winterfreak

Hardly living up to expectations is it....? pretty bloody poor so far in fact.

Met Office still bullish though. Last update 5am

Doing ok Through Cranbrook way

Keep checking the NW radar. To the South East of me there's a couple of bands of Heavier snow but crap here at present..

no, that's 2° surely...

Oh Ok, Top of Higham Lane here so not far

A few flakes here. Maybe at a rate of about 1mm per day...

You at least have snow!!

Good morning Snowblizzard, fellow Tonbridgidian!! You North or South Tonbridge?

I managed about the same! Mind you I'm a crap sleeper anyway. A mouse farting three miles away wakes me up The missus can sleep for Britain however

Mad isn't it? Despite computing power, human experience and intuiution, it still behaves completely differently to the educated expectation

Morning! I feel frazzled

As I typed out my long diatribe I saw that in the light of the lamppost

Despite some haughtiness about people trusting what apps say, the ‘event’ has been continuously pushed back for a ever later start. The Met office had our area down from 2am for the start. The Dutch radar that was showing from around 3/4am has delayed now to much later on. Of course, the weather will do as it pleases but it highlights, perhaps quite painfully, the sheer complexity of how our weather systems work and how, when you try to convince a somewhat already sceptical public that climate change needs urgent address, no matter how many millions of pounds are poured into ever more complex computers that try to unlock the secrets of our climate, that they are often hopelessly wrong! It’s the crying wolf effect. I’m still hopeful of course that the boys will get a snowball fight today but it goes to show how basic our understanding of the weather really is.

I can’t wait (thinly veiled sarcasm)

If I type out what I actually think I’ll go the same way as Mr Murr... it’s looking like we may truly be cursed though I’m still crossing everything

Getting forum fatigue

Lol!! Brain fade!! NE I meant!! pushing it South Westerly is what I meant ?

Wind direction will be SW as it tracks over the North Sea pushing it down over Kent etc

There’s a real bias with some of them isn’t there?

I'm in a state of excited anticipation lol

I so want it to happen for my boys!! they are sooo excited

Bloody Met Office app changing its mind about every 10 minutes it seems...

I noticed but it’ll be what it’ll be I think we’re well placed and, given last couple of Winters, I’ll take whatever snow falls out of the sky!!!

I don't think it's a definite line, more an educated probability. Good luck and I hope you see loads. I can't wait....