South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 01/12/2018 Onwards

[SilverWolf]

Well I texted a local friend half an hour ago moaning it hadn’t snowed (I looked outside 5 mins previous). I said it just feels like the clouds need unzipping, conditions are perfect. He texted back saying it’s snowing. Not heavy (yet?!) and after half an hour everything is white including a large conifer tree over the road. Here’s hoping it gets heavy for a bit at least! 

[andy_leics22]

1 minute ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:

At least you guys are getting it even if us 40 minutes north aren't!

You have nothing in Winchester?! According to the radar, you've had snow over you for hours now. Must be some serious issues with the radar tonight. Reports of snow falling in dry slots on the radar and no snow falling when it's showing moderate-heavy snow 

[fromey]

Something amiss with the met office radar on there app!! Snowing heavy and big flakes 

[Climate_Eyes]

6 minutes ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:

Ruddy aweful in Winchester! All we have is a sugarcoating!

Same Beka, been under "precip" for ages now but just nothing falling at ground level, just odd flakes every now and then.

[Anthony81]

I can confirm light snow now falling in cheltenham

[Frosty_wsm]

12 minutes ago, bellanite said:

Err this is new? Had nothing for tomorrow! Interesting

Just checked my met office app and it shows continuous snow right through till 2pm tomorrow afternoon, surely that can't be right! Not that I'm complaining lol

[Snow Of '78]

Snowing heavier now. Met office has us down for snow till midday Friday.

[Leon1]

Still coming down

[CheesepuffScott]

Just now, Snow Of '78 said:

Snowing heavier now. Met office has us down for snow till midday Friday.

Heavy snow until 4am here then light snow until 7am with some light snow tomorrow night on their latest update

[jtay]

4 minutes ago, Kreftysoton said:

So weird netweather app says clear for me but its actually snowing harder than  it has all evening...any ideas why? Also my mate in andover has has hardly anything but the radar says heavy snow! 

Because you kept the faith.

Same here. Heaviest it's been all night. Not great, but it'll do.

[*Stormforce~beka*]

3 minutes ago, thunderhead 2005 said:

Ok its seems we have a dryer layer of air above us that's why it's not snowing

 

Will it move?

[Man With Beard]

Heaviest it has been all evening in Portsmouth. The radar is not matching reality! 

[CheesepuffScott]

Lol, just saw the neighbour peeking out the living room window. Either looking at me watching the snow.. or just curious

[final dest]

This is after about 30 to 60 mins of snowfall. I am impressed as I was beginning to get a little nervous earlier at the prospect of getting none at all.

[noggin]

Coalpit Heath in the snow!

[thunderhead 2005]

Just now, *Stormforce~beka* said:

Will it move?

It should do, very strange though

[Kreftysoton]

3 minutes ago, andy_leics22 said:

You have nothing in Winchester?! According to the radar, you've had snow over you for hours now. Must be some serious issues with the radar tonight. Reports of snow falling in dry slots on the radar and no snow falling when it's showing moderate-heavy snow 

Not sure why the radar is a miss my netweather app had heavy snow showing over andover for 2 or 3 hours but my mate says they hardly had anything. Im just se of soton apparently in the dry as bamd moved through and its still coming down.

[Dean E]

1 minute ago, Climate_Eyes said:

Same Beka, been under "precip" for ages now but just nothing falling at ground level, just odd flakes every now and then.

Appears a precipitation shadow has been in overdrive in certain parts of the region this evening. Bournemouth, Southampton and Portsmouth all have reported lying snow, while further north (Such as Andover, Winchester, Midhurst) there's hardly any. South Downs working overtime effecting snowfall rates to the north.

[CheesepuffScott]

1 minute ago, jtay said:

Because you kept the faith.

Same here. Heaviest it's been all night. Not great, but it'll do.

Just had a look and the Ridge has a fair covering. So much for the grit!

[Beasterly]

10 minutes ago, andy_leics22 said:

Wow, so Swindon has snow now! Must be moving Northwards slowly. Looks like Oxford still haven't got anything though. I hope it reaches there soon, my cousin lives there and is excited to see some snow. I promised him he would get some tonight  Must be very close to them now though is Swindon has it.

Few miles north of Oxford and it's snizzling

[chris55]

6 minutes ago, fromey said:

Something amiss with the met office radar on there app!! Snowing heavy and big flakes 

That’s the prediction, go to ‘last 6hours’ that’s the live radar. 

Edited January 31, 2019 by chris55

[*Stormforce~beka*]

12 minutes ago, thunderhead 2005 said:

Andover is the same pretty disappointing tbh, radar is wrong somehow

Very! I'll post a pic of what I've got

[Andrew_WsM]

4 minutes ago, Smartie said:

Just checked my met office app and it shows continuous snow right through till 2pm tomorrow afternoon, surely that can't be right! Not that I'm complaining lol

It's very weird, wasn't like that when i checked it at tea time, BBC app is saying the same but until 11 am 

[Kreftysoton]

4 minutes ago, jtay said:

Because you kept the faith.

Same here. Heaviest it's been all night. Not great, but it'll do.

U did tell me to keep the faith and have been rewarded with a covering similar to yours maybe not quite as much...

[Frosty hollows]

12 minutes ago, andy_leics22 said:

Wow, so Swindon has snow now! Must be moving Northwards slowly. Looks like Oxford still haven't got anything though. I hope it reaches there soon, my cousin lives there and is excited to see some snow. I promised him he would get some tonight  Must be very close to them now though is Swindon has it.

South of Oxford we have quite a good accumulation