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    Hello Sparky68 My grandson will be pleased. I guess he will be disappointed that it did not happen earlier in the week as he would not have had to go to school. Kind Regards Dave
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    Are you. I doubt they will get very far in these conditions as it will be too cold for them to grow. Kind Regards Dave
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    Hello Mark, I had to determine this morning if our home game against Whtehawk should go ahead, but because of the amount of snow on the pitch, but equally important the icy conditions in the council run car park as well as within the ground I had to advise on safety grounds the match should not proceed. Whitehawk as well as the league have now been advised, with the former pleased we had decided to take this course of action. At least we will not lose tomorrow. Very fine snow falling quite fast at the moment and adding to the snow depth. Kind Regards Dave
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    Good evening everyone. Quite a few posters on this thread have reported that the temperature has risen over the past hour or so to just above freezing but the national forecast on BBC1 after the main evening news showed temperatures below O degrees C and continuing to fall during the night although because of cloud cover not as low as last night. What is the reason for this temperature increase and is it a sign that the milder weather is making inroads quicker than thought? Kind Regards Dave
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    Hello number23, For a minute I thought you meant Boxing Day 1962. Kind Regards Dave
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    Good Morning fellow posters. The snow is less heavy now here in Springfield. I had a dental appointment earlier this morning the other side of the City and decided to walk (about 3 miles) through the snow. It was not too bad as it was mostly downhill and the wind was behind me, inspite of the heavy snow. Coming back I managed after a short wait to catch a bus to the City Centre. He told us that all buses were now being returned to the depot, so First have now ceased to run buses, at least in Mid Essex and probably further afield. I therefore had to walk the one and a half miles uphill, facing the wind home and, boy, was it hard work and bone chillingly cold. Are we due much more for the rest of the day? Kind Regards Dave
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    Please ignore someone has already posted what I was going to.
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    Hello Number 23 Come in Please your time is up! On a serious note as far as Springfield and probably the rest of the Chelmsford area is concerned we enjoyed a much better snow event before Christmas. We just have a thin veneer of snow on our back lawn. Indeed the frost seems thicker than the snow. As far as Thursday onwards is concerned there is much debate on the MAD thread, one moment we are going to see snowed in the next there is much gnashing of teeth and reaching for the anti-depressants. We will just have to be patient to see how it all pans out as it is all so very uncertain. It could be we enjoy a bit if luck for one. Time will tell. Kind Regards Dave
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    Hello Sparky68, That will make the ivy sag on the outside of the building. What about Godmanchester will that be hit or escape? Kind Regards Dave
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    Hello Pages, If the frontal snow does not actually reach the mainland, will the attendant lowering of pressure and increased wind speed result in more shower activity from the east? Hello Mark, Well done on Saturday's win. We were shockingly bad according to our messageboard and our manager was certainly not best pleased! Back on topic does the chart you displayed show the furthest extent the precipitation will travel? Kind Regards Dave
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    Hello Chelle. Yes you are right . before I retired I used to visit one of my employer's area offices in Rayleigh and I really hated going up Crown Hill. It was especially bad early morning with the sun low especially if the road was wet from earlier rain. The sun reflected off the road surface and i could hardly see to drive. I wish I had a sledge, but I might look a bot silly at my age.Hopefully the snow on any Thames Streamer will reach as far as Chelmo. Kind Regards Dave
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    Hello Chelle and other posters, especially us Essex contingent. Another road that may be a bit of a challenge in southeast Essex is the one that is into Rayleigh past the Railway station towards the town centre. I believe it is Crown Hill if my memory serves me right. As far as next weekend is concerned as others have stated it is a long way off yet and the models are subject to chop and change in the interim. Being an oldie now I can remember as a youngster listening to the evening weather forecast on the BBC Home Service as it was then called (I guess it would be Radio 4 today) during the big freeze up of 1962/63 and on many occasions the presenter would state a breakdown from the southwest in 2 to 3 days time, but it never happened. the warmer air either rode over the top of the cold air or the area of low pressure was rebuffed by the bloc to the east/northeast. I remember that winter particularly well as I lived in a council house at the time, in Writtle. it was built just after the end of WW1 (a home fit for heroes) and was being upgraded just as the cold weather set in. The contractor had removed the pebble dash etc for the exterior of the house and one could see daylight through the gaps that were then present. Needless to say it was absolutely freezing even with our coal fires on, with ice to the inside of the windows. Each morning we had to break the ice in order to go to the loo. Kind Regards Dave
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    Hello Mark, I cannot make today's match at your place as my wife only came out of hospital yesterday afternoon. Please let us win. Is it true you now have a 3G pitch and therefore will not be affected by frost? At least it will not be as sandy/dusty as last time we met. My eyes itched for days afterwards. Looking to our home game the following Saturday, it very much looks as if it will be postponed. We will either find the pitch buried deep in snow, or flooded through rain moving up from the south, if the depression continues on the route predicted by GFS. For the past 3 years we have not had any home games postponed as we have a good bunch of supporters will spades at the ready to remove the snow, but this time we will have very sharp penetrating frosts before the snow falls. This means the cold will be held in, rather than if the ground was wet/warmer at the time of snowfall the pitch underneath would remain soft. My feeling is, and judging by the more expert posters on here, we will have snow and it will not turn to rain as the depression follows a more southerly track. After today good luck for the rest of the season and you are not relegated. I will be listening closely to Claret radio this afternoon. Kind Regards Dave
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    Well I sincerely hope so.
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    Hello Roadrunner. That may be a bit difficult as the snow might be too powdery, due to the extreme cold. Kind Regards Dave
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    Hello Number 23. The Claret is a football one- Chelmsford City. I am a steward on matchdays as well as being Safety Officer. Yes it does look as though we are in the firing line for some rather extreme weather, Kind Regards Dave
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    Hello fellow Chelmsfordian. Don't whatever you do do not get @weirp started on Brexit. By the way Weirpig Jena sends her regards and we both trust you are well. The forthcoming deep freeze will be quite an experience for her as she will not have witnessed anything like it before. Kind Regards Dave
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    Good afternoon Frostbite 1990. Please excuse my ignorance but who, or what, is JH? Not John Holmes? Kind Regards Dave
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    Hello Chris, My wife was diagnosed with heart problems last October. Up until then she had been really healthy. Last Tuesday it was raw cold here, but nothing like it is forecast to be next week. She walked up to the local shops with me and our grandson and it really made her feel breathless. I will have to keep a careful watch on here from late this week onwards and ensure she keeps warm and does not overdo things. At the moment I have mixed feelings as I love extreme weather, especially cold and snowy (but also thunderstorms), but this is tempered by concern for the effects it may have on "her indoors" and others suffering similarly. Kind regards Dave
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    Hello Terry. I am not totally believing the models at the moment. The way I am going to tell if we in the southeast are going to be snowed in is to hear if the supermarket that @markwheeler runs has upped their order on salt and brought in sledges and shovels for sale, as well as increasing his order in soup and other cold weather foodstuff. Mark where are you under an avalanche of soup tins? Kind Regards Dave
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    Hello again. As others are reminiscing about past winters and frozen bread etc I wish to add my tuppence worth. The following shows that attempts to save money can sometimes be very expensive. In the 1980's I was working for Essex County Council in the Building Surveyors Section of the County Architects Department. Energy conservation was very much in vogue at the time and a programme of installing frost censors to the outside of buildings was undertaken. One Christmas/New Year break with heating turned off in schools and colleges etc the weather started reasonably mild, but one evening a very active cold front came down from the north and the temperature plummeted rapidly. By the time the censors had activated the central heating systems the water in radiators had frozen solid. The result was a lot of burst radiators and pipework. There was several million pounds worth of associated damage ranging from collapsed ceiling, damaged electrics and flooring including laminate gymnasium flooring that started to lift. An expensive failure with the benefit of hindsight. Kind Regards Dave
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    Good Morning Everyone. Hopefully very exciting times just around the corner. I wonder if someone could assist me with this. A week or so back I seem to recall there was a thread on Netweather in respect of the UKMO losing the BBC contract, but can't find it anywhere now. I was going to read it to see what models Meteo use to furnish the BBC with their forecasts as they seem to be less bullish on our forthcoming cold weather. Thanks in advance. Kind Regards Dave
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    Good afternoon Karlos1983. As someone still very much on a learning curve, I struggle to understand how given the same information is entered into the computer why you should receive 20 different outcomes. Surely it should be the same. Am I being too simplistic? Kind Regards Dave
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    Good evening John and other posters. I am old enough to remember the winter of 1962/63. Each evening at 17.55 I would sit listening to the weather forecast on what was then the Home Service and the outlook was always milder air spreading from the west, but it never arrived. Looking at the charts to the best of my limited ability I am not confident that the Atlantic will win out but we are set for a significant and quite long cold spell, hopefully with some snow. Kind regards Dave
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    Hello Weirpig, I trust you are well. I do not know about model blindness in my case, I just having difficulty in working out the dynamics of them. Could you please help me. The snow band to which you refer, is it one mentioned earlier that is coming across from the continent or the one coming southeast from the Atlantic? Many thanks Kind Regards Dave
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