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  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
52 minutes ago, john mac said:

Paul what’s the chance of a Thames streamer as the wind veers more easterly?

Still at work mate not looked just wondering how hazardous the roads will be when I get back to Leigh On Sea this evening - they seem to have had loads of snow with side roads hazardous

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  • Location: Worthing, West Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: Anything unusual
  • Location: Worthing, West Sussex

The thaw is under way for now.

Looking at the models, looks like a similar set up to last  night. 

Will be expecting a little bit of snow late evening and overnight, mostly dandruff with a few heavier bursts mixed in for good measure, but not amounting to much overall. 

Most of the good stuff staying Brighton eastwards.

 

As for Thursday, doesn't look like much here again but we will have to wait and see. Will be looking forward to sampling such a strong bitter wind though. 

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  • Location: Delnies, Nairn, Highlands (30m asl)
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and ice
  • Location: Delnies, Nairn, Highlands (30m asl)

there is a rash of showers developing off the Norfolk/Suffolk coast and heading SW . . . which is a bit of a surprise given that we are under a direct easterly atm

bodes well for this evening and overnight which, as per previously mentioned, could mirror events of last night

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  • Location: South Ockendon, Essex
  • Weather Preferences: Anything out of the ordinary, except extreme heat
  • Location: South Ockendon, Essex
Just now, Speedbird said:

there is a rash of showers developing heading SW which is a bit of a surprise given that we are under a direct easterly atm

bodes well for this evening and overnight which, as per previously mentioned, could mirror events of last night

Oh dear, so just a sprinkle for us then!

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  • Location: Delnies, Nairn, Highlands (30m asl)
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and ice
  • Location: Delnies, Nairn, Highlands (30m asl)
Just now, Meggy said:

Oh dear, so just a sprinkle for us then!

you could fare better, especially in a more easterly which is likely - don't despair, I was concerned until 11pm last night then the heavens opened here in Leigh

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  • Location: Halesworth, Suffolk
  • Location: Halesworth, Suffolk
27 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:

Must've just missed mate. :bad:

And yet just down the road here, 3 minute blizzard covered everything that had melted today :cold:

looking at radar, beccles about to get some now.

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  • Location: South Ockendon, Essex
  • Weather Preferences: Anything out of the ordinary, except extreme heat
  • Location: South Ockendon, Essex
1 minute ago, Speedbird said:

you could fare better, especially in a more easterly which is likely - don't despair, I was concerned until 11pm last night then the heavens opened here in Leigh

We've had some really heavy showers here today, so I will take your advice and stay hopeful!

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  • Location: Lowestoft Suffolk UK
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms
  • Location: Lowestoft Suffolk UK
10 minutes ago, Speedbird said:

there is a rash of showers developing off the Norfolk/Suffolk coast and heading SW . . . which is a bit of a surprise given that we are under a direct easterly atm

bodes well for this evening and overnight which, as per previously mentioned, could mirror events of last night

Yes, the cumulonimbus clouds are shooting up very quickly to my E/NE out to Sea. Round 2 coming up soon. Bbbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! 

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  • Location: RM15, South Ockendon, Thurrock, Essex 21m asl
  • Location: RM15, South Ockendon, Thurrock, Essex 21m asl

Just been talking to my husband in Barking,he said that where the snow hasn’t disappeared, it has rapidly turned to ice making untreated surfaces quite dodgy!

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  • Location: Great Yarmouth
  • Location: Great Yarmouth
1 minute ago, crazy_diamond said:

Just been talking to my husband in Barking,he said that where the snow hasn’t disappeared, it has rapidly turned to ice making untreated surfaces quite dodgy!

i hate that.

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  • Location: Barnet, North London
  • Location: Barnet, North London
33 minutes ago, Bryn Webster said:

My my this sun is strong.

This area is really bereft of much cloud let alone showers over the last 2 days....any reasons?

 

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The line of that box has roughly followed the direction of the winds over the last few days so maybe not surprisinng that we haven't seen much. To our north and south are the Wash and Thames Estuary which help converge winds and create a constant flow of showers. In the middle is the fat, hump of East Anglia and anyone unfortunate enough to be downwind of this misses out on the convergence. Any showers over the hump have to travel miles and miles over freezing ground so die out before making it too far south.

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  • Location: South Ockendon, Essex
  • Weather Preferences: Anything out of the ordinary, except extreme heat
  • Location: South Ockendon, Essex
1 minute ago, crazy_diamond said:

Just been talking to my husband in Barking,he said that where the snow hasn’t disappeared, it has rapidly turned to ice making untreated surfaces quite dodgy!

My hubbie took the easy way out today and decided not to squeeze himself onto a packed train. His motorbike was out of the question too! 

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  • Location: RM15, South Ockendon, Thurrock, Essex 21m asl
  • Location: RM15, South Ockendon, Thurrock, Essex 21m asl
1 minute ago, Meggy said:

My hubbie took the easy way out today and decided not to squeeze himself onto a packed train. His motorbike was out of the question too! 

Lol, mine takes the bus, they don’t appear to give in to the weather quite a readily as the trains. My bro is a biker, has a Hyabusa or something, strictly for summer bimbles only!

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  • Location: Delnies, Nairn, Highlands (30m asl)
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and ice
  • Location: Delnies, Nairn, Highlands (30m asl)
11 minutes ago, JennyJane1 said:

i hate that.

what ? Talking to your husband ? ;-)

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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)

Got a nagging feeling that those showers off the coast of Suffolk are going to head straight for Kent again! 

Hope they track more E to W and give more of us some snow this evening.

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  • Location: St Ives, Cambs
  • Location: St Ives, Cambs

No complaints here, but since last Saturday the weather has been quite pleasant with plenty of winter sunshine.

Went into Cambridge today and it was quite a comfortable temperature for wandering around plus the forecast seems to have kept some of the old codgers indoors.

 

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  • Location: Garvestone, Norfolk
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine. And storms
  • Location: Garvestone, Norfolk
14 minutes ago, Mikel Nimbus said:

 

The line of that box has roughly followed the direction of the winds over the last few days so maybe not surprisinng that we haven't seen much. To our north and south are the Wash and Thames Estuary which help converge winds and create a constant flow of showers. In the middle is the fat, hump of East Anglia and anyone unfortunate enough to be downwind of this misses out on the convergence. Any showers over the hump have to travel miles and miles over freezing ground so die out before making it too far south.

Extend that box NE and you have the rectangle of shame! The Cromer ridge might not be that high but it can really affect things. I think we have some local topography that certainly affects summer storm flow and is now doing the same as showers tend to diverge away despite looking like head on certainties.

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  • Location: Garvestone, Norfolk
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine. And storms
  • Location: Garvestone, Norfolk
1 minute ago, Lowestoft Weather said:

Threatening clouds now encroaching coastline.

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Can see them from here - snowing now, first since midday. 

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

Moderate snow shower giving a covering as surfaces have dried out since the afternoon. Quite dark too!

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  • Location: Welwyn Herts 115m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Surprises
  • Location: Welwyn Herts 115m ASL
10 minutes ago, JennyJane1 said:

Ok, so we have the triangle of doom, the rectangle of shame, what else?

(the circle of insanity - right over Lassie's house!:clap:)

'Band of cold banality'...  in Welwyn

...for the time being :drinks:

 

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  • Location: Bury St Edmund's, Suffolk
  • Location: Bury St Edmund's, Suffolk

Hopefully we all see more in the way of showers this evening and overnight. The showers seem to be building in the north sea now, and as the winds veer round more overnight some should get further inland. 

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