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

[MONKEYJAM]

Is that a Thames streamer I see on the radar??

[Southender]

3 minutes ago, DonnaThw said:

On the radar is days showers are now pushing in to the Canterbury area! Can anybody agree that r is it too light to touch the ground

You need to be seeing green or yellow returns on the radar really. Anything else is either nothing or a light flurry.

[snowray]

Blizzard like here again, strong winds, powder snow, wow!

[FlightlessWings]

2 minutes ago, Daenerys said:

Slight flurry starting In Epsom. 

I was just in sunny Dorking and drove up to Epsom for an appointment and you would think it is a different world! 

[Jezzer]

Clouds have set in and snowing heavily  in Addlestone, Surrey

[weathergeek]

Got the kids suited and booted, packed the sledges, left dusty Epsom and headed for Boxhill where it was beautifully snowy......

....UNTIL we turned the corner to view point which was in the sun and GREEN!!!!!  The snow had already melted by 10.30am!!!! Very disappointed kids until we found another mini slope still in the shade so still managed to have some fun!! Hoping for more tomorrow/Friday!!

[danm]

Snow showers moving back into north London. Getting heavier again. 

[pages]

This evening looking better than I thought, Estuary is creating its own light Thames streamer, and them big blobs are heading towards us hopefully if winds hold when they hit the mouth  which is slightly warmer we should see the yellow and orange colours.

[Jezzer]

Iwent for a walk earlier with my two-year-old son to Virginia Water, the lake freezing over causing delays to the movie they’re filming down there

[SMU]

2 hours ago, snowray said:

Its funny around here on the border with Kent and near the Thames estuary, boom or bust, and Kent past Dartford has its own mini climate when its a NEly thats blowing. I was getting a bit worried yesterday that it was going to be a bust not just for here but for London too, and then the wind direction changed to any easterly. Did you get some in the end, your in London I take it?

It would be really cool if we could end this cold snap with general snowfall for everyone Thur-Sat.

actual blizzard in Eltham

winchill -15

[snowking]

This evening will be very interesting

Most of the hi res models had very little modelled for this afternoon, but did develop a very light streamer through this evening

Given we already have a streamer in place, it could be that we see this strengthen a little as we head towards this evening.

I've been back in Greenwich the last couple of hours and we have just had snow flurries on and off 

[Tom Quintavalle]

Coming down heavier, in Lee. Strong and gusty wind too, whipping up snow, from trees and roofs.

Regards,

Tom.

 

[mulzy]

Snowing in RP after a day of melt!

The south London streamer in full flow I hope!

-2.3C

Edited February 28, 2018 by mulzy

[Southender]

Not sure what ARPEGE is smoking but it is going for 2-4cm across the region by tomorrow evening

[weathergeek]

Light snow in Epsom, would be a blizzard if it was heavier as the wind is VERY strong!! Is this the start of a Storeamer or just a random?!x

EDIT: Sun's now out again 

Edited February 28, 2018 by weathergeek

[strats]

1 minute ago, Southender said:

Not sure what ARPEGE is smoking but it is going for 2-4cm across the region by tomorrow evening

Seems in line with the potential a few others on here have mentioned RE met office guidance

[MONKEYJAM]

I think you guys in Farnham might be in the action soon !! Winds a lot stronger blowing the showers more inland

[kold weather]

3 minutes ago, Southender said:

Not sure what ARPEGE is smoking but it is going for 2-4cm across the region by tomorrow evening

Certainly a possible amount of snow there are quite a few models that are developing an area snow on Thursday morning into the afternoon. And it takes quite some time to move on so you can like probably won't be particularly heavy any point it's still be enough to start to accumulate and Sub-Zero temperatures. Quite a few of the high resolution models agree with this and gfs to some extent has come on board and the ecm has been on board for quite some time and it's going for several inches where the snow pretty widely across the whole of the South but particularly focusing on areas of the West of this area like Hampshire Surrey and West Sussex. Areas that so far have not had that much in the way of snow.

[Marie]

Very windy and bitterly cold in Brighton , temp been -2 for most of the day , few clouds bubbling up now but no snow at all today .But I have to say I have been really impressed with this spell of weather so far , been great ?

[A Wintry Mix]

1 hour ago, craigore said:

About 4cm here last night on top of the 3cm from previous nite.
 

Nothing Epic but fun to be had.

Bck down to -2.4 here now so first ice day this year nailed i would think. ( rose to 0.4c yesterday)

Back garden still good cover.

Front patchy in Sun.

You've got a big garden ?

[Meggy]

13 minutes ago, pages said:

This evening looking better than I thought, Estuary is creating its own light Thames streamer, and them big blobs are heading towards us hopefully if winds hold when they hit the mouth  which is slightly warmer we should see the yellow and orange colours.

We've had a couple of heavyish showers recently and some others passing close by. Here's hoping! 

[CK1981]

Everything heading to the south of me now. This event just keeps turning out to be a huge let down for us west of London.

If the low tomorrow / Friday doesn’t deliver, I’ll be glad to see Spring!

Don’t want to sound gloomy, but for this part of the region, it’s been absolute crap!

[Kent Blizzard]

To me the Dutch radar seems to be struggling with the direction?

Dutch Radar

 

Compared to Netweather Radar

[fluid dynamic]

light blizzard, i mean small flakes in plenty of wind

 

motspur park

[Gowon]

Just had a mini blizzard which had left a fresh cover but the wind's blown it all against the fence.. shows how powdery the snow is.