South West and Central Southern England Regional Weather Discussion 08 Feb 2021 Onward

[Wiltshireweatherwatcher]

28 minutes ago, AWD said:

Just this from Ian on twitter;

Nice to see the Meto do take into consideration the mighty ICON.  Not a total waste of time at least then.

Oh, the mighty ICON. 

It’s good to see that they do. After its consistency run after run is hard to ignore. Don’t they say you can’t go on just one model run, look for the trend and done just that. Don’t let us down now ICON!

[Nights King]

Just need wales to be put into warning for snow dome to be complete. Not that I'm bitter.. 

 

[Thundery wintry showers]

There was a dusting on the ground at 6am in Exeter but I went back to sleep and when I woke up again at 9am it had all gone, bar a few rooftops that are sheltered from the sun.  I suspected I might have dreamt about the snow, but no, the radar shows flurries over Exeter at the time I remembered seeing a dusting.  Maybe it was one of those that was so thin it quickly vanished despite sub zero temperatures.

[FBR]

We've had snow flurries here for the last couple of hours. Surfaces are still real cold so saw some lovely flakes once they landed 

[gman88667733]

Yellow warning is a good sign, I've got about 8 hours of snow forecast tomorrow on the MO app. Fingers crossed!

[Thundery wintry showers]

Yes, I'm still not out of it either, Thursday has potential for light snow and Saturday has potential for something heavier, though Saturday looks marginal with an ICONic run giving plenty of snow and others giving little or nothing.

[chris55]

Nice snow flurries up in a Cranham village (working up here) giving a sugar coating  

[Adrian Major]

Large flakes of snow coming down now in Stroud, Glos and starting to settle. Very dark sky so hopefully will carry on for a bit.

[Wynn D Woo]

6 minutes ago, FBR said:

We've had snow flurries here for the last couple of hours. Surfaces are still real cold so saw some lovely flakes once they landed 

Yes its been a morning of near constant floaty flakes mixed with the occasional heavier burst of flurries. Quite relaxing looking out the window from my computer

[kumquat]

A few flakes floating around in Winterbourne. Scant but still very nice to see.

[kumquat]

37 minutes ago, Blizzardof82 said:

GFS 6z has us back in the cold by end of next week after a brief drier milder blip, we will see though.

Yeah no real end of the cold spell in sight on this run

Glad to see it looks largely dry, at least.

Edited February 10, 2021 by kumquat

[Richard Fisher]

New Weather warnings out for Fri/Sat. Don’t bother looking if you live in the Bristol area. Not looking good.

[dec10snow]

58 minutes ago, AWD said:

Once you get to mid February, especially in this part of the country, you start to feel the sun's strength/warmth on your skin a bit more and it's very easy to start to look towards the warmer, Spring days ahead (and all the convective weather that brings).

Personally, (and I expect I'm not alone here), I would be quite content with some warmer, sunnier days ahead.  Just don't want lots of rain!  Obviously, if a March 2018 popped up again, I wouldn't say no either. 

That's the beauty of the time of year we are heading into.  You can flip from Winter to Spring (and vice versa) within days.

Yeah definitely. The sun being out today does make me start thinking toward Spring warmth, we had such a good Spring last year I hope that can be repeated, in some respects.

However, like you say, I also wouldn’t mind a March 18 repeat, that gave me the most lying snow I’ve seen and we were very close to the red warning issued by the Met here!

[CheesepuffScott]

MO forecast for here looks 

32 minutes ago, Nights King said:

Just need wales to be put into warning for snow dome to be complete. Not that I'm bitter.. 

 

I’m either too far east or too far west... it seems

[kumquat]

Moderate snow in bright sunshine. Looks great!

[dec10snow]

Intrigued to see that Taunton (half of it anyway) is in the yellow warning for tonight. Thought we were out of the game but maybe we have a chance of a dusting. 

[Wiltshireweatherwatcher]

Met clearly not going for the ICON solution for Saturday. Warning issued Gloucestershire northwards and Wales. Be surprised if that changed. Think that’s our chance of a snow event before it gets mild gone.

[Matty-H]

Yep. Looks like a complete and utter bust for here. Bored of it now to be honest. Ready for some warmth. 

[gman88667733]

Yellow warning for Thursday and Friday for me now... Realistically, could we get any decent covering? A few weeks ago we were only forecast a tiny bit and ended up getting 3-4cm, which is nice enough!

[Langford N.Somerset]

-3.9 last night low. Temp rising currently, up to 2.4 now. Dew point -4.5

Edited February 10, 2021 by Langford N.Somerset

[Frosty_wsm]

Very light snow flurries here a few minutes ago. 

[Adrian Major]

Stroud right on the southern edge of the new MO warnings for Saturday.  Still a chance of some snow I reckon

[Nights King]

3 minutes ago, Adrian Major said:

Stroud right on the southern edge of the new MO warnings for Saturday.  Still a chance of some snow I reckon

There is literally a warning out for everywhere now except central south and south west.

Splendid.

[offerman]

Good luck guys in all the arming areas. Hope you get loads. 
 

Looks  predominantly dry on these days up here as it’s too Far East going on those warnings.  Don’t forget you’re pics and vids. 

[Dorsetbred]

Meanwhile the warmer days are returning so far peaked at 3.4°C at: 11:30 today in bright sunshine..