South East and East Anglia Weather Discussion January 2021 onwards

[Paul Sherman]

4 minutes ago, East_England_Stormchaser91 said:

They don’t have a lag like we tend to either. By the time we are getting snow in March, they’ll be back to having mothership supercells and 28-30c days!! 

Yh continental climate so much better as the poster above says our little Island surrounded by water has a lot to answer for.

[Zak M]

Just cold rain here. Lovely cold rain.

Currently 1.4c with a dewpoint of 1c.

[Frostbite1980]

Yep front dying in situ now, not even moving just dying out....surprise surprise another dud

Wonder if we will get 10 minutes of sleet on saturday

Edited January 14, 2021 by Frostbite1980

[Vesuvius]

What a dead loss this part of the country/ world is, snow wise.  Thank God my wine has just been delivered

 

 

[Tamara]

I am sorry most of you are not getting the snow you are yearning for, but for little it is worth, there is plenty of the winter to go yet and some reasons to look towards the latter part of this month and into February when prospects may be more conducive. But such rationale behind this is for the right place.

For my own part, I am still waiting to leave to get to my new home in Portugal, which has seen unprecedently low temperatures going back many decades since last seen previously. I think that part of this has been down to the Iberian continent effectively generating its own surface cold pool following the, again, unprecedented snowfall over the Spanish interior, and albedo type feedbacks from consolidated snow-pack effectively setting a very low 'fridge' type thermostat across the expanse of the land-mass. In that sense, not too much different to an east or south-easterly drift around winter anticyclones that can bring deceptively low temperatures from the nearby continent into this region.

Following the storm that tracked across Portugal and Spain last weekend, high pressure descended across the land mass and this has created some very intense inversion cold - if one looks at the actual upper air mass it would suggest nothing at all of what the surface conditions have been like.

Over the coming week, that cold air is set to relax and mix out - and as the jet-stream invigorates from upstream as cold air this times spills into the CONUS upstream across the Atlantic, then much warmer air will arrive from across the fetches of the more southern parts of the Atlantic as a western based -NAO profile sets up. With this in mind,  I am personally wanting some sun and warmth on my face, but that will have to keep waiting for, for a longer time yet. At least a couple of the builders at my new home, doing some work on mew piping and plumbing and fitting new bathroom and kitchen units, have contracted COVID, and my Portuguese friend and her little family who live at the annex there, are being tested very shortly this afternoon, and it is of course therefore a worrying time. Suffice to say it precludes me from leaving here any time soon, and with the work on the new house delayed for an unknown time, it looks as though I will be continuing to look at UK and Northern Europe weather maps for the time being!

But here is some Portuguese sun from a pic taken there recently this week - and my friends cats seem happy as well

Edited January 14, 2021 by Tamara

[RJBingham]

Snowing in Somersham'

[fatyido]

Finally, seen a couple of flakes - I think, in St Neots !

[icy toes]

Afternoon, everyone. It’s finally stopped raining here in west Cambridgeshire and is now snowing.

[Lampostwatcher]

Temp dropping now 

3.8c dewp 3.2c 

NE winds 

[Zak M]

4 minutes ago, fatyido said:

Finally, seen a couple of flakes - I think, in St Neots !

It's still raining here and I'm five miles SW of St. Neots!

The band looks to be finally advancing southwards now, so hopefully it won't be too long before it starts snowing here..

[snowblind]

Another step away from interesting wintery weather for us on the updated met office further outlook. Tuesday's update sounded good for us but yesterday's and today's definitely backed away from anything interesting down here. Pretty much sounds like a continuation of what we currently have. Cold, at times, but not cold enough for snow and more rain. Uck!

[Lord Grogon]

Behold the snowfields of East London.

(sorry, can't make the graph on the right any bigger. The orange line means "flood" though)

Edited January 14, 2021 by Lord Grogon

[HammerJack]

Rain... rain... and surface flooding. Not a great day really here in SW Essex!

[weathergeek]

Absolutely thoroughly rank day here near Epsom!!! The garden has a pond, it's now turned colder too (although not cold enough to have changed the rain to snow which had potential yesterday!) so once again I'm sitting here cold, no snow, no snow likely (lost my heavy snow forecast for Sat morning!) with the grimest view from the window!!!

Still have a little hope left in me for snow potential end of the month but also seriously doubting it too because... well, you know, Southeast England!!! 

Already starting to have dreams about an early Spring starting end of Feb, lots of sunshine and warmth in March and being in my garden more!!xx

[m1chaels]

So it has finally got cold enough...and of course the precipitation has stopped

 

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[weathergeek]

Why have we lost our sad face buttons?! It feels wrong to click 'Like' and ❤ to all these flooding pics and downgrade posts!!x

[Paul Sherman]

Temp Now 2.6c and Dewpoint now 2.4c so getting slowly there although think its not going to be enough

More Flooding Pics from around SE Essex Area

 Fairglen Interchange on the A127

 

[Bogman]

What a pile of pants...............even satdee's chance has been down graded to a flake or two if you're lucky.

 

The flip side, is that hopefully, our spring/summer/autumns are going to be cracking for hot weather, from hereon in......................

 

I know it's only 14th Jan, but I'm bored now. Roll on the heat.

[Badgers01]

3 minutes ago, weathergeek said:

Absolutely thoroughly rank day here near Epsom!!! The garden has a pond, it's now turned colder too (although not cold enough to have changed the rain to snow which had potential yesterday!) so once again I'm sitting here cold, no snow, no snow likely (lost my heavy snow forecast for Sat morning!) with the grimest view from the window!!!

Still have a little hope left in me for snow potential end of the month but also seriously doubting it too because... well, you know, Southeast England!!! 

Already starting to have dreams about an early Spring starting end of Feb, lots of sunshine and warmth in March and being in my garden more!!xx

Just up the road in Cobham and I can agree the worst day here too ! The river mole is rising fast too wondered why no weather warning for rain and surface flooding ..?

[pureasthedriven]

27 minutes ago, Zak M said:

Just cold rain here. Lovely cold rain.

Currently 1.4c with a dewpoint of 1c.

Weeks of this to come. Weeks. 

[Cheese Rice]

Decided to spend lockdown in Leeds, I just knew London was going to be a flop. 

Currently snowing, we'll reach 20cm at this rate if it continues 

 

Edited January 14, 2021 by Cheese Rice

[Sparky68]

Can happily confirm snowing in Huntingdon 

[fatyido]

12 minutes ago, Zak M said:

It's still raining here and I'm five miles SW of St. Neots!

The band looks to be finally advancing southwards now, so hopefully it won't be too long before it starts snowing here..

 

[Zak M]

13 minutes ago, Zak M said:

It's still raining here and I'm five miles SW of St. Neots!

The band looks to be finally advancing southwards now, so hopefully it won't be too long before it starts snowing here..

Scratch that, it's snowing here now! Some big flakes falling.

[fatyido]

Stopped in St Neots.

had 2 flakes, can’t be greedy I suppose