, West Sussex
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Sunny, -0.7C & absolutely no chance of snow at the moment. 

Will hopefully get at least a dusting over night. 

 

Hope I've posted on the right forum!! They've changed names!! 

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seb Community Regular

seb

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  • Location: Singleton, Kent
  • Location: Singleton, Kent
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17 minutes ago, markdeacon said:

That looks like the "WeatherPro" app

It is. For some reason my post was blocked so PM'd instead.

The forecast is useless but radar is pretty good as it combines all European radars. It does have a big gap in the North Sea though so it cuts off behind the showers you can currently see - you need to switch to Sat images to see how packed the North Sea is. Snow shower galore!! 

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stainesbloke Maestro

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  • Location: Nymburk, Czech Republic and Staines, UK
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny and warm in summer, thunderstorms, snow, fog, frost, squall lines
  • Location: Nymburk, Czech Republic and Staines, UK
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2 minutes ago, CK1981 said:

Moderate snow falling here now.....finally!

Thought you’d see some, it’s been hammering it down here for nearly an hour and moving your way. Grass going white :)

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snowbob Seasoned

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  • Location: Addington
  • Weather Preferences: Love a bit of snow
  • Location: Addington
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1 minute ago, Nick F said:

Light to moderate snow showers since I got up at 7am, giving a  dusting over everything including unsalted roads. But after grey skies, patches of blue sky and sunshine appearing in SE 25, but plenty more showers upwind to come!

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Turned out better then I though this morning and worse yet to come tonight and through Tuesday - as we see a proper convergence zone develop through the Thames Estuary

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At least the snow's not drip drip melting when the sun comes out

 

Do you think a Thames streamer is possible tonight

would it affect the same places as 2009 or take a different track

thanks

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Neilsouth Experienced

Neilsouth

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  • Location: Home near Sellindge, 80m/250feet, 5miles from Coast
  • Weather Preferences: Severe Storms and Snow
  • Location: Home near Sellindge, 80m/250feet, 5miles from Coast
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This beast can't even cover most of the South East! 

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danm Maestro

danm

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  • Location: Home: Chingford, London (NE). Work: London (C)
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: cold and snowy. Summer: hot and sunny
  • Location: Home: Chingford, London (NE). Work: London (C)
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2 minutes ago, Nick F said:

 

Turned out better then I though this morning and worse yet to come tonight and through Tuesday - as we see a proper convergence zone develop through the Thames Estuary

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At least the snow's not drip drip melting when the sun comes out

 

 

That fax chart shows the convergence line in a more east to west orientation than it previously did, so more likely the convergence will funnel showers up the Thames into Greater London do you think Nick?

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  • Location: Horley, near Gatwick
  • Location: Horley, near Gatwick
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9 minutes ago, pureasthedriven said:

Very poor location for me (Horley/Gatwick) under such a set-up. ENE flow just doesn't cut it, being just too far south and just too far west. Need a NE'ly here. Hoping for that frontal opportunity to deliver later in the week. Can clearly see the shower train running just north of me, hence photos from family and friends in Sutton and Croydon posting heavy snow with some accumulations (in-laws in elevated S.Croydon already past 2cms this morning). So, I suspect unless the flow changes, if you have snow now, you'll probably keep it all day. Enjoy!

This is what I mean. This shower train (first pic) has been in place since 7am. Second photo is looking south. You can clearly see that I’m on the boundary of that convergence zone. So, if you have little or no snow in West Sussex, that’ll be why! 

Edit: can’t ipload photos so you’ll just have to take my word for it! Looks very good to my north and north east from here - sanderstead, Croydon, Bromley way, I’d imagine. 

 

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stainesbloke

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  • Location: Nymburk, Czech Republic and Staines, UK
  • Weather Preferences: Sunny and warm in summer, thunderstorms, snow, fog, frost, squall lines
  • Location: Nymburk, Czech Republic and Staines, UK
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1 minute ago, Daniel* said:

HUGE flakes suns out again...

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Proper snow, this time, none of that wet, slushy crap that we normally get. Nice to see!

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Nick F Maestro

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  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
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12 minutes ago, snowbob said:

Do you think a Thames streamer is possible tonight

would it affect the same places as 2009 or take a different track

thanks

yes, looking at 00z EC, between 00z and 06z looks best for us in south London and points south,

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but thereafter we may see the streamer shift south through the morning and into afternoon as per fax for 12z Tues

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tomp456 Seasoned

tomp456

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  • Location: Worthing, West Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: Anything unusual
  • Location: Worthing, West Sussex
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Worthing snow shield in full force

Shambolic.

 

 

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TROY

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  • Location: Eastdene nr seaford
  • Weather Preferences: warm spring days and summer thunderstorms
  • Location: Eastdene nr seaford
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What a diffrence in half an hour temp now up one degree to just on 0c and bright Sunshine. Bar 1021.

High wind chill factor. All the clouds now sitting offshore.

Good Health.

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kold weather Maestro

kold weather

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  • Location: Liphook
  • Location: Liphook
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3 minutes ago, Nick F said:

yes, looking at 00z EC, between 00z and 06z looks best for us in south London,

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but thereafter we may see the streamer shift south through the morning and into afternoon as per fax for 12z Tues

 

So far Nick it's looking a lot more snowy out there then the high resolution models expected. The only one that seems to be close was the nnm which did correctly spot the line of snow coming through the Southeast this morning.

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Gowon

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  • Location: Croydon. South London. 161 ft asl
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, snow, warm sunny days.
  • Location: Croydon. South London. 161 ft asl
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There must be at least a couple of cms on the ground here but I'm having problems uploading pics off my phone. It keeps saying there was a problem processing uploaded file -200 

 

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