South East and East Anglia Weather Discussion February 2021 onwards

[Oaks]

Getting more and more wintery here in Sevenoaks 

[Chortle2001]

light snow falling, Ashingdon Essex

[Joanne Swann]

loads of small flakes blowing around but coming down fast cars are getting white lovely to see

[BLS]

Light snow here now but with all the rain we have had it’s going to take a lot to settle 

[Vesuvius]

A few flakes now in Rayleigh. Guess I can say I’ve seen snow this winter 

[Bill4321]

Here's the latest from Newhaven. T2.0 D0.8.

The precipitation has changed from light drizzle to heavy drizzle. The wind has picked up and the rain is settling more easily on the cars and grass. The previously dry pavements now have puddles. This is a great spell of weather

 

 

[Radiating Dendrite]

1 minute ago, kold weather said:

Good loop there.

You can see the dynamics well.

Looks at the LP over France, you'll notice at some later today the convection start looping back west around the LP. That is the lower level flow which switches towards ENE which pushes the convection westwards, whilst the steering currents keep the streamers on a NE-SW heading as they work westwards in the flow.

What time are we looking at for this switch Kold? This afternoon?

I think the convection will certainly be there, just need to get the angle right.

Jeez..... this snow stuff is tough going! 

[jayney69]

Just starting now, few tiny grains in the wind

[Kentspur]

2 minutes ago, Paul Sherman said:

Ahh Cute

Your in the NO SNOW Jackpot zone atm with us further north

Is this taking the #### or what I swear were all in the most unluckiest place to be 

[NO LONGER POSTING]

6 minutes ago, Captain Shortwave said:

Cloudy here to start the day.

Snow becoming  more extensive later today. As showers or bands of snow push into northern and more western parts of the region.

Euro 4

 

Still going for some substantial totals (20-30cm) in the east and towards Kent.

Streamers galore.. Just as ever though someone 5 miles away gets hammered while you watch the snow clouds from a distant 

[Maidstone marginal]

4 minutes ago, RJM said:

Yeah. Only problem with Maidstone is the Luftwaffe missed it during 1940 only joking Maidstonians. Went to grammar school there

Yep it's a shame that it wasn't mangled in 1940. I'm not originally from here. I'm an east Kent man of old

[Met4Cast]

3 minutes ago, Paul Sherman said:

Ahh Cute

Your in the NO SNOW Jackpot zone atm with us further north

Models for us still look relatively decent despite the radar so I'm holding out hope!

Plus I told everyone on Facebook snow was coming so... 

[Dbarb]

Light powder snow now falling 

[Southender]

4 minutes ago, Paul Sherman said:

Ahh Cute

Your in the NO SNOW Jackpot zone atm with us further north

It’s coming....flakes now falling here Paul.

[Robbie Coldrain]

9 minutes ago, Kentspur said:

0.9c quite a fast drop what temp do we realistically need to freeze up the ground do we reckon? 

One the dew points go below zero it shouldn't be a problem settling. This should happen any time now. Image shows dew points for 9am.

Edited February 7, 2021 by Robbie Coldrain

[Vortex3929]

Light snow in Chatham. Darcy slept in late

[Eagle Eye]

Blizzard Conditions

Timelapse

[Blazerblue]

Graupel to start, now light flakes, not the snowmaggedon i was expecting to wake to! 

[NO LONGER POSTING]

4 minutes ago, kold weather said:

Good loop there.

You can see the dynamics well.

Looks at the LP over France, you'll notice at some later today the convection start looping back west around the LP. That is the lower level flow which switches towards ENE which pushes the convection westwards, whilst the steering currents keep the streamers on a NE-SW heading as they work westwards in the flow.

Ir will come westwards and the ARONE/ARPEGE is quite keen on still giving pretty decent snowfall to SE Essex, etc, drops somewhere in the 10-15cms for the Southend region from this evening through to the next afternoon during about 2-3 longish convective bands.

We were talking about this the last few days.. Models finally smelling the coffee and seeing them like I said in my post just now impossible to pin point any streamers 

[Dbarb]

Big gust of wind just now, would of thought it was an atlantic storm not snow on the way!

[bluearmy]

4 minutes ago, kold weather said:

 

Ir will come westwards and the ARONE/ARPEGE is quite keen on still giving pretty decent snowfall to SE Essex, etc, drops somewhere in the 10-15cms for the Southend region from this evening through to the next afternoon during about 2-3 longish convective bands.

Thing about these convective bands is predicting where they will be if they are fairly narrow ......

[Gowon]

Been snowing light for about half an hour here. 

[lewis clark]

Just now, Paul Sherman said:

Ahh Cute

Your in the NO SNOW Jackpot zone atm with us further north

Not really quite what I expected to wake up to but as I speak its starting to snow.

[SHM040519]

Just now, Maidstone marginal said:

Yep it's a shame that it wasn't mangled in 1940. I'm not originally from here. I'm an east Kent man of old

East Kent really is beautiful, each town is so different! Quirky Margate, peaceful whitstable and historical canterbury! Still a whiteout here, pavements and road slowly caving in and going white.

[The Beast From The East]

I can confirm we just had 2 flakes fall... it's not much but it's a start...