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  • Location: Hawkhurst (TN18) Kent
  • Weather Preferences: All weather extremes
  • Location: Hawkhurst (TN18) Kent
5 minutes ago, DonnaThw said:

Is it still snowing now ???

my local school have decided to open and I have to say I’m not impressed about the whole fact, of course I want my children to be at school but I don’t want to get them there to have to go out and get them in an hour or so

Just a couple flakes floating by now. A number of other local school have decided to close today due to expected snow later today.

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  • Location: Singleton, Kent
  • Location: Singleton, Kent
4 minutes ago, jodaw84 said:

Can confirm sleety rain in Eythorne nr Dover (90m asl) ??

 

 

Is it freezing on the ground and objects?

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  • Location: Hernia Bay
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy Snow
  • Location: Hernia Bay
28 minutes ago, Steve Murr said:

Morning All

made it safe into work-

Last day today- going out with a band of snow later - then roll on spring :)

Peak should be 3-6pm just in time for the rush hour

850s mix below 0c at about 1pm - so up till then poss freezing rain, after 3 they drop to -2c so more snow...

stay safe

X

See you later Steve have a good one 

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  • Location: Canmore, AB 4296ft|North Kent 350ft|Killearn 330ft
  • Location: Canmore, AB 4296ft|North Kent 350ft|Killearn 330ft

Wow just been out to the car and it’s encased in ice. Very dangerous out there! I’m in north Kent . If it’s snow later that’ll be nasty on top of that 

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  • Location: Eythorne, East Kent
  • Location: Eythorne, East Kent

It's stopped now but there does appear to be a sheet of ice on the car windscreen. Freezing rain?

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  • Location: Liphook
  • Location: Liphook
11 minutes ago, paget said:

Morning all ?

nothing here overnight except for the strong gusts (Farnham,Surrry) 

the snow very frustratingly petered out before it got here but we did get a few cm yesterday so I won’t moan!

temp -1.4

dp -3.7 

hoping for a little bit today!!?? 

Stay safe!

 

Think there is a fair chance for some snow. Hard to say how much as it seems to intensify in situ over our heads and so how much we get depends alot on timing. Best guess would be 3-5cms, but who knows!

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  • Location: Singleton, Kent
  • Location: Singleton, Kent
1 minute ago, jodaw84 said:

It's stopped now but there does appear to be a sheet of ice on the car windscreen. Freezing rain?

Yep. Raindrops freezing the moment the hit a solid surface. Living in Germany in the mid-nineties I've experienced this several times. Most dangerous kind of winter weather. On one occasion it hadn't been forecast and the minute it started the local American Forces Network radio and tv stations interrupted all their programmes to issue road condition black (no-travel for military personnel on or off base; schools, stores, offices that are open on immediate lock down). We ended up with a 3cm ice layer that took 36 hours to melt despite temps rising up quickly above freezing.

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  • Location: Ashford Kent
  • Weather Preferences: 1. Clear skies 2. Cold 3. Snow 4. Hot
  • Location: Ashford Kent

Ordinary wet rain here.  clear this muck away and bring on the spring.

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  • Location: Bramley, Surrey
  • Location: Bramley, Surrey

Please stay safe everyone! Freezing rain is absolutely lethal. Hoping to get a bit more snow today (not holding my breath though), a last hoorah would be great before I start chasing the magic 20c?

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  • Location: Tonbridge,Kent
  • Location: Tonbridge,Kent
9 minutes ago, gazb21 said:

Very light snow just started in tonbridge 

Yea.. Was drizzle half hour ago but definitely snow now.. But so light it's nearly not :)

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  • Location: Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex (11.8M ASL)
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, snow, and wind storms
  • Location: Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex (11.8M ASL)

Very light sleet/snow. Temp. -0.5C, Dew point -4.1C.

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  • Location: Singleton, Kent
  • Location: Singleton, Kent
4 minutes ago, Big Dave said:

Ordinary wet rain here.  clear this muck away and bring on the spring.

It's freezing on impact here. Temp is -2! Are you sure it's just wet?!

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  • Location: High Wycombe
  • Location: High Wycombe

Hope Gatwick is not goint to have freezing rain.  Am picking up a friend who is arriving just after 2pm.  Can’t see them remaining open with freezing rain.

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  • Location: Liphook
  • Location: Liphook
1 minute ago, trumpage said:

Hope Gatwick is not goint to have freezing rain.  Am picking up a friend who is arriving just after 2pm.  Can’t see them remaining open with freezing rain.

Certainly a risk this morning of freezing rain before upper temps drop away again and it becomes conducive for snow again.

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  • Location: Reigate, Surrey 105 m (top floor 120m)
  • Location: Reigate, Surrey 105 m (top floor 120m)

No increase in snow level overnight in Reigate, all looking a bit sorry for itself now.  I saw fizzly light snow for an hour or 2 before midnight but barely worth mentioning.  Not as cold this morning but still currently below freezing at -1.7c with the dewpoint at -4c.  Grey and to be honest rather boring.

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  • Location: Ashford Kent
  • Weather Preferences: 1. Clear skies 2. Cold 3. Snow 4. Hot
  • Location: Ashford Kent
4 minutes ago, seb said:

It's freezing on impact here. Temp is -2! Are you sure it's just wet?!

Yup!  Even on car windscreen.  Maybe we're that bit lower in Kingsnorth than on Singleton Hill but we're just the other side of the environment centre - which is weird

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  • Location: Ramsgate,East Kent.
  • Weather Preferences: BEASTERLYS
  • Location: Ramsgate,East Kent.

Very rare.

-3.3 here in Ramsgate/Manston

FREEZING RAIN...

first time ive experienced..

Car is coated in gloss...

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