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8 years ago I ski'd at Jasper in the northern Canadian Rockies in mid-Jan. It was cheap for a reason! -38c in the day! We had to whether masks to cover nose and mouth to prevent them becoming frosted or frost bitten. The cold was really dry, and when wrapped up in ski gear and exercising, you didn't feel it. But stop for any period, you can feel it creeping in. You didn't want to expose skin for any more than 10 mins. As an example, a friend fell and split his goggles. They them steamed up, so he took them off to be able to see. It took around 15 mins to get the mid-mountain lodge, and he had to sit in front of the log fire for 15 mins. to unfrost his glasses from his face. Great holiday, best powder skiing ever. Recommend to anyone.

Just remembered there was a roof top jacuzzi on the hotel. You had to leep from the door into it. If you touched the metal railing instand frosting to it (so I heard). Love any excuse to talk skiing war stories.

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I disagree. Spent the last few weeks monitoring the progress across east anglia. Threads being posted every few seconds on occassion. Now I am expected to monitor two threads. What was happening south of the Thames has little relevance as to what affects EA as a whole. Seems that most other organisations keep Essex with this sector of the country.

I suppose hard luck mate you are stuck with it.

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I don't think it really matters, just post in the thread that suits your needs. Suffolk was also lumped in with London and SE originally, but most of us posted in EA so it moved. I've seen plenty of posts in this thread from those in North Essex.

Paul B - Costa del Sizewell gulf stream has now reached Kesgrave, turning sleety.

Phew....back to snow.

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Much less cold here on the Suffolk coast this morning with temperatures slowly rising. Already at 2.3C, from 1.7C at 7am, and the snow is thawing steadily, aided by recent rain showers.

It's amazing the difference a few miles makes, because we've had very light snow showers the last hour or so, rather than rain. There has definitely been a steady thaw though, but hopefully these will start to drop off this afternoon as the delayed precipitation moves in.

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This is the last time I'm going to comment on the blizzard fued. I've ski'd in blizzard/whiteout conditions with visibility down to 1m and winds in the region of 45mph, and it's not nice. Technically speaking it was not a blizzard, but 8 miles east of Ipswich winds were gusting, snowfall was heavy and horizontal, and visibility for a period did reduce to around 300m. I've received somewhere in the region of 2" additional snowcover in the last hour. It is lighter now and intermitent.

Good signs for all I would think if this system is due to push into all of EA! Enjoy.

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We've now been in a blizzard for the last hour. It is truely phenominal snowfall at the moment. I hope this is heading in your directions, because if it is EA is in for snowmaggedon.

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Moderate snow, gradually getting heavier.

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Google?

no.....igloo

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i agree.. one min were all getting a battering the next its not happening... i know weather can be hard to predict but i keep getting my hopes up then gettin let down doh!!!

I've never trusted the BBC graphics, and treat them as highlighting the potential. They're a bit like watching every GFS run, your setting yourself up for a rollercoaster, and the form horse usually is that most miss out, but a few areas hit the jackpot. Once into the now, onto the radar to see where the streamers are setting up, and hope you get lucky, like we did last nght.

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I hereby declare this day to be Snow Day, the funnest day in the history of Springfield Kesgrave! Anyone know how to put a roof on an igloo? I don't want to bring it down after labouring for 2 hours on it?

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Can anyone from Ipswich give me any advice, my brother needs to travel down there tomorrow and sunday just wanted to know how much snow you have got and what the roads are like in rural areas? Cheers

As of early evening, the east side of Ipswich to the coast is a nightmare. I am only a few miles east of Ipswich and am now nearing a foot of snow. The roads are a nightmare. Ipswich centre and west only had around 2cm max and was pretty clear, which may now have changed. Perhaps one of my cousins to the west can update you.

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Okay I am going to make an executive decision on this LOL

Suffolk, Essex, London, Kent, Surrey and the Sussexes - SE Thread

Herts, Norfolk, Peterborough, Cambs, Beds and Bucks = 3 Counties and E Anglia Thread

Agreed

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Split it East Anglia from London and the SE

or

Split East - Suffolk, Essex, Kent from the North and West - Norfolk, Cambs, Northants, Sussex. Londoners can join which-ever region depending on location.

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could any one tell me if the shower coming down from ipswich will hit the north west kent coast in gravesend? or should i give up and go to bed?

From past experience of these set-ups, they tend to degrade and break-up as they pass through Essex. You need the instability we are benifiting from to set-up in the lower North Sea, and set off a Thames streamer. The direction look right, if you can get some convection going!

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sorry for the rampede tonight, but this is the best spell for us since the December 16th streamer. Snow depth has gone from 0.5cm to around 6cm tonight, and we've now got good old 50p flakes falling

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white-out........you guys to the south of us are in for a treat in the next hour or so!

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let me know how much you get up there tractor boys. looking for a couple of cms please!

I'd say we've had around 4cm tonight (so far).....still heavy.

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Hammering down east of Ipswich.

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The winter of 2009/2010.....the picture say's it all!

Apologies if someone has already posted. A few beefier showers rolling into Ipswich now.

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Slight dusting here in Kesgrave, Ipswich. Very fine stuff in broken clouds, but paths and roads are covering.

Edit: some bigger flakes floating in on the wind, and a nice orange cloud on the horizon.