SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 03/03/2018 onwards

[Mark]

1 minute ago, Neilsouth said:

What an absolute farce the forecasts have been today for kent! - Amber warning my ****

Goodnight

I don't know about you, but I'm not giving up quite yet...

[Soaring Hawk]

About 5cm here after a day of almost non stop snow. This is top half of back garden, the wiggly snake is my young dog’s meander to find a suitable spot for a wee. I’m off to bed after lamp post duty all evening instead of taking the chilled out option...

[lawrenk]

Still coming down quite moderately in Hailsham.

Shame other non grass surfaces aren’t as cold as my garden table!

[TEITS]

1 minute ago, Neilsouth said:

What an absolute farce the forecasts have been today for kent! - Amber warning my ****

Goodnight

What makes me laugh is I watched a BBC forecast just 30mins ago repeating the amber warning for the SE.

Frustratingly I said in the model discussion thread yesterday that I expected the far SE to only see light snowfall and sadly some member decided to get into a petty argument. None of the models that I looked at supported the idea of an amber warning.

[Cheese Rice]

2 minutes ago, Soaring Hawk said:

About 5cm here after a day of almost non stop snow. This is top half of back garden

Do you mean 5mm?

Edited March 18, 2018 by Cheese Rice

[Lampostwatcher]

heaviest snow of the night check the radar burst into like over london and expanding

[tomp456]

Some snow is settling, most isn’t and is just turning to rain when it hits the ground.

 

roll on the damn spring!

[Lampostwatcher]

wow !!!

this is why its amber

[Daniel*]

2 minutes ago, TEITS said:

What makes me laugh is I watched a BBC forecast just 30mins ago repeating the amber warning for the SE.

Frustratingly I said in the model discussion thread yesterday that I expected the far SE to only see light snowfall and sadly some member decided to get into a petty argument. None of the models that I looked at supported the idea of an amber warning.

They did HIRLAM showed 10-15cm particularly to the south of London fitting with amber pretty much through entirety of London and SE a bit off.  

[Lampostwatcher]

massive blobs coming up from the south

[Come rain snow or shine]

17 minutes ago, DonnaThw said:

I think I must be lucky I’m sitting under one of those fingers. Just stuck my head out the door, snowing harder than it has all day but not laying.

 

Thought you might be under the one east of us. It ought to start lying. The finger over us is getting heavier north of us [and now near us] and still expanding east and westwards. Could merge with yours soon. Could be an interesting night after all.. 

Edited March 18, 2018 by Come rain snow or shine

[chionomaniac]

11 minutes ago, kold weather said:

You watch that will probably be wrong now. Hirlam has done so well, but watch it bust and not give us a thing!

If it comes off probably a quick 2-3cms, it moves through quite quickly unfortunately.

Light snow here now though that is thick enough to give a covering so Hirlam good

[James Gold]

Little bit of light snow in Bromley - some from the south might expand into here soon though 

[Sweetdream]

2 minutes ago, TEITS said:

What makes me laugh is I watched a BBC forecast just 30mins ago repeating the amber warning for the SE.

Frustratingly I said in the model discussion thread yesterday that I expected the far SE to only see light snowfall and sadly some member decided to get into a petty argument. None of the models that I looked at supported the idea of an amber warning.

Hi teits your knowledge is much appreciated in this forum, I remember quite a few years back in the model forum you  corrected them where the snow was going to hit and you got back lash for it. You were spot on and it hit our area like you predicted. We less informative posters need more knowledgable posters like yourself in this forum. 

[Mark]

7 minutes ago, Lampostwatcher said:

wow !!!

this is why its amber

And that's the point!

The Met warning said nothing about direction or specific timing, and it was as much about ice as it was snow, but everyone latched on to their own imby situation.

Sorry, but if you take any forecast literally, you are going to eventually end up with a fall!

* Sorry, Lampostwatcher, that was a generic rant and not aimed at you.

Edited March 18, 2018 by Mark

[Neilsouth]

5 minutes ago, Lampostwatcher said:

wow !!!

this is why its amber

Not really no! It's way over exaggerated! You're barely in the amber anyway

[Soaring Hawk]

6 minutes ago, Cheese Rice said:

Do you mean 5mm?

Nope I meant 5cm or 2 inches in old money. I went out and checked the amount on the back lawn.  It would have been a lot more if only the flakes had been larger than a pin head....

[TEITS]

Large green blob about to hit Peterborough. No blades of grass showing now.

 

[James Gold]

Met office app showing for the first time some snow Sunday night into Monday - I know this app is always wrong as today showed but it’s being noticed maybe

[john mac]

Just for fun, my phone has upgraded and now has snow for waltham abbey until 5am

[ItNeverSnowsInWindsor]

Still coming down here in Berkshire ❄️❄️ Roll on the royal wedding in a couple of months soon ?

[Donna3397]

4 minutes ago, Come rain snow or shine said:

 

Thought you might be under the one east of us. It ought to start lying. The finger over us is getting heavier north of us [and now near us] and still expanding east and westwards. Could merge with yours soon. Could be an interesting night after all.. 

I see your blob and are raise you mine. 

i think that there might be another blob on its way to me but only a baby but every little helps. Lack of sleep making me say stupid things 

[Mal_UK]

It's been snowing on and off all day here (Kingston) giving the grass etc a powdering, however it's much heavier now and the road surface is starting to cover over which is good!

[john mac]

Large snow clouds out to my east

[Lampostwatcher]

heavy snow atm and all from a little blob that just balloned up from the south and theres more coming lol