South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion Jan 2021 Onward

[David Hopes]

Snow is lighter now. But what a covering we have.

[Nights King]

Looks like end is in sight for me I give it 15 mins or so before lighter edge moves in.

 

Lovely to see though I expect shower after main event will turn sleety with the thaw in place soon. Temperature creeping up 0.2c

[iceman1991]

Coming down proper hard now laying nicely 

[kumquat]

Bristol and environs will have a bad transport day

[Wiltshire_snow_lover]

in the red bit of radar now nice big flakes got a few cm

[Bald Eagle]

Road bike in..mountain bike out... 

[trevw]

Does any one know what's up with the strange radar cone that starts West of Winchester and covers the area? I used to think it was just odd, but today it's clearly showing the weather for somewhere else if you look at the last hour? It's there on other radar services not just nw

[kumquat]

Thanks to AWD, The guy supplies the news.

[Climate_Eyes]

3 minutes ago, trevw said:

Does any one know what's up with the strange radar cone that starts West of Winchester and covers the area? I used to think it was just odd, but today it's clearly showing the weather for somewhere else if you look at the last hour? It's there on other radar services not just nw

Anomalous propagation I think, quite often get spurious returns in this sector.

[That ECM]

I can hear the snow hammering on the bedroom window just rain as expected but great to see many in the region getting snow. Loving the pics.

[Wiltshire_snow_lover]

Really wish it would stall pivot...

[jtay]

5 minutes ago, trevw said:

Does any one know what's up with the strange radar cone that starts West of Winchester and covers the area? I used to think it was just odd, but today it's clearly showing the weather for somewhere else if you look at the last hour? It's there on other radar services not just nw

It's a shadow on the Dean Hill site. Been like it for ages.

[gower84]

35 minutes ago, Alderc said:

As expected. Just rain here in BH12, only a mile or two inland it’s all snow

I know, it’s raining heavily here now when I got up around 4 it was quiet and lovely and frosty.... all gone now of course. 

[Frosty_wsm]

7 minutes ago, Bald Eagle said:

Road bike in..mountain bike out... 

Nothing like that in weston, nice to see it falling but in terms of lying snow it's a bust! Can see why though looking back at the radar, all the heavy precipitation passed to the north & south of here & the band of precipitation was a lot thinner compared to even a few miles either side lol. Oh well, here's hoping Feb cab deliver us all some more snow events. 

[Hector the Convector]

Almighty crash of thunder here in Eastleigh at 6.30. loudest I've heard in a long time

[jtay]

Fading now, but happy with that. 

That strike was around Eastleigh way...

 

[katemart]

Mostly rain now

[iceman1991]

Coming down bigger chunks now 

[jethro]

Well I'll be damned, woke up to 2 inches of snow here. Nothing at all when I looked out at 4am, didn't expect anything when I got up so lovely surprise. Still snowing but radar says it's nearly passed through already. Anyone know whether it is supposed to pivot and come across again?

 

[Evening thunder]

Well we didn't have much of a southerly wind off the sea here and it seems it started as freezing rain, then the temp rose to 0.7C but it turned to snow on the back edge, there's a dusting of large flakes on the cars etc, above frozen sleet and ice. It's a bit of a frozen mess outside.

Now have a big clump of showers just arrived from the west, it's 0.1C, and it is... raining!

[Nights King]

3 minutes ago, jethro said:

Well I'll be damned, woke up to 2 inches of snow here. Nothing at all when I looked out at 4am, didn't expect anything when I got up so lovely surprise. Still snowing but radar says it's nearly passed through already. Anyone know whether it is supposed to pivot and come across again?

 

Well I don't think so jeth but ive noticed met office app has light snow almost all day forecast for mendip so maybe shower activity will pep up soon?

Im keeping eye out as thaw will start lower down soon and I might need to take my daily excercise up on mendip 

[Mike Poole]

Just started to snow here!  

Light at the moment.

Here’s HARMONIE 0z take on the track and pivot, this model has been quite consistent on the last few runs:

If anything, the precipitation looks a bit stronger on the radar though.

[Azazel]

Snow. Looks like it’ll pass through pretty fast though but maybe a few cms by the end.

[jethro]

Lousy phone pic, still too dark to get a decent one. 

[bellanite]

Had to go for a wander!

Stunning ❄