Kent, Home counties and south London general weather discussion 25/02/2018 onwards

[snow raven]

Proper heavy snow here now ?

[pages]

22 minutes ago, bobbydog said:

whilst that looks good, look further on-

lunchtime-

evening-

lets hope the hirlam is bang on!

if that's correct the bottom 2 thirds of the country are going to come to complete stand still.

[Honey]

Getting heavier ! Wonder why they revoked the yellow warning - given that the Thames is on fiyah! 

[Come rain snow or shine]

Met Office pressure chart for 12 noon Sat shows a modest high pressure system over south west norway, having moved there from north norway, where it was 12 hours earlier, and seemingly grow in size.  Will it beef itself up and thus disrupt milder air incursion into the UK from the south...

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/surface-pressure/#?tab=surfacePressureColour&fcTime=1520035200

Edited February 28, 2018 by Come rain snow or shine
more info, and a typo

[CrimsonSunset]

Coming down quite heavily now again in Bermondsey. Also some nice gusts of wind blowing it around the place 

[Gowon]

Snowing again

[steveinsussex]

Doesn’t look great for us tomorrow

 

 

[DDDM]

Light blowing snow in Horley but looks like it’s about to stop

[leemondo]

Light snow shower just started here 

[scrat]

Dusk and snow now....settling and getting very windy.  Had a snow day here, wonder what tomorrow will bring? 

[wellington boot]

Snow falling in central London, near Covent Garden, over past 15 minutes, turning roads white again even as they're driven on. Blizzardy with the wind. Looks like more to come...

[Flaked Queen]

[Keefo]

Ice day here in Heathfield as max reached -1.0C. Now -5.1C

No snow at all here so far today but a biting wind with snow blowing around.

Now for tomorrow--what will that bring.??

[pages]

12 minutes ago, snowking said:

Just to try and keep things a little bit balanced in here, the 12z UKMO-GM definitely a bit further West with things:

This really will be a wake up and look at the radar job tomorrow for us I'm afraid. It will be interesting to see the 12z EURO4, which I assume is initialised with the same data as the UKMO-GM

yeah further West all the models different but when comparing each model to its run this morning they have all moved at least slightly east, so good trend for us, just don't mention it to the south West tread, if we get, it be will bonus for us as not expected, also NNM is now showing showers in south east all night as I suppose the shift east is creating more instability while the winds are still strong and we still have minus 12 to 14 uppers till about  3-4 hours before front arrives.

[warrenb]

A high today of -2.2C after an overnight low of -9.4c. Lovely sunshine all day, but most snow still on ground.

[Biggin]

9 minutes ago, Snowflake Queen said:

love it SQ

[John Stevens]

1 hour ago, John Stevens said:

Looking like the radar is going to give the Surrey Hills a slight dusting....but then look at the predicted track and it seems to bounce back to the north west. just at the wrong point...d’oh

Although beginning to snow here lightly now....

That's exactly what happened.... Watched the deep dark cloud creep up.... Throw a heavy flurry at us.... Then go off again

[kold weather]

10 minutes ago, steveinsussex said:

Doesn’t look great for us tomorrow

 

 

Depends on what you want, for the west of the area it looks ok for probably 3-6cms which is probably about where the mean of the models is at the moment. Not so good the further east you go, but for most of you guys in the east, you've more than had your fill anyway now  

[Keith McKay]

17 minutes ago, Honey said:

Getting heavier ! Wonder why they revoked the yellow warning - given that the Thames is on fiyah! 

Exactly! I mean, it's been on and off this afternoon but when it has snowed, it has snowed hard! Far, far heavier than the snow which came with the Amber alert on Monday night.

[Meggy]

2 minutes ago, kold weather said:

Depends on what you want, for the west of the area it looks ok for probably 3-6cms which is probably about where the mean of the models is at the moment. Not so good the further east you go, but for most of you guys in the east, you've more than had your fill anyway now  

Hi! You're not living in Ockendon anymore then? I always used to look out for your posts as someone local to me! not that I don't read them now of course!  

[soopdragoon]

K, so there is still snope (snow hope) for East Kent, yay!

 

Sure you guys have seen this but I LOVE this site that shows the winds across the globe. https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-354.91,47.95,2531/loc=-13.973,48.913

[kold weather]

1 minute ago, Meggy said:

Hi! You're not living in Ockendon anymore then? I always used to look out for your posts as someone local to me! not that I don't read them now of course!  

Unfortunately I'm now on the other side of the region! That being said I gave Ockendon a visit today, nice covering of snow there, even if most of the morning the streamer was literally miles to the north.

[Meggy]

Just now, kold weather said:

Unfortunately I'm now on the other side of the region! That being said I gave Ockendon a visit today, nice covering of snow there, even if most of the morning the streamer was literally miles to the north.

We've had a few heavyish horizontal showers late afternoon, one of which I got caught in, but it hasn't got above -1 in my back yard today. Lethal underfoot too!  

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Proper train of showers but I can't get over how strong the wind is! 

[danm]

Very surprised an amber warning wasn’t put in place for parts of Essex and London today considering how much snow has fallen. 

There is a yellow warning in force but even that only scrapes the northern part of the M25