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

[Methuselah]

24 minutes ago, weathergeek said:

Oi oi what's going on here then??!!! I said goodbye to the beast and looked forward for Spring and now everyone I see is saying SNOW!!! Well as much as I wanted the warmth of Spring, if the alternative is this grey/wet/chilly weather then I'll take the snow again to inject a bit of fun !!!! That is, until there is a sudden drastic change to very warm Spring weather..... in my perfect weather dream!!! In 2008 we had snow in early April and the following month was baking hot, I was heavily pregnant so remember it well, Lol!!xx

Not to worry, WG - all is not lost:

I can recall a Saturday in March 1973 that had blizzard conditions and a ferocious ENE wind...By the following Monday temps were up to 15C and the next week saw 20C and near-continuous sunshine...

It doesn't always take a great deal of synoptic variation to drastically change the weather, especially when HP is around.

[yamkin]

COLD WEATHER ALERT - LEVEL 2

Edited March 13, 2018 by yamkin

[stainesbloke]

Very interesting MetO warnings, I’m guessing that the double SSW is the culprit? Doesn’t look like lasting longer than a maximum of 3-4 days but will be a bit of a shock after the mild, wet and often grotty conditions since the previous cold spell. Hopefully some warm sunshine to end the month!

[Gowon]

The latest Icon has southern England under snowfall sat/sun into Monday.

Saturday 

24hrs later

Still falling in the far se Monday lunchtime before fizzling out.

 

 

Edited March 13, 2018 by D.V.R

[seb]

Alright. I'm back. I thought I wouldn't post until heat and/or thunderstorms...

Let's squeeze a bit of snow in this weekend. Good chance for the whole family to enjoy it and without causing traffic chaos. As long as it's gone by Tue evening I say bring it on!

Edited March 13, 2018 by seb

[tomp456]

The latest ICON run is absolutely mental, almost criminal. 

 

[Gowon]

2 minutes ago, tomp456 said:

The latest ICON run is absolutely mental, almost criminal. 

 

Not as long lasting as the previous, but there's a lot more snow for the se.. 

 

[lassie23]

6 minutes ago, tomp456 said:

The latest ICON run is absolutely mental, almost criminal. 

 

what's criminal is that it only lasts 4 days instead of until the end of April

[alexisj9]

1 hour ago, yamkin said:

COLD WEATHER ALERT - LEVEL 2

Again.

[lassie23]

6 minutes ago, alexisj9 said:

Again.

i'm going to need  to find myself a nice thick goat

[Gowon]

10 minutes ago, lassie23 said:

what's criminal is that it only lasts 4 days instead of until the end of April

The charts don't go that far out

[lassie23]

1 minute ago, D.V.R said:

The charts don't go that far out

The global forecasting sausage goes out until May 2025

[yamkin]

1 hour ago, stainesbloke said:

Very interesting MetO warnings, I’m guessing that the double SSW is the culprit? Doesn’t look like lasting longer than a maximum of 3-4 days but will be a bit of a shock after the mild, wet and often grotty conditions since the previous cold spell. Hopefully some warm sunshine to end the month!

Due to the very strong SSW influence, there will be further cold outbreaks at times during March & April across Western/Central Europe including UK/Ireland.

[yamkin]

 

 

[Badgers01]

it seems the build up is much shorter this time - we had about a week of cooler weather frosts at the end of Feb before we got the business end of the beast - now the met office cold warning is from Friday morning and its still relatively mild now when will we see the big drop in temp ? is it being driven by a dynamic cold front..?

[Gowon]

7 minutes ago, lassie23 said:

i'm going to need  to find myself a nice thick goat

I found one for you

[JennyJane1]

16 minutes ago, lassie23 said:

i'm going to need  to find myself a nice thick goat

Hi, goat, what's 2 + 2?

I dunno.

Yeah, you're thick enough.

[lassie23]

4 minutes ago, D.V.R said:

I found one for you

lol has it been drinking

[Gowon]

Just now, lassie23 said:

lol has it been drinking

Dumb drunk old goat

This one has it's own backside cleaner. I bet that tickles like hell lol.

[alexisj9]

1 minute ago, D.V.R said:

Dumb drunk old goat

This one has it's own backside cleaner. I bet that tickles like hell lol.

Rather that bird than me lol, yuk.

[Gowon]

8 minutes ago, JennyJane1 said:

Hi, goat, what's 2 + 2?

I dunno.

Yeah, you're thick enough.

two plus two is four 

minus one that's three, quick maths

 

[NO LONGER POSTING]

To try keep the peace, stay out of the model thread the usual North South split has begun and people calling snow fall at 4-5-6 days out as if they are some kind of geine... 

I re-call the last easterly not having just 1 suprise event but about 3-4. 

So as I usually say and ramble on about each time something like this crops up, stay in here, listen to the knowledgeable posters and await the T24 and T12 charts which are still about 72-100 hours away if not more for the first snow potential 

[JennyJane1]

8 minutes ago, Surrey said:

 stay out of the model thread

We never go in there unless we can hide behind Lassie.

[Methuselah]

24 minutes ago, D.V.R said:

Dumb drunk old goat

This one has it's own backside cleaner. I bet that tickles like hell lol.

Corvus arseholeii?

[Gowon]

13 minutes ago, Ed Stone said:

Corvus arseholeii?

Say what??