South East, London and East Anglia regional discussion - 8th February onwards

[Ian Docwra]

A real gem of an example of the UHI effect here.  The three showers now to the SW of London all developed as they hit London from virtually nothing.

 

[Ian Docwra]

1 minute ago, pureasthedriven said:

That’s amazingly bullish from the MO at that range. Interesting... 

There still seems to be a major disparity between the models' outcomes.

[pureasthedriven]

1 minute ago, Ian Docwra said:

There still seems to be a major disparity between the models' outcomes.

Indeed - which makes their bullishness all the more surprising. And encouraging. Long way off but clearly strong signals. 

[Mark]

Glad some of you guys in Kent got a good show today. Some of the videos I've seen are incredible. 

Personally, it was great to watch 3 days of falling snow even with a small accumulation. The sun has tried hard to melt it all today but failed. Won't be long though.

Hoping for more this winter. A few more weeks to go...,

[shackletonexplorer]

28 minutes ago, GSP said:

We’ll be in T-shirts next week!

 

 

Ugh!

[Snipper]

Nothing much happened here. Very cold. Might be even colder tonight. 
 

Tomorrow I start some bacon dry curing. Pork loins on special at Morrisons. If you ask they bring out a whole loin and say what bit do you want? Got over 4kg to do.  So I cure them then cold smoke. Then slice .  Very tasty.  Just like bacon use to be. 
 

Here is some I did previously  

 

 

[Emz by the Thames]

Went for my daily walk at lunchtime, and while it was sunny when we set off, we got caught in the most amazing snow-ish, graupel-ish shower. There was a mixture of shapes but among them, beautiful big flakes retaining their snowflake shape, albeit in a sort of icy form. This one landed on the arm of my coat and stayed there for 3 or 4 minutes unchanged - so beautiful!

[bluebell]

Well it’s been an interesting cold spell, as many have said, peculiar the amount of falling snow versus the negligible amount to lay in some places! It’s been lovely to watch snow falling from the sky on three consecutive days perhaps a mean feat in itself this day and age. Not been out in the car since Saturday, not much snow left on it apart from this last minute dusting! I vandalised it with a message..  

[Ian Docwra]

2 minutes ago, pureasthedriven said:

Indeed - which makes their bullishness all the more surprising. And encouraging. Long way off but clearly strong signals. 

Ah, but encouraging for what?  They're saying very mild and wet from Sunday onwards which, judging by your moniker, may not be your preference.

[Jamie M]

4.5 cm since this morning

 

[Ian Docwra]

2 minutes ago, Team Squirrel said:

Went for my daily walk at lunchtime, and while it was sunny when we set off, we got caught in the most amazing snow-ish, graupel-ish shower. There was a mixture of shapes but among them, beautiful big flakes retaining their snowflake shape, albeit in a sort of icy form. This one landed on the arm of my coat and stayed there for 3 or 4 minutes unchanged - so beautiful!

Very nice - it almost looks sewn on!

[SHM040519]

Stopped now in canterbury but wow what a shower! More incoming too! Radar looking good for a bit 

[zubzero]

19 minutes ago, Neilsouth said:

Drive through it then! Good luck and post your results

Can't see what driving has to do with it??

Was only pointing out that it was no where near whiteout conditions, wish it was for ture whiteouts are epic, but at the sametime dangerous and scary to be caught out in.

[Paul Sherman]

Keep an eye along the North Kent coast from Whitstable westwards those showers are starting to turn to the WSW from SW - Downside is solar input is waning so intensity might wear off. But definate ENE to WSW trends about 30 miles north of the Kent Coast 

Edited February 10, 2021 by Paul Sherman

[paget]

Evening! Just a quick one as I cook dinner! 
steak, chips, onion rings and coleslaw!

still nothing out West! They seem to fizzle out from the east and when it comes from the west!! So glad I’m moving to Scotland this year, We are looking at Aberdeenshire that’s been hit hard!!! At least we had a bit a couple of weeks ago! 
 

temp -1 

dp 3.8 

Farnham, Surrey 
 

 

[Neilsouth]

7 minutes ago, Paul Sherman said:

Keep an eye along the North Kent coast from Whitstable eastwards those showers are starting to turn to the WSW from SW - Downside is solar input is waning so intensity might wear off. But definate ENE to WSW trends about 30 miles north of the Kent Coast 

I noticed that too, and with Solar heating gone, snow will settle even more so! Can't believe we could have more than we've already got today, crazy

[Fresco1985]

Live on the river in Battersea in London and those  showers keep coming from nowhere..

[Ian Docwra]

2 minutes ago, Fresco1985 said:

Live on the river in Battersea in London and those  showers keep coming from nowhere..

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UHI effect is forcing air to rise over London, creating tall enough clouds to create ppn.

[Neilsouth]

Snowing again 

[joespontiac]

Snow shower cloud/sunset

[dubmuffin]

27 minutes ago, Ian Docwra said:

A real gem of an example of the UHI effect here.  The three showers now to the SW of London all developed as they hit London from virtually nothing.

 

Went out for a walk over what they now call Roundshaw Downs, where you get a good view north towards and over London, I could see these clouds clearly. The precipitation was pulling the cloud down, like you see from a rain cloud (is there a word for this?), then the other one to the West - possibly over Esher at the time, was looking just as menacing. I was comparing cloud to radar - looked impressive from where I was standing. Shame it wasn't overhead:)

[SHM040519]

Chucking down again. Best snow of the spell so far today here! More coming too! 

[dubmuffin]

5 minutes ago, Fresco1985 said:

Live on the river in Battersea in London and those  showers keep coming from nowhere..

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I was watching that from a point about 12 miles south - looked impressive even from there!

[sunnijim]

As we approach the 'fag end' of this cold spell in terms of snow potential I have one last straw to clutch..

We had an hour  of pretty decent falling snow this afternoon giving another dusting.

My hope is for just one heavy snow shower to give a proper covering!

Seems it is too much to ask for this time.

We have had snow falling from the sky on three different days,which was nice to see,although accumulations negligible here.

Oh,my straw clutch for Hastings And West.

Winds are due to back ENE later in the night,if there is anything left by then that hasn't been killed off by the building HP to the North,it may steer toward us..

A narrow envelope of opportunity for the snow starved perhaps.

Edited February 10, 2021 by sunnijim

[10 Days Away]

I'm getting Canterbury's leftovers but I'll gladly accept. 

Best little period of this spell for sure