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  • Location: Garvestone, Norfolk
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine. And storms
  • Location: Garvestone, Norfolk

10 miles SW of Norwich, nothing yet. Will be having a serious chat to Mr Holley :rofl: Anyway, who broke netweather hmmmm??

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  • Location: South Norfolk, about 12 miles from Norwich
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, cold, snow, and cold snowy snow
  • Location: South Norfolk, about 12 miles from Norwich

Snow flakes pinging around in the wind here......just waiting for the dump to begin!!  

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  • Location: Herts
  • Location: Herts
5 minutes ago, Sno' problem said:

Very IMBY, but hey-ho... It seems an accurate prediction as far as the latest GFS goes. It could be that if a streamer set-up were to occur, then it could be higher totals further inland. I reckon that areas to the SW and WSW of The Wash will see quite a lot more than he predicts.

I suppose with the current set-up we just need to see how much convection kicks off over the next few days. 

Hopefully those of us further west get a taste too! 

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  • Location: Welwyn Herts 115m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Surprises
  • Location: Welwyn Herts 115m ASL

Great to see some reports of snow coming in - exciting times

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/

^ has a forecast that gives snow to everyone in the next few days inc surprises of the convective (-:

I'd love to be able to sledge down that Hovis advert street in the background of this forecast.

...off to feed the cats now and maybe nap to awake to a flake or too 

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  • Location: Delnies, Nairn, Highlands (30m asl)
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and ice
  • Location: Delnies, Nairn, Highlands (30m asl)
3 minutes ago, Chris101 said:

The Thames Estuary has awoken.

yep . . . we're in business :D:D

 

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  • Location: Hatfield Peverel near Chelmsford Essex
  • Location: Hatfield Peverel near Chelmsford Essex

showers starting to form off the essex/suffolk coast 

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  • Location: Wivenhoe, North East Essex, 2m asl
  • Location: Wivenhoe, North East Essex, 2m asl

Checking the precipitation charts for midnight on Windytv and none showed these early showers. Just goes to prove that the accumulation charts could be on the conservative side.

 



 

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  • Location: West/Central London (W11) 27m (88ft) ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and thunderstorms!! (With the odd gale thrown in)
  • Location: West/Central London (W11) 27m (88ft) ASL
11 minutes ago, Chris101 said:

The Thames Estuary has awoken.

It looks like it is. The showers should start building up as that weak front/shower band heads in. Starting to get interesting now...

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  • Location: Nr Chelmsford, Essex
  • Weather Preferences: Hurricanes, Thunderstorms and blizzards please!
  • Location: Nr Chelmsford, Essex

It's building....and quickly

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  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley

As I said earlier these Streamers set up 50-70 miles offshore, same every time and in the same area.

In fact the 1991 event started in this very same way, its almost identical with the shower spread from that famous Ian Macaskill video

 

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  • Location: Hullbridge,essex
  • Weather Preferences: Snow/storms
  • Location: Hullbridge,essex
5 minutes ago, Ice Day said:

It's building....and quickly

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Wow they've  come from no where , really is looking promising early on...

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  • Location: Dunstable, Bedfordshire
  • Location: Dunstable, Bedfordshire

Think we won’t see as much action over the chilterns this time. Usually a good spot for the snow but unsure they will be heavy enough to make it until later in the week 

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  • Location: West/Central London (W11) 27m (88ft) ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and thunderstorms!! (With the odd gale thrown in)
  • Location: West/Central London (W11) 27m (88ft) ASL
4 minutes ago, Paul Sherman said:

As I said earlier these Streamers set up 50-70 miles offshore, same every time and in the same area.

In fact the 1991 event started in this very same way, its almost identical with the shower spread from that famous Ian Macaskill video

 

I just realised how much I miss those snow symbols!! :D
I have to say, that forecast was just as, if not more informative than most TV forecasts we get these days, and even though those symbols seem haphazard, the fact that they are less definitive, gives a more accurate picture of how hit-and-miss the showers will be over the coming days. If a white blob appears on a TV forecast over an area now, some people end up expecting it to be hitting them. It gave us a dose of reality to a degree.

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  • Location: West/Central London (W11) 27m (88ft) ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and thunderstorms!! (With the odd gale thrown in)
  • Location: West/Central London (W11) 27m (88ft) ASL
8 minutes ago, Bryn Webster said:

recommended radar sites?

http://www.raintoday.co.uk any good?

Stick with the free netweather one, it's better than most and you could always upgrade to the subscription one: https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar

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  • Location: Great Horkesley, Essex
  • Weather Preferences: Snow
  • Location: Great Horkesley, Essex
15 minutes ago, Paul Sherman said:

As I said earlier these Streamers set up 50-70 miles offshore, same every time and in the same area.

In fact the 1991 event started in this very same way, its almost identical with the shower spread from that famous Ian Macaskill video

 

Thanks, Paul, enjoyed watching that.  Here's hoping for more of the same this time!  I remember 1991 well...I was sent home from school early.

 

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  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley

Agree the old forecasts and forecasters were so much better and they seemed to be actually interested in the Metorology of it like Sir Rob Mcelwee

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  • Location: 230m asl - Gogledd Ddwyrain Cymru/ NE Wales
  • Location: 230m asl - Gogledd Ddwyrain Cymru/ NE Wales

Why is the Ely/Cambridge/Bedford area bypassed by streamers on both sides....is it due to the lack of draw for the convective showers to form from the east......(i.e. theres not much sea compared to further north.....)...or is it just that the rump of East Anglia is not good for shower penetration?

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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

Whereabouts is the -10 line now then? :)

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  • Location: West/Central London (W11) 27m (88ft) ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and thunderstorms!! (With the odd gale thrown in)
  • Location: West/Central London (W11) 27m (88ft) ASL

It looks like it's going to be another late night! And here I was thinking that I would get some sleep now that the Winter Olympics have finished!! :D

 

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